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* CrowdSong: "Buongiorno", the song sung by the townpeople when Pinocchio goes in town for the first time. The song has Pinocchio learn how city life works, while the Cat, the Fox and Lampwick try to deviate him suggesting he shouldn't go to school as the other people told him.
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* CrowdSong: "Buongiorno" ("Good morning"), the song sung by the townpeople when Pinocchio goes in town for the first time. The song has Pinocchio learn how city life works, while the Cat, the Fox and Lampwick try to deviate him suggesting he shouldn't go to school as the other people told him.
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* EducationalSong: The chorus of "Buongiorno" has Angela teaching Pinocchio about the days of the week.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: Downplayed with Geppetto. While he's still a woodcarver as in the original book, he now works in what appears to be a furniture factory.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: AdaptationalJobChange:
** Downplayed with Geppetto. While he's still a woodcarver as in the original book, he now works in what appears to be a furniturefactory.factory.
** In the original book, Pinocchio is visited by three doctors while in the Blue Fairy's house: a crow, an owl and the Cricket. The scene is not in the play, but the crow and the owl still appear as jobless companions for the Blue Fairy (alongside a second owl that was not in the book).
** Downplayed with Geppetto. While he's still a woodcarver as in the original book, he now works in what appears to be a furniture
** In the original book, Pinocchio is visited by three doctors while in the Blue Fairy's house: a crow, an owl and the Cricket. The scene is not in the play, but the crow and the owl still appear as jobless companions for the Blue Fairy (alongside a second owl that was not in the book).
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** Most of the animal characters seen in the Blue Fairy's house, like the three doctors and the pallbearer rabbits, are completely missing. Her ensemble is instead formed by three birds (a crow and two owls) and two poodle-headed butlers inspired by Medoro from the original book.
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** Most of In the animal characters seen in book, the Blue Fairy's house, like the Fairy has a bunch of anthropomorphic animals appearing around her: a poodle named Medoro as her butler, three doctors and the pallbearer rabbits, are completely missing. Her ensemble is instead formed by three birds (a (an owl, a crow and the Cricket), a group of hares working as pallbearers and later a snail that acts as her housekeeper. In the play she has only two owls) and two poodle-headed unnamed poodle butlers inspired by Medoro and three messenger birds (two of which are repurposed versions of the Owl and Crow doctors from the original book.book).
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* AntropomorphicPersonification: While never said out loud, the show clearly shows that the Blue Fairy is the moon in human form that came down to aid Pinocchio.
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* GenderFlip: As in many other adaptations, the Fox is a female character in this version.
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** The Owl and the Crow at the Blue Fairy's house are also turned into females.
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** The Owl and the Crow at the Blue Fairy's house are also turned into females.
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* {{Bookends}}: The play begins with Pinocchio (still as a tree) pleading the moon to get a second chance to live and the moon coming down as the Blue Fairy to help him. At the end, Pinocchio once again pleads the moon to turn him into a real human, and once again the Blue Fairy arrives to grant his wish.
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* GodOfTheMoon: While never said out loud, the show clearly implies that the Blue Fairy is the moon in human form that came down to Earth to help Pinocchio.
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* CompositeCharacter: The show combines the Coachman and the circus ringmaster into a single character
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* SchoolForScheming: The musical's interpretation of the Land of Toys is a fake school where kids are encouraged to destroy the books and do nothing but eat junk food, dance and have fun for months until one day they suddenly turn into donkeys.
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* SchoolForScheming: The musical's interpretation of the Land of Toys is a fake school (also referred to as "Donkey High") where kids are encouraged to destroy the books and do nothing but eat junk food, dance and have fun for months until one day they suddenly turn into donkeys.
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* FilmedStageProduction: The musical had a filmed version which was aired on TV on Christmas day in 2005 and later was released on DVD. It's currently available for streaming on Creator/PrimeVideo, at least in Italy.
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''Pinocchio: The Musical'' (also sometimes known as ''Pinocchio - The Great Musical'') is an Italian theatrical adaptation of ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio'', made by Compagnia Della Rancia with songs written by the Italian band Pooh. It was first shown in theatres in 2003.
An ancestral pine tree is destroyed by a lightning, and pleads to the moon to get a second chance in life. The moon answers his call by coming to Earth in form of a blue-haired fairy, who gives it new life. The tree is picked up as material for a furniture builder named Geppetto, who is still thinking about the idea of making his own family. He then decides to make a puppet as a sort-of-child in order to ready himself to becoming a father, but the resulting puppet turns out to be alive...
The adaptation streamlines many aspects of the original story while at the same time it adds new material to the plot.
!!This adaptation contains examples of:
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance:
** Lampwick appears way earlier than in the book. In fact, Geppetto decides to make a puppet rather than have a proper child ''exactly'' because he doesn't want to have a kid like Lampwick.
** The Cat and the Fox have a brief cameo when Pinocchio leaves Geppetto's home for the first time and comes to town.
* AdaptationalExplanation: In the original book, it's never explained how Pinocchio came to life: he is already capable of speech as a piece of wood and that's it. The musical adds a full introduction revealing he was originally a secular pine tree that was struck by lightning, fell down and was blessed with the gift of life by a passerby Blue Fairy.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Lampwick tries to save Pinocchio from being drowned by the ringmaster in this version, only to be punished by being sold to a butcher.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Downplayed with Geppetto. While he's still a woodcarver as in the original book, he now works in what appears to be a furniture factory.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** The fishes who eat Pinocchio's donkey skin turning him back into are replaced with mermaids who transform him with their magic.
** As in other adaptations, the Terrible Dogfish is turned into a whale.
* AdaptedOut:
** As with many other adaptations, this musical removes all the events between Pinocchio's meeting with the Blue Fairy and the Land of Toys. As a result characters like the snake, the weasels and the Green Fisherman are nowhere to be found.
** Most of the animal characters seen in the Blue Fairy's house, like the three doctors and the pallbearer rabbits, are completely missing. Her ensemble is instead formed by three birds (a crow and two owls) and two poodle-headed butlers inspired by Medoro from the original book.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: The show is based on the book ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.
* BecomeARealBoy: Curiously, this adaptation doesn't give Pinocchio the objective to become a real boy until the very end, when [[spoiler:he's ditched by Lampwick, who became more mature and is now ashamed by the idea of hanging out with a puppet that behaves like a small child]] and realizes that he can't grow up as a puppet.
* BeingGoodSucks: Mangiafuoco clearly hates being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and takes a good chunk of his screentime complaining about how he's easily moved by other people's sad stories.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Multiple moments feature actors appearing between the audience.
** The scene of Pinocchio entering Mangiafuoco's show is rendered in a meta way: the main stage features Mangiafuoco's puppets acting their show, while Pinocchio appears in the actual crowd and climbs on the seats in order to be noticed by them. He also has a brief interaction with the audience member closer to the seat he climbed on.
** The circus scene is set in a similar tone: this time it's the Cricket going through the audience searching for Pinocchio.
** "Tutti in piazza" ("Everyone in the town square") has backup dancers running between the audience, encouraging them to join in their celebration.
* CanonForeigner: The show adds a few characters that were not in the original story, such as Geppetto's coworker Angela and Lampwick's mother.
* CompositeCharacter: The show combines the Coachman and the circus ringmaster into a single character
* CompressedAdaptation: In order to fit into a 2-hour show, a large chunk of the story is removed, going straight from Pinocchio leaving the Blue Fairy's house to him and Lampwick going to the Land of Toys.
* CrowdSong: "Buongiorno" ("Good morning"), the song sung by the townpeople when Pinocchio goes in town for the first time. The song has Pinocchio learn how city life works, while the Cat, the Fox and Lampwick try to deviate him suggesting he shouldn't go to school as the other people told him.
* DastardlyWhiplash: The Coachman's design clearly follows the archetype: he's tall, has a thin, curled moustache and is always seen with a hat on his head, whether he's a bus driver or a circus ringmaster.
* DidIMentionItsChristmas: The final part of the story is set on Christmas, but outside of two off-handed mentions of the fact and a single song themed around it it's not important to the plot.
* DistantDuet: "Voglio andare via" ("I want to go away") it's a rare 3-person variant. It's sung by Pinocchio, Geppetto and Angela, each singing about how they want to leave their current situation and live together as a family.
* EducationalSong: The chorus of "Buongiorno" has Angela teaching Pinocchio about the days of the week.
* FashionableAsymmetry: The Fox wears mismatched boots, with one of them being visibly shorter than the other.
* FilmedStageProduction: The musical had a filmed version which was aired on TV on Christmas day in 2005 and later was released on DVD. It's currently available for streaming on Creator/PrimeVideo, at least in Italy.
* FriendshipSong: "Un vero amico" ("A true friend"), a duet between Pinocchio and Lampwick before they're sent to die as donkeys.
* GenderFlip: As in many other adaptations, the Fox is a female character in this version.
* GodOfTheMoon: While never said out loud, the show clearly implies that the Blue Fairy is the moon in human form that came down to Earth to help Pinocchio.
* HeroicBSOD: In the Land of Toys, the Cricket comes out and tries to save Pinocchio from the place, only to be ignored. The Cricket leaves the scene destroyed, declaring that Pinocchio doesn't have any kind of coscience anymore.
* HomesicknessHymn: "Voglio andare via" begins as such with Pinocchio's desire to leave the Land of Toys, until Geppetto and Angela's lyrics begin playing.
* InvisibleToNormals: The cricket appears only to Pinocchio and vanishes as soon as anyone else enters the scene.
* IWantSong: "Un figlio perfetto" ("A perfect child"), where Geppetto sings about how his ideal son should behave. After Lampwick notices that "he's singing about a puppet, not a living child", Pinocchio's creation is kickstarted and goes on while the song continues.
* KarmaHoudini: The Cat and the Fox completely disappear from the story after they try to kill Pinocchio to get his coins. They then reappear at the end and appear to be still around doing their business.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After Geppetto and Angela share their first kiss towards the end, Pinocchio asks what's happening. Angela's answer clearly alludes about her state as a CanonForeigner:
-->'''Angela''': Whether you like it or not, Pinocchio, this time you get to have a mom too.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** After 5 months in the Land of Toys, Pinocchio realizes he did the wrong thing and wants to go back home, only to be stopped by the Coachman/Ringmaster as kids aren't allowed to go back home.
** Lampwick feels immediately sorry to have forced Pinocchio to go to the Land of Toys with him after they are both punished with death by the Ringmaster.
* MoodWhiplash: Pinocchio and Lampwick are both sent to be killed after the circus accident, with a sad musical number and gloomy atmosphere all around. The musical number after that, "Galleggiando" ("Floating"), is a latin-inspired dance party with mermaids and sentient seaweed that feels almost out of place with what happened before.
* MythologyGag: When Pinocchio and Geppetto are in the whale's belly, Pinocchio offers to sacrifice a foot to use as burning wood. This references how in the original book he briefly loses both feet while sleeping near a fire.
* NotGrowingUpSucks: At the end of the story, Pinocchio [[spoiler:is ditched by Lampwick, who became a levelheaded teen and as such doesn't want a childish puppet around him to ruin his reputation]]. After asking what "growing up" means, he realizes that as a puppet he [[NeverGrewUp will never become an adult]]. This breaks him up until the Blue Fairy returns to turn him into a real boy.
* ObscuredSpecialEffects: The scene where Pinocchio's nose grows has him behind a curtain the whole time, so that the trick is done by using only shadows.
* OpeningChorus: The show opens with "C'era una volta" ("Once upon a time"), a prologue song that tells the backstory of the piece of wood that would become Pinocchio.
* ParentalLoveSong: "Insieme" ("Together"), a duet between Geppetto and Pinocchio about their father-son relationship.
* QuarrelingSong: "Il grillo parlante" ("The talking cricket") is a duet between the Cricket and Pinocchio, with the former trying desperately to make the latter follow him. A brief scene later, a reprise starts... [[NoReprisePlease and is abruptly interrupted by Pinocchio smacking the Cricket on his head with a pot.]]
* SchoolForScheming: The musical's interpretation of the Land of Toys is a fake school where kids are encouraged to destroy the books and do nothing but eat junk food, dance and have fun for months until one day they suddenly turn into donkeys.
* SettingUpdate: While the original story was written and set in the late 800's, this adaptation is set in an ambiguous time period: Geppetto's house features a gas stove and a refrigerator, the carriage that brings kids to the Land of Toys is replaced with a bus, the proper introduction of the Cat and the Fox has them being chased by police cars and ''helicopters'', [[spoiler:the now mature Lampwick at the end wears a very out-of-place leather jacket]] and a few throwaway lines mention stuff that wasn't very much around in the '800 like drugs, plastic surgery or sushi, but everything else seems unchanged.
* ShoutOut: When the Cricket briefly appears to alert Pinocchio that the Fox and the Cat are scamming him, he [[AsideGlance looks at the audience]] and says [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird "I tawt I taw a cwicket"]].
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** As in other adaptations, the Cricket doesn't die after his first appearance: he's just knocked out senseless the time Pinocchio needs to run away from home while Geppetto is out. He reappears a few times during the show.
** In the original book, [[spoiler:Lampwick is bought by a farmer while still in form of a donkey and dies of overexertion a short while after Pinocchio realizes it's him]]. In this version, when Pinocchio and Geppetto return to their hometown [[spoiler:Lampwick is there too, somehow back as a human]].
* TrophyChild: After assisting once again at Lampwick disobeying to his mom, Geppetto claims that he aspires to have a perfect, obedient child. As Lampwick makes him notice that what he's describing sounds more like a puppet than a human being, he decides to make a puppet to be his son.
* UnexplainedRecovery: It's not explained how [[spoiler:Lampwick]] manages to come back to town at the end of the story.
* VillainRecruitmentSong: Both of the Cat and the Fox songs, "Gatto & Volpe S.p.A." ("Cat & Fox, inc.") and "Da così a così" ("From this to this"), are about them convincing other people (a nondescript audience in the former, Pinocchio in the latter) to join their fraudulent business.
* AWildRapperAppears: The Cricket's only musical number is initially styled after 90's Italian rap songs: while Pinocchio's bars in the song have a more classic melody in the background, the Cricket's are faster, more techno-like and feature stock 90's rap sound effects. As the song progresses, the Cricket's part of the song starts mellowing out and becomes the same as Pinocchio's. The sound effects still come back later to accompany the Cricket's later appearances.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Angela passes a good chunk of her appearances trying to have Geppetto admit he loves her, until the end when he realizes that he needs a female presence in his house.
An ancestral pine tree is destroyed by a lightning, and pleads to the moon to get a second chance in life. The moon answers his call by coming to Earth in form of a blue-haired fairy, who gives it new life. The tree is picked up as material for a furniture builder named Geppetto, who is still thinking about the idea of making his own family. He then decides to make a puppet as a sort-of-child in order to ready himself to becoming a father, but the resulting puppet turns out to be alive...
The adaptation streamlines many aspects of the original story while at the same time it adds new material to the plot.
!!This adaptation contains examples of:
* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance:
** Lampwick appears way earlier than in the book. In fact, Geppetto decides to make a puppet rather than have a proper child ''exactly'' because he doesn't want to have a kid like Lampwick.
** The Cat and the Fox have a brief cameo when Pinocchio leaves Geppetto's home for the first time and comes to town.
* AdaptationalExplanation: In the original book, it's never explained how Pinocchio came to life: he is already capable of speech as a piece of wood and that's it. The musical adds a full introduction revealing he was originally a secular pine tree that was struck by lightning, fell down and was blessed with the gift of life by a passerby Blue Fairy.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Lampwick tries to save Pinocchio from being drowned by the ringmaster in this version, only to be punished by being sold to a butcher.
* AdaptationalJobChange: Downplayed with Geppetto. While he's still a woodcarver as in the original book, he now works in what appears to be a furniture factory.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** The fishes who eat Pinocchio's donkey skin turning him back into are replaced with mermaids who transform him with their magic.
** As in other adaptations, the Terrible Dogfish is turned into a whale.
* AdaptedOut:
** As with many other adaptations, this musical removes all the events between Pinocchio's meeting with the Blue Fairy and the Land of Toys. As a result characters like the snake, the weasels and the Green Fisherman are nowhere to be found.
** Most of the animal characters seen in the Blue Fairy's house, like the three doctors and the pallbearer rabbits, are completely missing. Her ensemble is instead formed by three birds (a crow and two owls) and two poodle-headed butlers inspired by Medoro from the original book.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: The show is based on the book ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio''.
* BecomeARealBoy: Curiously, this adaptation doesn't give Pinocchio the objective to become a real boy until the very end, when [[spoiler:he's ditched by Lampwick, who became more mature and is now ashamed by the idea of hanging out with a puppet that behaves like a small child]] and realizes that he can't grow up as a puppet.
* BeingGoodSucks: Mangiafuoco clearly hates being a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and takes a good chunk of his screentime complaining about how he's easily moved by other people's sad stories.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Multiple moments feature actors appearing between the audience.
** The scene of Pinocchio entering Mangiafuoco's show is rendered in a meta way: the main stage features Mangiafuoco's puppets acting their show, while Pinocchio appears in the actual crowd and climbs on the seats in order to be noticed by them. He also has a brief interaction with the audience member closer to the seat he climbed on.
** The circus scene is set in a similar tone: this time it's the Cricket going through the audience searching for Pinocchio.
** "Tutti in piazza" ("Everyone in the town square") has backup dancers running between the audience, encouraging them to join in their celebration.
* CanonForeigner: The show adds a few characters that were not in the original story, such as Geppetto's coworker Angela and Lampwick's mother.
* CompositeCharacter: The show combines the Coachman and the circus ringmaster into a single character
* CompressedAdaptation: In order to fit into a 2-hour show, a large chunk of the story is removed, going straight from Pinocchio leaving the Blue Fairy's house to him and Lampwick going to the Land of Toys.
* CrowdSong: "Buongiorno" ("Good morning"), the song sung by the townpeople when Pinocchio goes in town for the first time. The song has Pinocchio learn how city life works, while the Cat, the Fox and Lampwick try to deviate him suggesting he shouldn't go to school as the other people told him.
* DastardlyWhiplash: The Coachman's design clearly follows the archetype: he's tall, has a thin, curled moustache and is always seen with a hat on his head, whether he's a bus driver or a circus ringmaster.
* DidIMentionItsChristmas: The final part of the story is set on Christmas, but outside of two off-handed mentions of the fact and a single song themed around it it's not important to the plot.
* DistantDuet: "Voglio andare via" ("I want to go away") it's a rare 3-person variant. It's sung by Pinocchio, Geppetto and Angela, each singing about how they want to leave their current situation and live together as a family.
* EducationalSong: The chorus of "Buongiorno" has Angela teaching Pinocchio about the days of the week.
* FashionableAsymmetry: The Fox wears mismatched boots, with one of them being visibly shorter than the other.
* FilmedStageProduction: The musical had a filmed version which was aired on TV on Christmas day in 2005 and later was released on DVD. It's currently available for streaming on Creator/PrimeVideo, at least in Italy.
* FriendshipSong: "Un vero amico" ("A true friend"), a duet between Pinocchio and Lampwick before they're sent to die as donkeys.
* GenderFlip: As in many other adaptations, the Fox is a female character in this version.
* GodOfTheMoon: While never said out loud, the show clearly implies that the Blue Fairy is the moon in human form that came down to Earth to help Pinocchio.
* HeroicBSOD: In the Land of Toys, the Cricket comes out and tries to save Pinocchio from the place, only to be ignored. The Cricket leaves the scene destroyed, declaring that Pinocchio doesn't have any kind of coscience anymore.
* HomesicknessHymn: "Voglio andare via" begins as such with Pinocchio's desire to leave the Land of Toys, until Geppetto and Angela's lyrics begin playing.
* InvisibleToNormals: The cricket appears only to Pinocchio and vanishes as soon as anyone else enters the scene.
* IWantSong: "Un figlio perfetto" ("A perfect child"), where Geppetto sings about how his ideal son should behave. After Lampwick notices that "he's singing about a puppet, not a living child", Pinocchio's creation is kickstarted and goes on while the song continues.
* KarmaHoudini: The Cat and the Fox completely disappear from the story after they try to kill Pinocchio to get his coins. They then reappear at the end and appear to be still around doing their business.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: After Geppetto and Angela share their first kiss towards the end, Pinocchio asks what's happening. Angela's answer clearly alludes about her state as a CanonForeigner:
-->'''Angela''': Whether you like it or not, Pinocchio, this time you get to have a mom too.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** After 5 months in the Land of Toys, Pinocchio realizes he did the wrong thing and wants to go back home, only to be stopped by the Coachman/Ringmaster as kids aren't allowed to go back home.
** Lampwick feels immediately sorry to have forced Pinocchio to go to the Land of Toys with him after they are both punished with death by the Ringmaster.
* MoodWhiplash: Pinocchio and Lampwick are both sent to be killed after the circus accident, with a sad musical number and gloomy atmosphere all around. The musical number after that, "Galleggiando" ("Floating"), is a latin-inspired dance party with mermaids and sentient seaweed that feels almost out of place with what happened before.
* MythologyGag: When Pinocchio and Geppetto are in the whale's belly, Pinocchio offers to sacrifice a foot to use as burning wood. This references how in the original book he briefly loses both feet while sleeping near a fire.
* NotGrowingUpSucks: At the end of the story, Pinocchio [[spoiler:is ditched by Lampwick, who became a levelheaded teen and as such doesn't want a childish puppet around him to ruin his reputation]]. After asking what "growing up" means, he realizes that as a puppet he [[NeverGrewUp will never become an adult]]. This breaks him up until the Blue Fairy returns to turn him into a real boy.
* ObscuredSpecialEffects: The scene where Pinocchio's nose grows has him behind a curtain the whole time, so that the trick is done by using only shadows.
* OpeningChorus: The show opens with "C'era una volta" ("Once upon a time"), a prologue song that tells the backstory of the piece of wood that would become Pinocchio.
* ParentalLoveSong: "Insieme" ("Together"), a duet between Geppetto and Pinocchio about their father-son relationship.
* QuarrelingSong: "Il grillo parlante" ("The talking cricket") is a duet between the Cricket and Pinocchio, with the former trying desperately to make the latter follow him. A brief scene later, a reprise starts... [[NoReprisePlease and is abruptly interrupted by Pinocchio smacking the Cricket on his head with a pot.]]
* SchoolForScheming: The musical's interpretation of the Land of Toys is a fake school where kids are encouraged to destroy the books and do nothing but eat junk food, dance and have fun for months until one day they suddenly turn into donkeys.
* SettingUpdate: While the original story was written and set in the late 800's, this adaptation is set in an ambiguous time period: Geppetto's house features a gas stove and a refrigerator, the carriage that brings kids to the Land of Toys is replaced with a bus, the proper introduction of the Cat and the Fox has them being chased by police cars and ''helicopters'', [[spoiler:the now mature Lampwick at the end wears a very out-of-place leather jacket]] and a few throwaway lines mention stuff that wasn't very much around in the '800 like drugs, plastic surgery or sushi, but everything else seems unchanged.
* ShoutOut: When the Cricket briefly appears to alert Pinocchio that the Fox and the Cat are scamming him, he [[AsideGlance looks at the audience]] and says [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird "I tawt I taw a cwicket"]].
* SparedByTheAdaptation:
** As in other adaptations, the Cricket doesn't die after his first appearance: he's just knocked out senseless the time Pinocchio needs to run away from home while Geppetto is out. He reappears a few times during the show.
** In the original book, [[spoiler:Lampwick is bought by a farmer while still in form of a donkey and dies of overexertion a short while after Pinocchio realizes it's him]]. In this version, when Pinocchio and Geppetto return to their hometown [[spoiler:Lampwick is there too, somehow back as a human]].
* TrophyChild: After assisting once again at Lampwick disobeying to his mom, Geppetto claims that he aspires to have a perfect, obedient child. As Lampwick makes him notice that what he's describing sounds more like a puppet than a human being, he decides to make a puppet to be his son.
* UnexplainedRecovery: It's not explained how [[spoiler:Lampwick]] manages to come back to town at the end of the story.
* VillainRecruitmentSong: Both of the Cat and the Fox songs, "Gatto & Volpe S.p.A." ("Cat & Fox, inc.") and "Da così a così" ("From this to this"), are about them convincing other people (a nondescript audience in the former, Pinocchio in the latter) to join their fraudulent business.
* AWildRapperAppears: The Cricket's only musical number is initially styled after 90's Italian rap songs: while Pinocchio's bars in the song have a more classic melody in the background, the Cricket's are faster, more techno-like and feature stock 90's rap sound effects. As the song progresses, the Cricket's part of the song starts mellowing out and becomes the same as Pinocchio's. The sound effects still come back later to accompany the Cricket's later appearances.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Angela passes a good chunk of her appearances trying to have Geppetto admit he loves her, until the end when he realizes that he needs a female presence in his house.
