Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
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Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets is a children's book by Dav Pilkey
, the second book in the Captain Underpants
book series.
While sneaking in to sabotage the inventions, they run into Melvin Sneedly, the school brainiac. Melvin is working late on his invention, the PATSY 2000, an acronym of Photo-Atomic Trans-Somgobulating Yectofantriplutoniczanziptomiser, which is a photocopier that turns one-dimensional objects into breathing, three-dimensional objects. To demonstrate, he puts in a photo of a mouse and out comes a real mouse.
George and Harold assume Melvin put the real mouse in earlier, and he's just trying to fool them. They promise not to sabotage Melvin's invention as long as he doesn't report them for what they are doing.
Thanks to George and Harold, the Invention Convention is a disaster. Melvin Sneedly breaks his promise and tattles on George and Harold. As punishment, Mr. Krupp puts George and Harold in detention for the rest of the year, with the threat that they'll be suspended if they leave the detention room. George and Harold get assigned writing lines on the chalkboards in the detention room. But they have built an invention consisting of several wooden poles with holes to stick chalk in to speed up the process. Every time they wrote a sentence, the wooden poles made 12. In 3 and a half minutes, the chalkboards were full so they started to write a comic called "Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets" in which the Amazing Captain Underpants defeats millions of vicious talking toilets and their leader, the Turbo Toilet 2000.
George and Harold sneak out to make copies of their new comic on Melvin's photocopy machine, but unfortunately, Melvin's machine really does turn two-dimensional objects into living three-dimensional objects, so the evil, vicious talking toilets come to life and attack everyone in the school. George and Harold are also caught outside the detention room by Mr. Krupp and are both suspended. Thanks to one of the teachers (Ms. Ribble) snapping her fingers at a toilet, Mr. Krupp turns into Captain Underpants, who comes up with a plan to stop the Talking Toilets. George and Harold chase after him as Captain Underpants takes several pairs of underwear from unsuspecting clotheslines.
Once back at the school, George, Harold and Captain Underpants use the underwear as a sling shot to shoot food in the Talking Toilets' mouths. Since it is disgusting cafeteria food (A.K.A Creamed Chipped Beef), the Talking Toilets die. The Turbo Toilet 2000 bursts out of the school (he was turned to life like all the other Talking Toilets, but was previously unseen). After a quick battle The Turbo Toilet 2000 swallows Captain Underpants whole. George and Harold sneak into the school and use Melvin Sneedly's machine to make a super-powered robot called the Incredible Robo-Plunger, who does whatever they say.
The Incredible Robo-Plunger defeats the Turbo Toilet 2000 and gives the final blow by plunging into the Turbo Toilet 2000's mouth, killing him, giving the boys a chance to save Captain Underpants (who is now turned back to Mr. Krupp, thanks to the water inside the Turbo Toilet 2000). At the boys' command, the Robo-Plunger repairs all the school damage, and takes all the evidence to Uranus with the command never to return. In return for fixing the school, Mr. Krupp withdraws George and Harold's suspension and officially places them as 'principals for the day'. As the principals, they hold an all-day carnival and put the teachers (and Melvin Sneedly) in detention. After telling Mr. Krupp that they sold most of the school's furniture to pay for the carnival and running away for their lives, Ms. Anthrope snaps her fingers, causing Mr. Krupp to become Captain Underpants again.
Dav Pilkey
David "Dav" Pilkey was born on March 4, 1966, is a popular author and illustrator of children's literature. Dav Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He also uses the pen names, George Beard and Harold Hutchins...
, the second book in the Captain Underpants
Captain Underpants
Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey is a series of American children's books about two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, and the aptly named superhero they accidentally create by hypnotizing their principal, Mr. Benny Krupp...
book series.
Plot summary
Jerome Horwitz Elementary School is going to hold its second annual Invention Convention. Students George and Harold are eager to enter, because the winners of the Invention Convention get to be principal for a day. Unfortunately, their Principal Mr Krupp wants to avoid a fiasco like last year's, in which George and Harold used a homemade kind of glue to glue everyone to their seats, and bans George and Harold from the Invention Convention, forcing them to stay in study hall all day. They decide to secretly sabotage everyone's inventions in revenge.While sneaking in to sabotage the inventions, they run into Melvin Sneedly, the school brainiac. Melvin is working late on his invention, the PATSY 2000, an acronym of Photo-Atomic Trans-Somgobulating Yectofantriplutoniczanziptomiser, which is a photocopier that turns one-dimensional objects into breathing, three-dimensional objects. To demonstrate, he puts in a photo of a mouse and out comes a real mouse.
George and Harold assume Melvin put the real mouse in earlier, and he's just trying to fool them. They promise not to sabotage Melvin's invention as long as he doesn't report them for what they are doing.
Thanks to George and Harold, the Invention Convention is a disaster. Melvin Sneedly breaks his promise and tattles on George and Harold. As punishment, Mr. Krupp puts George and Harold in detention for the rest of the year, with the threat that they'll be suspended if they leave the detention room. George and Harold get assigned writing lines on the chalkboards in the detention room. But they have built an invention consisting of several wooden poles with holes to stick chalk in to speed up the process. Every time they wrote a sentence, the wooden poles made 12. In 3 and a half minutes, the chalkboards were full so they started to write a comic called "Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets" in which the Amazing Captain Underpants defeats millions of vicious talking toilets and their leader, the Turbo Toilet 2000.
George and Harold sneak out to make copies of their new comic on Melvin's photocopy machine, but unfortunately, Melvin's machine really does turn two-dimensional objects into living three-dimensional objects, so the evil, vicious talking toilets come to life and attack everyone in the school. George and Harold are also caught outside the detention room by Mr. Krupp and are both suspended. Thanks to one of the teachers (Ms. Ribble) snapping her fingers at a toilet, Mr. Krupp turns into Captain Underpants, who comes up with a plan to stop the Talking Toilets. George and Harold chase after him as Captain Underpants takes several pairs of underwear from unsuspecting clotheslines.
Once back at the school, George, Harold and Captain Underpants use the underwear as a sling shot to shoot food in the Talking Toilets' mouths. Since it is disgusting cafeteria food (A.K.A Creamed Chipped Beef), the Talking Toilets die. The Turbo Toilet 2000 bursts out of the school (he was turned to life like all the other Talking Toilets, but was previously unseen). After a quick battle The Turbo Toilet 2000 swallows Captain Underpants whole. George and Harold sneak into the school and use Melvin Sneedly's machine to make a super-powered robot called the Incredible Robo-Plunger, who does whatever they say.
The Incredible Robo-Plunger defeats the Turbo Toilet 2000 and gives the final blow by plunging into the Turbo Toilet 2000's mouth, killing him, giving the boys a chance to save Captain Underpants (who is now turned back to Mr. Krupp, thanks to the water inside the Turbo Toilet 2000). At the boys' command, the Robo-Plunger repairs all the school damage, and takes all the evidence to Uranus with the command never to return. In return for fixing the school, Mr. Krupp withdraws George and Harold's suspension and officially places them as 'principals for the day'. As the principals, they hold an all-day carnival and put the teachers (and Melvin Sneedly) in detention. After telling Mr. Krupp that they sold most of the school's furniture to pay for the carnival and running away for their lives, Ms. Anthrope snaps her fingers, causing Mr. Krupp to become Captain Underpants again.
Comic: Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
The comic in the book starts with another normal day at school (the cafeteria is serving rat sandwiches for lunch, the principal is mean, and the gym teacher is acting all mean and crazy) until a UFO appears and shoots the school with a ray. This ray causes the toilets to come to life and start eating everyone in the school (including, to nobody's dismay, the gym teacher). Captain Underpants appears and places plungers in the toilets' mouths so they cannot eat anymore. The Turbo Toilet 2000 (T.T.2000) appears and a fight begins. Captain Underpants wins by giving the T.T.2000 a wedgie and placing it on a stop sign. The T.T.2000 is aimed and fired at the UFO, causing both to explode. Everything goes back to normal as the comic ends (even the gym teacher returns).Characters
Characters who first appear in this book are:- Melvin Sneedly
- Ms. Anthrope
- Madison Mancini
- Donny Shoemyer
- Freddie Moore
- The Talking Toilets
- The Turbo Toilet 2000
- The Incredible Robo-Plunger