List of The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants episodes
The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is an American animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television that is based on the film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, which in turn is based on the Captain Underpants series of books by Dav Pilkey.[1][2]
Series overview
Season | Episodes | Originally released | |||
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First released | Last released | ||||
1 | 13 | July 13, 2018 | |||
2 | 13 | February 8, 2019 | |||
3 | 13 | July 19, 2019 | |||
4 | 6 | July 10, 2020 | |||
Specials | 3 | October 8, 2019 | December 4, 2020 |
Episodes
Season 1 (2018)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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1 | 1 | "The Frenzied Farts of Flabby Flabulous" | Todd Grimes | Peter Hastings | July 13, 2018 | |
Just as George and Harold try to get out of gym class, Melvin’s latest invention turns Mr. Meaner into an overly huge butt super villain. Antagonist: Flabby Flabulous | ||||||
2 | 2 | "The Dreadful Debacle of DJ Drowsy Drawers" | Seung W. Cha & Octavio E. Rodriguez | Mark Banker | July 13, 2018 | |
Mr. Krupp wants to keep school dances incredibly boring, so George and Harold try to liven things up by becoming DJ Jazzy George and DJ Heavy Harold. Meanwhile, the official DJ, Ms. Hurd, turns into DJ Drowsy Drawers and makes everyone sleep. With Captain Underpants unconscious, George and Harold have to do an ultimate DJ battle. Antagonist: DJ Drowsy Drawers | ||||||
3 | 3 | "The Horrible Hostilities of the Homework Hydra" | Seung W. Cha | Matt Smith | July 13, 2018 | |
George and Harold go back in time to stop homework, but afterwards, they accidentally get rid of comics as well. In doing so, the teachers of the school (and a printer) have fused together into one giant beast. Antagonist: Homework Hydra | ||||||
4 | 4 | "The Vexing Villainy of the Vile Vimpire" | Kevin Peaty | Daniel Dominguez | July 13, 2018 | |
George and Harold write a comic about a dynamite villain. Unfortunately, the girls are unhappy because the girl characters only shop, cry, and brush pony hair, so George and Harold make a strong female character like Erica said. Erica pretends to be the Vimpire. Melvin tries to blast Erica with unhumorous videos (like rotting fruit) so that she would like him, but runs a test drive on Jessica, who turns into the Vimpire. Antagonist: Messica Gorgon | ||||||
5 | 5 | "The Terrifying Perilous Misfortune of the TP Mummy" | Octavio E. Rodriguez | Matt Smith | July 13, 2018 | |
In French Week, George and Harold's TP prank goes wrong, and they turn their new French teacher, Ms. Yewh, into the TP Mummy. Antagonist: TP Mummy | ||||||
6 | 6 | "The Squishy Predicament of Stanley Peet's Stinky Pits" | Seung W. Cha | Daniel Dominguez | July 13, 2018 | |
Avocad-Grow is happening in school, and George and Harold are determined to win it. Unfortunately, they accidentally turn Mr. Fyde, their science teacher, into an avocado monster. Antagonist: Avocadwoe | ||||||
7 | 7 | "The Costly Conundrum of the Calamitous Claylossus" | Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker | July 13, 2018 | |
George and Harold decide to investigate the shadowy Bo Hweemuth to debunk the rumors about him. Melvin turns him into a clay monster to keep the students scared so Krupp can write him a letter of recommendation to Eliteanati Academy, his dream school, but the clay monster goes on a rampage in Piqua. Antagonist: Claylossus | ||||||
8 | 8 | "The Jarring Jerkiness of the Judge Jorts" | Seung W. Cha | Daniel Dominguez | July 13, 2018 | |
The clumsy new Spanish teacher, Jerry Citizen, turns into Judge J.O.R.T.S. after reading George and Harold's latest comic and finding an alien robe that gives him superpowers. Antagonist: Splotch | ||||||
9 | 9 | "The Strange Strife of the Smelly Socktopus" | Octavio E. Rodriguez | Sindy Boveda Spackman | July 13, 2018 | |
George and Harold try to get suspended after Erica tells them about how it feels to be suspended, so George and Harold try to pull a smelly sock prank on their mean old principal Mr. Krupp and start messing around with wigs, this resulting in creating Socktopus. Antagonist: Socktopus | ||||||
10 | 10 | "The Flustering Mindless Woe of the Flushable Memory Wipes" | Kevin Peaty | Matt Smith | July 13, 2018 | |
Jerome Horwitz Elementary is famous for the tradition of Ted Turdsly, a cruel nickname given to students with pudding on their pants. While avoiding said title, George and Harold discover the lavatory salesman Theodore Murdsly is none other than the real Ted Turdsly. He takes over the school after removing the students' memories with flushable wipes in revenge, so the duo must reverse his actions. Antagonist: Ted Murdsly | ||||||
11 | 11 | "The Soggy Salvation of the Swirling Sweatnami" | Seung W. Cha | Daniel Dominguez | July 13, 2018 | |
George and Harold try to stop Mr. Krupp from becoming a bully, but they accidentally turn him into an evil businessman, and Jerome Horwitz Elementary becomes Krupp Corp, a toy sweatshop where kids are enslaved. Now George and Harold have to turn Mr Krupp into Captain Underpants to set things right. Antagonist: Melvin Sneedly | ||||||
12 | 12 | "The Sickening Fumes of Smartsy Fartsy" | Octavio E. Rodriguez | Sindy Boveda Spackman | July 13, 2018 | |
George and Harold give a fart intelligence (using Melvin’s inventions for a Tomorrow Talk) to get the rule book from Mr. Krupp and give it to the school superintendent Dr. Vil Endenemys, and get Krupp fired forever. But, after reading a comic of a talking fart, the fart turns into an evil sinister villain. Antagonist: Smartsy Fartsy | ||||||
13 | 13 | "The Troublesome Treachery of the Thieving Toot Fairy" | Kevin Peaty | Daniel Dominguez | July 13, 2018 | |
Smartsy Fartsy has return, and become the Toot Fairy to find some fart gas and build an army of farts, Melvin and Vil Endenemys strike a deal that if Melvin helps George and Harold to get Mr. Krupp fired for good, Vil will send Melvin to Eliteanati Academy, his dream school. Meanwhile, Melvin, George, and Harold break into Hank’s Hidee-Holes, where Krupp hid the rule book. Antagonists: Smartsy Fartsy, Melvinborg |
Season 2 (2019)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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14 | 1 | "The Tenuous Takedown of the Tyrannical Teachertrons" | Todd Grimes | Matt Smith | February 8, 2019 | |
After Mr. Krupp gets fired, Melvin and Melvinborg take over Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and change the school's name to Melvin Sneedly Elementary School, then George and Harold return after their expulsion is repealed thanks to Grace Wain, But their day is not good when the two Melvins build the Teachertrons. Meanwhile, George and Harold decide to turn Mr. Meaner into Sergeant Boxers. Antagonists: Melvin Sneedly, Melvinborg, Teachertrons 2000 | ||||||
15 | 2 | "The Frantic Fury of the Fearsome Furculees" | Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker | February 8, 2019 | |
George and Harold recruit their friends into the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S. (Mega Incredible Search Force Adventure Rescue Team Squad) to go on an incredible journey to find Mr. Krupp and get his job back. Antagonist: Furculees | ||||||
16 | 3 | "The Harmful Horrors of the Harrowing Hiveschool" | Octavio E. Rodriguez | Sindy Boveda Spackman | February 8, 2019 | |
Melvin-Borg uses bee DNA to turn the teachers into a hive-mind for him (and his past self) to control, but his plans are foiled when he accidentally gives Ms. Ribble too much bee DNA, and she becomes Queen Zombee. Antagonist: Queen Zombee | ||||||
17 | 4 | "The Preposterous Peril of the Pestering Poopacabra" | Seung W. Cha | Daniel Dominguez | February 8, 2019 | |
George and Harold attempt to boost their grades so that their parents will let them attend summer camp at Lake Summer Camp. Their first assignment is to teach a rat (Ratrick) to do something (and the show they watch says that Chupacabra is in Piqua and is hunting down Mr. Meaner), but things get complicated when toxic sewer sludge mutates the rat into Poopacabra. Antagonist: Poopacabra | ||||||
18 | 5 | "The Dastardly Deed of the Devious Diddlysaurus" | Octavio E. Rodriguez | Matt Smith | February 8, 2019 | |
George and Harold accidentally leave their latest comic book behind in the Jurassic era while looking for a real dinosaur for their extra credit project, turning all dinosaurs into pizza, mini golf, and prank lovers. Back in the present, they befriend a dinosaur named Diddly. Antagonist: Malison Saurus | ||||||
19 | 6 | "The Shadowy Syndrome of the Sinister Splotch" | Kevin Peaty | Sindy Boveda Spackman | February 8, 2019 | |
An unknown shadow creature is making illegal crimes in Piqua and framing Captain Underpants. With Captain Underpants being sent to prison, George and Harold must clear his name to prove he's innocent and find the real culprit. Antagonist: Splotch | ||||||
20 | 7 | "The Bizarre Blitzkrieg of the Bothersome Butt-erflies" | Todd Grimes & Octavio E. Rodriguez | Mark Banker, Daniel Dominguez & Sindy Boveda Spackman | February 8, 2019 | |
After Melvin creates crocobats to ruin recess, George and Harold make butt-erflies for revenge. However, things go awry when the flies are revealed to have aggressive attitudes and huge appetites. Antagonists: Butt-erflies | ||||||
21 | 8 | "The Problematic Pandemonium of the Punishing Plungerina" | Seung W. Cha | Jeff D'Elia | February 8, 2019 | |
George and Harold work together with Erica to create a new superheroine named Plungerina, who somehow comes to life when Ms. Anthrope and Mr. Rected turn into Clogneta and Cloggernaut, a pair of toilet clogging villains who cause havoc at Piqua. Antagonists: Cloggernaut, Clogneta | ||||||
22 | 9 | "The Bombastic Blathering of Brainy Blabulous" | Kevin Peaty | Matt Smith | February 8, 2019 | |
Fed up with Melvin, George and Harold transfer to a new school where teachers are nice including Mr. Krupp, but things go wrong when Mr.neamer (nice Mr. Meaner) turns into Brainy Blabulous. Antagonist: Brainy Blabulous | ||||||
23 | 10 | "The Crazy Caustic Spray of the Contagious Cruelius Sneezer" | Todd Grimes & Octavio E. Rodriguez | Mark Banker & Daniel Dominguez | February 8, 2019 | |
After being bored of the past field trips, George and Harold convince Melvin to turn the bus into a time machine and turn their trip to the "Romeinaday" museum to a trip to the real ancient Rome. Antagonist: Cruelius Sneezer | ||||||
24 | 11 | "The Trashy Tale of the Tumultuous Tubbadump" | Seung W. Cha | Sindy Boveda Spackman | February 8, 2019 | |
When Piqua is celebrating Horatio Dump, the inventor of the dump, the tradition in Piqua is to make a tribute to the founding. George and Harold try to get first place in the contest to get "enough extra credit to choke a horse" so they can go to camp. However the Melvins send the trash away to another dimension to keep the school clean when an Eliteanati comes for an interview the same day. Antagonist: Tubbadump | ||||||
25 | 12 | "The Taxing Trauma of the Treacherous Tattle Trials Part 1" | Kevin Peaty | Matt Smith | February 8, 2019 | |
George and Harold have gotten good enough grades to go to Eliteanati Academy, even though they want to go to camp instead. After Melvin gets tricked into them going, Melvin-Borg makes a "Doom Dome", a huge dome filled with monsters and booby traps, and makes an elimination competition. Antagonist: Nano-Nerd | ||||||
26 | 13 | "The Taxing Trauma of the Treacherous Tattle Trials Part 2" | Seung W. Cha | Mark Banker | February 8, 2019 | |
After The Nanobots hacked the dome, George, Captain Underpants, Harold and the Melvins flee, and later cause the Nanobots to take over Captain Underpants' brain, which makes him huge, and control him to destroy Piqua. Now it's up to George, Harold, and the Melvins to shrink themselves down and enter into Captain Underpants' head to take down the Nanobots’ leader once and for all. Antagonists: Nanobots, Melvinborg |
Season 3 (2019)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [3] | |
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27 | 1 | "The Worrisome Wedge of the Water Warmongers" | Todd Grimes | Mark Banker & Sindy Boveda Spackman | July 19, 2019 | |
George and Harold arrive at the same camp, but their summer is turned into a disaster when Mr. Krupp, the camp director, splits it into two camps. Antagonists: Balloonatic, Campifire | ||||||
28 | 2 | "The Angry Abnormal Atrocities of the Astute Animal Agressors" | Seung W. Cha | Daniel Dominguez | July 19, 2019 | |
George and Harold make a possum smart as part of the plan to make Krupp put them in the same camp. But when Ragely the possum turns against them and turns the children at camp into servants, it’s go time for Captain Underpants. Antagonist: Ragely | ||||||
29 | 3 | "The Abysmal Altercation of the Abominable Altitooth" | Kevin Peaty | Matt Smith | July 19, 2019 | |
Krupp doesn’t want his photo shoot with the Federation of United National Camps (a.k.a. the F.U.N.C.), so he sends the noisy kids climbing up a snowy mountain to get them out of his hair (and motivating them with a Mystery Box most of the kids think has junk inside, but Melvin thinks it has Doopity the Dancing Dolphin and Jessica thinks it has another Sophie). Antagonist: Altitooth | ||||||
30 | 4 | "The Bizarre Bout of the Beastly Barfilisk" | Erik Kling | Mark Banker & Jeff D'Elia | July 19, 2019 | |
George and Harold demand that Mr. Krupp make the camp fun by having fun activities. After the kids do Krupp's chores disguised as items on a scavenger hunt Krupp calls the Buntver, George and Harold make a comic where Captain Underpants faces a Barfilisk, a bird whose gaze makes its victims barf rainbows. Antagonist: Barfilisk | ||||||
31 | 5 | "The Monstrous Mayhem of the Massive Melviathan" | Kevin Peaty | Sindy Boveda Spackman | July 19, 2019 | |
Krupp makes the kids do arts and crafts so he can sell for the worth of the LeisureMyLand. However, an anomaly in their creations sends them into the Dream Dimension Where Dreams Are Reality. Antagonist: Melviathan | ||||||
32 | 6 | "The Savage Spite of the Slimy Salamangler" | Seung W. Cha | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | July 19, 2019 | |
When an upper class camp, Camp Upper Crust, challenges Krupp's campers to a regatta race, it's up to Krupp's campers to win the boat rivalry race so Krupp doesn't close the lake. Trivia: In one scene, Other Sophie and Bo Hweemuth are implied to have romantic feelings for each other. Antagonist: Salamangler | ||||||
33 | 7 | "The Cunning Combat of the Covert Camoflush" | Todd Grimes | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | July 19, 2019 | |
After a paintball game goes wrong, their instructor Major Messy (Lavatore, Mr. Ree’s brother who has disappeared after the toilet explosion incident) goes berserk and turns into Camoflush, and it's up to Mr. Toilette Ree (the janitor and former secret agent working for T.E.R.D.S.) to free the kids. Antagonist: Camoflush | ||||||
34 | 8 | "The Bad Beat of the Blah Borelock" | Erik Kling | John Matta | July 19, 2019 | |
George and Harold get Mr. Krupp to drop them off in the woods after they decide to copy a show called Stark Rangers (who leave kids in the woods with a glow-stick and a mouthful of water), and Mr. Meaner's stories keep boring the campers. The two make a comic about Borelock, a villain who can turn people into stone by telling his awful stories. But things go wrong when Melvin's VR hat possesses Mr. Meaner. Antagonist: Borelock | ||||||
35 | 9 | "The Ghastly Danger of the Ghost Dentist" | Erik Kling | Mark Banker & Jeff D'Elia | July 19, 2019 | |
The campers share scary stories with everyone. When it's George and Harold's turn, Mr. Krupp and Melvin are extremely scared. So Melvin plots to unleash the ghost of Gumbalina Toothington. Antagonist: Gumbalina Toothington | ||||||
36 | 10 | "The Confounding Concoction of the Crooked Combotato" | Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker & Sindy Boveda Spackman | July 19, 2019 | |
The campers play a new game called Plot Potato. They have fun, but Melvin is collecting their DNA to make clones loyal to him. It then goes wrong when Melvin accidentally throws a potato into the altered phone booth he was using to fuse the DNA (and blames it on George), causing the potato to mutate into Combotato. Antagonist: Combotato | ||||||
37 | 11 | "The Ludicrous Lunacy of the Loopy Laser Lightmare" | Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker & Jeff D'Elia | July 19, 2019 | |
Mr. Krupp wants to be the camp director next summer, so he delivers fake surveys to F.U.N.C, and Melvin makes a Laser Prison Monster to guard the camp. Now The M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S. have to escape and stop Mr. Krupp before it's late. Antagonist: Laser Lightmare | ||||||
38 | 12 | "The Shocking Showdown of the Staggering Sugamechanger" | Seung W. Cha | Mark Banker & Sindy Boveda Spackman | July 19, 2019 | |
Mr. Krupp rebuilds Lake Summer Camp with the things George and Harold have always wanted for Parent's Weekend, such as the water slide, spoons, ponies, running water and everything. Meanwhile, Melvin decides to summon Sugamechanger. Antagonist: Sugamechanger | ||||||
39 | 13 | "The Polarizing Plight of the Pitiless Poopetrators" | Erik Kling | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | July 19, 2019 | |
The camp puts on a talent show after Cash Networth promises to buy it if the talent show is good or not. But Melvin turns it into a real fight by bringing several defeated villains back. With Captain Underpants outnumbered, George and Harold have to even the odds. Antagonist: Diaperado (Melvin Sneedly) |
Season 4: The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space (2020)
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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40 | 1 | "The Senseless Torment of the Space Toilet" | Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | July 10, 2020 | |
George and Harold convince Mr. Krupp to get P.O.O.P.S.I.E. to send Jerome Horwitz Elementary into space, but they soon hear that an experimental project, created by Shifty Fitzgibbons, went wrong and turned into a monster. Antagonist: F.L.U.S.H.E.R. | ||||||
41 | 2 | "The Abandoned Artifact of the Absentee Aliens" | Erik Kling | John Matta | July 10, 2020 | |
The reason why Shifty Fitzgibbons lied about F.L.U.S.H.E.R. being a monster (before it was made into one by Captain Underpants) is that Dupe Licitous wanted to use one of the kids to find an alien spaceship to fly it back to Earth. Antagonist: The Biglyans | ||||||
42 | 3 | "The Hazardous Hysteria of the Hangry Hypnosinger" | Seung W. Cha | Daniel Dominguez | July 10, 2020 | |
When Melvin gets kidnapped by the Biglyans in the last episode, The schoolship goes on a mission to save him, but they're contained in cryo-chambers so they don't go space crazy. All cryo-chambers are set for 3 months, but Krupp set his for 3 hours so he could be the captain of the ship. He later woke George and Harold to have them as minions, but they weren't very good ones due to them not wanting to be minions. Free gravy on Wednesdays, and don’t look at Gary in the eye. Antagonist: Hypnosinger | ||||||
43 | 4 | "The Disturbing Dilemma of the Dysfunctional Döppelgangers" | Erik Kling | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | July 10, 2020 | |
After Krupp pushes all the buttons during the events of the last episode, the ship crash-lands on a planet named Utopiqua, where kids are in charge on the planet. Antagonists: Greego and Dohlar, Captain Pandernuts | ||||||
44 | 5 | "The Confusing Crisis of the Conniving Captive" | Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | July 10, 2020 | |
When Moxie, Fitzgibbons and Krupp arrive at the Biglyan planet, Moxie tells the kids to wait for Melvin's next transmission before they can rescue him, but George and Harold were impatient and rather sent themselves, the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S., and Mr. Krupp to rescue Melvin. Antagonists: Melvin Sneedly, The Biglyans | ||||||
45 | 6 | "The Aggravated Assault of the Alien Armada" | Seung W. Cha | Mark Banker | July 10, 2020 | |
When the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S. were forced to do hard labor, George and Harold found out that the Biglyans were pretending to make Melvin their king so they can enslave the humans. Meanwhile, Dr. Shifty Fitzgibbons turns out to be a Littleite named Itsius Bitsian, and he was unable to help the humans and save Earth, alongside The Monkeys, The Robots, and Moxie Swaggerman. Meaning the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S. and Captain Underpants have to save the Earth by themselves. Antagonist: The Biglyans |
Specials (2019–2020)
A 46-minute Halloween special titled The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-Ween was released on October 8, 2019.[4] An interactive Netflix special, Captain Underpants: Epic Choice O' Rama, was released on February 11, 2020. A 46-minute Christmas special titled Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas was released on December 4, 2020.[5]
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | |
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"The Heartbreaking Havoc of the Haunting Hack-A-Ween" | Seung W. Cha & Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | October 8, 2019 | |
When Halloween is declared illegal all because of Melvin and Krupp, Harold and George decide to make Hack-A-Ween, which became a huge success. Antagonist: Melvin Sneedly | ||||
"The Interactive Insanity of the Irritating Interlopers" | Todd Grimes | Mark Banker, Peter Hastings & Matt Smith | February 11, 2020 | |
Harold and George need your decision-making skills to stop Mr. Krupp from demolishing their beloved treehouse in this interactive special. Antagonist: Mr. Krupp | ||||
"The Xtreme Xploits of the Xplosive Xmas" | Erik Kling & Kevin Peaty | Mark Banker & Matt Smith | December 4, 2020 | |
George and Harold love Christmas, but they feel like it could use some upgrades. But when their plan resulting in Christmas being turned into Blissmas goes wrong, George and Harold must find a way to save it before it's gone forever. Antagonist: Jacked Santa/Mechanaclaus |
References
- Kofi Outlaw. "Netflix and DreamWorks Announce She-Ra, Trolls, Captain Underpants and More". ComicBook.com. Retrieved December 12, 2017.
- "Netflix, DreamWorks Partner for Six Animated Shows in 2018, Including 'Trolls,' 'Boss Baby' Series". Variety. December 12, 2017.
- "The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants – Listings". The Futon Critic. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
- https://collider.com/captain-underpants-halloween-special-clip-netflix/
- https://www.animationmagazine.net/streaming/have-yourself-an-animated-xmas-with-net-netflix-specials/