4 Reasons Pinocchio Is Secretly Terrifying - Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder

[@Derekivery]

Pinocchio is not secretly terrifying, it is just straight up terrifying. That scene when the kids become Donkey's gave me nightmares for a long time.

[@gankhef5564]

Seriously. Nobody involved in production said "Hey, maybe that's a bit too intense for a children's movie."? Yeesh.

[@caileymurphy4862]

the movie actually creeps me out more now that i understand it as im older. when i was younger i thought it was a little strange but i always loved the movie it never scared me. but now i see it in a different way o.o

[@PirvateerKurei]

YES! This something incredibly weird. I thought nowadays it had something to do with the boy being spanked AND little boys, not a single girl was there, being turned into donkeys (let's be serious they're called "Asses"). The imagery of drugs and ripping clothes off them with some crying and screaming for their mom's, made me think: my god...this is some bestial sex ring, take advantage of boys, turn them into donkeys and sell em off.

[@j.nicolosi6647]

+PirvateerKurei right? They turn them into screaming donkeys and IMMEDIATELY proceed to rip off whatever clothes remain. Super horrifying. And these are like 8, 9, 10, 11 year olds. It's not like they were prepared to make decisions with such lasting repercussions. Oh you wanted to be a little rebellious? You're a donkey slave forever. F*** you little child.

[@OctoberScorn]

Pinocchio scared me as a child

[@2KXMKR]

A sentient puppet that doesn't know right from wrong, good from evil and has no concept of pain? Yeah, let's send that out in to the world unattended. It'll be fine.

[@2KXMKR]

It's a joke. What in that are you not grasping?

[@2KXMKR]

+Chris Cipollini Well 10 people seemed to like it. So I'm 10-1. A pretty decent score. So i guess you just can't grasp sarcasm and take the comment section way too seriously.

[@blondetiger3940]

It's not a fairytale, it's a book even more horrifying than the movie.

[@melissajames3123]

MickMaan

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

MickMaan that sounds like an awesome horror movie waiting to be filmed. Get cracking, lad.

[@RPG_Angie]

"I made him out of wood and now he's real, just ask his cricket!" and "It's always ass-slap o'clock there" were my favorite.

[@kittyunderwood8918]

those and "your always-kitten cat"

[@theresisty7122]

Secretly terrifying? I always thought this movie was openly terrifying.

[@kitleydefelice865]

Mmm hmm 😏

[@availanila]

I know, that donkey part still scares me now.

[@thecaseclosedpikachufiles]

Yeah I was honestly thinking the same thing

[@nuarius]

anyone else find it incredibly morbid that he sends him to school with a book? the wooden kid.... basically carrying a handheld graveyard

[@BagheerathePanther]

...and an apple. I dunno what kind of wood G used to make his puppet, but Pinocchio could have been walking around with his own nuts in his hand.

[@jb888888888]

@Anna Leist It's long tradition to give an apple to the teacher.

[@zx1048216]

@@jb888888888 pretty sure it's because Pinocchio is the frakensteined corpse of a sentient tree brought back to life and has a fellow tree's genitals for either a gift or lunch. Imagine being a kid and getting sent to school with a lunchbox full of children's organs

[@otakuman706]

@@zx1048216 God damn do I still love this community. That these phrases can exist in a sensible conversation is absolutely fantastic.

[@zx1048216]

@@otakuman706 ikr? One day us crackheads will return to our glory days with the swaim and the Dob!

[@keiramollica2966]

"That's a fish and that's a cat and this is dancing YOU ARE MY SON" lol

[@TheLadyGrimm]

"Holy f--! Everyone, stop church right now. Hey, Gepetto, where the f*ck did you get that kid?" I donno why but this line makes me laugh so hard.

[@CinemaDemocratica]

As someone whose "friends" have actually done things like this, I laughed hard too -- but probably a different kind of laughter.

[@imamoronand9199]

gepettophile was great too

[@ralphyetmore]

There's nothing *secretly* terrifying about Pinocchio. It incorporates monsters and elements of body horror. It is a legitimately scary film in parts.

[@grimwolf9988]

@Tavon Fenwick Horror focused around f#$%ing with someone's body, usually turning them into a monster. Stuff like "The Thing" or "Hellraiser"

[@cj-seejay-cj-seejay]

Yeah, that spanking clock was lodged safely somewhere DEEP in my brain. Oh jesus, how disturbing.

[@JesterAzazel]

+slut4berniesanders Gephettophile has a knack for lodging things deeply inside of people.

[@cj-seejay-cj-seejay]

Jester Azazel !!!!!

[@JohannesWiberg]

+slut4berniesanders Oh, yes, that one and so many more horrible images from this one. "Secretly terrifying" - really? Secretly? I'd let my kids watch Pulp Fiction before this nightmare of a story.

[@Eolsvik98]

+Johannes Wiberg holy crap, right?? When I was a kid I watched this movie, saw that kid screaming in terror and pain as he changes into a fucking donkey like the shittiest animorph, immediately turned it off and never watched it again. That scene was HORRIFYING for me at the time as a 6 year old child who was already afraid of most things.

[@JohannesWiberg]

Ethan Olsvik This!

[@dustinb4286]

Donkeys = $600-$2500. We see near 40 children in the shipment, meaning he could be making $100,000 per shipment. Given the amount of gold we saw, he's probably paying around $60,000 to Honest John. That leaves him $40,000 to repair the park and re-stock supplies. Seems manageable, but more of a passion project than something he's doing for the money.

[@drxshock6957]

dude pleasure island is fked

[@devinreis5811]

The original version was like The Godfather.

[@TheRaySkye]

Just a thought, what if the stagecoach driver turns the kids into donkeys for transport and then magics them back into kids when he gets where they are going, the slave pens. It would look really suspicious if someone was hauling 40 kids across the border. 40 donkeys? I'm guessing he wouldn't get a 2nd glance.

[@TheRaySkye]

Damn. I think I just turned this movie into a tragedy for me. Well that sucks.

[@pointlessopinion611]

Passion project XD

[@jujushs5277]

I forgot how creepy the donkey transformation was

[@saradiogo4610]

Lucky you, that's a scene I've never forgotten! This movie is disturbing!

[@o.a.47]

Jujush S yeah that shit fucked me up as a kid and It still does lowkey

[@marythewinter]

That was the reason why I don't like Pinoccio, never did..XD

[@cailinalge6378]

I genuinely thought the creepiest thing about Pinocchio is: what the hell happened to all of those wayward kids? Didn't anyone come looking for them? Did they stay donkeys forever? Great. Now I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight.

[@givemefood8524]

I was asking me that too when i was younger.I was sad

[@youthful6098]

I honestly thought that they are doomed to eternal suffering once they gave in to the pleasures and turned completely into donkeys. They've killed/abandoned the human side of themselves and became completely an animal, a slave to the world's pleasures. They've reached the very bottom of hell, no one's coming to save them or they'll ever be saved. You can say they're same as being dead.

[@phlpcockrell]

Who says the boys were abducted/kidnapped? Well some like Pinocchio were, surely but im thinking a lot of them were given away by their parents, or sold because they were destructive little assholes

[@HerHollyness]

"Secretly Terrifying"?! Was no one else legitimately, hide-behind-the-sofa terrified by this film like I was as a kid?! That donkey transformation scene haunted me for years...

[@danmenard6917]

+LetsGetWilly Honestly Lampwick turning into a donkey still left scars on my brain to this day. That shit is terrifying as hell and I havent seen the movie in 15 years because of it.

[@RaulDiaz-mp8ms]

+HerHollyness same here...there were better movies...like Flubber.

[@noplease8932]

why does everyone find the donkey scene scary I dont

[@danmenard6917]

Aimee Weaver Sound design mostly. It lended itself a LOT to the horror of it.

[@IchibotK]

Venomous Muffin if you could reverse time and watch it when you were six, then you'd be behind the couch, covered in blankets, peeking out from behind your hands.

[@o.a.47]

Gepettophile holy shit I died

[@michaelreyes2287]

omar aftab OMG! why do you have only 6 likes?! here. take my like!

[@o.a.47]

Michael Reyes lmao thanks

[@plmitch]

omar aftab DEAD....

[@troymyers7411]

same

[@TFichVe]

Gepettophile is a throwaway line that makes me laugh every single time.

[@CrackThoseClaws]

"exists into this world without being asked" so just like all of us

[@BrainBoltG]

Another somewhat terrifying aside is that Pleasure Island exists and no one seems to be at all worried about it. It's possible that no one really knows about it, but the amount of children that get magic'd into donkeys while Pinocchio is there is a seriously concerning amount of children to go missing in one night. As far as I remember no one ever acts concerned about the mass child abduction that's happening in this movie, not even a missing child poster or anything. Bit weird.

[@jonathanmarkoff4469]

The original story was written by a town drunk who gambled away all his money, and had to write a book to sell to a publisher quick. Carlo Collodi must have been a real sicko.

[@rgilletton1008]

The donkey scene terrified me as a kid and I'm too afraid to watch it ever again. I literally had nightmares about it where my friends ate some kind of pie and turned into donkeys. I woke up crying. Never watching it again. Very scary movie. Horror movie.

[@kelseylikesicecreamandbatm6098]

+Rebecca Gillett Yet I saw that clip lodged in this video and its somehow not as scary??

[@kaniyaru117]

I also think it's very unfair Pinocchio wasn't made real right away. I mean, he never had the chance to be bad OR good. This faerie is not making any sense.

[@alisonallover]

As a child, Pinocchio was OPENLY terrifying.

[@starryeyedrio]

This series and After Hours are the only reasons I'm still subscribed. MORE DANIEL FOREVER

[@elliegray8184]

You know, I never realized this movie made zero fucking sense. Thank you so much, Dan, this was hilarious.

[@jonathanmarkoff4469]

The story doesn't make sense because it was hastily written by a town drunk to pay off a gambling debt in the 1880s.

[@jenniferguajardo1335]

I swear, the donkey transformations are what drive me away from this movie. It's just too disturbing for me. *Shivers*

[@CrackThoseClaws]

-You're not a real boy. -Check your metaphysical entity privillege.

[@japanjapan3102]

exactly

[@thickmclargehuge4448]

it could always be argued that while looking for Pinocchio, Geppetto heard story's that young boys were being rounded up and taking to 'pleasure Island' (yeah I know, who calls it that in a children's story) and after hearing that none of the boys return, he got on a boat and went out to rescue his wooden son and THEN got eating by a whale.

[@phlpcockrell]

I guess I can see thinking "pleasure island" is an island.

[@guillaumelagueyte1019]

I just stopped he followed a river until he got to the sea because he assumed Pinocchio had drifted away

[@guillaumelagueyte1019]

(I just assumed*)

[@OnYourSquare]

(lol) "Ass-slap-o'clock"

[@jam7768]

Geopettophile

[@maximelepage7664]

Marshall Ericsson 's favorite clock.

[@Roboprogs]

@Glappadoopalappa: same name my junior high son came up with for him :-(

[@thecaseclosedpikachufiles]

Cry laughing 🤣 😂

[@robertrivera5569]

I was scared shitless by the donkey transformation scene.

[@skeletonsinscarves3965]

scariest scene ever

[@mollygriffin6083]

Isn't that first point how life works though? People never ask to be born, their parents make them and they''re stuck on this miserable rock as a result of other people's decisions.

[@vallraffs]

I figured that as the blue fairy made pinocchio sentient she also retroactively gave him the memories that he would have had since he was first built. Otherwise it implies that every doll worldwide is concious but unable to move their body at all, which would be worse than death for some people, I imagine.

[@YumLemmingKebabs]

+Valter Östberg Wait, does he remember being a puppet before he was animated? Wouldn't that still be pretty horrifying?

[@jonathanmarkoff4469]

@@YumLemmingKebabs You have hit on the reason why I hate Toy Story.

[@Blaineworld]

The reason Pinocchio is terrifying is that he could cause the end of the world by saying “My nose will grow now.“ I wrote that during the ad.

[@xodiak1222]

Mother of paradox

[@mikemoss8788]

Xx Blaineworld xX it's Not a paradox if he Said i nose grows now it's a lie then it would grow that's it

[@BoosterSBR]

der MOSS But then it wouldnt be a lie

[@edelamar1042]

It's like when the guy for most Guinness World Records gets a record for that title, which then increases that record by 1, giving him another record for most records and so on xD

[@mikemoss8788]

Fernando G. In this moment it was a lie a can't explain it better it's just obliviousPrism Comeau go to the corner I don't like it if people do this

[@maireemily745]

In no way is Pinocchio secretly terrifying! It is blatantly, glaringly, in your face terrifying!!!The donkey transformation freaked me out so much as a child.

[@katehaggland4119]

Same here

[@LuckyVine]

Gepettophile. Oh God, that killed me. XD

[@matthewlaurence3121]

"Pinocchio" looks to be set in the early 19th Century. The town was modelled on Rothenburg, in Baveria, rather than Italy. If it is Italy, the Italian State was yet to exist and had (or still was) been under Napoleon's dominance, in which instance there is near lawlessness and many many orphaned kids around. Geppeto's new boy would be by no means unique.If it is in Germany (movie indicates it), than assuming it is the Kingdom of Baveria, there were yet to be laws regarding children, and, again, I can see people getting suspicious if Geppeto sticks to the "Son" label, but then it would be a case of legitimacy. They would assume he fathered the boy with a whore.

[@corporationofthebad5170]

Rothenburg!!!

[@vincentrather1010]

+alyson burch your dreams cuuuum truuuue

[@seanmadson8524]

+Elias Simon An intriguing theory, I must admit it would make more sense to base the story on that secretly than to base it on the random insanity of the actual movie universe, with all the insane things in the film being metaphors it all falls together rather nicely

[@frogsoda]

+Elias Simon Wow that is an interesting theory. If true, what does it say about what Disney has been teaching kids for the last 50 or so years?

[@MrCrashDavi]

+Elias Simon Holy shit.

[@animemanXLK]

Its been years since I watched pinnichicco and the only thing that really sticks out about it is that terrifying donkey transformation scene I mean holy shit thats messed up this kids terrified and panicking like hell as his humanity is being snatched away right before his eyes.

[@Toastmaster_5000]

this is, IMO, the best episode of OPCD yet

[@1997jankuschef]

Can I just subscribe to O'Brien? God he's funny.

[@ElegantButlerSeb]

And what does Pinocchio tell Lampwick's mom about her son's disappearance. Somehow, I don't think "Sorry, ma'am. Your son's an ass." is gonna cut it?

[@randomleagueoflegendsthres1034]

"It's always ass slap o'clock here" I want that clock

[@maxant637]

Sameeeeee

[@ObaREX]

Secretly terrifying? Dude, Pinocchio haunted my nightmares as a kid!

[@drxshock6957]

same... ;-;

[@Ladybluebugg]

"Hats with feathers are for pimps" is my take away from this video.

[@user-fq1ig3uy3q]

"It's ass-slap o'clock there."

[@vivianamuntean146]

Polka dancers are pimps!

[@izzy1221]

I like how he says 'join us next week!' Even though we all know damn well there ain't gonna BE a next week. Liars.

[@taekinuru2]

Here's a fun theory for my fellow Disney fans. The Blue Fairy, the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella, the fairy from the Flying Mouse short, and the Enchantress from Beauty and the Beast... Are all the same entity, wandering around the Earth, manipulating and hurting humans who wrong it or otherwise offend its sensibilities.

[@queenieofqueens]

yup

[@annabananag3962]

Probably the same fairy from the second Shrek movie.

[@CyberCactus]

+AnnaBananaG Oh shit, that makes her death in that movie *SO* much more satisfying.

[@mikylalee]

Yeppers ☻

[@BenjaminGessel]

Who cares? Its fantasy.

[@SeaTimeless]

OPCD is the best. I know Dan's busy writing and stuff but I desperately want more entries into this series.

[@rosaliamoon4525]

After watching this years later. I just realized that he didn’t touch on how Pinocchio would most likely be taken away from Gepetto and put in an orphan house till his “parents” can be found. This is an old man that suddenly has an 8 year old boy that he calls his son in a city that hundreds of boys have just gone missing from.

[@TheNewFlutist]

7:04 "Gepettophile" LOLLL that's a good one... xD

[@Cumbercuke]

+TheNewFlutist I think he made that joke first, and then wrote the episode around it.

[@TheNewFlutist]

Yeah he probably did. So much pun. :P

[@Joosejpr]

It is always ass-slap o'clock at my house.

[@jackjackson7537]

+Joosejpr "Beat it, Gepettophile" (SP?)

[@Joosejpr]

+Jack Jackson That is how I'd spell it.

[@lenasullivan1074]

I liked then disliked to keep your comment likes at 69

[@filam7371]

Gepedophile or your way...either works.

[@luqcrusher]

6:13 "I made him out of wood and now he's real, just ask his cricket!" I laughed so hard oh God

[@hollysmith4972]

that donkey thing was the most terrifying thing in the world to me, how did any child just sit through that?

[@noplease8932]

Holly Smith I am a kid and I don't find it scary why does everyone hate it

[@MarcillaSmith]

According to Google Maps, the Red Lobster headquarters are an 11 minute drive from the Walt Disney World Resort. Illuminati confirmed

[@vallraffs]

The profitability of Stromboli's operation could perhaps come from the fact that he isn't selling just any donkeys, but human-level intelligent donkeys. Assuming they keep the minds of the children they used to be, the donkeys may be sold to like circuses to do tricks, or to scientists who want to figure them out, or just sold to agricultural workers and households in the same manner as regular donkeys, but for a higher price under the label of "super-smart farm animal".

[@lincolnnoronha4128]

"Where the fuck did you get that kid, Gepeto?" laughed my ass off.

[@certifiedhuman9216]

There's nothing secret about how terrifying Pinocchio is..

[@commonscience4025]

Ass slap-o-clock got me weak XD

[@TheAmityElf]

+Benjamin Gerber Me as well. Also "What's that, Lampwick? Did you say F*** off forever? On it!"

[@rodo1252]

What will happen when gepetto dies and pinochio is like 12 years old

[@Studeb]

One of the funniest Cracked videos I've seen.

[@FrankLightheart]

_"It's always Ass Slap O'Clock."_ Truer words have never been spoken.

[@randalthor3919]

I want to be friends with Daniel O'Brien.

[@chochismail]

read the original book...its far more terrifying, lol. theres a moment when he gets mugged, stripped naked and hung (and left for dead) in a tree.

[@TheSwamper]

Thumbs up just for the term gepettophile.

[@wetmilk7275]

"it's always ass slap O clock there." sounds like north korea

[@Double-R-Nothing]

Sarah Smith I laughed way harder than what is socially acceptable.

[@SpiteBellow]

Lost it at Geppedophile

[@oxymoron02]

Me too man, me too!

[@Boomtendo4tw]

but did you die tho

[@stevenboelke6661]

We all knew it was coming eventually!

[@uhohwawh6965]

He had to prove himself a real boy because a fairy can't create life. She just gave him something like it and he has to "become a real boy" by learning how life works and see what is right and what is wrong, learns who he is. When humans are born, they get a spirit. Pinocchio "got a soul" by doing good things idk doesn't really make much sense when I say it with my poor vocabulary but I hope you got what I meant

[@r.babylon2885]

I need to use that for my girlfriend. "Honey, what time is it?" "It's ass-slap o' clock!"

[@subordie6000]

lol...damn you beat me to this!!

[@CyborgTurin]

+Allen Babylon You don't have a girlfriend.

[@r.babylon2885]

Eru Turin Sure I do! She just... goes to a different school, that's all!

[@snailsofneon]

Okay but that fairy's animation is extremely smooth compared to everything else, it looks like they traced a person for the film and plopped it into the movie like "Hey, this animation is 100% like the other, more cartoony feel. Even for other humans/humanoids that should be human."

[@Double-R-Nothing]

PugTime01 That is a process called "rotoscoping", where live action footage is traced and painted over to simulate life-like movements. Ralph Bakshi used it extensively in his Lord of the Rings cartoon.

[@snailsofneon]

+Star Gamer 3120 ah alright. That makes sense, thanks for replying.

[@davidkglevi]

This is a really well written episode. It's witty, smart and very funny!

[@MoeMentos]

Get outta here with your praise and positivity - this is a comment section.

[@DavidBbski]

+David Levi In no part of the episode whatsoever do they take into account the fact that the movie originates from Carlo Collodi's book Pinocchio. Had they done so, some of the points they brought up (donkeys, red lobster, stone around his tail) would have been rendered moot. If anything, it's the least-informed one.

[@MoeMentos]

+David Barbeschi That's more like it ...

[@DavidBbski]

No I agree on the witty and funny part, but smart? It just reflects the mass ignorance that us english stereotypically attribute to americans, generally.

[@MoeMentos]

David Barbeschi Well, you're here too, aren't ya? Did you truely expect the internet show that skewers/analyzes/satirizes pop culture to address the *book* version of Pinocchio? Of course not, but if so, the onus of ignorance is squarely on you.

[@lenasullivan1074]

"Tomorrow you've got to go to school " ..."why??" Best part

[@jholmes45]

This is the best OPCD I've seen.

[@demoui7]

"It's whatever time you set all nine fucking hundred alarms for you old maniac"... I lost my shit at that

[@howtoswimtheband]

"ass-slap-o'clock" and "gepettophile". *stands up, applauds*

[@BillyVicenti]

+How to Swim Have to figure out how to add 'ass slap o'clock' to a conversation.

[@markotark]

Selling kids is much more profitable than selling donkeys. Don't ask how i know this, i just do...

[@ТимофейПарфёнов-н5г]

markotark how do you know this?

[@jigokusagent]

Oh, that's it! Allow me to relieve you of that located shoulder!

[@krjedjdjd6337]

But donkeys are easier to sell then humans. He can sell donkeys anywhere as slavery is illegal in many places even at that time

[@useraccount306]

Just get a ice cream van and tour in the neighborhood, and you will learn.

[@OwsiSan]

And if he sells kids, they can still talk and alot of them go out there and say the same things to the police, the coachman would most probably get caught

[@jennagermain3660]

"It's always ass-slap o'clock" lol

[@jmr022499]

For those curious, Red Lobster was founded a little less than 30 years after the film

[@dudedysseus]

This is probably the funniest episode of OPCD I've ever seen.

[@jaredlafortune7007]

This is far and away my favorite cracked video I watch it every few months at most. "Geppedophile" gets me ever time

[@mikehab7453]

This movie legitimately scares me as an adult. And yet I loved it when I was a kid...

[@flowertrue]

I had to stop it because I lost it at Ass-slap o'clock. I had this picture of me yelling at my kids "You kids stop it or you better believe it's gonna be ass-slap o'clock up in here!"

[@Persnikity-yv3nh]

Easily your funniest episode. Laughed through the whole thing.

[@LailaBerzins]

I spat out my water at “ass slap o’clock” and “geppetophile”

[@nicolecress5316]

wow cracked uploads a video we want to watch

[@dominiquehernandez8977]

answer about donkeys *breathes deeply* people pay good money for donkey meat, let it sink in. they ate donkeys

[@Double-R-Nothing]

Dominique Hernandez Oh...

[@dominiquehernandez8977]

Star Gamer 3120 yup I was shocked too when I learned this

[@itstime3976]

That's fucked up

[@ladydemando]

Ghe-pet-a-phile omg I'm dead.

[@chibignoufs]

That when i lost it XXDDD

[@Scorch1028]

The scene of “Alexander the donkey” is still chilling. It shows that the boys retain their human intellects, as they’re trapped in donkeys’ bodies and shipped off to work as livestock for the rest of their lives.

[@justinnyugen7015]

I too just eat the food if the waiter gets my order wrong. What lives we lead...

[@HaydenX]

+Justin Nguyen I like to live dangerously...I send stuff back if it isn't what I ordered...knowing full well that there is a chance of salival, mucosal, and/or urinal adulteration of the next plate.

[@andrewpurvis1754]

the one thing I can defend Jepedo on Is the clocks would maybe all go off every hour. so he'd not know which specific hour it is

[@chriswaugh1177]

My favorite Cracked show! Daniel is the funniest and smartest of the cast members. The Spit Take is really good too, but O.P.C.D is number one.

[@porkstamina]

+Chris Waugh Yeah, this is definitely the best, followed by Escort Mission IMO.

[@dduuddeechil]

David O'Brian for president!

[@elijahbailey7808]

I love OPCD, After Hours, and Escort Mission😆

[@DaddyDumptruckDeluxe]

+porkstamina I'm with you there brother!

[@deadnamedan6726]

"It's always ass slap 'o clock." lmfaoooo!!

[@shaelynfritzler7290]

Cracked should do one of these for Cinderella or Snow White next because reasons. And those movies are real freaky

[@RobertJRoman]

Cracked videos - RIP And this Pinocchio video was the best thing they ever produced.

[@cdulos5091]

"Geppetophile"... I'm done! :D

[@Billdow00]

+C Dulos I saw it coming and still I lost it.

[@karlspires902]

That was the best! 😂

[@coleshumway1163]

"It's always ass-slap o' clock" I died

[@RoyBatty03]

amazing analysis. smart and relevant. thanks

[@deathtoll298]

Jean-Frédéric Rolland not even close my friend. The story is about the temptations of evil in life. The nose is about lying and how it will in the long wrong worsening you. Pleasure island isn’t simply about not having fun but more of a warning to instant gratification. It’s very safe to say Pinocchio is very closely based on the guidelines of the Bible. It’s such a lovely movie I mean it actually had a lot of meaning compared to frozen.

[@Soggys0up85]

Jean-Frédéric Rolland I mean if I had my own wooden homunculi child the first thing I would do is send him to school. I don't have to time to deal with this black magic shit.

[@levibarton9707]

This is a very unsophisticated analysis. It pokes fun and mocks the show rather than looking at its embedded symbolic and mythological structures. It’s easy to make obvious statements about a man with a talking puppet but it’s not obvious to why we aren’t questioning the absurdity while watching the film. It’s because it is very real and true at the symbolic level and not the physical. Watch Jordan Peterson’s analysis of Pinocchio if you want a deep psychological understanding of the film. Cheers

[@ghostiebaka2809]

“I made him out of wood and now he’s real, just ask this cricket” I would believe that story if the cricket spoke and confirmed, which he can

[@Kevbo2040]

I freaking love DOB so damn much. Can he just start doing his own channel or something?

[@anonomous4818]

That scene where the kids realizes something is horribly wrong. When he starts screaming and begging for help and calling for his mom, until the transformation takes his voice and he can't scream any more.... But he's clearly still aware to some degree. Still terrified and desperately begging for help..... But no one came to help him. No Blue Fairy for you kid. That scene is freaking disturbing and wigged me the fuck out when I was a kid. Still gives me the willies now.

[@ChestersonJack]

Tbh I'd love to see an aftermath spinoff of everyone questioning what the hell is up with Gepetto and this random boy

[@LunaticSolari]

Ikr,maybe a short would be something

[@amandalambkin4777]

So, I never watched Pinocchio as a kid. At age 22, I told my friend this, and she said "What!? You've never watched Pinocchio!? You HAVE to watch it! You have NO idea what you've been missing!" I had already bought it, since I was in the process of collecting all of Disney's animated classics, so obviously I did watch it. I have no idea why my friend was so adamant that I "had" to watch it, it was legitimately terrifying, and I am SO glad I didn't see it as a kid. I'm sure that donkey scene would have given me nightmares.

[@evelynlopez6472]

ispeakcat95 same! I grew up watching that movie I never realized how fucked up it was until now, i just tought it was a little weird. The fox character did scare me a lot though.

[@brandondavidson4085]

"In Catholicism, when the babies are born with original sin, we don't ask the babies to fix it. We just sprinkle some water on him." In Christianity, it goes further than that, and to "fix it", all one has to do is admit that there is a problem, and God will forgive it. also, there's a strong symbolism in Pinocchio's nose growing to absurd length, and when he asked the fairy to help him, she got rid of the nose's length, returning it to normal. In other words, not only was Pinocchio forgiven of his sin of lying, but the evidence was completely wiped away.

[@CuhShark]

I didn't think of it that way

[@stefanieprejean6609]

Catholicism is Christianity

[@gabbydiaz5459]

Stefanie Prejean he means Protestant Christianity

[@arx3516]

Pinocchio as written in 1881, and by the standards of that time Geppetto was a really good and caring father, most kids back then worked in the fields, factories, mines.

[@RoninRen]

&before the invention of child protective services/modern social services,

[@mollygriffin6083]

Wait, Pinocchio is "secretly" terrifying? I thought that was out in the open.

[@Orebrohkfan]

The scene where all the children went to Pleasure Island disgusts me. Seeing all those poor kids basically run into their own trap (and possibly death) with their faces filled with happiness is just sad. Even if they did mean stuff before that, no one deserves to become a jackass