Yeah! First of all, it is Jiminy Cricket, not Jimmy Cricket. Secondly, Jiminy Cricket would be offended to be compared to the Holy I-can-only-find-your-keys-as-long-as-you-didn't-drop-them-down-a-drain Ghost.
That Jiminy Cricket analogy was taught to me too- way before the "Especially For Mormons" material help books came out. Not saying that that's where the speaker obtained his talk, but those are full of drivel like that.
Jiminy Cricket was voiced by a singer of novelty tunes named Ukulele Ike. He would be hired to sing on the original mickey mouse club and would often be inebriated. Disney would fire him and then have to rehire him because there was no other voice of Jiminy Cricket. Look for his tunes "give it to Mary with Love" or "I'm a bear in a lady's boudoir".
He sings and dances? He's Fred Astaire? I'm not up on my fairy tales, and never saw pinocchio (mabye I did when I was 4 or 5, but I really don't remember the story). When I hear the name Jiminy Cricket singing and dancing like Fred Astaire using a cane comes to mind-- must be something I saw on video clips.
So if they build a Latter-Day theme park on some of that land they're buying down in Florida, do you think the HG will be portrayed as a sort of Jiminy Cricket-like character?
Hey, the youth speaker said "Jimmy Cricket." That's actually Jiminy's evil twin. Jimmy and Stan are buddies. And Jimmy has two left feet. More lies from the pulpit at SM.