User blog comment:PlantyThePottedPlant/Random Topic Blogging II: Electric Blogaloo/@comment-3006892-20120116045216/@comment-3006892-20120116181815

Okay, in the original concept, there was a sixth child and parent: Miranda Pike, and her father, who was a headmaster of a school In the removed chapter, Wonka shows them a candy that lets children develop spots to fake illness and skip school. Miranda and her dad protest the candy and wish to leave the factory. And as they storm out...there's an explosion. And Miranda and her dad are blown to bits. Can't get any worse, right? Wrong. Here's the kicker:

Wonka then collects the pieces of their bodies, saying that the candy "always needs a little headmaster in it, or it won't work."

Take that, tunnel scene.