Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People
First edition cover
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| Author | Dav Pilkey |
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| Illustrator | Dav Pilkey |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Captain Underpants series |
| Genre | Children's novel, comic science fiction |
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Blue Sky (US), Scholastic (US) |
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Publication date
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August 15, 2006 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 176 |
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| Preceded by | Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy |
| Followed by | Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Re-Turn 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. It was published on August 15, 2006, two years and eleven months after the previous book.
From book #7, George, Harold, Sulu, and Crackers try to use the Time Machine but not following Melvin's warning (Don't use the time machine 2 days in a row) they end up in an alternate universe where the whole world is the opposite of their normal world. For example, Melvin Sneedly is struggling to comprehend a simple children's book, Mr. Krupp is nice and has a sense of humor, the villains from the last 7 books are good instead of evil (ex: the Turbo Toilet 2000 is a crossing guard, Zorx, Klax, Jennifer, and Professor Poopypants (also known as Tippy Tinkletrousers) are fire fighters, Frankenbooger and Trixie are construction works, Carl is a mailman, and Dr. Diaper is a police officer.) and the school is overall a welcoming place for students to learn and have fun. There they also meet an evil, alternate version of Captain Underpants, Captain Blunderpants and evil versions of George and Harold (George and Harold's evil counterparts or twins) 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, (This is explained in the tenth book, as Crackers is revealed to be female and as said in Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman that if you hypnotize a woman it will do the opposite of what you're asking it).
The heroes finally get back to the normal dimension of the world, but end up bringing the Mr. Krupp of the alternate universe (known as nice Mr. Krupp), Sulu (now known as "Evil Sulu"), and the evil George and Harold with them. The evil George and Harold transform nice Mr. Krupp into Captain Blunderpants by getting water on his head. Intending to rescue Sulu, George and Harold try to leave with their super power juice (from the third book) but due to it being Grandparents Day, they have to eat dinner with their grandparents at George's house, delaying them. While there, the evil George and Harold find George and Harold's tree 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 discover that it is empty. They fly to the real Mr. Krupp's house and immediately turn him into Captain Underpants, who defeats the "Giant-Evil Sulu". Captain Blunderpants is transformed back into the nice Mr. Krupp by the snap of a finger, and Captain Underpants ties them up. When Harold states that nothing 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 real Mr. Krupp, who storms off to his home.
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