Harry Wormwood is a terrible used-car salesman, but his parenting skills are even worse. When his precocious daughter Matilda — whom he openly refers to as a mistake — asks for a book, he advises her to watch TV. When she catches him rigging a car to make it seem more valuable and asks why he can't sell "good cars," he reveals his fatherhood philosophy: "I'm smart, you're dumb; I'm big, you're little; I'm right, you're wrong; and there's nothing you can do about it."