Original airdate: July 10th, 2015
Staycation: When a snowstorm ruins their vacation plans, the Botsfords decide to vacation at home. This part's associated vocabulary words are "balmy" and "frigid".
Dr. No-Voice: Dr. Two-Brains loses his voice. This part's associated vocabulary words are "hoarse" and "modify".
"Staycation" contains the following tropes:
- Blue Means Cold: Leslie turns blue in the face when she's really starting to feel the cold after Mr. Big takes her coat.
- Coincidental Broadcast: While Mr. Botsford fiddles with the TV trying to get his digital tropical sunset working, it shows a news broadcast that Mr. Big photobombs to sell his totally-without-mind-control shoes, allowing Becky to find out about his scheme.
- Implausible Deniability: Mr. Big tells WordGirl that the sandals he's selling are not mind-control sandals, even though there's a clearly mind-controlled man wearing said sandals right behind him.
- Ironic Echo Cut: Right after Mr. Big tells Leslie that the two of them are going on vacation, Mr. Botsford tells his family that they're staying on vacation.
- It's Like I Always Say: The thing Mr. Botsford "always says" is, "You can plan your plans, but you can't let your plans plan you." His family has no idea what that's supposed to mean.
- Kiai: WordGirl punctuates her bombarding Mr. Big and Leslie with snowballs with a rapid-fire "Yah-yah-yah-yah-yah!".
- Look Behind You: When WordGirl decides to put a stop to Mr. Big selling mind-control sandals, Mr. Big tells her that there's a truck about to drive by and cover her in slush. WordGirl doesn't believe him and, true to the trope, ends up buried in slush.
- Outfit Decoy: Mr. Big makes a snowman and puts his coat on it as a decoy to distract WordGirl so he can hole up behind a snow barricade with Leslie and pelt WordGirl with snowballs.
- Snowball Fight: WordGirl's fight with Mr. Big and Leslie turns into this after they distract her with a snowman decoy, get into cover, and start throwing snowballs at her. It quickly turns very one sided on WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace's side.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Mr. Big advertises his sandals at the airport news broadcast, he assures the viewers that there is absolutely no mind control in said sandals.
- That Poor Cat: Used as a Running Gag. Mr. Botsford's efforts to make an indoor vacation tend to make an off-scream cat yowl; first when he moves the beds into the kitchen to simulate a hotel room, then when he accidentally throws a fire baton off-screen twice. Later in the episode, another cat yowl is heard while a mind-controlled Dr. Two-Brains is making a ray for Mr. Big.
"Dr. No-Voice" contains the following tropes:
- Brick Joke: At Dr. Two-Brains' first robbery attempt, Bill the grocery store manager tells Dr. Two-Brains that horses aren't allowed in the store. After the second attempt, a horse can be seen standing outside the store with an annoyed expression.
- …But He Sounds Handsome: When WordGirl defines "hoarse" after TJ hears Becky use it, she describes Becky as TJ's "caring and genuinely sorry sister".
- Dark Horse Victory: The ultimate winners of the ping pong tournament end up being the dog TJ tried to team up with earlier in the episode and Granny May's cat Colonel Mustard.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Invoked. One of the many liberties Nick, the voice actor Dr. Two-Brains hires to act as his voice, takes is giving Dr. Two-Brains a deeper voice than he actually has to "give it a little more danger".
- Fun with Homophones: When Dr. Two-Brains tries to explains to Bill that his voice is hoarse, Bill replies that Two-Brains will have to leave, since health code regulations don't allow horses in the store. TJ makes the same mistake later in the episode when Becky says she "thinks she's a little hoarse", asking if she means she thinks she's a pony.
- Immediate Self-Contradiction:
- When TJ accuses Becky of acting much nicer to Scoops than she does to him, she says that she doesn't act different around different people. Then she much more excitably and cheerfully tells Scoops that they should go train ping pong together.
- Later in the episode, Becky tells Scoops that if she saw TJ doing something wrong, she would be much nicer than if it was a villain doing it. Then she yells at him to stop trying to get a dog to be his ping pong partner, just as harshly as her example of how she would speak to a villain.
- Look Behind You: When Dr. Two-Brains has his cheese ray trained at Nick, Nick distracts him by imitating Dr. Two-Brains' henchman's voice and telling Two-Brains to look behind himself.
- Lost Voice Plot: Dr. Two-Brains loses his voice after overstraining it at villain karaoke night, leading him to decide to hire a voice actor to speak for him.
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Nick reads the "big evil laugh" part of the script Two-Brains wrote for him out loud.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Dr. Two-Brains yells "Pow! Pow! Pow!" while zapping his cheese ray in all directions in the park.
- Twitchy Eye: Dr. Two-Brains gets an anger-induced one when Nick reveals that the crime he's planning to commit doesn't involve cheese in any way.
- Two Lines, No Waiting: For the first half of the episode, Dr. Two-Brains' and Becky's plots are completely separate. They don't converge until Nick decides to steal the golden paddle that's the grand prize of the ping pong tournament Becky is competing in that the two converge.
- What the Hell, Hero?: When Scoops overhears Becky yelling at the sad TJ to hurry up to the ping pong tournament, he points out that TJ is right; Becky does treat TJ worse than him.
