


When the boys return to the present, though, Echo Hills is devoid of housing and an “empty hilltop,” as one would expect a golf course to be. In reality, Piqua’s Echo Hills is merely a golf course. Also, many backdrops of downtown Piqua throughout the books show the city with skyscrapers and other tall buildings, when most of Piqua is made up of average-sized houses and businesses.įinally, when George and Harold visit the future in book 12, they discover that their adult selves live in a neighborhood called Echo Hills.
CAPTIN UNDERPANTS PROFESSIONAL
Regrettably, there is no real-world equivalent to the Piqua Order of Professional Space and Interplanetary Explorers, or POOPSIE, that appears in the series. Its website boasted having various community leaders and motivational speakers, but art and music teachers were not specified.
CAPTIN UNDERPANTS MOVIE
While there are no juvenile detention centers in Piqua, the closest I could find was the West Central Juvenile Detention Center that accepts students across the Miami valley - Piqua included. In the first trailer for DreamWorks Animations Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie adaptation, we see the creation of a beloved bungling hero. Book 1 The Adventures of Captain Underpants Length: 1 hr Book 2 Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets Length: 59 mins Book 3 Captain. When the boys are locked in the Piqua Juvenile Detention Center after being falsely accused of robbing a bank in book nine, they are overjoyed that the institution has art and music teachers. Meaner sets up his lab in an abandoned factory near the fishing spot. Piqua’s Franz Pond is also featured in book 12, when the evil gym teacher Mr. Clearly, the boys were inspired by Piqua’s own shuttered nuclear power facility that operated in the '60s. Pilkey also correctly places Piqua in the Midwest when Professor Poopypants reads a newspaper ad stating “Midwestern Elementary School Seeks Science Teacher” in book four.īook seven has George and Harold create a comic titled Captain Underpants and the War of the Willey Wonder Nerd, which features a nuclear power plant. While the restaurant is fictional, Piqua is indeed part of Miami County. Moving beyond school buildings, book three shows schoolchildren boarding “Miami County” buses to go to the Piqua Pizza Palace, a Chuck E. The school taught grades 4-6 instead of K-6 as Jerome Horwitz does, and book four states that there were “nearly a thousand” students attending the fictional school, which is more than Wilder’s 800 student capacity. Wilder is not a perfect match for Jerome Horwitz, though. Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (also known as Captain Underpants, Captain Underpants: The Movie, or simply The Captain Underpants Movie) is a 2017. Based on the worldwide sensation and bestselling book series, and boasting an A-list cast of comedy superstars headed by Kevin Hart and Ed Helms, DreamWorks.
