Captain Underpants

British pants, not American pants.

Captain Underpants.

No. Calvin Klein.

Correct.

Which, now that I hear the title, I'm like, oh, that could have been a totally different movie.

Not the spooky tale of Captain Underpants.

No.

That's what it's saying here.

What titles do you enjoy from Dave Pilkey?

All of them, which are Dog Man, Captain Underpants, and this other one named Super Diaper Baby.

It's a lesser known one.

His most famous are Dog Man and Captain Underpants, but...

Super Diaper Babies, really.

I never get tired of those books.

Did you like the film, the movie adaptations of Captain Underpants and Dogman?

I love the Dogman one.

Yeah, One Piece has sold more issues than Superman.

And I think the best-selling comic or graphic novel last year was like Captain Underpants or something.

Well, yeah, it's always like Dogman.

Yeah, or like Dogman, like these kids things, which is, again, you look at that and you're like, ah, I wish it was like...

Well, this is what we call a literary pumpkin.

And if you have read any of his books, it is Captain Underpants, okay, straight with the real fruit of the looms on the bottom.

Fully with the whitey tighties.

Now, this is a fake pumpkin that I...

I created, decorated and created into Captain Underpants.

Although people could do that on a real pumpkin.

I just like to keep him in my library with the Captain Underpants books.

So the kids get a kick out of it.

Um...

I call it the Captain Underpants religion because they teach that you have to wear your special magic linen underwear and you can only take it off to go to the bathroom or to have a shower.

You have to put it back on because if you aren't wearing it all the time and especially if you die not wearing it, you can't become a god of your own planet.

So I call it the Captain Underpants religion.

But be not deceived.

Don't be led astray into thinking that they are one of us.

They never got Frog and Toad.

They got, you know, SpongeBob SquarePants and, you know, who's the other one? Like, you know, Captain Underpants, you know? Right? That's right, yeah.

And so, like, one of the things I love to tell schools is the first week or two of school, I don't care what grade you're teaching, read fairy tales.

Just read fairy tales because it's a great way to get the kids sort of in the mode of learning.

No, but there's somebody else.

The guy that wrote Captain Underpants.

He's also from my town.

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