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TIL the final line of Willy Wonka was originally written as Grandpa Joe yelling, 'Yippee!' The director hated it so much, he phoned up the screenwriter who was vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods and forced him to come up with a better line right on the spot as they were filming the ending.

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