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Oompa-Loompas are fictional creatures, they are an orange color. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. They come from Loompaland, which is a region of Loompa, a small isolated island situated in the Pacific Ocean. In the book, they are the only people Willy Wonka will allow to work in his factory, because of the risk of industrial espionage. They are only knee-high, with astonishing haircuts, and are paid in their favourite food, cacao beans. They insist on maintaining their native clothing: men wear skins, women wear leaves, and children wear nothing. Only the male Oompa-Loompas are seen working in the factory; presumably the female Oompa-Loompas remain in the Oompa-Loompa village seen briefly from the great glass elevator (in the 2005 film, the females were seen working in the accounting department). They are also mischievous, love practical jokes, and singing. As each bad child makes his/her exit they sing moralising songs accompanied by a drum beat.
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Casting
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) [1][2]
- James Crooks (1988-2009)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Claire Oxlade plays all the Oompa-Loompas, Racheal Linforth played the stunt double.
Andy Willy (Oompa-Loompa stuntman) [1]
References in popular culture
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In the TV series The Big Bang Theory, one of the main characters, physicist Dr. Sheldon Cooper, calls engineers "The Oompa Loompas of science", and says that engineering "is the poor man's physics".
In the WB series Gilmore Girls, one of the main characters, Lorelai, is noted as having an obsession with the Oompa Loompas. This was mentioned in Season 1 in the episode, Kiss and Tell.
In Dawson's Creek, one of Dawson Leery's nicknames when he was growing up was Oompa Loompa, which Pacey Witter at times would make fun of calling him Oompa Loompa.
In The Simpsons episode "Sweets and Sour Marge", when Marge comes back from the candy factory, Homer says, "Were there Oompa-Loompas?" Marge replies, "There was one in a cage, but he wasn't moving." In the same episode, the (supposedly) same Oompa-Loompa can be seen smoking causing Homer to give an aside to Bart: "That guy is freaky."
The Irate Cinema Underground made a satirical film called "Oompa-Loompa Liberation" in which they protest the film release of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because of Wonka's outsourcing of American jobs to Oompa-Loompa slaves.
An episode of Mind of Mencia attacked Tim Burton for only using one Oompa-Loompa in the entire film. Several Oompa-Loompas appear and start singing about how they lost their jobs, and have been forced to turn to prostitution.
In The Simpsons Game Homer says in the first level "I hope I don't run into any Oompa-Loompas." because the first level is chocolate and Oompa-Loompas make chocolate.
In the episode of Family Guy Wasted Talent, Peter wins a trip to Beer factory resembling Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. There he sees near identical creatures called "Chumba wumbas", an allusion to the band, Chumbawamba[citation needed].
In an episode of Arthur, Buster Baxter reads a book about going to a sandwich factory with small, elf-like creatures resembling Oompa-Loompas who say, "When you break off all your teeth, it becomes so hard to eat."
The Heavy Metal band Macabre parody the tune and lyrics of the Oompa-Loompa song on their track "Jeffrey Dahmer and the Chocolate Factory" on the album Dahmer.
In an episode of MTV's stuntshow Jackass, Jason Acuña, also known as Wee Man, performs various stunts on his skateboard in an urban area, dressed as an Oompa-Loompa. He is musically guided by a remix from the Oompa-Loompa theme song from the 1971 film.
In The Rundown, Christopher Walken's character refers to the poor villagers in his town as "Oompa-Loompas".
In an episode of the animated television series Phineas and Ferb, Phineas stands near a river of chocolate in a toy factory, where he questions a group of small blue characters in a boat, obviously resembling the Oompa-Loompas. They all replied with "We are the Badink-a-dinks!". They tell him that they have been trapped in the basement for many years and that because they are free, they will lay waste to the surface world.
The popular psychobilly band from UK The Klingonz has a song called Oompa Loompa on their Flange LP.
In Series 3 of BBC comedy show Little Britain, Linda Flint insulted a university student in her office, Paul Roberts, as "the Oompa-Loompa" because of his being small due to achondroplasia.
On the reality television show I Love New York Season 1, Chance called the girls "Oompa-Loompas".
In Australia, it is common slang to call a person with an bad orange fake-tan (particularly if they are short) an 'oompa'.
In the song "Ya heard" by The Game off L.A.X. album Ludacris who is featured on this track raps "My money long, your shit is shorter than oompa-loompas"
In the television series the Hughleys, Darrel's (D.L. Hughley) sister in law (Adele Givens) calls him an Old Ugly Oompa-loompa.
In Futurama, episode Fry and the Slurm Factory, there are small men with orange skin and green hair resembling Oompa Loompas. They are named Grunka Lunkas.
In the ITV soap opera show Coronation Street, Fizz Brown often compares the Underworld factory workers to Oompa Loompas, there to provide unswerving loyalty and underpaid labour to the owners of the factory.
On their 2006 album Wood Work, hip-hop duo Da BackWudz have a song called "I Don't Like The Look Of It (Oompa)." The beginning of the song briefly samples one of the Oompa Loompas' songs from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, in which they say, "What do you think will come of that? / I don't like the look of it!" The line "I don't like the look of it!" is also repeated many times during the song's chorus.
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Trivia
- Throughout the 1971 film, there were only 8 Oompa-Loompa.
External links
- Veruca Salt's memorabilia from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Movie Song Lyrics - Roalddahlfans.com
- Official Oompa–Loompa Songbook - Roalddahlfans.com
- Politically Correct Oompa–Loompa Evolution - Roalddahlfans.com
- Economics of Oompa Loompas
- Racism in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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