Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Also Grandpa Joe is the most worthless piece of shite in cinematic history.

Never saw all the drug innuendos the first few times till I got high and watched it while in college again

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Also Grandpa Joe is the most worthless piece of shite in cinematic history.


At least credit Mike Stoklasa if you're gonna copy his sentiment.

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No idea who that is, but Jim Rome did a rant on Grandpa Joe years ago that his callers would bring up.

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At least credit Mike Stoklasa if you're gonna copy his sentiment.

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This is not the first time I nor many others on this board have called Grandpa Joe one of the great villains in cinematic history.

Classic movie, and hardly ever gets old...

I watched it recently on Netflix too and it holds up pretty well even today IMO. It's funny you guys are mentioning Grandpa Joe as a villain. Maybe it's because I'm older now but I noticed several things this time about him that I never had before:

- Sits around in bed for 20 straight years and lets Charlie and his mom pick up the slack
- When Charlie shows up with a loaf of bread, he says "what difference does it make where he got it? point is he got it" as if stealing it would've been just fine
- Jumps up out of bed and moves around like a 20-year old as soon as Charlie finds the ticket
- Encourages Charlie to drink the fizzy lifting drink which almost causes him to lose his whole prize (not to mention his life)
- Tells Charlie they'll give Slugworth the Gobstopper to get even with Wonka

I love the actor (Jack Albertson), but Grandpa Joe is an a-hole.

Laid up in bed
Smokes tobacco as family struggles to put food on the table
Cant walk, work, etc but can instantly dance, and sing once Charlie finds a golden ticket
Convinces Charlie to almost kill himself
Tries to convince Charlie to betray Willie Wonka and deprive the family of the greatest reward it could ever hope for

No one gets to claim ownership for thinking Joe is a piece of shite. It is the universal train of thought for anyone who watched the movie

Damn - I was stone cold sober yesterday and started it, but backed out. I'd rather watch that with the kids now.

I've used this one IRL a bunch

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At least credit Mike Stoklasa if you're gonna copy his sentiment.

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Red Letter Media didn't come up with the anti Grandpa Joe take. That has been around for a long arse time. Here's an anti GJ website started in 2004 https://www.saynotograndpajoe.com/. I seriously doubt it's the first. Hell, I bet you could find movie reviews from when Willy Wonka first came out that note how shite Grandpa Joe is. People forget that the movie got mixed reviews and bombed when it first came out. It only became popular years later after repeated TV showings that happened mainly b/c it's failure made it cheap to license.