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When Mr. Bleacher asks Willy by the stairs what he meant when he comments about Mrs. Scribbit being "in love," Willy is seen wearing his coat. The scene then jumps to Willy holding his coat instead, and there was no time for him to have taken it off.

In the beginning Wonka hands his suitcase to a boat worker and never picks it up again, later on it magically reappears.

Upon exiting the church, the Wonka crew tells Noodle they located her mother working and living in a library; However, it would be physically impossible for anyone but Willy and Noodle to know her name was "Dorothy Smith," for after they found this information they were caught by the cartel and locked in the chocolate chamber. There is no way the rest of the crew know this information.

When Noodle and Wonka are flying, they reach an antenna at the top of a building. They seem to get farther from each other, but after a cut jump, we can see them hand in hand.

Willy's wet hair on his face after his head is shoved into the water fountain's cold water.

At one point, Wonka has to milk the giraffe, Abigail, yet no infant giraffe is shown or mentioned. The giraffe would not be in milk without a young giraffe nursing it.

In the first musical number with the chocolatiers, the chocolatiers are seen starting to float. As they do, Prodnose loses his toupee but in subsequent scenes in this number as he is floating it is still in place. This is because, as they start to float, one of the bystanders can been seeing throwing it back to Prodnose. He puts it back on between shots, which is why it is on backwards in the later shots.

Flamingoes are tropical birds but are seen in the snow. Any zoo would have to keep them in a heated aviary for survival in winter.

However, this is clearly a fantastical world not constrained by the same rules or expectations of the real world. Flamingoes in the snow would hardly be out of place in a world where chocolate makes you fly and Yeti sweat makes you grow hair.

Paul King a graduate of St Catharine's College, Cambridge University with first-class honors in English in 1999 allowed the use of 'zee', 'mailman' and 'pants' when clearly referring to 'zed', 'postman' and 'trousers' in a motion picture set in Europe.

However, the location of this story is intentionally ambiguous with influences from many different countries. Given the fact that major characters, including the lead, are played by Americans with American accents, it's no stretch that they'd use Americanized versions of words.

After the Oompa Loompa saves Wonka and Noodle from drowning in chocolate, Noodle asks who saved them and Wonka replies "I don't know", but his mouth is open while looking around in awe.

With 11 minutes left in the movie, Willy breaks the chocolate bar his mother made one too many times. Instead of the six pieces he cracks it an extra time, making it the seventh.

Wonka is touted as a prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory but the three chocolatiers, Slugworth, Prodnose, and Fickelgruber, who are arrested at the end of Wonka are actually the rivals of the later Willy Wonka and the reason he closed his factory down, due to spies, and brought the Oompa Loompas on board.

Wonka and the Oompa Loompa discuss Wonka's theft of four cocoa beans, when in fact what he stole were four cocoa pods, each of which contains many cocoa beans.