In Popular Culture
Geppetto is one of the many characters from fairy tales and classic stories that appear in Shrek. Geppetto is once again Pinocchio's father, and sells the puppet to Farquaad's army in the first film. In the animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Geppetto and Pinocchio appear in the episode "Billy Ocean" when Billy is lost at sea when he is swallowed by Blubbery Joe, who has already swallowed them too. In GMA Network's gag show, Bubble Gang, the characters of Tio Petto and Panopio are parodies of Geppetto and Pinocchio, respectively. In the Avengers Fairy Tales by Marvel Fairy Tales, the character of Hank Pym appears as Geppetto. Several television shows also portray the character as a possible pedophile to parody the character and his reasons for making the wooden boy. In Mad, Geppetto is seen controlling Pinocchio, and then he complains that Pinocchio has no "midi-chlorians" after Count Poo-Poo slashed Pinocchio's strings.
Geppetto is also a character in the Eleventh Hour (UK TV series) and the Eleventh Hour (U.S. TV series), named for his desire to produce a human clone to replace his lost son.
In the U.S. TV series Once Upon a Time, in addition to being depicted as the toymaker and Pinocchio's father, Geppetto is also shown as a young boy whose parents die after Jiminy inadvertently uses magic from Rumpelstilskin. His Real World counterpart Marco is an older man.
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