"Fickelgruber's Fudges."
I don't know about you good people, but I've only ever heard of one name that sounds anything like that.
Alois Schicklgruber:
Poland's First Postmaster?
Whig Party's Whip?
Railway Worker who Lived for 20 Years With a Steel Pipe Stuck in his Head?
No, he was Hitler's dad.
Who wants FUDGE?
So, that's pretty weird. But, the name comes from a list of Wonka competitors in Roald Dahl's book, so I guess we can't accuse the filmmakers of anything especially untoward there.
Oops, except then there's the fifth (false) ticket holder. A South American casino-owner. And according to his "last known photograph," escaped war criminal Martin Bormann.
"He's a nazi, kids! Get it? Martin Bormann! Get it, kids?"
Actually, I think it's pretty great that they threw that in there. Holy Lord, what if Wonka had actually let Bormann into the factory?? If his punishments for gum-chewers and the obese are life-threatening, what would he do to the nazis? Heck, we could have had decades more of the Saw franchise!
Then again, given Wonka's frankly insane penalties for relatively minor infractions, he might not have doled out quite what we'd hope to the real monsters out there.
Ja. FUUUUUUUDGE.
(Incidentally, Dahl wrote a great story about Hitler's birth called "Genesis and Catastrophe." It's been reprinted many times, in many Dahl collections. Seek it out; it's a stomach-turner.)
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