Fat Boy

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MR. TURKENTINE, the teacher, is warm-hearted, crazy, eccentric. He stands before the class beside a bench containing bottles, glass jars, and chemistry equipment, and squinting his eyes, he surveys the class.  "Let's see, let's see ..." he points "Charlie Bucket?" 

"Yes, Mr. Turkentine." He asks "I shall need an assistant. Come and give me a hand." Charlie leaves the desk and joins Mr. Turkentine. Later, he regards him closely. He continues; regarding Charlie closely.  "You look rotten, Charlie, pale and rotten..." Mr. Turkentine said  "Eat a big breakfast, that's what I do. Sets you up for the day. Now then..." he pointed to the bottles "We have here nitric acid...sulphuric acid...and glycerine. Mixed in the wrong way they makenitre-glycerine. Horrible dangerous stuff. Blow you up. But mixed in the right way, as~ shall do it... What do you think they make?" Charlie sniffs the vial, and recoils "Rotten eggs?" Mr. Turkentine shakes his head "No, but you're close. Mixed in the right way, they make the finest wart-remover in the world." Charlie looks at the teacher's hand.  "You have warts, Mr. Turkentine?" 

"Yes, but I left them at home. Remind me to bring them in tomorrow. Now then, the trick is to pour all three of these ingredients in at the same time...You take the sulphuric. I'll take the nitric and glycerine." They unstopper the bottles and get ready to pour them into a glass beaker. "Good boy... you ready?" Charlie nods "Right. Here we go. Pour!" They pour. There is a tremendous explosion and a cloud of dense yellow smoke. Class cheers. Through the smoke, we see Charlie laughing, Mr. Turkentine smiling, unruffled. "Your warts must be bigger than elephants!" Charlie said "We hear the sudden SOUND of commotion in the corridor outside. Shouts, then running footsteps... and it grows louder. "What on earth's going on out there?" the teacher asked getting upset. "Maybe the school's on fire." 

MR. TURKENTINE crosses to the door and opens it. Through it we see children rushing down the corridor. "You. Winkelman! What's happening?" The FAT BOY from earlier, pops his head through the door, breathless and excited. "Willy Wonka is opening his factory. He's going to let people in!" The Winkelman spoke "It's on the radio! And a truckload of chocolate! He's giving it away!" Mr. Trurkentine was now equally excited. "When? Now?" He asked. "No no! It's only for five people! He's hidden five Golden Tickets inside five candy bars..." Winkelman corrected "...and the people who find them they'll be the lucky ones!" He then turns to go. "Where's everyone rushing to?" as Winkelman rushes out he yells "To buy Wonka bars!" 

Mr. Trurkentine  now dashing out yells "Class dismissed!" The entire class makes for the door, pushing and shouting. Suddenly the room is empty save for CHARLIE. He stands for a moment, then walks slowly out. 

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FOUR GRANDPARENTS IN BED, CHARLIEAll are watching or trying to watch TV. The TV set is pure Rube Goldberg, possibly an enormous cabinet with a tiny picture in the middle and a huge horn-type speaker on top. The picture is so small that the viewer has to get within 12 inches to see anything. Therefore only one or two can watch at a time. The Set is possibly slung on a wire and pulley from the ceiling and can be moved across the bed from one grandparent to the other. GRANDPA JOE is peering close to the screen. CHARLIE is right alongside. The Crackly TV ANNOUNCER'S VOICE is continuous with only sentence pauses. Comments of those in the room overlap slightly but come mostly during the sentence pauses. "Already, only two hours after Mr. Willy Wonka made his extraordinary..." The TV announcer spoke 

"They're all dotty!" Grandma Georgina said. "Shhhh listen" Grandpa Joe shushed her "...announcement, long queues are beginning to form outside chocolate shops and candy stores all over the world! Everybody wants one of those Golden Tickets! Everybody wants to see inside that mysterious factory and His mystery wife Y/n Wonka! The news that the mythical Mr. and Mrs. Wonka is going to conduct the winners around and show them the wonders of his establishment has increased the excitement to a fever pitch!..." 

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