Friday Dump

Grandpa Joe is the laziest character in movie history

This week, I have finally started watching The Righteous Gemstones again (I have only watched season one, finally started season two and I am aware the series finale just aired last week). If you haven't watched it, I really think you should. It's funny, everyone is giving excellent performances and you get John Goodman and Walter Goggins.

You are probably thinking, Karina, have you finished any of the series that you have mentioned previously, and I am here to tell you, to mind your own business. We are slowly finishing up season two of Silo and I am both making my way through season two of The Wheel of Time and reading book four so I can watch season three. I am all caught up with Summer House so frankly, I think I am doing great!

I don't have much in the way of sharing much pop culture consumed as I haven't finished the books I told you about last week, but I do want to talk about Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It never sat right with me even as a child why this old man sat in a bed with three other old people and he "couldn't walk" but when Charlie needed an adult to go with him to the chocolate factory, this man can miraculously walk? His daughter (or daughter-in-law because they never actually specify) is working as a laundress and now his grandson also has to get a job and go to school (and he can't be older than 12) so they can support his tobacco habit and eat more than cabbage water soup? This man is a menace and needs to be sent to the gulag. He can do a dance? A little hop and skip!? Please! Grandpa Joe tells Charlie's mom that the floor is too cold. TOO COLD? SIR!?? YOU LAZY OLD ASS MAN! He spent 20 years laying in that bed, watching his family suffer!? No sir. You are NOT coming to the chocolate factory with me. Also, Charlie, you bring him and not your mom? The betrayal I would have felt. Damn kids, no loyalty. Your mother does EVERYTHING and you're taking useless Grandpa Joe instead? Throwing both their asses out on the street.

Also, my final thought on Grandpa Joe is that he is the reason that Charlie almost died via ceiling fan because he is the one that suggested they drink the fizzy lifting drink. Once again, Grandpa Joe is a terrorist. Someone call Interpol to collect this international criminal.

Also, I know I famously hate musicals, but I do love Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Just don't make me watch LaLa Land or Wicked. It's not going to happen. Maybe Wicked but if I haven't seen it yet, the probability of me doing so shrink with each passing day.

And if you're wondering if I am re-watching Willy Wonka on Max, you would be correct. It's under the TCM collection. You're welcome.

Final thought: is the Chocolate Factory set in England? Because Charlie, Wonka and Grandpa Joe have American accents but Charlie's teacher and the candy man have British accents.

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