| The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby | |
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| Author(s) | Dav Pilkey (credited as George Beard) |
| Illustrator | Dav Pilkey (credited as Harold Hutchins) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Captain Underpants series |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Blue Sky (US), Scholastic (US) |
| Publication date | February 5, 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Preceded by | n/a |
| Followed by | Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers |
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby is a children's novel by Dav Pilkey (though it credits him as "George Beard and Harold Hutchins"), and is a spin-off of Captain Underpants.
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William (Bill) and Mary Hoskins, expecting their first child, rush to the hospital.
Deputy Dangerous and Danger Dog gain super powers by draining them out of Captain Underpants using the Deputy's "Super Power Taker-Awayer Ray 2000 TM". However, the police arrive just as Dangerous is about to drink the juice. Danger Dog drinks half of the juice and the two escape.
Back at the hospital, Mary Hoskins gives birth to a baby boy (Billy Hoskins, Jr.). When giving the baby the "spank of life", the attending doctor accidentally shoots the baby out of the window into the bucket of super power juice Deputy Dangerous is stealing. The baby drinks the juice, causing him to gain super powers.
The duo escapes to a secret lab. Deputy Dangerous invents the "Danger Crib 2000", which can transmit superpowers from babies to his brain via satellite. They send it to the Hoskins family under the pseudonyms "Deputy Un-Dangerous" and "Safety Dog". Billy poops in his diaper one minute before the transmitting time of midnight and his mother removes him from the crib to give him a very nice bath, just as the machine turns on. His poop is transported to Deputy Dangerous, so that's what he turns into.
The next morning, Deputy Dangerous invents the "Robo-Ant 2000" so he can take over the world (He asks Danger Dog's opinion, but instead Danger Dog coins the name "Deputy Doo-Doo", much to the Deputy's dismay). Instead of helping, Danger Dog goofs off by changing signs around. Billy hears the robot and decides to stop it. Billy is defeated by Doo-Doo and is taken to a Nuclear Power Plant to kill him. Danger Dog saves Billy, while the Ant loses balance and falls into the power plant instead. Danger Dog takes Billy home. Bill and Mary keep "Safety Dog" as a pet, overriding the landlord's worries about carpet stains by putting a diaper on him.
Meanwhile, back at the power plant, radioactivity causes Deputy Doo-Doo to grow into a giant, and he resumes rampaging through the city. Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog fly out to stop him, but Diaper Dog notes that they shouldn't touch the now-radioactive Deputy Doo-Doo. Instead, they trick him into attacking himself, and they wrap him up using a giant toilet paper roll (taken from the top of a building called "Bob's Toilet Paper Co."), and remove him to the planet Uranus.
On the way back to Earth, they stop by at a Starbutts, and decide to take some Super Power Juice back to Earth, and they go to the laundromat where Captain Underpants is held captive. They restore his powers, and all is right with the world.
On the last page of the book, an advertisement for a sequel titled "Super Diaper Baby 2: Invasion of the Potty Snatchers - The Second Graphic Novel" can be found. The book took longer than anticipated to be released due to Dav Pilkey caring for his terminally ill father. On the back page there was a picture of the book with the words "the second epic novel by George Beard and Harold Hutchins." However in 2010, a book based on Captain Underpants was published, titled: "The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen From the Future". The long-awaited book was finally published on June 28, 2011, renamed "The Third Graphic Novel", due to "Ook and Gluk" being the second.
Immediately following "Super Diaper Baby", Principal Krupp tears George and Harold's book in half in front of their eyes, calling it garbage. Mr. Krupp then gives George and Harold another assignment, to create a book that doesn't involve poop. George and Harold once again find a way out of the punishment, by creating a book about pee.
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