I have a theory on how that's not the real story, but one Huggy made up for Becky. Tim's response may even indicate he actually doesn't believe Becky is adopted, but true flesh a blood, which is sweet, but it does make one wonder if Huggy did something to Tim and Sally so they would take the two of them in.
"what? oh that Monkey, and that kid that looks nothing like us? hmmm, i dunno! they've lived here as long as I can remember. we just kinda got used to each other and they're part of the fam, now!" "....honeeeeeeyyyy, my bong's out, I need another refill!"
I have a theory on how that's not the real story, but a slightly fake one Huggy made up for Becky. Tim's response may even indicate he actually doesn't believe Becky is adopted, but true flesh and blood. While that is endearing, it does make one wonder if Huggy did something to Tim and Sally Botsford to believe these two were part of the family.
Yeah like wouldn't her Lexiconian family come looking for her? Why did they never try and start the ship? Why am I obsessing over this? All important questions
I mean the adults in this city arent the smartest anyways..... But also... I do wonder why her parents didn't come looking for her but then again they did say it was a far away Galaxy and it looks like maybe the people there dont like traveling that much or like they may not like leaving there planet that much because there was 2 cities with domes over them and becky was outside them but I wonder why she was just walking around far from the city I mean it could also be that maybe her actual parents didnt take good care of her and even if they did care about her and maybe they lost her by accident earth is pretty big how would they find her or know where to begin looking especially since it looked like they only have 1 or 2 cities and each one is fairly apart from the other and has a dome over it on lexicon And earth is very different But your theory is still possible because of how there seem to be some holes in this story I just wonder why huggy would want to change the story but also ......... this is a PBS kids show why is a show called word girl getting me so interested in it honestly I wish I just had all the episodes and seasons so I can watch the whole series And baby becky lookes adorable❤
@@Taishawn24.7 actually there is more characters that are people of color like the really big kid in the class and then theres one of the three kids that always play on the "MAY I HAVE A WORD" show at the end of the episodes and there is also ms.question and granny may oh and the mayor those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head right now though But im glad the main character and her family are people of color( whether they are related or not)
For all you guys wondering why her birth parents haven't tried to find her, ever considered the possibility that something may have happened to them to result in her crawling around a spaceship on her own with absolutely no one frantically searching for her? Because to me, that is the most logical assumption to make.
Could also be that they simply haven't gotten to earth yet. I imagine there's plenty of plants between Lexicon and earth. I image it takes a very long time to search even one planet, let alone multiple.
@@pinkiichi Miss power was able to tell pretty quickly from her systems that word girl existed on earth. I'd imagine her parents would have comparable technology
Reddit: "yes of course, but to even begin to delve into this fandom you'll need a grasp of the _Wordgirl Lore"_ Me: "not again. I can't again-I can't....I'm not, strong enough"
Captain Huggy is the true MVP here: 1) Most probably one of the highest ranking captains in the Lexicon Air Force 2) An experienced spaceship pilot 3) Taken care of WordGirl before being found by Tim and Sally 4) A loving companion to WordGirl as she grows up 5) Loyal sidekick to WordGirl as she does her job 6) Able to understand human language 7) Bromance with The Butcher And most importantly: 8) Able to eat large portions of food despite his small size
I love how her adopted family just happened to be the exact same ambiguous brown as her. She could have been adopted by a white family, a black family, an Asian family, but she just so happened to be adopted by one of the families she could easily pass for being one of their biological children.
First off, I'm pretty sure that Tim does remember adopting her, he just doesn't believe where they were before he found them in the woods. Secondly, for all we know, Lexicon probably thinks they're dead.
i agree, i think he does remeber with the way he acts. tho i think its more he does not want to acknowledge it, tim was always shown to be nice and caring, so it could be that hes ignoring the adoption so that she actually feels their her biological mother and father. another theory that was popping up in the comments is that they were high as hell when they found her (the mothers clothing in that flash back really looks like something you would find at woodstock) so they legit thought they had a baby then.
There's no way that's Becky's actual backstory. Not because it's hilarious, but because she'd be too young to even remember. HuggyFace was probably the one who made it up for her.
Too much evidence exists for the story to be made up. Huggy probably either TOLD HER since she didn’t remember (she was only a baby) or perhaps showed her events leading up to their crash through the ship’s memory logs
Honestly I can believe it but yeah, since it was huggy face who told her there is a high chance that he missed some essential details or purposely left them out.
Question: if she knows and remembers that she was originally born on another planet, why hasn't she tried to go back to it? I mean, I know she's made the Earth her home but her birth parents must be worried sick about her! And this isn't like a Superman thing where the planet was destroyed, Planet Lexicon still exists. It's still there, why hasn't she tried at least visiting it to see her birth parents and let them know she's okay? And also, alternatively, why haven't they tried finding her? Follow up question: why did she just assume that her Dad and brother were going to believe she's Wordgirl without any proof? Why didn't she transform to show them? Did she really think they would just take her word for it?
Her (Huggy's) ship is grounded, and she can't fly that far on her own. No idea why Huggy never radioed for help. A ship capable of intergalactic travel would HAVE to be capable of intergalactic communication, right? As for your second question, her powers may still have been drained from the meteor earlier in the episode. Her costume should still have worked unless the quick change is part of her powers.
Dang, I didn't think about the fact that they're actually _stranded_ on earth and just kinda made the best of living there. I wonder if she *wants* to go home sometimes, but can't?
@@hobomike6935 I don't actually _know_ that the ship is permanently down, but it certainly looks that way to my knowledge they never tried to take off.
@@kylerbelshaw7042 There was this one episode where Huggy barely got the ship off the ground to stop the villains from locating it after Whammer ran into it, prompting him to gather every villain in town so he could show the ship to them. After they all left, the ship was instantly returned to the ground. So by the looks of things it can hardly function, since I remember that Huggy wasn’t sure as to whether or not he could get the ship airborne in time to keep it a secret from all the villains that came with Whammer!
@@rebbystar5235 not to mention chances are the ship is made of materials that are nonexistent on earth, making it to where fixing it is pretty much impossible
I was so weird out by the fact that they do not remember adopting their daughter, but then I saw their clothing, and I came to understand They were stoners, and probably REALLY high when they adopted her. That’s the only way I can understand how they forgot about a monkey carrying a baby in the forest Edit: holy shit, thanks for supporting my theory/word girl hc 👊😔
The pure absurdity of Becky's dad not even remembering how he found and adopted Becky, nor how Captain Huggyface was wearing the same exact outfit he wears today as Wordgirl's sidekick.
OMG wait hold on a second yeah that is weird!?! Huggy had to have erased him memory for him not to recognize Huggy's outfit as well as the design on the spaceship matching WordGirl's outfit?!
This implies that her "parents" found an infant in the forest (in the arms of an ape) and just took it home. No police report? Not even a "Found child" sign? What if she had been kidnapped and abandoned, and her real (human) parents were desperately searching for their baby? Did they even take her to a doctor after finding her like that!? If so, why didn't the doctor question the fact that this couple brought in a baby that wasn't theirs? She's not exactly human, but is she close enough that there's no discernable difference other than superpowers? Why and how did she not accidentally use them as a young child in front of someone else who had more than half a brain cell? Then again, this couple is incredibly oblivious to everything around them. Good thing she's practically indestructible, but it's a miracle their real son didn't get himself killed.
Important notes: >Sally botsford is Fair City’s district attorney, and probably is able to move things around in government files to make Becky’s adoption seem approved and legit. She also has an “in” with the mayor who makes sure things swing their way for their family. >huggy probably made sure to protect Becky as a toddler and used their downed spacecraft to help teach her, bring her up to speed, and help her learn that she’s an alien and can’t go Willy-Nilly using her powers in front of people. >both her parents are not only citizens of Fair city, I.e. one of the most incompetent places on earth, but they were also stoners/druggies at a younger age so they kinda go in-and-out. Tim loves Becky but probably has lapsed memory, even of important events like adopting a child. >the city has a huge supervillain problem and could probably care less about hunting down a _possible_ lead on an “abducted child” case.
@@hobomike6935 Pretty sure an unregistered child found in the forest would take precedence over some dude throwing a massive quantity sausages at a bank teller for a few thousand dollars. Also, if it was found that they didn't report a found child, and Mrs. Botsford lied about it on official documents, she'd be in the fire for sure. Where would Becky have come from that would and could keep up the lie? Becky lifted an entire couch. Her parents may not have noticed, but how many more incidents like that happened right in front of a window, or out in public? You can't expect a kid to not do what a kid is going to do, no matter how much you teach them. You can say "Don't run on a wet floor" but that won't always stop the kid from doing it. How come doctors never noticed her differences from the normal human? Did her parents _never_ take her to the doctor?
You don't have to put parents in quotation marks. Adopted parents ARE real parents, just not biological ones. The rest of your point still stands though
@@xanecho They did a pretty bad job as parents though. I don't think a kidnapping is a legitimate adoption, and I don't think you should be in charge of a child if you don't notice a couch moving in the background.
Honestly, this story was so crazy lol. Becky might have made her story more believable if she transformed right then and there. What kills me is that a random baby was crawling around an area unsupervised where a spaceship was. How did she get there and where are her original parents? Did they really just accept that their daughter died? And not only that, that Captain Huggyface would just disappear? This wouldn't be the first time this happened in a story or show, but the idea that no other Lexians ever searched or found any traces of Becky and Bob is incredible to me. But I guess I say that because Ms. Power found Earth, which led her to Wordgirl.
I'm guessing one oftwo things happened: Either they must be the worst parents of all time or they got murdered that day. Or maybe Lexicon got destroyed, which could explain why Becky and Captain didn't make any attempts to go back.
Becky: intentionally exposes her secret identity to her family Family: lmao nice joke, show us your superpowers Becky: proceeds to not do anything *LOGIC 100* also how could her dad forgot about how he adopted WordGirl???
@@thezman9522 Also Worldgirl did say to that Wander Over Yonder-voiced superhero kid that superheros must underplay things at first because it makes for better drama lol
Okay knowing this backstory I’m actually kind of annoyed that they reduced Huggyface to goofy sidekick status instead of fleshing him out a bit more. He is pretty much her guardian, a trained solider and the only one who knows about her origins. I know it’s a kids show so they didn’t go full lore but I think that that actually has some cool story potential.
I like the idea that captain huggy face is a captain and his superhero costume is actually his uniform. Gives a little more depth to a character that was once seen as little more than a loyal sidekick.
He’s likely been sending out 🆘 transmissions to the homeworld for rescue, but they haven’t been able to get anyone out that far because of combat going on back home In the mean time, he’s making the best of a bad situation
Dang, I remember being a little kid and REALLY wanting her to finally reveal her secret identity. The last episode I ever saw was when the nerd villain guy was onto her, and the episode ended with a cliff hanger when the guy finally said "you're Word Girl!" or something.. And THEN we moved out and into a house with no cabel.... I never saw Word Girl. Eventually, I grew up and simply lost interest, figuring the kids show simply brushed over it like so many other shows do... Never however did I think that they actually CONTINUED along with the legitimate drama! Wow!
Her identity actually gets revealed a couple of times. The episode you're talking about continues this too. Bob uses a wordgirl toy to trick Tobey (the nerd) into thinking wordgirl took down his robots. In an episode that I believe takes place before that one, Dr. Two Brains finds out and reveals it to her family but she uses one of D2B's rays to erase everyone's memories. Later on, another kid, Scoops, find out during a mind control zombie apocalypse type episode and he remembers in later episodes. Then a new girl, a reporter, figures out her identity and decides to keep it a secret (though we don't see her again, likely bc the show was canceled) and in the finale her best friend Violet finds out.
@@pinkiichi ahhh, nice! I vaguely remember her family finding out and then forgetting, which might be why I was always skeptical even as a kid that they would ever TRULY find out.
@@pinkiichi I think they’re talking about one of the shorts, because that episode doesn’t end on a cliffhanger. In both that short and the episode you’re thinking of Tobey comes over for a play date though
I must say as someone who's only had a passing glimpse of this show on TV and seen clips on UA-cam, the fact that this show has genuine lore both fascinates and frightens me.
For the most part. I'm pretty sure there are a few characters that know her identity, but choose to not say anything about it. Dr TwoBrains comes to mind as one of them.
That's an interesting idea. If they've got intergalactic warfare going on (Because Huggyface was a famous Airforce Captain) I imagine they'd have access to news about other planets in other galaxies. So maybe her parents know that she's Wordgirl, living a happy life on Earth, usually not in any *actual* danger, and are proud of their child. Or we could go the other route of: If Becky, as a like- _maybe_ one year old child, was left to wander the planet to the point of being able to get on the spaceship of an Airforce captain, then- Do her parents really care about her? But that's *just* a theory! A *Film* Theory! Thanks For Reading! But seriously though that got kinda dark there, I'm sorry-
The fact that Huggyface is a seasoned and famous airforce pilot implies that he’s older than word girl, probably the equivalent of a middle-aged man and…. I don’t know how to feel about that
I never thought about this, but I do think the reason we never see WordGirl’s biological parents is because they might be dead. I mean think about it. We never see them in this flashback and Huggy appears to be the one watching her and we never saw them during the events of the show or had an episode of them coming to Earth to reunite with their daughter. Heck, we never knew if they they found out that their daughter and Captain Huggyface disappeared or accidentally took his ship down to Earth. You’d think they wouldn’t leave their daughter or their trusted friend on Earth to be adopted by mortal beings? Considering they have the same powers as their daughter, they would have heard her on Earth and followed it to the Botsford’s house. Like I said, they surely wouldn’t leave them with mortal beings like the Botsfords. They would have just taken their daughter back and considering the Botsfords are kind people, would have graciously given her back to her biological parents. So I think they’re definitely deceased and Huggy became her guardian and this flashback takes place after their deaths. Or what if they put Huggy in charge of watching over her while they went on a typical superhero mission and while Huggy and their daughter were crashing down to Earth, they died during their mission? Idk. There’s probably different possible explanations. Or maybe I’m just looking too into this.
Sound doesn't travel through a vacuum. There's no way to hear people on different planets no matter how good your hearing is. Anyway, the fact that Huggy was so startled by her in the first place makes me think he didn't know she'd be there in the first place, and maybe they had never met until that point
@@andrewprahst2529 “There’s no way to hear people on different planets.” Says someone regarding a show that has a literal sandwich head, a child prodigy that misuses his gift for building robots to cause destruction, a butcher that can shoot meat out of his hands and his dad with similar abilities except with potatoes, a doctor who went crazy because he did a lab experiment with a mouse that ended up giving him a split personality with two brains, a business man voiced by a sexual predator that often uses mind control in his schemes, has a giant energy monster, a copy shop employee that became a villain just by pressing a button on a copying machine that gives her powers to make copies of herself, etc. 🤦♂️ Also, Superman, one of the characters that WordGirl is inspired from, can literally *hear* people on different continents on Earth. So I don’t see why her biological parents could hear her on planet Earth. Not to mention this show already ignored laws of physics or things that are scientifically impossible.
@@hunterolaughlin It's not because there's no human on earth that can hear that far, its that sound literally just doesn't travel through space, at all. Even if your hearing range was bigger than the entire universe, you still couldn't hear someone even a foot away in space, because sound is just moving air. If there's no air, there's no sound. Theoretically you could hear people in different continents, in fact, Two Brain's hears people in France when he's in Word Girl's body. The difference between this and fictional things like mind control and meat beams is that we don't know exactly how they work, but we KNOW how hearing works. Word girl even puts her hand to her ear when she uses hearing. If she had telepathy, that might be a different story, but she doesn't, she has super hearing. And I assume that's what her parents would have
What bothered me the most as a kid when she revealed this to her family is that she never bothered to, you know, get in the suit and show off her powers or something
I HAD SO MANY DARN QUESTIONS AND FANFICS AS A CHILD!!! “Where are her biological parents?!” “Aren’t they worried do they even know where she is?!” “What is the culture of planet lexicon??” “When word girl becomes an adult and gets a power up can she be able to get multiple language vocabulary??” “Did she have any bio SIBLINGS??” “Was her name ALSO Becky on Lexicon?!” I remember as a kid I made a fan fiction of an older super sister of word girl who wanted to force Becky to go back home to lexicon But she kept refusing It was so cliche X,D
Answers: -still on lexicon -yes, but they are involved in an intergalactic war with their Allies against a coalition of extremely hostile aliens -Highly intelligent and advanced alien race that specializes in peace, diplomacy, education, scientific/historical investment, and multiculturalism. -yes. She will become fluent in nearly all languages, both human and alien, and learn how to communicate with nearly any type of sentient being as well as help them understand each other’s languages to help establish first contact with new races and civilizations -no, she is an only child -I’d like to think so; if not, it’s probably some kind of pretty alien name such as “vae r’sh neoh “ or something
I'm assuming this isn't the complete truth of WordGirl's origin because Becky's only source on what happened is Bob and as someone who was essentially another parental figure in her life, he had every reason to omit any awful truths about their origins and situation. But here is my elaborate personal fanfic/theory on what really happened and why Captain Huggy Face and WordGirl never bothered to try and go back to their home planet. Captain Huggy Face was on a mission on Lexicon investigating an anonymous tip about illegal experiments taking place there (as a decorated war veteran/pilot he'd have the background and skills to partake in law enforcement). During his investigation, in which he went undercover in a top-secret lab he discovered a baby girl being experimented on in the lab, living proof of the lab's unjust experiments on sentient life. He then discovered further proof that the national government of Lexicon was funding this project and had every intention of using the technology in the experiments for their own soldiers once it was perfected and insight a galactic war. Unable to stand by and watch the universe descend into chaos, Captain Huggy Face rescued the baby, destroyed the technology used on her, and then fled his home galaxy since he understood that it would not just be Lexicon after her if others discovered what she went through and her potential as a weapon. Now on the run and homeless Captain Huggy Face searches for a new home, identity and life for him and the baby girl, specifically searching for a planet where they could fit in easily and never be discovered. Earth was the perfect choice, but he also had to be careful that the baby now in his care would not attempt to fly back to her home planet in search of answers about her birth family, but also did not want to scar the poor child who possibly did not have any family to even go back to. So, he omitted part of the truth and made it seem like their home planet was just too far away to travel back to, even going as far as permanently damaging his ship so that it could never take flight again. Once Captain Huggy Face found the perfect young couple on Earth to adopt Becky, he used special alien technology to manipulate their memories of how him and Becky came into their lives and then destroyed it so that they'd never find out (or they were just super high when they found Becky and Bob in the woods IDK). Shortly after her adoption by the young couple Becky demonstrated amazing powers (most likely a result of the experiments) and decided to become a superhero.
Note that the bio on the OG Soup2Cans site notes she was found on Tim and Sally's doorstep So either Bob fabricated parts of the story for this and told Becky, or the creators forgot. Though this was only in S2, which was part of the initial S1/2 batch in dev...
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp in the episode, "Big Baby," Wordgirl turns into a baby along with her sidekick. It reminded me of when corporations were making baby versions of popular charters.
I have a theory that captain huggy face was not the great hero he says he was and is in fact taking the life of his older brother he mentioned in another episode I believe he was probably one of the screw-up who in a fit of trying to prove himself stole the spaceship and was freaked out by Becky which he told the story of being the great captain so she'd look up to and admire him and he could be a hero to her if not the others of lexicon I also believe that's why he hasn't tried to return them home or seek the others to let them k or they are safe plus let's face it huggy is weak especially compared to wordgirl amd most other villians , he hasn't shown much great captain of lexicon traits
Captain Huggyface was *_important_* on Lexicon?! 1:07 When your backstory is added retroactively and you didn't get the memo but you like where it is going.
I remember that episode. I used to watch Wordgirl as a kid. This episode was where rumor had it that Wordgirl made a mistake. And that red asteroid that hit the town nullified her powers, like with kyrtonite nullifying Superman’s powers. Even the evil businessman who I forgot his name, put the piece of the asteroid on her to keep her from using her powers. Becky had no choice but to tell her family about her whole story. Her origin is kinda similar to Superman’s since he was adopted as well after his biological parents died on kyrtoton, also with mega mind and metroman.
I suspect that Huggy face might've lied to her about her home planet. What if it got destroyed Megamind style but he just gave that origin story to not upset her? That would be too dark for a PBS show, but it seems to make more sense than Huggy getting startled (being the greatest air force pilot) and that resulting in crashlanding the ship into Earth.
God it’d be so cool if this show got a reboot off of PBS Kids. Despite it being an education show about vocabulary, there’s a lot of interesting characters with cool arcs, personality and etc. that could be branched off into even more interesting plot lines. The show is already pretty cool so maybe branching it off to give us more depth into Becky/WordGirl and C.H.F/Bob lore would be pretty cool.
Mr. Botsford not remembering adopting Becky is a big deal canonically. It is well established throughout the show that mind control technology (Mr. Big) & abilities (The Best family's powers) as well as memory erasing technology (Dr. 2Brain's device) exist in this universe. I think Bob somehow erases everyone's memories about Becky's powers whenever they are witnessed to protect her & that might explain why the neighbor (Exposition Guy) has such bad memory (if he isn't faking it).
Theory: What if the same thing happened to lexicon that happened to krypton and it got destroyed. What if huggy lied to wordgirl and said that he was just piloting through space, but he was actually trying to save her and himself from the planet that was falling apart, and maybe the ship got damaged on the way out so huggy had to make an emergency landing. This would explain why huggy doesnt seem like he wants to go back since he probably has a family there.
If WordGirl herself remembers the event she is describing WHEN SHE WAS A LITERAL BABY, maybe her superpower has to do with having a super memory & she just remembers words she has heard during her life. (Maybe the meteorite from Lexicon in that one episode, which seems to also be the one they crash into, confused her memory of words she knew which is why some of what she said was distorted).
I remember when this episode was premiering, pbs ran all these promotions that left on the cliffhanger of her telling her family she was wordgirl and they had me so hyped when i was little. i remember i wanted to watch it so bad, but when the day came i missed it and searched for it on the internet to no avail. this is the first time i'm seeing what happens next, i'm so happy, i'm like 18 and re-entering my wordgirl era
This just raises the cluelessness of the parents even more. I'm sure a lot of people just assumed that Wordgirl was their biological daughter and they brought a monkey as a pet, but now we know that they just found some random monkey with a little toddler in the middle of the forest and just decided to adopt the both of them without asking any questions🤣
1. How the hell would she remember her origin story like that from start to finish from a baby to now? 2. Why doesn't she just transform right in front of them to prove she's wordgirl? 3. I can understand that some people are very forgetful, but adopting a baby girl and a monkey there just appeared out of nowhere is something that you don't forget.
1. Bob probably told her the story while she was growing up. Not when se was 3. 2. The Lexonite might have been affecting her badly enough to keep her from doing so or she backed out on the idea of rvealing her identity after she was mocked by her brother. 3. They seem kinda dopey. Pun intended.
@@ivetterodriguez1994 How the hell would Bob tell Becky the origin the story if he can't talk? Am I missing something? Not to sound like a jerk or anything
Maybe Huggy considers it shore leave. He gets to lounge around in diapers, eat all kinds of wonderful exotic foods they don’t have back on Lexicon, and hang out with his pal Becky all day long. He’ll have to give it up whenever a rescue crew arrives to repair their ship and help them get home, but in the mean time he’s making the best of a bad situation
"There are no accidents" - Master Oogway If CHF never crash landed on a Earth, no one would be able to serve justice to all the villians, but more importantly, correct improper word usage.
@@Flash-cz7cy Yes it is. It's Becky's birthday & she makes a wish to have never been WordGirl. In the alternate world, she's just a normal human girl. Chuck has taken over the city, rules with an iron fist, & forces everyone to eat only sandwiches every day unless it's their birthday. Then they can eat cake. The other villains are just regular citizens too. Becky has to get back to her house with help from Bob & her family & reverse her birthday wish
between the guys who left her wander on a airforce base in possibly mid war and the guys who literally forgot they adopted her (presumably because they were high as fuck), sometimes i really think the war hero monkey and the evil mouse man are the most responsible parental figures Becky has
Why didn't she just 'Word up' in front of them or show them her powers? I mean theyd still probably not believe her, but Violet figured it all out just from a photo
Dang, they really got the hairstyles accurate. I see a lot of my old families younger photos and at least 1 of them has that hairstyle that the mom and dad had . . .
Idk, PBS is an educational show and Superman is one of DC Comic’s most popular kids show characters You’d think they’d license a crossover, even for at least just a Superman cameo. It would be good PR for them
How did Becky’s parents, or at least her dad, completely forget they adopted her? Unless there’s something about that part of the story she got wrong, and something else happened that resulted in them having her…
Why didn’t Becky’s biological parents try to find her? They likely did, but they probably didn’t think that their own child traveled to another planet so they tried to look for her on Lexicon. However I wonder why Becky and Captain Huggyface didn’t even try to find a way to go back to their home planet
If Tim and Sally saw Huggy in his uniform when they first found them, wouldn't they know he was Captain Huggyface? Unless of course this story is not actually true...
Look at Tim and sally in the flashback though… they’re clearly hippie stoners. Who knows how much of this they actually remember, they were probably zoned out most of Becky’s childhood. It’s also been theorized that This is the story Huggy told little Becky as a child to fill her in on questions about her true past, and it didn’t actually happen. We’ll never know for sure
So, Becky Botsford. The Truth Comes Out. And before you say anything else let me guess. The whole reason you kept this origin story a secret was because you didn't want to hurt your family's feelings.
I've seen neglectful parents but this is excessive. Imagine letting your kid wander into a ship with a war hero and not look for the kid for literally over a decade.
I like to think her parents are dead and Captain Huggieface was actually rogue [possibly not even a captain] and stole a spaceship but now has a new life on Earth.
As a kid (like maybe 5-6 years old) I made the active choice to stop watching Word Girl because I started hearing the robot sound effects in real life. Nowadays I can’t even remember the actual sound. In retrospect, it is hilarious that I decided to detox from a cartoon.
Lexicon is at war with another intergalactic power at this point in time; her parents may have misplaced her during an attack when lexiconians were being herded into bomb 💣 shelters and martial law was being implemented (why huggy was about to be deployed into space in the first place.) During the chaos, baby Becky innocently wandered off and got in his ship before he was deployed in combat. The planet Lexicon is seen very briefly later in the Wordgirl tv movie, _the rise of miss power_ when she’s looking for a new planet to conquer. While this implies that it survived the war and is still prosperous and vibrant, apparently her parents still have not contacted wordgirl. One of the writers claimed that her parents *do know* that she’s living on earth, and since she seems happy and safe from the problems back home just let her be. Kinda sad, but also kinda sweet and wholesome too =‘)
imagine not remembering adopting a little baby and a monkey while going for a picnic one day
it's just Like That sometimes i guess
I have a theory on how that's not the real story, but one Huggy made up for Becky. Tim's response may even indicate he actually doesn't believe Becky is adopted, but true flesh a blood, which is sweet, but it does make one wonder if Huggy did something to Tim and Sally so they would take the two of them in.
"what? oh that Monkey, and that kid that looks nothing like us? hmmm, i dunno! they've lived here as long as I can remember. we just kinda got used to each other and they're part of the fam, now!"
"....honeeeeeeyyyy, my bong's out, I need another refill!"
@@YowLife dude making captain bob do something like that actually makes the most sense of all.
And said monkey was dressed exactly like the sidekick of a famous super hero
I have a theory on how that's not the real story, but a slightly fake one Huggy made up for Becky.
Tim's response may even indicate he actually doesn't believe Becky is adopted, but true flesh and blood. While that is endearing, it does make one wonder if Huggy did something to Tim and Sally Botsford to believe these two were part of the family.
One word: crack
Yeah like wouldn't her Lexiconian family come looking for her? Why did they never try and start the ship? Why am I obsessing over this? All important questions
I mean the adults in this city arent the smartest anyways.....
But also...
I do wonder why her parents didn't come looking for her but then again they did say it was a far away Galaxy and it looks like maybe the people there dont like traveling that much or like they may not like leaving there planet that much because there was 2 cities with domes over them and becky was outside them but I wonder why she was just walking around far from the city I mean it could also be that maybe her actual parents didnt take good care of her and even if they did care about her and maybe they lost her by accident earth is pretty big how would they find her or know where to begin looking especially since it looked like they only have 1 or 2 cities and each one is fairly apart from the other and has a dome over it on lexicon
And earth is very different
But your theory is still possible because of how there seem to be some holes in this story I just wonder why huggy would want to change the story but also .........
this is a PBS kids show why is a show called word girl getting me so interested in it honestly I wish I just had all the episodes and seasons so I can watch the whole series
And baby becky lookes adorable❤
Makes sense considering, and let me say this, but Becky is the only black kid in the show that just happens to be in a black "adopted" family
@@Taishawn24.7 actually there is more characters that are people of color like the really big kid in the class and then theres one of the three kids that always play on the "MAY I HAVE A WORD" show at the end of the episodes and there is also ms.question and granny may oh and the mayor those are all the ones I can think of off the top of my head right now though
But im glad the main character and her family are people of color( whether they are related or not)
For all you guys wondering why her birth parents haven't tried to find her, ever considered the possibility that something may have happened to them to result in her crawling around a spaceship on her own with absolutely no one frantically searching for her? Because to me, that is the most logical assumption to make.
That's definitely a loose end that warrants an answer
Could also be that they simply haven't gotten to earth yet. I imagine there's plenty of plants between Lexicon and earth. I image it takes a very long time to search even one planet, let alone multiple.
@@pinkiichi Miss power was able to tell pretty quickly from her systems that word girl existed on earth. I'd imagine her parents would have comparable technology
@@andrewprahst2529 Mmm true, though we don't know much about either planet, it's possible her technology is more advanced than lexicons
🤔 They were assassinated
Why am I suddenly obssessed with Wordgirl lore and demand we have more of it?
Me too
Suddenly getting youtube recommended videos and some nostalgia were what got me, I think.
From their slumber the Wordgirl fandom rises
because its fabulous
Reddit: "yes of course, but to even begin to delve into this fandom you'll need a grasp of the _Wordgirl Lore"_
Me: "not again. I can't again-I can't....I'm not, strong enough"
I like how nobody questions how the monkey is so expressive
Also how big do you think Captain Huggies kill count is? He's a war veteran after all
He’s killed many a man
At least a few dozen. You don't get the title Greatest Captain without a little blood.
Poor Huggie Face went from respected air pilot, to pet that is forced to where a diaper. Goddamn.
Sometimes I think that monkey is the narrator
Captain Huggy is the true MVP here:
1) Most probably one of the highest ranking captains in the Lexicon Air Force
2) An experienced spaceship pilot
3) Taken care of WordGirl before being found by Tim and Sally
4) A loving companion to WordGirl as she grows up
5) Loyal sidekick to WordGirl as she does her job
6) Able to understand human language
7) Bromance with The Butcher
And most importantly:
8) Able to eat large portions of food despite his small size
I love how her adopted family just happened to be the exact same ambiguous brown as her. She could have been adopted by a white family, a black family, an Asian family, but she just so happened to be adopted by one of the families she could easily pass for being one of their biological children.
Becky’s family is white
That’s true.
Wordgirl resembles a black person and most of not all her adoptive family is black.
It’s kinda how it goes. Same thing happened to Superman and Icon
@@StormTheeOmega she looks mixed at most. The whole family looks more brown than black
First off, I'm pretty sure that Tim does remember adopting her, he just doesn't believe where they were before he found them in the woods. Secondly, for all we know, Lexicon probably thinks they're dead.
i agree, i think he does remeber with the way he acts. tho i think its more he does not want to acknowledge it, tim was always shown to be nice and caring, so it could be that hes ignoring the adoption so that she actually feels their her biological mother and father.
another theory that was popping up in the comments is that they were high as hell when they found her (the mothers clothing in that flash back really looks like something you would find at woodstock) so they legit thought they had a baby then.
One thing I don't understand is why didn't she just transform after she finished telling them her story?
There's no way that's Becky's actual backstory. Not because it's hilarious, but because she'd be too young to even remember. HuggyFace was probably the one who made it up for her.
She’s not human though. Maybe she really does
i mean she does have superpowers! it wouldnt be that farfetched if she had a rlly good memory as well
Too much evidence exists for the story to be made up.
Huggy probably either TOLD HER since she didn’t remember (she was only a baby) or perhaps showed her events leading up to their crash through the ship’s memory logs
Honestly I can believe it but yeah, since it was huggy face who told her there is a high chance that he missed some essential details or purposely left them out.
Eh, you could say her species had really good memory or that Captain Huggyface told her
Question: if she knows and remembers that she was originally born on another planet, why hasn't she tried to go back to it? I mean, I know she's made the Earth her home but her birth parents must be worried sick about her!
And this isn't like a Superman thing where the planet was destroyed, Planet Lexicon still exists. It's still there, why hasn't she tried at least visiting it to see her birth parents and let them know she's okay? And also, alternatively, why haven't they tried finding her?
Follow up question: why did she just assume that her Dad and brother were going to believe she's Wordgirl without any proof? Why didn't she transform to show them? Did she really think they would just take her word for it?
Her (Huggy's) ship is grounded, and she can't fly that far on her own. No idea why Huggy never radioed for help. A ship capable of intergalactic travel would HAVE to be capable of intergalactic communication, right?
As for your second question, her powers may still have been drained from the meteor earlier in the episode. Her costume should still have worked unless the quick change is part of her powers.
Dang, I didn't think about the fact that they're actually _stranded_ on earth and just kinda made the best of living there.
I wonder if she *wants* to go home sometimes, but can't?
@@hobomike6935 I don't actually _know_ that the ship is permanently down, but it certainly looks that way to my knowledge they never tried to take off.
@@kylerbelshaw7042 There was this one episode where Huggy barely got the ship off the ground to stop the villains from locating it after Whammer ran into it, prompting him to gather every villain in town so he could show the ship to them. After they all left, the ship was instantly returned to the ground. So by the looks of things it can hardly function, since I remember that Huggy wasn’t sure as to whether or not he could get the ship airborne in time to keep it a secret from all the villains that came with Whammer!
@@rebbystar5235 not to mention chances are the ship is made of materials that are nonexistent on earth, making it to where fixing it is pretty much impossible
There are a lot of sad, disturbing implications in this and I love that the show ignores every last bit of it.
I was so weird out by the fact that they do not remember adopting their daughter, but then I saw their clothing, and I came to understand
They were stoners, and probably REALLY high when they adopted her.
That’s the only way I can understand how they forgot about a monkey carrying a baby in the forest
Edit: holy shit, thanks for supporting my theory/word girl hc 👊😔
Huh, actually kinda makes sense. The other reason I was gonna think of is that everyone in this show is just really dumb but that works too
Kinda explains how casually they reacted to seeing a clothed monkey carrying a baby in the middle of the forest.
Naahh All there are equal or worse fools except for Dr. Two Brains and Tobey Mc C.
Well, that got dark faster than expected and funny.
Honestly Chuck the evil sandwhich making guy is way more smarter than this
The pure absurdity of Becky's dad not even remembering how he found and adopted Becky, nor how Captain Huggyface was wearing the same exact outfit he wears today as Wordgirl's sidekick.
Obi wan kenobi I'm a need your help what do I do if an arch enemy that's a villains robotic prototype wants to destroy me and take my power?
OMG wait hold on a second yeah that is weird!?! Huggy had to have erased him memory for him not to recognize Huggy's outfit as well as the design on the spaceship matching WordGirl's outfit?!
fr
This implies that her "parents" found an infant in the forest (in the arms of an ape) and just took it home. No police report? Not even a "Found child" sign? What if she had been kidnapped and abandoned, and her real (human) parents were desperately searching for their baby? Did they even take her to a doctor after finding her like that!? If so, why didn't the doctor question the fact that this couple brought in a baby that wasn't theirs? She's not exactly human, but is she close enough that there's no discernable difference other than superpowers? Why and how did she not accidentally use them as a young child in front of someone else who had more than half a brain cell?
Then again, this couple is incredibly oblivious to everything around them. Good thing she's practically indestructible, but it's a miracle their real son didn't get himself killed.
I have a head cannon that her parents used to be stoners
Important notes:
>Sally botsford is Fair City’s district attorney, and probably is able to move things around in government files to make Becky’s adoption seem approved and legit. She also has an “in” with the mayor who makes sure things swing their way for their family.
>huggy probably made sure to protect Becky as a toddler and used their downed spacecraft to help teach her, bring her up to speed, and help her learn that she’s an alien and can’t go Willy-Nilly using her powers in front of people.
>both her parents are not only citizens of Fair city, I.e. one of the most incompetent places on earth, but they were also stoners/druggies at a younger age so they kinda go in-and-out. Tim loves Becky but probably has lapsed memory, even of important events like adopting a child.
>the city has a huge supervillain problem and could probably care less about hunting down a _possible_ lead on an “abducted child” case.
@@hobomike6935 Pretty sure an unregistered child found in the forest would take precedence over some dude throwing a massive quantity sausages at a bank teller for a few thousand dollars.
Also, if it was found that they didn't report a found child, and Mrs. Botsford lied about it on official documents, she'd be in the fire for sure. Where would Becky have come from that would and could keep up the lie?
Becky lifted an entire couch. Her parents may not have noticed, but how many more incidents like that happened right in front of a window, or out in public? You can't expect a kid to not do what a kid is going to do, no matter how much you teach them. You can say "Don't run on a wet floor" but that won't always stop the kid from doing it.
How come doctors never noticed her differences from the normal human? Did her parents _never_ take her to the doctor?
You don't have to put parents in quotation marks. Adopted parents ARE real parents, just not biological ones. The rest of your point still stands though
@@xanecho They did a pretty bad job as parents though. I don't think a kidnapping is a legitimate adoption, and I don't think you should be in charge of a child if you don't notice a couch moving in the background.
Honestly, this story was so crazy lol. Becky might have made her story more believable if she transformed right then and there. What kills me is that a random baby was crawling around an area unsupervised where a spaceship was. How did she get there and where are her original parents? Did they really just accept that their daughter died? And not only that, that Captain Huggyface would just disappear? This wouldn't be the first time this happened in a story or show, but the idea that no other Lexians ever searched or found any traces of Becky and Bob is incredible to me. But I guess I say that because Ms. Power found Earth, which led her to Wordgirl.
I'm guessing one oftwo things happened: Either they must be the worst parents of all time or they got murdered that day. Or maybe Lexicon got destroyed, which could explain why Becky and Captain didn't make any attempts to go back.
No her parents don't accept that their daughter died
@HonestAbe18 Or they don't know to path from Lexicon to Earth
Becky: intentionally exposes her secret identity to her family
Family: lmao nice joke, show us your superpowers
Becky: proceeds to not do anything
*LOGIC 100*
also how could her dad forgot about how he adopted WordGirl???
She probably decided it was a bad idea.
@@thezman9522 honestly a cardboard cutout is a fine dad as far as cartoon dads go
Her dad probably knows
A whole bunch of weed.
@@thezman9522 Also Worldgirl did say to that Wander Over Yonder-voiced superhero kid that superheros must underplay things at first because it makes for better drama lol
0:47 Captain Huggy Face: *desperately trying to regain control*
baby Wordgirl: 👁👄👁
If I was CH I would crashed into the sun.
Okay knowing this backstory I’m actually kind of annoyed that they reduced Huggyface to goofy sidekick status instead of fleshing him out a bit more. He is pretty much her guardian, a trained solider and the only one who knows about her origins. I know it’s a kids show so they didn’t go full lore but I think that that actually has some cool story potential.
I mean if you watch the show you know Huggy is often her moral compass telling her to do her superhero duties even when she really doesn't want to
WordGirl is Huggyfaces protégé. Hes pretty much passing the torch
Like an uncle Iroh situation
The superhero name is Wordgirl, and a Monkey companion named Captain Huggyface. What you expect, this a kids show.
@@yytyyy5329 It's also a smart show, so, it *is* to be expected. This is no Peppa Pig.
I like the idea that captain huggy face is a captain and his superhero costume is actually his uniform. Gives a little more depth to a character that was once seen as little more than a loyal sidekick.
He’s likely been sending out 🆘 transmissions to the homeworld for rescue, but they haven’t been able to get anyone out that far because of combat going on back home
In the mean time, he’s making the best of a bad situation
Word girl was a really cute kid! Also, dang Huggy! That explains why he's dead set on looking after her!
how adorable
Aww so cute
@@scarletweb2106 Yes!
Okay but the fact that Lexicon has an Air Force implies that Lexicon was at war at some point
Also Captain Huggy Face has probably killed someone
Becky’s parents: *Finds an baby and a monkey lost in the forest*
Also Becky’s Parents: *W H O W A N T S S A N D W H I C H E S ?*
Dang, I remember being a little kid and REALLY wanting her to finally reveal her secret identity. The last episode I ever saw was when the nerd villain guy was onto her, and the episode ended with a cliff hanger when the guy finally said "you're Word Girl!" or something.. And THEN we moved out and into a house with no cabel.... I never saw Word Girl. Eventually, I grew up and simply lost interest, figuring the kids show simply brushed over it like so many other shows do... Never however did I think that they actually CONTINUED along with the legitimate drama! Wow!
Her identity actually gets revealed a couple of times. The episode you're talking about continues this too. Bob uses a wordgirl toy to trick Tobey (the nerd) into thinking wordgirl took down his robots. In an episode that I believe takes place before that one, Dr. Two Brains finds out and reveals it to her family but she uses one of D2B's rays to erase everyone's memories. Later on, another kid, Scoops, find out during a mind control zombie apocalypse type episode and he remembers in later episodes. Then a new girl, a reporter, figures out her identity and decides to keep it a secret (though we don't see her again, likely bc the show was canceled) and in the finale her best friend Violet finds out.
@@pinkiichi ahhh, nice! I vaguely remember her family finding out and then forgetting, which might be why I was always skeptical even as a kid that they would ever TRULY find out.
@@pinkiichi I think they’re talking about one of the shorts, because that episode doesn’t end on a cliffhanger. In both that short and the episode you’re thinking of Tobey comes over for a play date though
@@TengolfCat actually I think it does. I rewatched it recently and I remember there being a cliffhanger
@@pinkiichi By Jove You’ve Wrecked My Robot?
I must say as someone who's only had a passing glimpse of this show on TV and seen clips on UA-cam, the fact that this show has genuine lore both fascinates and frightens me.
Poor Becky, but at least her identity is safe.
Yep.
For the most part. I'm pretty sure there are a few characters that know her identity, but choose to not say anything about it. Dr TwoBrains comes to mind as one of them.
@@Angel_Kittichik luckily, her identity is safe with those people. :)
Good point.
@@TheRealBellatrixLestrange x3 Yeah
@{𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝒾𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓃} they don't believe her, and are just like "yeah right haha" when she's trying to say something big and true.
Wait... what if she has devastated parents who love and miss her? Oh no!
I was actually wondering about that. It's a bummer that we don't get an episode in which we actually go to lexicon and meet the Lexiconians.
@@roseofhappilove6841 that would have been an awesome movie or finale!
@@roseofhappilove6841 we should make a petition for a movie with that as the plot lol
@@AnthonyBlamthony or we can come together and make the movie ourselves
That's an interesting idea.
If they've got intergalactic warfare going on (Because Huggyface was a famous Airforce Captain) I imagine they'd have access to news about other planets in other galaxies. So maybe her parents know that she's Wordgirl, living a happy life on Earth, usually not in any *actual* danger, and are proud of their child.
Or we could go the other route of:
If Becky, as a like- _maybe_ one year old child, was left to wander the planet to the point of being able to get on the spaceship of an Airforce captain, then-
Do her parents really care about her?
But that's *just* a theory! A *Film* Theory! Thanks For Reading!
But seriously though that got kinda dark there, I'm sorry-
The fact that Huggyface is a seasoned and famous airforce pilot implies that he’s older than word girl, probably the equivalent of a middle-aged man and…. I don’t know how to feel about that
It's truly impressive that she recalls her years as a newborn child in vivid detail.
I can't even recall what I had for breakfest 4 days ago.
Bruh fr
I never thought about this, but I do think the reason we never see WordGirl’s biological parents is because they might be dead. I mean think about it. We never see them in this flashback and Huggy appears to be the one watching her and we never saw them during the events of the show or had an episode of them coming to Earth to reunite with their daughter. Heck, we never knew if they they found out that their daughter and Captain Huggyface disappeared or accidentally took his ship down to Earth. You’d think they wouldn’t leave their daughter or their trusted friend on Earth to be adopted by mortal beings? Considering they have the same powers as their daughter, they would have heard her on Earth and followed it to the Botsford’s house. Like I said, they surely wouldn’t leave them with mortal beings like the Botsfords. They would have just taken their daughter back and considering the Botsfords are kind people, would have graciously given her back to her biological parents.
So I think they’re definitely deceased and Huggy became her guardian and this flashback takes place after their deaths. Or what if they put Huggy in charge of watching over her while they went on a typical superhero mission and while Huggy and their daughter were crashing down to Earth, they died during their mission? Idk. There’s probably different possible explanations. Or maybe I’m just looking too into this.
Sound doesn't travel through a vacuum. There's no way to hear people on different planets no matter how good your hearing is.
Anyway, the fact that Huggy was so startled by her in the first place makes me think he didn't know she'd be there in the first place, and maybe they had never met until that point
@@andrewprahst2529 “There’s no way to hear people on different planets.”
Says someone regarding a show that has a literal sandwich head, a child prodigy that misuses his gift for building robots to cause destruction, a butcher that can shoot meat out of his hands and his dad with similar abilities except with potatoes, a doctor who went crazy because he did a lab experiment with a mouse that ended up giving him a split personality with two brains, a business man voiced by a sexual predator that often uses mind control in his schemes, has a giant energy monster, a copy shop employee that became a villain just by pressing a button on a copying machine that gives her powers to make copies of herself, etc. 🤦♂️
Also, Superman, one of the characters that WordGirl is inspired from, can literally *hear* people on different continents on Earth. So I don’t see why her biological parents could hear her on planet Earth. Not to mention this show already ignored laws of physics or things that are scientifically impossible.
@@hunterolaughlin It's not because there's no human on earth that can hear that far, its that sound literally just doesn't travel through space, at all. Even if your hearing range was bigger than the entire universe, you still couldn't hear someone even a foot away in space, because sound is just moving air. If there's no air, there's no sound. Theoretically you could hear people in different continents, in fact, Two Brain's hears people in France when he's in Word Girl's body.
The difference between this and fictional things like mind control and meat beams is that we don't know exactly how they work, but we KNOW how hearing works. Word girl even puts her hand to her ear when she uses hearing. If she had telepathy, that might be a different story, but she doesn't, she has super hearing. And I assume that's what her parents would have
Wordgirl's biological parents died protecting her causing Captain Huggyface to be her guardian for years
@@scarletweb2106 You’ve already said that and I believe that too.
What bothered me the most as a kid when she revealed this to her family is that she never bothered to, you know, get in the suit and show off her powers or something
Now I wonder how Becky feels about the phrase "actions speak louder than words"?
I wonder if Bob just made up that backstory because so many other pieces just don't fit.
“Don’t you remember? You adopted me.”
“Rings a bell.”
Father of the year, right there.
“Hey! A baby and a monkey! Who wants sandwiches?” 😂
😂😂😂😂
donkey kong and diddy kong getting confirmed for smash ultimate be like:
I HAD SO MANY DARN QUESTIONS AND FANFICS AS A CHILD!!!
“Where are her biological parents?!”
“Aren’t they worried do they even know where she is?!”
“What is the culture of planet lexicon??”
“When word girl becomes an adult and gets a power up can she be able to get multiple language vocabulary??”
“Did she have any bio SIBLINGS??”
“Was her name ALSO Becky on Lexicon?!”
I remember as a kid I made a fan fiction of an older super sister of word girl who wanted to force Becky to go back home to lexicon
But she kept refusing
It was so cliche X,D
@@phillysteak997 lol nope I was a cringe kid it’s gone ages ago
Answers:
-still on lexicon
-yes, but they are involved in an intergalactic war with their Allies against a coalition of extremely hostile aliens
-Highly intelligent and advanced alien race that specializes in peace, diplomacy, education, scientific/historical investment, and multiculturalism.
-yes. She will become fluent in nearly all languages, both human and alien, and learn how to communicate with nearly any type of sentient being as well as help them understand each other’s languages to help establish first contact with new races and civilizations
-no, she is an only child
-I’d like to think so; if not, it’s probably some kind of pretty alien name such as “vae r’sh neoh “ or something
OMG I THOUGHT OF THAT TOO
Bro I need to read this fanfiction. For science.
I'm assuming this isn't the complete truth of WordGirl's origin because Becky's only source on what happened is Bob and as someone who was essentially another parental figure in her life, he had every reason to omit any awful truths about their origins and situation. But here is my elaborate personal fanfic/theory on what really happened and why Captain Huggy Face and WordGirl never bothered to try and go back to their home planet.
Captain Huggy Face was on a mission on Lexicon investigating an anonymous tip about illegal experiments taking place there (as a decorated war veteran/pilot he'd have the background and skills to partake in law enforcement). During his investigation, in which he went undercover in a top-secret lab he discovered a baby girl being experimented on in the lab, living proof of the lab's unjust experiments on sentient life. He then discovered further proof that the national government of Lexicon was funding this project and had every intention of using the technology in the experiments for their own soldiers once it was perfected and insight a galactic war. Unable to stand by and watch the universe descend into chaos, Captain Huggy Face rescued the baby, destroyed the technology used on her, and then fled his home galaxy since he understood that it would not just be Lexicon after her if others discovered what she went through and her potential as a weapon. Now on the run and homeless Captain Huggy Face searches for a new home, identity and life for him and the baby girl, specifically searching for a planet where they could fit in easily and never be discovered. Earth was the perfect choice, but he also had to be careful that the baby now in his care would not attempt to fly back to her home planet in search of answers about her birth family, but also did not want to scar the poor child who possibly did not have any family to even go back to. So, he omitted part of the truth and made it seem like their home planet was just too far away to travel back to, even going as far as permanently damaging his ship so that it could never take flight again. Once Captain Huggy Face found the perfect young couple on Earth to adopt Becky, he used special alien technology to manipulate their memories of how him and Becky came into their lives and then destroyed it so that they'd never find out (or they were just super high when they found Becky and Bob in the woods IDK). Shortly after her adoption by the young couple Becky demonstrated amazing powers (most likely a result of the experiments) and decided to become a superhero.
Note that the bio on the OG Soup2Cans site notes she was found on Tim and Sally's doorstep
So either Bob fabricated parts of the story for this and told Becky, or the creators forgot. Though this was only in S2, which was part of the initial S1/2 batch in dev...
Baby Becky is adorable.
Indeed
I didn't like Baby Wordgirl though.
@@roseofhappilove6841 Word up?
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp in the episode, "Big Baby," Wordgirl turns into a baby along with her sidekick. It reminded me of when corporations were making baby versions of popular charters.
too right Eric Cartman I wanna hug her for being so cute
I have a theory that captain huggy face was not the great hero he says he was and is in fact taking the life of his older brother he mentioned in another episode I believe he was probably one of the screw-up who in a fit of trying to prove himself stole the spaceship and was freaked out by Becky which he told the story of being the great captain so she'd look up to and admire him and he could be a hero to her if not the others of lexicon I also believe that's why he hasn't tried to return them home or seek the others to let them k or they are safe plus let's face it huggy is weak especially compared to wordgirl amd most other villians , he hasn't shown much great captain of lexicon traits
Aww poor Huggyface
Captain Huggyface was *_important_* on Lexicon?!
1:07 When your backstory is added retroactively and you didn't get the memo but you like where it is going.
Imagine your crush being your sister
Sweet home alabama
Luke Skywalker:
Been there
it's his adopted stepsister so that somehow makes everything alright!
... NOT.
@@hobomike6935 They're not stepsiblings
They’re not blood related it’s fine
I din’t get why y’all have to shame people for who they love?
I love how you ended that right after the shade TJ threw
Wordgirl gameplay : pew pew villains in jail lol
Wordgirl lore :
*....there's a GAME?*
I remember that episode. I used to watch Wordgirl as a kid. This episode was where rumor had it that Wordgirl made a mistake. And that red asteroid that hit the town nullified her powers, like with kyrtonite nullifying Superman’s powers. Even the evil businessman who I forgot his name, put the piece of the asteroid on her to keep her from using her powers. Becky had no choice but to tell her family about her whole story. Her origin is kinda similar to Superman’s since he was adopted as well after his biological parents died on kyrtoton, also with mega mind and metroman.
“Hey a baby and a monkey, who wants sandwiches?”
The best thing I’ve heard all day.
0:45
How much you wanna bet that that meteor is the same one Violet found, nine or ten years later?
About 10$
Year on...
Looks like it.
I suspect that Huggy face might've lied to her about her home planet. What if it got destroyed Megamind style but he just gave that origin story to not upset her? That would be too dark for a PBS show, but it seems to make more sense than Huggy getting startled (being the greatest air force pilot) and that resulting in crashlanding the ship into Earth.
God it’d be so cool if this show got a reboot off of PBS Kids. Despite it being an education show about vocabulary, there’s a lot of interesting characters with cool arcs, personality and etc. that could be branched off into even more interesting plot lines.
The show is already pretty cool so maybe branching it off to give us more depth into Becky/WordGirl and C.H.F/Bob lore would be pretty cool.
Gra-mer, last daughter of Lexicon. Remember yourself.
If Word-Girl were to be rebooted, that could be her Lexiconian name.
omg yes, this needs to be canon
That last line from her little brother feels like something a little brother would actually say.
Mr. Botsford not remembering adopting Becky is a big deal canonically. It is well established throughout the show that mind control technology (Mr. Big) & abilities (The Best family's powers) as well as memory erasing technology (Dr. 2Brain's device) exist in this universe. I think Bob somehow erases everyone's memories about Becky's powers whenever they are witnessed to protect her & that might explain why the neighbor (Exposition Guy) has such bad memory (if he isn't faking it).
Theory:
What if the same thing happened to lexicon that happened to krypton and it got destroyed. What if huggy lied to wordgirl and said that he was just piloting through space, but he was actually trying to save her and himself from the planet that was falling apart, and maybe the ship got damaged on the way out so huggy had to make an emergency landing. This would explain why huggy doesnt seem like he wants to go back since he probably has a family there.
If WordGirl herself remembers the event she is describing WHEN SHE WAS A LITERAL BABY, maybe her superpower has to do with having a super memory & she just remembers words she has heard during her life. (Maybe the meteorite from Lexicon in that one episode, which seems to also be the one they crash into, confused her memory of words she knew which is why some of what she said was distorted).
- Dad, I need to tell you something.
- What?
- I'm adopted
*noices of pure shock*
I remember when this episode was premiering, pbs ran all these promotions that left on the cliffhanger of her telling her family she was wordgirl and they had me so hyped when i was little. i remember i wanted to watch it so bad, but when the day came i missed it and searched for it on the internet to no avail. this is the first time i'm seeing what happens next, i'm so happy, i'm like 18 and re-entering my wordgirl era
So WordGirl's parents might be just OUT THERE somewhere, chasing after their kid across galaxies for a decade.
Assuming if they are looking for her for a decade.
When I first saw this, I cringed so hard. How do you not remember adopting your kid?? 😭
BAHAHAHA
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@@christiandidonna8808 based on what the parents were wearing, it makes sense
She could just fly a few feet off the ground or something
Haven't seen the episode beyond this exact scene, but wouldn't be surprised if she does that literally right after this clip cuts off.
@@thesadisticskitty7665 she didn't do it
She had Lexonite poisoning in this episode. It blocked her powers.
@@butterfly-nx7dv that explains a lot.
I still feel like Bob’s a wrongfully convicted war criminal and taking Becky with him wasn’t an accident.
Me too
Bruh
This just raises the cluelessness of the parents even more. I'm sure a lot of people just assumed that Wordgirl was their biological daughter and they brought a monkey as a pet, but now we know that they just found some random monkey with a little toddler in the middle of the forest and just decided to adopt the both of them without asking any questions🤣
1. How the hell would she remember her origin story like that from start to finish from a baby to now?
2. Why doesn't she just transform right in front of them to prove she's wordgirl?
3. I can understand that some people are very forgetful, but adopting a baby girl and a monkey there just appeared out of nowhere is something that you don't forget.
1. Bob probably told her the story while she was growing up. Not when se was 3.
2. The Lexonite might have been affecting her badly enough to keep her from doing so or she backed out on the idea of rvealing her identity after she was mocked by her brother.
3. They seem kinda dopey. Pun intended.
@@ivetterodriguez1994 How the hell would Bob tell Becky the origin the story if he can't talk? Am I missing something? Not to sound like a jerk or anything
Imagine being a war hero with honor and respect, only to relegated to being a “simple” pet in a diaper. 🥺
Maybe Huggy considers it shore leave.
He gets to lounge around in diapers, eat all kinds of wonderful exotic foods they don’t have back on Lexicon, and hang out with his pal Becky all day long.
He’ll have to give it up whenever a rescue crew arrives to repair their ship and help them get home, but in the mean time he’s making the best of a bad situation
>Find random baby and monkey in the woods…
>Immediately give them sandwhiches..
>They’re family now…
She's literally this worlds version of Superman.
"There are no accidents" - Master Oogway
If CHF never crash landed on a Earth, no one would be able to serve justice to all the villians, but more importantly, correct improper word usage.
Have you seen "A World without WordGirl?"
@@robindelorenzo1120 I think so, but I don't remember it much. Is it complete chaos?
@@Flash-cz7cy Yes it is. It's Becky's birthday & she makes a wish to have never been WordGirl. In the alternate world, she's just a normal human girl. Chuck has taken over the city, rules with an iron fist, & forces everyone to eat only sandwiches every day unless it's their birthday. Then they can eat cake. The other villains are just regular citizens too. Becky has to get back to her house with help from Bob & her family & reverse her birthday wish
between the guys who left her wander on a airforce base in possibly mid war and the guys who literally forgot they adopted her (presumably because they were high as fuck), sometimes i really think the war hero monkey and the evil mouse man are the most responsible parental figures Becky has
I know we questioned why they forgot adopting her, but I always questioned WHO TF LET THEIR BABY ROAM FREE ON A MILITARY BASE
Why didn't she just 'Word up' in front of them or show them her powers? I mean theyd still probably not believe her, but Violet figured it all out just from a photo
OMG Right?! I mean the first time they learned about it they didn't believe it until she shows off her powers
I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING THAT
I mean, actions speak louder than words, but I have NO IDEA how a superhero like WORD Girl would feel about that lol
Huggy went from a space captain to a girl’s freaking sidekick/pet. 💀
Imagine being so good at hiding your alter ego that your parents forget you were adopted.
It's like when Homer revealed he was Pie Man in the Simpsons
YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH ON THOSE SIMPSON
I never understood why Becky didn’t just open with her hovering herself.
Dang, they really got the hairstyles accurate. I see a lot of my old families younger photos and at least 1 of them has that hairstyle that the mom and dad had . . .
Wordgirl really takes a lot from Superman and gives it her own spin. Thats Nice.
A crossover would have been cool.
They would have had to pay DC to use him & that probably would have been too expensive
Idk, PBS is an educational show and Superman is one of DC Comic’s most popular kids show characters
You’d think they’d license a crossover, even for at least just a Superman cameo. It would be good PR for them
@@hobomike6935 DC is not just for kids
@@victorn2555 yes it is.
*watches the Harley Quinn series*
…oh. No I guess it is not
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Hey it’s you the guy that records almost every wordgirl episode for us
Post what that episode
How do you just forget adopting a kid?
Planet Lexicon: where parenting hasn't been invented
Or that her parents are dead.
@@EmperorRadiationEmpire She'd still have someone parent her, unless they just release orphan children onto the wilderness.
@@ManoredRed Or she has escaped from her parent's recent tragic death offscreen.
😭😭😭😭 Wordgirl's birth parents died protecting her from the war
How did Becky’s parents, or at least her dad, completely forget they adopted her? Unless there’s something about that part of the story she got wrong, and something else happened that resulted in them having her…
This is such a ridiculous origin and I love it!
Superman: *sad hero noises*
*The Ep is "Word Girl makes a Mistake" if anyone was wondering*
Why didn’t Becky’s biological parents try to find her? They likely did, but they probably didn’t think that their own child traveled to another planet so they tried to look for her on Lexicon.
However I wonder why Becky and Captain Huggyface didn’t even try to find a way to go back to their home planet
She really had a reverse adoption talk
"Dad Im adopted"
"YOU ARE??"
WOW!
That is a silly but epic origin story and response!
How could Becky remember this all as a baby?!?
Uhhh I got nothing
She's an alien; maybe Lexicon people have extended memories
I think Captain Huggy Face told her
Huggy told her this story? And she just took it as truth.
Huggy told her when she was older and coached her on how to keep her powers a secret from others
If Tim and Sally saw Huggy in his uniform when they first found them, wouldn't they know he was Captain Huggyface? Unless of course this story is not actually true...
Look at Tim and sally in the flashback though… they’re clearly hippie stoners.
Who knows how much of this they actually remember, they were probably zoned out most of Becky’s childhood.
It’s also been theorized that This is the story Huggy told little Becky as a child to fill her in on questions about her true past, and it didn’t actually happen. We’ll never know for sure
I know It's not uncommon IRL. But I always wondered why she so perfectly resembled her adopted family.
god, I remember being a little kid and, for SOME REASON, wondering to myself, "why don't they believe her?"
So, Becky Botsford.
The Truth Comes Out.
And before you say anything else let me guess.
The whole reason you kept this origin story a secret was because you didn't want to hurt your family's feelings.
I've seen neglectful parents but this is excessive. Imagine letting your kid wander into a ship with a war hero and not look for the kid for literally over a decade.
I like to think her parents are dead and Captain Huggieface was actually rogue [possibly not even a captain] and stole a spaceship but now has a new life on Earth.
I think WordGirl's biological parents were murdered and Captain Huggyface's old "friends" framed him so Captain Huggyface takes baby WordGirl to Earth
I love how she explains everything, only to be met with her Dad being a clueless idiot and Brother roasting her.
I've forgotten how dumb the citizens are in this show
"Wordgirls' awesome you? Not so much." Gosh when I was young I was laughing at that, today I still am (sorry for my grammar by the way)
Yes that IS ONE LITTLE DIFFERENCE whilst them having a lot of similarities.
Wordgirl really said “Mom… Dad… I’m adopted.”
Becky, they're not going to believe you unless they see your powers.
Come on Becky don't feel bad I believe you
“The one we call Bob” I don’t know why that’s so funny to me.😂
"Hey, look, a baby and a monkey! Who wants sandwiches?" Is one of my favorite lines ever written
As a kid (like maybe 5-6 years old) I made the active choice to stop watching Word Girl because I started hearing the robot sound effects in real life. Nowadays I can’t even remember the actual sound. In retrospect, it is hilarious that I decided to detox from a cartoon.
I love how the home planet is named “Lexicon”
Kid math (another superhero) claims he’s from Planet Hexagon just across the system from her =D
I just want to know why her parents were letting her wander around some military ship.
I always forget that captain huggyfaces captain rank is legitimate and not just a title
Wait where was her parents how does she just crawl into a spaceship unattened
Lexicon is at war with another intergalactic power at this point in time; her parents may have misplaced her during an attack when lexiconians were being herded into bomb 💣 shelters and martial law was being implemented (why huggy was about to be deployed into space in the first place.)
During the chaos, baby Becky innocently wandered off and got in his ship before he was deployed in combat.
The planet Lexicon is seen very briefly later in the Wordgirl tv movie, _the rise of miss power_ when she’s looking for a new planet to conquer.
While this implies that it survived the war and is still prosperous and vibrant, apparently her parents still have not contacted wordgirl.
One of the writers claimed that her parents *do know* that she’s living on earth, and since she seems happy and safe from the problems back home just let her be. Kinda sad, but also kinda sweet and wholesome too =‘)
Wordgirl's biological parents died saving her from the intergalactic war