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As noted on the [[Whole-Plot Reference]] trope page, it's almost inevitable that an animated show will eventually have a ''[[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory]]'' parody episode. Such parodies usually explicitly mimic the 1971 movie ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'', famed for its memorable and easily repurposed musical numbers, and the idiosyncracies of Gene Wilder's [[The Wonka|Willy Wonka]].

Also happens in [[Fanfic]]; some varieties of [[Transplanted Character Fic]] are this.

* The Play By Mail Games comic strip ads in ''[[Dragon (Magazinemagazine)|Dragon]]'' once ran a story entitled "Gamer Kids And The PBM Factory" ("[[Self-Deprecation|It's our cheesiest comic yet!]]"). A chessmaster, a videogamer, a D&D player and an MMO player (each representing a different aspect of gaming: strategy, action, rules, and social interaction, respectively) are taken on a tour of PBM by a talking envelope in a purple top hat. [[Aborted Arc|Abandoned]] after two strips, supposedly because the claim that they sorted their letters via waterfall was untrue.

* ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'' does a mayonnaise-based parody in episode 185.

* Of all places, happens in chapter 82 of the ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]'' manga, where the guys receiving golden tickets are all virgins (the chapter is referencing the Japanese custom of guys receiving chocolate on Valentines Day from girls who have a crush on them).

* [[Real Person Fic]] "John Lennon and the Hit Factory" (address lost--[[Fanfic|Fan Fics]] of [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] have an alarming tendency to go out of print) had [[John Lennon]] as the Willy Wonka [[Expy]], giving tours to his Hit Factory from special copies of ''Double Fantasy''; the contestants (except for the Charlie expy) were meant to represent types of [[In Name Only]] Lennon fans.

* ''[[EpicSeltzer Movieand (Film)Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'' was unique in that it pastiched the 2005 movie instead. Then again, it ''was'' a victim of the [[Fleeting Demographic Rule]]...

* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' did [https://web.archive.org/web/20130930074915/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/02/02hwonka.phtml a sketch] with [[Al Gore]] as Willy's accountant brother, Glen.

{{quote| '''Glen:''' What I'm saying, William, is that, thanks to your wizwarbulous ideas, this factory is ''hemorrhaging money!!'' You have a chocolate river running through here! And I'm pretty sure earlier today a fat kid drowned in it. You tell me how that's helping our bottom line!<br />

'''Wonka:''' Glen, please, take it easy!<br />

* The ''[[Victorious]]'' episode "Ice Cream for [[Kesha|Ke$ha]]", based around a contest to win a private concert from the singer.

* The music video for a hip-hop song called "I Don't Like the Look of It" references the movie (while the song itself samples the title lyric from the 1971

* In ''Out of the Gene Pool'', Jackie dreamed of visiting a chocolate factory owned by Zoogie. Imagine her disappointment that she didn't get the factory for being the last guest left -- andleft—and Zoogie's incredulity that she asked.

* ''[[Sinfest]]'' did this once... in four-panel format. 'Slick and the Cocaine-Factory', starring Satan as the eccentric factory owner [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111133630/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2094 here].

* The ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF153-The_Golden_Ticket.jpg had one of these] - it's even in the style of Roald Dahl's regular artist Quentin Blake. [http://www.pbfcomics.com/153/ Well, maybe not ''chocolate'', but close enough...]

* ''[[How It Should Have Ended (Web Animation)|How Willy Wonka Should Have Ended]]'' pokes fun at the psychedelic boat trip.

* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Fry and the Slurm Factory". Though it plays around with the idea and produces a little twist for the plot.

{{quote| '''Professor:''' Who are those horrible orange creatures over there?<br />

'''Glermo:''' Why those are the Grunka-Lunkas. They work here in the Slurm factory.<br />

{{quote| '''Chumba Wumba #1:''' What do you do when you're stuck in a chair?<br />

'''Chumba Wumba #2:''' Finding it hard to go up and down stairs?<br />

'''Chumba Wumba #3:''' What do you think of the one you call God?<br />

'''Chumba Wumba Chorus:''' Isn't His absence slight-ly odd?<br />

** An episode predating "Wasted Talent" had a briefer and more blatant reference. Peter has a flashback to his trip to a chocolate factory, where he's accused of stealing candy -- andcandy—and though he denies it, it's clear from his big, round, blue appearance that he stole the same gum that changed Violet into a giant blueberry. Incidentally, it's a direct steal of an identical cutaway gag in an episode of [[The Critic]].

* ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'' combines this with a parody of ''[[Soylent Green (Film)|Soylent Green]]'', of all things. Johnny had won a visit to a jerky plant, where his knowledge impressed the owner to the point of being made his heir. Unfortunately, Johnny had brought along Pop, who spied on Jerky Jake to find out the secret ingredient. Finding out Jerky Jake's jerky was healthy food made Johnny more shocked than thinking it was made of people.

{{quote| '''Fry:''' What if the secret ingredient is... ''people?'' <br />

'''Leela:''' Oh, there's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola. <br />

'''Fry:''' Oh, how is it? <br />

* ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'' - Five golden diskettes for a trip to visit the [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of [[Stephen Hawking]]. All the other four kids are insufferable brainiacs like Dexter, but he's not the one who gets the golden diskette - Dee-Dee is. Fortunately for him, each winner was allowed to take a guest with them.

** Easily the strangest parody piece yet.

{{quote| '''Dexter''': Deedee! I'm confused...<br />

'''Deedee''': Good!<br />

* The ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode about Atlantis had the same basic structure, except there wasn't an elimination of the tourists - each one chooses to stay behind in a room due to their fascination with it.

* ''[[Lucy, the Daughter of Thethe Devil|Lucy: The Daughter of the Devil]]'' had one of these set in a dildo factory. With [[The Devil]] (voiced by H Jon Benjamin, no less) as Willy Wonka. And yes, the Devil sang songs about dildos while the lucky contest-winning girls toured his room where everything was made out of dildos. He even overreacted when a girl stole a motor for a vibrator.

{{quote| '''Ba-dink-a-dinks''': We are the Ba-dink-a-dinks!<br />

'''A ba-dink-a-dink''': You set us free when you remodeled the factory. We'd been trapped in there for years, making foam peanuts and snipping the tabs off of plastic. <br />

'''Ba-dink-a-dinks''': We will now lay waste to the surface dwellers!<br />

* When ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'' and friends tried to get Buster Baxter to read an entire book for the first time ever, one of the books selected is "Sam and the Sandwich Factory", with Buster playing the role of Sam. Sam had broken his teeth when he found the Golden Sandwich by biting it, and therefore couldn't accept the owner's prize of sandwiches; he asks if there's a soup factory around.

{{quote| '''Oompa-Loompa Parodies''': ''When you break off all your teeth / It becomes so hard to eat.''}}

* Children's animated series ''Frankenstein's Cat'' includes an episode entitled "Lucky Ticket" which plays directly upon this trope, right down to the costumes of Doctor Frankenstein and his cat Nine. In the episode Frankenstein decides to placate an angry mob by announcing that he will give whoever finds his five golden tickets a tour of his castle. Said castle is actually full of dangerous monsters, but (with the help of Nine and child protagonist Lottie) Frankenstein attempts to pass the castle off as an actual chocolate factory.

* ''[[Superjail (Animation)|Superjail]]'' is an entire ''series'' full of ''Chocolate Factory'' parodies. The main character in particular is a combination of [[The Wonka|Willy Wonka]] and, um, [[The Mengele|Josef Mengele]].

* ''[[What's New, Scooby -Doo?]]'' had an episode where the gang won a tour of the Scooby Snack factory. As the winner, Shaggy could have chosen between this and a trip to Aruba.

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