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[foundherwings]

Kudos to whoever can name every movie referenced.

TEN lessons you learned from Disney Movies.

1. Boys from the wrong side of the tracks aren't always bad.
2. No one is ever too close to try and hurt you.
3. The good guy Justice always wins out in the end, even if it takes a while to get there

Comments

[trust_issue]

10. Never follow the advice of an old guy who lives in an overgrown cabin in the woods. Even if he'll make you the king of England someday. That movie still doesn't make any sense to me.

I know. It makes you wonder if the kid has ever heard of "stranger danger".

[foundherwings]

I know, seriously. If it had been me, I would have been running the other way.

[trust_issue]

I can't begin to tell you how many red flags Geppetto brings up for me.

[foundherwings]

Geppetto? Really?

[trust_issue]

I don't buy the Blue Fairy-turning-a-puppet-into-a-boy story for a minute. Pinocchio was an abused child and Geppetto a pedophile.

[foundherwings]

See, my cop spawn brain was more concerned with the fox and the other guy who sold Pinocchio into slavery (or kind of? It's been a while since I've seen the movie. The brother spawn aren't too big on that one). There I saw kidnapping, loud and clear.

Then again, I wouldn't have even known what a pedophile was when I was a kid. My dad kept me pretty sheltered from his work.

[trust_issue]

How do you think Geppetto got Pinocchio in the first place. The fox and the other guy were connected. Plain and simple.

I wasn't so, well, lucky.

[foundherwings]

I was Daddy's Little Girl. I was the last one of his children that he wanted to join the force.

[trust_issue]

I was my old man's only little girl. He only had two requests of me. One. Don't be a cop. And two. Don't get involved with a cop. At least my badge doesn't say Boston Police Department.

[foundherwings]

At least there's that much. My dad didn't really care if I got involved with a cop, he just asked that it not be Don Flack.

[trust_issue]

Why did he single out Flack?

[foundherwings]

He worked with his dad. They didn't like each other much, and apparently all Flacks are the same.

[trust_issue]

...all Flacks are the same. That sounds like has a Montague and Capulet Hatfield and McCoy quality to it. I think I was seventeen when my father put out a general memo that said if any of the Paddies he worked with so much as looked in my direction he'd castrate them.

[foundherwings]

Yeah, well -- my dad knows I can take care of myself. Flack was the only one he warned.

[trust_issue]

He must have thought there was a reason to put him on notice.

[foundherwings]

Yeah -- I still have no idea why.