Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000

Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000
Author Dav Pilkey
Illustrator Dav Pilkey
Country United States
Language English
Series Captain Underpants series
Genre Children's novel
Publisher Blue Sky (US),
Scholastic (US)
Publication date
 August 26, 2014
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
ISBN Unknown
Preceded by Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers
Followed by Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot

Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000 is a graphic novel by Dav Pilkey[1] and the eleventh book in the Captain Underpants series.

Plot

The story begins with Melvin Sneedly (in his glow-in-the-dark, time-traveling, Robo-Squid suit) bringing George, Harold, Captain Underpants, and Cracker's three eggs back to the present. Melvin also explains that he cleared George and Harold's names for the crimes that their alternate selves committed in the eighth book by hacking into the bank's computers. When asked by the suspicious George and Harold as to why he saved them, Melvin simply replies that he has his reasons. [2]

Meanwhile, the kickball that one of Wedgie Woman's robots kicked into space back in book 5, is heading for Uranus. It finally hits the planet where the Robo-Plunger and the Talking Toilets are, knocking the Robo-Plunger's head off and making robot juice leak out into the Turbo Toilet 2000's mouth. The giant commode comes to life and decides to retaliate so he can avenge his fallen allies. He builds a rocket scooter from the parts of the Incredible Robo-Plunger and flies back to Earth. In the original universe, the huge ensuing destruction interrupts one of Melvin's experiments, causing Melvin to yell at him to be quiet. Angered, the Turbo Toilet 2000 chases Melvin all the way over to the school, where Melvin finds one of Mr. Krupp's recently clipped-off toenails. He gets the idea of extracting it into DNA and transferring Mr. Krupp (Captain Underpants)'s superpowers to himself. He ends up doing so and defeating the Turbo Toilet 2000, once again becoming 'Big Melvin'. Before long, Big Melvin is flying around town and fighting crime as a superhero. But soon, people start calling him and interrupting his science experiments for trivial and unimportant things such as losing their cellphones or for advice if certain pants make people look fat. After one year, Melvin finally has enough, and decides to locate his bionic hamster Sulu in order to give George and Harold the responsibility of defeating the Turbo Toilet 2000. He finds Sulu's signal in the future and uses the Robo-Squid suit to travel to George and Harold.

After returning Captain Underpants to his home and turning him back into Mr. Krupp, the exhausted George and Harold return home and try to nap. However, in their escape from Tippy Tinkletrousers in the tenth book, they end up missing a full day of school, so they are punished by their parents with five hours of yard work. Although both of them are exhausted, George realizes that they have a full day of testing the next day, and they are forced to stay up all night to study. In the morning, both of them fall asleep in their tree house and miss their tests, causing them to get zeros on all their big tests. While George barely manages to get a passing final grade, Harold's grade is failing, and much to the glee of the teachers, he will have to repeat the fourth grade, which means that it will separate the two boys in school.

Determined to fix the situation, George convinces Harold to use Melvin's Robo-Squid suit to travel back in time so that they can take the tests. However, when they return to their tree house, they realize that they have accidentally created time travel duplicates of themselves, formerly called the Yesterday Bros., a reference to the Yesterday Brothers. After some confusion, George comes with the idea for the time travel duplicates and them to switch off every other day. The original George and Harold spend their first night watching monster movies and eating junk food, but run out of food the next morning. In order to get the money they need, they decide to make a new comic book: "The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby 2.5". They head to the school, but are caught by Ms. Anthrope in the office. George is able to convince her that she is dreaming by pointing out that they are actually in class (in reality, their yesterday versions). Ms Anthrope doesn't believe them and contacts Ms Ribble who also tell her the same thing, but then she tells Ms Ribble to send them to the office and she realizes that she has seen two versions of George and Harold. Unfortunately, Ms. Anthrope then takes off her clothes and begins running around the school. George and Harold are confronted by Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, and are warned to stay out of the school.

Annoyed by their other sides, George and Harold disobey their twins and decide to pull some pranks. In doing so, all of the teachers in the entire school begin acting crazy in a manner similar to Ms. Anthrope when they see the two versions of the boys. Every staff member in the school is arrested by the police for several various reasons (public nudity, pantsing a police officer, etc.), while Mr. Krupp is sent to an insane asylum due to the state he is left in when he sees the two Georges and Harolds.

After two weeks, the Turbo Toilet 2000 flies down on his rocket scooter down to Earth, just like in the original universe. The Georges and Harolds run to the asylum to try and get to Mr. Krupp, but after having been unsuccessful, the group take some cardboard boxes and outdoor grills to create talking toilet disguises. George and Harold climb in the disguises, which fools the Turbo Toilet 2000, and manage to convince him to break down the wall of the asylum. With the snap of every finger, George then turned Mr. Krupp back into Captain Underpants, who prepared to fight against the Turbo Toilet 2000. Captain Underpants ends up winning the fight, but after one of the Turbo Toilet starts crying and his giant tears falls on his head, he turns back into Mr. Krupp again. After being grabbed by the Turbo Toilet, Mr. Krupp decides to direct the planetary privy towards George and Harold's treehouse, where Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold are. After making it there, the Turbo Toilet swallows Mr. Krupp, and proceeds to ram the base of the treehouse. In the chaos, Cracker's eggs fall to the floor with a terrible CRASH! As Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold sift through the broken egg shell fragments, they discover that Cracker's children are half-pterodactyl, half-hamster. The Turbo Toilet grabs Yesterday George and Harold, but the hamster-pterodactyl children save them by lifting the Turbo Toilet up, and shattering him with a deafening "BOOM!" Mr. Krupp, having been protected by his super powers, is soon arrested.

George, Harold, Yesterday George, and Yesterday Harold regroup and come up with names for the hamster-pterodactyls. Yesterday Harold comments that it was a satisfying ending, but George points out all the loose ends in the story. (city destroyed, teachers in jail, etc.) The group realize that this means another sequel is coming out, and they collectively shout out their titular cries of "OH, NO!" and "Here we go again!"

Comic: Super Diaper Baby 2½

One day, at the Hoskins's house, the television news announces that Petey the Cat had escaped from prison, and had vowed to get revenge on Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog. Mr. Hoskins explains that they must look out for Petey the Cat, but 2 seconds later, the doorbell rings. The person at the door introduces himself as P.T. Duckhat, the world's most famous clown (which is Petey the cat in disguise). He asks Mr. Hoskins if Billy and Diaper Dog can participate in his parade, which he replies "yes" to without a second thought. P.T. Duckhat takes Billy and Diaper Dog to a big float of Super Diaper Baby (Later to be the Robo-Baby) and they get in the parade begins. Everything goes fine until P.T. Duckhat takes off his costume and tells everyone that he is Petey the Cat. The Robo-Baby destroys the city with Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog, who are now stuck in the powerful grip of the Robo-Baby. Meanwhile, Dog Man (half dog, half cop) runs up the leg of the Robot and scratches, and scratches. Soon, Dog Man's fleas got in the Robo-Baby's Diaper. The fleas made the Robot leave and they take Petey to Jail ... only to find another surprise! Read more in the awesome new book Super Diaper Baby 3: The Revenge of Petey and the Big Robot!

Characters

References

  1. ↑ "Good News for Fans of Bathroom Humor". USA Today. 8 October 2013.
  2. ↑ "Captain Underpants excerpt" (PDF). Scholastic.com.