Mr. Mushnik

Mr. Mushnik is the tritagonist of Little Shop of Horrors. He is the grumpy, stingy owner of Mushnik's Flower Shop as his only employees Seymour and Audrey work for him.
He was played the late Vincent Gardenia.
== Biography ==
As he describes his life a living hell because of his misfit employees, bums on the sidewalk and business is lousy. He never has a single customer visit his shop until Audrey suggested Seymour should show his strange and interesting plant so he can display it in the shop window. Seymour named his plant Audrey II as he named it after Audrey herself. The shop gets attracted to their first customer who noticed the Audrey II and he asked Seymour where did he get it. After Seymour the customer decides to many flowers and the shop grew more attention on the Audrey II making Mr. Mushnik very proud of the money from customers. 
He is always something of a jerk to Seymour Krelborn. He respects the work Seymour does (slightly more work than Audrey) but still, Mushnik vows to sack them both. He wishes he could just own a proper business rather than a failing floral shop.
Mushnik delights in the expanding shop business and is humorously seen buying roses for Mrs Shiva. Mushnik then witnesses the growing bond between Seymour and Audrey, and he berates Audrey for dating a rebel (Orin Scrivello). Then Mushnik spies on Seymour chopping up the dentist for Audrey II (he doesn't know his Plant is a man-eater, all he believes is that Seymour has murderous tendencies to impress Audrey) and Mr Mushnik flees in terror. The following evening, he confronts Seymour in his downstairs bedroom, and threatens Seymour by pointing his pistol at Seymour, ordering his arrest. But then Mushnik has a change of heart and promises to get Seymour a one-way ticket out of New York, on the pretext of him being like a son to Mushnik, but in actuality, he just wants to take in all the money Audrey II is earning for himself. Asking Seymour what the Plant eats, coupled with this change of heart, proves his undoing, as Audrey II opens its maw, then swallows the helpless Mr Mushnik whole.
==Appearance and Personality==
Mr. Mushnik was a chubby man in a suit. He was a true businessman, and believed in survival of the fittest. He believed everyone should make something of their lives, as seen when he berated the Downtown Girls for lounging about when they ought to be making a success of their style. Mushnik also derided Orin Scrivello, too, despite his own success, saying "What kind of professional drives a motorcycle and wears a black leather jacket?"
==Trivia==
*His name was never revealed in the musical and the film. Because of the original 1960 film, the original Mr. Mushnik was named Gravis. 
*He and Orin Scrivello are the only characters to die in both cuts of the 1986 film.
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