Willy Wonka (residue)

If there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that every single Oompa Loompa song didn’t start off with “puzzle.”  Now, that’s the only word they use.  “I’ve got another puzzle for you.”  Well, thanks for helping come up with the symbol for this website, but try a thesaurus next time, other universe lyricist.

Here’s an old New York Times article, which, what do you know, starts off with “I’ve got another riddle for you.”  If all of the lyrics contain puzzle, it’s not very hard to forget.  So why would the use “riddle” instead?  Hmm?

And here’s a meme floating around that also uses “riddle.”

And the official review of the film on Amazon.com uses “I’ve got another lesson for you.”

Here’s an old post from The Office days which quotes the song as “I’ve got another question for you.”

Question.

Riddle.

Lesson.

Here’s an instance of the ME making a song worse.  Puzzle is a poor replacement and doesn’t even make much sense.  But it surely would have been easy for everyone to remember if it was the only word used in the song.