List of The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants episodes

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The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is an American 2D-animated streaming television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television that is based on (and a sequel to) the 2017 3D-animated film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie , which in turn is based on the Captain Underpants series of books by Dav Pilkey. [1] [2]

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Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally released
First releasedLast released
1 13July 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
2 13February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
Camp 13July 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
In Space! 6July 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
Specials 3October 8, 2019 (2019-10-08)December 4, 2020 (2020-12-04)

Episodes

Season 1 (2018)

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11"The Frenzied Farts of Flabby Flabulous"Todd GrimesPeter HastingsFlabby FlabulousJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
Just as George and Harold try to get out of gym class and avoid P.E for 22 years after all their friends have an excuse (including Melvin), inadvertently end up getting sent to the principal's office after spilling Mr. Meaner's root beer and they later escape from Mr. Meaner and Mr. Krupp clash on how angry they are, Mr. Meaner clumsily lands on Melvin’s latest invention, the Pumpitupinator 2000, which was at a 'big mistake plot point' mode and therefore turns Mr. Meaner into an overly huge butt supervillain.
22"The Dreadful Debacle of DJ Drowsy Drawers"Seung W. Cha & Octavio E. RodriguezMark BankerDJ Drowsy DrawersJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
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 after getting smashed by an ice cream truck and the upcoming lunch at Jerome Horwitz. DJ Drowsy Drawers makes everyone sleep, including Captain Underpants. Now George and Harold have to do an ultimate DJ battle.
33"The Horrible Hostilities of the Homework Hydra"Seung W. ChaMatt SmithHomework HydraJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
George and Harold go back in time to Ancient Egypt in order to stop homework, but afterwards, they find out that comics can count as homework too. In doing so, a copy of the comic for this episode ends up with Ms. Ribble, causing her to reinvent homework. The teachers of the school are filled with excitement when they break the floor while jumping with excitement. Now the teachers (and Ms. Anthrope) have fused together with a printer into one giant beast.
44"The Vexing Villainy of the Vile Vimpire"Kevin PeatyDaniel DominguezMessica Gorgon/The VimpireJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
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 called Scarica Fang which was not really like Erica said. Erica pretends to be the Vimpire. It is revealed that Melvin has a crush on Erica, so, tries to blast Erica with boring videos (like rotting fruit) so that she would like him, but runs a test drive on Jessica, who was eating bats at the same time she got zapped, and it was not a good combination. So she turns into the Vimpire.
55"The Terrifying Perilous Misfortune of the TP Mummy"Octavio E. RodriguezMatt SmithTP MummyJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
George and Harold are planning a toilet paper ( TP for short ) prank on the whole school by covering the whole school with toilet paper and claiming they will be legends. Meanwhile, so many TP had come to the school for Mr. Krupp to impress a new boring French teacher named Ms. Yewh comes to the school for French Week. George and Harold steal the TP for their prank, but it backfires and they have to clean up the whole school. They are finished and they sell a new comic about Ms. Yewh, but Mr. Krupp confiscates all the comics to impress Ms. Yewh and throws them in the toilet. George and Harold notice it's flooding, so they put a whole jug of unclogging liquid, even though it gave a warning not to put too much. Meanwhile, Ms. Yewh finds a comic and reads it. It is completely rude to her, so she flushes the comic down the toilet. But a combination of too many comics and a full jar of unclogging liquid in the toilet turns her into the TP Mummy.
66"The Squishy Predicament of Stanley Peet's Stinky Pits"Seung W. ChaDaniel DominguezAvocadwoeJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
Avocad-Grow, the annual avocado growing contest (and largely considered one of the most boring contests ever) is happening in school, and George and Harold are determined to win it (due to the prize of an 'all-you-can-eat lunch of whatever you want'). Unfortunately, thanks to Melvin's Pitacle Accelerator 2000 (which he invented to win the contest and get into Eliteanati Academy, his dream school), they accidentally turn Mr. Fyde, their science teacher, into an avocado monster.
77"The Costly Conundrum of the Calamitous Claylossus"Kevin PeatyMark BankerClaylossusJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)

George and Harold decide to investigate the shadowy Bo Hweemuth to debunk the rumors about him. They find Bo to be nice. Meanwhile, with Melvin, he has to keep the students scared because he is under the orders of Krupp. He has to do it so that Krupp can write him a letter of recommendation to Eliteanati Academy, his dream school, and when he finds out Bo is not scary to the kids, he decided to use his Interclaytion Station 2000 to turn him into Claylossus, from George and Harold's latest comic, but the clay monster goes on a rampage in Piqua.

Note: this episode briefly uses a claymation style, and also frequently jokes about the budget because of this
88"The Jarring Jerkiness of the Judge Jorts"Seung W. ChaDaniel DominguezAlien robeJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
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.
99"The Strange Strife of the Smelly Socktopus"Octavio E. RodriguezSindy Boveda SpackmanSocktopusJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
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, thus resulting in creating Socktopus.
1010"The Flustering Mindless Woe of the Flushable Memory Wipes"Kevin PeatyMatt SmithTed MurdslyJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
George and Harold accidentally get pudding on their pants, causing their friends to give them the nickname "Ted Turdsly". This means trouble for the duo because Jerome Horwitz Elementary is famous for the tradition of Ted Turdsly, a cruel nickname given to students ending up with pudding on their pants. The reason it means trouble is because Mr. Krupp is a fan of the tradition and teases the latest Ted Turdsly and takes a photo in the gym when a rumor about that spreads around. While avoiding getting embarrassed, George and Harold discover the lavatory salesman Theodore Murdsly is none other than the real Ted Turdsly. For revenge on Murdsly's mockery, he takes over the school after removing the students' memories with flushable wipes for part of his vengeance, so the duo must reverse his actions.
1111"The Soggy Salvation of the Swirling Sweatnami"Seung W. ChaDaniel DominguezMelvin SneedlyJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
George and Harold try to stop Mr. Krupp from becoming a bully by asking Bernice Krupp about why he became mean and she says he got humiliated at a talent show. They perfect Young Krupp's act in the talent show, and Young Krupp says he is going to be "the best businessman ever" but he became 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.
1212"The Sickening Fumes of Smartsy Fartsy"Octavio E. RodriguezSindy Boveda SpackmanSmartsy FartsyJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
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.
1313"The Troublesome Treachery of the Thieving Toot Fairy"Kevin PeatyDaniel DominguezSmartsy Fartsy, MelvinborgJuly 13, 2018 (2018-07-13)
Smartsy Fartsy has returned and became the Toot Fairy to find some fart gas and build an army of farts. Meanwhile, 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. Then Melvin, George, and Harold break into Hank's Hidee-Holes, where Krupp hid the rule book.

Season 2 (2019)

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141"The Tenuous Takedown of the Tyrannical Teachertrons"Todd GrimesMatt SmithMelvin Sneedly, Melvinborg, Teachertrons 2000February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
After Mr. Krupp gets fired and George and Harold get expelled, Melvin and Melvinborg take over Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and rechristen the school's name to Melvin Sneedly Elementary School, then George and Harold return after their expulsion is repealed thanks to the new superintendent Grace Wain. But their day is not good when Melvin observes that the teachers are really dimwitted and complains to Melvin-Borg. This forces the two Melvins to build the Teachertrons. Meanwhile, since Krupp was fired, George and Harold decide to turn Mr. Meaner into a hero named Sergeant Boxers.
152"The Frantic Fury of the Fearsome Furculees"Kevin PeatyMark BankerFurculeesFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
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.
163"The Harmful Horrors of the Harrowing Hiveschool"Octavio E. RodriguezSindy Boveda SpackmanQueen Zombee (formerly Queen Bee, Mrs. Ribble)February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
Mr. Krupp is reinstated for a job at Melvin Sneedly Elementary School as vice-principal, which he has to sit in Ms. Anthrope's office, while Melvin-Borg still gets his office. 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 Melvin and Melvin-Borg fight over the bee-DNA dart gun, and it turns out they accidentally give Ms. Ribble too much bee DNA, and she becomes Queen Zombee.
174"The Preposterous Peril of the Pestering Poopacabra"Seung W. ChaDaniel DominguezPoopacabraFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)

George and Harold attempt to boost their grades so that their parents will let them attend summer camp at Lake Summer Camp. Melvin-Borg makes a competition named the Advancimals (which is named after a cartoon)

Their assignment is to teach a rat (Ratrick) to do something that is the best in the competition, but Ratrick is sad to do anything and makes a comic about his feelings which George and Harold don't get. And then Ratrick runs into the sewers. Then George and Harold watch a show that says that Chupacabra is in Piqua and is hunting down Mr. Meaner, but things get complicated when Melvin's pet makes toxic sewer sludge and Melvin pours it down the drain, at the exact same spot Ratrick was at and it mutates the rat into Poopacabra.
185"The Dastardly Deed of the Devious Diddlysaurus"Octavio E. RodriguezMatt SmithMalison Saurus and the Saurus BrothersFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
George and Harold have an assignment to do a specific essay on dinosaurs and make a comic about it for submission and fail. They try to compete with Melvin's idea for bringing a real dino for submission, but they accidentally leave their latest comic book behind in the Jurassic era while looking for a real dinosaur for their extra credit project and the dino reads it, turning all dinosaurs into pizza, mini-golf, and prank lovers. Back in the present, they befriend a dinosaur named Diddly who loves pranks.
196"The Shadowy Syndrome of the Sinister Splotch"Kevin PeatySindy Boveda SpackmanSplotch (Alien robe)February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
An unknown shadow creature is committing crimes in Piqua and framing Captain Underpants, meaning George and Harold must clear his name to prove he's innocent and find the real culprit.
207"The Bizarre Blitzkrieg of the Bothersome Butt-erflies"Todd Grimes & Octavio E. RodriguezMark Banker, Daniel Dominguez & Sindy Boveda SpackmanButt-erfliesFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)

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.

NOTE: in this episode, there is a running gag revolving around George and Harold making alliterative and outlandish ideas to solve problems, such as disposing of the Crocobats or removing Krupp from Melvinborg's bunker
218"The Problematic Pandemonium of the Punishing Plungerina"Seung W. ChaJeff D'EliaCloggernaut, ClognetaFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
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.
229"The Bombastic Blathering of Brainy Blabulous"Kevin PeatyMatt SmithBrainy BlabulousFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)

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.

Trivia: Brainy Blabulous was an alternate universe version of Flabby Flabbulous, and Dressy and Gooch do not appear in this episode.
2310"The Crazy Caustic Spray of the Contagious Cruelius Sneezer"Todd Grimes & Octavio E. RodriguezMark Banker & Daniel DominguezCruelius SneezerFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
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 into a trip to the real ancient Rome.
2411"The Trashy Tale of the Tumultuous Tubbadump"Seung W. ChaSindy Boveda SpackmanTubbadumpFebruary 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
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.
2512"The Taxing Trauma of the Treacherous Tattle Trials"Kevin PeatyMatt SmithNano-Nerd (Melvin Sneedly)February 8, 2019 (2019-02-08)
2613Seung W. ChaMark BankerNanobots, Melvinborg

  • Part 1: 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.
  • Part 2: 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.

Trivia: In this episode, we find out that Grace Wain (the new superintendent of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School) is actually Erica Wang from the future.

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants: Camp (2019)

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271"The Worrisome Wedge of the Water Warmongers"Todd GrimesMark Banker & Sindy Boveda SpackmanBalloonatic, Campifire, Benjamin KruppJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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(George is in 'Camp Lake Summer Camp' and Harold is in 'Lake Summer Camp Camp') in order to get two paychecks and buy a free Leisure Myland.
282"The Angry Abnormal Atrocities of the Astute Animal Aggressors"Seung W. ChaDaniel DominguezRagely J. SnarlingtoothJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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.
293"The Abysmal Altercation of the Abominable Altitooth"Kevin PeatyMatt SmithAltitoothJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
Krupp doesn’t want his photoshoot with the Federation of United National Camps (a.k.a. the F.U.N.C.) ruined by the kids of the camp, 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).
304"The Bizarre Bout of the Beastly Barfilisk"Erik KlingMark Banker & Jeff D'EliaBarfiliskJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
George and Harold demand that Mr. Krupp makes 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.
315"The Monstrous Mayhem of the Massive Melviathan"Kevin PeatySindy Boveda SpackmanMelviathanJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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.
326"The Savage Spite of the Slimy Salamangler"Seung W. ChaMark Banker & Matt SmithSalamanglerJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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.
337"The Cunning Combat of the Covert Camoflush"Todd GrimesMark Banker & Matt SmithCamoflushJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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 the Invisible Powered Super Soldier 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.
348"The Bad Beat of the Blah Borelock"Erik KlingJohn MattaBorelockJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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.
359"The Ghastly Danger of the Ghost Dentist"Erik KlingMark Banker & Jeff D'EliaGumbalina ToothingtonJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
The campers share scary stories with everyone. When it's George and Harold's turn, they share the story of a dentist named Gumbalina Toothington, which freaks out Mr. Krupp and Melvin. In revenge, Melvin plots to unleash the ghost of Gumbalina Toothington.
3610"The Confounding Concoction of the Crooked Combotato"Kevin PeatyMark Banker & Sindy Boveda SpackmanCombotatoJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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.
3711"The Ludicrous Lunacy of the Loopy Laser Lightmare"Kevin PeatyMark Banker & Jeff D'EliaLaser LightmareJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
Mr. Krupp hands out forms to the campers by the F.U.N.C who wants to know what they enjoyed about camp, but not before Erica reveals Krupp wants the forms to become camp director next summer, and the forms turn out terrible, which Melvin gives the idea for Mr. Krupp to deliver fake surveys to F.U.N.C because Melvin has a plan once Krupp becomes camp director for next summer, and Melvin makes a Laser Prison Monster with full security to guard the camp so the other campers have nothing to do about it. Now The M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S. have to escape and stop Mr. Krupp before it's late.
3812"The Shocking Showdown of the Staggering Sugamechanger"Seung W. ChaMark Banker & Sindy Boveda SpackmanSugamechangerJuly 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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. Melvin tries to tell everything Krupp gave to George and Harold makes them happy, but if enough kids like the camp, he will take away everything and become camp director for next summer. George and Harold almost believe it and asks Melvin to summon a robot named Sugamechanger.
3913"The Polarizing Plight of the Pitiless Poopetrators"Erik KlingMark Banker & Matt SmithDiaperado (Melvin Sneedly)July 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
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.

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space! (2020)

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401"The Senseless Torment of the Space Toilet"Kevin PeatyMark Banker & Matt SmithF.L.U.S.H.E.R.July 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
George and Harold convince Mr. Krupp to get P.O.O.P.S.I.E (the Piqua Order Of Professional Space & Interplanetary Explorers). 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.
412"The Abandoned Artifact of the Absentee Aliens"Erik KlingJohn MattaThe BiglyansJuly 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
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.
423"The Hazardous Hysteria of the Hangry Hypnosinger"Seung W. ChaDaniel DominguezHangry HypnosingerJuly 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
When Melvin got 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 and he spilled plutonium. 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 after they replace all his stuff with tires. They rolled a tire out of the room and it went on the plutonium, and after the tire went to some places, it landed on Dressy Killman's cryo-chamber, which turns her into the Hangry Hypnosinger.
434"The Disturbing Dilemma of the Dysfunctional Döppelgangers"Erik KlingMark Banker & Matt SmithUtopiqua KidsJuly 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
Everyone is in a panic because the schoolship is going to crash on another planet. It is revealed that Krupp pushed all the buttons during the events of the last episode while he was celebrating as captain, and there is no way to mask his identity since he got guacamole on the controls and he loves guacamole. So the ship crash-lands on an opposite land and water planet color of Earth. The exact destination where the ship crash-lands is in the woods of a town named Utopiqua, where there are blue versions of themselves and Meejor Hithrow Elementary School. They find out that everything and everyone's name here is a sign scramble of their name. They also discover that kids are in charge (kids have their driver's licenses) and adults are their slaves (adults are too old to drive). They have some fun there, but it is revealed that the kids from Utopiqua put adults in a dungeon. So they have to team up with Alien Melvin and Captain Underpants to end the Utopiqua once and for all.
445"The Confusing Crisis of the Conniving Captive"Kevin PeatyMark Banker & Matt SmithMelvin Sneedly, The BiglyansJuly 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
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 send themselves, the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S., and Mr. Krupp to rescue Melvin.
456"The Aggravated Assault of the Alien Armada"Seung W. ChaMark BankerThe BiglyansJuly 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
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.

Specials (2019–2020)

In October 2019, Netflix released a 46-minute Halloween special of the series titled The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-Ween. [4] In February 2020, an interactive special titled Captain Underpants: Epic Choice O' Rama was released. In December 2020, a 46-minute Christmas special titled Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas was released. [5]

TitleDirected byWritten byAntagonist(s)Original release date
"The Heartbreaking Havoc of the Haunting Hack-A-Ween"Seung W. Cha & Kevin PeatyMark Banker & Matt SmithMelvin Sneedly, Balloon MonstersOctober 8, 2019 (2019-10-08)
When Melvin and Mr. Krupp declare Halloween illegal, Harold and George decide to make Hack-A-Ween, which becomes a huge success across the school.
"The Interactive Insanity of the Irritating Interlopers"Todd GrimesMark Banker, Peter Hastings & Matt SmithMr. KruppFebruary 11, 2020 (2020-02-11)
Harold and George need your decision-making skills to stop Mr. Krupp and Melvin from demolishing their beloved treehouse in this interactive special.
"The Xtreme Xploits of the Xplosive Xmas"Erik Kling & Kevin PeatyMark Banker & Matt SmithJacked Santa/MechanaclausDecember 4, 2020 (2020-12-04)
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.

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DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA) (also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio owned by Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast. The studio has released a total of 48 feature films, including several of the highest-grossing animated films of all time, with Shrek 2 (2004) having been the highest at the time of its release. Its first film, Antz, was released on October 2, 1998, and its latest film, Kung Fu Panda 4, was released on March 8, 2024. They have an upcoming theatrical slate of films, which includes The Wild Robot on September 27, 2024, Dog Man on January 31, 2025, The Bad Guys 2 on August 1, 2025, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie on September 26, 2025, and Shrek 5 on July 1, 2026.

<i>Shrek</i> (franchise) DreamWorks Animation media franchise

Shrek is an American media franchise of DreamWorks Animation, loosely based on William Steig's 1990 picture book Shrek! The series primarily focuses on Shrek, a bad-tempered but good-hearted ogre, who begrudgingly accepts a quest to rescue a princess, resulting in him finding friends and going on many subsequent adventures in a fairy tale world. It includes four animated films: Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), and Shrek Forever After (2010), with a fifth film, Shrek 5, currently in production for a 2026 release. A short 4-D film, Shrek 4-D, which originally was a theme park ride, was released in 2003. Two television specials, the Christmas television special Shrek the Halls (2007) and the Halloween television special Scared Shrekless (2010), have also been produced. Two spin-off films were made centered around the character Puss in Boots: 2011's Puss in Boots and its sequel, 2022's The Last Wish. Additionally, a stage musical adaptation was made and premiered at Broadway for more than a year (2008–2010).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nick Kroll</span> American actor and comedian (born 1978)

Nicholas Kroll is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for creating and starring in the Comedy Central series Kroll Show, The Oh, Hello Show, the FX comedy series The League, the Hulu sketch comedy series History of the World, Part II, and starring in and co-creating the animated Netflix series Big Mouth and Human Resources.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Soren (animator)</span> Canadian animator

David Soren is a Canadian director, writer, voice actor, and storyboard artist at DreamWorks Animation. His most notable work are TV specials based on the Madagascar film franchise: Merry Madagascar and Madly Madagascar. He directed the 2013 animated feature film Turbo, which is based on his own original concept, as well as the 2017 animated film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie based on Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants book series.

<i>Trolls</i> (film) 2016 film directed by Mike Mitchell

Trolls is a 2016 American animated jukebox musical comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox, based on the Good Luck Trolls dolls created by Thomas Dam. The film was directed by Mike Mitchell and co-directed by Walt Dohrn, from a screenplay by the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, based on a story by Erica Rivinoja. It stars the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Russell Brand, James Corden, John Cleese and Gwen Stefani. The film follows two trolls named Poppy (Kendrick) and Branch (Timberlake) who go on a quest to save their village from destruction by the Bergens, giant creatures who eat Trolls to be happy.

The Croods is an American media franchise by DreamWorks Animation. The franchise began with the 2013 film The Croods, and has since grown to include a sequel, The Croods: A New Age; two television series, Dawn of the Croods and The Croods: Family Tree; and two video games. Set in the fictional prehistoric "Croodaceous" time period which is roamed by a series of bizarre hybrid animals, the franchise follows the eponymous cavepeople family as they travel through the dangerous but exotic lands in search of a new home after their previous home was destroyed.

<i>Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia</i> 2016 animated television series created by Guillermo del Toro

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia is an American animated fantasy television series created by Guillermo del Toro, distributed by DreamWorks Animation Television and Double Dare You Productions, and produced by Netflix. Based on the 2015 novel Trollhunters by del Toro and Daniel Kraus, it follows the story of James "Jim" Lake Jr., a teenage boy who finds a mysterious amulet and stumbles across a secret realm inhabited by trolls and other magical creatures. Soon afterward, he and his friends are charged with protecting the world from the dangerous monsters that lurk in the shadows of their small suburban town.

<i>Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie</i> 2017 superhero film directed by David Soren

Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie is a 2017 American animated superhero comedy film based on Dav Pilkey's children's novel series Captain Underpants, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by David Soren from a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, and stars the voices of Kevin Hart, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch, Nick Kroll, Jordan Peele, and Kristen Schaal. The film was released during the 20th anniversary of the Captain Underpants series. In the film, fourth-grade pranksters George and Harold hypnotize their humorless principal Mr. Krupp into thinking he is a superhero named Captain Underpants. The movie loosely adapts the first, second, fourth, and eleventh Captain Underpants books.

Spirit Riding Free is an animated television series, produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and distributed by Netflix, based on the 2002 Oscar-nominated traditionally animated film, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and the first series in the Spirit franchise. The series was first released on Netflix on May 5, 2017.

<i>Spirit</i> (franchise) DreamWorks Animation media franchise

Spirit is an American media franchise owned by DreamWorks Animation, which began with the 2002 animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron written by John Fusco from an idea by producer Jeffrey Katzenberg. The franchise follows the adventures of a Kiger Mustang stallion named Spirit and his same named descendants.

<i>Trolls: The Beat Goes On!</i> 2018 Netflix original TV series

Trolls: The Beat Goes On! is an American animated television series produced by DreamWorks Animation. Based on the 3D computer-animated comedy musical film Trolls, the show premiered on Netflix on January 19, 2018, in the United States and takes place between the events of the first film and the sequel, Trolls World Tour. Amanda Leighton, Skylar Astin, Kari Wahlgren, Sam Lerner, David Kaye, David Fynn, Sean T. Krishnan, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Fryda Wolff provide the new voices for Princess Poppy, Branch, Bridget, King Gristle, King Peppy, Biggie and Mr. Dinkles, Guy Diamond, Smidge, DJ Suki and Satin & Chenille for this series respectively; only Ron Funches and Walt Dohrn reprise their roles as Cooper and Cloud Guy, also respectively. Matt Lowe also voices Creek in the series, who returns in "Creek Week".

Tales of Arcadia is a trilogy of animated science fantasy television series created for Netflix by Guillermo del Toro and produced by DreamWorks Animation and Double Dare You. The series comprising the trilogy follows the inhabitants of the small suburban town of Arcadia Oaks, which is secretly home to various supernatural creatures and the young heroes who fight against the forces of evil that lurk in the shadows.

<i>The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants</i> American animated comedy television series

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is an American animated television series produced by DreamWorks Animation Television. Developed for television by Peter Hastings and Mark Banker, it is a sequel to the 2017 feature film Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, based on the Captain Underpants book series by Dav Pilkey.

<i>3Below: Tales of Arcadia</i> 2018 animated web series

3Below: Tales of Arcadia is an American animated science fantasy television series produced by DreamWorks Animation, and is the second installment of Guillermo del Toro's Tales of Arcadia trilogy.

<i>Dog Man</i> (film) Upcoming DreamWorks Animation film

Dog Man is an upcoming American superhero comedy film based on Dav Pilkey's children's graphic novel series of the same name, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. A spin-off and story within a story of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017), it is being directed by Peter Hastings.

<i>Trolls</i> (franchise) DreamWorks Animation media franchise

Trolls is an American animated media franchise created by DreamWorks Animation, inspired by the successful line of Troll doll toys created by Thomas Dam. It follows the adventures of a pair of trolls named Poppy and Branch as they live among their village of pop-singing trolls. The franchise consists of three feature films, Trolls, released in 2016, Trolls World Tour, released in 2020, and Trolls Band Together, released in 2023. The franchise has been supplemented by two holiday television specials titled Trolls Holiday and Trolls: Holiday in Harmony, and two animated series: Trolls: The Beat Goes On! on Netflix, and Trolls: TrollsTopia on Hulu and Peacock. The Trolls franchise made $5 billion in retail sales by 2005.

<i>The Croods: Family Tree</i> American animated TV series

The Croods: Family Tree is an American animated television series that is produced by DreamWorks Animation under DreamWorks Animation Television. The series is based on the 2013 animated film The Croods, taking place after the events of the Golden Globe nominated film, The Croods: A New Age (2020). The series was released on September 23, 2021, with a second season premiered April 5, 2022, and a third season premiered on June 2, 2022. A fourth season premiered on August 31, 2022. A fifth season premiered on November 25, 2022. A sixth season premiered on March 30, 2023. A seventh season premiered on July 27, 2023, while the eighth season premiered on November 9, 2023.

<i>The Bad Guys</i> (franchise) Media franchise by DreamWorks Animation

The Bad Guys is a media franchise made by DreamWorks Animation, loosely based on the children's book series of the same name by Aaron Blabey. The franchise began with the 2022 film The Bad Guys and a holiday special was released on Netflix in 2023, with a Halloween special will be released on Netflix in 2024, and a sequel, The Bad Guys 2, set for release on August 1, 2025.

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