Mike Teavee

Mike Teavee is the one of the characters in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory. He serves as one of the four main antagonists and the fourth and last child to be elimanted from the factory.

### Background

Mike is one of the five golden ticket winners and the 4th one to find it. He is from the city of Denver, Colorado and his time other than school is playing violent video games on the television.

Willy Wonka states that he will utilize the machine to send chocolate to the public via their television sets, a phenomenon that Willy Wonka refers to as 'Television Chocolate'.

Mike scoffs at such a claim, branding it as absurd and proceeding to tell Willy Wonka that he understands nothing of science. After a demonstration proves that the invention is indeed a success, Mike begins to marvel at the machine's potential possibility as a teleporter capable of transporting whole people to different locations and rushes to test his hypothesis first-hand against Willy Wonka's wishes. The end result is Mike being shrunken so small, his voice sounds like a mouse. He suggests being put through in reverse, only to be told that the process is a one-way trip, thus revealing that he was wrong. Willy Wonka suggests Mike be put in the taffy puller to get him back to normal size. He also likes cheese.

However, the Oompa Loompas overstretch Mike and he leaves the factory ten feet tall and extremely thin

### Personality

Mike is bratty and acts like he knows everything. He didn't believe in Wonka's "Television Chocolate" invention.

Mike can also act very angry, repeatedly screaming "DIE! DIE! DIE!" and acting very angry. His parents didn't raise him properly so he doesn't really have a childhood and no sweetness inside him.

He can also act smart however. He managed to crack the code and system in order to work out where the golden ticket was. He states that he only had to buy one candy bar to find the golden ticket inside.

### Appearance

Before the stretching towards the end, Mike was normally wirly with short brown hair and light skin. Unlike the other children, his eyes are notably darker than them.

When he was being interviewed, he wore a grey bleeding skull shirt under a long-sleeved black shirt, dark grey.

### Trivia

* Like Mrs. Salt and Mr. Gloop, Mrs. Teavee doesn't have any lines in the movie. She also doesn't go to the factory with Mike
* Mike is the one among the kids to get bored during the factory tour.
* Mike only interacted with Charlie in the great glass elevator.
* He's the only rotten child to go in the great glass elevator.
* His lat name (TV) resembles how much he likes Television.
* He hates chocolate as stated in the movie.
* Despite being nice to Charlie, he is the most hated character.
* Mike really doesn't like Wonka saying 'He doesn't understand Science' and also rejecting a high five from Wonka.
* In the book, he has a collection of toy guns
* His age is probably 10 years old.

### Mike's Song

*The most important thing that we've ever learned,*

*The most important thing we've learned*

*as far as children are concerned,*

*is never, never let them near the television set*

*Or better still, just don't install the idiotic thing at all.*

*Never, never let them (x2)*

*(Rock instrumental)*

*It rots the senses in the head!*

*It keeps imagination dead!*

*It clogs and clutters up the mind!*

*It makes a child so dull and blind! (So dull and blind, so dull and blind!)*

*He can no longer understand - a fairy-tale, a fairyland! (A fairyland, a fairyland!)*

*His brain becomes as soft as cheese!*

*His thinking powers rust and freeze!*

*He cannot think! he only sees... (He only sees, he only sees)*

*Regarding little Mike Teavee,*

*We very much regret that we (regret that we)*

*Shall simply have to wait and see!*

*Wait and see! (x5)*

*We very much regret that we (regret that we)*

*Shall simply have to wait and see (and wait and see x6) if we can get him back his height*

*But if we can't...*

*It serves him right!*

### Relationships

**His father** - Mike and his father's relationship is sort of strained. His father doesn't really understand the new technology Mike likes and how he doesn't spend time in school. But his father does care for him when he got shrunk down. His father now realizes that Mike needs to attend school because TV isn't always right.

**Willy Wonka** - He thinks that Willy Wonka is an idiot because of the new invention Willy Wonka made. Willy pretends to think Mike is mumbling (to cover up the fact that he could care less about what some intelligence-flaunting smart-aleck kid like him has to say). He also comes off as a hypocrite saying all Wonka thinks about is chocolate and "Candy is a waste of time" when all he himself does is play video games and watch TV.

**Charlie Bucket** - He only interacts with him about candy in Wonka's glass elevator as friends and gets along fairly but this ended because Charlie and his family are usually disliking Mike because of his hatred of chocolate and being a brat.

### Quotes

* "All you have to do is track the manufacturing dates, offset by weather and the derivative of the Nikkel Index. A retard could figure that out."
* "Back off you little freaks!" (this was cut from some releases)
* "Why is everything in here completely pointless?"
* "Just put me back in the other way!"

## The Golden Ticket

Mike Teavee proves to be both economically and scientifically literate.

He found his golden ticket by analyzing both the Nikkei Index and the date codes of the other ticket finds, offset by the weather that day, and then calculating the location of the next ticket, thus requiring him to purchase only a single Wonka Bar.

He is also apparently very intelligent that, his parents can’t understand him. His father, a high school geography teacher, accompanied him to the factory.