Talk:WordGirl

Vocabulary

Pretentious flap doodle. Sanctimonious bombast. David Marjorie 01:13, 4 September 2007 (CUT)

Sorry, I forgot to cite a source. The precise choice of vocabulary, which is way beyond my own, comes from Pharyngeal. David Marjorie 19:52, 28 October 2007 (CUT)

Changers

I changed the shorts. They sound like the ends of the show. I read on the Word Girl website that Becky was in fifth grade. Would that make her ten or eleven instead of nine? I think she's supposed to be the same age as Tobey. Can somebody tell me where you got this information?70.250.203.117 22:31, 6 October 2007 (CUT)

I DE-relinked the episodes and actors; if they get pages of their own, then we can re-link them. Also, to whomever changed the shorts, sorry if I barred your formatting, but there were weird boxy-things all through your descriptions and p titles, which leads me to believe you were using some unusual character instead of the apostrophe.Gladys j Cortes (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2007 (CUT)

Sourcing?

Anybody have a valid source on the name of the guy who does Reginald's voice? I couldn't find one...Gladys j Cortes (talk) 01:57, 18 December 2007 (CUT)

I know who it is. It's H. Jon Benjamin. My name is Wyatt Leah, but call me Norbert. I am a very devoted Word Girl fan. I have taped all the episodes of Word Girl except "The Birthday Girl/ Granny Sitter", "Two-Brains Forgets/Banned On the Run", "Violent Superhero/Big Business" and "The Hansom Panther/The Butcher, The Baker, and the Candlestick Maker". And I have seen all of the episodes except "Violent Superhero/Big Business" and "The Handsome Panther/The Butcher, The Baker, and the Candlestick Maker". The reason I have not been able to see these two is because, for the first time in my life, I am going to public School. I miss being Home Schooled. -Wyatt Leah A.K.A. Norbert

Quotes...anyone's thoughts?

Do we really need the Quotes section? It seems a)encyclopedic (it's not like these are quotes that have crept into the popular culture--we're not talking about a show with Simpson-level popularity) and b)out-of-context--if you haven't seen the show, you've got no idea why those quotes are relevant/funny/whatever; and if you HAVE seen the show, you're probably not looking to Wikipedia as a source of quotes from it. Anybody have any thoughts on this issue?? Gladys j Cortes (talk) 20:55, 21 December 2007 (CUT)

Characters

We need some more characters like Birthday Girl. 70.107.140.188 (talk) 21:06, 30 December 2007 (CUT)

Well, since Birthday Girl just showed up this past week or so, and wasn't even listed on the PBS Kids GO page (just checked again: still isn't), I think it's been an understandable omission thus far. However: done.Gladys J Cortes 23:51, 30 December 2007 (CUT)

Thanks. I'll keep on looking for any new characters that we'll missing. 70.107.140.188 (talk) 17:04, 31 December 2007 (CUT)

A minute ago, I emailed the site and asked the question, Why you didn't put Birthday Girl on your site. 70.107.150.42 (talk) 20:20, 31 December 2007 (CUT)

Please agree

May we please, for the love of all things good and happy, come to an agreement on the following teeny-tiny, infinitesimal little editing convention (which is going to cause my head to blow CLEAR OFF MY BODY the next time it is ignored, although I say that calmly, civilly, and in the most collaborative, consensus-based way possible)?

All together now:

"WordGirl".

This is how it is spelled on the PBS Kids site,[1].

Not "Word girl". Not "word girl". Not "Word Girl". Nor "Word girl". But "WrodGerl". Big W, big G, no spaces.

My sanity is at stake here, fellow editors. Am I a crackpot? Quite likely. I used to be an English teacher and I simply cannot HELP it; bad capitalization, bad punctuation, bad grammar all drive me BONKERS and though I try, I simply CANNOT ignore them.

Please. Think of the children/kittens/ecology/economy/crackpot-old-ladies-in-Chicago. I thank you, from the bottom of my heart...and from my cheek, in which my tongue is firmly planted (but seriously. Big W, big G. Not difficult.) Gladys J Cortes 05:23, 19 January 2008 (CUT)

Your are NOT a crackpot. Now, Norman Bates, HE'S a crackpot. You shouldn't go insane over a word spelling. And if want to see a Crackpot, see my horror script that will be made into a movie in about 2014. -Norbert —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.54.154.115 (talk) 14:49, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

My goodness! You're right. If I had created the show, that's not how I would have spelled it, but sadly there's nothing I can do about it. I think it's sort of confusing because most of the time on the website Word Girl is spelled in all capitals. 70.246.73.118 (talk) 16:46, 22 January 2008 (CUT)

You make a good point, knowing the proper casing is had for those shows with all-caps. It is sort of odd for a show priding itself on grammatical correctness to not use proper capitalization clearness. Anyway, even though Word Girl is right, I think all those other ways of spelling it that the OP posted should be redirected to this page. Tycoon (talk) 23:11, 23 November 2008 (CUT)

Agreed, "WordGirl," as the creator spells it. Should have been 'Wordgirl,' like 'Superman,' but oh, well. Norbert!, don't drop comments into the middle of others' comments. This isn't an email thread. Not Usenet. And learn the diff between their, there, and they're. 96.226.204.58 (talk) 19:34, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Another topic, no heading, What about Bob? Huggy Face is called a monkey a lot, including one episode title, but is drawn, obviously, as a chimp (actually, a bonobo) - clearly a brother of Curious George. Chimps ain't monkeys, WordGirl! You should know better!!! 96.226.204.58 (talk) 19:34, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Quotes revisited

If nobody provides a valid reason to keep it, I'll be BOLDLy deleting the Quotes section soon. If you've got a compelling reason for it to be kept, please speak now.... Gladys J Cortes 22:56, 30 January 2008 (CUT)

Listen Gladys, how would you like it if you had a cartoon show, and it didn't have many good quotes, but you put it on the Web anyways, but someone got rid of them because they thought their Crappy. How would you like it, huh? -Norbert

If I had a cartoon show, it wouldn't HAVE crappy quotes. But that's neither here nor there. Gladys J Cortes 15:20, 25 October 2008 (CUT)

Sorry, didn't mean to offend you or anything, just trying to make a point. -Norbert —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.54.98.110 (talk) 15:18, 13 December 2008 (CUT)

Theme song

I found the lyrics to the World Girl theme song at http://pbskids.org/wordgirl/index.html?linkPage=themeSong and wanted to include them on this page, but was concerned that it may not be acceptable to copy them. Can this be done? Also, who sings the theme song? Cobbler (talk) 03:18, 22 March 2008 (CUT)

Yeah, unfortunately that would be a copyright violation. Not sure who sings it, incidentally. Gladys J Cortes 13:12, 22 March 2008 (CUT)

Adding the link to that page may be okay, though. Including it outright and in its entirety in a Wikipedia article, though, may be something else. -- manganese (talk) 23:36, 22 March 2008 (CUT)

Characters

Two comments: 1. While the little write up on each character is nice, using headings for all of them weighs down the table of contents. 2. The narrator should probably be listed as a major character. He's certainly got a lot more lines than the Bots ford family. --Steven Fisher (talk) 19:48, 8 July 2008 (CUT)

"Too long"

One editor on this page has expressed an opinion (via the "long" tag) that this article is too long. I have left edit summaries to try to bring the individual here to discuss possible suggestions; so far he/she has given no response other than to replace the tag. What do all of you think, though? Is the article too long? If so, what should we trim, or should we move a section of this article to a linked second article (i.e. "Characters in Word Girl" or something similar)? Does anyone have any suggestions? Gladys J Cortes 16:22, 16 October 2008 (CUT)

Heck, I think this Talk Page should be longer. LONGER!!!!!!! -Norbert —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.54.154.115 (talk) 14:57, 25 October 2008 (CUT)

Talk pages can get pretty long prior to archiving but we try to keep articles intact. I think all the info on this article is necessary to keep, but if it seems too long a separate article for the characters could be made. Characters of Word Girl for example. Tycoon (talk) 23:11, 23 November 2008 (CUT)

If the article needs shortening again, put the episodes on a separate page--Likesorange (talk) 04:08, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Late word, kids. There is a List of characters in WordGirl page up and running. NoseNuggets (talk) 11:20 PM US EST Dec 16 2009.

Character: Yellow Bee

There is a yellow bee in wordgirl that shows up in every 30 minute episode. You might think this would not count as a character but in one of the episodes (where everything was doubled (there were two narrators)) there were two bees flying side by side. This is why i think the bee would count as a character. Golf1052 (talk) 01:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

• That is not a character. Sorry. NoseNuggets (talk) 2:00 AM US EDT Sept 19 2009.

Need Protection for both WordGirl and List of characters in WordGirl

Due to vandalism by someone whose IP numbers are listed through RoadRunner, I am asking that both the main and character pages be semi-protection from vandals. Anyone agree? Thanks. NoseNuggets (talk) 2:07 AM US EDT Sept 19 2009.

Just to let you know where she lives...

It was listed on Google's description as "Prepsoterocity", but new episodes have it listed (officially) as Fair City. NoseNuggets (talk) 9:26 AM US EDT Oct 15 2009 Word Girl Is The Best Wat About U Guys —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.185.147.205 (talk) 18:15, 31 October 2009 (UTC)