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Gene Wilder, Paris Themmen, Jack Albertson, Rudy Borgstaller, George Claydon, Julie Dawn Cole, Malcolm Dixon, Walker Edmiston, Günter Meisner, Denise Nickerson, and Peter Ostrum in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

David Battley: Mr. Turkentine

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

David Battley credited as playing...

Mr. Turkentine

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  • Mr. Turkentine: I've just decided to switch our Friday schedule to Monday, which means that the test we take each Friday on what we learned during the week will now take place on Monday before we've learned it. But since today is Tuesday, it doesn't matter in the slightest. Pencils ready!
  • Mr. Turkentine: Of course you don't know. You don't know because only *I* know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you - and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear?
  • Mr. Turkentine: Charlie Bucket, how many did you open?
  • Charlie: Two.
  • Mr. Turkentine: That's easy. 200 is twice 100...
  • Charlie: Not 200, just two.
  • Mr. Turkentine: Two? What do you mean you only opened two?
  • Charlie: I don't care very much for chocolate.
  • Mr. Turkentine: Well, I can't figure out just two! So let's pretend you opened 200. Now, if you opened 200 Wonka bars, apart from being dreadfully sick, you'd have used up 20% of 1,000, which is 15% half over again, 10%...
  • Mr. Turkentine: You, Winkelmann, come here. What's happening?
  • Winkelmann: Mr. Wonka's opening his factory, he's gonna to let people in.
  • Mr. Turkentine: You sure?
  • Winkelmann: It's on the radio. He's giving truckloads of chocolate away.
  • Mr. Turkentine: Class dismissed.
  • [Mr. Turkentine starts to put on his coat]
  • Winkelmann: No, no, it's only for five people.
  • Mr. Turkentine: [dismayed] Class undismissed.
  • [Mr. Turkentine starts to take off his coat]
  • Winkelmann: He sent out five Golden Tickets, and the people who find them will win the big prize.
  • Mr. Turkentine: Where's he hidden the tickets?
  • Winkelmann: Inside five Wonka bars. You've got to buy Wonka bars to find them.
  • Mr. Turkentine: Class re-dismissed.
  • Mr. Turkentine: You, Peter Goff, how many do you open?
  • Peter Goff: 150.
  • Mr. Turkentine: That's 10% half over again, which makes 15%.
  • Mr. Turkentine: You, Madeline Durkin, how many Wonka Bars did you open?
  • Madeline Durkin: About 100.
  • Mr. Turkentine: There are ten hundreds in a thousand. Therefore you opened 10%.

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