He sneers, “What do I look like, a jackass?” “You sure do!” Pinocchio replies, with a giggle. Clearly, Pinocchio is a sociopath, because there is nothing remotely funny about the situation.

Pinocchio escapes before he can become a total jackass, but—and I forgot this part—our hero remains an unholy union of wood and donkey flesh for the rest of the movie.

1 I don't think "jackass" is a naughty word. I've always understood it as another way of saying "idiot". My brother and I grew up quoting Disney's "Pinocchio" (1940) because they repeatedly used ...