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aka: Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

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Comic Books

  • The Simpsons: Issue #41 of Simpsons Comics contains the story "Bart Simpson & the Krusty Brand Fun Factory".

Fan Works

  • Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Chloe Cerise compares her bully Sara Diktaylis to Veruca Salt and nicknaming her "Sara Salt". Sara in retaliation calls Chloe "Chloe Bucket" amd notes how she's like the book version who basically is a blank slate who just plays along and gets everything in the end. Chloe admits that she's more like the 1967 film version in that that Charlie has flaws but was ultimately a good person underneath.
  • Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: What Came After: A Chapter that is Very Legitimate, a non-canon chapter posted for April Fool's Day 2019, is a Compressed Adaptation of the 1971 film (it starts on the day of the tour, the Fizzy Lifting Drinks incident and the Slugworth subplot are omitted, and scenes are drastically shortened) featuring the cast of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers. Wigglytuff (named Wiggly Wonka) replaces Wonka, while Steenee, Alesia, Tyrunt, Riolu, and Popplio replace the five Golden Ticket (simply Gold Ticket in this version) winners (in order of elimination), the Guild members replace the Oompa Loompas, the children's parents are omitted, and Chatot, while not replacing anybody, is thrown in to be the subject of Amusing Injuries. At the end, it is revealed to be a production filmed by the author's Author Avatar (a Totodile), and that the same applies to the main story.

Film - Animated

Film - Live-Action

  • The BFG: The BFG says that his palace breakfast is "scrumdiddlyumptious". Bonus points for both works being based on books by Roald Dahl.
  • In Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, when Greg gets covered in cheeto dust, Rodrick compares him to an Oompa-Loompa.
  • Thor: Ragnarok: The instrumental version of "Pure Imagination" from the opening titles is used to introduce the Grandmaster.
Literature
  • In Shtum Georg looks so excited while touring a residential school for Jonah that he looks like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.
  • In Peta Lyre's Rating Normal, Peta compares the dessert at the hotel restaurant to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
  • Candyman (2021): Fittingly, the film uses Sammy Davis Jr.'s cover of "Candy Man" during the opening logos.

Live-Action TV

  • The Big Bang Theory: In "The Jerusalem Duality", Sheldon calls engineers the "Oompa Loompas of science".
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine: In Halloween IV, Officer Raymond Holt directly quoted "YOU GET NOTHING, YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!" after he found out that Boyle was going to sabotage Jake's plan.
  • Drake & Josh: In "The Bet", Josh tries to get Drake to break his vow not to eat candy by turning their room into a candyland and wearing a Wonka hat.
  • In the Glee episode "Funeral", Willy Wonka was Sue's late sister's favorite movie, so her funeral (the titular one) is given a Wonka theme, complete with New Directions performing "Pure Imagination".
  • Hamish and Andy's Caravan of Courage: In a attempt to recreate Augustus falling in the chocolate river, Hamish decides to fall in a river-like sugar storage area, and ends up getting coated in brown sugar.
  • The Muppet Show: In one episode, Ben Vereen performs "Pure Imagination".
  • The Office: In the 2009 episode titled "The Golden Ticket", Michael Scott bursts into the staff lounge and scolds them over misnaming the movie as simply Willy Wonka and not Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Pam says it's based on the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
    Michael: THERE IS NO MOVIE CALLED "WILLY WONKA"! IT'S CALLED "WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY"!
    Pam: Actually, it's based on a book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
  • In the Doom Patrol (2019) episode "Sex Patrol", Dorothy sings "Pure Imagination" in order to resurrect Danny the Street. It's implied that she and her dad liked to watch the movie together whenever he visited her on Danny.
  • "That '70s Show": In "Jackie Moves On," there is a fantasy sequence in which Jackie eats too many blueberry pies, swells up, and turns into a giant blueberry, with Donna rolling her out of the room afterwards. As an added bonus, Donna half-heartedly warns Jackie to stop eating so much, mimicking Willy Wonka when he does the same with the children.
    Jackie: Yep! I've almost finished my fifth pie, and I'm still completely over Michael!
    Donna: Don't... Stop... Wait...
    Jackie: Mmm! Blueberry!

Music

  • Sammy Davis Jr. did a cover of "The Candy Man" for his 1972 album Sammy Davis Jr. NOW! Unlike the song in the movie, all references to Willy Wonka are omitted. This version is ostensibly about the candy store owner from the beginning.
    The Candy Man: Alright everybody, gather around, The Candy Man is here! What kind of candy do you want? Sweet chocolate? Chocolate walnut candy? Gum drops? Anything you want! You've come to the right man because I’m the Candy Man!
  • Kidsongs also did a cover of The Candy Man, with the lyrics being the same as the Davis version.
  • Veruca Salt is named after the bratty character in book.
  • "Pure Imagination" has been covered by the likes of Josh Groban, Fiona Apple and Maroon 5.

Video Games

  • BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm has an item called Hackerberries, which are said to taste like "retextured snozzberries."
  • Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past: Case 9, "Sweet Revenge", is a huge homage to the book and movies, taking place in a huge chocolate factory (complete with a chocolate river flowing through it) and with both the victim and the suspects being parodies of the characters.
  • Dota 2: Axe's denined phrase (YOU GET NOTHING! GOOD DAY, SIR!) is a direct quotation from the 1971 film.
  • Gone Home: A magazine can be found with "Veruca Salt wants it now" written on it.
  • Infinite Craft: Willy Wonka is a possible recipe to craft.

Web Comics

  • Hark! A Vagrant: Charlie is less than thrilled to win a trip to the Marvelous Turnip Factory.
  • Sheldon:
    • One storyline has Sheldon buying Willy Wonka's "Wonka-vator".
    • Previously, a storyline has Sheldon and Arthur visiting Microsoft... where they are accompanied to Bill Gates' office by Oompa-Loompas.

Web Original

Western Animation

  • American Dad!:
    • In "Bush Comes to Dinner", Duper initially wins the CIA essay contest before it's found out he plagiarized the story from this film.
    • In "The Most Adequate Christmas Ever", God says "So shines a good deed in a weary world" when Stan gives up the God Gun.
    • In "May the Best Stan Win", Stan fights with his future self at Hersheypark, knocking a fat kid named Augustus into a chocolate river in the process.
    • "Jeff and the Dank-Ass Weed Factory" is a marijuana-themed parody of the story, featuring an Expy of Wonka named "Tommy Tokes" voiced by Snoop Dogg.
  • Dexter's Laboratory: The episode "Golden Diskette" is a partial parody of the story featuring Professor Hawk, a Composite Character Expy of Willy Wonka, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates. Similar to Wonka, he had a computer factory, eventually went into seclusion, and held a contest to determine his heir by distributing several golden diskettes among his regular floppy disks. Ironically, it's Dee Dee who gets one of them, not Dexter, but he gets to go along anyway as a guest.
  • Family Guy:
    • A cutaway from "I Never Met the Dead Man" depicts Peter already inflated into a giant blueberry and denying Wonka's accusations that he ate his candy. Blueberry Peter later became an unlockable form in Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff.
    • The first half of "Wasted Talent" is a parody of this film, in which Peter wins a trip to the Pawtucket Patriot Ale factory. It's notorious for introducing the Overly Long Gag where Peter hurts his knees while running home with his winning scroll ("Tssss...Aaaahh...").
    • A scene from "FOX-y Lady" references the gag mentioned above when Lois gets a job at Fox News and hurts her breast on her way home with the news.
    • In "Meg Stinks!", Meg demonstrates how well she knows her father by saying that he likes Augustus Gloop and hates Mike Teavee.
    • The episode "Boys in the Band" opens with Brian and Stewie watching an "extended director's cut" of the film.
  • Futurama: The episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory" is a spoof of this film.
  • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Wacky Wally from "Taffy Trouble" is a parody of Willy Wonka.
  • King of the Hill: In "Peggy's Pageant Fever", Luanne dyes Peggy's hair like an Oompa-Looma's to get back at her for firing her as her stylist.
  • Phineas and Ferb: The "Toy to the World" features creatures called the Ba-dink-a-dinks, who make toys for the toy factory before Phineas releases them.
  • Rick and Morty: In "The Ricklantis Mixup", the Rick owner of the Simple Rick's factory is dressed like Willy Wonka.
  • Robot Chicken:
    • A sketch from "Love, Maurice" features Charlie and Grandpa Joe licking the factory's wall, with the Oompa Loompas providing a "carrot" through a hole in the wall.
    • A sketch from "Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" features a backstory where Wonka captures the Oompa Loompas from their homeland to make them his slaves a la Roots.
    • A sketch from "Immortal" features Oompa Loompas trying to come up with lyrics for their riddles.
    • A sketch from "Cake Pillow" features Wonka making Mr. Salt pay a hefty price to get his daughter an Oompa Loompa.
    • A sketch from "Blackout Window Heat Stroke" features Wonka giving Charlie his factory so he can be charged and convicted for the deaths of the other kids instead of himself.
    • A sketch from "Not Enough Women" features Wonka getting locked out of the factory and trying to keep his show going until the door is opened.
    • One sketch parodies "I Want It Now", only they replace Veruca with Donald Trump.
    • One sketch is a commercial for "Larry H. Loompa Law: Injury Attorney".
  • Johnny Bravo: Has an episode featuring Jerky Jake and his Jerky Factory. It diverges in one major way: Johnny is one of the people thrown out of the factory, thanks to Pops attacking a worker.
  • Ozzy & Drix: In the episode "A Growing Cell", the kidnapped fat cell kid the eponymous duo are assigned to rescue is appropriately named Abglobtus Goop. Like his namesake, Abglobtus loves to eat, and both he and his parents have German accents.
  • The Simpsons:
    • The episode "Trash of the Titans" contains a parody of the Candy Man song.
    • In "Sweets and Sour Marge", Garth Motherloving lets Homer see an Oompa Loompa in exchange for smuggling sugar into Springfield.
    • Goose Gladwell from "Fat Man and Little Boy" is a parody of Willy Wonka.
    • In "Rome-old and Julie-eh", the delivery man says that his boxes are not for "creating a world of pure imagination".
    • In "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", Moe tries to watch TV with his dwarf girlfriend Maya, and the screen shows Oompa Loompas before hastily changing stations to avoid offending her.
    • In "The Scorpion's Tale", Walter Hottenhoffer says that he is actually a grown-up Augustus Gloop and that his experience in the tube still haunts him.
    • In "The Ziff Who Came To Dinner," Artie reads a book to Lisa and then asks her if Homer ever read to her. Lisa says that he tried once, but then got confused and thought the book was real, before saying, "He's still looking for that chocolate factory. It consumes him."
  • South Park:
    • In "Butt Out", the boys visit the cigarette company's headquarters, which is a jolly, Wonka-esque factory.
    • in "Le Petite Tourette", Cartman sings "I've Got a Golden Ticket" when he realizes he can use Tourette's syndrome as an excuse to say anything he wants without consequence.

Alternative Title(s): Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory

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