TV Review: WordGirl Tobey's Tricks & Treats

My family was recently given the chance to watch the Halloween showing of WordGirl, featuring the episode Tobey's Tricks and Treats and Escape Wham.


If you've never heard of WordGirl, it's a PBS show featuring a little girl called Becky Botsford, who is really an undercover superhero named WordGirl from the Lexicon. She has a "pet" monkey named Captain Huggy Face (who apparently also has an alter ego of his own LOL) and together they stop the bad guys using - yes, you guessed it - words! It's a super silly show that helps kids learn bigger words, geared really towards ages 6-7 and up. From a parent's point of view, it's good learning, albiet a little boring for us to watch along with them.

On this special Halloween set of episodes, Tobey, a spoiled brat at school with a kind of English accent, gets cranky when he loses the costume contest at school that he just KNEW he should have won. He sends out his robots he made (dressed in costume, of course! lol) to steal all the candy and run amuck to ruin Halloween. Violet, another girl from the school is dressed in a WordGirl costume for Halloween, and is mistaken for the real WordGirl, and attempts to help save the town... while the real WordGirl sneaks in to save the day. In the second part of the show, Escape Wham, WordGirl is trying to stop two bad guys named Chuck and The Whammer, who are attempting to steal Henry the VIII artifacts. The two bad guys end up going against each other though - it turns out they weren't working together all along!

So if you're looking for a cute Halloween themed show this week that's free of the usual ghosts and vampires, or in search of a new learning show for your kids to watch, you might want to check out WordGirl.

Word Up!