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How edutaining! 🙃

There are so many layers of "What?!" in this scenario. Did this stuff actually change the past, so she's not just physically older, but was actually born centuries earlier? How did Charlie guess the Mayflower? He just assumed it must be a ship he's heard of? If she was on the Mayflower in this revised timeline, shouldn't she be living in America? How does she have a daughter Mrs. Bucket's age?

"This time I myself will supervise the giving of the medicine."

Unspoken: "Unlike last time, when I knew that you were taking too much but did nothing to stop it."

"You can't see Gnoolies, my boy. You can't even feel them...until they puncture your skin...then it's too late. They've got you."

Why did you take a small child on this mission?

"You'll be the first person in the world to change her father's nappies!"

That is not true.

Are you trying to convince them to take this stuff? Because if so, it's a bad strategy to repeatedly say "even though it does something TOO HORRIBLE TO MENTION."

Also, I get the sense that Wonka burns through a lot of Oompa-Loompas during his experiments.

"Who in the world are all these peculiar little men?"

Wait a minute, Georgina, and they'll sing a song shaming you for being bedridden.

It seems like very time that Mr. or Mrs. Bucket speak, the narration feels the need to lampshade how rarely it happens.

I guess we can add "unflappable" to Charlie's short list of character traits. Though it may have been that Dahl just didn't think to add "realistic fear."

Why are they not speaking? Okay, so Houston can hear them; they already know that you're there. For that matter, why did you break in when you KNEW it would end with them catching you? And why do they have devices to pick up noise inside the hotel, but not cameras?