The Bruce Bogtrotter scene from Matilda still makes me nauseous despite my affinity for chocolate cake. In the scene, Bruce, the titular character’s classmate, is forced to eat an entire gigantic chocolate cake in front of the whole class as punishment for stealing a slice from the evil Miss Trunchbull. Bruce was portrayed by then 12-year-old actor Jimmy Karz back in 1996, who also played the “Studliest Kid at the Bar Mitvah” in 1998’s The Wedding Singer.
In the latest episode of “Binging with Babish” they feature the inexplicably tempting chocolate cake, despite its open admission of containing bodily fluids. In the video you can just sit down and consume this entire confection today alongside Dan Pashman of The Sporkful.
Unfortunately I just watched the chocolate cake scene again and I don’t think I’ll be able to handle eating any type of chocolate anything for at least 24 hours. I do not recommend this scene if you’re hungry. P.S. I never knew that Danny DeVito directed Matilda. That seems kind of odd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exQ6oGefSiA
Here’s a synopsis of the movie:
This film adaptation of a Roald Dahl work tells the story of Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson), a gifted girl forced to put up with a crude, distant father (Danny DeVito) and mother (Rhea Perlman). Worse, Agatha Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), the evil principal at Matilda’s school, is a terrifyingly strict bully. However, when Matilda realizes she has the power of telekinesis, she begins to defend her friends from Trunchbull’s wrath and fight back against her unkind parents.
And here’s something interesting about the production of the movie:
Pam Ferris (Miss Trunchbull) incurred several injuries while making the film. The climactic scene where she is whacked by blackboard erasers required her to keep her eyes open, causing chalk dust to get caught in her eyes and necessitating several trips to the hospital to get her eyes washed out. The scene where Trunchbull whirls Amanda Thripp (Jacqueline Steiger) by her pigtails required a harness to support the little girl, the wires of which were threaded through the pigtails and then looped around Ferris’s fingertips to give her grip. As she swung her around the centrifugal force grew too great and tore the top part of Ferris’ finger, requiring 7 or 8 stitches.
The Crank House, in Altadena, stood in for Miss Trunchbull’s house. The exterior of Matilda’s house is located on Youngwood Drive in Whittier,[6] and the library she visits is the Pasadena Public Library on East Walnut Street in Pasadena.
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