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Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People (Captain Underpants #8)
by
Dav Pilkey
Dav Pilkey's eighth epic novel promises evil, horror, and "laffs," and delivers on all three. In this rowdy episode, George and Harold take a wrong turn somewhere and wind up in a surrealistic alternate reality where everything defies expectation. As they try to adjust to a realm where teachers are nice and cafeteria food is good, our heroes encounter evil versions of them...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by Scholastic Inc.
(first published August 15th 2006)
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Okay, Captain Underpants fans - another fun one and we're back to the potty humor! I love the TRUE introduction about "those wacky grown ups" and how they "spend the first two years of their children's lives trying to make them walk and talk...and the next sixteen years trying to get them to sit down and shut up." Pilkey also reverts back to fantastic potty humor with a look at potty training and how paretns are all down with poo the first few years of life, cheering their kids on everytime they...more
Feb 26, 2012
Dolly
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
children starting to read graphic novels
This is another hilarious book in the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey. Our girls really like these books and insist on reading them independently (so I don't have the excuse that I read the book with them, but I enjoyed reading it, too!) The humor is quite juvenile and the storyline is very predictable, but we all really liked it. Our girls especially like the Flip-O-Rama pages and often argue over who gets to read the book first.
All in all, I find these stories to be very entertaining...more
All in all, I find these stories to be very entertaining...more
Self-proclaimed "cool kids" Harold and George, hypnotize their mean Principal, Mr. Krupp, and convince him he has an alter-ego as Captain Underpants! In this eighth adventure, author Dave Pilkey has the Purple Potty time machine malfunction and George and Harold must face their own mean alter-egos, mean George and Mean Harold, who kidnap their treasured pets: Crackers and Sulu. Mass craziness ensues.
The most redeeming aspect of the book comes at the opening of chapter 2 in an explanation of grow...more
The most redeeming aspect of the book comes at the opening of chapter 2 in an explanation of grow...more
This book is very basic and babyish so I would avoid reading this American trash!The story line is very stupid and unrealistic:
Two dudes called George and Harold make a stupid comic book about their 'story' so far while travelling in a so called toilet time machine with their bionic hamster and a pterodactyl(Erm...Hello!)
they meet their evil clones and get into a big pointless fight with their enemies.
Then Captain(wets his pants)goes off in a mardy and doesn't save the day
and then some old grann...more
Two dudes called George and Harold make a stupid comic book about their 'story' so far while travelling in a so called toilet time machine with their bionic hamster and a pterodactyl(Erm...Hello!)
they meet their evil clones and get into a big pointless fight with their enemies.
Then Captain(wets his pants)goes off in a mardy and doesn't save the day
and then some old grann...more
this book that im reading write now is very good its getting better and better while im reading it. the book is about harold and george discover a invection and were there school is at the teachers are very mean.im finish the book now at the end there grandparents help them try and kill the principle from the other world and i think that other people should read the book because its very intersceting. im going to try and get another captain underpants book . they boys from the other world was me...more
Mar 19, 2010
Indah Threez Lestari
rated it
3 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Aku kira seri Kapten Kolor sudah berakhir di buku tujuh, tapi ternyata salah, cerita yang menggantung di buku tujuh ternyata bersambung ke sini. Hm... baguslah, tidak penasaran karena nasib George dan Harold yang tidak jelas.
Tapi ternyata... di akhir buku ini tamatnya dibuat menggantung lagi, dengan muncul kembalinya musuh lama, Profesor Puppi P. Pupipet, yang nama terakhirnya kini jadi Tippy Tinkletrousers (yang enah kenapa tidak diterjemahkan, susah cari padanan yang pas barangkali).
Mungkin Da...more
Tapi ternyata... di akhir buku ini tamatnya dibuat menggantung lagi, dengan muncul kembalinya musuh lama, Profesor Puppi P. Pupipet, yang nama terakhirnya kini jadi Tippy Tinkletrousers (yang enah kenapa tidak diterjemahkan, susah cari padanan yang pas barangkali).
Mungkin Da...more
THE BEST CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS BOOK YET.george and herold use thier time machine but something bad happens theey teloported into a world where the teacher's are nice and no villians in sigth and mr.krupp is nice but they met mean and evil clones of themselves and that Mr.krupp ends up to be the WORST villian yet he is CAPTAIN BLUNDERPANTS.the evil george and herold stolen sulu and crackers and sulu turn into a big monster will the real captain underpants save the world and will george and his best...more
started june 8 ended june 15
Pilkey,Dav (pp 175)Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the purple potty people (Scholastic inc.) New york
Not again? What have they gotten themselves into. This looks like a job captainunderpants cant do alone this time. DAHDAHDAHDAAAAHHHHH now its time for george,harold,sulu and crackers to join in some action. Its time to show you guys this fun filled journey to another dimension. Its going to be good.
One day this brainiac Melvin showed up and made a ti...more
Pilkey,Dav (pp 175)Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the purple potty people (Scholastic inc.) New york
Not again? What have they gotten themselves into. This looks like a job captainunderpants cant do alone this time. DAHDAHDAHDAAAAHHHHH now its time for george,harold,sulu and crackers to join in some action. Its time to show you guys this fun filled journey to another dimension. Its going to be good.
One day this brainiac Melvin showed up and made a ti...more
I decided to read this book because it interested me while i was about 7, but now i decided to show that this book rewards a good rate, so ill give this book a rating of (4).
I thought that one of my main character( captain underpants ) is great because he only uses the force of the wegie power and only uses it for the forse of evil! and thats why i recommend this book a great one.
While i was 7 i thought that captain underpants was the man so that's why i like him....
ty Mani
I thought that one of my main character( captain underpants ) is great because he only uses the force of the wegie power and only uses it for the forse of evil! and thats why i recommend this book a great one.
While i was 7 i thought that captain underpants was the man so that's why i like him....
ty Mani
Probably the best of all the Captain Underpants books. If you think that one Captain Underpants is better than two, YOU'RE WRONG, bub! Two waistband warriors are WAY better than one, and we'll have a whole story of examples to show you! Clever writing, darkly humorous action, and plenty of laughs along the way, this book will appeal to all who love good and evil heroes flying in underwear, gigantic monstrous hamsters, and tomfoolery-terminating grandparents in their underwear.
The boys had alot of trouble in this book. They had their own little twins to deal with and they had evil boss and invaders trying to take over the planeted. It was very interesting books to read. Like I always say, I am in love with the Flip a Roma. It is a fast easy read and for me it takes me baby an hour or 45min to finish it. If I read straight through with no intruptions. Lol. So I love it.....can't wait to read more Pikey books.
My review for this book is that George Beard and Harold Hutchins made their principal a superhero named Captain Underpants. Then, they traveled into a different time zone where as the evil Harold and the evil George made their same principal an supervillain named Captain Blunderpants. Next, at the end Harold and George made their grandparents superheroes to fight off Captain Blunderpants and they won.
Why I decided to read this book:
I decided to read this book because it reminded me of when I was younger and how much fun books seemed.
Which category on the bingo board this book completes:
On the bingo board this completes the "A book written by a male" category.
What I like about this book and why:
I liked the simplicity of this book and the flip-o-rama part because it let me put my own spin on the book and it got me involved.
What I didn't like about this book and why:
There wasn't much i didn't...more
I decided to read this book because it reminded me of when I was younger and how much fun books seemed.
Which category on the bingo board this book completes:
On the bingo board this completes the "A book written by a male" category.
What I like about this book and why:
I liked the simplicity of this book and the flip-o-rama part because it let me put my own spin on the book and it got me involved.
What I didn't like about this book and why:
There wasn't much i didn't...more
In this chapter joerge and his friend made a future machine but they do something bad that it change the pass, the director was so good and joerge and his friend had so bad behaviour so they transform capitan underpants bad. so they try to go again to the futured. capitan underpants need to fight with the bad capitan under pants to save the world.
Took a few days too start this one (Had other books that were due first). Anyway, this book is just as good and hilarious as the ones before it. I think that it leaves things open ended to add more to the story if the author so chooses as well. If you've wanted to ever give this series a try it's well worth all the laughs! Give it a read!
This was a very enjoyable book. Part of the book are like a comic book, which is really fun to read. I think that children would love this book. It has a lot of humor in it. The illustrations in the book really relate to children too, because it it made to look like the child in the book drew it.
This is the last book opf the collection and is about that their are two harolds two Jorges and two Captain Underpants but the clones (boyus) are bad and captain underpants good and in the "real"world is viseversa so is very funny and confussing read it !!
One of my students turned me on to these books. They are obviously a quick read but funny for kids and adults and even a `wink` to adult humor here and there. Under an hour to read (I really wasn't timing it) I found it worth my time.
I love Captain Underpants books! They're always so funny and adventurous. Man, these book bring back old memories from grade 1 when I first started to read them. These books were awesome! I can't belive people are ashamed to love this.
this is the funnyest book yet of captain underpants becase they go to a time whar every thing is opasite thar like if the gym teacher was mean he wold be nice.
Completely silly. I was only going to give it 3 stars but then the author kept doing clever fourth wall-type things. I wouldn't be surprised if the author grew up listening to the Goon show and watching Monty Python.
I have to say that while on the front it advertises "Evil," "Horror," and "Laffs," the only actual "horror" I saw was the description of two people in their eighties sloppily kissing each other. Weirdly, one of the other books advertises "Romance! Just kidding!" on the cover, yet this one mentions nothing and it does sort of have romance! Besides that, the hypnotized evil bionic hamster, the description of how adults are bonkers, and the pretend violence that you animate yourself by flipping the...more
Jun 19, 2010
Liz
marked it as andrew-and-ben
Ben bought this today (with his own money) and demolished it. Very significant that he bought it with his own money, because he's been saving for years to buy a two-storey house. He's 10.
My three sons have all loved reading these Captain Underpants books. Even my husband laughed when he read the to the kids. I remember my grandmother Barbara, who used to be a school teacher, complaining about these 'disgusting books for kids'. I gave my kids that look that communicates "Say NOTHING!" I'm sure it's completely unacceptable for many of her generation & I respect her feelings.
What can I say? We appreciate potty humor at our house. These books made my boys laugh & want to rea...more
What can I say? We appreciate potty humor at our house. These books made my boys laugh & want to rea...more
this book reminds me of a different book that i read except the other one was a little bit wierder and i know what your thinking...how is that possible!- danyel
This book was awesome because this book is about 2 guys and then there is this principal that if you snap your fingers then he will turn into CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!!!
I like this book because there is a lot of people switching brains and time traveling in this book and they go to a weird world where every thing is opiset.
I do not like the adult humor that is used throughout these books. Yes, kids will be interested and think they are funny, but I do not find them appropriate.
Okay, so these are very irreverant but dang they are funny. If you are having trouble getting a typical stinky boy to read this just might do the trick.
As you could see i like funny books. It is a crazy but hilarious book. If you read Captain Underpants your going to be addicted.
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David "Dav" Pilkey (b. March 4, 1966), is a popular children's author and artist. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife, Sayuri.
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“It's been said that adults spend the first two years of their children's lives trying to make them walk and talk, and the next sixteen years trying to get them to sit down and shut up.
It's the same way with potty training: Most adults spend the first few years of a child's life cheerfully discussing pee and poopies, and how important it is to learn to put your pee-pee and poo-poo in the potty like big people do.
But once children have mastered the art of toilet training, they are immeadiately forbidden to ever talk about poop, pee, toilets and other bathroom-related subjects again. Such things are now considered rude and vulgar, and are no longer rewarded with praise and cookies and juice boxes.
One day you're a superstar because you pooped in the toilet like a big boy, and the next day you're sitting in the principal's office because you said the word "poopy" in American History class (which, if you ask me, is the perfect place to say that word).”
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It's the same way with potty training: Most adults spend the first few years of a child's life cheerfully discussing pee and poopies, and how important it is to learn to put your pee-pee and poo-poo in the potty like big people do.
But once children have mastered the art of toilet training, they are immeadiately forbidden to ever talk about poop, pee, toilets and other bathroom-related subjects again. Such things are now considered rude and vulgar, and are no longer rewarded with praise and cookies and juice boxes.
One day you're a superstar because you pooped in the toilet like a big boy, and the next day you're sitting in the principal's office because you said the word "poopy" in American History class (which, if you ask me, is the perfect place to say that word).”
“Gee, that worked out pretty good," said Harold. "...I guess everything worked out perfectly!"
"Yeah, nice going," said George, looking a bit annoyed. "Why do you have to say things like that?"
"Things like what?" asked Harold.
"Haven't you been paying attention in these stories?" asked George. "Every time somebody says something like that, it always means that a buncha bad stuff is just about to happen."
"But what could possibly go wrong now?" asked Harold.
"FREEZE!" shouted the Chief of Police. "You guys are under arrest!”
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"Yeah, nice going," said George, looking a bit annoyed. "Why do you have to say things like that?"
"Things like what?" asked Harold.
"Haven't you been paying attention in these stories?" asked George. "Every time somebody says something like that, it always means that a buncha bad stuff is just about to happen."
"But what could possibly go wrong now?" asked Harold.
"FREEZE!" shouted the Chief of Police. "You guys are under arrest!”
Feb 21, 2010 06:03pm