Girl endures blow to chin from Willy Wonka's Candy Man

[Video Link] I've seen Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory a half-dozen times, but I never noticed the Candy Man giving a little girl an uppercut with the bar arm.

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PhosPhorious

I knew candy was bad for your teeth, but this is a bit much!
DanHugo

She did take it like a trooper, but it looks like she was less than half way between the hinge and the open end… not so much torque, it looks more like a solid shove to her chin than a “blow.”
- SomeGuyNamedMark
  
  Now that is professionalism
Cowicide

That candyman always creeped me out anyway with that deliberate, forced smile of his. I always wondered if he secretly wanted to beat the tar out of those kids for some reason.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
  
  Having read Roald Dahl’s Boy, particularly the dead mouse incident, I can understand why a candy store owner would want to beat the tar out of some kids.
  
  I’m sure this particular candyman was only nice because the cameras were rolling.
http://gspirits.com/ Zod

Oh…he didn’t *hit* her per-se…it was more of a brush, or at worse, a scrape….children are resilient… with the promise of candy, children will take an arrow to the knee and not complain about it!
- http://deansli.st/ Dean Putney
  
  I used to be a child like you, then I took a bar arm to the chin in a movie candy store.
  - awjt
    
    And it’s been a life of typecast villains and bit parts in crime scenes ever since.
http://profile.yahoo.com/FSO3BWLTHGUJELZ3A3OACBOQTE Alexander

Whoa, the candy man has been eating a bit too much sugar LOL
http://grumer.org/ Avram Grumer

Is that smack sound effect in the original, or was it added by whoever put the video together?
- corydodt
  
  I wondered the same thing so, – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgbdVihagWg (1:55 or so)
  
  No sound effect.
UncaScrooge

That’s nothing. If you pay attention during the song “Cheer Up, Charlie,” you can hear the audience die inside.
- OoerictoO
  
  there is a decent fanedit that removes that song as well as some other parts that i find slightly less offensive.
Navin_Johnson

That is why they ask you not to block that part of the bar..
- awjt
  
  You can tell she’s never been to a bar before.
  - Navin_Johnson
    
    True, that’s called a grandpa-fail.
    
    Having said that I think you missed what I was saying, I was not faulting the girl (duh), but joking about adult customers who insisting on ignoring signs/pleading etc. to keep clear of the service/servers area of the bar.
    - awjt
      
      I’ve never been to a bar either. I don’ t know what you’re talking about.
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    You can tell she’s never been to a bar before.
    
    Or she just came from one.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      Speaking of which, this never gets old.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cds7lSHawAw
      - awjt
        
        Why don’t the puppets do anything? They could seriously take back their dinner experience with very little effort.
http://www.peterbagge.com/ Buddy Bradley

reminds me of the well-known blooper they left in the original Star Wars:

http://youtu.be/dBQaLuqwtl8
Tony

TOASTY!
Jorpho

I am particularly fond of the moment after Charlie finds the golden ticket and the crowd rushes in around him. Someone cries out “We could kill him!” in an attempt to restore order. It is very easy to reinterpret that as a suggestion: “We could kill him!”
timquinn

You can see the candy dude make eye contact with the girl to see if she is OK. Kind of a sweet moment of actors showing through the rolls they play.
Nash Rambler

Looks to me like she slid out of the way of the hinged partition just in time.

In the future Mark, when you post an inflammatory headline of “Girl endures blow to chin from Willy Wonka’s Candy Man,” if I don’t see a friendly adult in a pink striped shirt throwing Evander Holyfield-like punches into the face of a little girl, I’m going to feel a bit cheated.You may go now. *dismissive hand sweep*
schlocktober

Learn your blocking, kid.
jimh

Who can take a chin blow…
- benher
  
  Chin Blows were always my favorite Wonka sweet…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

Many years back, maybe early 70s, there was a McDonald’s commercial set in “McDonald Land.” This was a phantasmagorical place similar to a Sidd & Marty Krofft kiddie-show set. (And, in fact, there was a lawsuit . . .)

In the commercial, Ronald leads a couple of kids through the place. At one point he roughly grabs a girl’s arm, as though to lead her along to the next wonder . . . and she gives him the most amazing dirty look. This was left in the final cut of the commercial and aired over and over.
- awjt
  
  Oh yesteryear, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, or just be thankful I mostly survived.
sam1148

He never charges the well dressed rich kids for the Candy…..but Charlie had to pay.
guygadbois

Hey kid, have a jawbreaker!
jeligula

In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Richard Dreyfuss is manically thrusting a shovel into a wheelbarrow filled with dirt. One of the boys is following direction by putting his hands in the dirt and Richard is barely missing chopping his fingers off because he doesn’t see what the boy is doing. Decent acting, but a narrowly averted tragedy. I can’t believe it made the final cut.
http://greggman.com greggman

I don’t see a kid getting smacked. I see a kid leaning on a bar getting off the bar as it’s raised. Big difference. I’ve been that kid before. It’s not hard to get off the bar as it’s being raised nor even rid it slightly as it’s being lifted.