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0:15Everyone is born, but not everyone is
0:18[music] born the same. Some will grow to
0:20be butchers or bakers or candlestick
0:23makers. Some will only be really good at
0:25making jello salad.
0:28One way or another though, every human
0:30being is unique. For better or for
0:33worse.
0:36>> Most parents believe their children are
0:38the most beautiful creatures ever to
0:39grace the planet. Others take a less
0:41emotional approach. What a waste of time
0:44>> and painful
0:45>> and expensive. 925 for a bar of soap.
0:47>> Well, I had to take a shower, Harry.
0:50>> $5,000. I'm not paying it. What are they
0:52going to do? Repossess the kids?
1:10There's no way out.
1:11>> Make a [music] U-turn.
1:20>> Harry.
1:20>> Harry.
1:22>> Harry.
1:24The wormwood guys.
1:25>> Harry and Zineia Wormwood lived in a
1:27very nice neighborhood, in a very nice
1:30house, but they were not really very
1:32nice people.
1:42[music]
1:43>> Get out of the street, you little dodos.
1:50>> [music]
1:52>> The Wormwoods were so wrapped up in
1:54their own silly lives that they barely
1:56noticed they had a daughter. Had they
1:59paid any attention to her at all, they'd
2:01have realized she was a rather
2:02extraordinary child.
2:04>> Oh my gosh, Matilda. Now look what you
2:07did.
2:07>> They named her Matilda.
2:09>> You're supposed to eat the spinach.
2:15Ew, ew, ew, ew.
2:22>> Babies,
2:24you're better off raising tomatoes.
2:27>> By the time she was two, Matilda had
2:29learned what most people learn in their
2:31early 30s, how to take care of herself.
2:38As time went by, she developed a sense
2:40of style.
2:43Every morning, Matilda's older brother,
2:45Michael, went to school.
2:46>> Come on, get out of here.
2:47>> Her father went to work selling used
2:49cars
2:49>> make money
2:50>> for unfair prices. And her mother took
2:52off to play bingo.
2:53>> Soup's on the stove. Heat it up if you
2:55get hungry.
2:57>> Matilda was left alone.
3:00That was how she liked it.
3:38By the time she was four, Matilda had
3:40read every magazine in the house. One
3:43night, she got up her courage and asked
3:45her father for something she desperately
3:47wanted.
3:49>> A book? What do you want a book for?
3:52>> To read.
3:53>> To read? Why would you want to read when
3:55you got the television set sitting right
3:57in front of you?
3:59>> There's nothing you can get from a book
4:01that you can't get from a television
4:02faster.
4:04>> Get out of the way.
4:07>> Matilda already knew that she was
4:08somewhat different from her family. She
4:11saw that whatever she needed in this
4:13world, she'd have to get herself.
4:16>> Why?
4:17>> Ciao. There's fish fingers in the
4:19microwave.
4:24>> The next morning, after her parents
4:26left, Matilda set off in search of a
4:29book.
4:38[music]
4:51>> [music]
5:08>> Where are the children's books, please?
5:11>> In that room right over there. Would you
5:13like me to pick you out one with lots of
5:15pictures in it?
5:17No, thank you. I'm sure I can manage.
5:35>> [music]
5:36>> From then on, every day as soon as her
5:38mother went to bingo, Matilda walked the
5:4110 blocks to the library
5:45and devoured one book after another.
5:52When she finished all [music] the
5:53children's books, she started wandering
5:55around in search of something else. Mrs.
5:58Phelps, who had been watching her with
6:00fascination for the past few weeks,
6:02offered Matilda some valuable library
6:05information.
6:05>> You know, you could have your very own
6:07library card and then you could take
6:09books home and you wouldn't have to walk
6:12here every day. You could take as many
6:15as you like.
6:16>> That would be wonderful.
6:21So, Matilda's strong young mind
6:23continued to grow, nurtured by the
6:26voices of all those authors who had sent
6:28their books out into the world like
6:31ships onto the sea. [music]
6:42These books gave Matilda a hopeful and
6:44comforting message. You are not alone.
6:48Any
6:59[music]
7:09packages come today?
7:10>> Mm-
7:13>> Where'd all this come from? The
7:15>> library.
7:17>> The library. You've never set foot in a
7:19library. You're only four years old.
7:21>> Six and a half.
7:22>> You're four.
7:23>> Six and a half.
7:24>> If you were 6 and 1/2, you'd be in
7:26school already.
7:27>> I want to be in school. I told you I was
7:29supposed to start school in September.
7:31You wouldn't listen.
7:33>> Get up. Get up.
7:36Get out here. Give me that book.
7:41>> Here's Pie. How old is Matilda?
7:44>> Four. I'm six and a half. Mommy. Five.
7:47Then
7:48>> it was six in August.
7:49>> You're a liar.
7:50>> I want to go to school.
7:53>> School? It's out of the question. Who
7:55would be here to sign for the packages?
7:57We can't leave valuable packages sitting
7:59out on the doorstep. Now go watch TV
8:01like a good kid.
8:03>> You know, sometimes I think there's
8:05something wrong with that girl.
8:08>> Tell me about it.
8:10>> Hey, dip face. Have a marshmallow. Have
8:13another marshmallow. Dip face.
8:16dip face.
8:25Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend,
8:28someone like the kind, courageous people
8:30in her books. It occurred to her that
8:33like talking dragons and princesses with
8:36hair long enough to climb, such people
8:38might exist only in story books.
8:41But Matilda was about to discover that
8:43she could be her own friend. that she
8:46had a kind of strength she wasn't even
8:47aware of.
8:49>> I'm great. I'm incredible. Michael,
8:52pencil and paper in the kitchen. Oh,
8:54>> we sell some cars today, honey. Dude,
8:57>> did we?
8:58>> Does that mean I can get that new TV?
9:00>> Yeah, son. One day you're going to have
9:02to earn your own living. It's time you
9:04learn the family business. Sit down.
9:07Write this down.
9:09All right. The first car your brilliant
9:11father sold cost $320.
9:14I sold it for $1,158.
9:18The second one cost $512.
9:21I sold it for $2,269.
9:26>> Wait, Dad, you're going too fast.
9:27>> Just right. The third cost $68. I sold
9:31it for $999.
9:34And the fourth cost $1,100.
9:38I sold it for $7,839.
9:42Big American buffaloos.
9:44>> Harry,
9:45>> what was my profit for the day?
9:47>> Can you repeat the last?
9:48>> $10,265.
9:54[snorts]
9:54>> Check it if you don't believe me.
10:00>> You're a little cheat. You saw the paper
10:03>> from all the way over here.
10:06>> Are you being smart with me?
10:09If you're being smart with me, young
10:11lady, you're going to be punished.
10:12>> Punished for being smart.
10:14>> For being a smart Alec.
10:17When a person is bad, that person has to
10:19be taught a lesson.
10:21>> Person,
10:22>> get up. Get up.
10:24>> Harry Wormwood had unintentionally given
10:27his daughter the first practical advice
10:29she could use. He meant to say, "When a
10:32child is bad." Instead, he said, "When a
10:35person is bad." and thereby introduced a
10:38revolutionary idea that children could
10:41punish their parents
10:45only when they deserved it. Of course,
11:27Oh, man.
11:31Come
11:35[clears throat]
11:36[laughter]
11:40on.
11:51[music] Punch.
12:07Michael, come into my room.
12:12>> What?
12:13>> My boy, today's the day I take you to
12:16the shop. What do you say?
12:17>> I don't know. What do you say, Dad?
12:20>> I say appearance is 9/10en of the law.
12:22People don't buy a car, they buy me.
12:25Which is why I personally take such
12:26pride in my appearance. Welloiled hair,
12:29clean shave, snappy suit. Now run along.
12:32Get ready for a big day of learning,
12:34kid. It's going to be a big day of
12:36learning, too. There's a sucker born
12:38every minute. We're going to take them
12:39for all they got.
12:41>> Give me the cookies.
12:43>> Yeah.
12:51>> Okay, my boy. Heir to the throne. Today
12:54we diddle the customer. What's wrong
12:57with you? What are you looking at?
13:00Lovekins. Where's my breakfast?
13:02>> Here we are, my hot strings.
13:07>> Snicker doodle, what did you do to your
13:10hair?
13:13My hair?
13:21[screaming and groaning]
13:27Give me those things. Give me that.
13:28Where are you going with those? Give me
13:29those. Get in the car. Come on.
13:35Get in.
13:36>> Dirty dealings like buying stolen car
13:39parts never stay secret for long,
13:42especially when the FBI gets involved.
13:52917. Suspect exits doicile. I've got
13:56918.
13:59>> 917 is correct.
14:11>> Michael, one day all this will be yours.
14:16This
14:17>> see this junker? I paid $100 for her.
14:20She's got 120,000 miles on her.
14:23Transmission shot. Bumpers have fallen
14:25off. What do I do with her? H
14:30I sell her. We really should weld these
14:33bumpers on, but that takes time,
14:36equipment, money.
14:38So, we use super super glue instead. Go
14:42ahead, put it on there. Won't it fall
14:45off?
14:46>> Definitely.
14:47>> Isn't that dangerous?
14:49>> Not to me. Okay. Transmission.
14:53The sawdust quiets the gears and lets
14:56the engine run as sweet as a nut for a
14:58couple of miles.
14:59>> Daddy, that's cheating.
15:00>> Of course it's cheating. Nobody ever got
15:02rich being honest. 20 years ago, we
15:05could turn the numbers back by hand. But
15:07here, take my hat. But the feds like to
15:10test the ingenuity of American
15:12businessmen.
15:14Two directional drill. You run it
15:16backwards, the numbers go down. Watch
15:18your speedometer.
15:22>> Cool.
15:25>> See?
15:26>> Yeah.
15:26>> Daddy, you're a crook.
15:29>> What?
15:30>> This is illegal.
15:32>> Yeah. Keep drilling.
15:36>> Do you make money? Do you have a job?
15:39>> No. But don't people need good cars?
15:41Can't you sell good cars, Dad?
15:45>> Listen, you little wise.
15:47I'm smart, you're dumb. I'm big, you're
15:49little. I'm right, you're wrong. And
15:51there's nothing you can do about it.
16:01Way down there.
16:06>> Hey, I won. I won. I hit the double
16:10bingo.
16:13>> Come on everybody. I'm taking you all to
16:15Cafe Litz.
16:16>> Let me see the money.
16:17>> Never mind.
16:18>> Double bingo. Huh? Ooh.
16:20>> God, your hair looks awful. I hope they
16:23let you in.
16:24>> They'll let me in.
16:25>> Here's your hat, Taddyy.
16:26>> Get in the car.
16:29>> Go on. Get in.
16:33>> How much?
16:34>> It's for me to know and you to find out.
16:36[snorts]
16:41It's nice to go out sometimes, isn't it?
16:44You never take us out?
16:45>> Of course I do. I took you to the
16:46flipper.
16:47>> I don't remember any of the flipper.
16:49>> The fish joint. You found that comb in
16:50the bully base.
16:52>> Oh, yeah. I like that joint.
16:54>> Oh, this is
16:56>> Harry. Take your hat off.
16:59I
16:59>> can't.
16:59>> This is a nice place. You can't wear a
17:01hat inside.
17:03>> I can't take it off.
17:04>> Harry, nobody cares what your hair looks
17:06like.
17:07I can't get her off. I can't get her
17:09off. I can't get her off.
17:12>> Just a minute. I'm going to take this
17:13hat off. I'm pulling it.
17:17>> I think your head swelled up really bad.
17:20[screaming]
17:20[groaning]
17:22>> You put on the skin.
17:23>> You're such a baby. Stop it.
17:25>> F is a fused to the head.
17:27>> F is a fuse. What is that supposed to
17:29mean? Give me [groaning] a second.
17:34A
18:01>> mummy.
18:04I will not be the figure of ridicule. I
18:07want respect and I want it now.
18:11I
18:11>> still don't see how you glued your hat
18:13on, Harry. I mean, I know you say you
18:15didn't, but obviously you did.
18:17>> I did not glue my hat to my head. The
18:19hat shrunk. The fibers fused to my hair.
18:23>> Baby, wait a minute. I'm getting it now.
18:26I'm getting it. One more.
18:28[groaning]
18:30>> Oh my god.
18:41From now on, this family does exactly
18:43what I say when exactly when I say it.
18:47>> Use your hat, Harry.
18:50>> And right now,
18:52we are eating dinner and watching TV.
18:58>> Are you ready to get sticky with Mickey?
19:01[cheering]
19:03Shut your light off.
19:05>> I'm just giving it away. But for those
19:08idiots out there who don't know how to
19:10play, here's how it goes. For each
19:12correct answer, they'll move one step
19:14closer to our cube of cash. Once in our
19:17cash, any money that sticks to your
19:19gooey body, you get to take home.
19:23[cheering]
19:25>> Hi, Dad.
19:27>> Are you in this family?
19:32Hello.
19:34>> Are you in this family?
19:40>> Dinner time is family time. What is this
19:42trash you're reading?
19:43>> It's not trash, Daddy. It's lovely. It's
19:46called Moby Dick by Herman Melville.
19:49>> Moby? What?
19:52This is spil trash.
19:54>> That's not mine. It's a library book.
19:57>> Trash.
19:58I'm fed up with all this reading. You're
20:00a wormwood. You start acting like one.
20:03>> Sit up and look at the TV.
20:05>> Are not liable for any skin irritation
20:06that may result from playing our game.
20:08Get real sticky and get cash for free.
20:11All right, that's enough. Let's get
20:12sticky. [cheering]
20:20[laughter]
20:27>> [laughter]
20:39[music]
20:45[screaming]
20:51>> I didn't do it. Of course you didn't do
20:54it, you little twit.
20:57>> I told you that was a cheap set.
20:59>> It's not a cheap set. It's a stolen set.
21:03>> Put your light on.
21:07>> Bomber.
21:08>> Was it magic or coincidence? She didn't
21:10know. It is said that we humans use only
21:13a tiny portion of our brains. Matilda
21:16might never have discovered her own
21:18great strength of mind were it not for
21:20the events that began on the very next
21:22day.
21:23>> I need a car. Inexpensive but reliable.
21:26Can you service me?
21:27>> In a manner of speaking. Yes. Welcome to
21:29Wormwood Motors. Harry Wormwood, owner,
21:31founder. Whatever.
21:32>> Agatha the Trunch Bowl, principal,
21:34Crunch Hall Elementary School.
21:37>> I warn you, sir. I want a tight car
21:39because I run a tight ship.
21:41>> Oh, yeah. Huh? Well, uh,
21:43>> my school is a model of discipline. Use
21:45the rod, beat the child. That's my
21:47motto.
21:48>> Terrific motto.
21:49>> You have brats yourself.
21:50>> Yeah, I got a boy, Mikey, and one
21:52mistake, Matilda.
21:53>> They're all mistakes, children. Filthy,
21:55nasty things. Glad I never was one.
21:57>> Uh-huh. Well, since you're an educator,
22:00going to make you a great deal.
22:01>> You had better.
22:02>> Let's do business.
22:05>> Hey, you.
22:07Enjoy it.
22:09>> Hey, you. You're going to school?
22:11>> I am. First thing tomorrow.
22:14Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You
22:16get a real education at this place.
22:20Matilda had always wanted to go to
22:22school because she loved to learn.
22:25She tried to imagine what her new school
22:27would be like. Go ahead.
22:31She pictured a lovely building
22:33surrounded by trees and flowers and
22:35swings.
22:38Well, it was a building and children.
22:43So, regardless of what Crunch Hall
22:44looked like, she was happy to be there.
22:47>> Hey, wait up.
22:49>> After all, any school is better than no
22:52school at all.
22:54>> Isn't it?
23:30You detention.
23:37You're too small. Grow up quicker.
23:43>> Heads up. Shoulders back. Stomach's in.
23:44Stand up.
23:45>> Hey, sorry.
23:46>> Attention for you.
23:47>> That's okay. It's much better than being
23:49out there. Is that my teacher?
23:52>> No, that's the principal, Miss Trunch
23:54Bowl.
23:55>> You've got to be kidding.
23:56>> Uh-uh.
23:57>> You squirt better scadaddle. I'm not
23:59kidding. The trunch likes to snap a whip
24:01in there to see who's trying to hide.
24:02>> Stop again.
24:04>> Change those socks to pink.
24:06>> I'm a lavender.
24:09>> I'm Hortensia.
24:10>> Hi.
24:10>> Hi.
24:11>> She doesn't really hit children with
24:12that Ryland crop, does she?
24:15>> Mostly for scare. What she does is
24:18worse. Like yesterday in the second
24:20grade, the trul makes a weekly visit to
24:23every classroom to show the teachers a
24:25thing or two about handling kids. And
24:27Julius Ratwinkle ate two M&M's during
24:30her lesson
24:31>> and she caught him.
24:32>> Of course.
24:35[screaming]
24:38[music]
24:39>> Was Julius okay
24:41>> after being thrown out the window? Of
24:43course he wasn't okay. He lived. That's
24:45what you mean.
24:46>> The tr used to be in the Olympics.
24:50>> Shot put javelin. Hammer throw.
24:53>> The hammer throws her specialty.
24:54>> So she does this all the time. It's
24:56better than being put in the choke.
24:58>> Chokei?
24:59>> Yeah, the chokei. It's a tall, narrow
25:02hole in a wall behind a door. You have
25:04to stand in a drippy pipe with jagged
25:06edges and the walls are broken glass and
25:08nails sticking out.
25:09>> In sight, you festering ball of
25:12>> She puts kids in there.
25:14>> I've been in twice. Sometimes she leaves
25:16you in there all day.
25:18>> But didn't you tell your parents?
25:19>> They didn't believe me. I mean, would
25:21your parents believe it?
25:23>> 60 lines after school. I must obey Miss
25:25Dunbo.
25:27>> No.
25:28>> Out of my way.
25:29>> Here she comes.
25:34>> Fresh meat.
25:43>> Amanda Thrip.
25:47>> Yes, Miss Trenchful.
25:48>> What are those?
25:49>> What's what, Miss Trench?
25:51>> Hanging down by your ears. You mean my
25:55pigtails?
25:57>> Are you a pig, Amanda?
25:59>> No, Miss Trunch Bowl,
26:01>> do I allow pigs in my school?
26:04>> My mommy thinks they're sweet.
26:08>> Your mommy is a twit.
26:12>> You'll chop those off before school
26:14tomorrow or I will come. But
26:17>> but did you say but?
26:20>> Hammer throw. What? Definitely. I'll
26:24give you butt.
26:36>> Good luck. Excellent release.
26:43Think she'll make the fence. Can we
26:44close one?
26:57>> [music]
27:05[cheering]
27:07>> Quiet. Get to class before I throw you
27:09all in a choking.
27:11>> Lavender,
27:13what's my teacher like?
27:15>> Run, run, run, faster, get in.
27:19quickly.
27:20>> But Matilda's teacher, Miss Honey, was
27:23one of those remarkable people who
27:25appreciates every single child for who
27:27she or he is.
27:29>> I scooped these up for you, Miss Honey.
27:31>> Oh, how lovely. Thank you, Amanda.
27:34Okay, listen up everybody. We have a new
27:37student with us today. This is Matilda
27:39Wormwood. I'd like you to sit over here
27:42with Lavender. Now, you all remember how
27:44scary your first days at school were.
27:45So, I'd like you to be especially nice
27:47to Matilda [music] and make her feel
27:48welcome. All right. Could you get her
27:50workbook for her, please?
27:52>> Yes, Miss Honey. You can sit down.
27:55>> Miss Honey was a wonderful teacher and a
27:57friend to everyone. But her life was not
27:59as simple and beautiful as it seemed.
28:02Miss Honey had a deep, dark secret.
28:05Though it caused her great pain, she did
28:07not let it interfere with her teaching.
28:11Well, Matilda, you've come on a very
28:13good day because we're going to review
28:15everything that we've learned so far.
28:18Now, it's all right if you don't
28:19understand any of this because you're
28:20brand new. But if you do know an answer,
28:22just raise your hand. Okay. All right.
28:26We've been working on our two times
28:27tables. Would anyone like to
28:29demonstrate?
28:31>> Okay. Let's do some together.
28:37>> 2 * 4 is
28:39>> eight.
28:402 * 6 is
28:42>> 12.
28:42>> 12.
28:44>> 2 * 9 is
28:46>> 18.
28:47>> Excellent. You've been practicing.
28:49Pretty soon you'll be able to do any
28:51multiplication. Whether it's 2 * 7,
28:53>> 14.
28:54>> Very good. Or 13 * 379
28:58>> 4,927.
29:03>> I beg your pardon?
29:05>> I think that's the answer.
29:0813 * 3 79
29:114927.
29:31It is
29:34Wow.
29:39Matilda, you know how to multiply big
29:41numbers.
29:42>> I read this book last year on
29:44mathematics at the library.
29:49>> You like to read?
29:50>> Oh, yes. I love to read.
29:53>> What do you like to read?
29:56>> Everything. But lately, I've been
29:58reading Dolls Chickens.
30:02Charles Jickens. I could read him every
30:04day.
30:07So could I.
30:12All right, everyone. Take out your
30:14workbooks and let's start with section
30:15three.
30:25I'll be back in a moment.
30:39Gotcha. Frighten my neck and you.
30:44Yes, you're Come in. Come in, whoever
30:47you are.
30:51Almost got you.
30:54Good to see you, Jen. Good, good, good.
30:58Time for one of our little hawk to
30:59hearts.
31:02[laughter]
31:04>> Actually, it's about the the new girl in
31:06my class, Miss Trunch Bowl. Matilda
31:08Wormwood.
31:10>> Her father says she's a real wart.
31:12>> A what?
31:13>> A carbuncle, a blister, a festering
31:15pastal, a malignant ooze.
31:17>> Oh, Matilda Wormwood is a very sweet
31:19girl and very bright.
31:22>> A bright child.
31:23>> Yes, she can multiply large sums in her
31:26head. So can a calculator.
31:29>> Well,
31:31I think she might be happier in in an
31:33older and in a more advanced class.
31:35>> I knew it. You can't handle the little
31:38viper, so you're trying to force her off
31:39for one of the other teachers.
31:40>> No, no, no, no, Mr. Fudge.
31:42>> Yes. Typical floatful cowardice.
31:45Listen to me, Jen.
31:48The distance the shockput goes depends
31:50upon the effort you put into it.
31:53Perspiration.
31:54If you can't handle the little brat,
31:56I'll lock her in the chokey.
31:59[screaming]
32:01>> Get it? Yes, ma'am. One day, Jen, you'll
32:05see that everything I do is for your own
32:07good and the good of those putresent
32:11little children.
32:24Okay.
32:27[music]
32:34>> You're back at Tiffany. Oh, before when
32:37she was having that.
32:38>> Mom, I'm home.
32:39>> Oh, how was school? The thing with
32:41Valerie.
32:41>> School was great. My teacher lets me do
32:43sixth grade work.
32:45>> Algebra and geography.
32:47>> Hold on a minute. Can't you see I'm in
32:49the middle of an important phone call?
32:51>> Well, you just asked me how school was.
32:53>> Quiet.
32:55>> What else was she supposed to do? The
32:56baby wasn't his.
32:57>> Well, it was really great.
33:00>> No way. They got to be implants.
33:02>> The principal is insane. She threw a
33:05girl over the fence by her hair.
33:07>> It would change your life, too, if you
33:09waxed yours. I'm positive.
33:11>> I have the most wonderful teacher.
33:15>> Mine are driving me crazy. I'm telling
33:17you, six hours a day at school is not
33:19enough.
33:20>> I'll say
33:23>> whack to the belly. A smack to the face.
33:25Another smack in the face. Birds is
33:26hurt. He's on the ropes, ladies and
33:27gentlemen. Say by the bell. [cheering]
33:31>> Packages at this hour.
33:33>> Come here.
33:34>> Look.
33:35>> Okay.
33:40>> Hello.
33:41>> We don't give money. We don't like
33:42charities. We don't buy raffle tickets.
33:47I I'm Jennifer, honey. I'm Matilda's
33:49teacher.
33:49>> What's she done now? You go to your room
33:53right now. Right now. Beat it. Look,
33:57whatever it is, she's your problem now.
33:59>> No, there is no problem.
34:02>> Then beat it. We're watching TV.
34:06>> Mr. Wormwood,
34:08if you think watching some rotten TV
34:09show is more important than your
34:11daughter, then maybe you shouldn't be a
34:12parent. Now, why don't you turn that
34:15darn thing off and listen to me?
34:21>> All right, come on and get this over
34:23with. Mrs. Wormwood's not going to like
34:24this. Come on, get in.
34:29>> Close the door.
34:30>> Who is it?
34:31>> Some teacher says she's got to talk to
34:33you about Matilda.
34:37>> What'd you do that for? You have the
34:38last quiz on the ropes.
34:40>> What do you want? I I'm sure you're
34:42aware by now that Matilda has a
34:44brilliant mind.
34:45>> Yeah, right. Mikey, give me a beer.
34:47>> Her math skills are simply
34:49extraordinary. She's reading material
34:51that I
34:51>> Want one?
34:53>> Oh, no, thank you, dear. Material that I
34:56didn't see until my second year of
34:58college.
34:59>> Oh, college.
35:01>> College.
35:01>> I really feel with private instruction
35:03that that she'd be ready for college in
35:05just a few short years. Look, Miss Snit,
35:09a girl does not get anywhere by acting
35:12intelligent. I mean, take a look at you
35:14and me. You chose books. I chose looks.
35:19I have a nice house, a wonderful
35:22husband, and you were slaving away
35:24teachings not knows children their ABCs.
35:27You want Matilda to go to college?
35:31>> College? I didn't go to college. I don't
35:34know anybody who did. Bunch of hippies
35:36and cesspool salesmen.
35:39[laughter]
35:40>> Don't sneer at educated people, Mr.
35:42Wormwood. If you became ill, heaven
35:45forbid, your doctor would be a college
35:47graduate.
35:49>> Or or say you were sued for selling a
35:51faulty car. The lawyer who defended you
35:53would have gone to college, too.
35:54>> What car? Sued by who? Who you been
35:58talking to?
36:00>> Nobody.
36:04Oh, dear. I can see we're not going to
36:07agree, are we?
36:10No. I'm sorry I burst in on you like
36:13this. Sorry.
36:17>> We would have so hard for interrupting
36:18our show.
36:19>> Tell me about it.
36:22>> Why is he standing in the middle of the
36:23ring?
36:24>> He's standing in the middle of the ring
36:25cuz it's over.
36:27>> You missed it.
36:29>> Wait, it's over.
36:32>> You won.
36:33How do I know? You shut it off.
36:35>> Was it my fault that she came in the
36:37middle of the fight?
36:38>> Too hippity hop. The entire school will
36:41go to the assembly room immediately.
36:44>> Sit.
36:47>> What's up? Beat me.
36:53>> Bruce Bug Trotter.
37:02Would
37:04little Brucey come up here, please?
37:08>> Uhoh.
37:20>> He lives on my block.
37:27This boy Bruce Bog Trotter is none other
37:32than a vicious sneak thief.
37:35You're a disgusting criminal, aren't
37:37you?
37:38>> I don't know what you're talking about.
37:41>> Cake. Chocolate cake. You slithered like
37:45a serpent into the school kitchen and
37:47ate my personal snack. Do you deny it?
37:57Confess.
38:00>> Well, it's hard for me to remember a
38:02specific cake.
38:04>> This one
38:06was mine. And it was the most
38:09scrumptious cake in the entire world.
38:12>> My mom's is better.
38:15>> It is. Is it?
38:17How can you be sure unless you have
38:19another piece?
38:22Sit down, fog.
38:30[music]
38:43Here we go.
38:46Smells chocolatey. E.
38:50Now eat it.
38:56>> I don't want any. Thank you.
38:59>> Eat it.
39:03>> Don't eat it.
39:06>> She wouldn't give him cake. It's poison.
39:08Someone's
39:09>> soft.
39:18Mhm. Yum. H.
39:40>> You look like you enjoyed that, Brucey.
39:46>> You must have some more.
39:49No thanks.
39:51>> But you'll hurt Cook's feelings.
39:54>> Cookie.
39:58>> She made this cake just for you to have
40:01on your very own.
40:06Her sweat and blood went into this cake.
40:09And you will not leave this platform
40:12until you have consumed the entire
40:14confection.
40:16>> Entire confection.
40:19See you at lunch. Thank you. Cookie
40:21rotten kids.
40:22>> You wanted cake. You got cake. Now eat
40:26it. [sighs]
40:28>> What?
40:41What?
40:50Whoa.
40:54[music]
41:00[music]
41:06[music]
41:12[music]
41:16He's going to puke.
41:19I can't look. Is he going to puke?
41:22Without a doubt.
41:32>> Bruce looks real bad.
41:33>> Give up.
41:40>> You can do it, Brucey.
41:43You can do it, Bruce.
41:46>> Yeah, you can do it.
41:49Go, Bruce.
42:00Heat. Heat.
42:13Heat.
42:15Heat.
42:24[music]
42:29>> [music]
42:39>> Shut up. The entire assembly will stay 5
42:43hours after school and copy from the
42:45dictionary. Any children who object will
42:48go straight into the chokei together.
42:57I'm Cameron. I run rescue out of Station
42:598, Los Angeles County. And this was a
43:02code Rar. Codar is official way of
43:04saying we've caught a bad one. A kind of
43:06accident where death itself holds a
43:08stopwatch on us.
43:12>> Young lady, where were you?
43:14>> Miss Trench kept the whole school like
43:15kids eating some chocolate cake.
43:17>> That's the biggest lie I ever heard. You
43:19see those packages over there? They were
43:21left out there for the world to see
43:22because you weren't here to take them
43:23in.
43:23>> Well, I don't think it's fair, Bunkins.
43:26>> What?
43:26>> You get all this stuff from cataloges
43:28and I don't get anything.
43:29>> It's not cataloges. It's car parts,
43:32sweetness. It's business.
43:33>> Oh, if it's business, why don't you have
43:35it sent to the office?
43:36>> Because the cops may be watching the
43:38office.
43:38>> The cops are watching the house.
43:41>> What?
43:42>> They're parked outside right now.
43:45>> You are such an ignoramus. Those are
43:47speedboat salesmen. Really nice guys.
43:51Cops.
43:55>> Speedboats. There are no lakes around
43:58here.
43:58>> Yeah, but some people like to go away on
44:01the weekends. Some people have fun and
44:04some people are cops.
44:05>> They are not cops.
44:07>> Are too.
44:07>> They are not. I don't know if there's
44:08cops watching my house. Now go to bed,
44:10you lying little wig.
44:14With the FBI watching her father and the
44:17Trunch Bowl terrorizing her school, it
44:19was a rare and happy moment when Matilda
44:21could just play with her friends.
44:23>> A bug. A bug. A bug.
44:27>> What is it, Lavender?
44:29>> A bug.
44:33>> It's a salamander.
44:34>> It's a chameleon.
44:35>> It's a noot. Any of the small
44:37semiacquatic salamanders from the genus
44:40Tritus. Some are brightly colored and
44:42secrete irritating substances.
44:49>> Don't you keep going to useless flaming
44:56wood? Sell me a lemon.
44:59>> You're heading for the chokei, young
45:01lady.
45:01>> Chokey.
45:02>> Teach you a lesson.
45:03>> What lesson?
45:03>> You and your father think you can make a
45:05fool out of me.
45:06>> My father.
45:07>> The guy with a stupid haircut.
45:09I like my father.
45:11>> You're a spitting image.
45:13>> The apple never rots far from the tree.
45:18>> Miss Honey.
45:19>> Miss Punchville teaches our class three.
45:21Lavender. Please get a water picture.
45:23>> Honey, quickly. She'll be here any
45:24second. Come on.
45:27>> Oh, make sure the water's cold.
45:28Lavender, hurry, cover the fish. Put
45:32away the art projects. Put away anything
45:34colorful. Oh, Charlie, won't you get
45:35those crayons for me? Most great ideas
45:37come from hard work and careful
45:39planning. Of course, once in a while
45:42they just jump out at you.
45:44>> Raina, Raina, cover the birds and the
45:46beetles. Hurry, hurry. I hear her
45:48coming.
45:48>> Okay, now last time some of you forgot
45:51yourselves. Don't speak unless you're
45:53spoken to. Don't laugh. Don't smile.
45:56Don't even breathe loudly.
45:58>> Don't breathe at all.
46:03>> Morning, Miss Trunch Bowl.
46:04>> Morning.
46:05>> Morning, Mr.
46:09Sit.
46:15>> Shoo.
46:19I have never been able to understand why
46:21small children are so disgusting.
46:23They're the bane of my life. They're
46:26like insects.
46:28They should be got rid of as early as
46:30possible.
46:34My idea of a perfect school is one in
46:37which there are no children at all.
46:42Do you agree, Miss Honey?
46:49Now
46:50you front of the class.
46:59Are you okay?
47:02Next time I tell you to empty your
47:05pocket, you'll do it faster, won't you?
47:07>> Excuse me, drench fool.
47:08>> Miss Honey,
47:10>> this could be the most interesting thing
47:11you've ever done.
47:17>> Sit down, you squirming worm of vomit.
47:20>> Thank you, Miss Trench Bull.
47:32Get up.
47:36>> Can you spell?
47:37>> Miss Honey taught us how to spell a long
47:39word yesterday. We can spell difficulty.
47:43>> You couldn't spell difficulty if your
47:45life depended on it.
47:47>> She taught us with a poem.
47:48>> A poem? How sweet. What poem would that
47:51be?
47:52>> Mrs. D, Mrs. I
47:56Mrs. F I Mrs. C Mrs. U Mrs. L T Y
48:04>> Why are all these women married? Mrs. D,
48:07Mrs. I, you're supposed to be teaching
48:09spelling, not poetry.
48:20>> It's a snake. It's a snake. Ah,
48:24>> it's a snake.
48:26[laughter]
48:28[panting]
48:29>> I knew it.
48:31>> I just thought you'd like to know it
48:32smells snake. It's a noot.
48:34>> What did you say?
48:36>> It's a noot. Miss Trunch Bowl,
48:38>> stand up, you villainous sack of goat
48:41slime. You did this.
48:43>> No, Miss Trunch Bowl.
48:44>> Did you act alone or did you have
48:46accompllices?
48:49>> I didn't do it. You didn't like the
48:52chokey, did you? Thought you'd pay me
48:54back, didn't you? Well, I'll pay you
48:57back, young lady.
48:59>> For what, Miss Trunch?
49:00>> For this n you pissworm.
49:02>> I'm telling you, I didn't do it.
49:06>> Besides, even if you didn't do it, I'm
49:07going to punish you because I'm big and
49:09you're small and I'm right and you're
49:12wrong and there's nothing you can do
49:14about it. You're a liar and a scoundrel
49:17and your father's a liar and a cheat.
49:19You're the most corrupt low lives in the
49:22history of civilization. Am I wrong? I'm
49:25never wrong. In this classroom, in this
49:29school, I am God.
50:04You
50:05>> It didn't move.
50:07>> You did this.
50:08>> How could she possibly have done it when
50:10she was sitting way over here?
50:14I'll be watching you each and everyone.
50:17When you turn the corner, when you go to
50:20your little cubbies to get your smelly
50:21little coats. When you skip merrily to
50:24lunch. I'll be watching you. All of you.
50:28And especially you.
50:42Thank for not telling. Best friends
50:44don't tell.
50:47>> She can really dance.
50:51>> I'm going to clean up this mess and then
50:52I'll come and help you fill the bird
50:53feeder. Okay. I'll be out there in a
50:56minute.
50:59>> Miss Honey.
51:00>> Yes, Matilda.
51:04>> Miss Honey, I did it.
51:07>> You did what?
51:08>> I made the glass tip over.
51:10>> Oh, sweetheart. Don't let Miss
51:12Trunchable make you feel that way.
51:14Nobody did it. It was an accident.
51:16>> I did it with my eyes. Watch. I'll prove
51:18it to you.
51:21[snorts]
51:23>> It's wonderful. You feel so powerful.
51:26Many people don't feel powerful at all.
51:39Come on. You come toward
51:46class.
51:47>> It's all right, Matilda.
51:50[sighs and gasps]
51:52>> I really did do it, Miss Honey.
51:55>> One of the odd things about life is
51:58sometimes you can do something until you
52:00want to show someone and then you can't.
52:03Or sometimes you think something's
52:04broken, then you take it to be fixed.
52:06>> This isn't like that.
52:08>> Oh.
52:10I don't know.
52:13Maybe I made myself tired.
52:17>> Matilda, would you like to come over to
52:18my house this afternoon?
52:21>> I'd like that very much, Miss Honey.
52:24>> Good.
52:27>> I just stare very hard and then my eyes
52:30get all hot and I can feel the
52:31strongness.
52:33I feel like I can move almost anything
52:35in the world.
52:38>> You do believe
52:39Don't you?
52:40>> Oh, I believe that you should believe in
52:42whatever power you think you have inside
52:43of you. Believe it with all your heart.
52:50That's where Miss Trunch Paul lives.
52:55>> Why is there a swing?
52:58>> A girl I know used to live in that
53:00house. Her life was good and happy.
53:04When she was just 2 years old, her
53:06mother died.
53:08Her father was a doctor and he needed
53:11someone to look after things at home.
53:13So, he invited the mother's stepsister
53:15to come and live with him. But the
53:17girl's aunt was a mean person who
53:19treated the girl very badly.
53:21>> The trench bull.
53:22>> Yes.
53:24And worst of all, when the girl was
53:27five, her father died.
53:29>> How did her father die?
53:30>> The police decided he'd killed himself.
53:33>> Why would he [music] do such a thing?
53:35>> No one knows.
53:41The end is happier. She found a small
53:44cottage. She rented it from this lovely
53:47rhubarb farmer for just $50 a month. And
53:49she covered it in honeysuckle. And she
53:51planted hundreds of wild flowers. And
53:53she moved out of her wicked aunt's
53:54house. And she finally got her freedom.
53:56>> Good for her.
53:59>> You know why I told you this?
54:00>> No.
54:04You were born into a family that doesn't
54:06always appreciate you. But one day
54:09things are going to be very different.
54:16>> Should we go inside and have t cookies?
54:20>> Yes, please.
54:21>> Okay.
54:26>> This is a cottage from your story.
54:29>> Yes.
54:30>> The young woman is you.
54:34But then
54:37no.
54:39>> Yes.
54:40Aunt Trunch.
54:45[snorts]
54:46>> When I left my home, Aunt Trunch's home,
54:49I had to leave all my treasures behind.
54:52>> Treasures?
54:53>> Photographs of my mother and father
54:56and a beautiful doll my mother gave me
54:58with a China face.
55:01Lissy doll I called her. Would you like
55:03some milk?
55:04>> Yes, please.
55:07>> Why don't you run away?
55:11>> I've often thought about it, but I can't
55:14abandon my children. And if I couldn't
55:16teach, I'd have nothing at all.
55:19>> You're very brave, Miss Honey.
55:22>> Not as brave as you.
55:24>> I thought grown-ups weren't afraid of
55:26anything.
55:27>> Quite the contrary. All grown-ups get
55:30scared just like children.
55:33>> I wonder what Miss Trunch Bowl is afraid
55:35of.
55:44>> There she is.
55:53Shot push.
55:55>> Hammer throw. Javelin.
56:09Back back.
56:11>> She's afraid of cat.
56:13>> Blackheads. She's very superstitious.
56:16Go. Roll up. Roll up.
56:21[screaming]
56:23Oh,
56:26>> poor kitty.
56:27>> Oh, he's all right.
56:29>> Hopefully.
56:37>> Let's go get your treasures.
56:39>> No, Matilda.
56:40>> Well, she's gone. Come on,
56:46>> Matilda.
56:48>> Miss Honey.
56:57Unmove you piece of junkyard.
57:00Shift you. No.
57:10My house.
57:22Oh my.
57:27My father's portrait used to hang there.
57:29>> Whoever painted the trenchful must have
57:31had a strong stomach.
57:34A really strong stomach.
57:52>> [music]
57:58>> We should go.
58:00Father's chocolate box.
58:07After supper, he'd take a chocolate, cut
58:10it in half, and he'd always give me the
58:13bigger half.
58:15When he died, Aunt Crunch would count
58:17them so I couldn't even sneak one. She'd
58:19take a chocolate, bring it to her lips,
58:21and say,
58:23"Much too good for children."
58:31>> Have one.
58:36>> Oh, no.
58:37She'd notice.
58:40>> Where's Led Doll?
58:42>> Upstairs.
58:45Matilda.
58:53>> Matilda.
59:02Crush the little weasel.
59:04>> This is my room.
59:12That's my dad.
59:14>> What's his name?
59:15>> Magnus. I used to call him Kim Magnus.
59:19He called me Bumblebee.
59:22>> I don't think Magnus killed himself.
59:25>> Neither do I.
59:29>> Is that Lissy Dog?
59:34>> What? What
59:35>> you useless used car salesman stoia now
59:40with another car.
59:43>> Yes, I know what caveat m means. You low
59:46life liar. I'm going to sue you. I'm
59:48going to burn down your showroom. I'm
59:50going to take that noia sold me and shut
59:52up your bazooka. When I finish with you,
59:54you're going to look like roadkill.
59:57You watch.
1:00:22Come on.
1:00:30Shouldn't we hide her something?
1:00:31>> Yeah. Yeah. Go to the end of the hall
1:00:33and down the stairs and out the kitchen
1:00:34door. I'll distract her.
1:00:44[music]
1:00:46Who's in my house?
1:00:54Come on. Fight like a man.
1:01:19>> [music]
1:01:48[snorts]
1:01:52>> Teddy ho.
1:02:05[music]
1:02:53What the
1:03:12>> [music]
1:03:21>> Come on.
1:03:36Hey.
1:03:40>> [music]
1:03:57>> Come on. Come on.
1:04:19>> [music]
1:04:20>> Some rats are going to die today.
1:04:44Oh god,
1:04:56[snorts]
1:04:57[screaming]
1:05:02Oh my goodness.
1:05:06Feel my heart.
1:05:08Weren't you the most scared you ever
1:05:10been in your whole life?
1:05:15>> Come on, let's go.
1:05:16>> She shouldn't be allowed to treat people
1:05:18like that.
1:05:20Somebody's got to teach her a lesson.
1:05:22>> I know.
1:05:23>> Well, wait until she leaves again. Then
1:05:25we'll go get your dog.
1:05:27>> What?
1:05:28Just kidding.
1:05:32>> Come here,
1:05:35Matilda. Promise me you will never go
1:05:37back in that house again.
1:05:40>> I promise.
1:05:43>> Okay, come on.
1:05:54So he came home with $2,000 cash and he
1:05:58threw it up in the air and we both just
1:06:01swam in it like we were on the
1:06:03milliondoll sticky.
1:06:06Do you like that show?
1:06:08>> I love that show.
1:06:11>> That was the old days. Now he's got
1:06:13money in banks all over this planet. And
1:06:14does he give me a dime? Matilda, this is
1:06:18Bob and Bill. They're cops.
1:06:21>> They are not cops. They are ace power
1:06:23boat salesman.
1:06:24>> Baby face. I'm starved.
1:06:27>> Hi, Harry.
1:06:30>> Who are you? What is this? A hot tub
1:06:33party? Get the hell out of here. I slave
1:06:36all day. I come home. You're
1:06:37entertaining a couple of surfer dude
1:06:39bodybuilders.
1:06:40>> They're cops. Dad,
1:06:42>> you interested in time share? Get out.
1:06:45>> You don't let me talk to people. I am in
1:06:47a cage. Abby, I need to talk to somebody
1:06:50besides us stupid kids.
1:06:52>> Oh, yeah. Well, a man is entitled to
1:06:54come home and find dinner on the table
1:06:56without having to wait through a
1:06:57convention of male strippers.
1:06:59>> Dad,
1:07:00>> what do you want?
1:07:01>> Yell at me. Okay,
1:07:03>> shut up and leave us alone.
1:07:06>> Yell at me again.
1:07:08>> Yell at you. I'll come in there and
1:07:09pound your miserable high. What do I
1:07:11have to do to gain respect around here?
1:07:14I'm going to give you a tanning like
1:07:15you've never heard in your life. My word
1:07:17is my law. Your law.
1:07:25>> No kid likes being yelled at. But it was
1:07:28precisely Harry's ranting and raving
1:07:30that gave Matilda the key to her power.
1:07:33To unlock that power, all she had to do
1:07:35was practice.
1:07:47You're a little
1:07:48>> You're a wormwood. It's time you started
1:07:49acting like I'm smart. You're dumb. I'm
1:07:51big. You're little.
1:07:52>> It's far from the tree.
1:07:54>> There is something wrong.
1:07:55>> I'm right. You're wrong. And there's
1:07:56nothing you can do about it.
1:07:57>> You're a wormwood. It's time you started
1:07:59acting like you started acting like one.
1:08:04[music]
1:08:11>> [music]
1:09:20>> So you'd better not touch that desk.
1:09:34>> Shouldn't we have a search warrant to do
1:09:36this? [music]
1:09:36>> Nah, this guy's dirty. Once we show this
1:09:39tape in court, Wormwood's goose is
1:09:41cooked. I'm sure that box is full of
1:09:44stolen car parts.
1:09:46>> You've been taping all week. How about
1:09:49letting me handle that camera for a
1:09:50while? [music]
1:09:51>> You know how to use it.
1:09:53>> You know about the zoom and the white
1:09:55balance. You know how to adjust the
1:09:57eyepiece. I can handle it.
1:10:03Besides, it's [music] my turn.
1:10:06>> Yeah. Your turn to drop it.
1:10:09>> I won't drop it.
1:10:12Come on.
1:10:14>> You two men are going to be in a lot of
1:10:16trouble very soon.
1:10:18>> It's a female minor.
1:10:22>> Aren't you supposed to be in school,
1:10:23young lady?
1:10:24>> I really hope you have a search warrant.
1:10:26According to a constitutional law book I
1:10:28read in the library, if you don't have
1:10:30one, you could lose your job or even go
1:10:32to federal prison.
1:10:34>> It's your father who's going to federal
1:10:36prison. And you know where you'll end
1:10:37up? In a federal orphanage. If you
1:10:40cooperate, we'll make sure it's a nice
1:10:42orphanage. The kind with food and teeny
1:10:45weeny cockroaches.
1:10:47What do you say?
1:10:49There's another crime in the making.
1:10:51Your car is about to run a stop sign.
1:11:05So, she bought a little time for her dad
1:11:07to come to his senses. But now Matilda
1:11:10had bigger fish to fry. Much bigger.
1:11:19[music]
1:11:24[applause]
1:11:29>> Hey, dip face.
1:11:31>> Where are you going?
1:11:33>> Out.
1:11:37>> Hey, dip face.
1:11:39Have a carrot.
1:11:54>> Show your food. You're an animal.
1:12:02>> Having power isn't nearly as important
1:12:04as what you choose to do with it. And
1:12:06what Matilda had in mind was nothing
1:12:09short of heroic.
1:13:00Heat. Heat.
1:13:35Come here. Come on.
1:13:36Come on. Come see. Come on, dog. Please.
1:13:40Come on. Come on. Come on. Please come
1:13:42here.
1:14:04What?
1:14:06Move it.
1:14:09Come on.
1:14:12[music]
1:14:23>> [clears throat]
1:14:42[music]
1:14:48[music]
1:15:06>> Okay.
1:15:17Woo.
1:15:18[music]
1:15:44Leave me alone.
1:16:14Heat. Heat.
1:16:20Agnes. Yes.
1:16:26[music]
1:16:31Oh
1:16:49>> [music]
1:16:53>> my god.
1:16:58>> [music]
1:17:14[music]
1:17:21>> Miss Honey. Miss Honey, you'll never
1:17:23believe what I got you.
1:17:30Matilda.
1:17:31>> Oh, I also brought you this. I ate mine
1:17:34last night.
1:17:49I will be teaching your class today.
1:17:59In the time it took Miss Honey to get
1:18:01very, very nervous, Matilda had
1:18:03formulated a plan.
1:18:06>> She is really raving mad.
1:18:09>> What is it your father used to call you?
1:18:11Hummingbird
1:18:12>> Bumblebee.
1:18:14I'm sure she knows the doll's missing.
1:18:16>> And he called her Trunchable.
1:18:18>> No, I suppose he called her Agatha.
1:18:22Yeah. College Magnus, right?
1:18:24>> Yeah. Yes.
1:18:26Maybe I could go back to the house and
1:18:29put the doll back while she's still at
1:18:30school.
1:18:31>> No, I can't do that.
1:18:32>> Calm down, Miss Honey. Really? It's
1:18:34going to be okay. I promise.
1:18:37>> Sweetheart, you promised you wouldn't go
1:18:38back in that house again.
1:18:40>> I didn't. I was on the garage roof. I
1:18:43did it with my powers.
1:18:44>> Okay. On the garage with your powers.
1:18:47All right. I need to think. Let's see.
1:19:10powers.
1:19:11>> Mhm.
1:19:18>> I think I got them down. Watch this.
1:19:40>> No more. Miss nice girl.
1:19:44>> Get inside.
1:19:46Inside. Quickly. Run. Run. Run. Get
1:19:49against the wall. Against that wall
1:19:50quickly. Don't make me wait. Water
1:19:55and hold the N.
1:20:02Join the ranks. Move.
1:20:07I am here to teach you all a lesson.
1:20:15Sometimes in life, horrible and
1:20:18unexplainable things happen.
1:20:24These things are a test of character.
1:20:33And I have character. Form a line across
1:20:36the room quickly. Run, run, run. Don't
1:20:38keep me waiting.
1:20:40Fill this gap.
1:20:43I expect you're wondering what I'm
1:20:46talking about.
1:20:48>> Yes.
1:20:50A child came to my house. I don't know
1:20:54how. I don't know when. I don't know
1:20:57why.
1:20:57>> This mistrans may.
1:20:59>> No, you may not.
1:21:01But I know a child gay.
1:21:05So, did you know it was illegal to enter
1:21:09someone's home without their permission?
1:21:13>> Yes, Miss Sir,
1:21:16>> stand up straight. Some again, shoulders
1:21:18back.
1:21:20>> Do any of you recognize
1:21:24this?
1:21:27Let's play a game, shall we?
1:21:30Who was wearing a pretty red hair ribbon
1:21:34yesterday
1:21:36and isn't wearing one today? Can you
1:21:39answer me that?
1:21:42Who does this disgusting ribbon belong
1:21:46to?
1:21:48I shall personally see to it that the
1:21:51demented, drooling, slime breath little
1:21:54who owns this disccasting ribbon will
1:21:58never see the light of day again.
1:22:01Miss Trunch Bowl, I was the one who was
1:22:03at your house last night. I know I I
1:22:05don't I broke your arm once before. I
1:22:07can do it again. Jenny,
1:22:09>> I am not 7 years old anymore. And
1:22:12Trenchull,
1:22:15>> shut your house.
1:22:17>> You will be put away in a place where
1:22:20not even the crows can land their
1:22:23droppings on you.
1:22:26>> Look,
1:22:27>> the char. Hold on.
1:22:38>> A
1:22:45magnet.
1:22:48>> Give my little
1:22:56her money.
1:22:59Then get out of town. If you don't, I
1:23:03will get you. I will get you like you
1:23:07got me.
1:23:09That is a promise.
1:23:30>> [laughter]
1:23:30>> Get out of my way.
1:24:25>> [screaming]
1:24:30>> No, no, not all them. Mr. Please don't
1:24:32throw him. [screaming]
1:24:40[music]
1:24:43Yeah.
1:24:44Woohoo. Yeah.
1:24:48Woohoo. Yeah. [cheering]
1:24:51[music]
1:25:28I'm happy.
1:25:39Lavender. Lavender.
1:25:45[screaming and groaning]
1:25:58It's the truck.
1:26:03>> Wow.
1:26:05>> Hey, you guys, look at this. Yes.
1:26:11Let go.
1:26:15Wow.
1:26:18Cool. I didn't know I could do that.
1:26:20Pretty good, huh?
1:26:36[music]
1:26:38Yeah.
1:26:42[music]
1:26:53>> [music]
1:27:09>> And the trench bull was gone. Never to
1:27:12be seen or heard from. Never to darken a
1:27:15doorway again.
1:27:19Miss Honey moved back into her father's
1:27:21house. Do you
1:27:22>> have him?
1:27:23>> Of course, Matilda was a frequent
1:27:24visitor.
1:27:25>> Did you know that the heart of a mass
1:27:27beats at the rate of 650 times a minute?
1:27:31>> How'd you learn that?
1:27:32>> In a book, it beats so fast it doesn't
1:27:34sound like it's beating at all. Sounds
1:27:36like it's humming. Porcupine's heart.
1:27:43>> Hey, you.
1:27:45>> Hey, we're leaving. Come on, let's go.
1:27:47Get in the car. Hurry up. Let's wrap up
1:27:49these cookies. Come on, we're leaving
1:27:51now.
1:27:52>> I'd be happy to walk her home.
1:27:54>> Well, nobody will be there. We're moving
1:27:55to Guam. Come on,
1:27:57>> let's go.
1:27:58>> Guam?
1:27:58>> Yeah. Daddy's not going to be in the
1:28:00auto business anymore.
1:28:01>> I don't want to leave.
1:28:03We're going on a permanent vacation.
1:28:05>> Yeah. And we got to beat the speedboat
1:28:07salesman to the airport.
1:28:08>> I love it here. I love my school. It
1:28:10isn't fair. Honey, please don't let them
1:28:13>> get in the car, Melinda.
1:28:14>> Matilda,
1:28:15>> whatever. I wanted to stay with Miss
1:28:17Honey. Well,
1:28:17>> Miss Honey doesn't want you. Why would
1:28:19she want some snotty, disobedient kid?
1:28:21>> Because she's a spectacularly wonderful
1:28:23child and I love her.
1:28:25>> Adult me, Miss Honey.
1:28:28>> You can adopt me.
1:28:29>> Look, I don't have time for all these
1:28:31legalities.
1:28:31>> One second, Dad. I have the adoption
1:28:33papers.
1:28:34>> What?
1:28:35>> Hey, where'd you get those? From
1:28:37>> a book in the library. I've had them
1:28:38since I was big enough to Xerox.
1:28:41>> Are you hearing this, Harry?
1:28:44All you have to do is sign them.
1:28:46>> I'll be an only child again.
1:28:48>> Shut up. I I I can't think with all
1:28:50these sirens.
1:28:53>> What do you think, Pumpkin?
1:28:58>> You're the only daughter I ever had,
1:28:59Matilda.
1:29:01And I never understood you. Not one
1:29:03little bit.
1:29:08Who's got a pen
1:29:12>> here?
1:29:13Thanks.
1:29:16>> And doing perhaps the first decent thing
1:29:18they ever did for their daughter,
1:29:20>> the Wormwoods sign the adoption papers
1:29:24here. Hate.
1:29:30Come on.
1:29:36>> You're not going to be calling us for
1:29:37support payments or something like that,
1:29:39huh?
1:29:39>> Oh, no, no, no. We'll have everything we
1:29:41need. Don't worry.
1:29:42>> All right. Here, let's roll.
1:29:50>> Ciao.
1:30:00>> So, Harry and Zineia got away. And as
1:30:03bad as things were before, that's how
1:30:06good they became.
1:30:10Miss Honey was made principal of
1:30:12Cruncham Hall, which had to add an upper
1:30:15school because children never wanted to
1:30:17leave. And Matilda found to her great
1:30:20surprise that life could be fun. And she
1:30:23decided to have as much of it as
1:30:25possible.
1:30:27>> After all, she was a very smart kid.
1:30:30>> Well,
1:30:45The happiest part of the story is that
1:30:48Matilda and Miss Honey each got what
1:30:51they had always wanted,
1:30:53a loving family.
1:30:57And Matilda never had to use her powers
1:31:00again.
1:31:01Well, I mean, almost never.
1:31:06>> [music]
1:31:14>> Call me is
1:31:17>> some years ago, never mind how long
1:31:19precisely [music] having little or no
1:31:21money in my purse and nothing particular
1:31:25>> [music]

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