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Season 1
  1. "Captain Underpants and the Frenzied Farts of Flabby Flabulous": George and Harold get revenge on their gym teacher by writing him into a ridiculous new comic. But the joke's on them when life imitates art.
  2. "Captain Underpants and the Dreadful Debacle of DJ Drowsy Drawers": A school dance sounds like fun — but only if the boys can keep their music teacher from playing DJ and putting everyone to sleep.
  3. "Captain Underpants and the Horrible Hostilities of the Homework Hydra": To get out of an epic assignment, George and Harold go back in time to the moment homework was invented to try and stop it before it starts.
  4. "Captain Underpants and the Vexing Villiany of the Vile Vimpire": After Erica critiques their comic book, George and Harold create a brand-new character — a vampire who sucks the joy out of everything.
  5. Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Perilous Misfortune of the T.P. Mummy": A T.P. prank gone wrong leads to clogged toilets — and a fateful explosion — that turns the boys' new French teacher into a mummy.
  6. "Captain Underpants and the Squishy Predicament of the Stanley Peet's Stinky Pits": Holy guacamole! George and Harold are so determined to win an avocado-growing contest that they accidentally turn their science teacher into a monster.
  7. "Captain Underpants and the Costly Conundrum of the Calamitous Claylossus": Rumors swirl around the shadowy Bo Hweemuth, a mysterious student with secret gifts who has the whole school living in fear.
  8. "Captain Underpants and the Jarring Jerkiness of the Judge J.O.R.T.S.": The boys' latest comic inspires their jorts-wearing Spanish teacher to become a superhero with otherworldly powers.
  9. "Captain Underpants and the Strange Strife of the Smelly Socktopus": After Erica compares her suspension to a vacation, a jealous George and Harold pull every prank in the book so they can get suspended, too.
  10. "Captain Underpants and the Flustering Mindless Woe of the Flushable Memory Wipes": A chocolate-pudding "incident" sends George and Harold into hiding. But there's a new principal when they come back — and no one remembers them!
  11. "Captain Underpants and the Soggy Salvation of the Swirling Sweatnami": The boys travel back in time to stop Mr. Krupp from becoming a bully, only to find that their plan has turned him into a ruthless businessman.
  12. "Captain Underpants and the Sickening Fumes of Smartsy Fartsy": To steal Mr. Krupp's rule book from a tightly locked safe, the boys cook up a super-intelligent gas cloud who winds up turning against them.
  13. "Captain Underpants and the Troublesome Treachery of the Thieving Toot Fairy": It's a race against time as George and Harold try to get Mr. Krupp fired before he can have them expelled. But first: a faceoff with the Toot Fairy!

Season 2

  1. "Captain Underpants and the Tenuous Takedown of the Tyrannical Teachertrons": With Mr. Krupp gone and two terrible Melvins in charge, George and Harold fight back by hypnotizing their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner.
  2. "Captain Underpants and the Frantic Fury of the Fearsome Furcules": The boys recruit kids to join the M.I.S.F.A.R.T.S.— the Mega Incredible Search Force Adventure Rescue Team Squad — and bring Mr. Krupp back to school.
  3. "Captain Underpants and the Harmful Horrors of the Harrowing Hiveschool": After injecting all the teachers with bee DNA, the Melvins run the new “hive mind” of the school — until Ms. Ribble accidentally becomes queen bee.
  4. "Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Pulverizing of the Pestering Poopacabra": George and Harold train a rat for extra credit. But when their subject escapes into the sewers, he’s doused with toxic waste and becomes… Poopacabra!
  5. "Captain Underpants and the Dastardly Deed of the Devious Diddlysaurus": Who knew a thawed-out dinosaur could read comics and pull pranks? Well, this one does — and he’s one of George and Harold’s biggest fans.
  6. "Captain Underpants and the Shadowy Syndrome of the Sinister Splotch": Captain Underpants becomes a wanted man when a criminal who looks just like him starts robbing banks. Can George and Harold help clear his name?
  7. "Captain Underpants and the Bizarre Blitzkrieg of the Bothersome Butt-erflies": The boys use Melvin’s new animal hybrid invention to make a creature that’s a cross between a butt and a fly. But these butt-erflies are real monsters!
  8. "Captain Underpants and the Problematic Pandemonium of the Punishing Plungerina": After George and Harold work with Erica to create a new comic book hero, she springs off the page — and plunges into real-life crime fighting.
  9. "Captain Underpants and the Bombastic Blathering of Brainy Blabulous": The boys transfer to a bizarro version of Jerome Horwitz Elementary, where the teachers are nice, the kids are good… and fun is nowhere to be found.
  10. "Captain Underpants and the Crazy Caustic Spray of the Contagious Cruelius Sneezer": George and Harold trick Melvin into turning their bus into a time machine so they can reroute their field trip and see what ancient Rome was really like.
  11. "Captain Underpants and the Trashy Tale of the Tumultuous Tubbadump": The Melvins’ latest invention sends the boys’ Dump Day “trash-alanche” into another dimension — and inadvertently summons a monster.
  12. "Captain Underpants and the Taxing Trauma of the Treacherous Tattle Trials, Part 1": A final exam sends George and Harold to the Doom Dome, where they must battle Melvin — who’s been injected with powerful nanobots — in order to pass.
  13. "Captain Underpants and the Taxing Trauma of the Treacherous Tattle Trials, Part 2": Summer camp is on the line as Melvin’s nanobots find a new host in Captain Underpants, forcing the boys to shrink down and go inside his brain.

Season 3

  1. "Captain Underpants and the Worrisome Wedge of the Water Warmongers": George and Harold can't wait to spend the summer together at camp — but not so fast, boys, as old nemesis Mr. Krupp has an unpleasant surprise.
  2. "Captain Underpants and the Angry Abnormal Atrocities of the Astute Animal Aggressors": Stuck in separate camps, George and Harold unleash a hyperintelligent talking possum to scare the pants off Krupp.
  3. "Captain Underpants and the Abysmal Altercation of the Abominable Altitooth": Eager to get the campers out of his hair, Mr. Krupp orders them to climb Plummet Peak, where a terrifying creature is rumored to live.
  4. "Captain Underpants and the Bizarre Bout of the Beastly Barfilisk": George and Harold don't ask for much — just a fun scavenger hunt that does not include doing Krupp's errands; careful what you wish for, fellas.
  5. "Captain Underpants and the Monstrous Mayhem of the Massive Melviathan": A run-of-the-mill arts and crafts session turns into an interdimensional adventure from which George, Harold and others may never return.
  6. "Captain Underpants and the Savage Spite of the Slimy Salamangler": Mr. Krupp's campers take on rich rivals in a hoity-toity boat race that also features a revenge-obsessed giant salamander — paging Captain Underpants.
  7. "Captain Underpants and the Cunning Combat of the Covert Camoflush": The campers' splat-tastic game of paintball is rather rudely interrupted by a foul, formidable fiend known only as Camoflush.
  8. "Captain Underpants and the Bad Beat of the Blah Borelock": With fun in short supply, George and Harold persuade Mr. Krupp to dump the campers in the middle of the forest so they can learn to rough it.
  9. "Captain Underpants and the Ghastly Danger of the Ghost Dentist": The pressure is on George and Harold to tell the scariest campfire story ever; perhaps their tale of an ill-fated frontier dentist will do the trick.
  10. "Captain Underpants and the Confounding Concoction of the Crooked Combotato": A fierce game of plot potato takes an unexpected twist when Melvin unleashes one of his most fiendish — and carb-loaded — creations to date.
  11. "Captain Underpants and the Ludicrous Lunacy of the Loopy Laserlightmare": Despite being terrible at the job, Mr. Krupp wants to be the camp director again next summer, which is something that George and Harold cannot abide.
  12. "Captain Underpants and the Shocking Showdown of the Staggering Sugamechanger": It is parents' weekend at Lake Summer Camp, and Krupp is eager to make amends with George and Harold — or so he says.
  13. "Captain Underpants and the Polarizing Plight of the Pitiless Poopetrators": George and Harold want Cash Networth to buy the camp and fire Mr. Krupp, but before he'll agree to pony up the dough, Cash has a small request of his own.

Halloween Special

  • "The Spooky Tale of Captain Underpants: Hack-A-Ween": When Melvin tries to cancel Halloween, clever best friends George and Harold create their own spooky holiday — and it's a huge success.

Season 4 (aka "The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants in Space")

  1. "Captain Underpants and the Senseless Torment of the Space Toilet": Inspired by their favorite TV show, George and Harold — along with Principal Krupp — blast off to outer space, where an angry toilet awaits.
  2. "Captain Underpants and the Abandoned Artifact of the Absentee Aliens": After George and Harold learn the truth about their mission, Dupe Licitous enlists the entire crew in a quest to repair a rogue satellite.
  3. "Captain Underpants and the Hazardous Hysteria of the Hangry Hypnosinger": Everybody on the spaceship has been cryogenically frozen for three months — everyone, that is, except Krupp, who’s wide awake and happily in charge.
  4. "Captain Underpants and the Disturbing Dilemma of the Dysfunctional Doppelgängers": The crew meets their blue-hued doppelgängers when they crash-land on an alien planet where kids call all the shots.
  5. "Captain Underpants and the Confusing Crisis of the Conniving Captive": Melvin’s not exactly their friend… but it’s not like George and Harold can just let him be held captive by diabolical Biglyans, right? Right?!?
  6. "Captain Underpants and the Aggravated Assault of the Alien Armada": Oh, the indignity: George and Harold are forced to perform spa treatments on gigantic Biglyans. Also, Dr. Fitzgibbons reveals a shocking secret.

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