When I was in elementary school, I remember my school did some sort of a book give-away at one point. I'm hazy on the details, but I know my teacher ended up asking all of us to take one book from her bookshelf. The school had been open for literally 100 years, so there was a wide selection, but my eyes fell upon a small, white, battered book from 1972 with the words "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" written on the side in colorful bubble letters. I was a fan of Roald Dahl as a kid- and I still am today, to be honest- so that's the one I happily decided to take home.
Now, before anyone asks, yes, this is a legitimate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory sequel. Written by Roald Dahl, illustrations from Joseph Schindelman, the whole shtick. Funny thing is, no one I've asked has ever heard of it. I also haven't seen it in bookstores, libraries, etc. I thought that was kinda weird for such a famous author.
WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW
Let me tell you, this was a weird piece of work. It starts off literally right where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ended, with Willy Wonka, Charlie, and his family flying from the Bucket household to the chocolate factory in Wonka's great glass elevator. For the first half of the book, the party ends up going to space, exploring the very first space hotel, and fighting aliens known as Vermicious Knids. During this process they also become mistaken as alien terrorists, attract the attention of the American government, and get invited to the White House. Pretty much all the scenes with the Knids are fairly unsettling (they're described as "enormous slimy wrinkled greenish-brown eggs with eyes"), but the way they're finally defeated I consider especially distressing. They can stretch themselves into any shape they like, so Mr. Wonka tricks them into tying themselves into a rope to draw the elevator in, then shoots back down to Earth, burning all the Knids up in the atmosphere. They "frantically try to uncoil themselves," begin glowing red-hot, and start to sizzle with "a noise like bacon frying."
Our heroes land in the Chocolate Factory, where Wonka introduces them to his newest invention: Wonka-Vite, a vitamin that makes you 20 years younger. The grandparents, in their excitement to regain their youth, overdose. 3 of them become toddlers, and Grandma Georgina actually regresses past the point where she was born. Charlie and Willy Wonka then have to descend towards the center of the earth to get to Minusland, the place all
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Assuming they don't shit their pants reading "Scram"
what a selfish prick. Kid has not even had a foot in the chocolate factory (since he is in the glass elevator) and that asshole was worried about if he would have a bed in there. Guy is a true douche bag.
Premise: Bill forms a relationship with Former Texas Governor Ann Richards (played by herself). Meanwhile, Peggy and Bobby both discover the wonders of cooking with charcoal.
Directed By: Gary McCarver and Klay Hall
Written By: Mike Judge, Greg Daniels, and Jonathan Collier
Original date: 11 February 2001
Fun Fact: This episode is the first and only time we get to see Bill's ex-wife Lenore.
So Nagisa solved the hangman's! As expected of my Sage.
What was Monaca going to do with the cake?
I wonder what that means?
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Monokuma File: The victim is Monaca Towa’s White Day Chocolate. The victim was found in the kitchen at 7am, melted into an unidentifiable brown glob. An Autopsy could not be carried out because Monaca threw a tantrum after finding it.
BDA: The body was discovered by Yuta, Hiroko, Taichi and Komaru, who had gathered in the kitchen at 7am for Yuta's donut party. Monaca and Kotoko arrived shortly after the BDA played.
Chocolates: Monaca received a chocolate bird from Nagisa, a Mars Bar from Masaru, a chocolate horse from Jataro, a chocolate cake from Haiji, a chocolate donut from Yuta and white chocolate from Taichi. She planned to burn them in the incinerator at 7:30am. Everyone except Haiji was present when Monaca made this announcement.
State of the Crime Scene: The kitchen was humid and had the strong scent of vanilla. An unidentifiable brown gooey mess was found on the floor. The only thing left of Monaca's presents is Haiji's chocolate cake and Masaru's Mars Bar.
Incinerator: Nagisa roped Jataro into helping him lock up the incinerator so that Monaca couldn't burn their chocolates. Nagisa made the mould and Jataro replicated the key. They finished around 3am. Nagisa is certain the incinerator had been used recently when they locked it up.
Smelly Nagisa: Nagisa wanted to freshen up after a hard day's work, but there was no water! So now he's a stinky lil' brat.
GIRL POWER: Using her womanly powers and intuition, Hiroko deduced that the small child she spotted exiting the kitchen at 11:30pm was a girl!
Broken Stove: Taichi tampered with the stove so Monaca couldn't use it to burn the chocolate, leaving his toolbox behind in the kitchen after he was done.
Digital Camera: Perfect for taking Sexy Selfies. And keyholes I guess.
Keep Out of Children's Reach: Hiroko and Haiji locked up all the dangerous equipment in the infirmary. They each hold the only two keys to the infirmary.
Poopy Servant: The Chocolate Cake had been laced with laxatives!
Irrelevant Evidence: Hiroko found a broken bottle of vanilla extract and
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In this episode Peggy has an affair...with charcoal. In the end Peggy decides to stop whoring around and stick with Propane. During the pick scene at Bill's birthday party hanks says "charcoal? Or me?". What do you think Hank would've done if Peggy admitted to preferring charcoal?
Would the entire Knid fleet from the book be able to take down the Original Enterprise?
R2- The Great Glass Elavator joins the losing side.
I had a random thought just now. To my understanding, lift is British while elevator is American. If so, why did Roald Dahl decide to use elevator instead of lift? Would the editor not correct that?
Additionally, I remember reading that Tolkien used different (improper) spellings for certain words that are accepted today but were wrong during his time. For example, he spelled elfish as elvish, elfs as elves and dwarfs as dwarves. His editor changed those words to the "correct" spelling for the first publication, to Tolkien's dismay. They only changed back to Tolkien's intended spelling in subsequent publications. And due to the popularity of his books, those words then became accepted spellings in English.
How much leeway do authors get in using unconventional words? I am not talking about completely made up languages/words but words that are modified from a proper word and can thus be considered a grammatical/spelling/language error.
