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 * [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The entire Slugworth plot. In the book, Charlie got the factory as soon as the other kids were out of the running and didn't have to pass a final test.
 * [[An Aesop]]: The Oompa-Loompa songs.
-{{quote| '''Oompas:''' Who do you blame when your kid is a... '''BRAT?'''<br />
+{{quote| ''Who do you blame when your kid is a... '''BRAT?'''<br />
-Pampered and spoiled like a Siamese Cat?<br />
+''Pampered and spoiled like a Siamese Cat?<br />
-Blaming the kids is a lie and a shame.<br />
+''Blaming the kids is a lie and a shame.<br />
-You know exactly who's to blame:<br />
+''You know exactly who's to blame:<br />
-[[Anvilicious|The Mother and the Father!]] }}
+''[[Anvilicious|The Mother and the Father!]]''}}
 ** Charlie's is temptation, Veruca's is greed, Augustus' is gluttony, Mike's is laziness, and Violet's is pride. All are tied by the common theme of self-indulgence.
 * [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: In a brief scene during the "world-wide obsession" segment, this scene:
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 * [[Enforced Method Acting]]
 ** The cast wasn't allowed to see the Chocolate Room set until the moment when the scene where they first emerge into the room was shot, so their reactions are genuine.
+** Similarly, the scene when the Oompa Loompas walk out for the first time was unscripted; all the reactions that the actors have to them are real.
 ** Charlie's reaction to Wonka declaring he would get nothing due to defying the contract ("''Good day sir!''") is also genuine; in rehearsals Gene Wilder (Wonka) intentionally held back how angry he would be so Peter Ostrum (Charlie) would be surprised.
 ** For the riverboat scene, Wonka's ranting poem was not in the script, hence the disturbed looks on the actors faces, who thought Wilder was actually losing his mind.
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 * [["I Want" Song]]: Veruca has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRTkCHE1sS4 "I Want It Now"], appropriately enough, which crosses this over with [[Villain Song]].
 {{quote| ''I want a feast!<br />
-I want [[Wild Teen Party|a ''bean'' feast!]]<br />
+''I want [[Wild Teen Party|a ''bean'' feast!]]<br />
-Cream buns and doughnuts and fruitcake with no nuts so good you could go nuts. / No, '''now!'''<br />
+''Cream buns and doughnuts and fruitcake with no nuts so good you could go nuts.<br />
+''No, '''now!'''<br />
-I want a ball! I want a party!<br />
+''I want a ball! I want a party!<br />
-Pink macaroons and a million balloons and performing baboons and / Give it to me / '''Now!''''' }}
+''Pink macaroons and a million balloons and performing baboons and...<br />
+''Give it to me '''Now!''''' }}
 * [[Karmic Death]]: If the kids actually died, the deaths count as both [[Disproportionate Retribution]] and this. A glutton gets carried away for drinking too much chocolate, a gum-obsessed girl gets deformed by gum, a boy who can't stop watching TV gets shrunken by a TV, and a bratty girl and her ultra-indulgent father die while she's insisting on being given everything in sight.
 * [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: "She was a bad egg."
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 ** Dahl left the production because ''his'' original script made everyone unlikeable.
 ** The switch from squirrels/nuts to geese/eggs probably resulted at least in part from recognizing that even if they sprang for the special effects required it would have almost certainly ended up looking pretty bad done with the technology of the time.
-* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Although Veruca had furs because she was spoiled, Julie Dawn Cole actually wore a custom made little mink coat made for the part.
+* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Although Veruca had furs because she was spoiled, Julie Dawn Cole actually wore a custom made little mink coat made for the part.  Sadly, someone stole it during production...
 * [[Read the Fine Print]]: Part of the ''"You lose!"'' rant points out a clause concerning Fizzy Lifting Drinks. A very ''small'' clause.
+* [[Recognition Failure]]:  Mrs. Teevee confidently identifies the theme from Mozart's ''Magic Flute'' that Wonka uses for a [[Songs in the Key of Lock|passcode]] as a composition by Rachmaninoff.
 * [[Regal Ringlets]]: Veruca, the upper class brat.
 * [[Riff Trax]]: Mike Nelson and [[Neil Patrick Harris]] tackled this movie.
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 * [[Shrink Ray]]: The Wonkavision TV camera that shrinks down thing (and people).
 * [[Solid Gold Poop]]: The geese that lay [[Squick|golden chocolate eggs]].
-* [[Songs in the Key of Lock]]: Wonka has a flute key, and the door to his main chocolate room opens to a tune by Mozart.
+* [[Songs in the Key of Lock]]: Wonka has a flute key, and the door to his main chocolate room opens to [[ a snippet from ''The Magic Flute'' by Mozart ([[Recognition Failure|which Mrs. Teevee misidentifies as Rachmaninoff]]).
 * [[Stoner Flick]]
 * [[Surprise Creepy]]/[[Surreal Horror]]: ''The boat ride.''