![]() ![]() Peter Hastings has totally captured the craziness and heart of the Captain Underpants multiverse and I hope everybody will love the show as much as I do. “Pilkey himself has praised the show saying ‘I binge-watched all of the episodes in one afternoon… I couldn’t help myself. I got my answer in DreamWorks’ Press Release. I want any spin-offs of his work to uphold his devotion to creativity and literacy and allowing kids who can’t seem to “behave” the reassurance that this doesn’t make them “bad.” After all, he, not Captain Underpants, is my bae*, and I care about his insights. Reading the Guidebook-which, like most tie-in books, is little more than a collection of character and plot descriptions, and is not as fun as an actual tale by Dav Pilkey-I wondered if Pilkey was involved in the making of the show at all. That’s the Wedgie Power Guidebook right before it launches into a series of adventure recaps I assume describe episodes of the new show. …George and Harold have developed some of the coolest supervillains in history.īut as soon as each comic is finished, the bad guys in the story come to life… and Captain Underpants must fight a real-life foe!” Create a cool, kick-butt female character!.The way the Wedgie Power Guidebook (the tie-in book we received from DreamWorks in our kit, available for purchase on July 31) puts it, most of the plots of the show will come about as a direct result of George and Harold’s creative endeavors. Of course the characters are going to be just as experimental and fourth-wall breaking as their creator. And he is just George and Harold grown up, after all. This tickles me in part because Dav Pilkey was showing us how he’s been getting into claymation/stop-motion animation himself last year during his Supa Epic Tour o’ Fun. …and even some claymation! Image courtesy DreamWorks Animation Television Tra-La-LAAAA! Still from ‘The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants,’ courtesy DreamWorks Animation Televisionīut, as this is the story of George and Harold’s artistic creations running rampant, it looks like we’ll be diving into more experimental styles every once and awhile too, as some additional stills show: there are the puppets at the top of this post, there’s some collage… Image courtesy DreamWorks Animation Television Contrary to what the still above (and the sock puppets we built from the kit DreamWorks sent) might have you believe, most of the series is in a traditional cartoon animation style, as you can see in the opening credits sequence DreamWorks has kindly linked for us here: Season One of The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants drops in its entirety on Netflix this Friday, July 13 (I have a feeling George and Harold would go to town incorporating that date into a new supervillain for the Captain to fight if they knew). Yes, I said series, fresh off last summer’s movie adaptation. My daughter models the bag, and inside the bag is a puppet building kit and a book! Photo by me. This is the Summer Fun kit DreamWorks sent us in celebration of the new series. He is a treasure to reluctant readers and a role model of ADHD! So of course I had to jump on it when DreamWorks offered GeekMom the chance to hype the new Netflix series, The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, with a tie-in book, drawstring knapsack, and a do-it-yourself George-and-Harold sock puppet kit. So I know I’ve mentioned my unusual-but-far-from-inexplicable-when-you-understand crush on Dav Pilkey here. ![]() ![]() Say what? We’re on Netflix AND in puppets? Still from ‘The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants’ courtesy DreamWorks Animation Television ![]()
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