| “ | Bernice: Well, I sort of remember that fourth grade talent show not going so good. Got a picture around here somewhere. Now, where's that daggone picture? I swear I just put-- Oh, yeah. Right there. He was real bad. It was a disaster. George: Whoa! Where did all those fruits and vegetables come from? Bernice: I brought them. Passed them out. Dang it, he was supposed to be helping me with the cows. You can't get milk out of a talent show. George: Weird. Harold: But true. Bernice: He never got over it. Nitwit's been a grumpy bully ever since that day. What is wrong with him? George: You, maybe? |
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| ~ Bernice telling George and Harold how Mr. Krupp became a mean and evil man. |
Bernice Krupp is a minor antagonist in the Dreamworks Animation series The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, which is based on Dav Pilkey’s Captain Underpants children's book series, serving as the overarching antagonist of "The Soggy Salvation of the Swirling Sweatnami".
She is Benjamin Krupp's abusive mother and owner of the Krupp cow ranch. She is one of the reasons for Mr. Krupp bring a grumpy and mean person as she verbally abused him and only saw him as a disappointment.
She is voiced by Tudi Roche.
Appearance[]
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Personalty[]
The narrator says that Bernice is a tough cowgirl. She is seen to be very un-supportive of her son, Benjamin, or "Benny" as she calls him; as for her, he doesn't help her much on the farm, but rather spends her time on talent shows. She calls him a "sweet bundle of great disappointment. " In Season 3, Mr. Krupp admits that he never really loved her. She wanted him to be free labor on the farm. She doesn't see that she is the reason for Benjamin being mean as an adult.
She is willing to give out fruits and vegetables to other people and throw them at him in order to get her son to work harder on the farm. She is upset when George and Harold help him do better on the show, rather than being happy with their son.
History[]
Mr. Krupp once says that Bernice never really loved him. She wanted him to be able to work on the family cattle farm. At Benjamin's fourth grade talent show, Bernice arrived and handed out fruit and vegetables to the other children while yelling at him. She was the first to throw a tomato at him and encouraged the other kids to do the same. Since then, Mr. Krupp has become a mean, strict, aggressive and evil as an adult since the incident.
In "The Soggy Salvation of the Swirling Sweatnami", George and Harold are wondering why Mr. Krupp is so mean. If they want to know more about why he is the way he is, they should speak to his mother according to Erica Wang. The Krupp Cow Ranch is where Benjamin's mom lives. When they ring the bell, the door opens and a rope pulls them inside. After jumping on them, she realized the boys are not cows. She thought the cows were in her cattle because they had been ringing the doorbell all night. George asked why her son was mean.
Bernice reveals that Benjamin is her sweet "big disappointment" to her and that he did poorly in his fourth grade talent show because she was the one handing out fruits and vegetables to the other kids to throw at him. As she has picture of the incident on her wall. She said that he became mean and grumpy after that day, and that he couldn't get milk from a talent show.
In order to prevent Mr. Krupp form becoming a mean villain, the boys steal Melvin's time machine to travel back in time to Benjamin's fourth grade talent show, where they first see the accident and decided to back in time 5 minutes and help young Benny improve at the show, Harold is seen taking a basket of fruit and vegetables from her, leaving her confused. She is upset that everyone is rooting for him.
She was last appear when the boys went back in time and unfortunately had to return things to the way they were, due to mistakenly creating a world where an more evil version of Mr. Krupp has rule the world, they quietly placing the basket of fruit and vegetables next to her to throw at Benny again.
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Trivia[]
- On Instagram, Dav commented on the fanart fanart of what Krupp's family would look like. He said Benjamin's mother's name is Grace. Here, however, her name is Bernice.
