8. Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory – Gum

willy wonka gum1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was food heaven for children everywhere upon its release, dealing, as it did, with the business of chocolate. Whilst the scene of the edible garden upon the kids’ entry to the factory captured young imaginations everywhere, the funniest scene comes later on.

Willy Wonka unveils not an ordinary stick of gum, but a full three course meal. As long as it’s gum, it’s for Violet, but this being the chocolate factory, events spiral out of control. Violet blows up like a child sized balloon, her colour transforming along with her body to a truly apt shade. All before being rolled away, with some contempt, for juicing by the Oompa Loompas…