History Trivia / CaptainUnderpants

* Before they married Future George and Future Harold respectively, Lisa and Billy’s full names were “Lisa Bobeesa” and “[[Punny Name Billy Doanbee-Ahiro]]”.

* Lisa, George’s future wife’s maiden name is “Bobeesa”, and Billy, Harold’s future husband’s maiden name is “Doanbee-Ahiro”.

** George’s middle name is “Robert”, and Harold’s is “Michael”.

** Harold’s birthday is March 6th, and George’s is July 11th.

** Melvin was based on an [[InsufferableGenius annoying]] kid in his sixth grade class who, to protect the kid’s identity, he referred to as “Michael Sneedman”.

** Melvin was based on an [[InsufferableGenius annoying]] kid in his sixth grade class named Michael Sneedman.

** Mr. Meaner's full name is Kenny B. Meaner.

* WordOfGod: George and Harold, like [[AuthorAvatar Dav Pilkey himself]], suffer from both ADHD and dyslexia.

* {{Defictionalization}}: Some copies of one of the books comes with a real life version of the Hypno Ring. It's just a piece of plastic tat though, no mind control.

* WordOfGod: George and Harold, like [[AuthorAvatar Dav Pilky himself]], suffer from both ADHD and dyslexia.

* DubNameChange: Most of the human students/teachers have different names in most of the translations. The only exceptions are the German retranslation, the first European French translation, Swedish, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Japanese, Thai, Indonesian, Czech, Turkish, and Chinese.

** Mr. Krupp was a combination of his second grade teacher, who would ''tear his drawings up in front of him'', and his high school principal who told him that he had no future as a cartoonist.

** Mr. Krupp was a combination of his second grade teacher, who ''tore his drawings up in front of him, and his high school principal who told him that he had no future as a cartoonist.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Dav Pilkey based much of George and Harold's grade school experiences on his own. He was frequently getting in trouble with his teachers for drawing comic books, which themselves were based on things that were happening to him at school then and there. Captain Underpants himself was inspired by his second grade classmates laughing at the word "underwear," to which his teacher furiously replied "UNDERWEAR IS NOT FUNNY!!" In Pilky's words, he learned from the experience that "underwear is powerful."
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: Dav Pilkey based much of George and Harold's grade school experiences on his own. Melvin was based on an [[InsufferableGenius annoying]] kid in his sixth grade class named Michael Sneedman, and the {{running gag}} of the gym teacher getting killed in George and Harold's comics came from a teacher he had who told him he had no future as a cartoonist.

** The 9th book was stuck in this for six years until finally being released in 2012, as Dav Pilkey spent some years caring for his father, who eventually passed away.

** The AnimatedAdaptation by Creator/DreamworksAnimation has been here since 2012--the release date has been relocated a couple of times, Rob Letterman left and has been replaced by [[WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}} David Soren]], and [=DreamWorks=]' issues in the last few years probably haven't helped. Thankfully, it seems like they finally got the ball rolling because the first trailer came out in March 2017.

** The AnimatedAdaptation by Creator/DreamworksAnimation has been here since 2012- the release date has been relocated a couple of times, Rob Letterman left and has been replaced by [[WesternAnimation/{{Turbo}} David Soren]], and [=DreamWorks=]' issues in the last few years probably haven't helped.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Dav Pilkey based Melvin on an [[InsufferableGenius annoying]] kid in his sixth grade class named Michael Sneedman.
** Dav's biographical tidbits had mentioned how George and Harold's lives are pretty much based on his childhood experiences.

* WriteWhoYouKnow: Dav Pilkey based Melvin on an [[InsufferableGenius annoying]] kid in his sixth grade class named Michael Sneedman.

* WordOfGay: [[spoiler: In ''Captain Underpants and the Sensational Saga of Sir Stinks-A-Lot,'' reveals that Harold marries a man in the future.]]

** The 9th book was stuck in this for six years until finally being released in 2012, as Dav Pilkey spent some years caring for his father.

* DevelopmentHell: The 9th book was stuck in this for six years until finally being released in 2012, as Dav Pilkey spent some years caring for his father.

* DevelopmentHell: The 9th book was stuck in this for six years until finally being released in 2012.
* ScheduleSlip: Fans had to wait three years between the publications of books 7 (2003) and 8 (2006). Afer that, Dav Pilkey spent some years caring for his terminally-ill father. His next book, ''The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future'' (another George and Harold graphic novel) was finally released in August 2010, the first of a four-title publishing deal.
** Book nine, ''The Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers'' didn't come out until '''''six years''''' after book eight.

** Book ten's release date: January 15, 2013.

** Book ten's release date: January 15, 2013.