The Filthiest Joke Ever Hidden in a Children’s Movie
Apparently, ‘snozzberry’ is a euphemism for ‘penis’.
Snozzberries. A quote from super troopers. Wtf are u talkin about?
See the video in the link. 
Weak. Dahl had a wonderfully fucked up sense of humor, natch, but the likelihood that this was a joke hidden for fifteen years, rather than a gleefully profane callback reference (I need to have a silly word for dick–heh heh, what if I use “snozzberry”?) is miniscule.
Exactly.
Is there any evidence, other than Dahl, that the word was ever used before Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? The Cracked article gives no evidence of that. ** Left Hand of Dorkness** is quite right in saying that Dahl probably reused the word when he wrote My Uncle Oswald.
Besides, the person writing the article doesn’t seem to have read the novel, which was a sequel to Dahl’s stories “The Visitor” and “Bitch” and fails to mention that it’s primarily about an aphrodisiac.
He also seems ignorant of the fact that Dahl wrote plenty of short stories for adults: he was a frequent contributor to Playboy and wrote horror and mystery, winning a couple of Edgar Awards. His children’s books made his fortune, but his short stories for adults are classic.
“Weak” is being generous. The obvious reading of this in a Dahl universe is that snozzberrries exist as berries and then somewhere along the line became a euphemism for penis. Substitute “banana” and it works just as well.
I’m starting to hate cracked.com. I almost never find anything that isn’t either obvious or some kind of stretch. I like the idea behind the site, but in order to come up with content, they really end up with kind of lousy lists way too often.
Yeah, I saw that article, and was going to use “banana” as an example of why it’s stupid, but Yookeroo beat me to it.
If I say I like the taste of casabas, because that’s also a euphemism for tits does that mean I could only have meant I like the taste of tits?
Lay off the syrup, would ya?
Sry, I’m new here. Totally missed the link lol. I always thought that line originated in Super troopers, cant believe I never noticed it in Charlie and the chocolate factory.
Is it possible the slang came from the movie and not the other way around?
I doubt it’s at all related, but a slang name for the semi-abused drug **Seroquel **is snoozeberries…
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Why would Dahl bother to hide a dick joke in his book…when there are already two in its main character’s name?
typical cracked nonsense
reading too much into something that isn’t there
And Willie Wonka spends all his time in the “chocolate factory” . . .
Further penis-related stuff in WW&TCF:
www.foxywordsmith.com/2012/07/whangdoodles-hornswogglers-and.html
He had a fertile and mucky mind, did old Roald…
Six Things You Probably Believes About Animals (that no one over the age of five actually things)
Cracked moved on from being a comedy site to being wordier version of Buzzfeed a few years ago. Worst are the Photoplasties that went from being “make a humorus picture” to just “Find a random trivia bit on the net and plaster it on a semi-related picture”. And every now and then John Cheese lets you know what it was like in the ghetto.
Cracked publishes some terrible articles, and some excellent ones. John Cheese is especially insightful, but there are other lists that do bring up oddball history and handles it well.
OTOH, some of the articles are very poorly researched.
Am I crazy or did they take this scene out? For years I have been watching the coats come off and the fine print in the contract, but not seeing the schozzberry scene.
Licking the wallpaper was one of my favorite parts (of the movie, not of growing up).
Maybe I licked too much wallpaper as a child, because it’s straight up not there anymore and maybe it never was.
Or is it?