Ms. Creant, Mrs. DePoint and an unnamed woman, or also known as their fictional villain alter-agos as the Living Lunch Ladies, are the overarching antagonists of the third installment in the Captain Underpants book series by Dav Pilkey, 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).
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Three lunch ladies in a school were cleaning up the cafeteria late on Friday afternoon. They decided to pour the half-eaten food from the trash into a stew and serve it for lunch the following week. However, the janitor, unaware that they were still inside, locked the cafeteria for the weekend. Trapped inside, the lunch ladies had no choice but to eat their own food to survive, ironically it killed them.
Monday morning, the janitor found their corpses. Taking them away, he saw a sign on a hill that apparently said, "bury dead stuff here." So, he decided to bury the dead lunch ladies there. However, a tree was blocking part of the sign, it actually said, "Warning: This hill is haunted! Whatever you do, DON'T bury dead stuff here." As a result, the lunch ladies came back to life as zombies and wanted brains to eat. They attacked the gym teacher, resulting in the principal and kids calling for Captain Underpants. He tried to give them wedgies but it didn't work on zombies.
They got into a fight and Captain Underpants ran away, but the lunch ladies ran faster than their runny meatloaf gravy, were more powerful than the stench of their "Sloppy Joe" casserole, and can leap tall buildings with the gassy after-effects of their "texas-style" three-bean chili con carner. Captain Underpants tried tying them up with toilet paper, but the ladies melted it with their Salsbury steak sauce. Luckily, Captain Underpants used to paper as a lasso to escape from the top of the building, the lunch ladies were defeated after they fell into the trash and got soaked.
The real lunch ladies, Miss Creant, Mrs. DePoint, and one other unnamed lunch lady, were furious when they found out about the comic George and Harold wrote. After an incident involving green cupcakes, which was partially their fault, they went to complain to Principal Krupp and showed him the comic. The three also said this wasn't the only comic they've written, but just this one appears in the book.
Mrs. DePoint says that she ate her food once and hardly got sick at all, making the comic untrue. Although, their chipped beef made the Talking Toilets throw up, so she may just have a strong stomach. Since Principal Krupp couldn't properly punish them without evidence, the three lunch ladies angrily quit despite Krupp's objections.
This inadvertently allowed the plan of Zorx, Klax & Jennifer to be set into motion since they saw this and immediately filled in for them on the spot. It is not known what happened to the three of them afterwards nor who replaced the three aliens after they were killed.
Trivia[]
- Miss Creant and Mrs. DePoint are puns on "miscreant" and "misses the point."
- Them flooding the school with the sticky, green goop was one of the factors that lead to Mr. Fyde quitting the school, leading to Professor Poopypants becoming a teacher there.
- In Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, the three elderly cafeteria ladies are replaced by a young woman named Edith.
- If one looks closely in George's bedroom, they can see a drawing of the Living Lunch Ladies. This implies the same scenario from the books happened in the movie.
- Additionally, in an episode of The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, George and Harold reveal while trying to make Ms. Yewh quit that they had once made a comic that made a teacher(s) quit, though it wasn't on purpose. As the three elderly ladies are replaced with only one in the series, this implies the same scenario happened in the show as well.
- At one point, Mr. Krupp can be seen opening a lunch bag which exploded with green goo. That may have been a homage to the prank in the third book.
- If one looks closely in George's bedroom, they can see a drawing of the Living Lunch Ladies. This implies the same scenario from the books happened in the movie.
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External Links[]
- Cafeteria Ladies on the Captain Underpants Wiki
- Cafeteria Ladies on the Captain Underpants Villains Wiki