History WesternAnimation / Goofy

* IHaveManyNames: Dippy Dawg, George Geef, G.G. Geef, James Boyd, Mr. Walker, Mr. Wheeler, Goofus D. Dawg., Mr. X, Driverius Timidicus, Motoramus Fidgitus, Neglectarus Maximus, Stupidicus Ultimus

** This trope is also played to perfection in the 1950s cartoons where Goofy is depicted as a suburban father named George Geef. A perfect example is "Father's Day Off", in which Goofy, as Geef, is woefully unprepared to take on the responsibilities of running the house in his wife's absence.

* TheSmartOne: While still slow, he tends to pick things up a lot faster than his companions in [[KingdomHearts one of his characterizations]]. He's apparently more computer-literate than [[MickeyMouse Mickey]] here, too!

Goofy is one of the world's most iconic cartoon characters and the third member of WaltDisney's quintessential PowerTrio, along with MickeyMouse and DonaldDuck.

In comic books of the 1970s, he had a SuperHero alter ego, Super Goof. In the 1990s, he starred in a new TV series, ''GoofTroop'', in which he and his son, Max, moved in next door to a LighterAndSofter version of Mickey's nemesis, {{Pete}}. This led to a movie based on the series; ''AGoofyMovie''. Goofy is the only one of the PowerTrio to get a full, non-segmented theatrical movie.

Goofy also features in the ''KingdomHearts'' video game series as a shield-bearing knight and one of [[TheHero Sora]]'s sidekicks alongside [[DonaldDuck Donald]].

* ConjoinedEyes: Averted in his George Geef years and in GoofTroop.

* FormallyNamedPet: Mr. Pettibone, Goofy's pet cat in ''MickeyMouseworks, HouseOfMouse'', and ''MickeyMouseClubhouse''.

* FurryConfusion: When he appears alongside {{Pluto|ThePup}}.
* FurryReminder: He has fewer {{Furry Reminder}}s than either DonaldDuck, MickeyMouse, Clarabelle Cow, or even Pete, but even he has a few.
** In MickeyMouseClubhouse, Willy The Giant refers to him as a dog.

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''StandByMe'':

** In his brief appearance at the end of ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Goofy can be heard proclaiming that Judge Doom couldn't have been a dog, which rather implies that he considers himself to be one.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The shorts, ''Teachers Are People'' and ''Two Weeks Vacation'', were narrated by Alan Reed, the voice of [[TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone]].
** John [=McLeish=], narrator on the "How-To" series, can also be heard on ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'' (the opening narration), ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' (as the prosecutor on Mr. Toad's trial) and the ''LooneyTunes'' short "TheDoverBoys".

* TheOtherDarrin: Has been voiced by many different actors (Pinto Colvig, Hannes Schroll, Bob Jackman, George Johnson, Hal Smith, Tony Pope, Will Ryan and his current actor, Bill Farmer) over the duration of his career.

* {{Rotoscoping}}: The short "Baggage Buster" used rotoscoping to animate Goofy, resulting in more down to earth movement for him. "How to Dance" also uses rotoscoping for a brief scene of a Hula dancer.

* TooDumbToLive: In the cartoons, but he's only a mild example, as he's more klutsy and ignorant than genuinely stupid.

* TheEveryman: The short "Hot To Play Baseball" introduced the idea of Goofy playing the part of many characters at once, with the potential to appeal to everybody.

[[caption-width:300:He'll be falling on his face any second now.]]

* StockScream: His famous scream.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: This is Goofy's whole shtick.

Goofy first appeared in a MickeyMouse short, ''Mickey's Revue'', in 1932. After a few appearances in Mickey's cartoons and joining up with Mickey and Donald in classics such as ''Mickey's Fire Brigade'' and ''Lonesome Ghosts'', Goofy eventually starred in his own series of cartoons, with his voice provided by Pinto Colvig. When Colvig left Disney, Goofy was left without a voice, so Disney made the best of a bad situation and conceived the ''How to...'' shorts, where most of the dialogue was done by a narrator. The concept of the ''How to..'' shorts was so well received, that they are a staple of Disney and considered some of Goofy's best cartoons. One of them, ''The Art of Skiing'', introduced his trademark ''Goofy Holler'' (YAAAAAA-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!).

* ActorAllusion: Once or twice in the old cartoons, Goofy would be humming the song "The World Owes Me a Living", the song of the SillySymphonies short "The Grasshopper and the Ants", the eponymous grasshopper also being voiced by Goofy's actor, Pinto Colvig.

In comic books of the 1970s, he had a SuperHero alter ego, Super Goof. In the 1990s, he starred in a new TV series, ''GoofTroop'', in which he and his son, Max, moved in next door to a LighterAndSofter version of Mickey's nemesis, {{Pete}}. This led to a movie loosely based on the series, ''AGoofyMovie''. Goofy is the only one of the PowerTrio to get a full, non-segmented theatrical movie.

** In his brief appearance at the end of ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Goofy can be heard denying that Judge Doom could have been a dog, which implies that he considers himself to be one.

** He also has a pet grasshopper, which is most likely an allusion to this.

** This trope is also played to perfection in the 1950s cartoons where Goofy is depicted as a suburban father named George Geef.

*** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''StandByMe'':

* ChronicallyCrashedCar: Goofy's cars fall into this trope.

* ConjoinedEyes