Appearances

Featured characters:

George Beard (First appearance)

Harold Hutchins (First appearance)

Supporting characters:

Jerome Horwitz Elementary School (First appearance)

Coach Kenny Meaner (First appearance)

Ms. Tara Ribble (First appearance)

Captain Underpants (Principal (Mr.) Benjamin "Benny" Krupp) (First appearance)

Antagonists:

Dr. Diaper (First appearance)

Dr. Diaper's Robots (First appearance)

Other characters:

George and Harold's parents (Mentioned)

Captain Underpants (Comic)

Inedible Hunk (Comic)

Incredible Hulk (Dr. Bruce Banner) (Referenced)

Superman / Clark Kent (Kal-El) (Referenced)

Races and species:

Humans (homo sapiens) (First appearance)

Artificial intelligence (First appearance)

Locations:

Earth (First appearance)

North America (First appearance)

United States of America (First appearance)

Ohio (First appearance)

Piqua (First appearance)

Jerome Horwitz Elementary School (First appearance)

Football Field (First appearance)

Principal's Office (First appearance)

Mr. Krupp's House (First appearance)

George and Harold's Treehouse (First appearance)

Dr. Diaper's Factory (First appearance)

Items:

George and Harold's comics (First appearance)

Captain Underpants' cape (First appearance)

Vehicles:

Plot

George Beard and Harold Hutchins are fourth-grade pranksters who attend Jerome Horwitz Elementary School in Piqua, Ohio. They are known for making homemade comic books for 50 cents each featuring Captain Underpants, a superhero of their own creation. When George and Harold sabotage the school's football game with a slew of practical jokes, their surly principal, Mr. Krupp, captures video footage of the boys arranging their pranks and threatens to give it to the football team unless they comply with a list of rules he gives them. The boys are forced to behave well at school and do extra homework and chores for Krupp.

To escape this punishment, George orders a "3-D Hypno-Ring" from the Li'l Wiseguy Novelty Company. The boys use the ring to hypnotize Krupp, and Harold replaces Krupp's video evidence with one of his little sister's "Boomer the Purple Dragon" sing-along videos. When George jokingly orders Krupp to behave like Captain Underpants, Krupp dresses as the Captain and leaves to fight crime, and the boys follow him. They soon find "Captain Underpants" confronting two bank robbers and try to carry him away.

The three witness two robots stealing a large crystal from a shop and follow them to an abandoned warehouse. There, Captain Underpants is tied up by the evil Dr. Diaper, who plans to destroy the Moon with his crystal-powered Laser-Matic 2000. George slingshots fake dog feces between Dr. Diaper's feet, and Dr. Diaper, believing the feces to be his, goes to change himself. George and Harold destroy the robots and free Captain Underpants. Harold pulls the machine's self-destruct lever just as Dr. Diaper returns and aims his ray gun at them. After Captain Underpants subdues Dr. Diaper, he and the boys escape, leaving Dr. Diaper tied up for the police to apprehend.

Back at school, Captain Underpants redresses as Krupp so the boys can dehypnotize him, but they have lost the ring's manual. George desperately dumps a vase of water on Captain Underpants's head, reverting him to Krupp, and Krupp leaves to give Harold's videotape to the football team. George finds the manual and discards it, failing to notice a warning that drenching a hypnotized person will cause them to return to their trance with the sound of fingers snapping. The football team changes their name to the Purple Dragon Sing-A-Long-Friends after watching the videotape, though the change doesn't go very well with the fans. George and Harold return to their old ways but quickly realize they must keep Mr. Krupp from hearing fingers snapping, which turns him back into Captain Underpants.

Characters

George Beard: Harold's best friend and a prankster who writes the stories.

Harold Hutchins: George's best friend and a prankster who draws the illustrations of the stories.

Coach Kenny Meaner: The PE coach and the coach of the elementary school football team.

Ms. Tara Ribble: The boys' homeroom teacher, who is angry and disgruntled often.

Principal Benjamin "Benny" Krupp / Captain Underpants: The mean-spirited principal of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School, who dislikes fun and humor who the boys unintentionally hypnotize into the superhero Captain Underpants, who Krupp mistakenly believes he is.

Dr. Diaper: An mad scientist who wears a diaper and is infant-like, who plots to take over the world, only to be stopped by George, Harold, and Captain Underpants.

Dr. Diaper's Robots: The robotic minions of Dr. Diaper, who kidnap and abduct Captain Underpants.

Alex went to his shelf and grabbed one of his books, The Adventures of Captain Underpants.

The opening title read The Adventures of Captain Underpants (Now in Full Color) with the caption "Tra-la-laaa!" read as we see a worried George and Harold chasing after Captain Underpants, with Harold wearing red and white stripes and George wearing a flat with a red and purple necktie, while Captain Underpants wore a red cape, with black spots. Underneath, we see the words "The First Epic Novel by Dav Pilkey; with color by Jose Garibaldi.

The dedication message wrote "For David and Nancy Melton; with gratitude" as an illustration of grass is seen as clouds are seen in the background. In red text, read "Chapter 1", while in black text underneath, it read "George and Harold".

Meet George Beard and Harold Hutchins. George is the kid on the left with the tie and flat-top. Harold is the one on the right with the T-shirt and the bad haircut. Remember that now.

Underneath, we see a illustration of two fourth grade boys, one short black boy, with a near bald cut, wearing a white top, with a red and purple necktie (George) and the other, with long, blonde hair, wearing a orange and white striped T-shirt, with a sign next to them reading "Flower Shop: Pick your own roses!"

"Isn't that the idea of a flower shop, though?" Steve and Tony asked.

George and Harold were best friends. They had a lot in common. They lived right next door to each other and they were both in the same fourth-grade class at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School.

George and Harold were usually responsible kids. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible.

Underneath, the sign now read "Pick our noses!", clearly the work of George and Harold.

Book Mr. Krupp and Netflix Mr. Krupp chuckled to themselves, as both versions of Melvin looked suspicious.

But don't get the wrong idea about these two. George and Harold were actually very nice boys. No matter what everybody else thought, they were good, sweet, and lovable…. Well, OK, maybe they weren't so sweet and lovable, but they were good nonetheless.

Underneath, an illustration of George and Harold smiling was seen as they were running.

It's just George and Harold each had a "silly streak" a mile long. Usually that silly streak was hard to control. Sometimes it got them into trouble. And once it got them into big, BIG trouble. But before I can tell you that story, I have to tell you this story.

Underneath, George and Harold ran to a treehouse as the chapter ended.

"Wait, does all of this sound familiar?" Book George and Harold asked.

And that's the end of the chapter. In the next chapter, we will go over the next chapter, "Tree House Comix, Inc.