Trivia / Geppetto

• Awesome, Dear Boy: Julia Louis-Dreyfus had dreamed of playing the Blue Fairy when she was 6 years old.
• Creator Backlash: Drew Carey does not look back on this film fondly, something the cast of Whose Line Is It Anyway? made sure he wouldn't forget.
  • (During a game of Scenes from a Hat with the suggestion being: 'The good news, and the bad news'.)
    (Greg Proops pulls Wayne Brady with him onto the stage.)
    Greg: Merry Christmas, Tommy! Look! It's "Geppetto" on DVD!
    (Drew rings buzzer and has a look on his face.)
    Wayne: I liked it! I liked it, I was in it!
    Greg: I liked it too. The bad news was it was Christmas.
    Drew: I'm liking this good news, bad news one. That was good. (pulls out a new suggestion) Here's another one. "Pull the string on the Drew Carey doll and it says..."
    (Colin Mochrie walks forward and pretends to pull a string on a doll in his hands.)
    Colin: "It was nice the time we worked together, Greg. You're fired."
• In Memoriam: Dedicated to the memory of Martin and Sunny Stern.
• Star-Derailing Role: The movie was a notorious bomb that dogged Drew Carey for a few years; even the Whose Line Is It Anyway? gang took several shots at it.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally conceived as a vehicle for a Julie Andrews-Dick Van Dyke reunion.
  • Steve Martin and Robin Williams turned down the role of Gepetto.

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