Matilda 1996 quotes

72 quotes · 15 characters
Matilda (1996) poster
Characters
Matilda Mara Wilson · 33 quotes
Trunchbull Pam Ferris · 24 quotes
Harry Wormwood 21 quotes
Zinnia Wormwood 16 quotes
Michael "Mikey" Wormwood Brian Levinson · 15 quotes
Miss Honey Embeth Davidtz · 15 quotes
Narrator Danny DeVito · 14 quotes
Boy 6 quotes
Lavender Kiami Davael · 6 quotes
Amanda Jacqueline Steiger · 5 quotes
Bruce Bogtrotter Jimmy Karz · 5 quotes
Hortensia Kira Spencer Hesser · 5 quotes
FBI Agent Bill 4 quotes
FBI Agent Bob 4 quotes

Most scenes together: Matilda & Miss Honey (14), Matilda & Narrator (13), Matilda & Harry Wormwood (12)

Matilda quotes

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Cookie

Entire confection.

My mommy thinks they're sweet.

Mrs. Phelps

In that room right over there. Would you like me to pick you out one with lots of pictures in it?

You squirts better skedaddle. I'm not kidding. The Trunchbull likes to snap a whip in there to see who's trying to hide.

I've got 9:18.

[into recorder]

9:17 is correct.

Are you ready to get sticky with Mickey?

Harry
[goes into the house, smiling]

I'm great! I'm incredible! Michael, pencil and paper, in the kitchen.

Zinnia

Did we sell some cars today, honeydew?

Harry

Did we! [kisses his wife as his son grabs a notebook and a pencil]

Zinnia
[as she, her husband, and her son walk to the table where her daughter is reading her book]

Does that mean I can get that new TV?

Harry

Yeah! Son, one day, you're gonna have to earn your own living. And it's time that you've learned the family business. Sit down, and write this down.

Harry
[Michael sits down and starts writing]

All right. The first car that your brilliant father sold cost $320. I sold it for $1,158. The second one costs $512. I sold it for $2,269!

Wait, Dad, you're going too fast.

Harry

Just write. The third cost $68. I sold it for $999! And the fourth cost $1,100. I sold it for 7,839 big American boffos!

Zinnia

Harry! :[kisses her husband]

Harry

What's my profit for the day?

Could you repeat the last one-?

$10,265.

[Harry, Zinnia and Michael staring at her]

Check it if you don't believe me.

Harry
[checks the paper with Zinnia and Michael]

You're a little cheat, you saw the paper.

From all the way over here?

Harry
[confused]

Are you being smart with me? [angrily approaches Matilda and points his finger at her] If you're being smart with me, young lady, you're gonna be punished.

Punished for being smart?

Harry
[angrily]

For being a smart aleck! [leans down to her level] When a person is bad, that person has to be taught a lesson.

[confused]

"Person"?

Harry

Get up! Get up! Go on! [pulls Matilda's ear, drags her to her room, and shuts the door]

Harry Wormwood had unintentionally given his daughter the first practical advice she could use. He meant to say, "When a child is bad". Instead he said, "When a person is bad", and thereby introduced a revolutionary idea: that children could punish their parents. Only when they deserved it, of course.

Harry

I will not be a figure of ridicule! I want respect and I want it now!

Zinnia

I still don't see how you glued your hat on, Harry. I mean, I know you say you didn't, but obviously you did.

Harry

I did not glue my hat to my head! The hat shrunk, the fibres fused to my hair!

Zinnia

Baby! Wait a minute. I'm getting it now. I'm getting it. One more. Oh, my God.

Harry

From now on, this family does exactly what I say, when exactly when I say it!

Zinnia

Here's your hat, Harry.

Harry

Give me that hat. And right now, we are eating dinner and watching TV.

Mickey

Are you ready to get sticky with Mickey?

Crowd
[cheering]
Harry

Shut your light off.

Mickey

I'm just giving it away! For those idiots out there who don't know how to play, here's how it goes. For each correct answer, they'll move one step closer to our Cube of Cash. Once in our Cube of Cash, any money that sticks to your gooey body, you get to take home!

Hi, Dad.

Harry
[very stern]

Are you in this family? [Matilda does not answer] Hello? Are you in this family? [switches lamp off] Dinnertime is family time! What is this trash you're reading?

It's not trash, Dad, it's lovely. It's called "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.

Harry
[confused]

Moby What?! [angrily grabs the book, and rips the pages] This is filth! Trash!

It's not mine, it's a library book!

Harry

Trash! [throws the book on the floor] I'm fed up with all this reading! You're a Wormwood, and it's time you started acting like one! Sit up and look at the TV! [grabs Matilda's head, forcing her to watch TV]

Mickey

The producers are not liable for any skin irritation that may result from playing our game. Get real sticky and get cash for free. All right, that's enough. Let's get sticky!

[Forcing Matilda to watch the TV by holding his hands on the side of her head, the TV suddenly explodes due to Matilda using her powers.]

I didn't do it.

Harry

Of course, you didn't do it, you little twit.

Zinnia

I told you that was a cheap set.

Harry

It's not a cheap set. It's a stolen set. Put your light on!

Michael

Bummer.

Was it magic or coincidence? She didn't know. It is said that we humans use only a tiny portion of our brains. Matilda might never have discovered her own great strength of mind were it not for the events that began on the very next day.

Harry

Michael, one day all this will be yours.

This?

Harry

See this junker? I paid a hundred dollars for her. She's got 120,000 miles on her. Transmission's shot, bumpers are falling off. What do I do with her, hmm? I sell her! [brushes Super Super Glue on the bumper] We really should weld these bumpers on, but that takes time, equipment, money. So we use 'Super Super Glue' instead. [to Michael and Matilda] Go ahead. Put it on there.

Won't it fall off?

Harry

Definitely.

Isn't that dangerous?

Harry

Not to me. Okay? [pours sawdust into the transmission] Transmission… The sawdust quiets the gears and lets the motor run as sweet as a nut, for a couple a miles.

Daddy, that's cheating.

Harry

Of course that's cheating. Nobody ever got rich being honest. [picks up a drill that's hooked up to the odometer] Twenty years ago, we could turn the numbers back by hand, but, here, take my hat! [gives Michael his hat, who puts it down] But the feds like to test the ingenuity of the American businessman. Two directional drill. You run it backwards, the numbers go down. Watch the speedometer.

Cool.

Harry

See?

Yeah.

Daddy, you're a crook.

Harry

What?

This is illegal.

Harry

Here. Keep drilling. [gives Michael the drill as he walks over to Matilda] You make money? Do you have a job?

No. But don't people need good cars? Can't you sell good cars, dad?

Harry

Listen, you little wiseacre. I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; you're little. I'm right; you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it. [as Harry walks away, Matilda spots the hat and super glue and gets an idea]

Zinnia

Harry! I won! I won! I hit the double bingo! Come on, everybody. I'm taking you all to Café Le Ritz.

Harry

Let me see the money.

Zinnia

Never mind.

Harry

Double bingo, huh? Ooh.

Zinnia

God, your hair looks awful. I hope they let you in.

Harry

They'll let me in.

[gives Harry his hat]

Here's your hat, daddy.

Harry

Get in the car. Go on, get in. How much?

Zinnia

It's for me to know, and you to find out.

Harry

Young lady, where were you?!

Miss Trunchbull kept the whole school late because this boy ate some chocolate cake.

Harry

That's the biggest lie I ever heard. You see those packages over there? They were left out for the whole world to see because you weren't here to take 'em in!

Zinnia

I don't think it's fair, bumpkins.

Harry

What?

Zinnia

You get all this stuff from catalogues, and I don't get anything!

Harry

It's not catalogues, it's car parts, sweetness. It's business!

Zinnia

Oh, if it's business, why don't you have it sent to the office?

Harry

Because the cops may be watching the office.

The cops are watching the house.

Harry

What?

They're parked outside right now.

Zinnia

You are such an ignoramus! Those are speedboat salesmen! Really nice guys.

Harry
[looks outside]

Speedboats? There are no lakes around here.

Zinnia

Yeah, but some people like to go away on the weekends. Some people have fun!

And some people are cops.

Harry

They are not cops!

Are too!

Harry

They are not! I oughta know if there's cops watching my house! Now get to bed, you lying little earwig.

Lavender, what's my teacher like?

Run, run, run! Faster. Get in. Quickly!

But Matilda's teacher, Miss Honey, was one of those remarkable people who appreciates every single child for who he or she is.

[the scene cuts to Ms. Honey's classroom]

I scooped these up for you, Miss Honey.

Oh, how lovely. Thank you, Amanda. Okay, listen up, everybody. Have a new student with us today. This is Matilda Wormwood. I'd like you to sit here with Lavender. All right, could you get her workbook for her, please?

Yes, Miss Honey.

Miss Honey was a wonderful teacher, and a friend to everyone. But her life was not as simple and beautiful as it seemed. Miss Honey had a deep, dark secret. And though it caused her great pain, she didn't let it interfere with her teaching.

Well, Matilda. You've come on a very good day, because we're going to review everything we've learned so far. Now, it's all right if you don't know or understand any of this, because you're brand new, but if you do know an answer, just raise your hand. Okay, now we've been working on our two-times tables. Would anyone like to demonstrate? [all raise their hands] Okay. Let's do some together. Two times four is?

Kids

8.

Two times six is?

Kids

12.

Two times nine is?

Kids

18.

Excellent. You've been practicing. Pretty soon you'll be able to do any multiplication, whether it's two times 7?

Kids

14.

Very good. Or 13 times 379.

Four thousand, nine hundred, and twenty-seven.

I beg your pardon?

I think that's the answer. 13 times 379. Four nine two seven.

[Miss Honey sits down and checks Matilda’s math.]

It is.

Wow!

Matilda, you know how to multiply big numbers?

I read this book last year in mathematics at the library.

You like to read?

Oh, yes. I love to read.

What do you like to read?

Everything. But lately I've been reading Darles Chickens. [Corrects herself] I mean, Charles Dickens. I could read him every day.

So could I. All right, everyone. Take out your workbooks. Let's start with section three. I'll be back in a moment.

There she is! Shot put.

Hammerthrow.

Both

Javelin.

Cat

Meow, meow.

Woof!

Cat

Meow, meow, meow.

[while shaking keyring]

Back, back, back. Back! Back from me.

She's afraid of a cat?

Black cats. She's very superstitious.

Go! Rrr rrr rrr rrr! Grrrrr! Meow! [Trunchbull kicks the cat, and it scampers away]

Cat

Meow! Meow!!!!

Poor kitty!l.

Oh, he's all right.

Hopefully. [Trunchbull drives the car] Let's go get your treasures.

No, Matilda.

Well, she's gone. Come on!

Matilda!

Miss Honey!

Come on. Move, you piece of junkyard fodder. Uh, shift, you-- No, no. Oof, ooh, ah!

Woah. My house… Oh my! My father's portrait used to hang there.

Whoever painted the Trunchbull must have had a strong stomach. A really strong stomach!

[yelling at she turns the car backwards]

Back! Ooh, ooh, back! Back! Yeah! [starts pulling the car]

We should go. [spots the chocolate box] My father's chocolate box. After supper, he'd take a chocolate, cut it in half, and he'd always give me the bigger half. When he died, Aunt Trunchbull would count them, so I couldn't even sneak one. She'd take a chocolate, raise it to her lips, and say…

Much too good for children.

Have one.

Oh, no. She'd notice.

Where's Liccy doll?

Upstairs. Matilda! Matilda.

You all go outside, then I'll come out and help fill the birdfeeder. Okay? I'll be out there in a minute.

Miss Honey, I did it.

Did what?

I made the glass tip over.

Oh, sweetheart. Don't let Miss Trunchbull make you feel that way. Nobody did it. It was an accident.

I did it with my eyes. Watch. I'll prove it to you.

It's wonderful you feel so powerful. Many people don't feel powerful at all.

Come on, glass. Tip over!

It's all right, Matilda.

I really did it, Miss Honey.

One of the odd things about life is sometimes you can do something until you want to show someone, and then you can't. Or, sometimes when you think something's broken, and you take it to be fixed…

This isn't like that. I don't know. Maybe I made myself tired.

Matilda, would you like to come over to my house this afternoon?

I'd like that very much, Miss Honey.

Good.

I just stare very hard, and then my eyes get all hot, and I can feel the strongness. I feel like I can move almost anything in the world. You do believe me, don't you?

Oh, I believe that you should believe in whatever power you think you have inside of you. Believe it with all your heart.

Having power isn't nearly as important as what you choose to do with it. And what Matilda had in mind was nothing short of heroic.

[sitting on top of the Trunch’s garage roof using her powers to get the doll and 2 chocolates from the box]

Come on! Come on, Liccy doll. Come, Liccy. Come on! Come on! Come on! Please come here. [She then uses her powers to torture the Trunch]

Leave me alone!

[She notices the levitating Olympic picture frame and the picture frame goes inside the fireplace which causes her to scream. Then she hears shot put balls falling down the stairs then she sees all the shot put balls bouncing down the stairs. She goes back to the living room.]

Magnus! [She notices the Magnus picture frame that is levitating down from the second floor and replaced it itself where the Olympics picture frame was hanged before. She stares at the picture frame which causes her to surprise then the clock starts to chime.]

[Gets in her car to leave when she spots a red hair ribbon that gets caught around the door lock and sniffs it. She smiles evilly]

Miss Honey! Miss Honey! You'll never believe what I got you.

Oh, Matilda. Matilda.

Oh. I also brought you this. I ate mine last night. [Gives Miss Honey her chocolate]

Matilda had always wanted to go to school, because she loved to learn. She tried to imagine what her new school would be like.

Harry

Go ahead.

She pictured a lovely building surrounded by trees, and flowers and swings. Well, there was a building… And children, so regardless of what Crunchem Hall looked like, she was happy to be there. After all, any school's better than no school at all, isn't it?

Boy

Hey, wait up!

[all shriek as Trunchbull approaches out the school doors and slowly walks down the stairs while suspenseful music plays]

You, detention. You're too small. Grow up quicker. Heads up. Shoulders back. Stomachs in. Stand up straight.

Hey!

Sorry.

Detention for you.

That's okay. It's much better than being out there.

Is that my teacher?

Too pink!

No. That's the principal, Miss Trunchbull.

You've gotta be kidding.

Uh-uh.

[another girl, Hortensia, appears]

You squirts better skedaddle. I'm not kidding. The Trunchbull likes to snap a whip in there to see who's trying to hide.

Stomach in! Change those socks! Too pink!

I'm Matilda.

Lavender. [she shakes hands with Matilda]

I'm Hortensia.

Both

Hi.

She doesn't really hit children with that riding crop, does she?

No. It's mostly for scare. What she does is worse. Like yesterday, in the second grade, the Trunchbull makes a weekly visit to every classroom, to show the teachers a thing or two about handling kids. And Julius Rottwinkle ate two M&Ms during her lesson.

[A flashback of Julius shows him sneaking M&Ms as the Trunch squeezes his cheeks to make him spit them out, the rest of the students gasp as the Trunch then picks him up and throws him out the window.]

And she caught him?

Of course.

Julius

Aaaaaahhhhhhh!

Was Julius okay?

After being thrown out the window? Of course he wasn't okay. He lived, if that's what you mean.

The Trunchbull used to be in the Olympics: Shot-put, javelin, hammer throw. The hammer throw was her specialty.

So she does this all the time?

Better than being put in "The Chokey".

The Chokey?

Yeah, the Chokey. [the camera zooms in on the Chokey as Hortensia explains] It's a tall, narrow hole in a wall behind a door. You have to stand in a drippy pipe with jagged edges, and the walls have broken glass with nails sticking out.

[locks a girl in the Chokey]

Get inside, you festering ball of pus!

She puts kids in there?

I've been in there twice. Sometimes she leaves you in there all day.

[screen fades to white, then to Matilda]

Didn't you tell your parents?

They didn't believe me. I mean, would your parents believe it?

[Matilda thinks about this for a minute as the screen pans to Miss Trunchbull]

Sixty lines after school: "I must obey Miss Trunchbull."

[screen pans to Matilda]

No.

Out of my way!

Here she comes.

[notices Matilda]

Ah. Mmm... Fresh meat!

[crying]

Amanda Thripp.

Yes, Miss Trunchbull?

What are those? [referring to her pigtails]

[in between tears]

What's what, Miss Trunchbull?

Hanging down by your ears.

[in between tears]

You mean my pigtails?

Are you a pig, Amanda?

[in between tears]

No, Miss Trunchbull.

Do I allow pigs in my school?

My mommy thinks they're sweet.

Your mommy... is a twit! You are chop those off before school tomorrow or I will...

But, I don't...

Come on! But! "But"? Did you say "but"?

[whispering]

Hammer throw.

[whispering]

What?

Definitely.

I'll give you "but"!

Girl
[she picks Amanda up and swings her around by her pigtails]

Good loft.

Boy

Excellent release.

Think she'll make the fence?

Boy

Gonna be a close one.

All
[Amanda makes the fence lands in some flowers which she scoops up] [cheering]

Quiet! Get to class before I throw you all in the Chokey.

Miss Honey moved back into her father's house. Of course, Matilda was a frequent visitor.

Tea time.

Did you know that the heart of a mouse beats at the rate of 650 times a minute?

My…. Where did you learn that?

In a book. It beats so fast that it doesn't sound like it's beating at all. It sounds like it's humming. A porcupine's heart beats 300 times a minute.

Harry

Wait!

Zinnia

Hey, you. Hey. We're leaving. Let's go. Get in the car. Hurry up. …Let's wrap up these cookies. Come on. We're leaving. Now!

I'd be happy to walk her home.

Zinnia

Well, nobody'll be there. We're moving to Guam. Come on. Let's go.

Guam?

Zinnia

Yeah. Daddy's not gonna be in the auto business anymore.

I don't want to leave!

Zinnia

We're going on a permanent vacation.

Harry
[from the Wormwood family's car's shotgun window]

Yeah, and we've gotta beat the speedboat salesmen to the airport.

I love it here! I want to keep going to my school! It isn't fair!

[to Miss Honey]

Miss Honey? Please don't make them...!

Harry

Get in the car, Melinda!

Matilda!

Harry

Whatever.

I want to be with Miss Honey!

Zinnia

Miss Honey doesn't want you! Why would she want some snotty, disobedient kid?!

Because she's a spectacularly wonderful child, and I love her.

Adopt me, Miss Honey! You can adopt me.

Harry
[Harry grabs Matilda and tries to lead her to the car.] [to Matilda]

Look, I don't have time for all these legalities.

[Harry --after saying this-- holds Matilda in his grasp.]

One second, Dad. I have the adoption papers.

Zinnia
[Matilda breaks out from her father's grasp. And she opens her mother's purse and takes out the adoption documents.]

What? Where did you get those?

From a book in the library. I've had them since I was big enough to Xerox.

Zinnia

Are you hearing this, Harry?

Harry
[sighs]

All you have to do is sign them.

[from the car window]

I am going to be an only child again.

Harry

Shut up! I-I-I can't think with all these sirens. What do you think, pumpkin?

Zinnia
[Zinnia looks for a moment and in dismay, she turns to Matilda.]

You're the only daughter I ever had, Matilda. I never understood you. Not one little bit. Who's got a pen?

Harry

Here.

Zinnia

Thanks.

And doing perhaps the first decent thing they ever did for their daughter, the Wormwoods signed the adoption papers.

And here. And here.

Harry

All right. Come on. Turn around. You're not gonna be calling us for support payments, or nothing like that, huh?

Oh, no. We'll have everything we need. Don't worry.

Harry

All right. Here. Let's roll.

Zinnia
[The scene cuts to Matilda and Miss Honey. Miss Honey --Matilda's teacher --picks up Matilda and hugs her]

Ciao!

[Rusted Root's song "Send Me on My Way" plays]

So, Harry and Zinnia got away.

[As the narrator continues narrating, Matilda lives a happy life with her teacher Miss Honey, that is, both at school and Miss Honey's house.] [continues]

And as bad as things were before, that's how good they became. Miss Honey was made principal of Crunchem Hall which had to add an upper school because children never wanted to leave. Then Matilda found to her great surprise, that life could be fun. And she decided to have as much of it as possible. After all, she was a very smart kid. But the happiest part of the story was that Matilda and Miss Honey had each gotten what they'd always wanted. A loving family. And Matilda never had to use her powers again. Well, I mean, "Almost never".

[Finally, the scene goes to Matilda's childhood with Miss Honey at night. Matilda on her bed with Miss Honey. Matilda, she uses her powers to pick a book from the shelf. She opens it and starts reading. The book is titled MOBY DICK. This is one of the MOBY DICK books. And it is titled MOBY DICK AND THE WHITE WHALE.] [reading]

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago, never mind how long precisely, having little or no money in my purse and nothing particular to...
[The screen fades out into credits.]

The next morning, after her parents left, Matilda set off in search of a book.

Where's are the children's books, please?

Mrs. Phelps

In that room right over there. Would you like me to pick you out one with lots of pictures in it?

No, thank you. I'm sure I can manage.

[She walks to the room as Mrs. Phelps looks on with surprise. Matilda arrives in the children's books section and picks a book, before she sits on a small comfy chair and starts to read it. The next day shows Matilda walking to the traffic lights, where they turned green to allow pedestrians to cross the road. She walks to the library and reads another book.]

From then on, every day, as soon as her mother went to bingo, Matilda walked the ten blocks to the library, and devoured one book after another. [She giggles upon reading, as Mrs. Phelps hears her whilst working. Matilda places some books on a table, before she puts them back.] When she finished all the children's books, she started wandering around in search of something else. Mrs. Phelps, who had been watching her with fascination for the past few weeks, offered Matilda some valuable library information.

Mrs. Phelps
[Mrs. Phelps watches Matilda looking around the library and decides to talk to her. The next scene shows them talking in another section of the library.]

You know, you can have your very own library card, and then you could take books home, and you wouldn't have to walk here every day. You can take home as many as you'd like.

That would be wonderful.

[The next scene shows Matilda carrying a number of books in her pull wagon. The shot fades to show that different books are placed in the wagon.]

So, Matilda's strong, young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world, like ships onto the sea. [As the 4-year-old Matilda walks in the park with her wagon, the shot fades to the 6-year-old Matilda still walking in the park.] These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message; you are not alone.

Harry
[She watches some children playing in a playground before she sits under a tree and reads her book. The scene changes where Matilda is reading "Ivanhoe" in her bedroom as Harry opens the door.]

Any packages come today?

Mm-mm.

Harry
[about the books]

Where'd all this come from?

The library.

Harry

The library?! You've never set foot in the library, you're only four years old!

I'm six and a half.

Harry

You're four!

Six and a half.

Harry

If you were six and a half, you'd be in school already!

I want to be in school. I told you I was supposed to start school in September. You wouldn't listen.

Harry
[grabs his daughter's arm and drags her out of her bedroom]

Get up! Get up! Get out here. Give me that book. [takes his daughter's book and throws it on the ground aside, briefly catching his son's attention. Harry takes his daughter to their bedroom where his wife is applying peroxide in her hair] Dearest pie, how old is Matilda?

Zinnia

Four.

I'm six and a half, Mommy.

Zinnia

Five, then.

I was six in August.

Harry

You're a liar.

I wanna go to school.

Harry
[Zinnia snickers] [scoffs]

School! It's out of the question. Who would be here to sign for the packages? [applies his hair tonic into his hair] We can't leave valuable packages sitting on the doorstep. Now go watch TV like a good kid.

Zinnia
[Matilda begins to look upset and turns to leave]

You know, sometimes I think there's something wrong with that girl.

Harry

Hm. Tell me about it.

[In the hallway:]

Hey, dipface! [throws some marshmallows at at Matilda, as she walks to her bedroom, ignoring his brother] Have a marshmallow. Have another marshmallow, dipface! Dipface!

[his sister goes to her room and closes the door] [in her bedroom, some teardrops fall onto one of the pages in a book as Matilda is sobbing a bit. She hugs her doll]

Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books. [she closes the book and gazes at the front cover where it shows the illustration of Ivanhoe] It occurred to her that, like talking dragons and princesses with hair long enough to climb, such people might exist only in storybooks. But Matilda was about to discover that she could be her own friend, [the next scene shows Harry joyfully running to the house, laughing] that she had a kind of strength that she wasn't even aware of.

With the FBI watching her father and the Trunchbull terrorizing her school, it was a rare and happy moment when Matilda could just play with her friends.

[Lavender catches something while the children are hanging out at a creek]

A frog, a frog, a frog!

What is it, Lavender?

A frog!

[Later, they take a closer look at Lavender's catch]

It's a salamander.

It's a chameleon.

It's a newt. [reading from a book] "Any of the small semi-aquatic salamanders from the genus Triturus".

Bruce
[also reading]

"Some are brightly colored and secrete irritating substances."

How could you keep going, you useless, flaming CAR?! Wormwood! [screen pans to Lavender getting inside and Matilda opening her mouth surprised, looking at Trunchbull] Sell me a lemon?! You're heading for the chokey, young lady!

Chokey?

Teach you a lesson!

What lesson?

You and your father think you can make a fool out of me!

My father?

The guy with the stupid haircut!

I'm nothing like my father.

You're the spitting image. The apple never rots far from the tree!

[Trunchbull Matilda in the Chokey, makes her stay in there after school for an hour, and locks her inside.] [while Matilda is kicking and screaming in the Chokey wanting to be free the scene cuts from the Chokey to Matilda's classroom]

Miss Honey!!!!!

Miss Trunchbull teaches our class today, Lavender. Please get a water pitcher.

But, Miss Honey!!!!

Shh! No, quickly. She'll be here any second. Come on. Oh, make sure the water's cold, Lavender. [Lavender pours the glass with the newt into the pitcher]

Vinny, cover the fish. Put away the art projects. Put away anything colorful. Oh Charley, won't you get those crayons for me?

Most great ideas come from hard work and careful planning. Of course, once in a while, they just jump out at you.

Rayna. Rayna. Cover the birds and the beetles. Hurry! Hurry! I hear her coming! Okay now. Last time, some of you forgot yourselves. Don't speak unless you're spoken to. Don't laugh. Don't smile. Don't even breathe loudly.

[hits her rod against her hand while Lavender is holding a water glass and jug]

Don't breathe at all.

Good morning, Miss Trunchbull.

Students

Good morning, Miss Trunchbull.

SIT!!!! [hits rod against her hand again] Shoo. I have never been able to understand why small children are so disgusting. They're the bane of my life. They're like insects.

[Lavender sticks out her tongue]

Where's Matilda?

They should be got rid of as early as possible. Fsht! My idea of a perfect school is one in which there are no children... at all. [laughs]

[Miss Honey looks and sees that Matilda isn’t there. She mouths to Lavender to ask where Matilda is. Lavender puts her hands to her throat to signal that she's in the Chokey]

Do you agree, Miss Honey?

[Miss Honey nods yes as she leaves the room to free Matilda.] [turns back to the boy]

Now. You, front of the class!

[Screen pans to Miss Honey opening the door to the Chokey]

Are you okay?

[Miss Honey rescues Matilda and hugs her] [while grabbing a boy by the legs]

Next time I tell you to empty your pockets, you'll do it faster, won't you?!

Boy

Yes, Miss Trunchbull!

Miss Honey, this might be the most interesting thing you've ever done! [Miss Trunchbull drops the boy] Sit down, you squirming worm of vomit!

Boy

Thank you, Miss Trunchbull.

Get up!! Can you spell?

Miss Honey taught us how to spell a long word yesterday. We can spell "difficulty".

You couldn't spell 'difficulty' if your life depended on it.

She taught us with a poem.

A poem. How sweet. What poem would that be?

Students

Mrs. D. Mrs. I. Mrs. F - F - I. Mrs. C. Mrs. U. Mrs. L - T - Y.

Why are all these women married?! Mrs. D? Mrs. I? You're supposed to be teaching spelling, not poetry! I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me. What's funny? Come on. Spit it out. Speak up. I like a joke as well as the next fat person.

[She looks down and sees the newt. The children laugh]

It's a snake! It's a snake! It's a snake! One of you tried to poison me! Who? Oh, Matilda. I knew it.

I just thought you'd like to know, it's not a snake. It's a newt.

What did you say?

It's a newt, Miss Trunchbull.

Stand up, you villainous sack of goat slime! You did this!

No, Miss Trunchbull.

Did you act alone, or did you have accomplices?

I didn't do it.

You didn't like the chokey, did you? Thought you'd pay me back, didn't you? Well, I'll pay you back, young lady.

For what, Miss Trunchbull?

For this newt, you pissworm!

I'm telling you, I didn't do it!

Besides, even if you didn't do it, I'm going to punish you, because I'm big and you're small, and I'm right, and you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it. You're a liar and a scoundrel, and your father's a liar and a cheat! You're the most corrupt low-lifes in the history of civilization. Am I wrong? I'm never wrong. In this classroom, in this school, I am God!

[Splash! The glass tips over and the newt lands on Trunchbull, she panics trying to shake it off, everyone in the class laughs]

You!

I didn't move!

You did this!

How could she possibly have done it when she was sitting way over here?

I'll be watching you. Each and every one of you. When you turn the corner. When you go to your little cubbies to get your smelly little coats. When you skip merrily to lunch. I'll be watching you. All of you, and especially you!

Thanks for not telling.

Best friends don't tell. She can really dance.

[throws a handful of darts at pictures on the dartboard on the back of her door]

Yippee! Gotcha right in the neck! And you... [Jenny knocks on the door] Come in, come in, whoever you are. Almost got you. Good to see ya, Jen. Good. Good. Good. Time for one of our little heart-to-hearts?

Actually, it's about the new girl in my class, Miss Trunchbull. Matilda Wormwood.

Her father says she's a real wart. [As she pours a glass of water] A carbuncle. A blister. A festering pustule of malignant ooze.

Oh, no. Matilda Wormwood is a very sweet girl, and very bright.

A bright child?

Yes. She can multiply large sums in her head.

So can a calculator.

Well, I think she might be happier in an older, and more advanced class.

Ahh! I knew it. You can't handle the little viper, so you're trying to foist her off onto one of the other teachers.

No, no,no, Miss Truncubull.

Yes! Typical! Slothful! Cowardice! Listen to me, Jen. [picks up a shot-put ball and throws it at the door] The distance the shot-put goes depends upon the effort you put into it. Perspiration! If you can't handle the little brat, I'll lock her up in the chokey!

Get it?

Yes, Ma'am.

One day, Jen, you'll see that everything I do is for your own good and the good of those putrescent little children!

Do any of you recognize... this? Let's play a little game, shall we? Who was wearing a pretty red hair ribbon yesterday [tauntingly holding it in front of Matilda] and isn't wearing one today? Can you answer me that? Who does this disgusting ribbon belong to?!!? [Throwing it on the ground and spitting on it] I shall personally see to it, that the demented, slime-breathed, little Lilliputian who owns this DISGUSTING ribbon… will never see the light of day again! YOU!!!! [pointing at Matilda]

Miss Trunchbull, I was the one who was at your house last night. I know that I--

[Trunchbull grabs Miss Honey's wrist and attempts to break it]

I broke your arm once before. I can do it again, Jenny.

[Miss Honey uses her other hand to get Trunchbull's hand off]

I am not seven years old anymore, Aunt Trunchbull.

[Everyone gasps]

Shut your holes! You will be put away in a place where not even the crows can land their droppings on you.

Students
[As Trunchbull grabs Matilda until one of students saw something]

Look! [A piece of chalk levitates, as Trunchbull turns around and sees the blinds opening and closing] The chalk! And the blinds!

Students
[The blinds are opening and closing, the chalk is writing on the board]

A G A T H A. [Trunchbull watches in horror as the chalk writes] THIS IS MAGNUS. GIVE MY LITTLE BUMBLEBEE BACK HER HOUSE AND HER MONEY.

[Fearfully]

Money!?

Students
[Continue reading]

THEN GET OUT OF TOWN. IF YOU DON'T, I WILL GET YOU. I WILL GET YOU LIKE YOU GOT ME. THAT IS A PROMISE. [Matilda is using her powers to hit the Trunch with the erasers, after a while of being attacked by the erasers, The Trunchbull faints, Matilda opens the blinds with her powers, the students look at Miss Trunchbull’s unconscious body, however, unbeknownst to them, The Trunch opens one eye at the camera, and quickly turns her head towards the other students, scaring them in the process]

Aaaahhh!

Boy

Aaaahhhhhhh!

Boy
[students gasp]

Aaaahhhhhhhh!

[Students gasp again]

No, no, no. No. No. Miss Trunchbull. Please don't throw him.

Boy

Aaaahhhhhh! Aaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

Boy
[the Trunch throws a boy out the window. Matilda makes him fly back into the room]

Woo woo woo! Woo-Hoo! Woo! Woo-Hoo-Hoo! Woo!
[Trunchbull tries to run from the boy, but the boy pushes her on to the globe, Miss Honey silently tells Matilda to spin the globe, which she obeys, Trunchbull spins around in circles until she flies off and falls on to the floor] [the Trunch is disoriented from Matilda spinning her on the globe and gets back up feeling all dizzy, when the Trunch regains consciousness, she notices Lavender, and charges toward like an angry bull, until Matilda lifts her up as the Trunch crashes through the door and lands on the floor of the hallway, Matilda then uses her powers to summon the student’s lunchboxes to have the students pelt the Trunch with their food]

Woah!

It's the Trunch!

Bruce
[Miss Honey’s class starts to pelt food at Miss Trunchbull]

Wow!

Hey, you guys, look at this!

Bruce

Yes!

Let go.

[slowly levitates safely down to the ground]

Wooooooow. Cool. I didn't know I could do that.

Pretty good, huh?
[as students continue throwing their food from their lunch boxes at the Trunch, she antt to escape, but gasps in horror at the sight of a gargantuan crowd of other students in front of her, holding food, water balloons, and other objects, ready to hurl them at her, as the Trunch attempts to leave, the army of students assail the Trunch with their food, as she passes by Bruce, Bruce shoves chocolate cake into her mouth]

Bruce

Ha ha! Yeah!

[Trunchbull runs out of the school as the students chase her outside and continue to pelt her with food, while students from the second floor of the school throw water balloons and rolls of toilet paper at her from above, the Trunch retreats to her car, and cowardly drives away in reverse, the students cheer, finally ridding the school of the Trunch for good, while Matilda hugs Lavender]

And the Trunchbull was gone. Never to be seen or heard from, never to darken a doorway again.