Candy Mountain, Charlie

Willy Wonka was sort of insane.
I guess everyone's kind of realized this already, especially with the Johnny Depp movie that came out a few years ago. But I mean, if you really think about it, Willy Wonka was just completely insane. I don't care what excuses he may have to give, but you don't get a child to take over your company when you want to retire. And you especially don't set up a candy-torture-Gauntlet for kids to go through so you can test their worthiness and ability to run your factory. I mean, those four other kids who didn't make the cut could have probably sued for quite a lot of money at the end of the movie there. Violet was blue, probably for life because it doesn't really specify in the movies or the book if she ever recovers. Mike Teevee was shrunk, then pretty much drawn and quartered, candy style, until he was back at his 'original height', which by the way was probably a good two feet taller than he originally was. Augustus almost drowned in chocolate. Veruca...meh, she got what was coming to her, but Mr. Wonka probably ruined some very expensive clothing-wear when he got her dumped into the furnace/garbage disposal, whatever the heck it was.
And Mr. Wonka doesn't even care about all of this. "Oh, just let those kids be, they'll get over the emotional trauma of my candy Gauntlet and hopefully that blue will just come out in the wash, and hey, that family's rich, they can replace that charbroiled mink coat, and Mike, well, he'll be good at basketball..."
Insane. Completely insane.
Poor Charlie's in for a world of trouble here.
And a lot of people don't even really know the depths of Wonka's insanity, because they never read the sequel to the Chocolate Factory.  Ever heard of Willy Wonka and the Great Glass Elevator? Yeah, Wonka pretty much ends up shooting Charlie and his family, half of them bedridden, into space in that flying elevator of his.
It's torture to old people. They really spend half the book screaming/fretting about dying. And then they all get turned into babies somewhere near the end of it and risk reverting into nothing because they drank some sort of anti-aging potion gone terribly wrong, and yeah, does this sound like a sane man's work to you, because I'm already lost and horribly scarred just trying to remember all this.
I think Charlie would have been better off going to Candy Mountain.