Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Augustus Gloop: Would you like some chocolate?
Charlie Bucket: Sure.
Augustus Gloop: Then you should've brought some.
[Augustus chomps his chocolate bar.]

Charlie Bucket: Dad...why aren't you at work?
Mr. Bucket: [Looks at Mrs. Bucket.] Well, the toothpaste factory has decided to give me a bit of time off.
Charlie Bucket: Like a summer vacation?
Mr. Bucket: Sure, something like that.

Willy Wonka: [while passing over Oompa Loompahs shaving pink sheep.] I'd rather not talk about this one.

Willy Wonka: Chewing gum is really gross, chewing gum I hate the most.

Willy Wonka: I'm sorry, I was having a flashback.
Mr. Teavee: These flashbacks happen often?
Willy Wonka: Increasingly... Today.

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Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie, the Golden Tickets are placed over the upside-down chocolate bars, meaning that the tickets are actually on the bottom, but later when the children find the tickets, they are now on top of the bars.

Dr Wilson

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Trivia: The squirrels were all real and trained, but when they were all put on the set they began to fight. The squirrel scenes had to be done like the Oompa Loompa scenes, taping all the squirrels separately and pasting them together.

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Question: If the Buckets were very poor, then why do they even have TV? Why don't they use the extra money for food?

Answer: The Buckets weren't always dead broke. The TV may have been purchased before they became impoverished.

Phixius ★

Answer: TV is kind of a necessity. Here in the UK debt collectors can't take a TV if it's the only one in the house. Also, they can't afford newspapers so how would they catch up on news? The TV will last for a while whereas it would only buy a few days worth of food, so the TV is a more sustainable option.

Answer: In addition to the other answer about TV basically being a necessity, there's also the very real chance that they got the TV for dirt-cheap or even free somewhere. It looks like a crummy old antenna TV anyways. They often get old TV's in things like thrift stores or flea markets, etc. I actually specifically look for things like old TV's and VCR's in thrift store and find them a lot since I enjoy collecting old analog media and devices. Plus, given that the grandfather used to work for Wonka, it's entirely possible that he bought it in the past before the family became so poor.

TedStixon

Answer: Don't they have to pay for a monthly subscription? Isn't cable paid for every month?

This was based on the book, not the timeframe of the movie. There was no cable for TVs when the book was written OR in the 1971 original film. Yes, cable was available in 2005 at this film's time but that's not the logic here.

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