"Bampy" Botsford is Tim Botsford's father and Becky and TJ's grandfather. His first appearence is in the episode "Bampy Battles Bots". When he was about the same age as his son Tim is now, he had defeated a giant robot with just an office screw driver. He tells his grandchildren this story, often making references to how Wordgirl could never defeat a robot like this one, which causes Becky to get annoyed and claim the story "fictional". TJ stuck around for the story.