The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants

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The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
Season 1 promotional poster
Genre	Action Adventure Comedy
Based on	Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie by David Soren
Developed by	Peter Hastings Mark Banker
Voices of	Nat Faxon Ramone Hamilton Jay Gragnani Jorge Diaz Peter Hastings
Narrated by	Sean Astin
Theme music composer	Peter Hastings
Composers	Jared Faber Fred Kron
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3 (1 In Space! series)
No. of episodes	39 (6 In Space! episodes and 3 specials) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Peter Hastings
Producers	Todd Grimes (supervising) Peter McCown (line producer)
Running time	24 minutes
Production companies	DreamWorks Animation Television Scholastic Entertainment
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution Netflix
Release
Original network	Netflix
Picture format	HDTV 1080p
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	July 13, 2018 (2018-07-13) – July 19, 2019 (2019-07-19)
External links
Website

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is an American animated 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] The series was released for Netflix 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 Federal United National Camps (AKA the F.U.N.C.).

In Space![]

The mini-series (also known as "The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space") involves George and Harold winning a school contest in order to go to space. But after finding out that there are evil monsters called the Biglyans, they have to set off and get all the help they need. Eventually, once they defeat the Biglyans, they come back to earth, finding out Melvin Sneedly took over earth, so they decide to use the "Time Toad 2000" to go stop Melvin from ever becoming king of the world. In conclusion, the season ends on a cliffhanger after the boys save the present when Captain Underpants comes from the future wearing George and Harold on his arms and screaming. This ends up becoming a sort of spin-off to the main series.

Episodes[]

Cast[]

• Nat Faxon as Mr. Krupp and Captain Underpants
• Ramone Hamilton as George Beard
• Jay Gragnani as Harold Hutchins
• David Koechner as Mr. Meaner
• Laraine Newman as Ms. Ribble
• Patty Mattson as Ms. Anthrope
• Sean Astin as Narrator
• Peter Hastings as Comic Narrator
• Jorge Diaz as Melvin Sneedly, Mr. Rected, Melvinborg, and Stanley Peet
• Erica 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 as Smartsy Fartsy and new Smartsy Fartsy (who was eaten by Smarsty)
• Nolan North as Lee Dingman, Jet Wingman, and Dr. Shifty Fitzgibbons
• Secunda Wood as Moxie Swaggerman and Haily Comett

Production[]

On December 12, 2017, Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television announced that there would be an animated series to follow-up the film, entitled The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants.^[3][4] It premiered on the streaming service on July 13, 2018,^[5] 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 Halloween special of the series titled The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-Ween.^[6] 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.^[7]

Release[]

The series was first released on Netflix on July 13, 2018. The second season was released on February 8, 2019,^[8] and the third season was released on July 19, 2019.^[9] A Halloween special titled The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-a-Ween was released on October 8, 2019.^[10] An interactive special, called Captain Underpants: Epic Choice O' Rama, was released on Netflix on February 11, 2020. A 6-episode miniseries The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space! was released on July 10, 2020. A Christmas special titled Captain Underpants: Mega Blissmas was released on December 4, 2020.^[11]

References[]

External links[]

• The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants at DreamWorks
• The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants at IMDb