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“ | Don't laugh too hard, kiddies. You all have to change your names, too, or I'll shrink you again. | „ |
~ Professor Poopypants threatening to shrink kids in the book if don't change their names. |
“ | Hiya, class! I'm your cool new teacher, not some scary guy with a secret evil agenda. | „ |
~ Professor Poopypants' most famous quote from the movie as he introduces himself to the class, foreshadowing his true identity. |
“ | Oh, I hope you enjoyed your years of laughter and merriment. Because they're about to COME TO AN END. | „ |
~ Professor Poopypants to George and Harold before getting rid of their Hahaguffachuckleamulus. |
Tippy Tinkletrousers II, formerly known as Professor Pippy Pee-Pee Poopypants, or Professor Pippy Pee-Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants, Esq. in the film, is the main antagonist of the Captain Underpants franchise.
He is a scientist who once created a variety of inventions to benefit humanity, only for him to be mocked and shunned by the scientific community due to his ridiculous name. After taking up a job as an elementary school teacher and being humiliated by George Beard and Harold Hutchins, he decides to take over the world and force everyone to change their names to be as ridiculous as his own. He is also the arch-nemesis of Captain Underpants.
In the 2017 computer-animated film adaptation, he was voiced by Nick Kroll, who also played Douche in Sausage Party and Sergei in The Secret Life of Pets 2. In the Scholastic audiobook series, he is voiced by Len Forgione.
Appearance[]
Before his villain arc in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, he wore a brown vest and pants with yellow buttons and a dark maroon bow tie. He also wore black shoes and extremely dark purple glasses. His book and villain form, he wears a blue bowtie and a magenta vest with a light blue undershirt. He also has on a pair of dark purple pants, a pair of purple glasses and still keeps his black shoes. What else does he keep? His hair is still gray!
Personality[]
Prior to his path of villainy, Poopypants was a calm-minded and intelligent scientist/inventor, determined to achieve his goal of presenting his inventions to the world that could solve world problems.
However, because of his silly name, nobody ever took him seriously, leading to him building anger and frustration. Poopypants eventually snapped and became an insane madman, whose goal was world domination and the destruction of Captain Underpants.
He once believed that kids were sweet and innocent, hence his reasoning for applying for a job as a science teacher at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School. However, when even the children laughed at his name, this further built up his rage even more.
Biography[]
Books[]
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants[]
Poopypants first appeared in the fourth novel The Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, where he was a brilliant inventor and scientist hailing from the country of New Swissland (where it is tradition for everyone to have a silly name, hence the professor's name), he travels to the United States with the goal of using a pair of inventions of his to reduce the world's garbage supply and increase the world's food supply. However, on account of his ridiculous name, no one takes him or his miraculous invention seriously.
Having had no luck with his inventions, Professor Poopypants finds an ad for a job at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School (ran by Mr. Krupp) as the new science teacher (since the previous one quit) on a newspaper in a New York coffee shop. He happily applies for the job in hopes that the children would be good-natured and kind. However, this proves false as the students all laugh at his name when get got the job, paying no attention in class. Though Poopypants temporarily reclaims the class's respect by unveiling his Gerbil Jogger 2000, a machine which gerbils can use to jog, the class soon started mocking Poopypants days later for weeks, driving the Professor to the brink of insanity.
He finally snaps when he finds a comic book written by George Beard and Harold Hutchins (the two main protagonists of the book series). They called him the Pied Pooper of Piqua. In the comic, Poopypants builds several Gerbil Jogger 2000s and brainwashes an army of gerbils by making them listen to Cher's greatest hits. The principal called for Captain Underpants when they attacked the children and cupcakes. When he arrived and laughed at his name, Poopypants used his bowtie to transform into a cyborg. After a chase, Poopypants managed to catch Captain Underpants. Before he could crush him in a machine, however, the hero sprayed him with a toilet causing him to rust. Then, Captain Underpants destroyed the controller with the Cher music, freeing the gerbils and saving the children, before taking Poopypants away.
Using an enlarged version of his Gerbil Jogger 2000 invention, he crazily holds the school hostage and shrinks them using his shrink ray, then makes them change their names to a silly name lest he shrinks them down to nothing. George and Harold (now Fluffy and Cheeseball) get Captain Underpants (now Buttercup Chickenfanny, but he refused to change his name) to steal Professor Poopypants' enlarging machine, but unfortunately, he and the machine are shrunk in the process.
The two of them try to enlarge the school back to normal size but get flicked off the school. Cheeseball makes a paper airplane that Fluffy enlarges. The plane flies into many threats, yet Captain Underpants rescues them and they end up in an abandoned alley. Fluffy tries to enlarge Captain Underpants (accidentally enlarging Cheeseball's right hand) to the size of Professor Poopypants's gerbil machine. Captain Underpants then fights and defeats the professor.
Once Professor Poopypants is defeated, everyone gets their names back. The boys use the shrinking and enlarging machines to get the school and Captain Underpants back to normal size. Then Captain Underpants gets soaked with water, turning back to Mr. Krupp.
Before Professor Poopypants is hauled off to jail, George and Harold (showing some sympathy) pointed out that it would've been better for Poopypants to change his own name to get rid of the mockery instead of forcing others to change their names, something which Poopypants realized as he stated that he never thought of that before. Sadly, he chooses his maternal grandfather's name, Tippy Tinkletrousers, which his fellow inmates mock.
Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman[]
In the fifth book, Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman, Poopypants seems to have had lasting effects on the citizens of Piqua more than a week since his arrest, as Eyewitness News reporters Ingrid Ashley and Larry Zarrow continue to use their respective changed names under Poopypants's scheme: Chim-Chim Diaperbrains and Booger Stinkersquirt. While Ingrid frequently corrects herself, Larry is presumably still used to his changed name.
Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple-Potty People[]
An alternate, benevolent version of Tippy Tinkletrousers appears in the eighth book, Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple-Potty People, working for the fire department along with alternate versions of Zorx, Klax, and Jennifer. The real Tippy Tinkletrousers appears at the end of the book in a giant pair of robotic trousers and gets angry at two cops that laugh at his name. He then freezes the cops with his latest invention: The Freezy Beam 4000. He then announces, "It's time for my revenge!". He then chases after George, Harold, Sulu, and Crackers.
Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers[]
Tippy serves as the two overarching antagonists (alongside the Haunted Pants of Wedgie Magee) of the ninth book (Captain Underpants and the Terrifying Return of Tippy Tinkletrousers). It is revealed here that what happened at the end of the eighth book did not originally happen, as Tippy Tinkletrousers and the robotic trousers were actually from the future and interrupted what was supposed to happen. In the original timeline, after George, Harold, and Mr. Krupp get arrested for the crimes of Evil George, Evil Harold, and Captain Blunderpants, Tippy reveals his newest robotic suit to his prisoners by claiming that he is building a statue for the warden. He then takes Mr. Krupp and breaks both of them out as he wishes to find George and Harold and get revenge on Captain Underpants for throwing him in prison.
He succeeds in finding the two boys due to Mr. Krupp telling him they are in the Piqua Juvenile Detention Center, but George and Harold snap their fingers in front of him, transforming him into Captain Underpants, but revealing to Tippy who the Captain is when not fighting crime. The Captain goes off to find a cape which he finds in the Everything Except Fabric Softener Store.
Tippy then interrogates the boys on everything they know about their superhero until the Captain arrives. They fight, but the Captain easily beats the Professor with ease before the Captain tricks the Professor into freezing the suits' feet. The Captain then rips off the top of the suit, reducing it to the robotic trousers as seen at the end of Book 8.
Realizing the Captain is too powerful for him to beat, the Professor decides to go back in time five years ago to escape from him. Tippy does so and successfully escape from Captain Underpants. When Kipper Krupp and his friends run from an apparent ghost, Tippy appears in front of the sixth graders in his robot pants and states it looks like they have seen a ghost.
This causes the four boys to go insane and taken to a reality-challenged institute as well as leaving Mr. Krupp to be blamed for all the events that happened in his school. He is fired from his position as principal due to everyone blaming him. Tippy, not realizing what he had just done, go back to the future while also noting kids five years ago were different than he thought they were.
However, when he returns, he sees the future ruined and destroyed. He learns from a small boy that the moon got blown up by Dr. Diaper, talking toilets started rampaging around the city, and giant zombie nerds began terrorizing the town.
Realizing that he had created a huge mistake, the Professor tries to get back into his robot pants and undo the entire mess, but he is seemingly squashed by the giant zombie nerd George and Harold before he could do so.
Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers[]
Tippy serves as the main antagonist of the tenth book (Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers). It's revealed that Tippy Tinkletrousers was not killed by the Zombie Nerd Harold, because zombie nerds are slow due to their incredible size, and Tippy faked his death by placing a bag of ketchup under Harold's feet.
Tippy went back in time to before he drove the bullies insane and froze them before they could see him. He shrunk his younger self and returned to the present with him. When the bullies thawed, history was restored to normal. Tippy confronted George and Harold and froze the cops as was depicted at the end of Book 8. He attempted his revenge on George and Harold, but they escaped him and went back in time to return Crackers to the dinosaur age, bringing Sulu with them to protect him from Tippy and accidentally bringing Mr. Krupp with them due to him chasing after George and Harold. Tippy sent his smaller, younger self back in time to find out where George and Harold disappeared to. Because of this, three Tippys existed at once: "Big Tippy," "Tiny Tippy," and “Slightly Younger Tiny Tippy.”
They traveled back in time after George and Harold, during which Tiny Tippy and Slightly Younger Tiny Tippy decided they didn't like being bossed around, so they snuck out and traveled through time to get the Goosy-Grow 4000 (ironically causing role reversal between the boy who often noticed the events and his mother who was skeptical about them). Tiny Tippy had Slightly Younger Tiny Tippy use it to restore him to his normal size and then again to make him bigger, calling himself "Supa Mega Tippy." However, he refused to use the Goosy-Grow 4000 on Slightly Younger Tiny Tippy and immediately traveled back to the Mesozoic Era.
Meanwhile, Big Tippy fought Captain Underpants, discovering that water turns him back into Mr. Krupp. Then Supa Mega Tippy appeared (with Slightly Younger Tiny Tippy aboard his robot unseen). Big Tippy told his bigger self about Captain Underpants's weakness, but they argued over who should destroy him, resulting in Big Tippy activating the timer of a nuclear bomb on his robot in an attempt to kill Captain Underpants himself. Even though the bombs couldn't be turned off, he didn't care as long as it killed his nemesis. Supa Mega Tippy traveled into the future with the others after kicking Big Tippy to Mexico before the bomb exploded, killing Big Tippy along with the dinosaurs.
After the death of the orignal Tippy and the dinosaurs, Supa Mega Tippy was killed by an ice age in caveman times, and Slightly Younger Tiny Tippy was killed by his own bomb in a time before the universe began and created the universe with the Big Bang (or "Big Ka-Bloosh Theory"). Thus, all three of the Tippy Tinkletrousers‘ deaths caused the major events of the universe to take place.
Captain Underpants and the Tyrannical Retaliation of the Turbo Toilet 2000[]
He made a cameo appearance in the eleven book in the part when Melvin, Captain Underpants, George and Harold arrive in the present. However, he was only seen from behind.
Film[]
Poopypants reappears in the film as the main antagonist. While he is a villain from the start, this version of Poopypants is less homicidal than the book attempting to simply get rid of laughter and never trying to kill anyone unlike his book counterpart. Also, unlike the books, becoming a science teacher was merely a front for his evil plans.
As revealed in a flashback, Poopypants was once an esteemed scientist who, at a Nobel Prize ceremony, unveiled a ray that could alter the sizes of anything it hits. However, all the attendees mocked his name, causing him to descend into villainy.
At the start of the film, he visits Jerome Horwitz Elementary in the hopes of being hired as the new science teacher. Captain Underpants (under his Mr. Krupp disguise) happily hires him because of his lack of common sense, as Poopypants is clearly insane (as well as unqualified for the job, as even Poopypants himself bluntly admits).
Using the name "Professor P." to avoid ridicule, Poopypants attempts to fit in with the students while teaching them his goals of ridding the world of humor. His problems soon resurface, though, when George and Harold discover Poopypants' name and mock it throughout the school.
Having enough of the mockery, Poopypants plots to take over the town, and recruits the local tattletale Melvin Sneedly to his cause after seeing that his brain has literally no sense of humor. Poopypants is also astounded to hear that Melvin has previously built a brilliant invention known as the Turbo Toilet 2000. With that in mind, Poopypants uses his technology to make the Turbo Toilet 2000 grow in size and uses toxic cafeteria leftovers as fuel for the robot. He then uses Melvin's brain as a source to turn all of the school's students and staff into zombies with no sense of humor.
When Captain Underpants tries to stop Poopypants, the latter gets the Turbo Toilet 2000 to swallow Captain Underpants whole before capturing George and Harold, intending to erase their senses of humor to finalize his plan. George and Harold then apologize to Poopypants for laughing at his name, and they admit he has the greatest name ever. But Poopypants still stubbornly states his name is unfunny. George then tells Poopypants that his problem isn't that people laugh at him, it's that he can't laugh at himself. Still not convinced, Poopypants proceeds his plan. However, it is harder to erase George and Harold's senses of humor because the parts of their brains that house their humor are enormous. After he finally manages to corrupt George and Harold, he launches into a speech about his goals to conquer the entire universe. However, when he mentions Uranus, the very thing that sparked the boys' friendship, the duo regains their sense of humor, crashing the Turbo-Toilet's computer and returning the students' senses of humor.
Following Melvin getting rolled away in a giant roll of toilet paper from the Turbo Toilet 2000, Poopypants angrily attempts to shrink both George and Harold in revenge for foiling his plans, but Captain Underpants comes to the rescue, having escaped from the Turbo Toilet 2000's mouth by consuming the leftovers to gain superpowers. Captain Underpants then proceeds to defeat Poopypants and Harold uses Poopypants' invention, the "Sizerator", to shrink Poopypants. Defeated, Poopypants retreated by riding on a bee, only to be accidentally flicked away by Captain Underpants with Poopypants screaming, "I'm free!".
Quotes[]
Books[]
“ | You haven’t seen the last of me! | „ |
~ Tippy escaping Captain Underpants by going back in time 5 years ago. |
Movie[]
“ | Professor Poopypants: (angrily) Why are you laughing? I've invented a shrinking and enlarging ray! I should be famous! I should be dating models twice my size... and doing the talk show circuit! I should be protecting baby seals as a cause... that I say I care about, but not really! Attendee: (while laughing) This guy is too much! Professor Poopypants: (angrily) Stop! Stop laughing! No, stop it! Nobel Moderator: (calms down from laughing) Okay. Phew! Oh... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Here. Take the award. It's really fun to say Poopypants. Professor Poopypants: (angrily) You keep your stupid award! I don't want it anymore. Oh, and one more thing... (He shrinks down the moderator in retaliation.) Nobel Moderator: (while shrunken) On behalf of the Nobel Prize committee, please accept our apology. And could you change me back now please? Professor Poopypants: (angrily) Why don't you go on and invent your own shrinking and enlarging ray... if you think you're so smart? |
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~ Poopypants being laughed at by the attendees, causing him to descend into villainy. |
“ | A science teacher? The perfect cover! | „ |
~ Poopypants' first line in the film, ironic for George and Harold had just told Captain Underpants there were no bad guys around. |
“ | I was just admiring your broken window, which is in the shape of a man. | „ |
~ Poopypants talking about Krupp’s broken window at Captain Underpants jump though. |
“ | MAD… genius inventor, but yes. | „ |
~ Poopypants as he slams a mace on Mr. Krupp's desk. |
“ | Their smiles brighten my heart and fill me with a joy-adjacent feeling. As long as they are controlled and do not laugh nor smile nor play nor laugh. Children must never laugh! | „ |
~ Poopypants to Captain Underpants (disguised as Mr. Krupp). |
“ | Excellent! Also, I'm going to need Mondays off, along with every Tuesday through Thursday for my evil experiments. Hope that's not a problem, okay, bye-bye! | „ |
~ Poopypants reveals his true nature, though George and Harold already figured it out, and Captain Underpants doesn't realize it. |
“ | Professor Poopypants: (to the students) Hiya, class. I'm your cool, new teacher. Not some scary guy with a secret evil agenda. Anyway, I'm just going to dive right in here. If there was one thing about this world that you could change... (spins the globe) what would it be? Girl: (raises her hand) Ooh! Ooh! Peace on Earth. Professor Poopypants: (walks by) Unattainable. Anyone else? George: (whispers) Pacific Ocean into chocolate. Harold: (whispers) Atlantic into nacho cheese. George: (smiling) It's like we're the same person and yet so, so different. I love it. Professor Poopypants: (to the students) But more importantly... if I had to change one thing about the world... it would be to get rid of... laughter. George: (confused) Get rid of laughter? Harold: (confused) What kind of person wants to do that? Melvin: (raises his hand) Oh, oh! Ah! Ah! Sir, sir. Professor Poopypants: (to Melvin) Yes? Melvin: (happily) I love it. Professor Poopypants: (to the students) Oh, look at this. We got a grade A suck-up. Good to know, good to know. Anyway. (gets out a chart out of his briefcase) This is the brain of an average child. Right here is the "thinking about candy" lopalus. The "fear of what's under the bed" lobe. This is the "only thing I'll eat is pizza, chicken nuggets, or buttered noodles" lobe. Right here is the "as soon as someone else has a toy... I want that toy" anterior lobe. And this... This is the Hahaguffawchuckleamalus. This funny little purple part holds our entire capacity for laughter. For years, I've tried to shrink it or cut it out entirely... but frustratingly, our survival seems dependent upon it. George: (worried) I don't like this. I mean, I don't really understand it. But the stuff I am understanding seems genuinely bad to me. Harold: (worried) Yeah, same. (raises his hand) Um... Excuse me, Professor P? Why are you trying to get rid of laughter? Isn't laughter the best medicine? Professor Poopypants: (shouts) Medicine is the best medicine! So... Harold: (unnerved) Yeesh. Professor Poopypants: (sees George raising his hand) What? George: (quizzically) What does the P stand for? Professor Poopypants: (confused) Excuse me? George: (quizzically) The P. In your name. What does it stand for? Professor Poopypants: (frowns) Oh, it's private. George: (quizzically) So that means your name is Professor Privates? (Everyone starts laughing at the joke. Well, except for Melvin.) Melvin: (confused) What's so funny? I don't get it. (The mad short man got onto George’s desk.) Professor Poopypants: (angrily) Principal's office, now! (to Harold) You too! George: (shocked) Why him? Professor Poopypants: (angrily) Because your friendship and shared sense of humor irritates me... and must be destroyed! |
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~ Poopypants telling the kids about his goal of getting rid of laughter and George calling him Professor Privates. |
“ | Professor Poopypants: (to two girls) Hey there, kiddo. First day for Professor P. Can you tell me where the lunch is consumed? (The two girls start to giggle.) What's going on with your face? Are you choking? Do you need to sneeze? (The girls start laughing.) I see, I see. Got a case of the giggles, huh? That's fun. Well, I've got just the remedy for that. (His briefcase opens and pops out a cage which makes the girls shriek.) In the cage. Now! Girl: (confused) Why? Professor Poopypants: (angrily) Because I hate laughter and children and I've got a cage in a briefcase! (He put the girls in the cage and locked it up.) Okay, well, have a nice day. |
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~ Poppypants locking two girls in a cage. |
“ | Melvin, with your brain and my brain, together we can finally wipe out laughter for once and for all! So George and Harold want a supervillain, huh? Well ask and ye shall receive. | „ |
~ Professor Poopypants to Melvin. |
“ | Professor Poopypants: Students and faculty of Jerome Horwitz Elementary. The world as you know it is about to go extinct, and a new world order is about to rise. One, you know, obviously is the same as the old world order, except for one tiny detail. George: Melvin? Melvin: Comin' Atcha. Professor Poopypants: Powered by Melvin's unique neurology, I will successfully disable the Hahaguffawchuckleamalus of every single child at Jerome Horwitz Elementary. For I, Professor Poopypants..... (all the children laugh) Yeah, it's a funny name. It just makes you laugh and laugh, right? |
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~ Professor Poopypants as he wipes out laughter. |
“ | Yeah, sure, you're a knight. | „ |
~ Poopypants to Harold calling himself "Sir Cheeseball Wafflefanny". |
“ | Yeah, those are all real silly names, but there's nothing funny about Professor Pee-Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants, Esquire! | „ |
~ Poopypants lashing out at George and Harold for coming up with their own silly names. |
“ | George: Come on! Listen, your problem isn't that people laugh at you. Your problem is that you can't laugh at yourself. Professor Poopypants: (angrily) Oh, really, Oprah? Is that my problem? Well, your problem is this... |
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~ Professor Poopypants lashing out at George and Harold for trying to reason with him and also rejecting their offer of redemption before spitefully throwing Captain Underpants into the Turbo Toilet 2000. |
“ | Oh, we'll see who's laughing once I shrink you down... where you will live in my pocket forever... amongst my cherry-flavored lip balm... my butterscotch-flavored lip balm ...my mint-flavored lip balm... my extra-moisturized SPF lip balm... and all of my lip balms! | „ |
~ Professor Poopypants’ villainous breakdown in the movie. |
“ | I'm free!!! | „ |
~ Professor Poopypants' defeat. |
Trivia[]
- Professor Poopypants was voiced by Nick Kroll, who also voices another animated villain, Douche from Sausage Party. Ironically, both Poopypants and Douche proclaim themselves as revenge seekers.
- Professor Poopypants is notable for being the first villain in the series who had a motivation to turn evil and take over the world; previous antagonists such as Dr. Diaper, the Turbo Toilet 2000 and Zorx, Klax & Jennifer just came out of nowhere and wanted to commit world domination for no particular given reason.
- Interestingly, in the film, Poopypants uses the Turbo Toilet 2000 as a weapon.
- In the film, Poopypants is already a villain from the start, as opposed to being a well-meaning scientist who jumped off the slippery slope upon being mocked. His backstory reveals he had already snapped when the presenters at the World's Greatest Inventor award ceremony were too busy laughing at his name to give him his well-deserved award. The school's mockery just further angers him, and he quickly takes the school hostage. However, in the film he is less homicidal and evil than in the book.
- According to his resume in the film:
- He was born on April 1, 1953 (making him 64 years old, assuming the film is set after April 1, 2017).
- He lives on 3.14 Smarty Pants Boulevard.
- He has no phone.
- He once worked in a very dark place, where his job was a revenge seeker.
- His email is Supergeniusdude220@newswissland.com.
- His qualifications include being a genius, super smart, intelligent, über smart, not great with children, and holding grudges.
- Curiously, despite his full name in the film being Pee Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants Esquire, the resume still lists his full name as Pippy P. Poopypants. However, this could be because the filmmakers were originally going to use his book name, but changed it to make his full name as atrocious as possible.
- In the books, Poopypants was wrong about children even before he started teaching as a boy was seen pouring salt into his coffee.
- Dav Pilkey remarked that he felt Tippy's death was also a sad scene given his long run in the series.
- He is the second villainous character to be voiced by Nick Kroll.
- In an alternate universe where good and evil are swapped (home of Captain Blunderpants), he is a nice firefighter with Zorx, Klax & Jennifer.
- He is the second villain in the books to replace someone at Jerome Horwitz Elementary, the first were Zorx, Klax & Jennifer, who replaced the three cafeteria ladies.
- The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants is the only part of the franchise to not featured him, despite being the main antagonist of the franchise.
- In the books, only Tippy, Supa Mega Tippy and Silghty Younger Tiny Tippy are the only human antagonists that where killed in a violent manner; as all other human villains, including Mr. Krupp, Melvin, Ms. Ribble, Evil George, Evil Harold, Captain Blunderpants, Kipper Krupp, his gang, and Mr. Meaner were dealt with non-violently.
- While he has a German accent in the 2017 film, he speaks in a slight upper-class British accent in the Go Poopypants! song.
External Links[]
- Tippy Tinkletrousers on the DreamWorks Animation Wiki.
- Tippy Tinkletrousers on the Captain Underpants Wiki.
- Tippy Tinkletrousers on the Captain Underpants Villains Wiki