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Geppetto

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Geppetto is a Wonderful World of Disney TV musical released in 2000, starring Drew Carey, Brent Spiner and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, with songs by Stephen Schwartz. As the title suggests, it retells the story of Pinocchio from its maker's perspective.After watching parents interacting with their children, Geppetto the toymaker (Drew Carey) muses how many of the mothers and fathers don't seem to be doing a good job of bringing up their kids. That evening, after closing his shop up for the night, he wishes how his newly-made puppet was a real boy, and that night, the Blue Fairy (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) appears in his shop and grants his wish.Geppetto finds that parenthood is much harder than it looks, and after an argument, Pinocchio runs away, provoking Geppetto to go after him. Along his journey, Geppetto finds out what it means to be a parent.The film was eventually converted into a stage musical entitled "My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto's Musical Tale".
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Canon Foreigner
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Canon Foreigner: Lezarno the magician, Signora Giovanni, the Buonragazzos and the entire town of Idyllia are exclusive to this version of Pinocchio.
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Age Lift
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Age Lift: Geppetto is an old man in the original story, but is portrayed by the much younger Drew Carey here.
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Villain Song
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Villain Song: "Bravo Stromboli" for Stromboli, "Pleasure Island" for the Ringleader (Usher) and his cronies.
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Adorably Precocious Child
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Adorably Precocious Child: Idyillia is an entire village of these that take things up to eleven. Which is kind of the point because they are all Artificial Humans created by Professor Buonragazzo to give the adults perfect children.
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Ambiguous Situation
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Ambiguous Situation: Lezarno was actually working with the Blue Fairy to help teach Geppetto about parenting. It's never specified if he was actually a struggling magician or if the entire thing was just an act.
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Adaptational Villainy
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Adaptational Villainy: Whereas Stromboli is a Threshold Guardian in other adaptations, he becomes the Big Bad here by spending the duration of the film seeking out Pinocchio and trying to get him back into his traveling show.
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Adaptation Expansion
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Adaptation Expansion: Goes into more detail about Geppetto's personality than the original book or animated Disney film.
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Ironic Echo
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Ironic Echo: At the beginning, Geppetto boasts that all his toys are 'satisfaction guaranteed'. Later in the film, he stumbles across the town Idylia, where Professor Buonragazzo claims that all the children he creates in his machine are 'satisfaction guaranteed'. Another one: When the Blue Fairy animates Pinocchio, she says, "For what good is a real father if he does not have a real son to come home to?" Right at the end, after turning Pinocchio into a real boy, she says, "What good would it do making Pinocchio a real boy, if he did not have a real father to come home to?"
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: Geppetto yells “QUIET!” at a crowing rooster, just like how Jiminy Cricket yelled at some noisy clocks in the animated film.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: Jiminy Cricket is nowhere to be found in this version, save for a brief name drop by Buonragazzo. The Fox and the Cat (AKA Honest John and Gideon) have also been omitted entirely.
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Please, I Will Do Anything!
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Please, I Will Do Anything!: A variation near the end.
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Adaptational Comic Relief
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Adaptational Comic Relief: Spiner's Stromboli is much hammier and more comedic than previous iterations of the villain. The Blue Fairy also has a snarkier edge to her this time around.
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Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
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Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: As Geppetto sings a song about how much he loves Pinocchio and how Stromboli can take his whole shop and everything in it, Stromboli actually looks touched, and after the song, tells Geppetto that it was very sweet, but than states he's only interested in Pinocchio and takes him anyway.
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Post-Climax Confrontation
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Post-Climax Confrontation: After Pinocchio and Gepetto escape from Monstro, they return home only to find Stromboli there to make one last attempt to force Pinocchio back to his show.
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Live-Action Adaptation
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Live-Action Adaptation: Despite the creative liberties, Geppetto is very much a retelling of Disney’s animated film, predating the Disney+ version by about 22 years.
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Fat Bastard
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Stromboli's book counterpart, Mangiafuoco, is described as being an incredibly ugly character, while his animated counterpart is ugly and a Fat Bastard. Brent Spiner's version has neither of these traits.
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Adaptational Attractiveness
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Adaptational Attractiveness: Stromboli's book counterpart, Mangiafuoco, is described as being an incredibly ugly character, while his animated counterpart is ugly and a Fat Bastard. Brent Spiner's version has neither of these traits. In the animated film, Pleasure Island was run by the creepy old Coachman. Here, the owner is a dashing ringleader played by none other than Usher.
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Token Minority
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Token Minority: Usher's character, the Ringleader, and Lezardo, played by Wayne Brady, are the only persons of color in the main cast.
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Stromboli, Buonragazzo, Lezarno, the Ringleader, pretty much everyone except Geppetto and Pinocchio.
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"I Want" Song
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"I Want" Song: "Empty Heart" for Geppetto, who sings about his desire to have a child of his own.
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Perspective Flip
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Perspective Flip: It's a retelling of the classic Pinocchio story, told from the perspective of Geppetto.
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Back for the Finale
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Back for the Finale: Geppetto's neighbors/residents of Villaggio return to sing the final chorus of "Since I Gave My Heart Away". Also doubles as a Curtain Call.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Averted with Stromboli, but not the Ringleader. Just like the Coachman, the Ringleader and his minions get away with their wicked scheme at Pleasure Island, and never receive any comeuppance. They even spend their final scene mocking Geppetto with a Softer and Slower Cover of "Pleasure Island".
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Adaptational Jerkass
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Adaptational Jerkass: On top of being much snarkier than previous versions of the character, Geppetto expresses disappointment in his new son when he refuses to pursue toy making (a career that he actively tries to force on Pinocchio), and even tells the Blue Fairy that the kid is "defective". He eventually learns to accept Pinocchio for who he is throughout his journey.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: This version of Geppetto has shades of this, courtesy of the naturally-snarky Drew Carey.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Geppetto goes through this…the hard way.
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Compressed Adaptation
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Compressed Adaptation: Since it's a 90 minute made-for-TV film, this was pretty much inevitable. Most notably, the Monstro sequence is quickly wrapped up in about three minutes.
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Character Title
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Character Title: Being a Perspective Flip of the traditional Pinocchio tale, the film is named after Geppetto.
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Adaptational Karma
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Adaptational Karma: While Stromboli got off scot-free for his actions in the previous Disney version, he isn't so lucky here. He gets totally humiliated at Pleasure Island, and the ending sees him running off in defeat while the Blue Fairy zaps him with magic.
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Big "SHUT UP!"
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Big "SHUT UP!": Played for Laughs. During “And Son”, Geppetto steps outside just to yell “QUIET!” at an off-screen rooster who crows three times, each time rising in pitch.
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Stepford Suburbia
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Stepford Suburbia: Or rather village due to being in 19th century Italy, but the point remains as Idyllia has their children made via a machine and they come out being absolutely perfect both in terms of being more well behaved than what his considered any type of normal to all of them being some kind of prodigy.
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Stage Magician
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Stage Magician: Wayne Brady's character, Lizardo. He's pretty terrible at magic, but he has no choice but to pursue it in order to carry on the family legacy (this reflects Pinocchio's own struggle when Geppetto pushes him to be a toymaker).
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Decomposite Character: The Coachman has essentially been split into two characters here: the Ringleader (played by Usher), who serves as the bona fide master of Pleasure Island, and a non-speaking coachman who picks up Pinocchio and the other boys.
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Dark Reprise
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Dark Reprise / Softer and Slower Cover: After the newly donkey-fied Pinocchio is shipped away, the Ringleader and his goons bid Geppetto farewell with a very slow and bittersweet reprise of "Pleasure Island".
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Earn Your Happy Ending: The Blue Fairy makes this clear in the "Just Because It's Magic" number:
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