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It suddenly occurs to me that I cannot once recall reading anyone propose a gritty re-imagining wherein adult versions of Teavee, Salt, Beauregard, and Gloop return to the Factory to seek revenge. But I probably just haven’t been looking in the right places.
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Not til you’re twelve, son.
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Star? Everybody knows Veruca Salt is the star.
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Understandable. His television appearance in Wonka didn’t go that well.
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They form a private equity investor group to buy out Wonka, leverage the portfolio until the factory is driven into bankruptcy, then sell the trademarks to Hershey for pennies on the dollar.
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Mr Mike Teavee was a bit of an attention whore for conventions. I remember being on staff of an early furry convention back in the late 90s and us getting a request to be a guest. Not sure if he really understood or cared that the topic was anthro animals and not old movies.
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Wow, so Wonka did figure out how to make him normal-sized again. Good to know.
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and the woman who played her is the author of the least-exciting “tell-all” book I’ve ever read. I believe I picked up the e-book because it was free that day.
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IOTW, Wizard of Oz?
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Remember the scene with the lickable wallpaper for nursery walls? “Lick an orange. It tastes like an orange. Lick a pineapple, it tastes like a pineapple. Go ahead, try it! Try some more, the strawberries taste like strawberries! The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!”
I thought that snozzberry was just a silly word that Roald Dahl made-up for the book, but today I learned that in a later book he also used the word snozzberry as a euphemism for penis.
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Because it was free and you (like me) probably learned about it here:
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