The wild pranks and bathroom humor in the Captain Underpants books were just too much for some adults. In several places around the country they have been taken off library shelves and banned from ...

An elementary school in Michigan has banned the latest "Captain Underpants" novel because one of the main characters is gay.

Captain Underpants is back, in his skivvies and ready to save the world. Scholastic has announced two new books in the best-selling children's series by Dav Pilkey, which follows mischievous ...

In addition to underwear jokes, “Captain Underpants” features peepee jokes, fart jokes, and giant monster-toilet jokes. The movie could be to grade-school scatology what “Cloudy With a ...

A lot is going on at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. School principal Mr. Krupp (Ed Helms) is hypnotized into believing he’s a rather inane superhero in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie.

It’s hard to say the name “Captain Underpants” without smiling, and the big-screen debut of the skivvies-clad superhero (the film’s subtitle is “The First Epic Movie”) maintains that ...

Captain Underpants has been flying around in naught but a cape and a pair of tighty-whiteys since his first book was published in 1997. Since then, author Dav Pilkey has penned nine gleefully ...

“Captain Underpants” achieves a convincingly hand-drawn look in the characters’ chunky oval bodies, the buildings they inhabit and the backgrounds where the action is set.

(Long Beach, NY-AP) October 26, 2006 - Captain Underpants may be a superhero, but he isn't welcome at one suburban New York school. Three 17-year-old girls were told to leave Long Beach High ...

Captain Underpants has battled talking toilets and Professor Poopypants, but he was no match for a high-school principal who banned students ...

The "Captain Underpants" series isn't a favorite for everyone. In 2002, the American Library Association ranked the books among those most frequently complained about by parents and educators. In ...