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Tell me the secret identity of Captain Underpants!
~ Wedgie Woman after obtaining her powers.
Everybody on Earth must obey ME! If anybody refuses, they’ll get the WEDGE! If anybody tries to stop me, it’s WEDGIE TIME! Bow down tome . . . or WELCOME TO WEDGIEVILLE!
~ Wedgie Woman to the citizens
Time to have fun with history. Memorize these dates. 1827, 1853, 1914, 1926.
~ One of only a few quotes Ms. Ribble has in the movie.
Zo nice of you to join uz. Before you become my mindlezz zombees, want to hear my zcheme? Boy, that'z a lot of Z's.
~ Queen Zombie to George, Harold and Captain Underpants.

Ms. Tara Ribble, also known as the Wedgie Woman and Queen Zombee in her supervillain forms, is George and Harold's teacher and a major antagonist in the Captain Underpants franchise.

Ms. Ribble is an English teacher and homeroom teacher at Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and is George and Harold's teacher.

She was voiced by Dee Dee Rescher in Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie and Laraine Newman in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants.

Biography[]

The Wedgie Woman was a villain originally created by George and Harold who was based on their teacher, Ms. Ribble. After a second mishap with the 3D Hypno-Ring the real Ms. Ribble becomes convinced that she really is Wedgie Woman - at first she has no superpowers, but after her hairstyle gets splattered with the superpower juice from the third book her hair transforms into arms and she gains super-intelligence.

Queen Zombie is a supervillain when Melvinborg put too much bee DNA in Ms. Ribble and she plan to turn the world into Zombees.

In the books[]

Ms. Ribble is the mean teacher of George and Harold, often being mean to her students for no reason. In the first book, Ms. Ribble (though her name is unknown at this point) makes two cameos: at the start of the book, where she notices George and Harold behaving and muttering that this has to be a dream, and at the end, where she snaps her fingers at George and Harold for pulling pranks and inadvertently transforming Mr. Krupp into Captain Underpants.

In the second book, she bullies George and Harold once they are suspended. Later, she witnesses Mr. Meaner get eaten by a talking toilet, then snaps her fingers at the others to try and make them go away, once again inadvertently turning Mr. Krupp into Captain Underpants. She ran away with the other teachers but eventually she gets eaten herself. Once the Toilets are defeated, she is seen wondering if this is all a dream, and is finally seen in detention when George and Harold are Principals of the Day. She is also transformed into a zombie nerd in the third book, and makes cameos in the fourth book.

Ms. Ribble serves as the main antagonist in the fifth book. At the start of the book, she announces her retirement and has the class write her thank you cards. However, George and Harold instead write a Captain Underpants comic she finds offensive, it was the same name of the book. In it, Ms. Ribble assigned book reports during Christmas vacation, but then got buried by the stack of reports. The doctors decided to rebuild her and make her better. Miss Ribble had obtained bionic powers, so she made herself a costume and gave people wedgies with a robot arm in her hairdo, she called herself Wedgie Woman. She also sprayed the underwear of Captain Underpants with spray starch, forcing the children to save him with fabric softener. Captain Underpants then defeated Wedgie Woman by flying around causing her to give herself a wedgie, after which she was taken to jail.

Miss Ribble sent them to Mr. Krupp for making that comic. There, George and Harold forge a "marry me" card, ostensibly from Mr. Krupp, and send it to her. Taking the message seriously, Ms. Ribble and the other teachers set up a wedding, but she loses her patience. After she sadistically lowers George and Harold's grades to an "F" and a "G" to get back at the two, they hypnotize her in order to make her change them back. However, unknown to them, the 3D Hypno-Ring was discovered to have the opposite effect on females (which is one reason why the police closed down the company that sold them), and because they also mentioned that she should not become Wedgie Woman, they accidentally turn her into just that.

Wedgie Woman ambushes George and Harold at their treehouse, accidentally acquiring her comic book counterpart's hair-based powers from superpower juice the two got from the ship of Zorx, Klax & Jennifer. She kidnaps the boys and creates robotic doppelgängers of them to attack the city. Following an intense battle, which included an origin comic to eliminate the starch joke from the previous comic, Wedgie Woman is defeated with hair starch, and the boys hypnotize her, so she becomes a nicer teacher. They think this was good as she may live longer like that.

In the sixth book, Ms. Ribble is in on George and Harold's "Squishy" prank, using one on Mr. Krupp. When Melvin Sneedly becomes the Bionic Booger Boy, he accidentally makes her sick. She also has cameos in the ninth and eleventh books; the latter of which sees her somehow reverted to her original personality.

In the film[]

Compared to the book, Ms. Ribble has a very minor role in the film. She first appeared as a victim of two of George and Harold's pranks: getting launch by a spring in her chair then getting stuck in it. She is then seen lazily telling students to memorize history dates. Afterwards, she is seen in detention that Captain Underpants gave her with the rest of the teachers. Finally, she was teaching George when the Turbo Toilet 2000 attacked. When George tried to warn her, just like Harold and Mr. Rected, but both told not to interrupt her monotone reading. Although, they mistook them saying toilet as a need to go to the bathroom and both reluctantly let them. This luckily led to them defeating Turbo Toilet 2000, Professor Poopypants, and Melvin.

In the TV Series[]

She takes great joy in giving kids an "H", (a grade she made up which stand for "horrendous"). As shown in "The Horrible Hostilities of the Homework Hydra".

In “The Harmful Horrors of the Harrowing Hiveschool”, Melvinborg and Melvin Sneedly invent a Bee-NA machine to turn the teachers into bee-chers, but they shoot too much bee DNA on Ms. Ribble which turn her into a queen bee and turns the teachers and kids into her army and makes them to turn the school into a hive.

George, Harold and Mr. Krupp found out and George and Harold turn Mr. Krupp into Captain Underpants to fight them, but only getting stung by the bees. They found out her plan and found Melvin’s machine to use it to undo the effects, after George finally founds the button, he press it and turn everyone back to normal.

She once gave George and Harold extra discredit in “The Dastardly Deed of the Devious Diddlysaurus” when she instructed the students to write a book report on dinosaurs, but the boys chose to create a cartoon about them instead, which cause them to get extra discredit.

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Trivia[]

  • Miss Ribble's name is a pun on "miserable" and "terrible" for her full name, Tara Ribble.
  • Miss Ribble was based on a teacher that the author, Dav Pilkey, had. In one of his stories, he made it clear that Tara Ribble wasn't her name.
  • Ribble is apparently very fond of diet soda as in Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants, when she and the other teachers realized that George and Harold put a prank in the longue, she quickly checked the fridge for the soda.
  • Ribble's favorite ice cream flavor is chunky tofu, as revealed in the fifth book during the announcement for her retirement. She forced everyone to eat it at her party, even though it all melted after they sang her a song.
  • When she almost marries Mr. Krupp, she refuses because he has a "silly nose". Ironically, they have the same nose.
  • Wedgie Women is the fourth villain inadvertently created by George and Harold, the first three were the Turbo Toilet 2000, his talking toilets, and the Dandelion of Doom. Coincidentally, Wedgie Woman and the dandelion were both affected by Extra Strength Super Power Juice.
  • It is unknown how she reverted back to her original, mean personality. One explanation is that Pilkey simply forgot about it, which is understandable due to how long it's been since he had used her. Another explanation though is George and Harold's antic through time travel.

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Benjamin Krupp | Tippy Tinkletrousers (or Professor Pippy Pee Pee Diarrheastein Poopypants, Esq.) | Turbo Toilet 2000 | Melvin Sneedly

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Inedible Hunk | Bank Robbers | Dr. Diaper | Dr. Diaper's Robots | Talking Toilets | Living Lunch Ladies | Zorx, Klax & Jennifer | The Evil Zombie Nerds | Dandelion of Doom | Wedgie Woman | Robo-George and The Harold 2000 | Carl, Trixie, and Frankenbooger | Captain Blunderpants | Evil George Beard | Evil Harold Hutchins | Petey the Cat | The Haunted Pants Of Wedgie Magee | Zombie Nerd George Beard and Zombie Nerd Harold Hutchins | Supa-Mega Tippy Tinkletrousers | Slightly Younger Tiny Tippy Tinkletrousers | Sir Stinks-A-Lot | Mecha Petey | Flippy the Fish

The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
Flabby Flabulous | DJ Drowsy Drawers | Homework Hydra | Messica Gorgon | T.P. Mummy | Avacadwoe | Claylossus | Socktopus | Theodore Murdsly | Alternate Timeline Melvin Sneedly | Alternate Timeline Benjamin Krupp | Wedgie Robots | Smartsy Fartsy | The Fart Army | Melvinborg | Teachertrons | Furcules | Queen Zombee | Zombees | Poopacabra | Malison | The Saurus Brothers | The Splotch | Crocobats | Butt-erflies | Cloggernaut | Clogneta | Brainy Blabulous | Cruelius Sneezer | Underfeaticus | Cruelius Sneezer‘s Guards (Guardicus) | Tubbadump | Dr. Disgruntled | Nanobots | NanoZero | H2O Bliterater 2000 | Camplafire | Ragely J. Snarlingtooth | Altitooth | Barfilisk | Melviathan | Salamangler | Camoflush | Toiletroops | Blah Borelock | Gumbalina Toothington | Combotato | Laserlightmare | Sugamechanger | Poopertrators | Evil Living Halloween Decorations | Hack-O-Ween Balloons | Dupe Licitous | F.L.U.S.H.E.R | Squorg and Garg | The Biglyans | Hangry Hypnosinger | Greego and Dohlar | Captain Pandernuts | Utopiqua Kids (Arice) | Jacked Santa

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