History YMMV / CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory

* AccidentalAesop: So, your kid's won the chance to tour a world-famous factory? Keep your eyes on them at all times and make sure they know to be on their best behavior. While it's debatable how much the kids deserved their punishments (see entries below), their actions that led to those punishments would have been dangerous in any real scenario: getting too close to a river when you don't know how to swim, eating candy that hasn't left the testing phase yet, etc.

!!Specifically the 1971 film:
See [[YMMV.WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory here]].

** Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Glasgow event based on the Chocolate factory became infamous in early 2024 due to [[CrappyCarnival the very low quality of the event]], the script apparently being written by AI, and an [[CanonForeigner original character named The Unknown]] who appears behind a mirror to scare unsuspecting visitors.[[/labelnote]]

** Willy Wonka Chocolate Experience [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Glasgow event based on the Chocolate factory became infamous in early 2024 due to the very low quality of the event, the script apparantly being written by AI, and an original character named The Unknown who appears behind a mirror to scare unsuspecting visitors.[[/labelnote]]

* MemeticMutation: ''Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory'' briefly discusses two that are certainly not limited to the Internet: "'Willy Wonka' is now shorthand for [[TheWonka any kind of innovator or eccentric genius]].[...]Having a Golden Ticket is synonymous with getting an access-all-areas pass to anything desirable." The former's memetic status is reflected on this wiki with Mr. Wonka becoming a TropeNamer -- one of the few remaining ones that's named after a specific character.

** The negative effects of Mike's excessive TV watching have become more relevant with the rise of "[=iPad=] kids" in the 2020s, young children whose parents let them watch Website/YouTube videos unsupervised on smart devices, sometimes for hours on end. While it is an easy way to keep them quiet and out of trouble, it also runs the risk of them finding and watching inappropriate material without their parents' knowledge (and there are producers who specifically make [[YouTubeKidsChannel inappropriate videos geared towards kids]]). They may also get so addicted, they don't know how to entertain themselves without smart devices. For more or less the same reasons, Mike's parents let him watch as much TV as he wants which makes him violent and obsessed with toy guns, and he is so addicted to TV he can't even appreciate the wonders of the chocolate factory.

** The negative effects of Mike's excessive TV watching have become more relevant with the rise of "[=iPad=] parenting" in the 2020s, where parents let young children watch Website/YouTube videos unsupervised for hours on end. While it keeps them quiet and out of trouble, it also runs the risk of them finding and watching inappropriate material without their parents' knowledge, and if they watch too much, they get upset when their device is taken away and don't know how to entertain themselves. For more or less the same reasons, Mike's parents let him watch as much TV as he wants which makes him violent and obsessed with toy guns, and he is so addicted to TV he can't even appreciate the wonders of the chocolate factory.

** The negative effects of Mike's excessive TV watching have become more relevant with the rise of "[=iPad=] kids" in the 2020s, where parents let young children watch Website/YouTube videos unsupervised for hours on end. While it keeps them out of trouble, it also runs the risk of them finding inappropriate videos without their parents' knowledge, and if they watch too much, they get upset when their device is taken away and don't know how to entertain themselves. For more or less the same reasons, Mike's parents let him watch as much TV as he wants which makes him violent and obsessed with toy guns, and he is so addicted to TV he can't even appreciate the wonders of the chocolate factory.

** The negative effects of Mike's excessive TV watching have become more relevant with the rise of "screen parenting" in the 2010s, where parents let young children watch Website/YouTube videos unsupervised for hours on end. While it keeps them out of trouble, it also runs the risk of them finding inappropriate videos without their parents' knowledge, and if they watch too much, they get upset when their device is taken away and don't know how to entertain themselves. In the same manner, Mike becomes violent and obsessed with toy guns because of his favorite TV shows, and is so addicted to TV he can't even appreciate the wonders of the chocolate factory.

** The negative effects of Mike's excessive TV watching have become more relevant with the rise of "screen parenting" in the 2010s, where parents let young children watch Website/YouTube videos unsupervised for hours on end on smart devices. While it keeps them out of trouble, it also runs the risk of them finding inappropriate videos without their parents' knowledge, and if they watch too much, they get upset when their device is taken away and don't know how to entertain themselves. In the same manner, Mike becomes violent and obsessed with toy guns because of his favorite TV shows, and is so addicted to TV he can't even appreciate the wonders of the chocolate factory.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The conversation between young Wonka and his dad, where the dad says he doesn’t want Willy to eat chocolate because he read in a medical journal that some kids are allergic, sounds suspiciously like an parody of anti-vaxxers.

** Mike Teavee's Italian dubber Creator/AlexPolidori has gone on to dub Creator/TimotheeChalamet's Willy Wonka in ''Film/{{Wonka}}''.

* HilariousInHindsight: Mike Teavee, during his musical number, ends up in a parody of ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Creator/FreddieHighmore later played Norman Bates in ''Series/BatesMotel''.

** Even fans of the 1971 film had to appreciate the Four Bratty Kids, except for [[TokenEvilTeammate Veruca Salt]], were all subpar, lackluster and UnintentionallySympathetic. The 2005 film showcased their [[AdaptationalJerkass brattiness and horrible natures]] properly, except again for Veruca Salt, because Julie Dawn Cole embraced that spoilt girl's character so well it left a ToughActToFollow.