Oompa, Oompa

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Oompa Loompa doompadee doo

I've got another puzzle for you

Oompa Loompa doompadah dee

If you are wise you'll listen to me

What do you get from a glut of TV?

A pain in the neck and an IQ of three

Why don't you try simply reading a book?

Or could you just not bear to look?

You'll get no

You'll get no

You'll get no

You'll get no

You'll get no commercials

Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dah

If you're not greedy you will go far

You will live in happiness too

Like the Oompa

Oompa Loompa doompadee do

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Yikes!

Too many Beam & Cokes this evening.

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[LAL]

Methinks you need to get the Bird set now to be cured of this oompa malady. :rsly:

Edited September 29, 2004 by LAL

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Methinks you need to get the Bird set now to be cured of this oompa malady.

Or, maybe, the Krupa/James Mosaic box?

[Free For All]

Those "oompa loompas" have always creeped me out. As a matter of fact, I've always thought there was a bit of creepy vibe to that movie.

I thought this was going to be a thread about Ray Draper.

Edited September 29, 2004 by Free For All

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Those "oompa loompas" have always creeped me out. As a matter of fact, I've always thought there was a bit of creepy vibe to that movie.

You know what used to creep me out? I never liked the flying-monkey things (if that's what they were) in the Wizard of Oz. As a child I would always have bad dreams after watching Oz.

[Free For All]

You know what used to creep me out?

Illinois Jaquet?

Just kidding. The part of the Wizard of Oz that scared me was when the tornado approaches in the beginning. I had nightmares about that.

[Jim Dye]

With the risk of getting this thread moved over to the politics thread.....

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With the risk of getting this thread moved over to the politics thread.....

Eeek! It's the world's tallest Oompa Loompa.

[maren]

As a matter of fact, I've always thought there was a bit of creepy vibe to that movie.

Extremely creepy, that Willie Wonka movie. The first time I saw it was when my son was 3 or 4, and my father got it for the grandkids. I thought it was very S&M toward kids, tempting them with candy and then punishing them for it.

As for the Wizard of Oz, the scariest parts for me were the talking trees, and when Auntie Em in the crystal ball dissolves into the Wicked Witch, cackling "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" But the Wizard of Oz seemed morally coherent about who were the bad guys and who were the good guys.

Willie Wonka, though -- what a quagmire!

[Dan Gould]

As a matter of fact, I've always thought there was a bit of creepy vibe to that movie.

Extremely creepy, that Willie Wonka movie. The first time I saw it was when my son was 3 or 4, and my father got it for the grandkids. I thought it was very S&M toward kids, tempting them with candy and then punishing them for it.

I disagree. Kids are not punished for wanting candy or reacting to candy being dangled in front of them. They're punished for being obnoxious, disobedient brats. The only arguably blameless child is Augustus, who hardly is warned not to try to drink the chocolate lake before he falls in.

What I do find dark and depressing though is the boy's home life of extreme poverty and geriatric bedridden relatives.

But I think the creepy vibe of the chocolate factory is more just a fun house kind of atmosphere, where things may get strange or a little frightening but the moment passes quickly.

Oh yeah, and that Oompa Loompa melody-just try getting that out of your head!

[Free For All]

Eeek! It's the world's tallest Oompa Loompa.

Lallapaloompa!

[Adam]

As a matter of fact, I've always thought there was a bit of creepy vibe to that movie.

Extremely creepy, that Willie Wonka movie. The first time I saw it was when my son was 3 or 4, and my father got it for the grandkids. I thought it was very S&M toward kids, tempting them with candy and then punishing them for it.

As for the Wizard of Oz, the scariest parts for me were the talking trees, and when Auntie Em in the crystal ball dissolves into the Wicked Witch, cackling "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" But the Wizard of Oz seemed morally coherent about who were the bad guys and who were the good guys.

Willie Wonka, though -- what a quagmire!

That's what makes the movie so great. A kids movie that actually punishes the kids for behaving badly. It's just weird & wacky, and I wonder what Tim Burton will do to it in the remake. (Another film that needs no remaking, but is being made nevertheless).

[BruceH]

Those "oompa loompas" have always creeped me out. As a matter of fact, I've always thought there was a bit of creepy vibe to that movie.

Very much so.

I was taken to see it as a kid and a lot of it creeped me out. And the boat ride sequence was kind of scary. (Part of it was that Roald Dahl, the writer of the book, had a pretty wide nasty streak.)

As for The Wizard of Oz, when you're little (like 3-5) lots of things in it scare you: The talking trees, the flying monkeys, the wicked witch of course. Still, it was great watching it once a year on TV.