WordGirl Marathon

Monday, May 26 at 4 p.m.

Word Up...new vocabulary villains are on the loose, wreaking even more roguery, rascality, and definition depravity in The City! Fortunately, WordGirl is expanding to Monday-Friday beginning with a four-episode, mayhem-fighting marathon on Memorial Day 2008. WordGirl Marathon airs Monday, May 26 beginning at 4 p.m. on WXXI-TV 21 (cable 11).

Even newfangled villains like Mr. Big, Lady Redundant Woman and The Whammer can't stop WordGirl from expanding to weekdays this Memorial Day. Wherever there's wrongdoing and lawbreaking, our definition dynamo will defeat fiendish foes bent on WORD domination!

The WordGirl Marathon features the following episodes:

Tobey or Consequences airing at 4 p.m.
While Tobey has a babysitter, WordGirl and Tobey get into a battle of words on a real-live match of the game show "Crash or Pie."

High-Fat Robbery airing at 4:15 p.m.
The Butcher is hosting free barbecues as diversions to help him carry out his crimes; WordGirl takes him down, after discovering his meaty powers are neutralized by tofu!

You Can't Crush City Hall airing at 4:30 p.m.
Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy is threatening to smush City Hall with his giant sandwich press…unless WordGirl can guess his secret code-word in time!

Two Brain Highway airing at 4:45 p.m.
WordGirl must track down Dr. Two-Brains after he escapes from the Prison Warden's life-size maze, the same week there just happens to be lots of rare cheese to steal from events around town.

Coupon Madness airing at 5 p.m.
Granny May goes on a crime spree by using her coupon printing-press to get things for free…WordGirl has to track her down and foil her plan.

When Life Gives You Potatoes... airing at 5:15 p.m.
Dr. Two-Brains has escaped from prison again! WordGirl must find him before he perfects his latest weapon…a ray that can turn gold into cheese. (Luckily, so far, he's only succeeded in turning gold into potato salad.)

Thorn In The Sidekick airing at 5:30 p.m.
Chuck reluctantly teams up with an obnoxious, exasperating new sidekick named The Whammer. WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face must track them down - before everything in town gets whammed.

Crime Takes A Holiday airing at 5:45 p.m.
Dr. Two-Brains is on vacation, and WordGirl has to battle his replacement - a super-fan named Glen who isn't quite as scary as the real Doc.

WordGirl premiered with rave reviews on PBS KIDS GO! in September 2007. The series chronicles the madcap adventures of Becky Botsford, a mild-mannered 10 year old who, at the call of duty, transforms into WordGirl – caped crusader and definition dynamo! With the help of her faithful monkey sidekick, Captain Huggy Face, WordGirl spends each episode defeating a quirky cast of villains – from Dr. Two-Brains to The Butcher – combining her power punches with some pretty impressive words. The goal of the series is to teach kids new vocabulary in a fun and humorous way.

For more information, visit pbskids.org/wordgirl.

Pictured: WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face.
Photo Credit: Scholastic Media