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Children'south novel serial by Dav Pilkey

Captain Underpants

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The Adventures of Captain Underpants (1997) The Assail of the Talking Toilets (1999) The Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Every bit Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) (1999) The Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants (2000) The Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman (2001) The Big, Bad Boxing of the Bionic Booger Boy Office 1: The Nighttime of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets (2003) The Large, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Function 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers (2003) The Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People (2006) The Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (2012) The Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers (2013) The Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000 (2014) The Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot (2015)
Author	Dav Pilkey
Illustrator	Dav Pilkey
State	United states
Linguistic communication	English
Genre	Children's literature Potty/toilet Humor Superhero fiction Science fiction Comedy
Publisher	Scholastic
Published	September i, 1997 – Baronial 25, 2015 (main series) 2002 – present (spin-offs)
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)

Captain Underpants is an illustrated children'south novel series past American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. The series revolves around two 4th 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 vicious, bossy, and sick-tempered primary, Mr. Krupp. From the third book onwards, Mr. Krupp also possesses superhuman strength, durability and flight every bit a result of drinking conflicting "Extra-Strength Super Power Juice".

Currently, the series includes 12 books, two action books, xv spin-offs, and won a Kids' Selection Award on April 4, 2006. As of 2014, the series has been translated into more than 20 languages,^[1] with more than than lxxx million books sold worldwide,^[ane] including over l million in the United states of america.^[2] DreamWorks Blitheness acquired the rights to the serial to brand an blithe feature film accommodation, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, which was released on June 2, 2017, to positive reviews.

After the main serial ended with the twelfth novel, Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, in 2015, a spin-off series titled Domestic dog Human being was released the post-obit year.^[iii] The spin-off series has 10 books and so far.

Characters [edit]

Overview [edit]

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Character	Book series												Captain Underpants: The Starting time Epic Movie	The Ballsy Tales
	1	ii	3	4	5	6	seven	8	nine	10	11	12		i	two	three	4	Special
	1997	1999		2000	2001	2003		2006	2012	2013	2014	2015	2017	2018–2020
	Main characters
George Beard	Main
Harold Hutchins	Principal
Benjamin Krupp Captain Underpants	Primary
Sulu						Main				Principal	Mentioned
Crackers							Main			Chief
Yesterday George Beard											Main
Yesterday Harold Hutchins											Principal
Tony											Guest	Main
Dawn											Guest	Main
Orlando											Guest	Main
Lunchlady Edith													Principal
Erica Wang														Main
Dressy Killman														Main
Villains
Doctor Diaper	Main			Guest				Mentioned		Invitee
Melvin Sneedly Bionic Booger Male child Big Melvin		Main	Guest	Guest	Invitee	Master				Guest	Main	Guest	Primary
Turbo Toilet 2000		Primary		Guest		Guest				Guest	Main		Main
Zorx			Main										Guest
Klax			Main										Guest
Jennifer			Primary										Guest
The Deliriously, Dangerous, Death-Defying Dandelion of Doom			Main
Tippy Tinkletrousers Professor Pippy Pee-Pee "P" Diarrheastien Poopypants Esq.				Main	Guest			Guest	Main			Guest	Main
Tara Ribble Wedgie Woman	Guest				Principal				Guest		Invitee
Carl						Invitee	Principal	Mentioned
Trixie						Guest	Main
Frankenbooger						Guest	Main
Evil George Beard								Main
Evil Harold Hutchins								Master
Captain Blunderpants								Main
Behemothic Evil Sulu								Chief
Kipper Krupp and his Goons									Main	Guest
Zombie Nerd George Beard and Zombie Nerd Harold Hutchins									Invitee	Guest
Kenny Brian Meaner Coach / Sir Stinks-A-Lot	Invitee			Invitee				Mentioned			Supporting	Main	Guest	Recurring
Teachers
Miss Edith Anthrope		Invitee		Supporting		Main					Main	Guest	Main	Recurring
Mr. Morty Fyde			Main		Supporting								Invitee
Miss Singerbrains							Main	Mentioned
Mr. Riles Rected				Guest							Guest		Supporting	Recurring
Ms. Dayken					Invitee								Guest
Students
Jessica Gordon	Guest										Invitee			Recurring
Gooch Yamaguchi													Invitee	Recurring
Sophie Ane														Recurring
Other Sophie														Recurring
Bo Hweemuth														Recurring
Stanley Peet														Recurring

Main [edit]

• George Beard and Harold Hutchins – Two 4th-course clever pranksters, who are best friends, next-door neighbors and the main protagonists of the series. They started a comic book visitor called "Treehouse Comix, Inc.", and every so often at school they sneak to the secretary'southward part to make copies of their latest comic volume and sell them on the playground for l cents. They are the class clowns in quaternary class at Jerome Horwitz Uncomplicated School (named for Curly of the 3 Stooges), a school which discourages imagination and fun, located in Piqua, Ohio. They often get in trouble and serious events with Mr. Krupp. Harold's birthday is March 6, 1986, and George'south is July 11, 1986. After time travel antics, duplicates of them are created in the present, referred to as Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold. After the original duo travel to the future, they detect their others selves to accept go graphic novel creators. Time to come Yesterday George married a white woman named Lisa and had two mixed-race children named Meena and Nik. Future Yesterday Harold married a homo named Billy and had adopted twin children named Owen and Kei. George'south parents are named Moses and Barbara, while Harold's mother is named Grace. George'south grandmother and Harold's grandfather announced in the 8th book, where they unknowingly beverage the last of the superpower juice while reading a comic the boys created where they are the heroes. They afterwards transform into the aforementioned heroes to defend George and Harold from Helm Blunderpants and profess their dearest to each other, much to the boys' cloy. In the adaptations, their personalities are by and large unchanged, but they now usually simply prank to entertain their schoolmates and treat Helm Underpants more than as a friend than a terminal resort. In the film, they are respectively voiced by Kevin Hart and Thomas Middleditch and by Ramone Hamilton and Jay Gragnani in the series.
• Mr. Benjamin "Benny" Krupp – The savage and hateful-spirited master of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and the antihero of the series (normally when no existent dangers are happening). He is usually depicted as an overweight man. Mr. Krupp has a deep hatred of children and too tries to protect the students at Jerome Horwitz Elementary from George and Harold's pranks. Why he is and then mean to children, in general, is unknown, but it is hinted that it is because of his own troubled and dysfunctional by. Mr. Krupp'south birthday is on Apr ane, 1951; he has a younger brother named Jasper (Kipper's father), and his parents are named John and Bernice. When Mr. Krupp was little, he performed an awful hip-hop dance at a talent show, his mother passed out fruits and vegetables to the audition so they could throw them at him because he did not watch the cows from his family farm. This leads him to become mean, cold-hearted and vow to brand all kids feel just equally bad every bit he did. His last name is a pun of the word "decadent". When he goes by his full proper noun, it is a pun on "bankrupt". Mr. Krupp was based on Mr. Crutch, and was supposed to exist named Mr. Crutch. He was named after Mr. Crutch from Shrimps for a Day. In the picture show, it is revealed that he read George and Harold's comics when he confiscated them and felt they were a little funny, which explains how he knows what Helm Underpants acts like when he is hypnotized. In the motion picture, he is voiced by Ed Helms and in the series, he is voiced by Nat Faxon.
• Captain Underpants – The superhero counterpart and alter ego of Mr. Krupp, when he is hypnotized to think he is "Helm Underpants", a character created by George and Harold. He just wears briefs and a red cape with blackness polka dots. Whenever Mr. Krupp hears the sound of fingers snapping, he turns into Captain Underpants and he turns back into Mr. Krupp when he is soaked with water. Captain Underpants gains superpowers in the third volume and possessed superhuman strength, durability, flight and "wedgie power" where he can pull unlimited underwear from his utility waistband. As the volume series went on, Helm Underpants seemed to have increasingly minor roles in each installment. In the 12th book, he lost his superpowers and was erased from existence, much to George and Harold's apathy. Captain Underpants is considered to be the "light side" of Mr. Krupp himself, equally he is nice and kind to everyone, particularly children. He is very protective of the children, especially George and Harold since he believes that they're his trusty sidekicks. In the film, he is voiced by Ed Helms and in the series, he is voiced by Nat Faxon.
• Melvin Richard Sneedly – George and Harold's nerdy nemesis. He is an annoying snitch, a genius inventor and the school'southward smartest pupil. His parents, Cindy and Gaylord, are professional scientists and are canonically neglectful. It is thought to believe that his parents' neglectful behavior and snobby attitudes contribute to his acrimony and snobbiness. In the Netflix series, he is thought to take been inventing ever since he was a baby and has a baroque sense of sense of humour, laughing at videos of rotting fruit. Apparently, in the movie, he is the just student who has no sense of sense of humour because he thinks everything kittenish is not funny and only focuses on his studies so he can get actress credit. He is as well said to have no brain stem (which Poopypants calls the "Hahaguffawchucklealamus"). In the eleventh volume, he becomes a superhero named Big Melvin subsequently he defeats the Turbo Toilet 2000 after he drinks superpower juice he created from a disgusting toenail from Mr. Krupp. He rescues people from emergencies just afterward, people started to corruption the system by calling him, but it was not a emergency at all He travels in time to bring Captain Underpants back to the present to defeat the Turbo Toilet 2000 so his life as a superhero would never become reality. In the pic, he is voiced by Jordan Peele and in the series past Jorge Diaz.
• Sulu and Crackers – George and Harold's pets. Sulu was Melvin's abandoned pet bionic hamster after he yelled at Sulu which offended him simply afterward was adopted by George and Harold. Crackers is their pet Quetzalcoatlus they got when they traveled back in fourth dimension with Melvin Sneedly's time machine. The pair so accept three children together named Tony, Dawn and Orlando.

Recurring [edit]

In volume 11, when the teachers saw 2 Georges and two Harolds, they retrieve they are dreaming and then they go naked. They are arrested when Miss Fitt pulled down Officer McWiggly's pants. Mr Hand in the series gets hired.

• Mr. Kenny Brian Meaner – Mr. Meaner is Jerome Horwitz Elementary Schoolhouse's gym teacher. He is depicted as being an overweight human being and with a personality similar to Mr. Krupp'south. Like him, he is very cruel to students and ofttimes yells at them. He appears in the series, where he is depicted every bit being incredibly ignorant and talks in a studder by saying "yeah yeah yeah yeah." In book 12, Meaner becomes Sir Stinks-A-Lot. His name is a pun on the discussion "misdemeanor" or by saying that "can he be meaner." Voiced by David Koechner in the Goggle box series.
• Miss Edith Anthrope – The school secretary who is often shown to be in a bad mood. Like all the other teachers at the school including Mr. Krupp, she is unkind to children. She is slightly overweight, in contrast to most of the other teachers. In the movie, she is on hold for three days thinking she will win a contest with a greenbacks prize of $ane billion. In the movie she does not speak, but in the series, she is voiced past Patty Mattson where she is glum but yells "Fine!". A running gag in the serial involves her entering Mr. Krupp's office maxim "Did y'all call me?" followed by something else she says. Her name is a pun of the word "misanthrope" or past proverb "consume it/miss and throw upward."
• Mr. Morty Fyde – Mr. Fyde was the scientific discipline instructor at Jerome Horwitz Simple School. Unlike all the other grown-ups in the schoolhouse, he is rather dorky and stupid. The events of the outset three books gradually cause him to believe himself is insane and resign from his task to put himself in a mental establishment (only in the motion-picture show Mr. Krupp only fires Fyde because he'd rather spend time with his family unit instead of judge the school science fair and Krupp considers this unacceptable). His name is a pun on the words "mystified" and "mortified." In the flick, he is voiced by Mel Rodriguez. In the series he is voiced by Stephen Root, where he is released from the mental establishment, though he becomes nervous around loud racket, which is unfortunate for Mr. Fyde; an uncomplicated school is practically built on dissonance. One of Melvin'due south inventions accidentally fuses Mr. Fyde with an avocado pit belonging to George and Harold, turning him into a behemothic avocado monster named Avocadwoe that attacks everything that makes loud sounds. Mr. Fyde is planted past Helm Underpants and he is turned into an avocado tree in a peaceful wood backside the school, something that Mr. Fyde is content with.
• Ms. Tara Ribble – Ms. Ribble is the homeroom teacher of George and Harold's 4th-grade class. In volume 5, she is hypnotized into becoming Wedgie Woman. Her name is a pun on the words "terrible" and "miserable." Voiced past Dee Dee Rescher in the film and Laraine Newman in the TV serial.
• Miss Singerbrains – Miss Singerbrains is the librarian at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School who banned all only ane of the books in the library and eventually airtight downwardly the library. Her name is a pun on maxim she is "missing her brains."
• Mr. Riles Rected – Mr. Rected is the guidance counselor at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. He is very nasty to students especially George and Harold and is oft seen hanging with Mr. Krupp, Mr. Meaner, Miss Anthrope, and Ms. Ribble. His name is a pun on the word "misdirected." He is also voiced by Brian Posehn in the picture show and Jorge Diaz in the animated serial.
• Ms. Dayken – Ms. Dayken is a member of the teaching board at Jerome Horwitz Elementary schoolhouse. Her name is a pun on the word "mistaken." In the picture show, she is voiced by Susan Fitzer and was George and Harold's kindergarten teacher where she teaches nigh the planets, including "Uranus," which the boys find very agreeable.
• Mr. Rusworthy – Mr. Rusworthy is (co-ordinate to his tie) the music instructor of Jerome Horowitz Unproblematic school. His name is a pun on the word "Mistrustworthy". In the series, he is replaced by a different music teacher, Ms. Herd.
• The Lunch Ladies – The Lunch Ladies are the three women who run the cafeteria. They are notorious for cooking horrible, inedible, and possibly lethal food. They quit in the third book when Mr. Krupp says he cannot punish George and Harold for their antics without proof, though they are possibly rehired after the replacements are revealed to be aliens. 2 of the Tiffin Ladies are named, Miss Creant, the head lunch lady, and Mrs. DePoint, the cook. The revealed names are puns on the word "Miscreant" and the phrase "Misses the betoken".
• Doc Diaper (known alternatively every bit Md Nappy in the UK) – A diaper-clad mad scientist and the first villain Captain Underpants e'er faced.
• The Talking Toilets – An ground forces of living toilets created by George and Harold, who were accidentally brought into the real world with a modified photocopier. They could simply say "Yum Yum Eat em Up!"
• The Turbo Toilet 2000 – A behemothic toilet created past George and Harold, who was accidentally brought into the real earth with a modified photocopier. After he was defeated by the Incredible Robo-Plunger, he and the other toilets were taken to Uranus where he remained for several books until being brought dorsum to life by juice from the destroyed Robo-Plunger. In the moving-picture show, it was now Melvin's invention that was grown by Poopypants with his size ray.
• The Incredible Robo-Plunger – A giant robot created by George and Harold to defeat the Turbo Toilet 2000. Afterwords, he repaired the schoolhouse and took all the toilets to Uranus where he remained for several books until he was hit on the head past a kickball kicked into space by the Harold 2000. He is so rebuilt past the revived Turbo Toilet 2000 into a rocket scooter so the toilet could return to globe.
• Zorx, Klax, and Jennifer – Three infinite aliens who planned to invade Piqua, Ohio. They disguised themselves as luncheon ladies to turn the students of Jerome Horwitz Uncomplicated School into Zombie Nerds by using Evil Zombie Nerd Juice.
• The Dandelion of Doom – A dandelion that drank alien super evil rapid-growth juice, causing it to grow into a giant, evil monster.
• Tippy Tinkletrousers (formerly known as Professor Pippy Pee-Pee Poopypants, and in the motion picture as Prof. Pee-Pee Diarrheastien Poopypants Esq.) – A vivid scientist who unfortunately comes from a foreign country where everyone has a silly name. In book 4, he forces everyone on earth to change their names into a silly one. After his defeat, Professor Poopypants changes his name, suggested by George rather than forcing everybody to change theirs. Just Poopypants does not modify his proper noun to something normal, instead, he changes it to his grandfather's name Tippy Tinkletrousers. In the picture show, he is voiced by Nick Kroll.
• Wedgie Woman (Ms. Ribble) – A villain created by George and Harold who was based on their teacher Ms. Ribble. After a 2d mishap with the Hypno-Ring, it convinced her that she is Wedgie Woman. at showtime, she has no superpowers, but afterwards her hairstyle gets splattered with superpower juice from the third book her pilus transforms into arms and she gains super-intelligence.
• Robo-George and The Harold 2000 – Two behemothic robots built by Wedgie Adult female based on George and Harold. They were fully obedient to Wedgie Woman; each had a vast arsenal of powerful weapons and gadgets and were programmed to destroy Captain Underpants once they heard him say "Tra-la-laaa!"
• The Bionic Booger Boy (Melvin Sneedly) – A fusion of Melvin Sneedly, boogers, and a super-powered robot. His growth is triggered by a field trip to a tissue manufactory.
• Carl, Trixie and Frankenbooger (The Three Robo-Boogers) – Boogers who all come from the Bionic Booger Boy. They all share a weakness to oranges, which Captain Underpants successfully used to destroy the rampaging trio of living mucus. Carl had the Bionic Booger Boy'southward legs, Trixie had the tentacles, and Frankenbooger had the artillery. Whenever they eat, they go bigger and more than evil.
• Evil George and Evil Harold – Culling versions and negative counterparts of George and Harold from an alternate dimension who are both intelligent and evil. They helped Captain Blunderpants and dissimilar the sketchy, amateurish George and Harold they are good authors and illustrators (ironically, the main George and Harold consider the alternative George and Harold's work junior). Additionally, they besides tended to change the signs into evil phrases (while their counterparts frequently alter the signs into funny words).
• Captain Blunderpants – The reverse and evil counterpart of Captain Underpants from an alternate dimension, who has a toupee and looks and acts more similar Krupp, while the alternate Krupp is squeamish. Also, his transformation is the opposite; when water is splashed on him, he becomes the evil Captain Blunderpants and when someone snaps their fingers, he becomes the overnice Mr. Krupp.
• Kipper Krupp – A sixth-grade bully and Benjamin'southward nephew and Jasper Krupp's son, who would neat George, Harold, and other children when they were all in kindergarten. Due to a series of pranks that George and Harold conducted, he would somewhen become nicer to the children along with his too mischievous friends Bugg, Loogie, and Finkstine.
• Sir Stinks-A-Lot (Mr. Meaner) – Mr. Meaner subsequently becomes the alter ego of Sir Stinks-A-Lot, an evil hypnotist. While in prison, Meaner transforms into a hulk of pure energy after eating an egg salad sandwich. He later removes an alternative version of Helm Underpants's superpowers and the furnishings of the Hypno ring, erasing him from existence entirely and giving himself, Erstwhile George and Onetime Harold all of Captain Underpants's superpowers and the effects of the 3D Hypno-Ring.

Novels [edit]

The main serial of novels has adult a pattern of alliteration from the fourth volume on—except for the third book, whose "annoyingly long" championship becomes a running joke in future books.

Novels half-dozen–12 in the main series form ane unbroken story, in which the ending of each of such novel except the last is a bewilderment, and the side by side novel in sequence immediately picks up where the last one left off.

Captain Underpants novels [edit]

1. The Adventures of Helm Underpants (1997)
2. Captain Underpants and the Set on of the Talking Toilets (1999)
3. Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Deli Ladies from Outer Infinite (and the Subsequent Assault of the Every bit-Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) (1999)
4. Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants (2000)
5. Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman (2001)
6. Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part one: The Dark of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets (2003)
7. Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Office 2: The Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers (2003)
8. Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Regal Potty People (2006)
9. Helm Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (2012)^[4]
10. Helm Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers (2013)^[5]
11. Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000 (2014)^[6]
12. Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot (2015)^[six]

Captain Underpants activeness books [edit]

1. The Captain Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o' Fun (2001)
2. The All-New Helm Underpants Extra-Crunchy Book o' Fun 2 (2002)
3. The Captain Underpants Super Featherbrained Sticker Studio (2005)

Captain Underpants spin-offs [edit]

1. The Adventures of Super Diaper Babe (2002)
2. The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future (2010) (out of print as of March 2021)
3. Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers (2011)

Dog Human novels [edit]

1. Domestic dog Man (2016)
2. Domestic dog Homo Unleashed (2016)
3. Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties (2017)
4. Dog Homo and Cat Kid (2017)
5. Domestic dog Man: Lord Of the Fleas (2018)
6. Dog Man: Ball of the Wild (2018)
7. Dog Man: For Whom The Ball Rolls (2019)
8. Dog Man: Fetch-22 (2019)
9. Dog Man: Grime and Punishment (2020)
10. Dog Human: Mothering Heights (2021)
11. Dog Man: The Last Affiliate (TBA)

Captain Underpants collectors' editions [edit]

1. The Adventures of Captain Underpants: Collectors' Edition (2001)
2. Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets: Collectors' Edition (2007)
3. Helm Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Deli Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assail of the Every bit-Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds): Collectors' Edition (2008)

Helm Underpants collections [edit]

• The Tra-La-La Riffic Captain Underpants Collection/The Beginning Captain Underpants Collection (Books 1–4; 1997–2000)
• Three More Wedgie-Powered Adventures in One (Books iv-half dozen; 2006)
• The Second Helm Underpants Drove/The Tra-La-Larious Captain Underpants (Books 5–7 & Super Diaper Baby; 2001–2003)
• Captain Underpants: Three Pantastic Novels in One (Books 1–3; 1997–99)
• The New Captain Underpants Collection (Books ane–5; 1997–200)
• The Tra-La-La Tremendous Captain Underpants Collection (Books 5–8; 2001–2006)
• The Complete Captain Underpants Drove (Books 1–8; 1997–2006)
• The Helm Underpants Collectors' Edition Drove (Books 1–three + 3 CD-ROMs; 1997–1999, 2005–2008)

Captain Underpants in Full Color [edit]

• The Adventures of Captain Underpants (2013)
• Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets (2014)
• Helm Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) (2014)^[seven]
• Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants (2015)
• Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Adult female (2017)^[half-dozen]
• Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets (2018)
• Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Office 2: the Revenge of the Ridiculous Robo-Boogers (2018)
• Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Majestic Potty People (2019)
• Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Re-Turn of Tippy Tinkletrousers (2019)^[iv]
• Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers (2020)^[5]
• Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000 (2021)^{[half dozen]}
• Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot (2022)^[6]*

Potentially cancelled books [edit]

These books were reported "coming soon-ish" at the end of the books Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future, and Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers. No further data or cancellation has been released since their tease.

• The Captain Underpants Cartoon-O-Rama Book Heroes, Villains, and Supercreeps
• FrankenFart vs. The Bionic Barf Bunnies from Diarrhea State (made appearances in Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People and Cat Kid Comic Social club: Perspectives)
• The Adventures of Ook and Gluk Jr: Kung-Fu Cavekids in Outer Space (most likely completely cancelled due to the discontinuation of the offset Ook and Gluk book)
• Helm Underpants Proudly Presents F.A.R.T.S. The Major Motion Picture

Controversy [edit]

Book bans [edit]

According to the American Library Association, the Captain Underpants books were reported every bit some of the almost banned and challenged books in the United States betwixt 2000 and 2009 (13),^[8] every bit well as between 2010 and 2019.^[9] The books were named 1 of the top 10 about banned and challenged books in 2002 (6), 2004 (iv), 2005 (viii), 2012 (1), 2013 (1), and 2018 (three).^[10] The Captain Underpants series was explicitly banned in some schools for "insensitivity, offensive language, encouraging disruptive behavior, LGBTQIA+ issues, violence, beingness unsuited to the age group, sexually explicit content, anti-family content, likewise as encouraging children to disobey authority."^[10]

The American Library Association stated in a release by the National Coalition Against Censorship that "This year's #1 banned book, Helm Underpants... is the souvenir that keeps on giving. Why? Because these popular, silly books are read past parents, with their children, all over the country. The toilet humor makes parents ringlet their eyes and kids giggle. The absurdity of banning books to attack perceived moral problems is exemplified past this yr's winner."^[11]

In October 2015, the 12th volume received controversy due to a reference to Harold being gay. Some unproblematic schools have banned the book due to this.^{[12] [13]}

On March 29, 2021, The Adventures of Ook and Gluk was pulled from shelves of bookstores and libraries later the publisher said it "perpetuates passive racism".^[14]

Hiatus [edit]

Although the showtime few books came out regularly, the 9th volume, Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers (advertised in a teaser at the end of the eighth volume), was not released until 2012, after a six-year wait. During this fourth dimension, Dav Pilkey was caring for his terminally ill father, who died in 2008.^[15] In 2009, he signed a deal with Scholastic for iv new books, the showtime of which was The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Time to come, released August 10, 2010. The second was Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, released June 28, 2011.^[16] The tertiary book, Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Render of Tippy Tinkletrousers, was released Baronial 28, 2012. The quaternary book, Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers, was released January 16, 2013.

Other media [edit]

Film adaptation [edit]

CGI-blithe film [edit]

On October 20, 2011, information technology was reported that DreamWorks Animation had caused rights to make an animated feature motion-picture show based on the Captain Underpants serial.^[17] On Oct 25, 2013, it was reported that Rob Letterman would direct the film, while Nicholas Stoller would write the script.^[ii] It would have been the 2nd film to accept Letterman and Stoller working together, the first being Gulliver'south Travels. On January 21, 2014, the cast was announced, with Ed Helms joining as Mr. Krupp/Captain Underpants; Kevin Hart as George Beard; Thomas Middleditch every bit Harold Hutchins; Nick Kroll every bit the insidious villain, Professor Poopypants; and Jordan Peele as Melvin, the nerdy nemesis of George and Harold.^[1] On June 12, 2014, the film was scheduled for release on January xiii, 2017.^[18] Following DreamWorks Blitheness'due south reorganization in early 2015, the studio announced that the picture would be produced exterior of the studio's pipeline at a significantly lower price.^[nineteen] Information technology would be instead animated at Mikros Image in Montreal, Canada, and it would wait differently than most of DWA's films.^[twenty] A month afterwards, Deadline reported that Letterman had left the projection, and that David Soren, the managing director of Turbo, was in talks to direct the film,^[21] merely Letterman returned to the project and served equally an executive producer with Dav Pilkey.^[22] The moving picture was expected to be released on March 10, 2017,^[21] but in September 2015, DreamWorks Animation'southward The Boss Baby took over its date.^[23] The film was released on June 2, 2017.^{[24] [25]}

Tv set serial [edit]

During the publication of earlier books in the 90s, Dav Pilkey had looked to turn his books into a possible Television serial, most likely a live-action one. According to some sources, Pilkey had imagined Chris Farley in the titular function. Information technology must have been sometime within the first volume's publication, equally around the same twelvemonth it debuted to the public reader, Farley died of a drug overdose at the age of 33. ^[26]

DreamWorks Blitheness also produced a television series based on the moving picture that was streamed to Netflix. It was released on July xiii, 2018.^{[27] [28]}

Interactive episode [edit]

In 2020, an interactive episode called Captain Underpants Ballsy Pick-o-Rama was released on Netflix. The episode involves Harold and George stopping Mr. Krupp from bravado upward their beloved treehouse.^[29]

Reception [edit]

Censors in the Usa have been targeting the Captain Underpants series after the first book was released in 1997.^[30] The Office of Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Clan reported that Captain Underpants is the volume series with the about complaints from libraries due to offensive content in the United States in 2012 and 2013.^[31] Several parents accused the book of having language inappropriate for the book'southward target audience, children enrolled in elementary schools.^[32]

Jessica Roake, in an article published in Slate, argued that the books are well suited for young readers. She wrote that "They're drawn to them because for the starting time time in their reading lives they are understood, entertained, and catered to all at once. Information technology is theirs, not ours, and that feeling of sectional ownership forges the kind of connexion everyone should have with at to the lowest degree i book in their life. For that, almost every English language teacher of my associate will be more than happy to take the shot to the ego the Captain provides."^[30]

The series has often been compared with the Horace Splattly series,^{[33] [34] [35] [36] [37]} but not always positively.^[38]

International publishing [edit]

• Brazil: Cosac Naify (published all 12 volumes before endmost its activities in 2015) | Companhia das Letras (re-releases; 2017–present)
• Canada, Argentina, Mexico, UK, Republic of ireland, Hong Kong, Republic of india, Australia, New Zealand: Scholastic
• Catalan: Editorial Cruilla
• People's republic of china: Nanhai Publishing Company
• Hong Kong: Thinkingdom/New Buds
• Taiwan: Commonwealth, Thinkingdom
• Croatia: Mozaik Knjiga
• Czech republic: Egmont, Baronet
• Kingdom of denmark: Forlaget Sesam, Carlsen
• Republic of finland: Tammi
• French republic: Le Petit Musc (books 1–4; beginning translation); Bayard Presse (books 1–half dozen)
• Germany, Austria: Ueberreuter (books 1–5; offset translation); Panini (books one–12)
• Greece: Modernistic Times, Psichogios Publications
• Republic of hungary: Ulpius-Haz
• Iceland: JPV Forlag (Captain Underpants); Bókafélagið (Canis familiaris-Man)
• Republic of indonesia: Kompas Gramedia Group
• State of israel: Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir
• Italy: Edizioni Piemme (Helm Underpants), Salani (Super Diaper Babe)
• Japan: Tokuma Shoten
  • Ryō Kisaka [ja] ( 木坂涼 , Kisaka Ryō ) is the Japanese translator of the volume series.^[39]
• Korea: Gimm-Young Publishers, Inc.
• Latvia: Zvaigzne ABC
• Lithuanian: Alma littera
• Norway: Cappelen Damm (1st and 2nd books; first translation); Schibsted Forlag (1st to 8th volume), Vigmostad & Bjørke (from 9th volume).
• Poland: Egmont, Jaguar
• Portugal: Gradiva (Captain Underpants); Marcador (Domestic dog-Homo)
• Romania: Editura National; Art Grup Editorial
• Russia: Machiny Tvoreniya Publishing
• Slovenia: Založba Mladinska Knjiga
• Spain: Ediciones SM
• Sweden: Egmont Richters (books i–6; showtime translation); Bonnier Carlsen (books 1–12)
• Thailand: Pearl Publishing
• Turkey: A.I. Iletisim/Altin Kitaplar
• Ukraine: Krajina Myri
• United Kingdom: Scholastic, TedSmart
• Vietnam: Nha Nam Publishing

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Captain Underpants Saves The Day Past Recruiting Top Comedy Talent To Voice New DreamWorks Animation Motion picture". PR Newswire. Jan 21, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
2. ^ ^{a b} Kit, Borys (October 25, 2013). "Rob Letterman to Direct 'Captain Underpants' for DWA (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved October 26, 2013.
3. ^ Lee Yandoli, Krystie (March 2, 2016). "Here's A Await Within The New "Helm Underpants" Spin-Off Story". BuzzFeed. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
4. ^ ^{a b} "'Captain Underpants' author goes digital". Yahoo!. January 12, 2012. Retrieved March ane, 2012.
5. ^ ^{a b} Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers. January 2013. ISBN978-0545175364.
6. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Scholastic To Publish Two New Captain Underpants Books Past Worldwide Bestselling Writer Dav Pilkey, Plus Newly Re-Illustrated Editions Of Pilkey's Ricky Ricotta Series, With All New Full-Color Art By Bestselling Artist Dan Santat". PR Newswire. Oct eight, 2013. Retrieved October 11, 2013.
7. ^ "Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies From Outer Space: Color Edition". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved January x, 2015.
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12. ^ "Elementary parents notified of gay grapheme in children'due south volume". Monica Scott.
13. ^ Schaub, Michael (October 27, 2015). "'Helm Underpants' banned from school book fair". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved November fourteen, 2015.
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17. ^ Fleming, Mike (October 19, 2011). "DreamWorks Blitheness Wins Auction For 'Helm Underpants' Feature Moving-picture show Rights". Deadline . Retrieved October 20, 2011.
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22. ^ Wolfe, Jennifer (December 2, 2016). "Rob Letterman Helming Legendary'south 'Detective Pikachu' Pokémon Movie". Animation Earth Network . Retrieved December 25, 2016.
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External links [edit]

• Captain Underpants at Scholastic
• Captain Underpants

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Underpants

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