Nick informs me this is the Tattletron 2000 from Pilkey’s wildly popular Captain Underpants series. Alicia and I still don’t know what to make of them. They are disgustingly silly, but the boys read through them like crazy. These books are chuck full of silliness. Just a quick list of the characters makes this obvious. There’s “The Bionic Booger Boy”, “Sulu the Bionic Hamster”, “Professor Poopy Pants”, “The Wicked Wedge Woman”, “Doctor Diaper”, “The Turbo Toilet 2000″, “The Dandelion of Doom” and many more. [Nick correcting my spelling of "booger" and "wedge".]
The main characters are a couple of rowdy boys named George and Harold who always get in trouble by Mr. Krupp. George and Harold actually created Captain Underpants during detention or something. Ben and Nick, and the other neighborhood boys, spontaneously discuss plot lines. “I haven’t read about The Dandelion of Doom yet. That must be in book 3,” Ben will say. “Yes, that is correct,” says Nick