# Omnibus Stupid MFers in the news thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657 "2024-01-05T16:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 26
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/501 "2024-02-29T18:02:07Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I love that the Scottish version of Willy Wonka is Willy McDuff Kind of odd, though, that the Scottish version of Willy Wonka would have an Irish name. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/502 "2024-02-29T18:17:04Z")
I fee like “pasadise” and “enchering” and “catgacating” should have been red flags. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/503 "2024-02-29T19:25:29Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Kind of odd, though, that the Scottish version of Willy Wonka would have an Irish name. AI needs some fine tuning before it becomes _accurately_ racist. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/504 "2024-02-29T19:36:18Z")
I wonder how one would spell “Willy” in proper Scots Gaelic. “Mhuilliagh” ? ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/505 "2024-02-29T20:17:55Z")
“William” is “Uilleam”. So some variation on that. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/506 "2024-02-29T20:41:37Z")
A pasadise of sweet treats ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/507 "2024-02-29T21:19:51Z")
Look again: “A pasadise of sweet teats.” ETS: Oops. Just noticed you put a strikeout through the R. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/508 "2024-02-29T21:46:14Z")
There _is_ a very minuscule nub of an “r” appended to the “t” so I didn’t think it fair to completely exclude it. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/509 "2024-02-29T22:53:18Z")
I actually feel sorry (well, a little) for the people behind the Wonkafiasco. It looks like the actually tried, and failed spectacularly, rather than just be cheap, lazy and/or evil. I don’t think you can plan to be that bad! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/510 "2024-02-29T23:04:17Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It looks like the actually tried, and failed spectacularly, rather than just be cheap, lazy and/or evil. I think “cheap and lazy” **was** the goal from the beginning, otherwise they wouldn’t have offloaded all the creativity onto a free AI that did the work for them. My guess is that they saw the popularity of Wonka, wanted to bank on it, and weren’t smart enough to realize how bad it was. “If a computer says this is how to do it who are we to argue?” ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/511 "2024-02-29T23:37:35Z")
So did the customers get their money back? Man, I’d be pissed. Messing with kids like that. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/512 "2024-02-29T23:51:41Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > It looks like the actually tried, and failed spectacularly, rather than just be cheap, lazy and/or evil. It doesn’t look like they made any attempt to proofread or edit their AI-generated art or scripts to even see if the stuff it called for was possible on their budget (let along congruent with the laws of physics), and the actors weren’t even supplied with said script until two days before the event. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/513 "2024-03-01T00:52:04Z")
My guess is that they sold the tickets well in advance, and thought they’d be able to do something real in time, but it took a lot longer than they thought, and so they panicked and tried to cheat it with AI at the last minute. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/514 "2024-03-01T01:06:03Z")
…and the public didn’t receive _their_ script at all. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/515 "2024-03-01T01:15:34Z")
That was my initial thought as well. The difference between what it was supposed to look like (all immersive) vs what it actually looked like (a bake sale), makes me think someone got in way over their head. Someone\* thought this would take a day or three to build when, in reality, it would have taken months of planning and working with contractors, designers, artists, makers etc. I’m also curious if the props I see are off the shelf or if someone made them. I ask because if they were having these things made, I could see that being where the problem came from. It’s not uncommon for makers and clients not to see eye to eye on these things. Just as an example, these [mushrooms](https://i.insider.com/65ddd6b990413ab8e1d70a58?width=1300&format=jpeg&auto=webp); I could see where someone hired a local maker to build them without realizing the time between the first contact and them being delivered is months, not days, or it’s $5000, not $300. Or maybe it was a ripoff/scam from the very beginning. \*Whether that was a contractor or the person running it or someone else, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/516 "2024-03-01T01:30:10Z")
The actor who played “Willy McDuff” shares his thoughts (six clips in the thread); > ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/517 "2024-03-01T02:27:08Z")
Cracks me up… “First red flag that this was fishy is that they cast me.” At least the guy is honest. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/518 "2024-03-01T02:29:44Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > “First red flag that this was fishy is that they cast me.” “You could say it was a ‘world of imagination’ in that you had to imagine it wasn’t a dirty old warehouse.” ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/519 "2024-03-01T02:32:10Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > At least the guy is honest. He doesn’t look much like Gene Wilder _or_ Johnny Depp, does he. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657/520 "2024-03-01T02:34:13Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > He doesn’t look much like Gene Wilder _or_ Johnny Depp, does he “They were expecting Timothee Chalamet and got Timothy Charlatan.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=25) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omnibus-stupid-mfers-in-the-news-thread-part-2/995657.md?page=27)