Author: ifbrd

Tj Knows Becky is Wordgirl Theory

I wasn’t planning on posting this theory, because the
evidence is shaky, but @pi-romantic said they were interested to hear my thoughts, so
I’ll share! Besides, even if there’s not much to stand on, my family fluff
loving brain wants this to be true ;P

Before I begin, I want to take a moment to talk about the
change in dynamics between Tj and both Becky and Wordgirl. I recently noted that
the relationship between Becky and Tj was very different in earlier seasons
than later seasons. In the beginning, they had a very stereotypical tv sibling
relationship where they were always annoyed with each other, while later
episodes they had a more realistic relationship: they get on each other’s
nerves, but they still care for each other. And changes weren’t only between Tj
and Becky, but Tj and Wordgirl as well. Earlier seasons it was pretty clear he
had a crush on her, while later in the series, I feel it grew to be more of a
fanboy dynamic, where he idolized her, but maybe didn’t necessarily have a
crush on her. I bring all this up to explain why Tj’s reaction to finding out
his sister is Wordgirl didn’t result in the same reaction as that of in the
episode “Two Brains Forgets.” It’s because the dynamic between him and both her
egos are very different at this point in the series that it was at that point.

Now that I’ve got that out of the way, when did Tj figure
this out? I believe it hit him and/or he started to get suspicious in “All that
Chazz”

“All that Chazz” focuses on Tj idolizing a new kid, because
he has a crush on him, Chazz. At the beginning of the episode, Tj tells Becky
that he thinks Wordgirl is the coolest person ever, however, Tj starts
pretending he doesn’t believe this when Chazz states that Wordgirl is uncool.
After a while, Wordgirl, getting frustrated, goes to Tj and says, “Tj, may i
remind you that just this morning you told me you thought Wordgirl was the
coolest person?!” and Tj says, “Yeah but…wait, I didn’t tell you, I told my
sister Becky….”

This is far from the first time she’s slipped up like this,
nor is it the first time she’s slipped up in front of her family, but to me,
this one was different. Usually, it’s something like her accidentally saying
“mom” or “dad” or saying “our parents” instead of “your parents” etc. Those can
be fixed easily. She usually just pretends she said something else and acts
like it never happened and no one’s the wiser. After all, they’re minor
mistakes and they could have heard her wrong or she could have had a
tongue-tied moment and got her words mixed up.

But this is a very specific error that’s hard to recover
from. She did recover from it, saying “Right! Yes, I knew that..uh, but you
see, um, she told me what you said. So there! Ha, yes, makes sense!” and
personally I think this is one of her best excuses for having known something
she shouldn’t (although her delivery was terrible). But here’s the thing:
there’s no taking back what she said. It was clear as day, and the start and
ends of her recovery were very awkward. That doesn’t exactly make the comment
seem any less suspicious, and it appears Tj thinks so too, as after she
answers, he has a very perplexed look on his face. I think at this moment it’s
starting to click.

Within the episode, there’s not much else to prove he has any
clue, but watching the rest of the episode with this idea in mind admittedly
makes it a little more interesting.

I did, however, find a moment from another episode after “All
that Chazz” that supports this theory. In the episode “Granny’s Corner,” Granny
May gets on tv to tell people things like “Go visit the bank tomorrow for cake
and dolphins!” While the Botsford family is questioning Granny May’s actions, Tim
says “In my opinion, trying to deceive people on purpose is just as bad as not
telling the truth.” Later, after stopping Granny May’s scheme, Wordgirl recites
this exact quote to the news reporters. She then zips home just in time to
witness Tj and Tim saying, “it’s like she was here!” Tj then dramatically says
“I know what’s going on here!” He takes a suspenseful pause, and then casually
says “super hearing!” This would normally be just a fun joke…except Tj
specifically looks at Becky when he says this, with a smile that to me looks
caring and like he’s covering for her. And while not necessarily evidence
itself, I’d also like to point out that making Becky panic by saying “I know
what’s going on here!” in the most dramatic way possible, only to casually
brush it aside is a very sibling thing to do and totally something Tj would do.

Now this isn’t evidence, but I’d like to imagine that in
“Emergency Plan #999,” Tj was studying all Wordgirl’s battle moves to help her because he was maybe thinking “I’m not only Wordgirl’s number one fan, but I’m
her brother. Shouldn’t I be doing something to help her?”

Also if we assume Tj does know in this episode, it makes the
following joke sssssoooooo much funnier:

Tj: Worddgirl, what’s a stunt again?

Wordgirl: a stunt is an amazing or impressive feat. It’s
something tricky you do to impress people

Tj: my know-it-all sister keeps using that word

Maybe I’ll find more evidence later, but for now, this is
all I got.

If Tj did figure it out, would you have been interested in
that plot development? Also, if he knew and was hiding that fact from Becky,
there probably would have eventually been an episode that revolved around Becky
finding out Tj knew, how do you think that episode would have gone?

stupidjewishwhiteboy:

lierdumoa:

kaiayame:

I kind of wish disney’s ~weird period~ had lasted longer. Like all of a sudden we were getting these films like lilo & stitch and Atlantis and the emperor’s new groove and treasure planet and they were so fun and DIFFERENT. Just thinking about what the pitches for those movies had to have been like is so surreal?? A little blue criminal alien crash lands on a Hawaiian island and gets adopted by two sisters dealing with social services that teach him about the value of family. An Inca emperor gets turned into a llama and john goodman helps him get back to his palace and one of the bad guys talks to squirrels. Treasure island but in SPACE. Like, on the surface, the premise for these films seem so random but they all TOTALLY WORKED IN REALLY GREAT WAYS??? idk I just really miss that early 2000s spark of offbeat creativity in Disney’s timeline.

Okay but the history behind this is so interesting?

All these movies came from the Florida studio, which for a long time was a backup animation studio that did work the main Burbank studio didn’t have time for. 

Then in 1996 Disney decided to focus all their energy on transitioning to 3D animation. They acquired Pixar and started working on A Bug’s Life. 

They basically told the Florida studio (their only remaining full-time 2D animation studio) – “Eeeeeeh, do what you want.”

And the Florida studio, for the first time, got to produce feature films:

Then in 2004 Disney decided to stop producing 2-D feature films altogether. They closed down the Florida studio and laid off all the Florida Studio animators.

Many of whom then got hired by Dreamworks.

…this explains so much about the American animation industry of the last 25 years or so

I gotta say, it blows my mind that the villains in Wordgirl don’t constantly commit crimes in the middle of the school day.

Seriously where do you expect a 9-11 year old to be from 8 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday, September through June? School.

Do you think a teacher is just gonna let an elementary schooler walk out of class? No, for goodness sakes they won’t let you do that in high school.

So there’s a good chunk of each day that Wordgirl’s ability to go stop a crime is greatly diminished unless she shares her secret identity.

Seems like the perfect time to commit a crime.

But I guess waiting until the evening, or better yet, the weekend is good too…

digikate813:

shadowdj94:

dukeofriven:

oak23:

oak23:

oak23:

What he says: im fine

What he means: in Toy Story 2 Woody is treated as the rarest of the toys from Woody’s Roundup when he’s the main character of the show. That would mean he would have had a higher production number than any of his costars, and in fact probably would have been made for the longest and earliest of the toy line. Stinky Pete, by being the fan unfavorite, must have had a smaller run, and less of his toys would have survived in the 50s as kids would have needlessly damaged or destroyed him making him the rarest of the group and Woody the most common. If anything, the plot of Toy Story 2 should have revolved around Al stealing Woody’s hat as it would have been the item most sought after by collectors as it’s easily lost and not attached to an otherwise common doll. Fundamentally, Al’s apartment should have been littered with Woody dolls in various states of damage, all missing hats and maybe a handful of decent condition Woody dolls needing a hat while Stinky Pete is the rarest and most expensive as a collectors item.

@everyone saying Woody was a limited run or some shit like….. y’all telling me the character that got onto the cover of time magazine and had all this fucking merch didn’t saturate the market with Woody dolls? In the 50s at the height of capitalism and the baby boom???

real life be like:

Your error is in assuming that Woody is rare because few Woody dolls were made. Not the case: Many Woody dolls were made- and because of their popularity they were sold and played-with until they were wrecked and – this being the 50s – thrown out. That plastic Woody you’ve got there will outlast most civilizations: but our Woody? With his cloth body and its aging 1950s fabric? By the 80s most of those would be a wreck: cloth-body stuffed toys have a very short shelf-life once they’re out in the world. Store a Woody in the attic for ten years and the mice get him, or the mold, or the simple weight of time loosens the bindings and makes his limbs unravel. And the voice box? With an in-tact, still functional draw strings? Do oyou know how often those things jam?

Woody is unique because he seems to have belonged to a family that takes unusually good care of their toys, going so far as to fix them. Toy from the 50s are not in any way shape or form equivalent to modern full-plastic toys or even BEanie Babies, which were sold primarily with a view to the long-term collectors market. There is absolutely nothing weird or strange in a Woody doll surviving in such good quality to 1999 being notable: his popularity and high production rate has zero impact on the toy’s long-term survivability. (Indeed, that high production rate could have even introduced a lot more manufacturing defects into shipped Woody dolls, creating an overall decline in quality.)

Just because it saturated the market is no indication of longevity. Yes, Al sure has a lot of Woody stuff – and most of that is very rare. For a good comparison point hop over to ebay and start looking for vintage, no-package Howdy Doody dolls from the 1950s – not the 70s re-releases with 70s materials but the 50s ones. Start judging the quality: the faded fabrics, the dirt, the smudges, the dinginess, and you’ll begin to see why Al freaked out so much: he didn’t just just find a Woody with a hat, he found a Woody who was clean – with no chipping on the hand-painted face, whose hand-stitched hat hadn’t lost its stitching, whose arm break could be repaired by a master who knew what they were doing. A hundred thousand Woodys might have been made in the 50s – but the number that survived to the present day, out-of-box, out of the hands of collectors, in good enough shape to be polished-up into museum-quality condition?I

Al found the treasure of a lifetime.

[Fun fact: according to the wiki, Woody’s full name is Woody Pride.]

…The last post makes a lot of good points. Woody is actually in shockingly good condition for a toy as old as he is.

As someone who has bought and sold a lot of vintage toys on eBay, dukeofriven’s response makes perfect sense, and I can’t believe I never realized it about Woody before.