''The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants'' is an American

animated television series An animated series is a set of Animation, animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes should typically share the same main characters, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can ...

produced by

DreamWorks Animation Television DreamWorks Animation Television (abbreviated as DWATV or simply DAT) is an American animation studio that serves as the television production arm of DreamWorks Animation, itself a subsidiary of Universal Pictures and a division of Comcast's ...

. It is based on the film, '' Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie'', which is based on the ''

Captain Underpants ''Captain Underpants'' is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, a ...

'' book series by

Dav Pilkey David "Dav" Murray Pilkey Jr. (; born March 4, 1966) is an American cartoonist, author, and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known as the author and illustrator of the children's book series, ''Captain Underpants'', and the ch ...

. The series was released on

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on July 13, 2018.

Summary

Season 1

The series revolves around the adventures of pranksters and comic book artists George Beard and Harold Hutchins, and their strict principal Mr. Krupp, who was hypnotized by George & Harold to become their creation: Captain Underpants, a brief-wearing superhero in a red cape and underpants. Captain Underpants turns back into Krupp after getting hit with water at the end of almost every episode/adventure.

Season 2

The second season involves Melvinborg, a cyborg 20 years from the future, who was disguised as Dr. Vil Endenemys, eventually taking over the school and replacing Mr. Krupp, so he can get Melvin, a child genius and George and Harold's enemy, into Eliteanati Academy.

Season 3

The third season involves George and Harold heading to a summer camp, with them having to deal with Mr. Krupp being the camp instructor and the eventful hijinx of the camp owned by the Federation of United National Camps (AKA the F.U.N.C.).

Episodes

Cast

Nat Faxon Nathaniel Faxon (born October 11, 1975) is an American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. A frequent presence on comedic films and TV series, he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writing ''The Descendants'' (2011) ...

as Mr. Krupp/Captain Underpants * Ramone Hamilton as George Beard * Jay Gragnani as Harold Hutchins *

David Koechner David Michael Koechner ( ; born August 24, 1962) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing roles such as Champ Kind in the ''Anchorman'' films and Todd Packer on NBC's ''The Office''. Koechner first became involved in perf ...

as Mr. Meaner *

Laraine Newman Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American actress, writer and comedian. She was part of the original cast of NBC's ''Saturday Night Live''. She took an interest at improv in high school. After graduating, she studied mime with Marcel M ...

as Ms. Ribble * Patty Mattson as Ms. Anthrope *

Sean Astin Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor. His acting roles include Samwise Gamgee in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy (2001–2003), Mikey Walsh in ''The Goonies'' (1985), Daniel Ruettiger in ''Rudy'' (1993), Doug ...

as Narrator * Peter Hastings as Comic Narrator * Jorge Diaz as Melvin Sneedly, Mr. Rected, Melvinborg, and Stanley Peet *

Erica Luttrell Erica Luttrell is a Canadian actress. Personal life Luttrell was born in Toronto, Ontario to a Tanzanian mother and an American father. Luttrell is the youngest of four sisters. She can speak some French and Swahili. In August 2019, Luttrell ...

as Erica Wang * Dayci Brookshire as Jessica Gordon and Dressy Killman * Evan Kishiyama as Steve "Gooch" Yamaguchi * Brennan Murray as Bo Hweemuth *

Trevor Devall Trevor Devall (born November 10, 1972) is a Canadian-American voice actor and podcaster. He worked for various other studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for years, before he relocated to Los Angeles, California, US in 2013. Early life ...

as Smartsy Fartsy and new Smartsy Fartsy (who was eaten by Smarsty) *

Nolan North Nolan North (born October 31, 1970) is an American actor best known for his voice acting roles. After his breakthrough role as Dr. Chris Ramsey on the ABC soap opera ''Port Charles'' in 1997, North moved into voice acting when the show ended i ...

as Lee Dingman, Jet Wingman, and Dr. Shifty Fitzgibbons * Secunda Wood as Moxie Swaggerman and Haily Comett * Gavin C Robinson as Mr. Hand

Production

On December 12, 2017,

and DreamWorks Animation Television announced that there would be an animated series to follow-up the film, entitled ''The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants''. It premiered on the streaming service on July 13, 2018, and was executive-produced by Peter Hastings. A second season was announced and to be released on February 8, 2019. The third season was announced to be released on July 19, 2019. A new series, which contained six episodes, was announced to be released on July 10, 2020. In October 2019, Netflix released a 46-minute

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special of the series titled ''The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-Ween''. In February 2020, an

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titled ''Captain Underpants: Epic Choice O' Rama'' was released. In December 2020, a 46-minute

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special titled ''Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas'' was released.

Release

The series was first released on

on July 13, 2018. The second season was released on February 8, 2019, and the third season was released on July 19, 2019. The series also aired in the UK on CITV.

References

External links

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