History Headscratchers / CaptainUnderpantsTheFirstEpicMovie

** Still kinda ruins the joke.

** Considering that the public school system is portrayed as a source of misery and oppression, perhaps the Professor thought a school environment would allow him to work in a distraction-free setting. That, or he just needed a steady paycheck to fund his experiments and took the first vaguely science-related job he could find on short notice.

** I think the books confirm that Krupp has to hear the snapping for it to work. Other than that, I got nothing.

** I wondered that too, but I figured they just finally realized after the disaster of a carnival that, as much as they hated to be separated, it was better than keeping Krupp as Captain Underpants and causing even more damage.
** Also, Krupp still would've been wet even after they managed to get inside. It's like if Superman got weak if he got remnants of Kryptonite. It's even made canon in both the Captain and the Man of Steel!

* Tying in to the one above, how come both Melvin and Poopypants wear full-body hazmat suits to protect themselves when they interact with the [[spoiler: leftovers]], but Edith, who comes in contact with it far more often and of all people knows just how toxic it is, does not wear any further protective gear other than her rubber gloves?

** Edith spends a lot of time around it, she probably built up a resistance over the years.

* Where did the mind control ring come from? The movie expects us to believe the kids' story as true, yet TV Tropes says it's something they made up to explain its existance. If so...who REALLY made the ring, and how did the kids get ahold of it?
** George got the thing out of a regular cereal box, and was just making up that story to scare Mr. Krupp. The fact that the ring works so well is just a case of HollywoodHypnosis.

** Yes, that's the point; they're little kids with short attention spans. They call Monday an eternity away from Saturday, so not seeing each other constantly would do serious damage to their relationship. Although you'd think that Mr. Krupp, as cruel as he's shown to be, would try a little harder. In the books, he blackmailed them into not only behaving, but doing all his cleaning and filing and stuff.
*** The movie version of Mr. Krupp isn't an all-around terrible person the way that the book Krupp was (the book Krupp would never have complimented the boys' comics like he did at the end, for example.) He takes way too much relish in the misery he's causing because he himself is unhappy, but he ''is'' technically doing his duties as a principal (especially in separating two problem students,) and blackmailing two small children would definitely cross a line.

** Maybe it’s just part of George and Harold’s prank and fun-loving personalities.
* When the students, George and Harold [[spoiler: lose their sense of humour]], why [[spoiler: do they have glowing eyes]]? It doesn't make any sense!
** Before I begin, I would like to say that this is the troper who wrote the question above. I just found out about the Tapetum Lucidum that is found in our eyes. When lots of light shines into the eye, most of the light will reflect of the retina, causing the colour of the Tapetum Lucidum (which depends between person-to-person) to [[spoiler: shine]], making it look like [[spoiler: the pupil is glowing. This is known as Eyeshine.]] I guess that this is the reason why [[spoiler: their eyes glow when they are hit by the anti-humour ray]].

** Before I begin, I would like to say that this is the troper who wrote the question above. I just found out about the Tapetum Lucidum that is found in our eyes. When lots of light shines into the eye, most of the light will reflect of the retina, causing the colour of the Tapetum Lucidum (which depends between person-to-person) to [[spoiler: shine]], making it look like [[spoiler: the pupil is shining. This is known as Eyeshine.]] I guess that this is the reason why [[spoiler: their eyes glow when they are hit by the anti-humour ray]].

** Before I begin, I would like to say that this is the troper who wrote the question above. I just found out about the Tapetum Lucidum that is found in our eyes. When lots of light shines into the eye, most of the light will reflect of the retina, causing the colour of the Tapetum Lucidum (which depends between person-to-person) to shine, making it look like [[spoiler: the pupil is shining. This is known as Eyeshine.]] I guess that this is the reason why [[spoiler: their eyes glow when they are hit by the anti-humour ray]].

** Before I begin, I would like to say that this is the troper who wrote the question above. I just found out about the Tapetum Lucidum that is found in our eyes. When lots of light shines into the eye, most of the light will reflect of the retina, causing the colour of the Tapetum Lucidum (which depends between person-to-person) to shine, making it look like [[spoiler: the pupil is shining. This is known as Eyeshine]] I guess that this is the reason why [[spoiler: their eyes glow when they are hit by the anti-humour ray]].

** Before I begin, I would like to say that this is the troper who wrote the question above. I just found out about the Tapetum Lucidum that is found in our eyes. When lots of light shines into the eye, most of the light will reflect of the retina, causing the colour of the Tapetum Lucidum (which depends between person-to-person) to shine, making it look like [[spoiler: the pupil is shining. This is known as Eyeshine]] I guess that this is the reason why [[their eyes glow when they are hit by the anti-humour ray]].

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* Maybe it’s just part of George and Harold’s prank and fun-loving personalities.

* Why would Professor Poopypants punish George and Harold for giving him advice by disabling their Hahaguffawchuckleamaluses? I believe that it was because he was reminded of the time he tried to laugh at himself at the Nobel Prize incident (“More or less, except the emphasis is on the ‘Poop’.”), but you don’t just punish someone for giving them advice. Speaking of which, why didn’t he just punish the Nobel Prize Committee instead of the whole world?
* Is disabling your Hahaguffawchuckleamalus equivalent to a waking coma or to death? I think it is like death because the kids don’t move (but you can see one of the kids move), however, I think it’s like a coma since they can still speak and hear while in that state.

** Harold got the thing out of a regular cereal box, and was just making up that story to scare Mr. Krupp. The fact that the ring works so well is just a case of HollywoodHypnosis.

* Is disabling your Hahaguffawchuckleamalus equivalent to death? I think it is because the kids don’t move, however, they can still speak and hear.

* Where did the mind control ring come from? The movie expects us to believe the kids's story as true, yet TV Tropes says it's something they made up to explain its existance. If so...who REALLY made the ring, and how did the kids get ahold of it?

* Professor Poopypants was a victim of discrimination at the Nobel Prize ceremony. How would George’s suggested solution, laughing at himself, help him overcome this and his hatred of laughter, and what could be an example of something Professor Poopypants can do to laugh at himself? I just don’t see it working out like that, but I could see why he got mad at this suggestion: George and Harold do not know about the Nobel Prize incident at all!

* Professor Poopypants was a victim of discrimination at the Nobel Prize ceremony. How would George’s suggested solution, laughing at himself, help him overcome this and his hatred of laughter? I just don’t see it working out like that.