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53 reviews for:
Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot (Captain Underpants #12), Volume 12
Dav Pilkey
3.92 AVERAGE
53 reviews for:
Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot (Captain Underpants #12), Volume 12
Dav Pilkey
3.92 AVERAGE
I think I laughed a bit too much with this book. I am, after all, an adult. An old person. I read this book for this year's banned/challenged books week. This particular book in the series features something so awful and horrendous that most kids can't handle it. I'm talking about someone who is *whispers* g-a-y. OMG!!!! No!!!
Ok, now that we survived, we can move on. I love Dav Pilkey. He wrote Cat Kong and Dogzilla. Two of my favorite children's books. I think this man is brilliant in his writing. He has lots of jokes that only adults will understand and if adults are not reading these books they just miss out. It's a shame.
A few notes I wrote down while reading:
page 11 - Harold and George have 3 pets, part hamster and pterodactyls. Tony, Orlando, and Dawn. You have to be an adult to understand that.
page 15 - "These books have been criticized for words like heck, tinkle, fart, and pee-pee. These words are offensive to grouchy old people." I guess you have to be an adult to use these words because I have a perfume called fart kitten.
page 16 - GOP - Grouchy old people.
page 36 - chapter title - A Paradox for a pair of docs.
page 43 - chapter title - Crimes and Mr. Meaner.
and more chapter titles are song titles but just a bit off. Again, this will be for the adults.
Of course, the kids are the same rambunctious, let's get into trouble, normal type kids. It's a shame there aren't any good kind of adults, like me, after all I do wear a perfume called fart kitten.
Hey, Dav Pilkey, could I be a cool adult in one of your books?
Ok, now that we survived, we can move on. I love Dav Pilkey. He wrote Cat Kong and Dogzilla. Two of my favorite children's books. I think this man is brilliant in his writing. He has lots of jokes that only adults will understand and if adults are not reading these books they just miss out. It's a shame.
A few notes I wrote down while reading:
page 11 - Harold and George have 3 pets, part hamster and pterodactyls. Tony, Orlando, and Dawn. You have to be an adult to understand that.
page 15 - "These books have been criticized for words like heck, tinkle, fart, and pee-pee. These words are offensive to grouchy old people." I guess you have to be an adult to use these words because I have a perfume called fart kitten.
page 16 - GOP - Grouchy old people.
page 36 - chapter title - A Paradox for a pair of docs.
page 43 - chapter title - Crimes and Mr. Meaner.
and more chapter titles are song titles but just a bit off. Again, this will be for the adults.
Of course, the kids are the same rambunctious, let's get into trouble, normal type kids. It's a shame there aren't any good kind of adults, like me, after all I do wear a perfume called fart kitten.
Hey, Dav Pilkey, could I be a cool adult in one of your books?
What a great way to end a series. I loved how the last villian was an adult and the heroes have to stop the smart adult from brainwashing the kids lives.
I have no idea why I haven't read Captain Underpants before now. I can see why the kids like it so much!
February 2019 - Ben’s been into the TV show lately, and picked this one at random. Silly fun, but never dumbed-down.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I only ever read the first book in this series, but wanted to read this one because I heard that the future version of Harold has a husband! I was able to follow along even though I haven’t read most of the other books, but oh my gosh - the pace of this book made me feel like I was on meth. The basic plot: the gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, invents a spray solution that makes kids into mindless rule-followers. Harold and George are safe because they have colds and can’t smell, but they know their colds won’t last forever. They decide they need trustworthy adults to help them, and the only ones that fit the bill are their future selves. So they hop in a time machine (from a previous book, I guess) and travel 20 years into the future to appeal to their adult selves (this is where we learn that future Harold has a husband, and it’s a complete non-issue - yay!). Future Harold and George travel back in time, and defeat Mr. Meaner with a little help from Captain Underpants.
I liked that Pilkey pokes fun at the people who challenge his books. The whole book was pretty irreverent towards adults, and normally I’m cool with poking fun at pretty much anything. But the thing that got under my skin just a little bit was the fact that pretty much all of the teachers in the book are portrayed as evil bumbling idiots who aren’t deserving of respect. In my opinion, it bordered on mean-spirited...but maybe it was more tongue-in-cheek than I perceived it to be. Regardless, I’m so glad that books like this exist, if for no other reason than it proves that freedom of speech is alive and well!
And I loved the flip-o-rama - I did each one, like, a lot. They really do look animated! And now I need to go take some downers to recover from this book. :P
I liked that Pilkey pokes fun at the people who challenge his books. The whole book was pretty irreverent towards adults, and normally I’m cool with poking fun at pretty much anything. But the thing that got under my skin just a little bit was the fact that pretty much all of the teachers in the book are portrayed as evil bumbling idiots who aren’t deserving of respect. In my opinion, it bordered on mean-spirited...but maybe it was more tongue-in-cheek than I perceived it to be. Regardless, I’m so glad that books like this exist, if for no other reason than it proves that freedom of speech is alive and well!
And I loved the flip-o-rama - I did each one, like, a lot. They really do look animated! And now I need to go take some downers to recover from this book. :P
We jumped ahead in the series and skipped from 3 to 12 and definitely missed some plot points...will be going to back to reading in order. In this one mr meaner takes over and uses an evil spray to make the kids behave. George and Harold must figure out how to save the day. Also some back to the future stuff with their future selves.
I've been a strong booster of Captain Underpants for as long as I've been aware of the character and his series. This book (which might be the last traditional one), flops in a few ways, both with the kind of ham-fisted messaging in the beginning and the loss of a lot of what makes it great throughout. It almost feels like it's trying to be more like the end books in the Origami Yoda series but, seeing as it's not quite the same style, it just doesn't pan out.
Meanwhile, all the complaints you hear about it are about the most innocuous, well-placed story twist in the series, and not the other stuff. Just kind of strange.
Kids might miss a lot of what I saw. That's fine. Just not the greatest entry in one of my favorite series.
Meanwhile, all the complaints you hear about it are about the most innocuous, well-placed story twist in the series, and not the other stuff. Just kind of strange.
Kids might miss a lot of what I saw. That's fine. Just not the greatest entry in one of my favorite series.
My eight year old daughter has been a longtime fan of Dav Pilkey, and I've enjoyed the bits she has read aloud to me, but this is the first one I've read all the way through myself. My goodness what snarky fun! I had no idea that Dav Pilkey was also a subversive liberal as well as a connoisseur of bad puns and potty humor. I may have to go and grab the rest of them off my daughter's shelves now.