Captain Underpants
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Dav Pilkey’s graphic novel for children, The Adventures of Captain Underpants (1997), spawned a long list of sequels and adaptations in other media. The Captain Underpants series has won numerous awards, including the Garden State Children's Book Awards (Children's Fiction) 2000, the Buckeye Children's Book Award (Grades 3-5) 2001, and the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades K-3) 2000.
Plot Summary
The story begins by introducing two best friends, George and Harold. They love to pull pranks and play tricks on others. They also write their own comic book about a crime-fighting superhero named Captain Underpants. George and Harold choose the name because superheroes always look like they are wearing underwear. They sell photocopies of each issue for 50 cents at school.
At an important school football game, they plan a series of pranks that result in the school being forced to forfeit the game: They put pepper in the cheerleaders’ pom-poms, making everyone sneeze; helium in the football, causing it to float away; bubble solution in the marching band’s instruments; and itching powder in the muscle rub. The next day, Harold and George are called into Principal Krupp’s office, where Krupp reveals he has a videotape of them pulling the pranks. He tells the boys that from now on they must do exactly as he tells them or he will show the tape to the angry football team.
Krupp forces Harold and George to wake up at 6:00am every day to do chores for him. They also must never smile during class, and they get extra homework. Desperate to escape these grueling punishments, George thinks he sees a solution when he orders a “3-D Hypno-Ring” from a catalog. The ring takes weeks to arrive, during which time Harold and George continue doing chores and extra homework. When the ring finally arrives, they use it to hypnotize Mr. Krupp , replacing the video with one of Harold’s little sister’s videotapes.
With Mr. Krupp hypnotized, the boys fall back into their pranking ways, having the principal act like a chicken, then a monkey. Then they order him to behave like Captain Underpants. Krupp takes off his pants and ties a curtain around his neck, making the boys laugh. Before they can stop him, he jumps out the window to fight crime.
The boys chase him on their skateboards to a bank robbery, where he confronts two mystified robbers. The police arrive and start to arrest Krupp along with the criminals, but the boys get him away. As they are trying to get Krupp back to school to change him back into the principal, they come across two robots stealing a mysterious crystal. Captain Underpants’s cape gets caught in the van’s door as it speeds away, dragging him behind it. The boys grab on and are taken with Captain Underpants to an abandoned warehouse, where they discover that the evil Doctor Diaper is planning to use the crystal to destroy the moon, destroying all the cities on Earth and allowing Doctor Diaper to become Earth’s ruler.
The boys hide, but Captain Underpants is tied up. The boys hatch a plan: They use fake doggie poop they find in the warehouse and a slingshot to make Doctor Diaper think he needs to be changed. While he is distracted, George and Harold destroy the robots and untie Captain Underpants. They examine the machine Doctor Diaper has built to destroy the moon and pull a level, thinking it is an off switch. It is a “self-destruct” switch.
Doctor Diaper returns, producing a ray gun. Angry, he intends to use the ray gun on the boys, but Captain Underpants shoots underwear at his face. They capture Doctor Diaper and escape the warehouse as it is destroyed. Leaving Doctor Diaper tied up outside the police station, they return to the school, deciding it is time to bring back Principal Krupp—but they have lost the Hypno-Ring’s instruction manual and have no idea how to bring Krupp back without it. George finds a vase of water and dumps it on Krupp’s head, breaking his hypnotic state.
Angry, Krupp decides to give the videotape to the football team, not knowing that the boys switched it. George finds the instruction manual for the ring, where he reads that the one thing you should never do is pour water over a hypnotized person’s head because it will cause them to go in and out of a trance at the sound of snapping fingers. He throws the manual away.
The football team watches the video, the Boomer the Purple Dragon sing-along tape, and they love it. They rename the team the “Purple Dragon Sing-A-Long Friends.”
George and Harold go back to their normal lives, making comics and playing pranks. One day, they see someone snap their fingers in front of Principal Krupp, who instantly becomes Captain Underpants. The boys watch him running across the football field in his underwear, the curtain tied around his neck again, to go fight crime.
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Book Review: The Captain Underpants Series by Dav Pilkey
Hoo-ha! Prepare to embark on a wacky journey into the world of children’s literature, where underpants reign supreme and humor is as pervasive as a whiff of a whoopee cushion. Yes, I’m talking about the wildly popular, slightly offbeat, and incredibly zany series “Captain Underpants” by Dav Pilkey.
I first stumbled upon this series when my niece showed me her treasured Captain Underpants book, her giggles echoing through the room as she flipped through the pages. That was my first brush with the wonderfully weird world of George, Harold, and their homemade superhero, Captain Underpants.
Book Summary of The Captain Underpants Series
The Captain Underpants Series centers around two mischievous fourth-graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, who reside in Piqua, Ohio. The boys are avid comic book creators, and their most notable creation is the aptly named superhero, Captain Underpants. Things take an unexpected turn when George and Harold hypnotize their cantankerous and bossy principal, Mr. Krupp. The hypnotism accidentally brings their comic book hero to life, and Mr. Krupp becomes the real-life Captain Underpants, complete with superhuman strength, durability, and the ability to fly, thanks to some alien “Extra-Strength Super Power Juice.”
Their school nemesis, Melvin, is a constant thorn in their side, trying to get them in trouble whenever he can. The other adults in the series, often portrayed as mean or bumbling, add to the chaos and hilarity, some even boasting their own strange superpowers.
Book Review of The Captain Underpants Series
Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series is an absolute riot, delivering a bellyful of laughs with every page. But don’t let the potty humor and irreverent jokes fool you. This series is a wonderful blend of wit, adventure, and heart. The narrative cleverly intersperses challenging vocabulary amidst the fart jokes, making it a delightful read for both reluctant and advanced young readers. It might have a reputation for being infantile, but the truth is, it’s pretty nuanced.
The good-vs-evil plots balance humor and action with empathy and empowerment, making it a hit with young readers.
The Captain Underpants Series Rating
Amazon Rating : 4.9/5. The series has been well received by Amazon customers for its ability to engage young readers with its unique blend of humor and adventure.
Goodreads Rating : 4.45/5. Goodreads readers appreciate the series for its delightful illustrations and engaging storyline.
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About the author dav pilkey.
Often reprimanded for his behavior in class, he spent much time at a desk in the school hallway, where he created the Captain Underpants character. Pilkey is also known for his other children’s book series, including the Dog Man series, Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot series, and the Dumb Bunnies series.
Pilkey’s journey to becoming an acclaimed children’s book author is a fascinating one. His first book, “World War Won,” was inspired by the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Pilkey wrote the book in 1987 as part of a national competition for student authors and won in his age category. This victory led to the publication of his first book.
In 2002, Pilkey published “ The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby ,” his first complete graphic novel. The novel was a major success, appearing at No. 6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestselling book for Children’s Middle Grade.
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- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Series 1 book
What's Captain Underpants About?
Launched in September 1997 with The Adventures of Captain Underpants, the Captain Underpants series has more than 50 million books in print in North America. The Captain Underpants book series tells the story of two mischievous kids, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, who hypnotize their school principal and turn him into their comic book creation, Captain Underpants. Dav Pilkey's three most recent Captain Underpants novels, Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People (August 2006), Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets (August 2003), and Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers (September 2003), each debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The Captain Underpants books are published in 19 languages. In October 2011, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. announced that the studio had obtained the rights to Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants book series, with plans to pursue a feature film adaptation for the big screen. DreamWorks Animation development executive Damon Ross is overseeing the project at the studio.
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Captain underpants series.
| Year | # | Title | Pages |
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| 2013 | 1 | 144 | |
| 2014 | 2 | 160 | |
| 2023 | 3 | 160 | |
| 2015 | 4 | 160 | |
| 2017 | 5 | 176 | |
| 2018 | 6 | 176 | |
| 2018 | 7 | 176 | |
| 2019 | 8 | 176 | |
| 2019 | 9 | 304 | |
| 2020 | 10 | 224 | |
| 2021 | 11 | 224 | |
| 2022 | 12 | 208 |
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants Series
The Creative Behind the Books
When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books–the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants. In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to illustrate and write. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, published in 2002, was the first complete graphic novel spin-off from the Captain Underpants series and appeared at #6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was followed by The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung Fu Cavemen from the Future and Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, both USA Today bestsellers. The unconventional style of these graphic novels is intended to encourage uninhibited creativity in kids. His stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, tolerance, and the triumph of the good-hearted. Dav loves to kayak in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.
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George and Harold , and their docks, Evil George Beard and Yesterday Harold , have a good thing going. Two of them go to school, while the other two hide in the tree house and play video games all day- then they switch! But it turns out there's something rotten in the state of Ohio, and it's smellier than a pile of putrid gym socks. The boys' malicious gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, has created a method of mind control that transforms their fellow students into attentive, obedient, perfect children. Now the future of all humanity is in George and Harold and Yesterday George Beard and Yesterday Harold's hands!
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At the beginning of the book, the author explains that unlike previous books which appealed to both adults and children, this book will attempt to appeal to solely children, for their safety and the pleasure of older readers. Continuing from where the last book left off, George and Harold and their doubles from the day before, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, are in big trouble once again. A few weeks from their last adventure, in which there were many loose ends, the city has been rebuilt and things are getting back to normal. Unfortunately, all their teachers including Mr. Krupp are still in jail, and they still have to take care of three bionic hamster/pterosaurs, Tony, Orlando, and Dawn. Soon after, the narrator mentions that it is always important to be smart as it helps us become successful in life. However, it's also important to not be too smart otherwise people will end up making huge mistakes, some even life threatening. Meanwhile, in a different universe where a planet called Smart Earth orbits around the center star in Orion's Belt, everyone who lives their is highly intelligent due to the planet being made from a slightly radioactive element named Zygo-Gogozizzle 24 that can be mixed with mayonnaise and dill-pickle relish to create a clean-burning fuel source to light up an entire city and serve as a tasty salad dressing.
Even though Smart Earth is inhabited with geniuses, it has many similarities to our planet, having McDonald's, smartphones and the Huffington Post (which on Smart Earth are called Smart McDonald's, smart smartphones and the Huffington Post). One day, one of the smartest scientists at Smart Harvard University (a parody of Harvard) decided to do an experiment mixing Smart Diet Coke with Smart Pop Rocks and a third ingredient to the highly volatile concoction: Smart Mentos. The conduction of the experiment caused Smart Earth to explode, sending chunks of Zygo-Gogozizzle 24 throughout the galaxy, some landing in a pond on Badpun, a grape vineyard, on Pinot, and one piece that approached our own planet's atmosphere, in a small midwestern town of Piqua, Ohio. The tiny chunk crashed through the roof of the Piqua Valley Home for the Reality-Challenged, where George and Harold's elementary school teachers are being held.
Ms. Ribble thinks the piece of Zygo-Gogozizzle 24 is a meteorite, and the doctor warns them not to approach it. Unfortunately, Mr. Meaner, the gym teacher, doesn't listen and eats the chunk. He then becomes highly intelligent after the Zygo-Gogozizzle reaches his mind and supercharges all his brain cells. Mr. Meaner then speaks in a standard British accent and decides to leave the insipid infirmary, but the psychologists block the doors. Mr. Meaner immediately comes up with a plan to trick them and tells them they should take his advice not to follow his advice. The two distracted doctors begin to argue if following his advice not to follow his advice is following his advice, Mr. Meaner slips out the open doors. Ms. Ribble notices her chance to escape, and she, along with all the other teachers, dart past the increasingly frustrated and confused doctors.
Outside, the teachers and staff follow Mr. Meaner up to the hilltop and watch in awe as he looks over the horizon, and announces that it occurred to him that all their recent problems were caused by willful and disobedient children. He tells the teachers to follow his every command and to return to school and act normal. School restarts and it appears everything is back to normal and nothing unusual has happened such as crime happening at the school or Mr. Krupp being snapped into a trance becoming Captain Underpants. Everything was just normal but meanwhile overnight Mr. Meaner goes to an old, abandoned factory near Franz Pond and turns it into a makeshift laboratory. Inside, he creates Rid-O-Kid 2000™, a mind-control potion which turns even the most unruly child into a well-behaved child who follows the instructions of adults. He makes it from a base mixture of sodium thiopental containing liberal doses of butyric acid, tryptophan and Clamato juice and filters the solution through a pile of old, dirty gym socks.
The next day, Mr. Meaner arrives at school with two large spray tanks on his back and a metallic belt with buttons around his waist. After gym class, Mr. Meaner excuses all of the children except for Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold. He orders them into his office and locks the door after them. Inside his office, he sprays Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold with Rid-O-Kid 2000™ from the nozzles of his spray tanks. Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold go to their math class and are well-behaved. Their math teacher, Miss Calculator, is pleased with their behavior. For the rest of the day, the other teachers notice how well the boys are behaving and after school finishes, they go to all their teachers and collect extra-credit homework.
Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold return to the tree house, where George and Harold are horrified at the amount of homework they have brought home. The four of them start completing their assignments, but George and Harold keep getting distracted. They work until bedtime. While Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold complete their half of the work, George and Harold barely do any of their halves. Yesterday George suggests he and Yesterday Harold should go to school the following day while George and Harold stay up until 5:00 am completing their work.
The following morning at school, Mr. Meaner also has robot arms and hands, having built a giant mechanical ape suit named 'The Stinky-Kong 2000'. He sprays all of the children in his classes with Rid-O-Kid 2000™, giving them all 'Attention Superfluous Lethargy Syndrome (ASLS). Mr. Krupp is delighted that Mr. Meaner has transformed all the children. Ms. Ribble asks if Rid-O-Kid 2000™ is dangerous and Mr. Meaner explains to her that it only affects children and that adults are immune to it.
A few days later, George and Harold have caught colds due to staying up late to complete the homework Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold have brought home during the week. They decide to watch TV and come across a TV advert for Rid-O-Kid 2000™ featuring Mr. Meaner, which says:
Are your kids annoying? Do they fight and whine and complain all the time? Do they refuse to eat anything but macaroni and cheese? Are they sucking the LIFE out of you? Well, Rid-O-Kid 2000™ is here to help. Our scientifically proven formula will transform even the most willful child into an obedient, respectful and hardworking slave– er, I mean, angel. And Rid-O-Kid 2000™ has a full day's supply of Vitamin C, so you can feel GOOD about dosing your child with a narcotic that has never been tested for long-term effects. So turn your brat into a brown-noser... with Rid-O-Kid 2000™. Rid-O-Kid 2000™ - the cure for childhood.
George and Harold dress up as an adult and go to school to find out what's going on. They see all the students acting as slaves for the teachers by doing their work for them, giving them massages, shaving their beards, plucking their eyebrows, giving them haircuts, filling out their tax forms and washing their cars. Harold exclaims that the teachers must have turned all the students into mindless slaves.
The disguised George and Harold then manipulate the children into doing the opposite of what they have been told to do, such as washing the windows wrong, filling their cars with cottage cheese and humiliating the teachers. When the teachers and staff noticed this They along with Mr. Krupp try to find out who is responsible for this but all the children in a trance could tell them that it was a grown up. Mr. Krupp then tells Mr. Meaner about what has happened and this angers him to go out and get to the bottom of what's going on and to find who caused the prank so he rushed to his car that was filled with cottage cheese and drove off the school premises to find the gown up who caused this. He came across a group of kids in the trance who were watering the inside of the house, mowing the garden and painting the lawn. He asks them who told them to do all those things and all the children could say was a grown up but didn't say who the grown-up was. Mr. Meaner rushes back to the car angry and drive off back to the factory going to his invention with new modifications. He feels that a kid has caused this but he doesn't know who the kid is.
Later he returns in his ape suit causing havoc in the town of Piqua unleashing the foul odor everywhere. Present Harold and George who are still sick witnessed what Mr. Meaner was doing, however, they couldn't smell so the stench has no effect on them, however, Harold and George were almost better and that wasn't a good thing so they went to their parents who were having dinner with their yesterday counterparts. The Present counterparts left in a deep depression. Present George then had an idea. So he and present Harold rushed to Melvin's house which the garage was open and they took off with the Glow in the Dark Time Traveling Robo Squid.
Later After Present Harold and George were in the future meeting their future counterparts and meeting the family they return with their future counterparts in the present timeline meeting Crackers and Sulu's children. Adult George and Harold tell their younger selves to stay in the clubhouse and rest up for they have already been through a lot.
Adult George and Harold rush to Mr. Krupp's house needing help. As they snapped their fingers several times, Mr Krupp however wasn't coming to his trance into becoming his alter ego "Captain Underpants due to his face and head being wet at the time" Mr. Krupp wanted them to go away because to him he assumed they were acting like kids but as this was happening Mr. Meaner overheard what Mr. Krupp said and he grabbed the two adults and he beat them using his ape suit. Mr. Krupp demanded him not to kill them cause he didn't want any blood on his lawn. Adult George and Harold were nearly in a lot of pain but as they finally noticed that Mr. Krupp's Face was dried up and they saw that there could be their final opportunity so they quickly snapped their fingers at Mr. Krupp and he finally came into his trance becoming the amazing Captain Underpants to save his friends. Captain Underpants charged after and battled Mr. Meaner in his ape suit and Mr. Meaner was defeated for now and taken to jail.
The next day after eating an egg salad sandwich with pickle relish, Mr. Meaner turns into a blob of pure energy (because the egg salad contains mayonnaise and he added pickle relish; this would create Zygo-Gogozizzle 24) and becomes Sir Stinks-A-Lot. He then causes havoc downtown wanting revenge on Captain Underpants for being locked up. Captain Underpants returns to fight him back, but when Old George and Old Harold are captured, Captain Underpants couldn’t save them, as Sir Stinks-A-Lot turns him back into Mr. Krupp with a lot of water, therefore falling down (he was still unharmed because of his superpowers). Sir Stinks-A-Lot then extracts the superpowers as well as the effects from the 3D Hypno Ring ceasing the existence of Captain Underpants from Mr. Krupp. Mr. Krupp (dressed as the fallen hero Captain Underpants) then runs off screaming in terror as Old George and Harold telepathically calls for younger George and Harold who were sleeping but Tony, Orlando, and Dawn, who are completely awake caught onto the call and came to the rescue. They find Mentos, Diet Coke, and Pop Rocks and feed them to Sir Stinks-A-Lot, causing him to explode. Luckily, the three Hamsterdactyls and Old George and Old Harold are unharmed, as well as Mr. Meaner.
Things were back to the way they were, and as young George and Harold return their older counterparts to their own time, they find that Mr. Krupp didn’t turn into Captain Underpants at the snap of a finger, because Sir Stinks-A-Lot erased Captain Underpants from existence. As a woman was passing by jogging listening to music and snapping her fingers, Mr. Krupp was still as mean as usual yelling at the woman passing by. George and Harold and their older counterparts decided that they were not going to contribute to the plot and fix the problem which indicated that they were going to move on without Captain Underpants. George and Harold with Melvin's invention "Glow in the Dark Time Traveling Robo Squid." return their older selves back to their future timeline with Tony, Orlando, and Dawn. George, Harold and the 3 offspring of Crackers and Sulu take off once more with the Time Traveling Robo Squid going on a new adventure back in time to save Crackers and Sulu to meet their children.
Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold were back to normal now that Sir Stinks-A-Lot has been defeated. They wake up and go back to their tree house, only to find out that Tony, Orlando, and Dawn are gone. Seeing that they feel that everything is going to be okay, Harold feels that he and George should make another Captain Underpants comic book, but George decides that he and Harold should do a comic book featuring Dog Man instead. The book and series end here, and unlike all those other Captain Underpants adventures, George and Harold do not shout their titular cries of "OH, NO!" and "Here we go again!".
However, George and Harold's comic book, The Adventures of Dog Man: World's Greatest Cop (later renamed just Dog Man ) would be another Captain Underpants spin-off book, released on August 30, 2016.
- Captain Underpants: The 100% True Truth (Intro Comic)
- Dog Man: The Bark Knight Cometh (Chapter 23 Comic)
Characters [ ]
- George Beard
- Harold Hutchins
- Evil George Beard
- Yesterday George Beard
- Yesterday Harold Hutchins
- Tony, Orlando, and Dawn
- Benjamin Krupp / Captain Underpants
- Old George Beard
- Old Harold Hutchins
- Melvin Sneedly
- Kenny B. Meaner / Sir Stinks-A-Lot (main antagonist)
- Tara Ribble
- Edith Anthrope
- Riles Rected
- Mr. Rustworthy
- Miss Anita Calculator
- Miss Labler
- The Psychologist
- The Other Doctor
- Warden Gordon Bordon Schmorden
- Billy Hutchins
- Meena Beard
- Owen Hutchins
- Kei Hutchins
- Future Little Boy and his Mom
- Moses Beard
- Barbara Beard
- Grace Hutchins
- Heidi Hutchins
- Jogger Coming By
- Guy Running for His Life
- Smart Earth Residents
- Dog Man / The Bark Knight (comic book)
- Petey The Cat (comic book)
- Mecha Petey (comic book)
- Porkbelly (comic book)
- Chief (comic book)
- Milly (comic book)
- However, Dav Pilkey stated "Even though I have stated that the next book, Captain Underpants #12 will be the LAST Captain Underpants book, you probably shouldn't believe me. I wouldn't." See here for more information (Go down to to #6 of the Fun Facts section).
- Due to the Super Power Juice being extracted from Mr. Krupp's body to Sir Stinks-A-Lot in Chapter 32, it took the effects of the 3D Hypno-Ring along with it via an electromagnetic pulse, which means Mr. Krupp can no longer become Captain Underpants by the snap of a finger, unless George and Harold can hypnotize him again and feed him the Extra Strength Super Power Juice or move the DNA from Melvin's body into Captain Underpants. When George, Harold, and their adult selves noticed this, they didn't even bother to try to fix the problem, indicating that they were going to move on without Captain Underpants.
- It's unknown if Captain Underpants will physically return in future books by Dav Pilkey .
- In this book, we learn Future George and his wife have kids named Meena and Nik (they are mixed-race, as their mother is white while their father is black). Harold and his husband, Billy, also have twins named Owen and Kei.
- Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold decided to move on without Captain Underpants by making a new comic about Dog Man at the end, but it's unknown if they know that Mr. Krupp is no longer Captain Underpants himself.
- The back cover shows that the book was commented on by New York Times and George's mom, though his mom's comment has a typo in it (The greatest graphic novel of the century ).
- The back cover also shows a Flip-O-Rama notice, similar to all other Captain Underpants novels.
- The George and Harold that went with their future selves back in time to save Crackers and Sulu so they can meet their children, were different to the Yesterday George and Harold who never went on the adventure. This means that the George and Harold from the future were Yesterday George and Harold, which means they won't remember the events because they never went on the adventure. This is explained by the Dog Man Comic the yesterday boys were working on instead of Captain Underpants.
- This is the only book without "action", "laffs" and "Flip-O-Rama" on the front cover
- It is unknown what happened to the present-younger versions of George and Harold after they went back in time in order to save Crackers and Sulu so that they could meet Orlando, Tony and Dawn. At the beginning of Chapter 4, the book mentions that there exists an ever-expanding multiverse, so perhaps present George and Harold, along with Crackers, Sulu and their offspring stayed in their present timeline after being saved, somehow got lost in the space-time continuum after trying to go back to the timeline where Yesterday George and Harold reside, or they got stuck in a certain timeline after their time-machine possibly broke. If any of these scenarios are the case, that might explain why they never revisited the timeline Yesterday George and Harold live in, who would later grow up to be the Adult George and Harold featured in the book.
- The permanent maker the kids drew on Mr. Krupp and Mr. Rected's faces resembles Gene Simmons's and Paul Stanley's makeup from KISS.
- This error could be explained by assuming that the staff was transferred from the Piqua State Penitentiary to the Piqua Valley Home for the Reality Challenged sometime between the events of Book 11 and Book 12.
- The artwork style in Old George and Old Harold's Dog Man comic (Chapter 23) was heavily inspired by one of Dav Pilkey's favorite graphic novelists, Bryan Lee O'Malley. Bryan is best known for creating the Scott Pilgrim series of graphic novels, which are among Dav Pilkey's favorite books.
- The guy in chapter 20 is busy typing away on a cell phone twenty years in the future. Dav Pilkey decided to draw this phone as an old-fashioned flip-phone, poking fun at his own technophobia.
- Chapter 13 ½ is a message.
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Dav Pilkey's graphic novel for children, The Adventures of Captain Underpants (1997), spawned a long list of sequels and adaptations in other media. The Captain Underpants series has won numerous awards, including the Garden State Children's Book Awards (Children's Fiction) 2000, the Buckeye Children's Book Award (Grades 3-5) 2001, and the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades K-3 ...
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The Captain Underpants Series earns an 8.5 for its zany humor, heartfelt adventures, and innovative approach to introducing challenging vocabulary to children. Amazon Rating: 4.9/5. The series has been well received by Amazon customers for its ability to engage young readers with its unique blend of humor and adventure. Goodreads Rating: 4.45/5.
Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's graphic novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey.The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy ...
Captain Underpants is a bald, portly man who wears white briefs and a cape. He frequently trumpets "tra-la-laaaaa!" and is endowed with Wedgie Power. While the students love Captain Underpants, the principal of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School does not. Mr. Krupp is sick of the boys' pranks and general silliness, and he looks for an ...
The Adventures of Captain Underpants is an American children's novel by Dav Pilkey, and the inaugural novel of the Captain Underpants series. It was published in September 1997, becoming a hit with children around the world. In the novel, George Beard and Harold Hutchins turn their principal, Mr. Krupp, into the "greatest superhero of all time ...
Parents need to know that Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers is the ninth installment in Dav Pilkey's bestselling series that flies off the elementary-school library shelves. Like all of its predecessors, there's a mix of bathroom humor and elaborate pranks that leave both bullies and the "innocent" slightly ...
The Adventures of Captain Underpants is the first epic novel in the Captain Underpants series written by Dav Pilkey. The book is about two fourth-grade students, George and Harold, and their comic book hero Captain Underpants. George and Harold are two responsible kids; whenever anything bad happens, they are responsible.
Tra-la-laaa! It's Captain Underpants, the #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, author and illustrator of Dog Man! When fourth graders George and Harold accidentally hypnotize their principal, they turn him into Captain Underpants. All it takes is a snap of the fingers to let this caped crusader loose upon a world of talking ...
Excessively violent, not for pre-teen children. These books are visually stimulating and interesting to your children. Unfortunately the storyline consists of a fantastic amount of graphic violence. The story promotes violence, bullying, prank playing and blackmail. The solutions to all of these issues according to this book is more violence.
Captain Underpants Series - Complete 11 Book Collection - Adventures of Captain Underpants, Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People, Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1. by Dav Pilkey. 4.46 · 202 Ratings · 6 Reviews · published 2010 · 3 editions.
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers is a 2012 American children's novel and the ninth book in the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey. [1] [2] It was published on August 28, 2012, six years after the publication of the previous book. Tippy Tinkletrousers is actually Professor Poopypants, as revealed in the ...
The Captain Underpants books are published in 19 languages. In October 2011, DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. announced that the studio had obtained the rights to Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants book series, with plans to pursue a feature film adaptation for the big screen. DreamWorks Animation development executive Damon Ross is overseeing the ...
2001 Buckeye Children's Book Award -- Grades 3-5. Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants. 2001 Bookseller's Choice -- Beginning Readers. 2009 Garden State Children's Book Award -- Children's Fiction. Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman.
Tippy Tinkletrousers is back in the ninth book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man!George and Harold are behind bars for a crime they didn't commit! But just as they are settling into their new life, they are pulled from prison by a time-traveling tyrant named Tippy Tinkletrousers!
Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman. Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants is the fourth book in the Captain Underpants series written by Dav Pilkey. It is the first book where Captain Underpants fully uses his superpowers. This book is dedicated to fellow children's book writer Cynthia Rylant.
1. The Adventures of Captain Underpants: Color Edition (Captain Underpants #1) by Dav Pilkey (Author) , Dav Pilkey (Illustrator) 4.7 9,016 4.0 on Goodreads 53,962 ratings. Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins invent the wedgie-powered superhero Captain Underpants in the first book in this #1 New York Times bestselling series by Dav ...
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Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot is the 12th and final epic novel in the Captain Underpants series. It was released on August 25, 2015. George and Harold, and their docks, Evil George Beard and Yesterday Harold, have a good thing going.
Report. Barbara Matthews. 5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly as advertised. Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2024. Verified Purchase. My 9 yr old grandson loves this series. Read more. Helpful. ... Even Captain Underpants' presence in the book is minimized, and that fight feels like an excuse just to have the hero in the book and fulfill the ...
George and Harold know they have to enlist the help of Captain Underpants. They snap their fingers, and Mr. Krupp takes on his hero persona. He's still tiny, so the boys have to get the professor's growth ray. They make Captain Underpants as large as the Gerbil Jogger 2000. Then the hero and the professor do battle.
Subtotal: $0. View Cart. Checkout. Dav Pilkey has written and illustrated numerous popular, award-winning books for children, including the Captain Underpants and Dumb Bunnies series.