melampo was the name of the whale in pinocchio.
melampo was the name of the whale in pinocchio.
what was the name of the whale in pinocchio?
melampo
geppetto is the title character in the 2000 made-for-television musical, portrayed by drew carey. he dearly wishes to become a father until one night, the blue fairy appears in his workshop and brings pinocchio to life. at first, geppetto is happy that his wish came true, but runs into problems with pinocchio asking persistent questions when trying to get to sleep, wandering off and getting into mischief when introducing him to the townspeople of villagio, lying, and not interested in being a toymaker. the next day, geppetto sends pinocchio off to school, telling him to just act like all of the other children and he'll be alright. however, pinocchio gets sent home from school after he gets into a fight for imitating all the other children, disappointing geppetto. on their way home, they meet stromboli the puppeteer who is fascinated by pinocchio and thinks he would be worth a fortune to him as the main attraction in his puppet show. after a brief confrontation with the blue fairy doesn't go well, geppetto returns home, only to find out that pinocchio ran away to live with stromboli, who keeps him under a contract he had him sign. when geppetto arrives after the show, stromboli says pinocchio left, claiming that he wanted to see the world, only to find pinocchio running off to pleasure island and they both set out to find him. along the way, geppetto meets a magician named lezarno and visits the town of idylia where professor buonragazzo and his son make perfectly obedient children for any family that wants one. he then arrives at pleasure island and discovers the terrible curse it harnesses. after riding the rollercoaster, the boys all "make jackasses of themselves" by turning into donkeys. he arrives at the rollercoaster to rescue pinocchio, but he refuses, saying he was a big disappointment to him, gets on the ride, and is shipped off to the salt mines after having been turned into a donkey. geppetto, keeping up with the ship using a tiny fishing boat, suddenly gets swallowed by a monstrous whale where pinocchio tells him that after he jumped in the water to save him, the donkey curse washed away and he became human again. after making up their misunderstanding, pinocchio tells as many lies as he can, causing his nose to grow, which tickles the whale's uvula, causing it to throw them up. they then return home to villagio, only to find stromboli waiting to take pinocchio back, still keeping him under the contract he signed earlier. geppetto offers his entire shop in exchange, only for stromboli to kidnap pinocchio and geppetto pleads and begs to the blue fairy, who can no longer help him, to grant him one last wish. the fairy then turns pinocchio into a real boy, shoos stromboli away with her magic, and transformed the words on the workshop sign to "geppetto & son," thus resulting in pinocchio and geppetto living happily ever after.
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a ringmaster and his roustabouts welcome the boys to pleasure island ("pleasure island") and they all have fun, creating chaos everywhere they go. geppetto arrives to take pinocchio home, but pinocchio accuses geppetto of not wanting him. he states that pleasure island is his new home. at that moment, pinocchio and the other delinquents turn into donkeys. the ringmaster orders them hauled away and geppetto pursues a ship containing the transformed pinocchio and the other donkeys leaving pleasure island ("pleasure island (reprise)"). a huge whale swallows geppetto and his rowboat whole. inside the whale, pinocchio explains that when he jumped in the water to save geppetto after he got swallowed by the whale, the donkey curse washed away and he became human again. geppetto promises pinocchio that their relationship will be different from now on ("geppetto and son (whale reprise)"). after getting out of the whale when pinocchio has geppetto make him tell as many lies as he can, causing his nose to grow so it can tickle the whale's uvula to get it to throw them up, they return to the toy shop, only to find stromboli and the blue fairy waiting for them. geppetto offers stromboli his whole workshop in exchange for letting him keep pinocchio ("since i gave my heart away"). stromboli refuses to cooperate, but the fairy intercedes, transforming pinocchio into a real boy, and therefore rendering him worthless to stromboli. the blue fairy, satisfied that geppetto and pinocchio are now a real father and a real son, notes that her perfect wish record is still intact.
disney's my son pinocchio: geppetto's musical tale