Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000
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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 |
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Blue Sky (US), Scholastic (US) |
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Publication date
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August 26, 2014 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 224 |
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| Preceded by | Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers |
| Followed by | Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot |
Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000 is a novel by Dav Pilkey and the eleventh (and penultimate) book in the Captain Underpants series. It was published on August 26, 2014, and features the second and final speaking appearance of the Turbo Toilet 2000, as well as the first appearances of George and Harold's, day-older duplicates born through time travel, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, as well as the four's new pets and Crackers and Sulu's offspring, Dawn, Orlando, and Tony, who are hybrids between a bionic hamster and a pterodactyl, and the term 'hamsterdactyl' is coined towards the end of the book to describe their species.
The kickball that one of Wedgie Woman's robots kicked into outer space back in book #5, is heading for Uranus. It finally hits the planet where the Robo-Plunger and the Talking Toilets are, knocking the Robo-Plunger's head off with a mighty blow and making the robot juice leak out into the Turbo Toilet 2000's mouth. The giant commode comes to life and decides to retaliate so he can avenge his fallen allies. He builds a rocket scooter from the parts of the Incredible Robo-Plunger and flies back to Earth. In the original universe, the huge ensuing destruction disrupts one of Melvin's experiments, which causes Melvin to yell at him to be quiet. Angered, the Turbo Toilet 2000 chases Melvin all the way over to the school, where Melvin finds one of Mr. Krupp's recently clipped-off toenails from the day before. He gets the idea of extracting it into DNA and transferring Mr. Krupp (Captain Underpants)'s superpowers to himself. He ends up doing so and defeating the Turbo Toilet 2000, once again becoming 'Big Melvin'. Before long, Big Melvin is flying around town and fighting crime as a superhero. But soon, people start calling him and interrupting his science experiments for trivial and unimportant things such as losing their cellphones or for advice if certain pants make people look fat. After one year, Melvin finally has had enough, and decides to locate his bionic hamster Sulu in order to give George and Harold the responsibility of defeating the Turbo Toilet 2000. He finds Sulu's signal in the future and uses the Robo-Squid suit to travel to George and Harold.
After returning Captain Underpants to his home and turning him back into Mr. Krupp again, the exhausted George and Harold return home and try to nap. However, as a result of their escape from Tippy Tinkletrousers in book #10, they end up missing a full day of school, so they are punished by their parents and forced to do five hours of yard work. Although both of them are exhausted, George realizes that they have a full day of testing the next day, and they are forced to stay up all night to study. In the morning, both of them fall asleep in their tree house, causing them to miss their tests and get zeros on all their big tests. While George barely manages to get a passing final grade, Harold's grade is failing, and much to the glee of the teachers, he must repeat the fourth grade, which means that it will separate the two boys in school.
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