Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

Infobox Book
name = Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets


image_caption = First edition cover
author = Dav Pilkey
illustrator = Dav Pilkey
country = United States
language = English
series = "Captain Underpants" series
genre = Children's novel
publisher = Blue Sky (US),
Scholastic (US)
pub_date = 1998
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages =
isbn =
preceded_by = The Adventures of Captain Underpants
followed_by = Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds)

"Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets" is a children's book by Dav Pilkey, the second "Captain Underpants" book series.

Plot summary

Jerome Horwitz Elementary School is going to hold its second annual Invention Convention. Students George and Harold remember how at the last Invention Convention, they pulled a prank on the school that super-glued everyone to their seats. This year, however, because the winners of the Invention Convention get to be principal for a day, they decide to take it seriously.

Unfortunately, their Principal Mr Krupp wants to avoid a fiasco like last year's and bans George and Harold from the Invention Convention, forcing them to stay in study hall all day. They decide to secretly sabotage everyone's inventions in revenge.

While sneaking in to sabotage the inventions, they run into Melvin Sneedley, the school brainiac. Melvin is working late on his invention, the PATSY 2000, which is a photocopier that turns two-dimensional objects into three-dimensional objects. To demonstrate, he puts in a photo of a mouse and out comes a real mouse.

George and Harold assume Melvin put the real mouse in earlier, and he's just trying to fool them. They promise not to sabotage Melvin's invention as long as he doesn't report them for what they are doing.

Thanks to the George and Harold, the Invention Convention is a disaster and everyone in the school gets covered in slimy goo. Melvin Sneedly breaks his promise and tattles on George and Harold. As punishment, Mr. Krupp puts George and Harold in detention for the rest of the year, with the threat that they'll be suspended if they leave the detention room.

George and Harold quickly finish their detention work and start to write a comic called "Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets" in which the Amazing Captain Underpants defeats millions of vicious talking toilets and their leader, the Turbo Toilet 2000.

George and Harold sneak out to make copies of their new comic on Melvin's photocopy machine.

Unfortunately, Melvin's machine really does turn two-dimensional objects into three-dimensional objects, so the evil, vicious talking toilets come to life and attack everyone in the school. Thanks to one of the teachers snapping her fingers at a toilet, Mr. Krupp turns into Captain Underpants, who comes up with a plan to stop the Talking Toilets. George and Harold chase after him as Captain Underpants takes several pairs of underwear from unsuspecting clotheslines.

Once back at the school, George, Harold and Captain Underpants use the underwear as a sling shot to shoot food in the Talking Toilets' mouths. Since it is disgusting cafeteria food, the Talking Toilets die.

The Turbo Toilet 2000 bursts out of the school (he was turned to life like all the other Talking Toilets, but was previously unseen). After a quick battle The Turbo Toilet 2000 swallows Captain Underpants whole! George and Harold sneak into the school and use Melvin Sneedly's machine to make a super-powered robot who does whatever they say.

The Incredible Robo-Plunger defeats the Turbo Toilet 2000, repairs all the damage, and takes all the evidence to Uranus with the command never to return. In return for fixing the school, George and Harold's suspension is cancelled and they get to be principals for the day. As the principals, they hold an all-day carnival and put the teachers (and Melvin Sneedly) in detention. After telling Mr. Krupp that they sold most of the school's furniture to pay for the carnival and running away for their lives. But Ms. Anthrope snaps her fingers, causing George and Harold to run after Captain Underpants again!

Comic: Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

The comic in the book starts with another normal day at school until a UFO appears and shoots the school with a ray. This ray causes the toilets to come to life and start eating everyone in the school (including, to nobody's dismay, the Gym Teacher). Captain Underpants appears and places plungers in the toilets mouths, so they cannot eat anymore. The Turbo Toilet 2000 appears and a fight begins. Capt. Underpants wins by giving the T.T.2000 a wedgie and placing it on a stop sign. The T.T.2000 is aimed and fired at the UFO, causing them both to explode. Everything goes back to normal as the comic ends.

Characters

Characters who first appear in this book are:
*Melvin Sneedly
*Ms. Anthrope
*Madison Mancini
*Donny Shoemyer
*Freddie Moore
*The Talking Toilets
*The Turbo Toilet 2000
*The Incredible Robo-Plunger

Trivia

*Early versions of this book say "Another Epic Novel" instead of "The Second Epic Novel".
*We learn that Melvin tells on people for things that are none of his business (tattles).
*The banners for the Invention Convention's say "Last Years Invention Convention" and "This Years Invention Convention". These are physically impossible.
*Later, in the fourth and seventh book, we see the robot and the toilets on Uranus.
*In Super Diaper Baby, Deputy Doo-Doo goes to Uranus as well. Also, in the fifth book the kickball on page 101 and 102 goes to Uranus as well. Uranus may be favoured because of the crude pun on the planet's homophone "your anus". The Robo-Boogers go there for a short time, too.
*Mr. Krupp punishes George and Harold and makes them fill chalkboards with "I will never do anything which angers my handsome and charming principal, Mr. Krupp, ever, ever again." George and Harold get revenge when they are made Principals for a Day, and they punish many teachers to write the following sentences on chalkboards:
**Ms. Anthrope: I will get a life.
**Mr. Krupp: I will be very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very nice to "George the Great" and "The Amazing Harold".
**Mr. Meaner: I will chill out.
**Ms. Ribble: I will stop being such a crab.
**Melvin: I will not be a tattle-tale.
*Melvin also appears in the sixth and seventh book and makes cameos throughout he series.
*One of the students seen at the Invention Convention is called Madison Mancini; Madison Mancini is Dav Pilkey's niece.