by Linda Kay
Directed by: Paul King
Synopsis: The background story about how Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet), the famous chocolatier and candy maker, got his start.
Kitty Cameos: While surreptitiously selling his chocolates around the city during a song and dance number, Wonka is in a barber shop with three follically challenged men. A pastel calico colored Sphynx cat is sitting on a table at the back of the shop.
Wonka offers the men his “hair repair eclairs” which immediately starts to resolve their baldness. The man in the last seat appears to offer one of the treats to the cat, who licks at it.
In the next shot, the hairless cat is now a blue point Himalayan.
Final Mewsings: Only in a fantasy are cats allowed to eat chocolate.
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