Yes, there's already a Willy Wonka Glasgow experience parody — and John Stamos stars in the music video

"Some thought it’d be Trump or Putin, setting the world ablaze, but no, it was Willy’s Candy Spectacular!”

Remember the chaotic Willy Wonka-themed fan experience that briefly took the internet by storm? Well according to John Stamos, it may have triggered the end of the world.

Proving that nothing moves as quickly as a parody writer’s pen, there is already a musical about the disastrous Wonka-themed family event held earlier this year in Glasgow, Scotland. Ahead of its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest comes the opening number of Willy’s Candy Spectacular: A Parody Musical — which sees Stamos reveal that the downfall of humanity can be traced back to this single event.

"It was the start of the end of the world, but we didn’t know at the time/An immersive treat that was meant to be sweet would bring down all mankind,” Stamos laments. “It was the start of the end of the world, its significance was easy to miss,/A scheme gone bad-turned-viral fad brought us to the apocalypse.”

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He continues, “Some thought it’d be Trump or Putin, setting the world ablaze/Some thought it’d be masks of Covid vaccinations that led to the end of days/But no, it was Willy’s Candy Spectacular!”

The original event, billed as “Willy’s Chocolate Experience,” came from a business called House of Illuminati and didn’t live up to the elaborate immersive experience that the advertising promised. Guests arrived at an event with no chocolate waterfalls or enchanted gardens, and little resemblance to the whimsical Roald Dahl candy factory. The reality was a warehouse that featured cheap decorations, AI-generated backdrops for photo ops, and, according to some reports, exactly one Ompa Loompa.

Social media quickly has a field day after guests complained of the event online, revealing details such as the for-hire actors being asked to deliver an AI-generated script and children being given two jelly beans each at the so-called chocolate factory.

Or, as Stamos sings: “Each parent and kid was out 35 quid at Willy’s Candy Spectacular/And from that day on, a disaster would spawn/Civilization was gone, thanks to not Willy Wonka, but Willy’s Candy Spectacular.”

Stamos is no stranger to the Wonka property: he previously stepped into Gene Wilder’s shoes in 2017, when he played the chocolatier as part of a special live-to-film concert presentation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory at the Hollywood Bowl.

The new track comes from songwriting duo Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner, known for their work on Broadway’s First Date and ABC’s Once Upon a Time.

Additional songs from Willy’s Candy Spectacular: A Parody Musical will debut weekly ahead of the musical’s debut on  Aug. 9 at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest 2024.

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