The Adventures of Captain Underpants
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| The Adventures of Captain Underpants | |
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| Author | Dav Pilkey |
| Illustrator | Dav Pilkey |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Blue Sky (US), Scholastic (US) |
| Release date | 1997 |
| Number in series | One |
| Sales | 2 million |
| Dedicated to | "David and Nancy Melton with gratitute" |
| Story timeline | 1997 |
| Preceded by | n/a |
| Followed by | Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets |
The Adventures of Captain Underpants is a children's book by Dav Pilkey, the first novel in a series of books with "Captain Underpants" in the titles.
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[edit] Characters
- Main Character(s)
- George Beard
- Harold Hutchins
- Mr. Krupp/Captain Underpants
- Major Character(s)
- The Football Team
- Dr. Diaper
- Dr. Diaper's Robots
- Minor Character(s)
- The Inedible Hunk
- Students
- Cheerleaders
- The Band
- Mr. Meaner
- Ms. Ribble
- Bank Robbers
- Policemen
- Little Boy and his Mom
[edit] Plot
The story begins with the school troublemakers, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, playing a series of practical jokes that cause their school to lose a football game. Their headmaster, Mr. Krupp, gets so angry at them he imposes a set of draconian rules such as and requires them to spend every spare minute of their day, beginning at 6 A.M., catering to his every whim. If they don't comply, Mr. Krupp threatens to show a surveillance video of George and Harold setting up the pranks that ruined the game to the football team.
To avoid Mr. Krupp's tasks, George and Harold buy a 3-D Hypno-Ring (which they receive after 4-6 weeks of back-breaking labor) and hypnotize Mr. Krupp to force him to hand over the incriminating video. Harold replaces it with one of his little sister Heidi's videos. They then begin fooling around. They hypnotize Mr. Krupp to act as if he was the Amazing Captain Underpants, who is the hero of their homemade comic books. To their distress, Mr. Krupp, as Captain Underpants, takes the role seriously and departs to fight crime.
Captain Underpants confronts two bank robbers, and orders them to "Surrender! Or I will have to resort to Wedgie Power!" The bank robbers fall down in hysterics and are apprehended by the police. The police begin to arrest Captain Underpants too, but George and Harold whisk him to safety on their skateboards.
Then the three witness see two robots stealing a large crystal. Captain Underpants tries to stop them, but his cape gets caught on their van. Captain Underpants, with George and Harold clinging to him, is dragged to an old, abandoned warehouse.
There they meet the evil Dr. Diaper, who plans to use the crystal as part of his Laser-Matic 2000 to blow up the Moon, destroying every major city on earth, so that he can take over the planet. George and Harold escape and hide, but Captain Underpants is captured and tied up.
George uses a slingshot to toss fake dog feces between Dr. Diaper's feet. Dr. Diaper is terribly embarrassed, thinking that he has had an "accident". While he departs to change his diaper, George and Harold incapacitate the robots and untie Captain Underpants. They pull the self-destruct lever on the Laser-Matic 2000.
Dr. Diaper, enraged at the destruction of the Laser-Matic 2000, his robots, and the foiling of his plan to take over the world, aims his Diaper-Matic 2000 ray gun at George, Harold, and Captain Underpants.
Captain Underpants shoots a pair of underwear at Dr. Diaper. The underwear covers Dr. Diaper's face, which renders him incapable of defending himself. Dr. Diaper is taken to the police station.
George, Harold, and Capt. Underpants return to Mr. Krupp's office. The boys try to figure out how to return Mr. Krupp to his normal self, but they've lost the instruction manual for the 3-D Hypno-Ring. In desperation, George tries dumping water on Mr. Krupp's head. It works, and Mr. Krupp returns to his angry self, resolving to give the video to the football team after all. As it turns out, the team enjoys the Sing-A-Long video so much that they change their name from the Knuckleheads to the Purple Dragon Sing-A-Long Friends. From this point on, whenever anyone snaps their fingers, Mr. Krupp tranforms into Captain Underpants.
[edit] Trivia
- Early printings of the book have "An Epic Novel by Dav Pilkey" instead of "The First Epic Novel by Dav Pilkey".
[edit] External links
| Captain Underpants | |
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| Main series | The Adventures of... | Talking Toilets | Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space | Professor Poopypants | Wicked Wedgie Woman | Bionic Booger Boy | Purple Potty People | Tippy Tinkletrousers |
| Other | Super Diaper Baby | 2 | FrankenFart | Book o' Fun | 2 | Cartoon-O-Rama 1 |
