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|Row 1 title = Artist
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|Row 1 info = [[Jeff Kinney]]
|number      = 11
|Row 2 title = Publisher
|release date = November 1, 2016
|Row 2 info = [[Abram Books]] (through Amulet Books) (US) Penguin Books (through Puffin Books) (UK)
|author      = [[Jeff Kinney]]
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|illustrator  = Jeff Kinney
|Row 3 title = Release Date
|preceded by  = ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School]]''
|Row 3 info = November 1st, 2016
|succeeded by = ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway]]''
|Row 4 title = Pages
|Row 4 info = 217
|Row 5 title = Preceded By
|Row 5 info = ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School]]''
|Row 6 title = Followed By
|Row 6 info = ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway]]''
|image = [[File:Diary of a Wimpy Kid Double Down cover.jpg|300px]]
|caption = The book's official cover from the series' official website.
|Row 7 title = Color
|Row 7 info = Scarlet (Spine: Alternating colors of Scarlet and Yellow)
|Row 8 title = Book Number
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{{Spoiler}}
'''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down''' is the 11th book in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]] series. It was released worldwide on November 1, 2016.


'''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down''' is the 11th book in the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]] series. It was released on November 1, 2016.<ref>https://www.amazon.com/Double-Down-Diary-Wimpy-Kid/dp/1419723448?ie=UTF8&keywords=9781419723445&qid=1457622256&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1</ref>
== Main characters ==
 
== Main Characters ==
*[[Greg Heffley]]
*[[Greg Heffley]]
*[[Susan Heffley]]
*[[Susan Heffley]]
*[[Manny Heffley]]
*[[Rodrick Heffley]]
*[[Frank Heffley]]
*[[Frank Heffley]]
*[[Rowley Jefferson]]
*[[Rowley Jefferson]]
*[[Maddox Selsam]] (Main Antagonist)


== Plot ==
==Plot==
The pressure’s really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his “creative side.
[[File:Actually kind of cool.jpg|thumb|Greg imagines a family watching him on TV.]]
[[Greg Heffley]] believes that his life is being broadcast on TV, and that his deceased relatives are watching over him from Heaven. When a school book fair starts, he writes about how [[Susan Heffley|Susan]], his mother, wants him to be more creative. Greg buys various trinkets, and Susan makes him return them and buy books, so he chooses the ''[[Spineticklers]]'' series. One book gives him a plan to freeze himself and be thawed out in a hundred years.


As if that’s not scary enough, Halloween is just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle.
As Halloween approaches, Susan sends [[Rodrick Heffley|Rodrick]] to buy decorations, and he buys a noisy plastic witch that scares Greg. Greg then talks about the [[geese]] that have flocked to the neighborhood, and then his family's pet [[pig]]. Greg wants Halloween candy, so he joins the school's [[Balloon Brigade]], the prize being a jar of candy corn. He then suspects that his ''Spineticklers'' books are giving him nightmares, and that adults are trying to get them banned.


When he discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can Greg get his mom off his back by making a movie...and will he become rich and famous in the process? Or will doubling down on this plan just double Greg’s troubles?<ref>http://www.wimpykid.com/books/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-book-11/</ref>
Greg's balloon is received by [[Maddox Selsam]], a teen who is not allowed to play video games and has bad social skills. Susan thinks Maddox is a good role model for Greg and sets them up on a playdate, ending with Maddox accusing Greg of having stolen a [[LEGO]] brick. After, Susan goes back to college to finish her master's degree. Greg turns in his balloon and gets the candy corn, which is eaten by the pig.


==Synopsis==
Susan is disappointed in Greg for his "pattern of deception" about the supposedly stolen LEGO brick, reminding Greg of lies he has told and has been told. Susan enjoys college and tries to get Greg and Rodrick interested, although Greg still plans to be a video game tester or a garbage collector. Susan takes Greg to the college campus and he helps a girl study for her psychology test, but is disappointed when he learns that she already has a boyfriend.


===October===
[[File:Brass section.jpg|thumb|left|Greg in the school band]]
At the beginning of the book, protagonist Greg Heffley can be seen talking about how he thinks his life is a reality TV show, and how he thinks Rodrick, Manny, and all the other people in his life are just actors and robots, similar to the plot of The Truman Show. He later explains how he thinks that Manny was brought in as a new star to replace him. Later, Greg says his Nana is watching him from heaven, and he's got a lot of issues with it.
Greg hears about [[Mariana Mendoza]]'s Halloween party and wants to attend, but hears that she is only inviting people who are in the school band. To get invited, he takes up playing the French horn. He then learns that Mariana is inviting only the woodwind section and decides to go with [[Rowley Jefferson|Rowley]], who plays the flute, as a two-headed monster. Susan attends the party as well, and sets up party games, which Greg ends up enjoying. He leaves the party early when Rowley needs to go to the bathroom.


The Book Fair is at school, and Greg's mother Susan gives him $20 to spend. He spends all of it on silly and useless items, like a pen that writes underwater and two giant pencils with googly eyes. Susan, not happy with the way Greg spent her money, makes him trade it all in for books. Greg gets the [[Spineticklers]] books, which are basically horror novels, which makes Susan more unhappy. Greg then talks about a plan to freeze himself to the future and how Halloween is coming up.
Greg gives up on playing the French horn, but his father, [[Frank Heffley|Frank]], refuses to let him leave the band. At the Fall Concert, he and Rowley are locked in the band room. Greg rips his pants and has Rowley color his underwear with marker, at which point Frank comes in and accuses them of "goofing off," grounding Greg. Greg gets hungry and looks for candy, finding a bag of chocolate chips. He calls Rowley, and while going to get paper towels to clean up the now-melted chocolate chips, Greg finds bags of gummy worms and gets the idea to make a horror movie with them.


Greg then discusses how the geese are in town and the deals of having a walking pet pig. Then he talks about the school's [[Balloon Brigade]], which is a school contest to see how far a student's balloon can travel, and how the prize is a giant bag of candy corn. The [[Cheese Touch]] is also discussed, and how other students keep trying to bring it back in a different form such as a [[Roast Beef Touch]]; however, the kids unsuccessfully try to make it work.
[[File:Greg and Rowley shot the skeleton scene in the kitchen.jpg|thumb|Greg and Rowley film their movie]]
Greg writes the script for the movie, titled ''[[Night of the Night Crawlers]]'', and has Rowley storyboard it. Greg records the scenes, with Rowley being the only actor in the movie, and spreads gummy worms outside for a scene in which a man looks outside to see the night crawlers in his yard. He finds the pig eating his gummy worms, and Rowley notices the geese outside, so they plan to get Rodrick's wolf mask out of the basement. The electronic witch is activated, and Rowley runs out of the house in fear and climbs up a tree, then Frank arrives home.


Greg later discusses how the [[Spineticklers]] books give him nightmares and how he regrets buying them. He later says that he got his balloon back and that the kid who found his balloon, [[Maddox Selsam]], came over for a play-date. It's later revealed that Maddox hasn't played video games or watched TV, and goes crazy when Greg pulls up a computer game. After Maddox leaves, Greg realizes that he forgot to get the balloon. Vice Principal Roy refuses to give Greg the candy corn unless he brings his balloon to school. He asks Susan for a play-date with Maddox, to which she and [[Mrs. Selsam]] leave Greg and Maddox behind while they go into town and have coffee. Greg is thoroughly disappointed by Maddox's house, as it is very old fashioned and does not have any electronics or any television. It is revealed Maddox has a Lego City in his room, but only lets Greg use the leftovers. Greg accidentally gets a brick stuck in his arm, which Maddox accuses Greg of stealing, leading to Greg being kicked out. Susan is disappointed at Greg, as he viewed Maddox as an antisocial nerd instead of a good role model. Susan, now going back to college full-time, has a chore bag where Greg and Rodrick pick chores to do. After finishing his chores, Greg goes to eat his giant candy corn that he won, but finds that the pig has eaten it. After the pig throws up multiple puddles of candy corn, Susan has a talk with Greg about his "pattern of deception" and punishes him by making him take three chores out of the chore bag each night. He then talks about how his brain works and how he has been lied to so many times over the years. Susan keeps putting the pressure on Greg to do something new other than video games while also introducing him to college. Greg and his friend Rowley later join the school band in order to get invited to [[Mariana Mendoza]]'s Halloween party. He practices the French Horn but hates it and wants to quit, angering Frank who tells Greg that he can't because that was an expensive instrument and he has to honor his commitment to the instrument. Greg finds videos of a high school girl practicing the french horn, which makes Greg glad. However, Greg finds out Mariana didn't invite the entire school band, only the woodwind section. Greg gets in the party by making a "Two-Headed Monster" costume.
A few weeks later, Greg writes that Rowley has gotten famous and been on the news and talk shows. Greg is upset that Rowley hasn't given any credit to him for coming up with the idea for the movie, and writes that he would never "make a fool out of himself to get a cheap laugh from the people watching at home."


===November===
==Cultural references==
Greg is later harassed at school about it for leaving early. At the Fall Band Concert, Greg gets stuck in the music room because Jake McGough gave him a flat tire. Rowley notices him in there, when he came in the room, he ended up getting locked in too. Causing a huge dilemma. Frank thinks they were goofing off and punishes Greg by taking away TV and video games for 2 weeks. Greg and Rowley later find a pack of gummy worms and Greg gets the idea for a scary movie. The plot would be about a man who goes to take a shower, only to end up being eaten alive by worms. He and Rowley, while filming it with Susan and Frank's camcorder, make a mess in the furnace room and one of the shelves comes falling down on them. Rowley runs out of the house with barely any clothes just as Frank gets home, and a news crew captures the whole moment. [[Frank]] gets mad at Greg for making the mess, and [[Susan]] later gets mad, because Greg and Rowley filmed right over a tape of Manny's first steps. Greg is additionally grounded for two more weeks, as well as having to clean up the mess and do extra chores. Rowley, on the other hand, drinks in his newfound fame and skips school to attend on-TV interviews with talk shows, much to Greg's dismay that [[Rowley]] doesn't mention Greg at all.
*Greg believing that his a TV show is a parody of the film ''{{wp|The Truman Show}}''. [[Jeff Kinney]] has compared his own experiences of being a famous author to ''The Truman Show''.<ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/68554-jeff-kinney-diary-of-a-crazy-year.html Publishers Weekly, "Jeff Kinney: Diary of a Crazy Year"]</ref><ref>[https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/75315-four-questions-for-jeff-kinney.html Publishers Weekly, "Four Questions for Jeff Kinney"]</ref>
*Spineticklers is a parody of the ''{{wp|Goosebumps}}'' series. Greg's comment on the ''Spineticklers'' knock-offs references various ''Goosebumps''-style books published in the 1990s, such as ''{{wp|Spooksville}}'', ''{{wp|Creepers series|Creepers}}'', and ''{{wp|Spinetinglers}}''
*Parents trying to ban the ''Underpants Bandits'' books references the controversy surrounding the ''{{wp|Captain Underpants}}'' series, with author [[Mik Davies]] being a parody of {{wp|Dav Pilky}}. Greg requests that the ''Underpants Bandits'' series have more "bodily function" humor, and ''Captain Underpants'' was challenged for high amounts of toilet humor.
*A girl dressed like {{wp|Hermoine Granger}} from the ''{{wp|Harry Potter}}'' franchise appears at the Halloween party.
*Maddox enjoys playing with {{wp|LEGO}} bricks.


==Trivia==
==International edits==
* This is the second red book. The first is the [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid|first book]].
*Spanish translation:
* This is the second book where Rowley doesn't wear his usual outfit in the character page. The first book is [[Hard Luck]].
**Greg says that Johnny is "a clown" instead of "a show-off."
** This is also the first book since Hard Luck where Rowley is shown in the character page.
**In a flashback, Greg says that Nana smells like cabbage instead of asparagus.
* This book contains a notable amount of pop culture references:
**The turtle in the "My Turtle Fred" poem is named Berta, and the rhyme is with "Berta" and "muerta" instead of "Fred" and "dead."
**The entire introduction where Greg thinks his life is a TV show is a parody of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show The Truman Show]. It is mentioned from Pages 1 to 15.
**Spineticklers is a parody [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinetinglers Spinetinglers], by M.T. Coffin.
**Spineticklers #48, “Wake Me Up In The Year 3000” is a parody of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama Futurama]. It was first mentioned on Page 41.
**The controversy surrounding ''Underpants Bandits'' is a parody of the controversy surrounding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Underpants Captain Underpants], by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dav_Pilkey Dav Pilkey].
**"Night Of The Night Crawlers" is just [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirm_(film) Squirm], but with gummy worms, instead of real life worms. The movie poster is shown on Page 194.
**There is a girl dressed like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermione_Granger Hermoine Granger] from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter Harry Potter] franchise at the Halloween party. She is first shown on Page 168.
**Maddox enjoys playing with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego Lego].
* Greg rarely wears shorts in this book, usually appearing in long pants or jeans.
* The backpack tipping over [[Greg Heffley|Greg]] on the cover is meant to be an ode to the backpack that makes Greg slouch on the first book's cover.
* This is the second book that has a reptile skin design. The first is [[Old School]].
** This is also the first book with the new Amulet logo.
* On Page 35, in the background, a group of kids are playing what may be "Girls Chase Boys".
* This is the fourth book where Fregley is absent.
* This is the first time the spine uses two colors (Red-Orange and Yellow). The second is [[The Getaway]] (which uses the following two colors: Azure and Yellow Green).
* This is the second odd-numbered book to not have it's title start with "The." The first is the first book.
** However, [[The Getaway|its successor]] ''does'' have it's title start with "The."
*** This is also the second odd-numbered book which doesn't have three words in its title (this book only has two words in its title). The first is also the first book, which doesn't have a title.
* This is the first time Greg's tongue is shown on the cover.
* It Is revealed Greg has more relatives. It also shows that [[Peepaw]] could possibly be dead, or he’s still alive.
* This is the first time since [[Hard Luck]] where the months don't skip from the previous book.
* This is the first book since [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever]] where the month in the beginning is the same as the month in the end from the previous book.
* This is the second book where [[The Heffleys' Pig|the pig]] has a role where he's in the [[Heffley family]]. The first is [[Old School]].
** The Pig eats candy twice in this book. He ate candy corn on Page 99. Then, he ate gummy worms on Page 210.
*** This book reveals that the Pig can get sick if he eats candy corn, but doesn’t get sick if he eats gummy worms.
* This is the first book in which the color of the spine is different than that of the cover. The second is [[The Getaway]].


==Errors==
==Errors==
* On Page 64 it says "Roast Roast Beef" when it should just say "Roast Beef", which is wrong. But in [http://diary-of-a-wimpy-kid.wikia.com/wiki/The_Wimpy_Kid_Movie_Diary#Long_Haul_Edition The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: The Next Chapter], on Page 69, the card on the table says: "Todays Special, Roast Roast Beef," so it could've been on purpose.
* On page 64, the word "roast" in "roast beef" is duplicated, making it "roast roast beef." This error was fixed in reprints.
** This was proven to be a mistake, as it was fixed in a reprint.
** This error is referenced on page 69 of ''[[The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: The Next Chapter]]'', as a card on a table reads, "Today's special: Roast roast beef."
* In the book, Greg says his [[Nana Heffley|Nana]] worked as a Waitress. However, in the preview, he says she worked as a Nurse.
* In the book, Greg says his [[Nana Heffley|Nana]] worked as a waitress. However, in the preview, he says she worked as a nurse.
** This may have been just be a change of plans.
* On the top of page 49, the characters appear too short.
* On the top of Page 49, the characters were shown too short.
* On page 94, Mrs. Selsam's leg is in a humanly impossible position, and her skirt is shown as only covering that one leg.
* On Page 94, Mrs. Selsam's leg is in a humanly impossible position, and her skirt is shown as only covering that one leg.
 
== References ==
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===Illustrations===
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Susan puts the items using Poetry Anthology as stairs.jpg
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Alex Aruda stayed behind during Recess.jpg
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The Champs throwing papers.jpg
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Albert Sandy telling Greg and Rowley about a old billionare who is really sick and freeze himself.jpg|Albert Sandy telling Greg and Rowley about a old billionare who is really sick at that time, he paid a ton of money to freeze himself. Then in a hundred years he's gonna get unfrozen.
Albert Sandy telling Greg and Rowley about a old billionare who is really sick and freeze himself.jpg
Get off my lawn!.jpg
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Frank is ready to arm himself just to go out and check the mail.jpg
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Greg walks past the Halloween candies in supermarket.jpg
Greg walks past the Halloween candies in supermarket.jpg
Greg sees Vice Principal Roy's office got candy corn grand prize.jpg
Greg sees Vice Principal Roy's office got candy corn grand prize.jpg
Balloon Brigade.jpg|Vice Principal Roy puts a thumbtack on a map in the library to show how far each balloon went.
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Greg sees the Cheese Touch spot during Balloon Brigade.jpg|Greg sees the Cheese Touch spot in the basketball court during Balloon Brigade.
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The teacher stopping a kid from putting a cheese to the Cheese Touch spot.jpg|The teacher is stopping a kid from putting a cheese to the Cheese Touch spot as they didn't want that nonsense again.
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RoastBEEFTOUCH.png|One kid had the Roast Beef Touch but it didn't have the same effect as the Cheese Touch.
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My dentist is the devil.jpg
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Mr. McGlurk caught his son Danny in his garage.jpg
Mr. McGlurk caught his son Danny in his garage.jpg
Mrs. Selsam tells Greg about video games.jpg
Mrs. Selsam tells Greg about video games.jpg
Legos!.png|Maddox's room full of Lego City.
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Greg scares Frank in the shower.jpg|Greg scares Frank out of the shower.
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Uncle Gary on the branch cutting with the saw.jpg|Uncle Gary sitting on the tree branch cutting with the saw on Double Down, he ended up having a broken collarbone.
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Rowley screams when he sees Greg has worm in his nose.jpg
Rowley telling Greg to suggest less scary like butterflies.jpg|Rowley suggested to Greg a less scary movie.
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== Sneak Peeks ==
==Names in other languages==
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Template:Book infobox Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down is the 11th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. It was released worldwide on November 1, 2016.

Main characters

Plot

Greg imagines a family watching him on TV.

Greg Heffley believes that his life is being broadcast on TV, and that his deceased relatives are watching over him from Heaven. When a school book fair starts, he writes about how Susan, his mother, wants him to be more creative. Greg buys various trinkets, and Susan makes him return them and buy books, so he chooses the Spineticklers series. One book gives him a plan to freeze himself and be thawed out in a hundred years.

As Halloween approaches, Susan sends Rodrick to buy decorations, and he buys a noisy plastic witch that scares Greg. Greg then talks about the geese that have flocked to the neighborhood, and then his family's pet pig. Greg wants Halloween candy, so he joins the school's Balloon Brigade, the prize being a jar of candy corn. He then suspects that his Spineticklers books are giving him nightmares, and that adults are trying to get them banned.

Greg's balloon is received by Maddox Selsam, a teen who is not allowed to play video games and has bad social skills. Susan thinks Maddox is a good role model for Greg and sets them up on a playdate, ending with Maddox accusing Greg of having stolen a LEGO brick. After, Susan goes back to college to finish her master's degree. Greg turns in his balloon and gets the candy corn, which is eaten by the pig.

Susan is disappointed in Greg for his "pattern of deception" about the supposedly stolen LEGO brick, reminding Greg of lies he has told and has been told. Susan enjoys college and tries to get Greg and Rodrick interested, although Greg still plans to be a video game tester or a garbage collector. Susan takes Greg to the college campus and he helps a girl study for her psychology test, but is disappointed when he learns that she already has a boyfriend.

Greg in the school band

Greg hears about Mariana Mendoza's Halloween party and wants to attend, but hears that she is only inviting people who are in the school band. To get invited, he takes up playing the French horn. He then learns that Mariana is inviting only the woodwind section and decides to go with Rowley, who plays the flute, as a two-headed monster. Susan attends the party as well, and sets up party games, which Greg ends up enjoying. He leaves the party early when Rowley needs to go to the bathroom.

Greg gives up on playing the French horn, but his father, Frank, refuses to let him leave the band. At the Fall Concert, he and Rowley are locked in the band room. Greg rips his pants and has Rowley color his underwear with marker, at which point Frank comes in and accuses them of "goofing off," grounding Greg. Greg gets hungry and looks for candy, finding a bag of chocolate chips. He calls Rowley, and while going to get paper towels to clean up the now-melted chocolate chips, Greg finds bags of gummy worms and gets the idea to make a horror movie with them.

Greg and Rowley film their movie

Greg writes the script for the movie, titled Night of the Night Crawlers, and has Rowley storyboard it. Greg records the scenes, with Rowley being the only actor in the movie, and spreads gummy worms outside for a scene in which a man looks outside to see the night crawlers in his yard. He finds the pig eating his gummy worms, and Rowley notices the geese outside, so they plan to get Rodrick's wolf mask out of the basement. The electronic witch is activated, and Rowley runs out of the house in fear and climbs up a tree, then Frank arrives home.

A few weeks later, Greg writes that Rowley has gotten famous and been on the news and talk shows. Greg is upset that Rowley hasn't given any credit to him for coming up with the idea for the movie, and writes that he would never "make a fool out of himself to get a cheap laugh from the people watching at home."

Cultural references

  • Greg believing that his a TV show is a parody of the film Template:Wp. Jeff Kinney has compared his own experiences of being a famous author to The Truman Show.[1][2]
  • Spineticklers is a parody of the Template:Wp series. Greg's comment on the Spineticklers knock-offs references various Goosebumps-style books published in the 1990s, such as Template:Wp, Template:Wp, and Template:Wp
  • Parents trying to ban the Underpants Bandits books references the controversy surrounding the Template:Wp series, with author Mik Davies being a parody of Template:Wp. Greg requests that the Underpants Bandits series have more "bodily function" humor, and Captain Underpants was challenged for high amounts of toilet humor.
  • A girl dressed like Template:Wp from the Template:Wp franchise appears at the Halloween party.
  • Maddox enjoys playing with Template:Wp bricks.

International edits

  • Spanish translation:
    • Greg says that Johnny is "a clown" instead of "a show-off."
    • In a flashback, Greg says that Nana smells like cabbage instead of asparagus.
    • The turtle in the "My Turtle Fred" poem is named Berta, and the rhyme is with "Berta" and "muerta" instead of "Fred" and "dead."

Errors

  • On page 64, the word "roast" in "roast beef" is duplicated, making it "roast roast beef." This error was fixed in reprints.
  • In the book, Greg says his Nana worked as a waitress. However, in the preview, he says she worked as a nurse.
  • On the top of page 49, the characters appear too short.
  • On page 94, Mrs. Selsam's leg is in a humanly impossible position, and her skirt is shown as only covering that one leg.

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Illustrations

Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning
Japanese いちかばちか、やるしかないね!
Ichi kaba Chika, yaru shika nai ne!
I Have No Choice But To Do It!
Spanish !A Por Todas! For All!
French Double peine Double Trouble
Dutch Drie keer niks Nothing Three Times
German Alles Käse! All Cheese!
Italian Avanti tutta! Full Speed Ahead!
Polish Ryzyk-fizyk Risk Physicist