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** Miss Trunchbull is [[Film/HarryPotter Aunt Marge]].
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** Miss Trunchbull is [[Film/HarryPotter Aunt Marge]]. (Or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darling_Buds_of_May_%28TV_series%29 Ma Larkin]].)
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* DirectedByCastMember: Danny [=DeVito=] is the director, the narrator, and Harry Wormwood.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The movie was not a box office success, but was received very well from critics and audiences for staying true to the book. It gained a bigger audience on video and on television.
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Considering Harry Potter 3 came out years after Matilda, it can\'t be an Actor Allusion if the film wasn\'t released yet.
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* ActorAllusion: Pam Ferris plays an overweight, sadistic woman who acts incredibly cruel to an orphaned related-by-marriage child relative ([[spoiler:her step-sister's daughter, Jenny Honey]]) and seems to believe that it's InTheBlood when it comes to how rotten children are. Also, she is perfectly happy simply assuming how nasty children are without gaining any proof. And, really, compare these lines:
-->'''Trunchbull''': The apple never rots far from the tree!\\
'''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Harry Potter's Aunt Marge]]''': If there's something wrong with the bitch, there's something wrong with the pup!
-->'''Trunchbull''': The apple never rots far from the tree!\\
'''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Harry Potter's Aunt Marge]]''': If there's something wrong with the bitch, there's something wrong with the pup!
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, Creator/RichardDonner was supposed to direct.
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** Originally, Creator/RichardDonner was supposed to direct.
** Originally, Creator/RichardDonner was supposed to direct.
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** When the book was still in the works, the protagonist was intended to be male, continuing the trend of little-boy protagonists in other RoaldDahl books.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: In today's age of cell phones with cameras, Mrs. Trunchbull's violent actions against the children "whom nobody would believe if you would have told them" wouldn't remain a DarkSecret long.
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* RealLifeRelative: Zinnia Wormwood is Danny [=DeVito=]'s real wife Rhea Perlman.
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* DawsonCasting: The older children are played by adults and they look it. It seems odd when they show up in Revolting ''Children''.
** Intentionally so: to a five year old on her first day at school, the place is full of intimidating giants who look like [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xzj6gRhDG9wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false this]].
** Also Matilda is supposedly a 5 year old. But is played by 10 - 12 year olds. But baring in most of them are OlderThanTheyLook. However original Matilda Kerry Ingram could pass on her own but next to the others not so much.
** A special mention goes to Sophia Kiely who was 12 by the time she left looked nothing like her age. Also she is regarded as one on the best Matilda's
** Heather Tepe, of the Broadway production, is currently a swing for Lavender, Nigel, Amanda, Eric, Alice, and Tommy.
** Intentionally so: to a five year old on her first day at school, the place is full of intimidating giants who look like [[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xzj6gRhDG9wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA125#v=onepage&q&f=false this]].
** Also Matilda is supposedly a 5 year old. But is played by 10 - 12 year olds. But baring in most of them are OlderThanTheyLook. However original Matilda Kerry Ingram could pass on her own but next to the others not so much.
** A special mention goes to Sophia Kiely who was 12 by the time she left looked nothing like her age. Also she is regarded as one on the best Matilda's
** Heather Tepe, of the Broadway production, is currently a swing for Lavender, Nigel, Amanda, Eric, Alice, and Tommy.
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** Ironic considering that she is ''quite'' a [[{{Jerkass}} bitch]] herself in both roles.
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* ActorAllusion: Pam Ferris plays an overweight, sadistic woman who acts incredibly cruel to an orphaned related-by-marriage child relative ([[spoiler:her step-sister's daughter, Jenny Honey]]) and seems to believe that it's InTheBlood when it comes to how rotten children are. Also, she is perfectly happy simply assuming how nasty children are without gaining any proof. And, really, compare these lines:
-->'''Trunchbull''': The apple never rots far from the tree!\\
'''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Harry Potter's Aunt Marge]]''': If there's something wrong with the bitch, there's something wrong with the pup!
** Ironic considering that she is ''quite'' a [[{{Jerkass}} bitch]] herself in both roles.
-->'''Trunchbull''': The apple never rots far from the tree!\\
'''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Harry Potter's Aunt Marge]]''': If there's something wrong with the bitch, there's something wrong with the pup!
** Ironic considering that she is ''quite'' a [[{{Jerkass}} bitch]] herself in both roles.
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** Miss Honey is the [[spoiler: recently widowed]] wife of Lane Pryce in ''Series/MadMen''.
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** Miss Honey is the [[spoiler: recently widowed]] [[spoiler:widowed]] wife of Lane Pryce in ''Series/MadMen''.
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* ThrowItIn: A minor example; As Matilda prepares to go on her first day of school she wears a blue sweater, but Creator/MaraWilson thought it was too itchy and didn't like wearing it. Thus, for the next scene as she gets in the car Wilson took off the sweater and left folded on her lap.
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* ThrowItIn: A minor example; As Matilda prepares to go on her first day of school she wears a blue sweater, but Creator/MaraWilson thought it was too itchy and didn't like wearing it. Thus, So for the next scene as when she gets in the car Wilson took off the sweater and left it folded on her lap.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, Creator/RichardDonner was supposed to direct.
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** And Matilda's dad is [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Frank Reynolds]], another sleazy character who is an absolute {{Jerkass}} to his children.
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** And Matilda's dad is [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Frank Reynolds]], another sleazy character who is an absolute {{Jerkass}} to his children.children (only it's a lot funnier on ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' since that show's not for kids and there's nothing good about Dennis or Sweet Dee, so [[AssholeVictim they're pretty much getting what they deserve]])
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* ThrowItIn: A minor example; As Matilda prepares to go on her first day of school she wears a blue sweater, but MaraWilson thought it was too itchy and didn't like wearing it. Thus, for the next scene as she gets in the car Wilson took off the sweater and left folded on her lap.
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* ThrowItIn: A minor example; As Matilda prepares to go on her first day of school she wears a blue sweater, but MaraWilson Creator/MaraWilson thought it was too itchy and didn't like wearing it. Thus, for the next scene as she gets in the car Wilson took off the sweater and left folded on her lap.
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* ThrowItIn: A minor example; As Matilda prepares to go on her first day of school she wears a blue sweater, but Mara Wilson MaraWilson thought it was too itchy and didn't like wearing it. Thus, for the next scene as she gets in the car Wilson took off the sweater and left folded on her lap.
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** And Matilda's dad is [[Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Frank Reynolds]], another sleazy character who is an absolute JerkAss to his children.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the movie, one of the investigators assigned to go after Matilda's father is [[PeeWeesPlayhouse Pee-Wee Herman]] [[hottip:*:Paul Reubens' famous obnoxious man-child persona]] while the second one is [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob, Joker's number one guy]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the movie, one of the investigators assigned to go after Matilda's father is [[PeeWeesPlayhouse [[Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse Pee-Wee Herman]] [[hottip:*:Paul Reubens' famous obnoxious man-child persona]] while the second one is [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob, Joker's number one guy]].
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* ThrowItIn: A minor example; As Matilda prepares to go on her first day of school she wears a blue sweater, but Mara Wilson thought it was too itchy and didn't like wearing it. Thus, for the next scene as she gets in the car Wilson took off the sweater and left folded on her lap.
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** And Matilda's dad is [[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Frank Reynolds]], another sleazy character who is an absolute JerkAss to his children.
** Bruce Bogtrotter, the cake eater, can be seen two years later [[TheWeddingSinger grabbing Drew Barrymore's butt]].
** Miss Honey is the [[spoiler: recently widowed]] wife of Lane Pryce in MadMen
** Miss Trunchbull is [[HarryPotter Aunt Marge]].
** Bruce Bogtrotter, the cake eater, can be seen two years later [[TheWeddingSinger grabbing Drew Barrymore's butt]].
** Miss Honey is the [[spoiler: recently widowed]] wife of Lane Pryce in MadMen
** Miss Trunchbull is [[HarryPotter Aunt Marge]].
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** Bruce Bogtrotter, the cake eater, can be seen two years later[[TheWeddingSinger [[Film/TheWeddingSinger grabbing Drew Barrymore's butt]].
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** Miss Trunchbull is[[HarryPotter [[Film/HarryPotter Aunt Marge]].
** Bruce Bogtrotter, the cake eater, can be seen two years later
** Miss Honey is the [[spoiler: recently widowed]] wife of Lane Pryce in
** Miss Trunchbull is
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** Paul Reubens a.k.a ''Pee Wee Herman'' is one of the FBI sting operation guys.
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** Paul Reubens a.k.a ''Pee Wee Herman'' is one of the FBI sting operation guys.
** Bruce Bogtrotter, the cake eater, can be seen two years later [[TheWeddingSinger grabbing Drew Barrymore's butt]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the movie, one of the investigators assigned to go after Matilda's father is Paul Reubens (a.k.a Pee-Wee Herman) while the second one is [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob, Joker's number one guy]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the movie, one of the investigators assigned to go after Matilda's father is Paul Reubens (a.k.a [[PeeWeesPlayhouse Pee-Wee Herman) Herman]] [[hottip:*:Paul Reubens' famous obnoxious man-child persona]] while the second one is [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob, Joker's number one guy]].guy]].
**And Matilda's dad is [[ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia Frank Reynolds]], another sleazy character who is an absolute JerkAss to his children.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: In the movie, one of the investigators assigned to go after Matilda's father is Paul Reubens (a.k.a Pee-Wee Herman) while the second one is [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob, Joker's number one guy]].guy]].
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* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: HeyItsThatGuy: In the movie, one of the investigators assigned to go after Matilda's father is Paul Reubens (a.k.a Pee-Wee Herman) while the second one is [[{{Film/Batman}} Bob, Joker's number one guy]].
