436: Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Discussion, Comedy, Ihibili, Film, Tv & Film, Ihateitbutiloveit, Tv, Lovehatepodcast

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week we discuss a true classic: WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY! We talk about how this is both the definitive version of Willy Wonka (and he also kinda sucks), how the songs all feel like an afterthought, and how much we love Veruca Salt.

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0:00.0	I hate it!
0:03.0	I hate it! but I love it.
0:25.5	I hi-Byla, everybody.
0:26.9	I hi-Byla, one and all.
0:28.1	Welcome to I hated, but I love it.
0:29.4	I am Jocelyn Getty.
0:30.4	I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously.
0:35.0	This week, we're talking about 1971's Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory.
0:39.6	Genuinely, on the one hand, I think, a classic of cinema and also a movie I feel
0:44.6	very mixed about on about 48 overlapping levels.
0:48.9	I would love to know how do you feel about this film now, and how did you feel about this
0:53.0	film as Childcat?
0:54.6	I really like this movie.
0:56.2	I'd forgotten how funny it was.
0:58.0	It's really funny.
0:58.5	Even before Willie Wonka shows up, it's very funny.
1:01.7	This movie, like, it takes the thing from all-roll dull books, which is that most
1:06.9	adults are kind of idiots, but then, like like kind of does its own thing with it.
1:11.7	Like there are scenes with like the teacher and other adults of just like, oh, these people are
1:16.3	morons, but it's not a one-to-one adaptation from the book.
1:20.3	And then Willie Wonka shows up and I just love Gene Wilder's whole performance of like clearly
1:25.2	knowing right away that Charlie's the one that he likes and
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