Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Re-Turn of Tippy Tinkletrousers
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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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August 28, 2012 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 304 |
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| Preceded by | Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People |
| Followed by | Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers |
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Re-Turn of Tippy Tinkletrousers is a 2012 American children's novel and the ninth book in the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey. It was published on August 28, 2012, six years after the publication of the previous book. Tippy Tinkletrousers is actually Professor Poopypants, as revealed in the previous book. This book explains how Tippy Tinkletrousers arrived at the end of the eighth book, as well as a prequel story of George and Harold in kindergarten explaining how their friendship began and setting the page for their life before Captain Underpants.
The story continues where the previous book left off, with George and Harold running away from Tippy Tinkletrousers. As they are running away, the book reveals that Tippy actually came from the future and disrupted the timeline. The story then explains what really happened (before Tippy disrupted the timeline) and George and Harold are arrested for the crimes that their alternate versions did, and the two (as well as Mr. Krupp) are imprisoned. Meanwhile, at the Piqua State Penitentiary, Tippy (who was a prisoner since the fourth book) is asked to build a statue of Warden Gordon Bordon Schmorden, who is chief jailer of the prison. Tippy does the task but instead builds a giant robot suit. On the day Tippy presents his robot suit to Warden Schmorden, he reveals his work (the same suit used at the very end of the eighth book but with an upper half), climbs into the suit and freezes everyone in his way. Tippy then takes Mr. Krupp and orders him to find George and Harold, wanting information about Captain Underpants. Tippy soon finds George and Harold and puts Mr. Krupp down. George and Harold snap their fingers which makes Mr. Krupp turn into Captain Underpants. Tippy chases Captain Underpants, unsuccessfully trying to freeze him. Soon, he accidentally freezes his robotic legs to the school's football field. Captain Underpants breaks off the top half of Tippy's robot and Tippy escapes by going back in time to five years ago.
The story rewinds to five years, eleven days, fourteen hours and six minutes ago, the day before George and Harold met. George has recently moved to Piqua, Ohio from Michigan into the house next door to Harold, and Harold is shy at school. Harold has a hard school life because of Kipper Krupp, Mr. Krupp's sixth grade nephew who abuses his uncle's authority to terrorize students. On George's first day of school, his mother makes him wear a tie to make a good impression. On his way to school, he notices Harold being attacked by Kipper and his group, with the owner of a gas station egging them on. George changes the owner's sign from "Free Brake Inspection" to "Free Bra Inspection", resulting in a group of offended women to attack the owner. George then saves Harold by whipping the bullies with his tie in "Indiana Jones" style, and the two become best friends. Mr. Krupp arrives and sends the two to detention for "bullying Kipper". To pass time, the two make their first comic book: The Adventures of Dog Man.
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