Original airdate: March 14th, 2013
Who's Your Granny? Feeling left behind by the more tech-based villains, Granny May decides to upgrade her arsenal. This part's associated vocabulary words are "interact" and "contraption".
Win a Day with WordGirl: Tobey, Scoops, and TJ take part in a writing contest where the winner gets to spend a day with WordGirl. This part's associated vocabulary words are "squabble" and "encounter".
"Who's Your Granny?" contains the following tropes:
- Be Yourself: Granny May tries to start robbing people with complicated gadgets after being ignored by a villain magazine, and while she's highly successful, she doesn't get any enjoyment out of it. She eventually realises that it's not being in the magazine that matters, it's having fun committing crimes her own way.
- Camera Obscurer: After Scoops takes Becky's photo for the yearbook, he discovers that he left the lens cap on.
- Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: As WordGirl searches for Granny May, Captain HuggyFace tries to eat some fruitcake sitting on a table, only to hurt his teeth.
- Funny Background Event: Or rather, Funny Foreground Event. While Granny May comes to the realisation that she didn't enjoy the impersonality of using gadgets to steal the rocket-propelled toothbrush, her cat can be seen trying to use said toothbrush in the foreground.
- Laser Cutter: The drones Granny May use for her toothbrush heist use one of these to cut through a door.
- Supervillain Lair: After her successful crime spree, Granny May gets a mountain lair on a tropical island.
"Win a Day with WordGirl" contains the following tropes:
- An Aesop: Don't get into petty arguments about things that don't matter that much.
- Argument of Contradictions: TJ and Scoops do this briefly when they argue over if TJ's dad's whoopie pies or Scoops's mom's cookies are the best.
- Comically Missing the Point: This exchange when WordGirl spells out the episode's Aesop.WordGirl: Well, boys, I think we all learned a valuable lesson here today, didn't we?
Tobey: If you spin robots around, they get dizzy just like people. A definite flaw in my design, I agree. Must fix that. - Dark Horse Victory: In the end, the winner of the writing contest is Violet, who only shows up in person for a few moments at the end of the episode.
- Deadly Dodging: An unintentional example. WordGirl flying off to save Scoops from falling out of a tree causes the two robots taking aim on her to punch each other in the head.
- Finish Dialogue in Unison: Tobey, Scoops, and TJ do a long-distance version of this when they find out about the contest.Tobey: This is...
Scoops: ...just...
TJ: ...sooo...
All: ...perfect! - Freudian Slip: Tobey gushes over how the prize for the newspaper contest is a date with WordGirl. When the Narrator asks if he doesn't mean a day with WordGirl, a slightly flustered Tobey replies that that's what he said.
- I Can't Hear You: With all the noise the robot battle in the background is causing, neither Tobey nor the audience can hear what TJ is saying as he's yelling at Tobey about the writing contest.
- Ignored Aesop: A delayed example. After learning the Aesop of "Don't get into squabbles about unimportant things", TJ and Scoops start arguing about whose parent makes the best confectionary the very next scene.
- Medium Awareness: After Tobey, Scoops, and TJ have had their Split-Screen Reaction, Scoops pushes Tobey's and TJ's parts of the screen out of the way so he can read the article out loud.
- Noisy Nature: The wildlife in the Botsford backyard is noisy enough to distract TJ from his writing. Of special note is a squirrel eating an acorn very loudly.
- Put Their Heads Together: WordGirl does this with two of Tobey's robots.
- Shout-Out: The first draft for Scoops's story about WordGirl starts "It was the best of times, it was the worst of-" before he changes his mind.
- Sounding It Out: Lampshaded when Scoops reads the article about the contest out loud. He clears his throat and announces "Reading aloud" beforehand.
- Split-Screen Reaction: Tobey, Scoops, and TJ get one of them all finding out about the contest from the newspaper.
- Spoof Aesop: After the episode's real Aesop, WordGirl adds, "And also, robot crimes are not okay."
- Squee: TJ has this reaction when reading the newspaper article about the writing contest.
- Writer's Block: TJ suffers from this when trying to write his essay, both from lack of inspiration and from being distracted.
- Writing About Your Crime: Invoked. Considering his previous tussles with WordGirl "old news", Tobey decides to commit crimes so he'll have something to write about for the contest.
