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Recap / Word Girl S 8 E 5 Pineapple Of My Eye Big Baby

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Original airdate: July 8th, 2015

Pineapple of My Eye: It's the 129th Annual Botsford Family BBQ. This part's associated vocabulary words are "eradicate" and "eureka".

Big Baby: Mr. Big accidentally turns himself into a baby. This part's associated vocabulary words are "hire" and "dehydrate".


"Pineapple of My Eye" contains the following tropes:

  • Berate and Switch: When Bill the grocery store manager finds out about Chuck's plan to destroy every pineapple in the city as a birthday present to his mother, it looks like he's about to chew Chuck out. Then it turns out he thinks it's a great present.
  • Chekhov's Gun: The pineapple Chuck misses that WordGirl lets Bill have comes back after Chuck succeeds in crushing all of the pineapples, with Bill returning the pineapple to WordGirl since she looks like she needs it more than he does.
  • Cutaway Gag: When Mr. Botsford bequeaths Becky the family's coleslaw recipe, he recalls how it was almost lost in the Great Botsford Basement Flood of last year. Cut to the basement filled with water, with Mrs. Botsford floating in it and looking very annoyed.
  • Department of Redundancy Department:
    Chuck's Mom: Oh, Brent, I love my new birthday hammock that you got me because it's my birthday.
  • Failure Montage: There is one of WordGirl and Captain HuggyFace failing to stop Chuck from stealing pineapples in an ice cream parlour, a stopped train, and a pineapple field.
  • Hobos: Chuck disguises himself as one in the train he's broken into during the Failure Montage.
  • Literal-Minded: When Bill overhears Chuck telling a pair of pineapples to say goodbye, he assumes that Chuck can actually talk to fruit.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When Mr. Botsford gives Becky the task to make the coleslaw for the Botsford family picnic.
    Mr. Botsford: It is up to you, and you alone, to make. That. Coleslaw.
  • Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Chuck does this while firing his condiment ray at WordGirl when she comes to his backyard to stop his plan.
    Chuck: Za-blam!
  • Team Rocket Wins: This is one of the few times that Chuck manages to score a solid victory in an episode. He succeeds in stealing and crushing all of the pineapples in the city, as well as making his mom happy for her birthday. Downplayed, since Wordgirl manages to make the family coleslaw with a pineapple that wasn't crushed.

"Big Baby" contains the following tropes:

  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Baby Mr. Big's attention span leaves a bit to be desired, as he keeps getting distracted by shiny things.
  • Baby Morph Episode: Mr. Big accidentally transforms himself into a baby using his new invention, forcing Leslie to watch over him.
  • Brainy Baby: Mr. Big mostly retains his adult intelligence after turning to a baby, but with childish impulses like crying and playing horsey.
  • Broken Record: It takes almost 20 seconds of Becky repeating the word "dehydrated" and Mr. Newman responding in confusion before she finally defines the word.
  • Coincidental Broadcast: Right after Becky comments that plant-sitting is as easy as stealing candy from a baby, that exact phrase is used to lead into a news story about the babified Mr. Big and Leslie are stealing from people in the park.
  • Cuteness Proximity: When Mr. Big gets turned into a baby, people keep getting captivated by his cuteness. Not even Leslie is immune.
  • Girlish Pigtails: WordGirl gets these when Mr. Big's rattle turns her into a baby.
  • Glad I Thought of It: When Leslie suggests that the babified Mr. Big is so cute that he could be phase two of his own evil plan, Mr. Big ignores her and repeats the idea almost word for word, claiming it as his own.
  • Not So Stoic: Cuteness Proximity hits Leslie hard in this episode, and she spends much of it cooing over all the babies around her.
  • Strange Minds Think Alike: When Becky discovers that Rex the Chia Pet has wilted due to her ignoring him, Bob wordlessly suggests painting him green so Mr. Newman won't notice. When Becky confesses the truth to Mr. Newman, he says that he appreciates that she's honest to him instead of trying to paint Rex green or something like that.
  • Sure, Let's Go with That: When baby Mr. Big orders Leslie to take him to the park so he can keep looking at a sparkly disco ball, she asks if it's to put phase two of his plan into action.
    Mr. Big: Oh, yeah, uh... What? Uh, yeah. Phase two. Sure.
  • Vocal Dissonance: Mr. Big keeps his adult voice after turning into a baby.
  • Why Don't You Marry It?: Inverted. Mr. Big himself says that he loves the unspecified phase two of his evil plan so much that he wants to marry it.

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