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Thank you. Hello everybody, welcome back, this

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is Food for Thought, thoughts if it were you,

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and I'm your host, Neo Gentrics. It's great to

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have been back, it's great to make these episodes

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again like I used to, and cover all sorts of

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weird or interesting things, whether educational

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or otherwise, as is the point of this podcast

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in the first place. Now last time we covered

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the dark truth behind Sleeping Beauty's story,

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and I have to say, that was pretty gruesome.

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And it only kept getting worse. With the moral

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of the story being what it was, it wasn't exactly

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the best type of childhood story. And in retrospect,

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it kind of lets you know just how monotonous

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Disney and other companies are on making the

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story as sweet sounding as they can to cover

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up the dark facts of the original book. Not every

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story has a happy ending. Not every story is

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supposed to have a happy ending. This unmitigated

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aspect of society that everything must have a

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happy ending where the princess survives or is

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saved by her handsome prince isn't always the

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case. Most often than not, most of the cases

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are that the handsome prince saving her is the

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one that actually put her in the situation she's

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in in the first place. Or the so -called bad

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guy actually isn't the bad guy. Like in Sleeping

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Beauty's case, Maleficent wasn't the bad guy.

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She was the wife of the king that put Sleeping

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Beauty in the position she's in after she ended

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up in the coma -like sleep state she's in from

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her own doing. So, today we're going to go ahead

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and cover Pinocchio. And like most stories written

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by Disney, this too has also been changed to

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make it more kid -friendly to a point. And they're

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not the only ones that have done this. Stick

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around for this episode if you want to hear the

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true story behind Pinocchio and what it was actually

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about after we take this short break. Alright,

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and we're back. Let's go ahead and begin this

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little meddling piece. So, as you probably already

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knew, Disney has a habit of taking dark, twisted

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children's fairy tales and turning them into

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sickeningly sweet happy ever afters. Take Sleeping

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Beauty, for example. It's based on a story where

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a married king finds a girl asleep, can't wake

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her, so rapes her instead. That's the original

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version of that story. Well, In 1940, the version

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of Pinocchio is no exception. The movie is based

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on a story that appears as a serial in a newspaper

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called The Adventures of Pinocchio. It was actually

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written in 1881 and 1882 by Carlo Collodi. Leave

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the pronunciation up to you. Jiminy Cricket appears

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as the talking cricket in the book and does not

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play as prominent a role. You know. He actually

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first appears in Chapter 4, in which the truism

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that children do not like to have in their behavioral

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corrected by people who know much more than they

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do is illustrated. Uh. Apropos. Okay. When the

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talking cricket tells Pinocchio to go back home.

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And it basically goes something like this from

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the book. At these last words, Pinocchio jumped

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up in a fury, took a hammer from the bench, and

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threw it with all his strength at the talking

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cricket. Perhaps he did not think he would strike

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it, but, sad to relate, my dear children, he

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did hit the cricket straight on the head. Alas,

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weak Cree Cree Cree. The poor cricket fell from

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the wall dead. That's right folks Pinocchio killed

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Jiminy cricket Okay, now you might be happy to

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know that Pinocchio did learn his lesson quite

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soon after that or so it seemed While he didn't

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seem to feel bad about killing the cricket. In

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fact, he actually later later tells Geppetto

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It was his own fault For I didn't want to kill

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him. He did seem to regret not taking the cricket's

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advice as he runs into more and more trouble

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repeatedly afterward. You know, at last, Karma

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catches up with Pinocchio and he gets his feet

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burned off. I think that part is actually still

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in the movie. But you'll have to go back and

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check yourself. So, as he no longer had any strength

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left with... which to stand, he sat down on a

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little stool and put his two feet on the stove

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to dry them. There he fell asleep. While he slept,

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his wooden feet began to burn. Slowly, very slowly,

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they blackened and turned to ash. That's the

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line from the original, you know, story. In other

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words, he got his feet wet and he tried to dry

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it. Actually, let me pause right here and go

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ahead and say that, you know, life hits you with

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a lot of things, but if you honestly think that

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nothing you do is going to come back and haunt

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you later, or rather the seeds you've sown, whether

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virtuous or evil, is not going to bear fruit

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in some way in the future, you're sadly mistaken.

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Sorry about that. Had to go take care of something.

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But we're back. Now, moving on from what I was

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telling you before. Like I said, don't worry.

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Geppetto forgives the boy for what he did wrong

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and builds him new feet, which is really more

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than Pinocchio deserves in the first place. You

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see, when Pinocchio first became alive and learned

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to walk, the first thing he did was run off.

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What's worse is that Pinocchio leads people to

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believe that Geppetto was abusing him. which

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lands Geppetto squarely in prison in the first

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place. Now, you would think by this time Pinocchio

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would have learned to be a good, obedient little

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boy, but that's simply just not the case. The

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talk at cricket returns as a ghost to tell Pinocchio

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not to get involved with some people who claim

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planting gold coins will result in a tree of

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gold. Rather than apologizing for throwing a

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hammer at the poor bug, Pinocchio scoffs at the

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advice once more. And then Pinocchio's decision

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to continue to ignore the crickets resulted him

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finding more grief in the way of being hanged

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by the very people who had told him about planting

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gold in the first place. The line from the story

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actually goes something like this. And they ran

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after me, and I ran and ran, till at last they

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caught me, tied my neck with a rope, and hung

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me to a tree, saying, Tomorrow will come back

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for you, and you will be dead, and your mouth

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will be open, and will take the gold pieces that

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you have hidden under your tongue. Kind of dark,

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don't you think? The hanging scene was actually

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where the story was meant to end. face grave

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consequences for being disobedient. However,

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the editor of the paper requested that Collodi

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continue writing, perhaps wishing for a bit more

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of a happier ever after himself. And that's where

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the blue fairy tale came in to, you know, the

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blue fairy came in to save the puppet in the

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first place. Originally, that wasn't part of

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the story, but Collodi added it after being requested

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by the paper. In the additional chapters, however,

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Cody made it so that Pinocchio learned his lesson

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and decided to take care of his father rather

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than spend his time playing and running amok.

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In the end, Talking Cricket had a chance at revenge,

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but didn't take it. And, you know, it goes a

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little bit like this. Father and son looked up

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to the ceiling and there was a beam sat the Talking

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Cricket. Oh my, dear Cricket, said Pinocchio,

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bowing politely. Oh, now you call me your dear

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cricket. But do you remember when you threw your

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hammer at me to kill me? You are right, dear

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cricket, throwing a hammer at me now. I deserve

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it. But spare my poor old father. I'm going to

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spare both the father and the son. I have only

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wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago

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played upon me to teach you that in this world

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of ours, we must be kind and courteous to others

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if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our

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own days of trouble. You are right, little cricket.

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You are more than right, and I shall remember

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the lesson you have taught me. Kind of ironic,

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don't you think? Considering the original story

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of this nature for Pinocchio isn't as actually

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forgiving as it ended up being. Now, think about

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it this way. We wouldn't have had a soft -spoken,

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really nice Disney version of this story had

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the editor of the paper not actually requested

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that he continue it and give it a happy ending.

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Because the original story, by far, is extremely

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dark. In its own right, already. But, Keeping

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in with the rules that we have, that ends the

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very strange but yet not so friendly Pinocchio

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that nobody ever knew. Well, that concludes this

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episode for this podcast revolving around the

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story of Pinocchio. Next time, we'll cover one

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of the two, I guess you can say, next darkest

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stories to be ever told. Either it's going to

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be the story, the original story, of Little Red

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Riding Hood, or the real tragedy behind Beauty

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and the Beast. I'll leave the choice up to you

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guys, the listeners. Tell me which one you would

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like to hear. And that's the one I'll go over

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next. Until then, though, this has been Thoughts

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If It Were You, food for thought, and my name

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is Neogentrix. Until the next time we meet, enjoy

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the rest of your day.