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It's a movie where you get an accent, you get an accent, you get an accent,
we all get an accent!
We solve the adventures of Pinocchio, so you know what that means.
Hello people, others, and hello people off Chicago!
We are live at the Chicago Theater.
Holy shit, this is amazing.
Chicago, home of how to just get made first.
You saw Hurricane Heist.
You saw Blues Brothers.
But we didn't torture you enough with those two films.
We needed to turn it up a notch, and we did.
With the Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Martin Landau, fantasy child's film?
JTT and full effect for the last 30 seconds of this movie.
The adventures of Pinocchio is everything that you love about the beloved classic Pinocchio,
but really fucked up and weird.
It's like they took all the children aspects out and replaced it with David Lynch Crazy.
It's going to be very hard to talk about this movie because
Jimmy-N-E-Crickets, not called Jimmy-N-E-Cricket.
Stromboli is not called Stromboli, so we may have to get around that a little bit.
But to help break it down tonight, we have two amazing people. My two co-hosts, please welcome
first Mr. Jason Manzucas!
What's up, jerks?
What's up Chicago?
How we do with balcony?
Well, well, well, we meet again.
Jason Paul, have you ever seen this movie before?
I have not ever seen this waking nightmare.
Of a film. This was haunting.
It was like a diamond in the rough that no one even mentioned it, like in the millions of
suggestions that we get for this show. No one ever said, did you know that there's a Jonathan
Taylor Thomas Pinocchio movie? Never heard that.
Have you characterized this as a Jonathan Taylor Thomas movie?
It is a Martin Landau vehicle friend.
This is part of the Landauis Hans, as far as I'm concerned.
We can agree to disagree. I mean, JTT is getting top billing in this.
And he's in it for barely minutes.
But his voice. His voice is in it the entire film.
Oh, so good.
This was straight up garbage.
This was like...
This was...
It reminded me of another terrible.
All of the CG, all of the effects looked like previs.
Yes. They looked like the idea of what we were gonna draw.
But then they're like, fuck it. Put it in. We're in. We're in.
It is a disturbing movie, especially as a father going,
if I was ever tricked into taking a child to this,
I am creating trauma for my children.
It was also like overtly sexual.
In any and always, every time that nose grew,
I was like, somebody in this room has turned on.
That person...
Me.
Way too many mouths open with water,
jutting into it too.
That was like slowed down and they were like, getting a gulp.
Pinocchio meets flash dance.
Well, I know that someone here is gonna have a very strong opinion about this film.
She is my other co-host.
Please welcome June Diane Raphael.
How are you June?
I'm doing okay. How are you?
I'm fine. Thank you for asking.
June, we watched the adventures of Pinocchio together today.
Yeah, and...
Let me just set the scene because we're staying in a very nice hotel.
I love a luxury hotel experience.
What? Let's not tell anyone.
I'm not going to say where it is.
It's a share to four points, yet used to it.
If you're in Naperville, come knock on our door.
I'm just gonna say it's a very...
It's a luxury experience.
Sure.
It's between a subway and a dominoes.
And it's totally cool if you send it up to the room.
And I love that experience so much that I'm willing...
I'm willing and able to watch whatever comes my way.
I mean, you saw when you came back last night, what I was watching.
Yes, we were watching Chicago live, the replay.
It's at night.
Yes.
So it's a replay of what is a live morning show?
I think so.
And it was terrible.
It's still called Chicago live, even though it's day-
Replay.
But I can fall into whatever the TV has to offer me happily.
Oh, if I'm in a hotel, Guy Fieri is all...
Triple D, baby.
But it's not even home.
If I'm at home and Guy Fieri comes across the screen,
I'm like, this fucking guy, get him out of here.
But in a hotel, I'm like, this is the best thing I've ever seen.
Absolutely.
I'm just happy to be there.
Happy to have been invited to the experience.
Yeah.
And so for me to have such a negative reaction to a movie
during a luxury hotel experience,
means it's really quite, quite bad.
Yeah.
Like, would you rather watch this movie again,
or have one hour and 45 minutes of diarrhea?
Like, isn't that the length of the movie?
First of all, there was no way the movie was an hour and 45 minutes.
This was a five hour movie.
No, it was a nine-hour movie.
96 minutes.
It's not possible.
It's not that long.
It has to be longer.
It has to be longer.
That's impossible.
96 minutes have felt like longer than endgame and infinity war
pushed together.
I'd watch...
I'll say this.
I watched the whole movie.
Then I clicked on it to see how far it had progressed.
22 minutes.
I was like, that can't be right.
I've watched all of Jepetto's nightmares now.
It was a tricky 96 minute.
No, I...
I...
I...
Don't remember, I guess, the story of Pinocchio,
was paid for the cricket part of it.
So...
Jiminy the cricket was.
That's a poem I thought.
We turned to each other instead.
Jiminy was an in-Jiminy cricket.
Jiminy cricket, though.
My belief is the Pinocchio story must be public domain.
Anybody can tell it.
Yes.
But my guess is Jiminy cricket was a Disney creation?
Well, I think the idea of a cricket
that has the moral compass for Pinocchio is true.
And I think then Disney may have labeled him as Jiminy.
And that was it.
Because also all the characters in the classic Pinocchio tale.
I mean, there's a lot of differences.
I think this is more based on the book.
Okay, so...
The book Pinocchio?
Yes, the book Pinocchio.
I mean, I remember reading Pinocchio.
And I...
I don't think that's what I saw.
I mean...
This is not the story that I remember.
And seeing the title now,
it did make a little more sense
that this is just one of the many adventures of Pinocchio.
No, it...
This is...
This is all the adventures.
This is all the many.
Because he's one of the...
In the movie, he is made a child slave.
Turned into a donkey.
He is part of the show.
He is the lead of the musical performance.
He is swallowed by a sea monster.
Well, who is a man?
Who was a man like...
I think these are in fact all of the adventures of Pinocchio.
Like, there isn't another Pinocchio story
or is there because there was a sequel to this film.
The sequel was released three years later.
It was called The New Adventures of Pinocchio.
What?
This is Marahe.
Please tell me he comes to contemporary Earth.
Martin Landau did reprise his role.
Wow.
And Udo Kare came back not as Lorenzini,
but as Lorenzini's wife, Madame Flambeau.
So he went a different direction.
What?
And then Gabrielle Thompson played the title role
replacing JTT.
By the way, Jean, this is 96.
Were you with JTT head?
Let's see.
I was 16.
I was a little too old to be a full JTT head.
Got it.
I mean, I remember knowing of him and seeing him in the, you know, on the rags.
But I did it.
Was he getting a lot of gossip rag on the rags?
Yeah.
So when you were having your period, you would see.
You were going to say that.
Tell him to contain your Thomas.
Like, oh, no, my odd flows visiting.
Guess I'm going to see JTT space everywhere.
I only seem to see it when I'm on the rags.
Yeah, I was like a few years too old for him, but um.
Not me.
I loved him.
I probably would the puppet though of JTT Pinocchio was he looked nothing like
Jonathan Taylor Thomas at the end.
He looked much younger than Jonathan Taylor Thomas when Pinocchio, the, the,
the, about 10 years.
He looks like a, I don't know, six-year-old boy, something in there.
Yeah.
And Jonathan Taylor Thomas appears to be 12 when he transforms into a human boy.
Well, I mean, at the end of the movie, you think, you know, he's going to be asking for like,
a sister, but he's like, get me a girlfriend.
Yeah.
I want to fuck some wood dog now.
Get some dick splinters.
What's up? Here's my question.
Here's my question just because you brought it up.
This is my genuine question.
He's now a real boy.
He's been transformed into a living boy,
played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
Why not try and get a girlfriend amongst the living?
Why have JTT carve a wooden girlfriend?
You then will have to find a magical way to bring that,
marrying it to, do you know the odds of twice, transforming, or he's just going to fuck,
fuck that, fuck that wood and pussy.
Well, this is what this is, what is so weird about the movie.
I mean, I asked the very same question when Pinocchio is trying to save other puppets
in the theater scene because it's as though he's saving his friends and,
and actual people.
And I did not know if, I mean, is the premise of this movie that every puppet has the potential to...
I don't think so.
I was doing some thinking about this too, June, because you said,
you were not.
Yes.
Because when June said we were watching it and, and uh, Peppy,
Jiminy Cricket says, go save your brothers and sisters,
they never come to life, but they're treated like when two of them are left on the ground for dead,
like, oh, he left them for dead.
But then I remembered in the beginning of the movie, Martin Landown, his great Italian accent,
says,
meet your brothers and sisters.
And so I think it was sort of like a little bit of like a flower sack baby scenario for Peppy,
was sort of like, hey, if you want to be responsible, real boy, you got to care about people,
and that was his first challenge.
Huh.
Yeah, maybe.
I guess it's a movie.
I mean, I get it.
What I thought was, I think all the other Marianettes are just that, Marianettes.
Because the Pinocchio Marianette was carved from the tree that had the heart,
carved into it, that was the magic that allowed for him to have infused in him the love of
Jepetto and Leonna.
And that their love is the bit of magic that allowed him to come to life.
But no, no, no.
I just want to pull this back because I want to get to your saying, but that's a problematic thing.
No, problematic.
Because Jepetto wasn't loved with the woman who married his brother.
Didn't seem like she was in love with him or knew about it until he was rowing off the sea.
He's like, by the way, I fucking love you.
Also, and you're like, I don't have time for this.
Also, this is, do you have access to the movie right there?
Uh, yes.
Can you, while I set this up, go to the very last beat of Jepetto?
After Pinocchio runs away, we have a shot of just Jepetto and Leonna.
And it's now they are in love for the, for, for, had they live happily ever after space.
And she looks miserable.
And there you have it.
Jepetto and Leonna lived happily ever after.
They lived happily ever after.
He touches her shoulder. She recoils.
Yes, she looks like she is not there at her own will.
She does, she literally looks like she's being held prisoner by the puppet maker.
She expected him and rightly so to die at sea.
And she didn't want to be like, I never loved you in that moment because she thought
that would be too harsh.
And now she's what, you know,
what if we, what if we, we, we, when we tried to deceive, am I right?
What if we reversed around this right now?
What if in this shot, we reversed all the way around and saw what they were looking at.
And it was just the, the, the, the Pinocchio, um,
Marionette line on the ground.
And the whole thing was Martin Landau's crazy.
His, he, he was insane and everyone is humoring him.
Did anyone else think that the magic that Pinocchio might be the spirit of
Jopeta's brother?
Oh, hold on.
What now?
I think there's a world in which, because the magic of the movie is so strange.
I don't know if he's their child.
Did Leona and Jopeta's brother have any children?
Doesn't seem like it.
No, it doesn't seem like the, like the brother was a really interesting add-on
because it felt like it was always an unrequited love.
And then at a certain point it's revealed, oh, that was Leona and he was married,
she was married to my brother.
Well, what was interesting is when we, we, in the beginning scene,
is when they're carving the tree.
Carve, he's carving the initials in the tree and they're young.
And then it cuts to, like they say, a few years later.
But it's, Martin Landau's an old man.
Yeah.
By the way, he missed his shot, like by a lot.
I mean, by the way, I love the opening video in this movie because
you're introduced to Jopeta through his voiceover,
which just sounds like an old man, like ordering a bagel.
I just give me, and the poppy seeds, and the, and tomatoes, not too much.
If I read you, I'm telling you.
It might as well be Richard Kine, narrating this movie.
I don't know.
What is going on?
But all right, so I'm a baker.
I'm carving my initials in a tree.
I always thought the story of Pinocchio is that Jopeta wanted a child.
Yes, I don't believe that, I don't think the legend of Pinocchio has, as it's root,
like an enchanted log.
No, I mean, the whole idea, well, this is the issue they have.
He's in love with the Yona.
So the log becomes enchanted, so his log,
I mean, strikes it too, I think.
Right, so his love then gets him a boy.
It's like, oh, I would love to be in love.
You got a son.
Okay, I get, I mean, yeah, it's sort of like,
I'm in kind of the right place.
I got the lift left me in the general area.
I got to walk a little bit further to get to where I want to go.
But like, it's a weird thing that he gets a boy because he's in love.
I wonder though, in making this movie, they were, you know, because it was live action,
they felt it was too creepy to have a man of Landau's age just want a little boy.
I have an update.
You think I haven't avoided creepy stuff like that?
I haven't update.
They did not succeed.
But this was straight up erotic.
The first moments that Pinocchio comes to life.
When, and I'll say it, they're telling me when Pinocchio comes to life,
he immediately gets into a bathtub with Martin Landau.
Oh, Martin Landau is wearing clothes in the bath.
Fucking Italians.
I literally thought that Martin Landau was like, I can't be naked and a little boy gets in the bath.
Yes.
Because the little boy puppet is also naked.
He's not wearing anything at that point, right?
Yes, but I don't think...
I don't think Jonathan Taylor Thomas is doing that on set.
No, and I don't think that the little boy, I don't think Pinocchio was carved genitalia.
No.
We don't know.
And that's kind of what the Seafull gets into.
Now listen, did I cry during the courtroom scene when they ripped Pinocchio away?
I did.
June.
I did.
Sob.
Sob.
Not cried.
Sob.
Whoa.
Yeah.
Are you sobbed that the evil puppet owner,
it's the court decides evil puppet owner?
You get this kid.
And then the evil puppet guys, come with me son.
Are you now?
He's his son.
And then later Pinocchio is like, well, Lorenzini is my puppet now.
I was like, oh, this poor kid is literally being human trafficked.
Yes.
Between people in the same town.
His father is like five blocks away.
And he's in the theater like, guess I live here now?
I'm the star of the show.
But what about my papa?
He's literally over there.
I will say I was impressed with how off-book he was at that show.
It seemed like he was given away in court in the afternoon.
By night time, he was ready to go.
He was all lyrics.
By the way, not a bad gig.
He's the star of the show.
Everybody he's improvising.
Everybody thinks he's hilarious.
He's getting paid in gold coins like not too bad.
For a kid who was born like a month ago,
speaking fluent English.
It's so crazy though that this evil guy is involved in children's theater.
And it's great.
When they cut to that audience at night, it's all kids.
It's children.
And what is he doing with these children?
Because he's entertaining them there.
But then he also has a side gig where he's turning kids into donkeys.
Yeah.
Like, please just kind of merge the two.
Like why don't you put the theater and the donkey thing together?
You got to run two separate businesses.
But why does he want to turn little boys into donkeys?
Why?
We don't know.
I think he's trying to get that ass.
Sorry.
It's not very good wordplay.
Not very good wordplay.
Oh booze.
Booze from Chicago.
Fair enough.
I couldn't figure out if that's because he was selling them as work animals.
Or I literally was like, I don't know what this is.
It just seems like he, I mean, if you just look at them as his customers,
like what?
It just from a business perspective didn't make sense.
I thought they were being sent to like work in the mines or something.
And then they were all turned into donkeys.
And I was like, oh, then, no, no, what it is, I'm sorry, is anybody gets turned into whatever they're acting like.
So they happen to be acting like jackasses.
No, no, no, no.
Turn it into jackasses.
I mean, that is in the Disney cartoon.
They all turn into jackasses in the Disney cartoon too.
But they go to push.
But the raw Schneider and that woman got turned into a fox and a cat.
Oh.
Wait, right?
And yeah, and he got turned into like a human whale.
So they get turned into what they are, a monster.
But so I couldn't figure out.
Yeah, let's listen to what is this happen.
Let's listen to what Vanzini says here.
Act like a jackass if you have to love.
Drink up the water.
Get what you deserve.
Be wicked.
Be naughty.
Come drink from my fountain.
Then I will be rich.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
So he's, he just happens to have a magic fountain that turns people into animals.
But we don't know why.
Is that in the book?
I know that pleasure of Ireland, they go there and they turn into jackasses.
Do you want to tell us very quickly what the deal is?
What are we missing?
Elon, let me get to go see.
Is there a librarian in the house?
How many library is this?
How many library is this?
I'm here.
Wait a second.
All right, you can come here.
Can I give minor house lights up for a second?
I do want to hear this.
Okay, that's great.
I'm going to ask you in a second.
Yes.
Hi.
How are you?
Good.
I'm not a librarian, but I love books.
So in the original book, it's real fucked up.
So this is accurate.
Yeah.
They turned them into donkeys to kill them and sell them for skin.
And the cat and the fox show up a lot to fuck with Pinocchio.
I know one time they take him to a tavern and they have him spend all this money for food
and then they rob him and string him up, like hang him.
And then they encounter him again and they convince him to bury a bunch of money in a field.
Then they rummage again.
Well, that happened in this movie, yeah.
And throughout them, they keep popping up and like throughout the book and then I know they
turned into...
For the skins.
For the skins, then they would be skin.
Oh, so they're turned into anything that can turn into skin?
No, no, no.
They were turned into donkeys for the donkey skin to be made until like drums or something.
Okay, so they were...
So they were the ones that make drum margant.
Very quickly, if you're a librarian, will you please stand up?
Wow.
Okay.
It's a decent memory.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
Oh, wow.
Look it up there.
Nice.
This is...
Wow.
These are heroes.
Wow.
We love our librarians.
All right, so...
If donkeys are being turned into the skins...
Now, who wants to fight a librarian?
You see where they are?
Get them!
That's so weird.
We're on this tour.
It's just subtly so we can go to cities and wipe out other librarians.
We find them and we take them out.
Oh, they'll be at out of this.
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All right, so that description is disturbing.
They are to be skinned for their skinned,
for their skinned, they're turned into like drums.
That's bizarre, but it does answer a big question for me.
Because when I saw Rob Schneider, I said,
is he supposed to be playing a lion?
He looks to me like a performer in the Broadway version of Cats.
Yes.
BB Newworth doesn't look like a cat,
but he looks like an animal.
Like he does look bizarre in this movie.
He is, I was shocked when Rob Schneider came out screen.
I was like, oh, what's up?
What are we doing here?
I mean, this is...
Their whole subplot was fascinating,
because he appears to be like not in control of any.
He is like a straight up moron throughout.
Yeah. In a fascinating way.
The fact that he got turned into a fox, I was like, okay,
but like he should be turned into a jackass, I think.
Well, he's a Foxy guy, he's not a jackass, Jason.
I guess so. I guess so.
I mean, let's listen to a little bit of BB Newworth,
who I thought was Kate Hudson for a majority of the film.
Really? She looks like Kate.
She's just me.
But haven't you two got to push God to Rob?
We've already done that.
Oh, what's your pet old darling?
We were just playing with him.
He'll play with his own sword. Thank you.
Can you tell us what you think?
Now, these three people are supposed to all be Italian.
Correct?
All three of these people are doing their Italian accents?
These accents are going to come and they're going to go.
This man hang on to them.
Yeah, the context clues is that this is Italy,
but I mean, John the Taylor Thomas just speaks straight up
like he's on home improvement.
And all the kids, all like the kind of street-erchin kids,
talk like they are like newsies from the 20s.
Yes, or they're British.
Yeah.
And I'm just like, Rob Schneider's eyebrows are on like another level.
A lot of eyebrows, a lot of both of them.
A lot of like that like reddish brick color.
Yeah, I don't like that.
I'll tell you what was weird about this movie.
In a children's film to watch your main character get shot.
That was bizarre, a bizarre moment to watch him get shot and then play himself
as a recorder or some sort of musical instrument.
I also thought my whole thing was, okay, I get it.
Jopetto made him a mouth.
That's cool.
He's gonna eat, okay, great.
He likes sweets and stuff.
Did Jopetto make him an asshole?
Like, is he just filling up with stuff?
How's he getting rid of it?
Is he like a giant pinata or are you like at one point
that they break open his belly and everyone runs?
When he gets shot, cream and sweets should come pouring out of him.
It's gone nowhere else.
I mean, when he sneezes,
sawdust covers that teacher's face.
Yeah, so that teacher is standing there by the way waiting for him.
The nose and boosh, straight face shot of sawdust.
Just like the porn I watch on porn hub, sawdust porn.
I mean, we're getting into the school part and the kids.
And there is something very bizarre about this movie.
Besides everything that we've just mentioned for the last 40 minutes,
it's the fact that no one has any real reaction to there's a wooden boy walking and living amongst us.
Yes.
Jopetto never wants tries to hide it.
When Pinocchio gets out of the house,
Jopetto just picks him up and walks hand in hand with him,
rather than carrying him so that nobody will see.
An enchanted puppet is walking through the streets of Italy.
Yep.
And everybody's like, cool, cool man.
Hey, what magic puppet?
That cool.
Hey, they give him a nickname, hey Woody.
You know, they start to punch him.
They throw balls at him.
Like no one's frightened by him.
He is a part of society, which makes me go, did he do this before?
I don't know.
I like, is this a town where this happens?
How does Pinocchio end up matriculating in school?
How does he get a desk?
How does he know to go there?
How does he get, what did the attendance get called?
Pinocchio, new student Pinocchio here.
Like how did that happen?
I mean, simply it happened the same way
that everything in this movie happens.
He just sees something and gets in line.
Yeah.
Then he's there.
On a bus, going to school.
He just simply sees a line of boys and just tags onto the end.
I mean, there are worse ways to go through life than to just sort of
tagging along at the end of a line of boys.
And look, there's probably going somewhere.
Do the thing you should do.
I'll give it a try, but I can't imagine it going well.
I got to say, you guys getting on this school bus?
All right, I'll do it.
I got to say, I mean, you have to remember,
there's quite literally nothing in his head.
There's nothing inside his head.
How does he know anything?
How does he know anything?
Well, that's the weird thing about him.
He knows enough when he's immediately born to give
Jepetto a bar of soap for the bath, but then he rolls in with him.
But then doesn't know other simple things.
He's like, he's like, ha ha ha ha ha.
All right, weird.
Yeah, there are some weird things.
I just wanted to say one thing about the school.
And I think this is about, you know, I just want to say,
like, this is where Italian schools are so great.
You just show up any day, they'll put you in.
You know, it's not like American school system.
It's a real good school system there.
You're really negative on American schools.
I also, I guess girls just don't go to school there in Italy.
Yeah, are there many women?
There's not many, yeah, there's not many, there's no,
I don't think I saw any young girls at all on this show.
There's a couple who are watching the puppet show.
Okay.
And that's it.
The puppet show, by the way, that was, that music was all done by Brian May from Queen.
Oh, wow.
He wrote a seven minute puppet opera for that.
You can hear it on the soundtrack, which also includes a stung from Stevie Wonder.
To be fair, also, there will be more girls in class.
When Jopetta gets around to Carve no.
That's true.
I felt like the fun that we didn't have in this movie and the scenes that I wanted to see were,
and maybe I'm remembering the cartoon?
Yeah.
Yeah, but we never got to see him also pretend to be a puppet.
Like, have to, there's one scene where he just sort of falls asleep.
But the, the sheer comedy of watching him have to pretend to have strings and be a puppet when he
is a, well, not boy, but whatever he is.
A sentient law.
A sentient, a sentient doll.
I felt like we, there were just so many missed opportunities there.
There was also very little of what I consider to be Pinocchio's, like, true thing,
which is there was very little lying.
There was very little nose growing because he was the whole thing.
I thought that was Pinocchio's like, whole,
that's why it's called that.
Power comes through responsibility.
You know, they kind of blew it out in that school room scene.
It grew so big, so fast, so oddly, fallically, too.
That you're like, never again, they never did this.
I've learned my lesson by watching that nose grow so dramatically.
Do you, do you have the scene with the, in the whale?
In the, this is the scene.
This is overtly sexual.
So they're in the, they, they, they, they, they Pinocchio and
Jepetto have been swallowed by the Lorenzini once he's turned into the sea monster.
So they're both in the monster's belly and they crawl all the way to the monster's throat.
But it's too tight to get through.
They can't, we can you, okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
It's too tight to get through.
So Pinocchio's idea is he'll use his nose to stretch out or irritate the,
the animal so that they can get expelled basically.
So the basically, they do like reverse bulimia here and they make them puke from the inside
with his long, long nose.
But by the way, they could have totally gotten out through.
Now look at this, this first moment where Pinocchio's nose enters frame while he and Martin
Landau are in the same shot is pretty sexual, I think.
I contact, I contact.
I know what I have to do.
I hate you, Papa.
What?
I never, ever miss you.
Get your life.
I wish I never found it.
It's going right to his mouth.
Right towards his mouth.
I never wanted to be in the monster's mouth.
I mean, what?
It's a, what?
It's such a bold shot to just have the nose, the flesh colored nose, enter frame.
It's a lie.
This story, the story of Pinocchio and maybe I didn't want to, that closely is a child,
but the story was always, this is a puppet who lies too much and his nose grows bigger.
He does want to be a real boy.
But in order to become a real boy, he has to stop lying and start telling the truth.
And that's how he becomes a real boy.
I also thought that there was morals throughout, but the nose never stopped.
Like, the nose growing was always a thing.
Here just kind of stopped.
Like, he never grew again.
He seemed to tell lies later in the movie too.
But mostly, like, you know, wouldn't each adventure involve lying or not or learning lessons
that are significant towards becoming a better person thus,
warranting becoming a human boy and falling through on being the best possible version?
Isn't it a morality tale?
Each, each of them should be something, a lesson learned?
I think that that was what they were trying to do.
But they also introduced like the moral compass of him so late in the movie.
Like, that peppy character comes in so late.
And because here he goes, like, this is, this is Jiminy Cricket.
I'm talking about miracles.
I saw like a football double chin.
No, strong talent, strong talent.
Out of the woods, huh?
What are you doing now?
I'm not changing the clock.
Why?
So I can buy a miracle.
Any particular brand?
Real boy break.
Here's what works.
You dig a hole, you plant your gold, you let it cook.
First lesson about trust is learning home to trust.
Isn't this gold you'll see more with shaky?
I don't know.
A little.
And let me guess.
You ignore your instincts.
Give me two.
Maybe.
By the way, we're watching the CGI.
We're watching CGI on top of CGI here.
It's like, they're like, they've created a character that really, what you said.
It looks so bad.
And then it's on top of something that doesn't look great either.
And it's of, and this is a long scene between two CGI characters who are not there
and don't look good together.
They don't look like they're in the same world.
It is clunky as fuck this stuff.
Wallace Sean was the original voice of this cricket.
Amazing.
Was in the trailer and they said,
in the voice of the cricket,
Wallace Sean, but something happened.
And he is not the voice of the cricket in the movie.
But this is where he kind of, I think, tells folks.
Maybe he's the president of the cricket.
He keeps on saying he's the president of the cricket union.
And union rules say that he has to stay with Nokia.
But are crickets more realistic creatures?
Well, that's like, is there a cricket?
Is there like, are crickets in this world like guardian angels?
One is assigned to a boy or a child and is meant to look after.
I don't know.
I don't know. I also could not understand the cricket.
I just simply could not hear what was being said.
Do we talk about your partner?
Or I'll be falling down on the job.
But no!
Look.
Again, I watch everything with subtitles on.
So I'm mostly just reading.
I force Paul tried to watch this movie with subtitles on and I turned it off.
It's true.
You want to enjoy the magic of the cinema that's happening here.
You respect the visual image.
I prefer to watch my movies and read them.
But yet, one of the characters you could not understand.
That's part of the joy of movie watching.
Maybe they wanted it that way.
Well, clearly we have some questions about this movie.
We've barely tackled many of the points.
I'm sorry.
We have not talked about every...
We have not talked about this movie.
I mean, we are getting it to it where I wanted to open it up.
But I...
Let me know, Bade's in close.
Puppet tries to get in bad with him.
Question mark, exclamation point.
How does he know how to talk?
Question mark, question mark.
He does a question.
Why does his owner...
Go ahead.
What was it?
Why doesn't Leonna freak out that the puppet can talk
and walk, etc.
I wrote down this.
I wrote down this isn't his job because Jepetta goes,
you keep each other busy while on that work.
So he just makes all those fucking puppets for fun.
And then Leonna says, oh, I've made these close for puppets.
And I'm like, is there so much puppet commerce going on in this town?
Well, Lorenzini's basically thinks he's going to get rich
with a puppet show for kids.
Which itself is...
And the parents don't attend...
The parents don't attend with the children either.
That's like, just go out, go see your puppet show.
What's that?
I mean, okay, here we go.
How does he have teeth?
How does he have...
Pinocchio have a full set of white human teeth?
I'll do one better.
How does eating hot peppers translate into breathing fire?
There!
Great.
This man eats a chili pepper,
blows into a horn,
and creates more fire than a giant flame thrower.
All of a sudden, it looks like once upon a time in Hollywood,
and he's got these chili peppers to think.
He gets...
During the production of his play,
Pinocchio gets paid mid-show.
That's as if someone walked on stage currently
and gave me this show's income.
He's like, backstage and Lorenzini's like,
show's going great, Pinocchio.
Listen, here are the gold players, the gold I owe you.
You're going to be a star.
Everything's great.
He's like, quick, you're on.
What?
Also, Pinocchio seemingly falls into a puppet orchestra
because the conductor is a puppet.
Yes.
Yes.
And then, I was like, wait, so are puppeteers,
like if they are controlling musician puppets?
That's amazing puppeteers.
I assumed in the pit,
were real musicians and a real conductor.
Okay.
And that the puppet conductor was part of the show.
Yeah, but my question was also,
what are the puppeteers making of Pinocchio?
I mean...
That's a threat.
They're doing a part.
That right there!
That's a threat to their livelihood.
They're called industry is about to collapse before they're very honest.
Puppeteers should want this kid dead.
Yeah.
This... I don't know.
They're out of business.
It might catch to the other marionettes.
Maybe they're going to become alive.
That's an adventure.
When the puppeteers union joins up with the crickets union
to eradicate Pinocchio,
I mean, this is like puppet.
This is really a union story.
I mean, union all the way.
I would love it if in the Psyco Pinocchio
like steals an apple and turns back into a wooden boy.
A wooden puppet.
You don't have to like it.
I really didn't like...
I really didn't like.
I was surprised at the end to realize how attached I was to Pinocchio,
the wooden puppet.
Because I really did not like seeing his ears not off like that.
Or ripped off too.
The donkey ears are ripped off.
Yeah, they're ripped off and there's just those sharp edges.
The sharp edges.
Don't you think that his ears should be deformed?
Like, he should have like cauliflower ears when he turns into a boy because of that?
Because at the end, they make like at the end, it feels like someone goes,
yeah, what happened to all those boys who returned to donkeys?
And the narrator prickly was like,
oh yeah, they all got fixed.
Wow.
Where was the serum?
We didn't see that scene.
I saw a donkey walking with Pinocchio and that donkey is going to live.
I feel like those boys did not turn back into humans.
But they just are glossing over that.
Hey, you win some, you lose some.
I mean, this reminds me of the story my grandmother used to tell.
Oh God.
Let's all prepare ourselves.
My grandmother used to tell me this story when I was a kid
that I needed to lock the door to my house.
Because when she lived in Garden City, this is where my grandmother lived in New York.
She's like, when I lived in Garden City, there was a little boy and he didn't lock his door.
And one day, he was in his bed.
I already know this is deeply irresponsible of her, of her to have said.
And he heard footsteps coming up the stairs.
Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly.
And then he got really nervous and he got under his bed.
And he was under the sheets and the door opened,
creak it out.
And then the boy looked and it was the local butcher.
And he got scared.
And then all of a sudden the butcher grabbed him.
And the mom came home.
The boy wasn't there.
She brought him or chopped me.
No, Paul, stop.
Stop it right now.
What are you talking about?
Paul.
You're grimp?
What?
And what?
And the mother?
What?
Are you talking about?
And then as the mother was making hamburgers for her son,
she started making hamburgers that the hamburger meat started saying,
Mama?
No!
Wait.
Paul.
Shut up now.
The meat knew?
Because the meat was the boy.
The meat, but the, but that again, that's, no,
once it's turned into meat, the kid wouldn't know.
At that point it's just meat, you know?
I am real.
I am shaken on my insides.
My grandmother was a part of the cricket union,
so I will put that out there.
What are you talking about?
Every step of that story is fundamentally irresponsible.
And I told you a much abbreviated version of it.
That the butcher came so, so your grandmother lived in Garden City in an environment
where meat was so scarce,
that the local butcher would go house to house,
looking for unlocked doors and kids left alone at home.
Yep.
I was a latch kick kid.
Was this because you were a latch kick kid?
Yep.
Was this because she was trying to get you
when you came home from school before your parents came home from work to lock that door?
Yeah.
And her, yeah, I get that.
That's, and probably wasn't effective.
Did she ever hire someone in a, like,
butcher's apron with, like, to just stand outside your window, like,
shopping in those nights?
Shopping up?
Wow.
Oh, boy.
That could be the t-shirt.
As I'm telling you.
The t-shirt could be the butcher outside the window.
As I'm telling you the story,
I'm realizing that I think the element that I've messed up is that
the burger meat was already frying when the boy says it.
So the meat is, like, ready to be eaten at that point.
That's not that much worse.
It's not like, I mean, whether it's cooking or not,
the kids still been through the shop.
But I think it the addendum was, and then she did serve it.
And then she served it?
To who?
Her husband.
So they, this is starting to fall apart.
I remember, like, a boy being eaten too.
But I know that this memory of the mama, mama, like, that's where I cut off.
And I think that she may have just added that they ate him as well.
But that feels like a cruel twist at the end.
It's a total snowpiercer.
All right. Well, then, should I now tell you the second story?
Because now, as you're telling me this,
it makes me realize this.
I mean, this seems like more of, like, in good fun.
I think this is in good fun.
Wait, hamburger story was in good fun.
No, this story I'm about to tell you, but maybe it is my perspective of it.
Um, okay.
I am changed.
This is.
I really am.
So do you ever catch Paul telling your children similar scary stories?
No, I don't really feel like I have to say, you know,
Paul is such a wonderful man.
He really is.
It's so shocking to hear these things.
Well, go ahead.
Let me tell you this story, and then you could tell me from my barometer,
say, if I'm off or not.
The first time I ever had a camping thing with my friends,
I had two friends over here put tents up in the backyard.
Before we went out there for the night,
my stepfather called us into the living room,
and said, guys, I don't want you guys camping out in the backyard
because there's a police report on TV that a serial killer just escaped.
It's a prison.
And, and he's a loose.
And they said for us to lock our doors.
But the kids came over to do camping out in the backyard.
And so we really want to camp out.
We really want to camp out.
And he's like, okay, you can camp out in the backyard.
And then we camped out in the backyard.
And then in the middle of the night,
we would hear this noise, like,
and then he would basically run into our tent and go,
and then we all got really scared.
Oh, you think?
Oh, you got real scared, huh?
And I was about eight or nine.
That is so young.
To even tell an eight or nine year old about a serial killer is insane.
To even make an eight year old aware of the concept of murder for pleasure.
Or compulsive murder to explain that is insane to three eight year olds.
Never mind.
Then represent yourself as that serial killer.
Throughout those kids are somewhere telling this story right now.
I didn't remember that until right now, but I always thought that was a fun,
a fun night, a fun camping night.
Was your stepfather Ted Bundy?
Kind of.
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Maybe we should go into the oven.
Yeah, I'm gonna start playing.
We need a palette cleanser.
All right, but before we do, I'm gonna put on my special hat.
I'll hold the mic hat.
This is just so...
Can we get a house lights?
All right, so here we go.
Um, I want you to introduce yourself with your Italian name.
We heard a lot of great Italian names here tonight.
So introduce yourself with your Italian name, and let me hear your question.
Yes, you ma'am.
Come over here.
What's your Italian name and what's your question?
Here we go, all right.
Justino.
Great.
And your question.
My question is, when Jepetto created that puppet inside the monster
with like the spare fish, parks, and eyeballs,
what did he use to keep it together?
Fish and wire.
Fish and lime.
But by the way...
That fish boy come to life.
But by the way, that monster had only been alive for minutes,
because he drank the water, his eyes bugged out,
and I guess like his inner creature was a giant whale seam.
I mean, that was a bizarre connection.
It should have been like a rat or something.
Yeah.
All right, we're up here in the balcony,
with someone wearing a How Dare You shirt.
It's a June homemade shirt.
It says How Dare You.
From our drop dead friend episode,
your name and Italian, your affiliation, and your question.
My legit Italian name is Nicolet Isabella Soma Cacciano.
I'm a team sanity.
Oh!
Actually, the shirt is for the late show.
Okay, got it.
Yeah.
So my question comment,
so everybody, you know, you've been saying that everyone
doesn't really see Pinocchio as a puppet,
except Don French, the baker's wife.
She's the only one who sees him and f**king flips out.
She's screaming, she's throwing things all over the place.
She's the only woke person in this entire movie.
Or is she not woke?
Because she sees differences and freaked out, but that's a good point.
I think, oh, see, I thought she was just mad.
I thought she was mad.
He was ruining her food.
Well, he was eating all the cream.
You know, I don't think she was a grade of Pinocchio.
I think she was upset that he was ruining all the food she'd made for the wedding.
Wasn't that it?
She's saying get out of here, you know,
or whatever.
I feel like I also thought she was like,
this is a creature.
I'm scared of this creature.
I must kill it.
I feel like if it was a boy,
she wouldn't be throwing pots at its head.
I don't know.
I think she probably would.
I mean, she's, remember, she's Italian.
Fair point.
Sir, your name, your affiliation, your question.
My name is a Gregory.
Great Italian name.
Team Sanity.
You don't think it's Frigorio?
My question is since nobody in this town
seems to be able to tell the difference between a boy and a puppet,
why wouldn't the guy just hire boys to be in his show?
Great question.
Finally getting somewhere with the balcony.
All right.
Because, I mean, the simple answer is,
well, Pinocchio does look...
Well, yeah, I guess no.
I guess...
They are...
In the main area in that show.
Yeah.
They're talking about all of a sudden,
they're children.
Yeah.
And what type of strings do there are?
Oh, yeah.
We're not gonna have to get up to our team, Sanity.
You think that it's okay to just tie strings to kids arms?
Oh, no, no, no.
You're right, Jason.
There's a lot of...
This guy really cared about the kids.
That's why you turn them into donkeys to skin them.
Hey, they're making me...
Italy needs skin.
Things...
All right, man, how about your question?
Your name, your affiliation, your question.
Okay, my name is Milan.
Didn't make that up.
Team Sanity.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
So, my question is, at the end of the movie,
they say that the donkeys turn back to kids
based on doing good deeds.
How do donkeys do good deeds?
Yeah.
I mean, come on.
Donkeys can do good deeds all the time.
Donkeys, they can pull the cards at a soup kitchen.
Yeah, I mean donkeys, I think of donkeys as worker animals.
Didn't donkeys do a lot of good deeds in the Shrek movies?
Yeah.
To answer your question, team Sanity, lots of ways.
Because here's what I think.
When I look at donkeys,
I don't think their net energy is negative.
They are capable of positive actions.
Maybe it's team Sanity thinking that things donkeys can only be bad.
Man, your name, your affiliation, your question.
Checkling.
Great.
Thank you.
Can we talk about the point of view shots from Pinocchio
where he's basically like a serial killer shot?
Was it like Friday the 13th inspired?
It was frightening.
A lot of the CG characters had point of view shots in order to make them cheaper.
It's cheaper shoot point if you shot them to have the CG shots of them doing stuff.
So they would do that a lot and it was, I agree, it was very unsettling.
All right, everybody, clearly we had opinions about this movie.
But now it is time for...
Why do I feel like you guys are part of an Acapella singing group?
Now it's time for...
There's a pit pipe!
I fucking called it!
I'm really, really getting told to get off stage.
Here we go.
Now it's time for second opinions.
Amazing!
You have a glimpse!
Melissa, Ashley and James!
These are five star opinions called from Amazon.
There were 69.
Total reviews for the film.
67 five star reviews.
And here we go.
This is all compiled by Nate Kylie.
This one starts off from Marianne Fideli.
She goes, it's what I wanted.
Five stars.
She needs to be on a watch list of some sort.
Well, you read these.
Can you go back to the preferred Pinocchio image please?
I'm saying right here, I'm waiting for my mirror.
Your papa one.
All right.
This one just so you can remember,
this is the movie the person wrote the review about.
This one is written by Cheryl.
It says this.
This is an unusual production of Pinocchio.
You think?
My teenage son said it gave him nightmares.
Five stars.
Okay, I don't think she understood this the rating system.
That's a mom, that's a mom who parents like your grandmother.
Georgia, Galerie writes,
a must buy for children and child daycare centers.
Five stars.
I don't think we should be putting this in the child daycare center.
Um, this one, uh, this one is from Linda S. Kaufman.
She writes,
my sister's granddaughter loves it.
Five stars.
Kind of a delayed.
All right, sure.
What should I do today?
I should write Amazon reviews for my niece's favorite movies.
Or my grand niece.
And we will end on this one by A. Harenberg, which writes this.
Kids films nowadays are pillow soft when it comes to scary moments.
But this movie was dropped like a ton of bricks on 90s kids.
Pinocchio's story pretty much follows the course of a classic fairy tale,
starting out whimsical before taking a dark turn.
And I mean seriously dark.
I wasn't terrified as a kid,
but I'm willing to bet others in the two to six-year-old crowd were petrified.
Two?
Five mother fucking stars.
Oh boy.
Before, um, before we get into whether or not we'd recommend this movie,
because I think it's pretty clear, um, what we think about this movie.
I wanted to bring up this little uh, piece of trivia that I found about it, which is, um,
April Halley, our producer in the show, she finds all these movies she found this terror
night'scape for you.
Also found that this, uh,
movie spun off a CD-ROM interactive video game, starring one of the stars of Ladybugs.
And I just wanted to show you, this is the girl from Ladybugs, if you remember.
So here is-
She was the one that Rodney Dangerfield is like, don't worry,
when you get older you're gonna be pretty and everybody's gonna like you or something like that.
Yes, exactly.
So now here's- you are the new Pinocchio, Martin Landau talks, do you like this?
How are you going to be able to find Pinocchio?
You're not even made the wood.
We'll help.
So you get to follow along with her and then this is where it gets terrifying.
At the end of the game, when she's talking to the donkey boys.
Oh, turn this off right now.
No.
And he's trick.
If he gets you to act like a jackass.
Yes.
Then he turns you into jackass.
It could never happen to me.
It just did.
This game is straight up terrifying.
That's a game.
That is a CD-ROM interactive game that just took out all the choices.
And by the way, this movie throws around the word jackass a lot
for a kid's film.
Some notes-
And is it like a jerk off game?
Asking for a friend.
The movie came out in 1996.
The tagline was, it's a new angle on a classic tale and that's no lie.
And here's the thing, the budget for this movie.
$25 million.
What year?
96.
Wow.
Opening weekend.
She's three.
0.8 million.
Wow.
It came in.
By the way, that's not nothing.
No, you know, this is like, you know.
I think the people probably want to go see JTT is at the height of JTT madness.
The movie came in 100 out of all the movies made in 1996.
The top three were Independence Day, Twister, Mission Impossible.
It was beaten by Jingle all the way, Dragonheart,
the island of Dr. Marrow, Escape from LA, the quest, the glimmer man,
Kazam, and the Phantom.
But it beat Barbwire and Lon Moore Man 2, which we didn't cover on this show.
But that's a little fact about it.
Wait, there was a Lon Moore Man sequel?
Yep, Lon Moore Man 2, Beyond Cyber Space.
Jesus Christ.
Jason June, I go to you now, would you recommend this movie?
Of course not.
No.
No, you didn't think it's interesting to watch a little bit.
I don't.
Yeah, no.
I didn't care for it, and it was not fun enough.
Yeah, I mean, I have to spend time erasing some images, images and imagery that I saw.
Now to be fair, after this scene, I came and went to sleep.
The scene, of course, Jason's referring to as a Pinocchio has cream all over his mouth.
That's what we have is our still frame for the whole show.
This visual.
What I want to just point out, you can search this picture at home.
If you type in Pinocchio image, this normally comes up.
This is not a shot that someone took.
This is a press photo for the movie.
No.
Yes, that's why it has the watermarking on it.
So someone thought that this representation of an open mouth Pinocchio was white cream all over his mouth was the right way to.
This leads me to believe there was a cut of this movie that was a porno.
That like when Pinocchio would leave Martin Landau, you would get up into like sexy Italian adventures.
By the way, this puppet took nine months to create and operate it by 12 different technicians.
12 different people to control this masterpiece.
I didn't like the scene, I'm sorry, I'm just noticing a few things.
I did not like when the wood started to turn into flesh.
I thought that was very creepy and unsettling to look at.
Yeah, at that point it was a relief because it was almost you knew it was going to be over.
And the tear goes and yeah, I don't like that.
Yeah, it's just like yeah.
And by the way, when he does turn into a real boy, that version of the puppet looks just like Jonathan Taylor, Thomas.
Like for a second, you see it.
Well, it is.
Jonathan Taylor, Thomas.
But no, like right before, like when it's like this, you'll see it like that.
Like yeah, he looks closer to him.
Oh, I see, I see.
Maybe that was a little CG.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't know if I would recommend this movie either, but it's so bizarre and so
you don't know if you would.
I feel like there are some choice nuggets in here that are worth like watching because it just
keeps on going.
It's a movie that when I would turn away for just merely like two or three seconds,
I was completely lost as if like hours had passed and it's like, so now what's happening?
It's like game.
We had to we watched it together and we had to recap
scenes over and over again.
We simply were losing the thread.
I want to be clear for this audience here and the one at home.
You would not recommend watching Drop Dead Fred, but you would recommend watching
the Adventures of Pinocchio.
First of all, this is a classic team sanity point.
First of all, I don't think that I ever went on record and said I would not recommend
watching Team Fred.
I just said it's not a good movie.
Anyway, people, that show was a lot of fun.
And now we have to wrap it up.
We have to say no, it was between us and Drop Dead Fred.
I'd say watch this.
Yes.
Wow.
Come on now.
So, okay.
I know it's all fun.
I know it's fun to have a friendly rivalry.
There's a lot of energy around it.
It's a good time, but seriously.
No, I would watch Drop Dead Fred over there.
That's sad.
Just for the pain.
This is scarred me on a deep, deep level.
All right, so Jason, June, we have done it.
We have had many adventures with this Pinocchio character.
And there's one last thing for us to do.
That it's a say good night.
Thank you, Chicago.
Hey, everybody.
That is our show live from Chicago.
So, whoo boy, that was a big one.
We are continuing the conversation about Pinocchio
and it does need to continue on the mini episode,
which will be next week.
And I implore you, I urge you to check in
on what we're doing on the mini episodes.
I see that the listenership is going up.
And I'm loving it.
And we're doing more and new different stuff.
And one of the best parts about it is not only talking
about the movie that we are talking about on the episode.
This course will be Pinocchio next week.
But we're all talking about you.
I'm getting here about all of your
your jobs, your love, your life.
I'm giving you advice along with Devon and Cody.
We're breaking it all down for you.
So, head on over to the mini episode next week
to continue the conversation about Pinocchio.
And if you want to call in,
you can at 619 Paul Ask.
That's 619 P-A-U-L-A-S-K.
So, continue the conversation about Pinocchio right there.
Also, I want to let you know that Grayson Frankie,
season six is on Netflix right now.
If you've not watched a good place,
well, you're missing out on Jason and I.
It's the final season and a great season at that.
So many great appearances and what an amazing finale
this past week.
So, if you've missed out, catch up.
You are going to see some of us on there.
Also, what else do I want to tell you?
Oh, boy, so much good stuff.
Black Monday season two trailer dropped.
So, that's online right now.
Check that out.
It's really funny.
It gives you a little taste of what you're in store
for in Black Monday season two,
which starts March 15th.
A big shout out and thank you to April,
Hally, one of our producers for pulling this amazing movie.
I mean, she really opened our eyes to a lot of stuff.
Nick Kiley, if you're doing all that amazing research,
Devin, of course, who travels across country with us,
our producer Cody here at Yourwolf Studios,
everybody at Earwolf,
and we will see you next week for a mini episode.
And if you're bored or you've missed,
how did this get made in the meantime?
We'll head on over to tepubble.com,
slash stores, slash HDTGM to get your official Pinocchio shirt.
And if you really just want to reach out and chat,
you can do that with me.
You can give me a call at or not call a text, please.
Just a text.
917-877-0657.
Let's do it, people!
See you next week for Hally,
let's get made mini episode.
Hally, let's get made.
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