The Day The Oompa-Loompa Cried — or! — Willy Wonka and the Concentration Camp!

Here’s hearty, well-fed Augustus Gloop, outside the gates of the Wonka Candy Factory, waiting to get in:

Here’s a bunch of poor, hungry Jewish kids inside the gates of Auschwitz, never to get out:

The top image is of course from the beloved, non-Tim Burton film, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971).

And the bottom image is from the infamous Jerry Lewis train wreck, “The Day the Clown Cried” (1972).

Now, that kid in the tan trenchcoat just to the right of the center probably isn’t Michael Bollner, who played young Gloop in Wonka, but the important thing is he kind of looks like him, I guess he could be him, but even if that’s not the case I’ve just started some sort of ridiculous urban legend with no basis in fact. Let that be my legacy.

If nothing else, it makes you think. Maybe that pipe Augustus got sucked up didn’t go to the fudge room after all.

Posted by Ted on June 20, 2016, 3:07 AM.