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{{Partners in Crime
|image = Bleacher and Mrs.Scrubitt.jpg.jpg
|fullname = Unknown
|alias = Bleacher<br>
Mrs. Scrubitt
|origin = ''{{w|Wonka (film)|Wonka}}''
|occupation = Laundry owners <small>(formerly)</small><br>
Con-artists<br>
Kidnappers<br>
Scammers<br>
Manipulaters<br>
|skills = Cleaning<br>
High intelligence <small>(with manipulation only)</small><br>
Scamming<br>
Kidnapping<br>
Manipulation<br>
Deception
Kidnapping and slaving unassuming customers
|goals = Help the Chocolate Cartel sabatoge Wonka's business.<br>
Locking every guest they can find forever in their hotel <small>(all temporarily succeeded)</small>.<br>
Make sure nobody escapes their hotel.<br>
Keep Noodle in the laundry house forever <small>(all failed)</small>.
|crimes = {{Scroll box|Hostage-taking<br>
Forced labor<br>
Unlawful imprisonment<br>
Extortion<br>
Serial kidnapping<br>
Conspiracy<br>
Child abuse<br>
Enslavement<br>
Organized crime<br>
Rackeetering<br>
Child explotation<br>
Starvation<br>
Fraud<br>
Treason<br>
Food poisoning<br>
Attempted sabotage}}
|type of villains = Abusive Slavers}}

'''Bleacher and Mrs. Scrubitt''' are major antagonists in the 2023 musical fantasy film ''{{w|Wonka (film)|Wonka}}'', which serves as a prequel to Roald Dahl's 1964 classic novel ''{{w|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory}}'' and a prequel to the 1971 musical fantasy film ''{{w|Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory}}''. 

They are laundry-owning con-artists that run the "hotel" (in actuality a laundry house) that Willy Wonka stays in. They are careful, yet skilled manipulators that force Wonka, alongside several other people over the years, to pay excessive charges during their stays and are then told to sign a contract to have people work for them, and whenever they sign the contract and fail to read the small print on it, they are then forced to do labor for the rest of their lives as a result.

Bleacher was portrayed by {{w|Tom Davis (actor)|Tom Davis}} in his first villainous role and Mrs. Scrubitt was portrayed by {{w|Olivia Colman}}, who also played [[The Thenardiers|Madame Thenardier]] in the ''Les Miserables'' miniseries, [[Godmother]] in ''Fleabag'', [[PAL]] in ''The Mitchells vs. the Machines'', [[Three Bears (Puss in Boots)|Mama Bear]] in ''Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'', and [[Clarissa Cabot]] in ''Paddington in Peru''.

==Personalities==
Mrs. Scrubitt is very rude, arrogant, and manipulative, believing herself to be superior to others. This manifests into her verbally abusing and taking advantage of her tenants, so she can benefit off of them and isn’t even nice to her own henchman Bleacher. She acts bratty and rather immature as well, using the money from her tenants to spoil herself and becoming aggressive when she cannot get what she want.

Bleacher is more dimwitted, acting like a henchman or assistant to Scrubitt. They both can be manipulated easily, proven by Wonka and Noodle being able to pretend that Bleacher is a Lord. Oddly however, Bleacher has a soft spot for one of the tenants, comedian Larry Chucklesworth, telling him he has “a good thing” going.

As such Mrs. Scrubitt is a gold digger, which is why she fell for Bleacher as she believed the lie that he was a lord, but when it was finally revealed that it was a lie, she went back to abusing Bleacher.

==Biography==
===Before the events of ''Wonka''===
Mrs. Scrubitt found Noodle when she was a baby in the mail chute, after [[Arthur Slugworth (Wonka)|Arthur Slugworth]] dumped her her down there so he could obtain the family fortune. While there, Mrs. Scrubitt charges her 40,000 sovereign for living there, and forced her to work it off her whole life.

They then somehow scammed Abacus Crunch, Piper Benz, Lottie Bell and Larry Chucklesworth (possibly the same way they scammed Willy Wonka), and forced them to work of their debt by working in the laundromat. 

=== ''Wonka'' ===
Their dog finds Wonka with the scent of a mailman's pants, Bleacher offers a place for Wonka to stay, he agrees and meets Mrs. Scrubitt, where he was asked to sign a contract for a room to stay in for a day, despite Noodle asking him to read the fine print. After Wonka signed the contract, Mrs. Srcubitt locks Noodle away.

The next day he gets his money taken by the police away but is given one sovereign to pay for the room, but when he comes back to pay them, Mrs. Scrubitt reveals that he now owes them 10,000 sovereigns and is thrown into the washing room where he meets the rest of the victims, which had all been previously scammed by Bleacher and Mrs. Scrubitt. Then he meets Noodle, then the next day (or more time) they trick Mrs. Scrubitt into thinking Bleacher is an aristocrat, and it works, keeping them occupied with each other, as Wonka and Noodle escape each day to sell chocolates soon joined by Crunch, Benz, Bell, and Chucklesworth, until Slugworth came by and tell them of the group’s actions. He paied Mrs. Scrubitt to poison the chocolate with Yeti Sweat, causing a public chaos and indirect terrorism, the customers destroy Wonka's new place, then when everyone who got scammed by them got to leave because of Slugworth’s money, except Noodle, where they keep her locked up, until Wonka and the rest of the gang break her out.

The last we see them are in the epilogue, whereas Scrubitt was counting the money as Bleacher bursted in and informs her that Slugworth and the others were taken down as The Police arrived to arrest them. They tried to drink the poison, they used for the chocolates to disguise themselves, but it doesn't work, and they get arrested by the police. It is very likely that the money they made from their crimes was seized by the police, leaving them broke.

==Relationships==
===Allies===
*[[The Chocolate Cartel]]
**[[Arthur Slugworth (Wonka)|Arthur Slugworth]]
**[[Felix Fickelgruber]]
**[[Gerald Prodnose]]

===Enemies===
*Willy Wonka
*Noodle
*Abacus Crunch
*Piper Benz
*Larry Chucklesworth
*Lottie Bell <small>(all former hostages and former employees)</small>
*Officer Affable <small>(captor)</small>

==Trivia== 
*The film's epilogue heavily suggests the couple are actually the true identity of [[Mr. and Mrs. Twit]] from another popular Roald Dahl novel. 
*Olivia Colman, who played Mrs. Scrubitt, believes that her character was based partly on [[Aunt Sponge]] from ''James and the Giant Peach'' in her interview with Games Radar about the film. Conversely, writer/director Paul King based Scrubbitt on the title character of Dahl's "The Landlady" short horror story.
* Wonka and wicked little letters both of which olvia colman starred in came out in 2023.
*Mrs. Scrubbitt is very similar to [[Agatha Trunchbull]] from ''Matilda''.

== External Links ==
* {{Wiki|Mrs. Scrubitt|Mrs. Scrubitt|warnerbros|Warner Bros. Entertainment}}
* {{Wiki|Bleacher|Bleacher|warnerbros|Warner Bros. Entertainment}}

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