Hey friendly friends!
So I used to be a really avid reader, but I will admit that over the years, I kind of
fell out of it and that’s where comic books have kind of help pave the way for me being
literary again, but one of my favorite books growing up was Captain Underpants and since
people are freaking out about the new movie, I figured this would be the perfect time to
talk about one of my favorite heroes of all time!
So let’s go over his origin and history!
Captain Underpants is the creation of Harold Hutchins and George Beard, the elementary
school duo who made their own comic books as Tree House Comix, Inc. out of a tree house
in George’s backyard.
One day when joking around, George noted that many superheroes look like they’re flying
around in their underwear.
So he came up with a character that LITERALLY flew around in his underwear.
Meet Captain Underpants.
He’s faster than a speeding waistband, more powerful than boxer shorts, and able to leap
tall buildings without getting a wedgie.
There’s one small thing though.
That’s Captain Underpants the comic book character and he’s not the focus of this
video.
Instead, there’s a very real Captain Underpants in the world of Harold and George and it’s
THIS character who is one of the main protagonists of the Captain Underpants series of kids books.
Let me explain.
This is Mr. Krupp, the principle of George and Harold’s school.
This guy is a grade A jerk and he absolutely HATES children.
Kind of makes you wonder how he got a job as a principle in the first place.
Anyway, outside of making comics, the two boys were notorious pranksters.
Mr. Krupp had enough of this and installed security cameras all over the school.
With a stroke of luck, the principle managed to catch the boys in the act.
With a copy of the VHS tape in hand, Mr. Krupp blackmailed George and Harold into following
a strict guideline of rules and chores.
Because you know, that’s exactly how you should run a school.
The plump principle treated the kids like servants until they were fed up and purchased
a 3D Hypno-Ring out of a newspaper in hopes of hypnotizing Mr. Krupp into handing over
the tape.
Well this actually ended up working and to further add insult to injury, Harold and George
also made their principle believe that he was their favorite creation, Captain Underpants.
This was all fine and dandy until the good captain dashed out the window, looking for
crime to fight.
He didn’t exactly fight crime per-se, but rather made a couple of criminals laugh so
hard that the police were able to catch up with them and perform the arrest.
The police instantly wanted to arrest Captain Underpants as well for what I’m assuming
is a combination of indecent exposure and vigilantism, but Harold and George manage
to scoop him up and flee the scene because as we all know, skateboards were faster than
police cars in the 90s.
Almost immediately, the three of them run into… robots robbing a jewelry store and
stumble across their creator, Dr. Diaper, who captured Captain Underpants!
George managed to distract Dr. Diaper by making it look like he somehow pooped outside of
his diaper and the kids fought off the robots using the power of FLIP-E-RAMA sometimes also
known as Flip-O-Rama!
They saved the day and the boys tried to get Captain Underpants to turn into Mr. Krupp.
The only problem though is that the captain didn’t know who that was.
Thankfully, a bit of water was enough to revert Captain Underpants to his old crabby ways,
but little did the kids know that when pouring water onto hypnotized victims, the subject
will slip in and out of the trance whenever they hear the sound of someone snapping their
fingers.
From there, Captain Underpants fought such foes as evil toilets that Harold and George
accidentally brought to life using a super photocopier and alien lunch ladies as well
as their army of zombie nerds.
During the latter fight however, the dynamic trio had to fight a giant and evil dandelion
so the kids forced some of the alien’s Extra-Strength Super Power Juice down Captain Underpants’
throat which officially gave him flight and super strength.
With these newfound powers, Captain Underpants battled the nefarious Professor Pippy Pee-Pee
Poopypants, the teacher Mrs. Ribble who turned into the villainous Wedgie Woman and her robot
George and Harold doppelgangers.
And honestly, that’s all the information that you really need.
Now I will admit that I only covered the volumes of this series ad there ended up being twelve
of them.
Like seriously, they kept printing these way after I stopped being a kid and was into them
and this most recent one, “Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot”.
This came out in 2015!
Like I had no idea, but unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of people uploading high quality
scans of children’s books and there aren’t any e-books that I can really just take images
from so that’s where we’re going to have to stop.
If you really want to know what happened, it’s really just the same formula of wash,
rinse, repeat.
There’s a bad guy, Captain Underpants has to save them, that’s about it.
There’s some time travel that goes on and in fact, in this most recent one they time
travel to the future and it’s revealed that Harold is gay.
Which is really neat and it definitely means that Harold is the first LGBT character that
is confirmed in Dreamworks movies.
So hey, that’s a really cool fun tidbit!
Really, Harold and George have a lot more of a character than Mr. Krupp and Captain
Underpants have at all, but people want to hear about Captain Underpants, not about the
kids, but yeah.
April Fools, obviously!
This isn’t my main content.
I don’t normally sit around and talk about children’s books, but I figured this would
be a good time to do it.
He’s technically a hero and he’s in a book and there’s comic books involved so
yeah.
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down there or maybe watch another video.
In fact, last year’s April Fool’s Day video on the Crimson Chin was one of my favorite
videos I’ve ever made here on the channel so maybe give that a watch if you’re into
this silly crazy randomness of old school nostalgia.
Anyway, hopefully I’ll see you next time.