Episode Title:
Be a Clown!.
Episode Description:
After being captured by Sneeroff Pinocchio saves Jack and Willie, who are captured in one of Sneeroff's traps, by convincing the man to train them as performing animals. Though the two animals have difficulty learning to balance on a ball Pinocchio manages to learn quickly, but Sneeroff insists that the performance was bad as he's supposed to be a clown and fall off of the ball to make the audience laugh as clowns, despite the puppet's objections about being a clown and humiliating himself by pretending to be bad at something. Meanwhile Geppetto heads out in search of his son and Charlie eventually decides to accompany him; while on tour Pinocchio misses his father and gets in trouble with Sneeroff when he stops performing his clown routine to perform tricks while balancing on a ball and when he ruins a clown boxing act by fighting for real. Because the group didn't make any money that day, Sneeroff sends his performers to steal chickens from a nearby farm, along with his dog Doro to make sure they return; Jack and Willie each manage to steal a chicken but Pinocchio wakes one up which alerts Geppetto, however when he tries to warn the farmers they tie him up in the barn until Charlie frees him, meanwhile Sneeroff refuses to give the animals either of the chickens they stole for him. After the events of the night Pinocchio performs his clown act properly, but still misses his father and hates being humiliated.
