One day I will write a full review and in-depth story about my lifelong favorite movie, Hocus Pocus. As one of very few family friendly Halloween-themed movies that existed in my childhood, I’m sure you can imagine the depths of what it’s always meant to me. But for today, I’d like to just talk about a funny little fact. Anyone who’s seen the movie likely remembers the scene when eight-year-old Dani Dennison, after having dragged her poor older brother Max around trick-or-treating for most of the evening, decides to get smart with a group of teenage bullies from Max’s school. The band of bullies is led by two delinquents named Jay and Ice (née Ernie) and their idea of Halloween fun is smashing pumpkins and taking candy from the kiddos. Rather than going the long way around, as Max suggests, Dani decides she’s going to walk right through the middle of their mischief, and the Ice demands she pay a toll of “ten chocolate bars, no licorice” in order to pass them. ...