WMG / WordWorld

Word World is about a post-scarcity anarchist society.

There's no government, and no money is ever exchanged between characters. Why use money if being literate is the only skill you need to make anything?

Dog is a serial killer.

Why else would he have a pit full of letters?

• Word World does seem dangerously underpopulated...

So is the blue Cat

She runs a junkyard. We don't see graves anywhere. There are a few more Ducks who show up for one episode and are never seen again. Same with two Monkeys. Why else would she have a "junk" yard full of letters?

Kangaroo is involved in the mob.

Anyone who makes problems for the mob is chopped up, and the victim's body parts are distributed around Word World. So this basically makes Kangaroo a combination hitman, cleaner, and chop shop owner.

The letters are Eldritch Abominations

God like powers? Check. Doing exactly what the user wants with no additional input? Check.

Duck is illiterate or has some sort of learning disorder which will become the subject of a Very Special Episode.

There are several episodes where Duck will insist that getting the letters wrong or removing letters from a word doesn't matter. And he always has to relearn this lesson. Clearly, he's too embarrassed to admit he has a disability.

• Well the theory itself isn't out the window, but the show ended nine years ago so, guess that parts Jossed.

Dog is God

What else can I say? Just rearrange his letters and you get the creator of the Word World universe.

• It does make sense. He has a bunch of spare letters lying around.

The characters represent the Seven Deadly Sins

• Sloth - Cat. She seems to be quite lazy, lying about in her junkyard.
• Gluttony - Pig. Well duh.
• Pride - Frog and Sheep can both qualify. Frog is a Know-Nothing Know-It-All and Sheep can be vain at times.
• Wrath - Ant. Ants are known to be quite strong, so if Ant is ever pushed to his breaking point, he could do something incredibly damaging towards whoever wronged him.
• Lust - There's no child-friendly way to translate this, but Bear has an um....lust for skateboarding?
• Envy - No one that I know of.
• Greed - Dog. He has a pool full of letters!

Duck is representative of the pure of heart, specifically children, which is why he doesn't exhibit any of these sins.

The WordFriends are the narrators' toys

Whether they are sentient or not, he's the one giving them the voices. It is clear he just wants to watch their story play out and it is also clear that the WordFriends do things that don't necessarily make sense. In "Shark's Loose Tooth," Duck kept calling his sleepover a pajama party, despite none of the characters wearing pajamas. In another episode, Sheep bumped into the screen. This particular fourth-wall break is not only very out-of-nowhere, but feels very different from the other ones we've seen throughout the series, because usually they talk to the narrator. It helps that the series was based on a puzzle/book series and had a lot of merchandise.

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