![]() ![]() ![]() Jerome Horwitz is the man who played Curly in the Three Stooges. They use the ring to hypnotize Krupp into believing he's Captain Underpants, and the rest is history.Īlthough this book is aimed at young children, there is some great humor in it for any adults who may be called upon to read it aloud.įor instance, the boys attend Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. The boys, chaffing under this treatment, decide to hypnotize Krupp using a mail-order hypno-ring. For instance, when he gets proof of the boys' misdeeds on tape, he blackmails them into becoming his personal slaves - making them wash his car, clip his fingernails and paint his house. He is not merely a put-upon principal struggling to control two misbehaving boys, but he is genuinely a bad person. Krupp, the school principal and is the boys' enemy. Harold and George are a couple of Ohioan pranksters who write, illustrate, distribute and sell homemade comic books called "The Amazing Captain Underpants" about a superhero in his skivvies who fights crime and monsters. However, much like Goosebumps, I cannot help but have a lot of gratitude for a series which got so many kids reading. I am not the target audience for this book. Whenever anything bad happened, George and Harold were usually responsible. George and Harold were usually responsible kids. ![]()
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