Top 10 Willy Wonka Facts That Will RUIN Your Childhood

The dark facts will leave you disturbed. For this list, we’ll be going over trivia and other knowledge about “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” that may change the way you view the 1971 film, or else that are just interesting. Our countdown of "Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory" facts that will ruin your childhood includes Roald Dahl Disowned the Film, Nazi Golden Ticket Winner, The Chocolate River Wasn’t Chocolate, and more!

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[WatchMojo]

What fact blew your mind? And...Are you going to see the new Wonka movie? Let us know in the comments!

[dylanjbiss]

Nothing will ever ruin this movie for me. No matter how hard you try, Watchmojo

[corymorimacori]

“Everything in this room is eatable but I am also eatable. But that’s called cannibalism my dear children and it is frowned upon in most societies.” Willy Wonka

[Floymin]

About the predictable seat amounts:
I'd like to think that Wonka understood human nature too well, and that children are just as capable of curiosity, gluttony, greed, and pride as any adult.

[mackpines]

RIP Gene Wilder.
You are deeply missed.

[robertholtz]

The mother wrongly guessing Rachmaninov not Mozart and French not German and Japanese not Wonkawash spelled backwards were ALL completely intentional. It’s called humor.

[trinaq]

Even as a child, I thought that the "Chocolate River" looked more like paint or sludge than actual chocolate. It looked more realistic in the remake.

[aidanhever]

As a kid, I always knew the river was more like sewer water than chocolate compared to Tim Burton's version.

[plusisHappy]

“Everything in this room is edible. Eatable. You can eat it.”

A few minutes later;

“You horrible glutton. How dare you drink from my river of chocolate.”

[brandonlopez]

The Rachmaninoff reference is actually the start of a running joke in the movie that Mike TV's mom being a teacher always had the wrong answer.

[moritod]

You're absolutely correct, the "Rachmaninoff" quip isn't a mistake. It's a joke. The viewer and presumably Wonka are supposed to know it's really Mozart, making her seem that much more pretentious.

[MAXKIDDO]

I’ve always had this opinion that “Charlie ATCF” is a slasher movie disguised as kids movie. I mean if you look at the traditional format of any slasher movie it pretty much follows it to a T. The kids get picked off one by one, and Charlie is essentially your “final girl”.

[aztecwrrior]

This movie isn't ruined for me it's forever a classic

[briancoy]

I can't really imagine anyone else in the role of Wonka but Gene Wilder.

[TheTrish]

I agree with Dahl's criticisms of the movie. This was my first experience of reading a book, then seeing a film based on it. I adored the book when I read it at 9 years of age. When the film came out, I had all of the same frustrations that Dahl had with the film. It didn't have the same darkness. Flash to the 90s when I had my kids, and they loved it, and so did I. I've never burst their bubble about the book. Pure Imagination is one of my favorite songs to this day.

[ving]

This video ruined nothing, my childhood is safe because these weren’t bad facts.

[berniej.rucker]

If anyone notices at the very first meeting between the children and Wonka, Wilder's character is already "sizing them up" outside the factory.
Veruca is demanding right off the bat; Augustus is eating; Violet is chewing; Mike shows an act of unrealism brought about by television watching. Thus making it VERY easy to "entice" each child to misbehave along the way.
So...the number of seats in each "vehicle" is/was PERFECTLY PLANNED by Wonka with each room they went into.
Or...to put it ANOTHER way....the author pre-planned the "demise" of each child even in his book.

[crypticghost]

I already pieced it together that the chocolate river wasn't really chocolate. It looked like 💩 water

[lissybearx]

That scene where Violet turns into a blueberry disturbed me as a kid!

[northnick]

I'm confused, how will "The Oompaloompas became friends" ruin my childhood? That actually improved it :)