Why do people hate Grandpa Joe from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory so much?

[smahala1991]

He is often considered one of the most hated characters in movie history next to Jenny in Forrest Gump.

[TheLittleBuggy]

Literally his grandchild was sleeping with a hole in the roof of his room, he shared a bed with 3 other people, his entire family was STARVING day by day, and none of this was motivation until his grandkid got a ticket for a tour of the factory he USED to work at? For all he knew it was the same as he left it. No reason to get excited about. Especially considering he was laid off in the first place. Yet watching his entire family starve and freeze wasn't motivation enough to get put of bed? I understand it's hard for older people to work, it hurts and it's painful. I get that. Yet for example I work in a warehouse. It's hard work. It's a lot, it's fast-paced. Our oldest employee is 85 years old. And yes, it's hard on her and we all feel terrible for her lot, yet she isn't watching her grandchild freeze at night so she can stay in bed

[Mishan97]

Cause his whole family is broke and struggling and this dude is just laying in bed 24/7 and all of a sudden when Charlie wins a golden ticket he can walk around and do everything just fine? It doesn’t add up
why couldn’t he have gone and gotten a job that whole time he was being lazy in bed, just watching Charlie’s parents struggle to put food on the table, if this whole time he was perfectly healthy?

[Jackblue]

A couple of things he is too lazy to get out of bed even though he clearly could. Thus Charlie's mother has to support them all. He spends money smoking tobacco when the family's dinner consists of cabbage water. When Charlie gets the golden ticket he has suddenly recovered and goes with him instead of letting Charlie's poor mother have a break. He is critical of the other kids for breaking the rules when he steals the fizzy lifting drink and encourages Charlie to do so as well and when Wanka calls them out on it he announces he is giving the everlasting gobstopper to Slugworth.

[AdithyaR]

It because adults used adult logic in a book written for kids.
He spent years stuck to the bed and watched his family go through poverty but the moment the chocolate factory was mentioned he immediately got up and began dancing.

Now to an adult that's gonna sound absolutely detestable but to a child it's funny. Cause it's a children's book, a fantasy world where a chocolate factory is way more pressing than a sad life in poverty.

This is the same as people trying to add logic to action movies, it's a story and anything can happen.

[WhiteSteve]

Really? I never hated him. He did a few dumb things but he seemed like a good enough dude. People are probably just mad that he was supposedly bedridden while Charlie’s mom had to hold the entire family down herself, but was able to recover enough to take Charlie to Wonka’s factory lmao. But whatever, it’s just a silly movie, you gotta suspend disbelief for movies all the time, this is no different.

[BCA6010]

Decades spent bed-ridden and sickly while Charlie and his mother (and father in the books and more recent film adaptation) are slaving away doing odd jobs to make ends meet for a family of 7, then all of a sudden his grandson wins what is essentially a lottery and he's got the energy and health of a young man again? Absolute scumbag.

[IAMNathanael]

Not to mention he and Charlie stole the fizzies and at the end Joe still expects the reward of eternal chocolate.

[AlienParasite]

They do? First time I hear it. I can understand why a bunch of people could dislike Jenny, but Grandpa Joe? No clue.

[DrunkAss]

I never hated him. First time I heard of it. I just saw him as a bum grandpa with good intentions that don't always connect. But he connects in the end. Well, I was a boy when I watched these films. I didn't challenge the elderly. I still don't that much unless they're really out of line. I hated the girl that turned blue and fat instead.

[DrunkAss]

Well, on my father's side, my grandfather turned all senile when I was a boy. He was shouting obscenities all the time which, translated to English, might be along the lines of, "Fuck all of you motherfuckers! Get me my damned food you bitch [to his wife]! WTF are you doing here [when I say "hi" to him]? So the grandpa in Willy Wonka seemed awesome in comparison.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

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Grandpa Joe is a hero in my book & if he didn’t burp the movie would have ended with the fan. In addition he couldn’t of been to hated because Charlie picked him to go with him to go to the chocolate factory.

[beebella]

I didn't know they did. Jenny is totally understandable, tho. 😂

[Purple_Rose]

Forrest could've done so much better, given all that he accomplished. Tbh. Jenny gets on my nerves because she reminds me of the millions of women out there who will literally sleep with anybody and treat good guys like crap, then start to try to do better when it's too late. Sorry for the rant. But yeah, Jenny sucks. Lol

[Jamie05rhs]

If Forrest loves her, that's all that matters. Who am I to judge?

[Agape93]

Huh? I’ve literally never heard him being even disliked.

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

Because he's just like my mom - spends days in bed claiming to be sick to not work, but as soon as there's fun to be had they are suddenly dandy and well.
Damn freeloaders.

[Hotzone417]

He sat on his ass for 20 years, but jumped out of bed when he found out he got to go to the chocolate factory. All that time, he coiod have been working.

[Kaazsz]

I’d say he’s more than just lazy. That’s abuse. Lying and making other people work for you.

[Submissivenerd]

Come to think of it I didn’t like him that much, he had a kind of slimy persona

[Jjpayne]

I honestly have never heard about this until now... I've always liked grandpa how myself 🤔

[Citizenkirk]

News to me! He's so approachable, friendly in his own " love me from over there, I need my space" kind of way.

[leahzrc]

he wanted to be the star, please, no need to steal charlie's spotlight

[ChiPaPa]

He's a lazy good for nothing.

[Liam_Hayden]

I've never heard that, but he really is kind of an idiot when you look at it.

[cjgsu]

I have not seen the movie

[lovedejj_xo]

I don’t like that movie in general creeps me out

[Jamie05rhs]

Wtf? I don't hate him at all!

[Jamie05rhs]

I don't hate Jenny, either!

[IlluminatiExposed0]

He's a parasite. Much worse than Jenny.