Two Brains Quartet
- Studio
- Scholastic, Soup2Nuts
Synopsis
For the city's centennial celebration, the Mayor promises to unveil its 100-year-old cheese wheel to the winner of the Barbershop Quartet Competition. Both the Botsford family and Dr. Two Brains are assembling talented groups. Will Dr. Two Brains be able to sing his way to victory and run away with the city's oldest and most valuable cheese?
Characters
Mrs. Botsford, Violet, Leslie, Mrs. Ripley, Becky Botsford, WordGirl, TJ Botsford, Dr. Two Brains, Mayor, TV Reporter, Mr. Botsford, Todd "Scoops" Ming, Mr. Big, Audience Members
Credits
Directing
- Director
- David SanAngelo
Producing
- Producer
- Danielle Gillis (Associate Producer)
- Executive Producers
- Deborah Forte, Dorothea Gillim
- Supervising Producer
- David Trexler
Writing
- Writer
- Peggy Nicoll, Will Shepard
- Creator
- Dorothea Gillim
Voices
- Voice
- Maria Bamford (Mrs. Botsford, Violet, Leslie), Grey DeLisle (Mrs. Ripley), Dannah Feinglass (Becky Botsford, WordGirl, Audience Member #2), Tom Kenny (TJ Botsford, Dr. Two Brains), Ron Lynch (Mayor), Larry Murphy (TV Reporter, Audience Member #3), Chris Parnell (The Narrator, Audience Member #1), Ryan Raddatz (Mr. Botsford, Todd "Scoops" Ming), Jeffrey Tambor (Mr. Big)
Art Department
- Storyboard Artists
- Joe Apel, Eric Brown
- Background Designer
- Steve Young
Visual Effects
- Visual Effects
- Evan Sussman
Editing
- Editor
- Evan Sussman
Sound
- Voiceover Recordist
- Jay Fisher
Production Management
- Executive in Charge of Production
- John Lynn
- Production Executive
- Jessica Wollman
- Post-Production Executive
- Eric Black
Production notes
Follow the everyday life and superhero adventures of WordGirl as she fights crime and enriches vocabulary usage, all in a day's work. Disguised as mild-mannered fifth-grader Becky Botsford, WordGirl arrived on planet Earth when she and monkey sidekick Captain Huggy Face crashed their spaceship. In classic superhero form, WordGirl possesses superhero strength with the added benefit of a colossal vocabulary. WordGirl has a family and friends who have no idea of her secret identity. As WordGirl, she battles and prevails over evil (albeit ridiculous and comical) villains.
Each episode introduces four new vocabulary words and reinforces their meaning in a variety of contexts throughout the episode. The vocabulary itself is not necessarily a plot point. The show teaches new vocabulary words to children in a variety of fun and interesting contexts. WordGirl is a superhero spoof, so storylines are funny takes of familiar stories from that genre.
WordGirl enriches young audiences' vocabulary, closes the gap for those who don't grow up in language-rich environments, instills a love of language, and fosters better reading comprehension.
Only a superhero like WordGirl, endowed with power punches and dictionary strength, can put the word-wrenching scoundrels back in their place, proving once again that crime doesn't pay... but knowing the right word for the right moment is priceless.
Each 30-minute episode consists of two cartoons.
Vocab words: Melodious, Quartet.
Each episode introduces four new vocabulary words and reinforces their meaning in a variety of contexts throughout the episode. The vocabulary itself is not necessarily a plot point. The show teaches new vocabulary words to children in a variety of fun and interesting contexts. WordGirl is a superhero spoof, so storylines are funny takes of familiar stories from that genre.
WordGirl enriches young audiences' vocabulary, closes the gap for those who don't grow up in language-rich environments, instills a love of language, and fosters better reading comprehension.
Only a superhero like WordGirl, endowed with power punches and dictionary strength, can put the word-wrenching scoundrels back in their place, proving once again that crime doesn't pay... but knowing the right word for the right moment is priceless.
Each 30-minute episode consists of two cartoons.
Vocab words: Melodious, Quartet.