Mike Teavee

"Mike Teavee" is a song feautured in the 2005 movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on the 1964 Roald Dahl novel with the same name. It is sung by Oompa Loompas, the chocolate factory workers, about a TV-obsessed boy named Mike Teavee.

Lyrics
The most important thing That we've ever learned The most important thing we've learned As far as children are concerned Is never, never let Them near the television set Or better still just don't install The idiotic thing at all

It rots the senses in the head It kills imagination dead It clogs and clutters up the mind It makes a child so dull and blind

He can no longer understand A fairytale, a fairyland His brain becomes as soft as cheese His thinking powers rust and freeze He cannot think, he only sees

Regarding little Mike Teavee We very much regret that we Shall simply have to wait and see If we can get him back to size But if we can't...

It serves him right