In almost every house we’ve been,

We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.

They sit and stare and stare and sit

. . .

Until they’re hypnotized by it,

But did you ever stop to think,

(What) This does to your beloved tot?

it rots the senses in the head!

it kills imagination dead!

. . .

it makes a child so dull and blind

he cannot think he only sees!

—Roald Dahl

Excerpt from the Mike Teavee poem from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as sung by the Oompa–Loompas