History YMMV / Pinocchio

** Lampwick and Tiger Lily From Peter Pan 1953 for The fact that they look cute Together !

** One of Geppetto's clocks depicts a drunk man emerging from a bar to hiccup the hour. ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' also had a real cuckoo clock showing Homer do the exact same thing. Eventually, Disney acquired the rights to Creator/20thCenturyFox, and hence, ''The Simpsons''.

* HarsherInHindsight The scene of Pinocchio and Lampwick smoking becomes this when you remember that [[Creator/WaltDisney Walt Disney]] died in 1966 from lung cancer due to his excessive smoking.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Even when taking into consideration the ValuesDissonance discussed prior, and the fact that the MPAA used to be much more lenient about its film ratings in the 1960s and 70s, the fact remains that a movie which depicts Pinnochio’s conscience as a CovertPervert, underage drinking and smoking, gratuitous violence and swearing, an on-screen character death, a child being horrifically transformed into a donkey (a scene that was known to have been quite terrifying to watch for countless children in the 1940s, and to this very day), several other boys-turned-donkeys being brutally enslaved (and not being rescued by the end), and multiple villains [[KarmaHoudini getting away with their crimes]], somehow received a ''G rating.'' Not only that, it ''still'' has that G rating, despite the fact that movies will receive a PG for even the slightest insinuation of kid-unfriendly themes nowadays.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Coachman. Fans are split on whether or not he's one of the [[LoveToHate best]] or [[TheScrappy worst]] Disney villains, along with the more popular Honest John and Stromboli. Some fans find him to be a character, despite having practically no interaction with the protagonist/s, love him for how evil he is and how he subverts the DisneyVillainDeath trope. Other fans, on the other hand, hate him for being a {{Jerkass}} and how, despite turning innocent little boys into donkeys and making them suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, he doesn't receive any form of comeuppance for his actions, just like in the original Collodi's novel. It doesn't help that his "They never come back... as BOYS!" quote and face has gained MemeticMutation.

** Honest John at one point refers to Stromboli as a gypsy, which in decades since has viewed as a slur against Romani people.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: The Coachman. Fans are split on whether or not he's one of the [[LoveToHate best]] or [[TheScrappy worst]] Disney villains, along with the more and most popular Stromboli. Some fans find him to be a character, despite having practically no interaction with the protagonist/s, love him for how evil he is and how he subverts the DisneyVillainDeath trope. Other fans, on the other hand, hate him for being a {{Jerkass}} and how, despite turning innocent little boys into donkeys and making them suffer a FateWorseThanDeath, he doesn't receive any form of comeuppance for his actions, just like in the original Collodi's novel. It doesn't help that his "They never come back... as BOYS!" quote and face has gained MemeticMutation.

** The fairy gives Pinocchio a lecture about lying, obviously meant as {{an Aesop}} for the audience.

** Even if the animated film mentioned above had been completed and released, it would still have been far for the first Pinocchio film, at least in terms of time; the very first film adaptation, or at least the oldest one known to exist, is an Italian SilentFilm from 1911, titled ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XvLwWHm3A_c&t=0s&pp=ygUOcGlub2NjaGlvIDE5MTE%3D The Adventures of Pinocchio]]''. Being one of the first feature-length movies, it is very different from adaptations that came after, largely in part because filmmaking was still a very new concept at the time and the way films were wrote, edited, shot, and even acted are very different than today as these aspects of filmmaking weren't set in stone. Certain events of the novel are changed, omitted entirely, or occur off-screen. The film itself is very unsettling due to the surreal events of the novel being shown in a format that hadn't been perfected and was still in it's infancy, given the film an unnerving dreamlike quality.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: We sadly don't get to see on-screen any of the four despicable villains (Coachman, Stromboli, Honest John, and Gideon) suffer any punishment. This is especially bad in the case of the Coachman, who's one of the [[CompleteMonster vilest villains Disney's ever concocted]]. In fact, the only "[[DesignatedVillain villain]]" who undergoes punishment is Lampwick, and not only is he merely a {{Jerkass}}, [[PetTheDog but one who's actually fairly nice to Pinocchio]], [[FateWorseThanDeath and his fate are so utterly horrific]] [[DisproportionateRetribution that the audience will find little satisfaction from it]].

** Geppetto. He first desperately looks for his kid, then he get swallowed along Figaro and Cleo in the belly of a whale where he risks to die starving. Then [[spoiler: Pinocchio [[HeroicSacrifice dies saving his life]] leading Geppetto to mourn his son's loss until the Blue Fairy revives him as a real boy.]]

** Geppetto says to Figaro in one scene "Go to sleep my Little Mermaid". 49 years before Disney's animated film with that title.

%%* CrossoverShip:
%%** Jiminy and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Tinker Bell.]]
%%** Pinocchio and [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Alice.]]

** Despite the film's age, this is far from the first animated film adaptation of Collodi's novel; while the Pinocchio [[Franchise/{{Pinocchio}} franchise page]] mentions one pre-existing adaptation from the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] the orevious year in 1939,''[[Literature/TheGoldenKeyOrTheAdventuresOfBuratino The Golden Key]]'' which did utilize stop-motion and claymation, there was also an attempt in 1936 to create an animated adaptation in Pinocchio's home country of Italy, though according to one of the men involved, the project was doomed to failure from the start; with a budget of 1'000'000 lira, they ended up running out of money after having made 150'000 drawings and obtaining 2'500 feet of film, but lacked the needed equipment to convert the drawings into animation cels with the film itself potentially having a runtime of close to 2 hours. It was never completed and only the film's script and a few drawings are known to have survived. Had it been fully completed, it would have been the first cel-animated film ever made, beating Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' by a year.

** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen At one point during the movie's production]], the "I've Got No Strings" musical number planned to feature a {{blackface}} puppet with enormous duck-like lips representing African lip plates that was quickly scrapped and unused. Only [[https://photos.auctionanything.com/x/9186/m12ms.jpeg a single model sheet of that scene is known to exist]], and in the final film it only appears in the background among the other puppets, [[https://animationscreencaps.com/pinocchio-1940/page/28 most notably before Stromboli puts Pinocchio in a cage]], although it fortunately looks more like an anthropomorphic duck than a horrific racist stereotype.