27. Reverse Reverse Psychology

CHAPTER 27 REVERSE REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY "Well, Wedgie Woman," said Captain Underpants. "It's off to jail with you!" "Wait a second," said Harold. "We'll take care of Wedgie Woman. You go back to the school, put some clothes on, then wash your face." "Yeah, bub," said George. "Use plenty of water! We've got work to do." "OK," said Captain Underpants.

So Captain Underpants did as he was told, and in no time at all he was back to his Kruppy old self. It was now time to transform Wedgie Woman back to her old self, too with some slight modifications. "OK," said Harold, "remember when we hypnotized Ms. Ribble, and she did the opposite of everything we wanted her to do?" "Yeah," said George. "Well, if we want to set things right," Harold continued, "we've got to hypnotize her into doing the opposite of the opposite of what we want." "I'm way ahead of you," said George.

So the two boys once again hypnotized their teacher. Only this time, they used reverse reverse psychology on her. "From now on," said George, "you will ALWAYS be known as Wedgie Woman." "You WILL keep all your super powers, too," said Harold. "You WILL NOT go back to teaching fourth grade," said George. "You WILL remember everything that happened in the last two weeks," said Harold.

"You WILL NOT change our grades back to normal," said George. "You WILL NOT become the nicest teacher in the history of Jerome Horwitz Elementary School," said Harold. "And you WILL NOT bake fresh chocolate chip cookies for our class every day," said George. "George!" said Harold sternly. "Stop goofing around!" "I can't help it," said George. "You should never hypnotize anybody when you're hungry!" "OK, OK," said Harold. "Let's just snap our fingers and PRAY that this works." SNAP!