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| Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People | |
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 First edition cover |
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| Author | Dav Pilkey |
| Illustrator | Dav Pilkey |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Captain Underpants series |
| Genre(s) | Children's novel |
| Publisher | Blue Sky (US), Scholastic (US) |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Preceded by | Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy |
| Followed by | Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers |
Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People is the eighth book in the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey.
Plot summary
Continuing from the last book, George, Harold, Sulu and Crackers end up in an alternate universe where the whole world is the opposite of their normal world. Good is bad, smart is not at all intelligent, and heroes are villains. For example, Melvin Sneedly is struggling to comprehend a simple children's book and Mr. Krupp is nice and has a sense of humor. There they meet Captain Underpants's evil twin, Captain Blunderpants (Mr. Krupp's super-villain identity) and evil versions George and Harold (George and Harold's evil counterparts) Sulu and Crackers are kidnapped by George and Harold's evil counterparts and are hypnotized to be evil. Sulu becomes evil and attacks the good George and Harold but Crackers on the other hand, saves them (Briefly because Crackers might be a female and hypnosis does the opposite on females).
The heroes finally get back to the normal dimension of the world, but end up bringing the Mr. Krupp of the alternate universe, Sulu, and the evil George and Harold with them. The evil George and Harold transform their Mr. Krupp into Captain Blunderpants by getting water on his head. It is Grandparents Day and George and Harold have to eat dinner with their grandparents at George's house. While there, the evil George and Harold find George and Harold's house, rummage through their personal belongings and find the "Goosy-Grow 4000" and transform Sulu into a giant monster. George and Harold fly over on Crackers' back, and decide that they have to drink the super power juice, but unfortunately, it is empty. They find Captain Underpants who defeats the "Giant-Evil Sulu". Captain Blunderpants is transformed back into the nice Mr. Krupp by the snap of the finger, and Captain Underpants ties them up, but when Harold states that nothing can go wrong, the worst thing is that something can go wrong, this causes a rain storm to turn the nice Mr. Krupp back into Captain Blunderpants and Captain Underpants is turned back into the mean Mr. Krupp and goes home.
Great Granny Girdle and Boxer Boy (George's great-grandmother and Harold's grandfather) are made super-heroes when they drink the super power juice and they defeat Captain Blunderpants. Sulu is shrunk and turned good again and Captain Blunderpants and the Evil George and Harold (now shrunken and are taken back to their world).
Harold once again states that nothing can go wrong, but this causes police men to arrest them because they think they are the evil George and Harold, who robbed a bank while Captain Underpants was fighting Sulu. Harold again states that things cannot get any worse because they are going to jail for the rest of their lives. This time, however, Tippy Tinkletrousers (Professor Poopypants who changed his name at the end of the fourth book) comes and chases George and Harold. The book ends, once again, with George yelling "Oh no!" and Harold yelling "Here we go again!"
Differences between the two universes
| Normal Universe | Alternate Universe |
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| There is only one book in the library, and the librarian, Ms. Singerbrains, thought she was fired (since she did not understand what Melvin, who switched bodies with Mr. Krupp, said in book 7). | The library is full of books and the librarian is Ms. Singerbrains. |
| All the teachers except Ms. Ribble and Mr. Fyde (Mr. Fyde is retired) are mean. | All the teachers (possibly except Ms. Ribble and Mr. Fyde) are nice. |
| Melvin is clever. | Melvin has no intelligence. |
| The school emphasizes knowledge and penalizes imagination. | The school emphasizes imagination and penalizes knowledge. |
| Harold wears a T-shirt and George wears a collared shirt and tie. | George wears a T-shirt and Harold wears a collared shirt and tie. |
| George and Harold are good-natured and innocent. | George and Harold are evil, and also intelligent. |
| The cafeteria smells dirty, greasy, and moldy (i.e. cafeteria food). | The cafeteria smells good. |
| Mr. Meaner is mean, fat, and coaches the Purple Dragon Sing-A-Long Friends. | Mr. Meaner is nice, fit, and coaches the Knuckleheads. |
| George and Harold's past enemies are evil. | George and Harold's past enemies are good. |
| While working on the comics, George does the writing and Harold does the illustrating. | While working on the comics, George does the illustrating and Harold does the writing (which is possibly why the drawings are more accurate and the words are spelled right and are written better, unlike the regular George and Harold.). It also seems to spoof the comic stylings of the comic strip Dilbert |
| George's writing is everywhere and sometimes crossed out and misspelled (to be fair, though, they are only about 10 years old). | Harold's writing is aligned and spelled correctly (ironically, the original George and Harold consider their counterpart's work terrible to their own). |
| Harold's artwork is slightly sketchy. | George's artwork is perfect and accurate. |
| The underwear hero created by George and Harold is Captain Underpants. | The underwear villain created by George and Harold is Captain Blunderpants. |
| Mr. Krupp turns into Captain Underpants by the snap of someones fingers. | Mr. Krupp turns into Captain Blunderpants by pouring water on his head. |
| Captain Underpants turns back into Mr. Krupp by pouring water on his head. | Captain Blunderpants turns back into Mr. Krupp by the snap of a finger. |
| Captain Underpants' war cry is "Tra-La-Laaaaa!" | Captain Blunderpants' war cry is "La-La-Traaaaa!" |
| Mr. Krupp is mean and wears a toupee | Mr. Krupp is nice and is bald. |
| Captain Underpants is nice and is bald. | Captain Blunderpants is mean and wears a toupee. |
| At the end of George and Harold's comic, they show a picture of a treehouse with the words saying: "Treehouse Comix Inc." | At the end of George and Harold's comic, they show a picture of a treehouse, with the words: "Evil Tree House Comics, LLC." |
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