Miss Honey thinks this may be because Matilda, having been put in a class for older students, is finally using all her brainpower on her studies, leaving none for her powers to work.
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With this detail missing, the Artistic License Education question of why parents aren't concerned is just felt all the harder. In the book it is mentioned that Trunchbull's ultra-sadistic methods go undisturbed because she has managed to intimidate the parents into looking the other way as well.In the movie, Miss Honey doesn't go into this and says she found a cottage that rents for fifty dollars a month. Book-Miss Honey told Matilda that she had to live in a farmer's shed because when she earned her teaching job, Miss Trunchbull made her sign a document to surrender her wages for ten years, giving her one pound a week as "Allowance".Movie-Hortensia casually mentions she was locked in twice but doesn't explain why, to establish that the Trunchbull may put you in for any reason. Book-Hortensia went into detail about the pranks she played on the Trunchbull, and each one landed her in the Chokey for hours on end.As icing on the cake, Miss Honey suggests the last trick to Matilda subtly! When Matilda starts her climactic rampage against the Trunchbull, the kids are in hysterics as the tyrant is pelted with erasers, tackled by a flying kid, and spun on a globe.Lavender starts giggling at the imitation. Matilda tells her that "best friends don't tell" and imitates Miss Trunchbull's Squirrels in My Pants dance after the newt flew out of the glass and onto her suit. Lavender thanks Matilda for not tattling on her to the Trunchbull about the newt.Even Miss Honey cracks up with her students when they notice that Miss Trunchbull is drinking a glass of water with a live newt in it.Velez is best known as the classic voice of Homer. In the Latin Spanish dub, Harry Wormwood (voiced by Humberto Vélez) hums the theme to The Simpsons.Aside from it being a Bruce Springsteen reference, Asbury Park is also the hometown of Danny DeVito.
One of the lunchboxes reads "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey".One of the agents is played by Paul Reubens. The music that plays when the FBI agents search Harry's garage is from the film Pee-wee's Big Adventure.The Wormwoods aren't nearly as bad, but still decidedly mentally and emotionally abusive. Abusive Parents: It's revealed that Miss Honey was raised by The Trunchbull, who was just as abusive to her as she is with the students.
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