History Fridge / CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory

** It adds credience in the 2017 Broadway version, as it's implied that Wonka has gotten bitter and thus why his actions are the way they are; he went from a man who was inspired to do many great things but gets wrecked by people who aren't exactly great for imaginative people like him. Thus he grew bitter and cold towards the world, but something in Charlie reawakened a part of him.

** Wonka mentions at one point that about 20 Oompas died of the chewing gum. Why did the first victim's partners not wisen up and never eat the gum again? Simple; they did, and were then forced into balls so that the others could practice their choreography.

* Is Willy Wonka telling the truth about the Oompa Loompas, or is "Loompaland" a coverup in which Wonka has taken regular people, miniaturized, and enslaved them? But then again, it's not like he has inventions that change one's appearance (Violet) or can shrink people (Mike)...

** It adds credience in the 2017 Broadway version, as it's implied that Wonka has gotten bitter and thus why his actions are the way they are; he went from a man who was inspired to do many great things but gets wrecked by people who aren't exactly great for imaginative people like him. Thus he grew bitter and cold towards the world, but something in Charlie reawakened a part of him.

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* Applies to both films, really, with a bit of NewMediaAreEvil thrown in for good measure. Think about it: the Oompa Loompas are singing a morality song about TV rotting your brain... ''in a movie''. Slightly excusable in that they're kind of saying it's an '''excess''' of TV that's bad, but it's still a little "Huh?".
** It gets even funnier when the movie is being aired on TV. (The song in the book pretty much says any TV is bad, period.)
** Making chocolate bars smaller. Pointed out in a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody parody]] with Al Gore:
-->'''Glen Wonka (Al Gore) to his brother Willy:''' Wait! I almost forgot! There's that billion dollars you spent on that machine that turns giant candy bars into tiny chocolate bars. Help me wrap my brain around that one 'cause I'm missing the big profit opportunity!
*** Hang on, he's got a machine that can miniaturise ANYTHING, even living things. It would have innumerable applications in electronics, where years of research has been put into making smaller components. And that doesn't include the fact that he's invented a way to teleport any matter to a network of pre-existing recievers (all the TV sets in the world). Kind of useful...
** It's actually pointed out in the second movie when they shut down the room once the scene ends, implying that the whole thing served no purpose than to get that brat to shrink himself.
** The point was presumably to turn giant candy bars into ''millions'' of candy bars across the country, which would introduce the FridgeLogic of ReedRichardsIsUseless.
*** Thoroughly explained in the book as Willy Wonka trying to reach a new market. Back when Dahl first wrote the book, television for the general public was still a fairly new concept. It's ridiculous, yes, but then so are the Square Sweets That Look Round - Willy Wonka clearly has money to burn on ridiculous concepts like making giant candy bars and shrinking them down one at a time via an awkward giant camera setup.
** Chocolate doesn't have to make sense.
*** That's why it's chocolate.
* The logic behind the kids' "punishments" was always kind of interesting to me. While all four are spoiled, it's only Veruca's parents who are punished alongside her. This is apparently because, as the song says, they share the blame for her character flaw. With the others, however, this is apparently not so. While the text does make it clear that the Gloops, Beauregardes, and Teavees either encourage or turn a blind eye to their childrens' flaws, the punishment eventually falls on the kids alone - it is Augustus who is sucked painfully up the pipe, it is Violet who is permanently blue, and it is Mike who is now a Slender-Man-esque freak of nature, while the parents only look on with dismay. Augustus's song especially makes it clear that he's just a loathsome human being (though we don't get too much evidence of that in his behavior besides, you know, his gluttony). But why do their parents, unlike Veruca's, get off scot-free?
** Possibly because Mr. Salt has the distinction of having a ''direct'' role in Veruca's brattiness, while the Gloops, Mrs. Beauregarde, and the Teevees are only responsible ''indirectly'', by not stopping the bad habits.
* Charlie Bucket only found the fifth Golden Ticket on Jan 31, the night before the event. Which means no media circus, and no time for the Oompa-Loompas to rehearse a jaunty little death-and-dismemberment song for Charlie. Maybe that's the "real" reason he was the last child standing.
* "We need the money more than we need the chocolate." But going already guarantees a lifetime supply of chocolate even before the special prize is revealed. They can still sell the chocolate after the factory tour. (Of course, they don't know yet what the tour will involve.)

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* When Wonka reopens his factory and won't let anyone in, how does he market his wares without having to deal with workplace safety and food health regulations?
** Money.
** Can't say anything about the second film, but keep in mind that the original book was written seven years before OSHA existed, and the first film was released the same year OSHA was officially established.[[note]]And the latter actually included a number of on-set incidents that would likely get the studio in legal trouble today, like Veruca's actress cutting herself on a rock in the chocolate room and everyone having a bad reaction to the "soap"(actually fire extinguisher foam) in the Wonka-Wash scene.[[/note]] Presumably, as long as there wasn't a rash of people getting ill from his products, no-one saw a reason to investigate.
* Augustus is described as being very thin after being squeezed in the pipe. How is that possible?? Is his flesh just hanging off him loosely? And for that matter, how do the physics of the entire pipe scene work?
** That pipe is not the only physics-defying object owned by Willy Wonka: the elevator that goes to space is another. If we don't want to apply thought-stopping mantras like AWizardDidIt or the MST3KMantra, we could infer that Willy Wonka possesses SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. As to ''why'' he does, it could be that he is actually an alien. In keeping with the spirit of Wiki/TVTropes, we could guess that he is a JustForFun/TimeLord, and the factory is his [=TARDIS=]. From this, we could even understand how he deals with workplace safety and food health regulations: the inside of his factory actually ''does'' conform to safety and hygiene rules, but whenever children come to visit it, he activates a combination of holograms that make it look like a crazy theme park. In other words, nothing of what the children see is real.
** The pipes work in the same way that the taffy-puller can restore Mike Teavee to human height if not human proportions; the juicing room can 'fix' blueberrification; and the Television Chocolate device somehow renders TV screens insubstantial as a side effect of its teleportation power - ''they shouldn't.'' But they do. This is one of those 'sense of childlike wonder' things that Wonka's 'fairyland' expects you to accept.

** If you look at most of Roald Dahl's books, the hero kids tend to be fairly quiet and well-behaved. Even when they're living in awful situations, they rarely, if ever, complain. I don't want to say Dahl disliked children, but he does appear to have disliked loud ones.

** Well ,I think there are two reasons why Charlie had that thougt. 1.There was already people who make offer on that ticket ,and it's the last ticket ,on the last day before the dealine ,so of course there are a tons of people who is willing to pay any price for it. While the "guarantees" of a lifetime supply (place the item), at least IRL , usually means a fix amount of the item that by the corp's "calculation"(Including RDA(Recommended Dietary Allowance) and life expectancy....sort of things) is what "a lifetime supply" that probaly has the "complimentary - not for sale" wrote in the fine prints....which not only came in a limited number , but also has a fixed resale prices....So, in short, didn't have the same "money making" chance than just sold the ticket. 2.It's the traditional "Water afar off quencheth not fire." kind of situation, reselling the candy(even if it didn't came with "complimentary - not for sale" wrote all over it) ,will take a relatively long time and make relatively small money. While just sold the ticket may of may not let the Buckets make a relatively large money, in a surly short time ,that can used to pay the already due bills and at least survive for maybe days or weeks...maybe rest of the year(or life).

* The vehicles slowly get smaller as the film goes on. This means that [[spoiler: Wonka not only knew which rooms would take out which kids, but he also knew how many people they would lose per room.]]

** On another note, cam you imagine the process of "squeezing" done on Violet? Being pressed from all sides until all the juice is out is NOT fun.

** That pipe is not the only physics-defying object owned by Willy Wonka: the elevator that goes to space is another. If we don't want to apply thought-stopping mantras like AWizardDidIt or the MST3KMantra, we could infer that Willy Wonka possesses SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. As to ''why'' he does, it could be that he is actually an alien. In keeping with the spirit of Wiki/TVTropes, we could guess that he is a TimeLord, and the factory is his [=TARDIS=]. From this, we could even understand how he deals with workplace safety and food health regulations: the inside of his factory actually ''does'' conform to safety and hygiene rules, but whenever children come to visit it, he activates a combination of holograms that make it look like a crazy theme park. In other words, nothing of what the children see is real.

* When Mr. Salt tries to talk down Veruca in the Nut Room, Wonka ''smiles.'' When he fails, Wonka frowns again and allows the plan to proceed. From this one moment, it's clear that Wonka hopes that none of these disasters will need to happen to the children, but of course, they all do, and they just have to learn the hard way.

* Over at the Headscratchers page, it's been asked why, in all versions, Mr. Wonka chose to close his factory and sack his workforce when he discovered his recipes were being stolen when he might have instituted tighter security measures, etc. instead. This version, without stating it outright, actually provides an interesting explanation if one thinks things through: This Wonka became a confectioner ForHappiness, believes in DoingItForTheArt, and is terribly sensitive about his work (as artists tend to be). Realizing that rivals were stealing/ripping off the wonderful confections he poured his imagination and heart into -- out of envy and greed, seeing it only as a commodity -- would have been absolutely soul-crushing for him, perhaps serving as a CynicismCatalyst. His emotional distress, in conjunction with his established eccentricity, might well have driven him to the extreme measure of closing the factory and only reopening it once he'd found a way to (via the self-contained Oompa-Loompa workforce as it turned out) make his factory virtually self-sufficient, that he might continue to make that outside world a happier place with his creations yet NeverBeHurtAgain by those who would find ways to exploit his gifts.

** That pipe is not the only physics-defying object owned by Willy Wonka: the elevator that goes to space is another. If we don't want to apply thought-stopping mantras like AWizardDidIt or the MST3KMantra, we could infer that Willy Wonka possesses SufficientlyAdvancedTechnology. As to ''why'' he does, it could be that he is actually an alien. In keeping with the spirit of TVTropes, we could guess that he is a TimeLord, and the factory is his [=TARDIS=]. From this, we could even understand how he deals with workplace safety and food health regulations: the inside of his factory actually ''does'' conform to safety and hygiene rules, but whenever children come to visit it, he activates a combination of holograms that make it look like a crazy theme park. In other words, nothing of what the children see is real.