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

By: OoerictoO

OoerictoO — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 16:00:00 +0000

there is a decent fanedit that removes that song as well as some other parts that i find slightly less offensive.

By: greggman

greggman — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 05:58:00 +0000

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.

By: benher

benher — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:31:00 +0000

Chin Blows were always my favorite Wonka sweet…

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:16:00 +0000

Oh yesteryear, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry, or just be thankful I mostly survived.

By: awjt

awjt — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 03:15:00 +0000

Why don’t the puppets do anything? They could seriously take back their dinner experience with very little effort.

By: jeligula

jeligula — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:07:00 +0000

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.

By: guygadbois

guygadbois — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:49:00 +0000

Hey kid, have a jawbreaker!

By: sam1148

sam1148 — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:34:00 +0000

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

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:35:00 +0000

Speaking of which, this never gets old.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cds7lSHawAw

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:25:00 +0000

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.

By: jimh

jimh — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:04:00 +0000

Who can take a chin blow…

By: schlocktober

schlocktober — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:51:00 +0000

Learn your blocking, kid.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:30:00 +0000

You can tell she’s never been to a bar before.

Or she just came from one.

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:24:00 +0000

I’ve never been to a bar either. I don’ t know what you’re talking about.

By: Nash Rambler

Nash Rambler — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0000

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*

By: timquinn

timquinn — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:44:00 +0000

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.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:37:00 +0000

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.

By: Jorpho

Jorpho — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:27:00 +0000

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!”

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:20:00 +0000

Now that is professionalism

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 19:04:00 +0000

TOASTY!

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:58:00 +0000

You can tell she’s never been to a bar before.

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:57:00 +0000

And it’s been a life of typecast villains and bit parts in crime scenes ever since.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:28:00 +0000

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.

By: corydodt

corydodt — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:22:00 +0000

I wondered the same thing so, – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgbdVihagWg (1:55 or so)

No sound effect.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:21:00 +0000

That is why they ask you not to block that part of the bar..

By: Buddy Bradley

Buddy Bradley — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:21:00 +0000

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

http://youtu.be/dBQaLuqwtl8

By: UncaScrooge

UncaScrooge — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:20:00 +0000

That’s nothing. If you pay attention during the song “Cheer Up, Charlie,” you can hear the audience die inside.

By: Dean Putney

Dean Putney — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:05:00 +0000

I used to be a child like you, then I took a bar arm to the chin in a movie candy store.

By: Avram Grumer

Avram Grumer — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:03:00 +0000

Is that smack sound effect in the original, or was it added by whoever put the video together?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:58:00 +0000

Whoa, the candy man has been eating a bit too much sugar LOL