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''The Adventures of Captain Underpants'' is a children's book by Dav Pilkey, part of a series of books with " Captain Underpants " in the titles. The ''Captain Underpants'' series 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 principal, Mr. Krupp, gets so angry at them he imposes a set of draconian rules such as "No laughing or smiling", and requires them to spend every spare minute of their day, beginning at 6am, catering to his every whim. If they don't comply, Mr. Krupp will show a surveilllance video of George and Harold setting up the pranks that ruined the game to the football team. So George and Harold buy a 3-D Hypno-Ring (receiving it after 6-8 weeks of back-breaking labor) and hypnotize Mr. Krupp to make him give them the incriminating video. Harold replaces it with one of his little sister's "Boomer the Purple Dragon Sing-A-Long" videos. Then they start goofing around. They hypnotize him to act like Captain Underpants, who is the hero of their home-made comic books. To their distress, Mr. Krupp, as Captain Underpants, takes the role too serious and runs away 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 want to arrest Captain Underpants too, but George and Harold whisk him to safety on their skateboards. Then the three witness two robots stealing a large crystal. Captain Underpants tries to stop them, and his cape gets caught on their van. Captain Underpants, with George and Harold clinging to him, is thus 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 hide, but Captain Underpants is captured and tied up. George uses a slingshot to toss a piece of fake dog poop between Dr. Diaper's feet. Dr. Diaper is terribly embarrassed, thinking that he has had an "accident". While he goes off to change his diaper, George and Harold beat up 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 his plan to take over the world, aims his Diaper-Matic 2000 ray gun at George, Harold, and Captain Underpants. Quickly, Captain Underpants shoots a pair of underwear at Dr. Diaper. The underwear covers Dr. Diaper's face. No longer able to defend himself, Dr. Diaper is taken to the police station. George, Harold, and Captain 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, they enjoy the Sing-A-Long video so much that they change their name from the Knuckleheads to the Purple Dragon Sing-A-Long Friends. But from then on, whenever anyone snaps their fingers, Mr. Krupp turns into Captain Underpants. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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