![]() ![]() Krupp, but their trick ends up backfiring on them! “The Adventures of Captain Underpants” is absolutely one of the funniest books ever created!!! Here comes that valiant hero, CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS! “The Adventures of Captain Underpants” is a popular children’s book from the creative mind of Dav Pilkey and it is about the hilarious adventures of George and Harold as they try to trick their strict principal Mr. So, yes, the books influenced us to talk more potty talk, but it also influenced my son to start making his own comic books. ![]() I giggled at the immature humor, because I am. It was not a pain to read these to my son. (HAHAHAH! I said UNDERPANTS!!!) Oh yes, Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy, Part 1: The Night of the Nasty Nostril Nuggets we have read them all. We started with this and read the entire Underpants series. The boys in the book make comic books that involve their principal, aka CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!! The boys do other things that are, well, pretty typical boy things. Yes, people DO think that because people are dumb. But do people really think that kids will read this and be influenced to become "rebels" like George and Harold, the main characters in these books? I can totally understand that some people can NOT handle potty humor. I heard these Captain Underpants (HAHAHAH! UNDERPANTS!) books have been banned in places.įoolishness. Also contains humor adults will find funny. Tl dr - Not as bad as you are anticipating. So it's not all poop jokes and diaper jokes, is what I'm saying. Please don't commit any crimes 'till we return. Or when a sign on the police station reads: This is funny because his mother is reading the "Tabloid Times" with a headline of "Bigfoot Gives Birth to a 200 Pound UFO Baby." "How do you expect me to believe such a ridiculous story?" asked his mother. "Mommy," said a little boy sitting on a bench, "I just saw two robots driving a van with a guy in his underwear hanging off the back by a red cape, pulling two boys on a skateboard behind him with his feet." Other scenes play out to both kid and adult humor, like when Jerome Horwitz is the man who played Curly in the Three Stooges. They use the ring to hypnotize Krupp into believing he's Captain Underpants, and the rest is history.Īlthough this book is aimed at young children, there is some great humor in it for any adults who may be called upon to read it aloud.įor instance, the boys attend Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. The boys, chaffing under this treatment, decide to hypnotize Krupp using a mail-order hypno-ring. For instance, when he gets proof of the boys' misdeeds on tape, he blackmails them into becoming his personal slaves - making them wash his car, clip his fingernails and paint his house. He is not merely a put-upon principal struggling to control two misbehaving boys, but he is genuinely a bad person. Krupp, the school principal and is the boys' enemy. Harold and George are a couple of Ohioan pranksters who write, illustrate, distribute and sell homemade comic books called "The Amazing Captain Underpants" about a superhero in his skivvies who fights crime and monsters. However, much like Goosebumps, I cannot help but have a lot of gratitude for a series which got so many kids reading. I am not the target audience for this book. ![]() Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible. ![]() George and Harold were usually responsible kids. ![]()
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