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Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy Part 1
Publisher: Scholastic ISBN: 0439376106
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What It's About

In this epic tale, George and Harold must save the day once again when a messy prank sets off a chain-reaction which could ultimately enslave all of humankind. Watch for Melvin Sneedley (from Attack of the Talking Toilets) to return as the nerdy super-genius whose hunger for for vengeance gets him into a snotty situation!

Special Notes

"Melvin Sneedly, the villain in this book, was actually based on somebody I knew in sixth grade. The kid I knew, Michael Sneedman, wasn't nearly as evil as Melvin, but he sure was annoying. Michael was smarter than anybody else in the class, and he knew it. Worst of all, he took every opportunity he could find to point that out to us all... and rub our noses in it.

Michael had the infuriating habit of finishing all his tests and worksheets before everybody else. Then he'd open his desk, take out a red pen, and GRADE HIS OWN PAPERS! He'd go through all of his answers, make sure they were all correct, then award himself a giant "A+" at the top. He even went so far as to make smiley faces on his papers and write "Another Fantastic Job!", or "Keep up the GREAT work, Michael!"

Oooh, that kid was obnoxious. Here's how I got him back:

After Christmas break, our teacher came up with a dumb idea to help make us all more competitive and aggressive. It was a system of keeping track of our academic achievements and "good deeds". For two weeks, we all brought in those little, flat plastic clips you find on the ends of loaves of bread (see photo).

When we finally had enough, our teacher took them all home and spray painted them different colors. The next day, he brought in a large wooden board with all of our names printed on it. Directly under each kid's name was a nail.

The object of this system was that every time you got an "A" or did a "good deed", you'd get a white bread clip (worth 1 point) to hang on the nail under your name. If you got five white bread clips, you could trade them in for a green bread clip (which was worth five points). Then there were yellow, blue, and red bread clips that were worth 10, 20, 50 points respectively. The granddaddy of all bread clips was the golden bread clip, which was worth 100 points.

On an average day, an average kid could maybe expect to earn three or four white bread clips. I usually got one or two. But Michael Sneedman was obsessed. He wasn't happy unless he had earned at least 10 white bread clips every day. Some days he earned as much as 15 bread clips, and I distinctly remember him earning 20 one day. It was the talk of the bus ride home." — Dav Pilkey


(Continued in the Book Page for "Bionic Booger Boy part 2". Click here to continue reading this story.)

Fun Facts

1. The four Flip-O-Rama titles in this book are actually parodies of song titles. The songs are:

"Thanks for the Memories" ---recorded by Bob Hope
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" ---recorded by B.J. Thomas
"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (I Got Love in my Tummy)"---by the Ohio Express
"A Hard Day's Night" ---by the Beatles.

2. Pages 165 and 167 of this book can be flipped to produce a "Flip-O-Rama" effect. It works pretty well, even though it wasn't designed for this effect. I didn't realize this until after I painted the pages. To make it work, flip only page 165. Be sure you can see the images on page 165 AND page 167 when you flip. Pretty neat, huh?

3. The "WhenHamstersAttack.Com" website (mentioned on page 37) really does exist.

4. In case you're wondering why Sulu seems to get bigger and smaller sometimes (p. 143 and 144), it's because of the highly unstable nature of "Flexo-Growmonic Steel", which is a seldom-used alloy compound with the ability to flex and grow when affected by positive or negative ions and/or currents.

Scientists do agree that if Flexo-Growmonic steel were somehow fused with living mammal tissues at a cellular level, the normal electrical currents of a warm-blooded creature would be enough to trigger a flexing and/or growing reaction. Many scientists feel that the steel might flex and grow exponentially during times of great stress, and therefore it can be concluded that this book is entirely scientifically accurate.

5. The top-secret government experiment that Melvin's parents are working on (see page 72) is actually an old urban legend that was quite popular when I was a kid. The legend warned children that they should never mix Pop-Rocks with Coke because it could make them blow up. Apparently it actually happened to a former child star (he was the kid who played "Mikey" in an old "Life Cereal" TV commercial). According to the legend, "Mikey" mixed Pop-Rocks with Coke, drank it, then exploded.

6. The Pop-Rocks and Coke story is not true. It really won't make you blow up. It will, however, cause you to burst into flames.

7. Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog are hidden somewhere in this novel (two places, actually). Can you find them?

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Rescue Raider 4000
Bounce-O-Rama 2000
Splashernator 2000
Matchinator 4000
Pilkeymon's Paintbox


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