Seven - Whistling
Jiminy Cricket was looking at his reflection in a red, shiny pot while humming a cheerful little tune. "Not bad, says I," Jiminy told himself as Pinocchio looked at his own reflection in the pot.
Maria leaned over to see the two with a smile and asked, "Jiminy, your task?"
"Oh!" Jiminy chuckled as he hopped onto a matchbox towards Pinocchio, "Almost forgot about you! Well, Pinoke, maybe you and I better have a little heart-to-heart talk? And how about you too, Maria?"
"Why? Pinocchio asked as he looked at the cricket.
"Well," said Jiminy, "You wanna be a real boy, don't you?"
"Uh-huh," answered Pinocchio.
"And you wanna be a superstar sister, too, right, Maria?" Jiminy asked.
"Oh yes," said Maria.
Jiminy hopped off the matchbox and told Pinocchio, "Sit down, son!" Pinocchio sat down on his seat with a slight thud; Maria giggled at the sight. Jiminy sat back down on the matchbox and told Pinocchio and Maria, "Now you see, the world is full of temptations."
"Temptations?" Pinocchio asked.
"Yep, temptations!" Jiminy explained, "They're the wrong things that seem right at the time, but uh, even though the right things may s-seem wrong sometimes, sometimes the wrong things maybe right at the wrong time, or vice versa!" He let out a nervous chuckle before clearing his throat and asking, "Understand?"
Pinocchio smiled for a bit, but then he shook his head and answered, "Uh-uh."
Maria said with a smile, "Maybe things will make more sense later when Signore Gepetto is awake."
"Signore Gepetto?" Pinocchio asked.
"The old man sleeping over there," Maria said as she pointed to Gepetto sleeping in his bed.
As Jiminy did a face palm at Pinocchio not understanding his "explanation" and Maria's suggestion to listen to Gepetto instead of the cricket, Pinocchio beamed, "But I'm gonna do right!"
"Atta boy, Pinoke!" Jiminy said with a smile as he hopped off the matchbox, "And you, Maria?"
"Oh, I'll help Pinocchio out so I can achieve my own dream!" Maria beamed in.
Jiminy hopped over to Pinocchio's foot as he said, "I'm gonna help you, too! And anytime you two need me, you know, just whistle – like this!" The cricket removed his hat and did a little whistle.
"Like this?" Pinocchio asked. He tried whistling, too, but he only managed to blow some air.
"No, no, try it again, Pinoke," Jiminy said.
"Like this?" Pinocchio asked; he tried whistling again, but he only got air again.
"No, son," said the cricket
"Like this," Maria said as she whistled the same tune as Jiminy.
"Maria's got it," Jiminy said to the puppet, "Now listen." He whistled a little tune. Pinocchio tried repeating until he managed to whistle the very last two notes. "That's it!" Pinocchio beamed, "Now let's sing it!" He did a little dance for the puppet and the human girl as he sang:
When you get in trouble
And you don't know right from wrong
Give a little whistle (whistles into his hat before covering it with his hand)
Give a little whistle (removes his hand to let the whistle's echo come out his hat)
When you meet temptation
And the urge is very strong
Give a little whistle (2x)
Maria managed to whistle a little bit, and Pinocchio tried copying Jiminy's move of whistling into his hat, although he only managed to blow out some air. As the puppet looked inside his hat for the whistle, Jiminy kept singing:
Not just a little squeak
Pucker up and blow! (bows into a jug)
And if your whistle's weak, yell…
"Jiminy Cricket!" Pinocchio guessed as he stood up with a smile.
"That's right," Maria beamed.
"Right!" added Jiminy as he danced on a violin's strings like a tightrope walker and kept singing:
Take the straight and narrow path
And if you start to slide
Give a little whistle (2x)
And always let your conscience be your guide!
One of the strings then snapped at Jiminy, making him jump off onto a shelf, and then he used his umbrella like a trombone to hum his song. When he came to a wooden pipe, Jiminy made noises like he were dropping down (which eventually did before landing onto a sawblade). The cricket then whistled his song as he jumped up and down on the sawblade before landing on a cuckoo clock; Jiminy moved the minute hand and knocked the door with his umbrella, before leading a line of figurines representing a farmer, his wife, a cow, and a maiden ringing bells. As the clock figurines went into a different door, Jiminy sang as he admired the maiden figure:
Take the straight and narrow path
And if you start to slide
Give a little whistle
(tips his hat) Yoo-hoo!
Give a little whistle
Woo-hoo!
And always let your conscience be your guide!
As Jiminy tried to follow the maiden, the door closed, making him bump into the door, and Maria giggled at the sight. Meanwhile, Pinocchio was walking on his shelf and sang, "And always let your conscience be your guide!" However, the little puppet wasn't looking where he was going, so he got his feet caught in some pails, and then bumped into a bunch of bottles!
"Look out!" cried Jiminy.
"Oh no!" Maria gasped as the falling bottles made noise. Meanwhile, Gepetto, Figaro, and Cleo woke up with surprise when they heard the crash!
