diff --git a/ci/code_checks.sh b/ci/code_checks.sh
index e7509760bfde9..ee989604534f5 100755
--- a/ci/code_checks.sh
+++ b/ci/code_checks.sh
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         pandas.Series.dt.ceil\
         pandas.Series.dt.month_name\
         pandas.Series.dt.day_name\
-        pandas.Series.str.count\
         pandas.Series.str.wrap\
         pandas.Series.cat.rename_categories\
         pandas.Series.cat.reorder_categories\
@@ -126,7 +125,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         pandas.Series.plot.line\
         pandas.Series.plot.pie\
         pandas.DataFrame.clip\
-        pandas.DataFrame.interpolate\
         pandas.DataFrame.plot\
         pandas.DataFrame.plot.bar\
         pandas.DataFrame.plot.barh\
@@ -185,7 +183,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         pandas.Interval\
         pandas.Grouper\
         pandas.core.groupby.SeriesGroupBy.apply\
-        pandas.core.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy.apply\
         pandas.core.groupby.SeriesGroupBy.transform\
         pandas.core.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy.transform\
         pandas.core.groupby.DataFrameGroupBy.nth\
@@ -201,7 +198,6 @@ if [[ -z "$CHECK" || "$CHECK" == "docstrings" ]]; then
         pandas.HDFStore.append\
         pandas.core.window.rolling.Rolling.quantile\
         pandas.core.window.expanding.Expanding.quantile\
-        pandas.core.resample.Resampler.interpolate\
         pandas.api.extensions.ExtensionArray.argsort # There should be no backslash in the final line, please keep this comment in the last ignored function
     RET=$(($RET + $?)) ; echo $MSG "DONE"
 
diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 2fe1f4a3bcf7c..0ebdcf1947f7f 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -8296,7 +8296,7 @@ def interpolate(
 
             .. deprecated:: 2.1.0
 
-        ``**kwargs`` : optional
+        **kwargs : optional
             Keyword arguments to pass on to the interpolating function.
 
         Returns
diff --git a/pandas/core/groupby/groupby.py b/pandas/core/groupby/groupby.py
index d86062e35a20c..b2afaffc267fa 100644
--- a/pandas/core/groupby/groupby.py
+++ b/pandas/core/groupby/groupby.py
@@ -192,6 +192,10 @@ class providing the base-class of operations.
         A callable that takes a {input} as its first argument, and
         returns a dataframe, a series or a scalar. In addition the
         callable may take positional and keyword arguments.
+
+    *args : tuple
+        Optional positional arguments to pass to ``func``.
+
     include_groups : bool, default True
         When True, will attempt to apply ``func`` to the groupings in
         the case that they are columns of the DataFrame. If this raises a
@@ -205,8 +209,8 @@ class providing the base-class of operations.
            Setting include_groups to True is deprecated. Only the value
            False will be allowed in a future version of pandas.
 
-    args, kwargs : tuple and dict
-        Optional positional and keyword arguments to pass to ``func``.
+    **kwargs : dict
+        Optional keyword arguments to pass to ``func``.
 
     Returns
     -------
diff --git a/pandas/core/resample.py b/pandas/core/resample.py
index 2bc1d3f7227cf..082196abc17c2 100644
--- a/pandas/core/resample.py
+++ b/pandas/core/resample.py
@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ def interpolate(
 
             .. deprecated:: 2.1.0
 
-        ``**kwargs`` : optional
+        **kwargs : optional
             Keyword arguments to pass on to the interpolating function.
 
         Returns
diff --git a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
index 6c271ef1021f4..f0ad5b662de84 100644
--- a/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
+++ b/pandas/core/strings/accessor.py
@@ -2351,8 +2351,6 @@ def count(self, pat, flags: int = 0):
         flags : int, default 0, meaning no flags
             Flags for the `re` module. For a complete list, `see here
             <https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html#compilation-flags>`_.
-        **kwargs
-            For compatibility with other string methods. Not used.
 
         Returns
         -------