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| 9 | ->''"Goofy was someone who never really knew how stupid he was. He thought long and carefully before he did anything, and then he did it wrong."'' |
| 10 | -->-- '''Creator/ArtBabbitt''', from the 1987 documentary, ''Animating Art''. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Goofy is one of the world's most iconic cartoon characters and the third member of Creator/WaltDisney's quintessential PowerTrio, along with WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. |
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| 14 | Goofy first appeared in the 1932 Mickey Mouse short, ''Mickey's Revue''. After a few appearances in Mickey's cartoons and joining up with Mickey and Donald in classics such as ''Mickey's Fire Brigade'', ''Clock Cleaners'', ''Lonesome Ghosts'' and ''Boat Builders'', Goofy eventually began to star in his own series of cartoons, with his voice provided by Pinto Colvig (also known as [[Series/TheBozoShow Bozo the Clown]]). |
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| 16 | When Colvig left Disney in 1938, 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, with Goofy's voice provided mostly by stock audio or an imitator until Colvig's return to Disney in 1944. 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 ''[[StockScream Goofy Holler]]'' (YAAAAAA-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!). |
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| 18 | In The50s, Disney introduced the "Goofy the Everyman" concept, in which Goofy was transformed into a family man going through common everyday trials such as quitting smoking, dieting, raising children, catching a cold and so on. He is never referred to as Goofy in the shorts of this period (though the title cards still said ''Walt Disney Presents Goofy'')--instead, he's usually named George Geef, though some shorts gave him other names. His character design also changed, making his whole body pale instead of just his face[[note]] although he did have pale skin on his hands, legs, and feet in many of his earlier cartoons[[/note]], smaller eyes with eyebrows, removing the long dog-like ears, large buck teeth and his white gloves, giving him a more human-like look and also making him more intelligent and giving him a normal-sounding voice. These shorts depicted him with a wife and son. Often, the rest of society looked just like him, something carried over from the earlier ''How to...'' shorts. The humour was also more sedate, mostly poking fun at suburban life in the 1950s. Although Goofy reverted to his old voice in ''No Smoking,'' and his buckteeth, ears, and gloves had returned in 1952, the "Everyman" era lasted until ''Aquamania'' in 1961, as Goofy reverted back to his old personality by 1965's ''Freewayphobia'' and ''Goofy's Freeway Troubles'' (also known as ''Freewayphobia No. 2''), which were also his last ''How To...'' shorts until [[TurnOfTheMillennium the 2000s]], as well as Pinto Colvig's final performances as Goofy's voice before his death in 1967. After this period, Goofy's appearances slowed down. |
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| 20 | In comic books of The70s, he had a SuperHero alter ego, Super Goof, that is still used in Italian and Scandinavian stories. |
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| 22 | In The90s, he starred in a new TV series, ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', in which he and his son Max moved next door to a LighterAndSofter version of Mickey's nemesis, WesternAnimation/{{Pete}}. This led to a movie based on the series, ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie''. Goofy is the only one of the PowerTrio to star in a full, non-segmented theatrical feature film. |
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| 24 | In recent years, Goofy has re-appeared along with the rest of the gang in the new ''WesternAnimation/{{Mickey Mouse|2013}}'' shorts. Goofy is also featured in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' video game series as a shield-bearing knight and one of [[TheHero Sora's]] sidekicks alongside Donald. |
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| 26 | One of the most noted qualities of Goofy's slapstick humor lies in the fact that when he does something guaranteed to result in HilarityEnsues (which is just about everything he does), there is a blatantly obvious outcome as to how it will go wrong - for example, falling off a ledge or crashing into something. The obvious outcome should ''never'' be the end of it and must in itself lead to DisasterDominoes that the audience did ''not'' see coming. |
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| 28 | Oh, and for the record, he's an anthropomorphic dog. [[DependingOnTheAuthor Most of the time, at least.]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | His current official voice actor, and probably most memorable voice, is Creator/BillFarmer, who is also the current voice of WesternAnimation/{{Pluto|ThePup}}. |
| 31 | ---- |
| 32 | [[folder: Individual Shorts Filmography]] |
| 33 | !1930s |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * "Mickey's Revue" (1932): First appearance of Goofy, where [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness he's an old geezer]] crumpling up peanuts and doing his SignatureLaugh, much to the annoyance of the audience. |
| 36 | * "The Whoopee Party" (1932): First time Goofy is seen as part of Mickey's posse of friends, and [[AgeLift Age Lifted]] into his more current state. |
| 37 | * "Mickey's Mellerdrammer" (1933) |
| 38 | * "Ye Olden Days" (1933): Last time the character would be referred to as "Dippy Dawg." |
| 39 | * "Orphan's Benefit" (1934): First cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy all in the same cartoon, though not performing as a team. |
| 40 | * "WesternAnimation/TheBandConcert" (1935): First time Goofy appeared in color. |
| 41 | * "Mickey's Service Station" (1935): First time Mickey, Donald, and Goofy appeared in a short as a team. |
| 42 | * "Mickey's Fire Brigade" (1935) |
| 43 | * "On Ice" (1935) |
| 44 | * "WesternAnimation/MickeysPoloTeam" (1936) |
| 45 | * "WesternAnimation/MovingDay" (1936): First time Goofy was seen with his IconicOutfit. |
| 46 | * "WesternAnimation/MickeysAmateurs" (1937) |
| 47 | * "WesternAnimation/ClockCleaners" (1937) |
| 48 | * "WesternAnimation/LonesomeGhosts" (1937) |
| 49 | * "WesternAnimation/MickeysTrailer" (1938) |
| 50 | * "Polar Trappers" (1938): First time the character was known as "Goofy". First time Goofy appeared in a short without Mickey. First entry in the "Donald and Goofy" series. |
| 51 | * "Goofy and Wilbur" (1939) First solo short. |
| 52 | |
| 53 | !1940s |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * "Goofy's Glider" (1940): First "How to" short. |
| 56 | * "Baggage Buster" (1941) |
| 57 | * "WesternAnimation/TheArtOfSkiing" (1941): Marks the debut of the Goofy yell. |
| 58 | * "WesternAnimation/TheArtOfSelfDefense" (1941) |
| 59 | * "WesternAnimation/HowToPlayBaseball" (1942) |
| 60 | * "WesternAnimation/TheOlympicChamp" (1942) |
| 61 | * "WesternAnimation/HowToSwim" (1942) |
| 62 | * "How to Fish" (1942) |
| 63 | * "El Gaucho Goofy" (1943, originally part of ''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'', 1942) |
| 64 | * "Victory Vehicles" (1943) |
| 65 | * "How to Be a Sailor" (1944) |
| 66 | * "WesternAnimation/HowToPlayGolf" (1944) |
| 67 | * "WesternAnimation/HowToPlayFootball" (1944) |
| 68 | * "WesternAnimation/TigerTrouble" (1945) |
| 69 | * "WesternAnimation/AfricanDiary" (1945) |
| 70 | * "WesternAnimation/CalifornyErBust" (1945) |
| 71 | * "WesternAnimation/HockeyHomicide" (1945) |
| 72 | * "WesternAnimation/KnightForADay" (1946) |
| 73 | * "WesternAnimation/DoubleDribble" (1946) |
| 74 | * "Crazy with the Heat" (1947) |
| 75 | * "Foul Hunting" (1947) |
| 76 | * "They're Off" (1948) |
| 77 | * "The Big Wash" (1948) Last appearance of Goofy in his traditional big eye look. |
| 78 | * "WesternAnimation/TennisRacquet" (1949) First appearance of Goofy redesigned to have smaller eyes with eyebrows. The only appearance of Goofy with brown fur. |
| 79 | * "WesternAnimation/GoofyGymnastics" (1949): Shown playing in a theater in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', despite the film taking place two years before the film was released. |
| 80 | |
| 81 | !1950s |
| 82 | |
| 83 | * "How to Ride a Horse" (1950, originally part of ''Film/TheReluctantDragon'', 1941) |
| 84 | * "WesternAnimation/MotorMania" (1950) Prototype of Goofy in his George Geef persona. Here he's referred to as both Mr. Walker and Mr. Wheeler. |
| 85 | * "Hold That Pose" (1950) |
| 86 | * "Lion Down" (1951) |
| 87 | * "Home Made Home" (1951) |
| 88 | * "Cold War" (1951) First appearance of Goofy in his George Geef persona. |
| 89 | * "WesternAnimation/TomorrowWeDiet" (1951) |
| 90 | * "WesternAnimation/GetRichQuick" (1951) |
| 91 | * "WesternAnimation/FathersArePeople" (1951) |
| 92 | * "WesternAnimation/NoSmoking" (1951) The return of the Goofy persona (though he would still be referred to as George Geef for the rest of the 50's with a few exceptions). |
| 93 | * "Father's Lion" (1952) |
| 94 | * "Hello, Aloha" (1952) |
| 95 | * "Man's Best Friend" (1952) |
| 96 | * "WesternAnimation/TwoGunGoofy" (1952) Goofy is redesigned to have slightly larger eyes and his two buckteeth are moved together to the center of his mouth. |
| 97 | * "WesternAnimation/TeachersArePeople" (1952) |
| 98 | * "Two Weeks Vacation" (1952) |
| 99 | * "WesternAnimation/HowToBeADetective" (1952) |
| 100 | * "Father's Day Off" (1953) |
| 101 | * "WesternAnimation/ForWhomTheBullsToil" (1953) A rare entry where Goofy is in his traditional clothes. |
| 102 | * "Father's Week-End" (1953) |
| 103 | * "How to Dance" (1953) |
| 104 | * "How to Sleep" (1953) |
| 105 | |
| 106 | !1960s |
| 107 | |
| 108 | * "WesternAnimation/{{Aquamania}}" (1961) |
| 109 | * "Freewayphobia" (1965) |
| 110 | * "Goofy's Freeway Troubles" (1965) |
| 111 | |
| 112 | !1980s |
| 113 | |
| 114 | * "WesternAnimation/MickeysChristmasCarol" (1983) The return of Goofy in his traditional big eye design. |
| 115 | * "WesternAnimation/SportGoofyInSoccermania" (1987) [[note]]TV special, weirdly featuring Scrooge [=McDuck=], Huey Dewey and Louie, and even the Beagle Boys in major roles, not long before ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''[[/note]] |
| 116 | |
| 117 | !2000s |
| 118 | |
| 119 | * "WesternAnimation/HowToHookUpYourHomeTheater" (2007) |
| 120 | |
| 121 | !2010s |
| 122 | |
| 123 | * "Checkin' In with Goofy" (2011) [[note]] This short was made to introduce the new online processes of checking in for [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney Cruise Line]][[/note]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | !2020s |
| 126 | |
| 127 | * "How to Stay at Home" (2021)[[note]]A series of three shorts made for Creator/DisneyPlus centered around the COVID-19 pandemic directed by Creator/EricGoldberg (animator of the Genie from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'')[[/note]] |
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| 129 | [[/folder]] |
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| 131 | !!Tropes associated with Goofy: |
| 132 | * AccidentalHero: In "Two-Gun Goofy", Goofy is a cowboy who wanders into a Western town terrorized by outlaw Pete. He accidentally keeps on besting Pete at every turn, unaware that he's even there for most of the cartoon. |
| 133 | * AdaptationalBadass: While Goofy's certainly no pushover, the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series makes him TheCaptain [[RankScalesWithAsskicking of King Mickey's royal guard]]. He's also a recurring ally to [[TheHero Sora]], using his [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]] to become a more-than-effective MightyGlacier. |
| 134 | * AdaptationalUgliness: Goofy has always looked awkward, but in the [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013 Paul Rudish shorts]], he has a downright unhealthy look, with an unshaven muzzle, a noticeable gut, a vulture-like slouch, and yellowish sclerae. |
| 135 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: In ''Victory Vehicles'', we get this: |
| 136 | -->'''Narrator''': ''(reading newspaper headline)'' "Pumping Politician Polls Precinct in Public Primaries - Pumps as He Stumps." Eh, this popular public personality predicts... |
| 137 | -->'''Politician''': It is a pleasure and a privilege to personally point the pride and praise the perfect performance of this pump perambulator. |
| 138 | * ArbitrarySkepticism: A trait he got in the Italian Disney comics. Goofy strongly refuses to believe in the existence of magic, no matter how many times Witch Hazel shows him her most powerful magic tricks. The thing is that, while he refuses to believe that ''Hazel'' and any actual magic user or object (save for the peanuts that give him superpowers) may actually be magic, he actually ''does'' believe in magic... he just never recognizes it when he sees it. |
| 139 | * ArtEvolution: Went from a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal, to fully clothed, to looking more human with smaller eyes and then back to his previous big-eyed look. |
| 140 | ** ''Aquamania'' was the first Goofy short to be inked and painted using the less expensive Xerox method, resulting in a scruffier look than previous shorts. |
| 141 | * BaseballEpisode: "How to Play Baseball". It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 142 | * BearsAreBadNews: In "Hold That Pose", Goofy takes up photography as a hobby and decides to photograph wildlife. His subject: a grizzly bear that is not particularly happy about having its picture taken. The result: a chase like you wouldn't believe. |
| 143 | * BeastlyBloodsports: In "For Whom the Bull Toils", Goofy is mistaken for a skilled matador after unwittingly conquering a bull while touring Mexico. |
| 144 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Goofy is much more tolerant and patient than Donald, Daisy and, to some extent, Mickey. However, he hates it when people make him seem stupid or insult his intelligence. He gets angry if he realizes that he's being insulted. Also, do '''NOT''' harm Wilbur, his pet grasshopper, or he'll chase you and force you to give him back to him if he has to. |
| 145 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Goofy has shown ''tons'' of times when he can be pretty tough when the need arises--in ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'', he rushes into a ''burning building'' to rescue Max, and he has had many shorts use [[TheFool his lucky while bumbling trait]] to an more tough, [[InvincibleIncompetent heroic and still flawless degree]] of an [[{{Pun}} top-dog]] when facing enemies like "Goofy's Father Lion" with how he treated his enemy [[BuffoonishTomcat Louie the mountain lion,]] doing this unwittingly ''no-less'' and "Two Gun Goofy" of him being TheFool in a heroic way overall are prime examples of this. |
| 146 | ** This is also used as Goofy's trait in several of Romano Scarpa's comic book stories. He is typically content to play second fiddle to Mickey, and he is less aggressive than him in adventure stories. But when Goofy's loved ones are in danger, Goofy gets far more aggressive, more focused and more competent. Spelling doom for the villains, and forcing Mickey to take the second fiddle role. |
| 147 | * TheBigGuy: Is the tallest of the main Disney shorts characters. |
| 148 | * BinomiumRidiculus: "Freewayphobia" describes [[SafeDrivingAesop three different types of troublesome driver]] one might encounter on freeways in this fashion: there's the slow, timid, and overly-cautious ''Driverius timidicus''; the bad-tempered, impatient, and aggressive ''Motoramus fidgetus''; and the careless, inattentive ''Neglecterus maximus''. The sequel "Goofy's Freeway Troubles" includes ''Stupidicus ultimus'', the driver who neglects his vehicle's maintenance, drives exhausted or even drunk, and is generally careless on and around the freeway. |
| 149 | * BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: "How to Play Golf". Highlights include missing a putt even after precise calculations, and keeping the ball in play even as he's being chased by a bull. |
| 150 | * TheBoxingEpisode: The short "The Art of Self Defense". |
| 151 | * BreakoutCharacter: He started as an extra in some of Mickey Mouse's cartoons and went on to get his own series of shorts, his own television series and his own theatrical movie that was popular enough for a direct-to-video sequel. |
| 152 | * BullSeeingRed: "For Whom the Bulls Toil": After failing to move a bull from the road, he produces a red handkerchief, which immediately grabs the bull's attention. A few Ole's later, and [[MistakenForBadass Goofy's a matador]]. |
| 153 | * BumblingDad: Much to the dismay of his son, Max. 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 [[ADayInHerApron woefully unprepared to take on the responsibilities of running the house in his wife's absence]]. |
| 154 | * ButtMonkey: Trips and falls a lot, to say nothing of his various "How To" and "Art Of" shorts, where he (or other dogfaces) gets repeatedly beaten up. |
| 155 | * CanonWelding: Goofy's cartoons had [[NegativeContinuity had absolutely no continuity]] and made heavy use of a UniversalAdaptorCast. Certain episodes of Series/WaltDisneyPresents, in particular "The Goofy Adventure Story", stitched these disparate cartoons together by presenting them as parts of Goofy's InsanelyInternationalAncestry. |
| 156 | * CartoonCreature: Though usually identified as a dog, he doesn't look much like one. He does, however strongly resemble Pluto. |
| 157 | * CharacterCatchphrase: "Gawrsh!" "Somthin' wrong here." "Heavens 'ta Betsy!", "YAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA-HOOOOEEEEEEEY!", [[VerbalTic "Ah-hyuck!"]] |
| 158 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: He was more of a {{Jerkass}} in his first few appearances in the Mickey Mouse comic strip, stealing furniture to open a detective agency, playing pranks on Mickey's pets, and so on. This was soon dropped and we got the lovably bumbling NiceGuy we all know. |
| 159 | * CharacterTics: Cartoonist Paul Murry gave Goofy a rather memorable one of putting one of his hands in front of his mouth whenever he had one of them free. Murry explained that he felt the detail made Goofy look even more naïve. |
| 160 | * CheatingWithTheMilkman: "Father's Day Off" highly suggests this of Mrs. Geef. When Goofy answers the door for the milk delivery, the milkman, eyes closed, kisses him warmly on the lips before departing, stunning Goofy, mistaking the milkman's kiss as him just being friendly. The grocery delivery later repeats the process. By the time the doorbell rings the third time, Goofy is ''happily expecting'' a kiss. |
| 161 | * ChekhovsVolcano: The volcano in "Hello Aloha". |
| 162 | * TheChewToy: Although not to the extent of Donald, most of his shorts threw him into unfortunate situations at his expense. |
| 163 | * ChronicallyCrashedCar: Goofy's cars fall, literally ''and'' figuratively, into this trope. |
| 164 | * ChasteToons: Averted, as he has a son named Max. |
| 165 | * ClarkKenting: When he's Super Goof. |
| 166 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He can be prone to this at times due to either Goofy's well.. [[PluckyComicRelief goofiness]] or his absurdities occasionally occurring in later shorts and most especially later adaptions such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Goof Troop}}'' being the biggest example of Goofy slowly becoming an Cloudcuckoolander while being his good 'ol ''goofy'' self. |
| 167 | * ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: "Tomorrow We Diet!": Eat! Eat! Eat! Eat! Eat! |
| 168 | * ConjoinedEyes: Averted in his George Geef years and in WesternAnimation/GoofTroop. |
| 169 | * CosmicPlaything: Especially evident in some of the earlier shorts. A defining example is in the Mickey short "Hawaiian Holiday" where Goofy repeatedly tries and fails to surf a wave. [[YankTheDogsChain Just when it looks like he's finally succeeded]], ''the wave itself'' says "oh yeah?" and swats him into the sand. In other words, ''the world itself'' likes screwing with him. |
| 170 | * CouldntFindALighter: During the history of smoking in "No Smoking", the Goofy [[ShotAtDawn facing the firing squad]] has his last cigarette lit by a bullet. Later, George Geef uses his pop-up toaster to light a cigarette: catching it in his mouth as it shoots out. |
| 171 | * CowboyEpisode: ''Two-Gun Goofy'', where Goofy is made the AccidentalHero as he goes up against Pistol Pete. |
| 172 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Goofy is well, [[TheDitz goofy,]] but his BewareTheSillyOnes quality can make him out to be this. |
| 173 | * CuteLittleFangs: Goofy's actually gap-toothed, but his widely-spaced front teeth look like fangs and he's pretty cute. |
| 174 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In the short "Tiger Trouble", when the narrator describes the tiger: |
| 175 | -->'''Narrator:''' Man he likes to eat...A man-eater! |
| 176 | * DependingOnTheArtist: |
| 177 | ** Disney couldn't decide how they wanted Goofy to look during the 1940s, '50s and '60s. He was depicted with or without his ears, black fur or flesh-colored skin, with or without gloves, with or without buck teeth, and in rare cases, with four or five fingers (as in "Baggage Buster"). This briefly happened again in ''Goof Troop'' with the fur/skin color. |
| 178 | ** In the short, ''Goofy and Wilbur'', when Goofy takes off one of his gloves, his gloveless hand is revealed to be flesh-colored. |
| 179 | * DependingOnTheAuthor: He's been identified as a dog by some people but has been mentioned to be something else in other media [[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse at least once]]. Also, he can either be very dumb and clumsy or an UnluckyEverydude with a normal level of intelligence. |
| 180 | ** In ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' he's depicted as smarter and more bright than the rest for the most part, though a lot of this is him always playing the straight man to [[IdiotHero Sora]] and [[HairTriggerTemper Donald]]. |
| 181 | * DietEpisode: The short "Tomorrow We Diet!". |
| 182 | * TheDitz: Why'd you think he's called [[MeaningfulName "Goofy"]]? |
| 183 | * DIYDisaster: Occurs in many of his shorts. |
| 184 | * DogsAreDumb: [[NobodysThatDumb Maybe not]] as [[TooDumbToLive dumb]] as ''many'' cartoon mutts, but he still fits the bill. |
| 185 | * {{Dogface}}: He, or perhaps the many Goofy-lookalikes that populate the "How to..." shorts, are the prototypical Dogfaces. |
| 186 | * DomesticApplianceDisaster: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQwopSZiK5E "Father's Day Off"]], [[TheKlutz Goofy]] [[ADayInHerApron replaces his wife for a day]]. A dress got wet and shrinks immediately. Goofy then tries to iron it, but forget the iron on it (granted, he had to answer a phone call). It goes up to eleven as the iron not only tear a hole in the dress , but also burn the plank, then the floor, [[HilarityEnsues and finally fell on Goofy's head who was in the room downstairs]]. |
| 187 | * DontEatAndSwim: In the cartoon "How to Swim", Goofy's changing cabin falls into the water while he's inside and ends up walking out, setting up a picnic area and eating a full meal without being aware that he's underwater. The narrator points out the rule of waiting before eating and warning about cramps, which appear as knots all over Goofy's limbs and body. |
| 188 | * DownHereShot: On the short "Double Dribble", the camera holds on a shot of basketball players standing in line. As the line moves there is a gap, and the camera moves down to a ridiculously short player. |
| 189 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: As Mr. Wheeler in the short "Motor Mania", and as Motoramus Fidgitus in "Freewayphobia". |
| 190 | ** Also Mrs. Geef in "Father's Day Off". |
| 191 | * DubNameChange: Quite a bunch throughout the world. |
| 192 | ** In Sweden, he's known as "Långben", which means "Long-Legs". During his first cartoons, he also got the mundane first name ”Jan”, or ”Janne” as he’s called in "A Goofy Movie". But since said movie, he hasn’t been called that at any other point. |
| 193 | ** In French-speaking countries, he's known as "Dingo", coming from the French word "dingue", meaning "wild" or "crazy", describing Goofy's personality. |
| 194 | ** In Italy, he's known as "Pippo". |
| 195 | ** In Spanish, he is called "Tribilín", though current translations use his original name. |
| 196 | ** In Portuguese, he is called "Pateta", which is more-or-less an accurate translation (it means "goofball"). |
| 197 | * DumbIsGood: His current NiceGuy characterization is also paired with him being exceedingly klutzy and airheaded. |
| 198 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: First appeared as an old heckler with a beard in the 1932 short, ''Mickey's Revue''. He was also pantsless in his first few years, had a tail, had more dog-like features, and was called Dippy Dawg. |
| 199 | * EasyComeEasyGo: Spoken word for word twice in "Get Rich Quick": first, when Goofy leaves the alley where he has been shooting craps and carrying a barrel as though he has bet all his clothes, but the barrel actually contains all the money he had won; second, at the end, as an IronicEcho, when Goofy's wife confiscates all of his winnings at a poker game to use for herself. |
| 200 | * EatTheBomb: In one ''Super Goof'' comic, the Beagle Boys try to get rid of Super Goof by feeding him an exploding peanut. It causes him to swell up like a balloon and then expel the explosion in a huge belch. |
| 201 | * EnmityWithAnObject: To quote from Art Babbitt's analysis, "Each object or piece of mechanism which to us is lifeless, has a soul and personality in the mind of the Goof." And so, he often finds himself at odds with such objects as they seem to conspire against him. |
| 202 | * TheEveryman: The short "How To Play Baseball" introduced the idea of Goofy playing the part of many characters at once, with the potential to appeal to everybody and demolish an entire baseball field. In general, this is also how Goofy was portrayed originally, with him being just a normal dude going through daily grinds, suffering from everyday problems and enjoying the stuff most people tend to enjoy. |
| 203 | * ExplodingCigar: George Geef is caught by one at the end of "No Smoking". He is so [[MustHaveNicotine desperate for a smoke]] that he doesn't even care about the AshFace, but just stands there blissfully inhaling the smoke. |
| 204 | * TheFaceless: In the "George Geef" shorts which featured Goofy as a husband, his wife is never shown above the neck, so we never see her face or head. |
| 205 | * TheFifties: He's often the StandardFiftiesFather, occasionally with a DistinguishedGentlemansPipe (overlaps with BumblingDad). |
| 206 | * FingerGun: In "How To Play Golf", Goofy mimes shooting himself in the head after missing an easy putt. The "gun" actually goes off, although it only singes him. He reacts with horror and points the "gun" away from him. |
| 207 | * {{Flanderization}}: In the beginning of the CharacterExaggeration territory, Goofy was shown to be [[TheEveryman a normal guy]] with a fairly normal level of intelligence (although he had some moments of [[HotBlooded recklessness and imprudence]]) and his accidents were more [[UnluckyEverydude due to his bad luck than because of his foolishness]]. As the stories progressed, and especially in the present stories, his [[TheKlutz silliness and clumsiness]] has been exaggerated and he's sometimes depicted as a [[TooDumbToLive very dumb person]]. Then again, the two versions have been mixed from time to time DependingOnTheAuthor. |
| 208 | * FlatEarthAtheist: Despite (or probably more likely ''because'' of) him living in a little world of his own at times, several comics have depicted him as this, most notably the series in which he hangs out with Witch Hazel and refuses to believe that she's a witch no matter how many impressive feats of magic she pulls off in order to convince him. He always has his own explanation for events, [[InsaneTrollLogic most of which are even more fantastic, far-fetched and unbelievable than "it's magic"]]. Several other comics depict him as immune to the effects of hostile magic, purely because he doesn't believe in it and nothing can make him change his mind on the subject. [[DependingOnTheWriter However, according to other stories, he actually believes in magic, he just can't actually recognize it.]] |
| 209 | * AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: The basis for "Get Rich Quick", although in this case it wasn't his fault. After finally winning big in poker and being wise enough to call it quits before losing it all again, Goofy goes home to his wife, who hogs all of his winnings for herself. Goofy merely shrugs and exclaims "Easy come, easy go". |
| 210 | * TheFool: Many Classic Disney shorts that featured Goofy himself had presented how [[BornLucky incredibly lucky]] he can be aside from his [[TheKlutz usual clumsiness]] and how [[TheDitz not so smart]] he can be. |
| 211 | * FormallyNamedPet: Mr. Pettibone, Goofy's pet cat in ''Mickey Mouseworks'', ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', and ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse''. |
| 212 | * FullyDressedCartoonAnimal |
| 213 | * FunetikAksent: Goofy has always had one, but it's a lot more pronounced in the comics. |
| 214 | * FurryConfusion: When he appears alongside WesternAnimation/{{Pluto|ThePup}}. Barring RuleOfFunny, the most likely answer is that Goofy is to Pluto what a human is to a chimpanzee. |
| 215 | ** In an episode of WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse, when Pete asks him what is he supposed to be, Goofy proclaims that he is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a Goofy.]] |
| 216 | ** Famously referenced in ''Film/StandByMe'': |
| 217 | --->'''Gordie:''' All right, Mickey's a mouse. Donald's a duck. Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy? |
| 218 | --->'''Teddy:''' Goofy's a dog. He's definitely a dog. |
| 219 | --->'''Vern:''' He can't be a dog. He drives a car and wears a hat. |
| 220 | --->'''Chris:''' Oh, God. That's weird. What the hell is Goofy? |
| 221 | * FurryReminder: He has fewer {{Furry Reminder}}s than either WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, Clarabelle Cow, or even Pete, but even he has a few. |
| 222 | ** In ''Mickey Mouse Clubhouse'', Willy the Giant refers to him as a dog. |
| 223 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/HowToHookUpYourHomeTheater'', right before his TV arrives to his house, he is shown sleeping on the floor like a normal dog, albeit lying in a human position. |
| 224 | ** In his brief appearance at the end of ''Film/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. |
| 225 | ** In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E11DogShow Dog Show]]", Mickey enters Goofy into a dog show in place of an injured Pluto. |
| 226 | ** In a late-90s Disney Channel promo, [[ItMakesSenseInContext while setting up a trap for Goofy using a doggy treat]], one kid said to the other: "Wait a minute, is Goofy a dog?" |
| 227 | * TheGamblingAddict: In "{{Get Rich Quick|Scheme}}", Goofy played a guy named George Geef who enjoyed spending his hard earned dough on a chance to make an easy buck, only to get reprimanded by his wife (or worse, [[EasyComeEasyGo have her take his winnings to pay the bills]]). |
| 228 | * GloveSlap: Used in ''The Art of Self Defense'' to demonstrate what self-defense was like in the romantic age. |
| 229 | * GoofyBuckteeth: He might as well be the TropeNamer. Goofy is an air headed klutz with buckteeth that are often depicted as widely-spaced, although in cartoons from the 1950's, his buckteeth are considerably closer together, but no less goofy. |
| 230 | * GretzkyHasTheBall: Intentionally done at the end of "Hockey Homicide" to show just how much the game has descended into chaos. |
| 231 | * HaveAGayOldTime: In "No Smoking", Goofy desperately pleads a man for a cigarette, listing off various slangs for tobacco... including ''weed''. While [[TheStoner the modern-day definition]] of ''weed'' goes as far back as [[TheRoaringTwenties the 1920s]], it was also a common phrase for tobacco well into TheFifties. |
| 232 | ** Even more literal of this trope, "No Smoking" also included a common British slang for tobacco, ''fag'', before that started becoming an American homophobic slur. |
| 233 | * IconicOutfit: Goofy is an interesting case in the Classic Disney Shorts. Unlike his fellow friends Mickey and Donald, he didn't start out wearing the wardrobe most people today recognize him in, as seen in the image above, which debuted in ''Moving Day''. Before that short, Goofy originally still has his iconic hat, but instead wore a sleeveless buttoned vest, and [[HalfDressedCartoonAnimal didn't even wear any pants]]! The latter outfit, however, regained some prominence thanks to ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013''. |
| 234 | * IdiotHero: Goofy is an exaggeratedly [[TheKlutz clumsy]] and [[TheDitz foolish]] main character. |
| 235 | * IHaveManyNames: Dippy Dawg, George Geef, G.G. Geef, James Boyd, Mr. Walker, Mr. Wheeler, Johnny Eyeball, Goofus D. Dawg., Mr. X, Driverius Timidicus, Motoramus Fidgitus, Neglectarus Maximus, Stupidicus Ultimus |
| 236 | * IncompetentGuardAnimal: In "Man's Best Friend", Goofy goes out for the evening and leaves his dog to guard the house. That night, a burglar breaks in, has a shoot out with police, and gets arrested, all without the dog waking up. But when Goofy returns, his own dog growls at him and chases him up a tree. |
| 237 | * InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: A good chunk of his shorts has everyone looking like him. |
| 238 | * InsanelyInternationalAncestry: Something especially notable in his comics incarnations is that Goofy has a ridiculously old and spread-out family tree. In almost any given situation where history is brought up, he'll offhandedly mention having a great-great-great-great-grandfather or -uncle from the period and region in question and pop up to his enormous and cluttered attic to fish out yet another centuries-old souvenir that his family stashed there. This eventually got to be something of a classic RunningGag with him. It was eventually deliberately exaggerated in the Italian comic series ''Goofy's Great-grand-ancestors'' (''I Bis-bis di Pippo''), which focused on following en extensive series of Goofy lookalikes through 1800's Paris, Columbus' ships on the way to the Americas, the European Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, China, Greece and Egypt, Babylon, the Stone Age, [[ExaggeratedTrope and eventually culminating in a Precambrian single-celled lifeform that already had Goofy's distinctive ears]]. |
| 239 | ** This trait was played for drama in an Italian time travel story from the 1970s, where Mickey and Goofy are randomly traveling to various eras. They get drawn to the locations of various ancestors of Goofy, and most of them are villains. While traveling to Babylon, Crete, Carthage, Rome, Medieval Italy, and 19th-century Mississippi, Goofy gets to meet ancestors who work as brutal officers in various armies, professional executioners, and river pirates. And most of these guys attempt to kill him. By the time the duo manage to return to the present, Goofy is sick and tired of humanity's brutal past and its constant warfare. Then he notices some brutal crimes in his present era, and starts worrying about future wars. |
| 240 | * InterspeciesRomance: Has romanced human women and even aliens. The "George Geef" shorts seem to have him married to a human woman. Nowadays, he's more often paired with Clarabelle Cow. |
| 241 | * IronButtMonkey: In the ''How to...'' shorts. |
| 242 | * JekyllAndHyde: In the short "Motor Mania", Goofy has two personas: The friendly, mild-mannered pedestrian Mr. Walker and the rude, ill-tempered driver Mr. Wheeler. |
| 243 | * JunglesSoundLikeKookaburras: One short had Goofy going tiger hunting in the Central Asian jungle and the first shots of the jungles start off with all kinds of jungle sounds, including the kookaburra. |
| 244 | * KavorkaMan: You might not believe it from his awkward looks and dog-like face, but Goofy has had relationships with multiple women, most notably the [[MissingMom mother]] of Max, as well as Clarabelle Cow. |
| 245 | * KindheartedCatLover: In both ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' and ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse''. Yes, even an ''anthropomorphic dog'' is a KindheartedCatLover. Try not to think about that too hard considering it's FridgeLogic. |
| 246 | ** [[DependingOnTheAuthor That is, if you think he IS a dog and not something else]]. |
| 247 | ** He does consider [[CatsAreMean Pete]] a good friend so it's not too much of a stretch. |
| 248 | * KindheartedSimpleton: Goofy may be not so smart, but he makes up for that in his kindness and good-nature. |
| 249 | * KitschCollection: His attic in the comics is a chock-full, chaotic mess of souvenirs from his or his relatives' travels. Notably, he's capable of finding any single item in a few minutes at most, but only if his collection is messed up; if it's sorted out, he's completely lost. |
| 250 | * TheKlutz: The clue's in his name. Rarely will you ever see him attempt anything without falling on his face or making an unintentional mess of himself. |
| 251 | * LargeHam: While usually laid-back, Goofy has his hammy moments. Like when he's Mr. Wheeler in "Motor Mania", who usually shouts his lines at the top of his lungs. |
| 252 | * LemonyNarrator: The narrator in the ''How to...'' shorts, who's often rambling, going on tangents, or simply being overdramatic. His stentorian voice helps a fair bit in this regard, as well. |
| 253 | * LethalChef: His failed attempts at baking a birthday cake for Mickey in "Mickey's Birthday Party." |
| 254 | * LivingShadow: In the cartoon "The Art of Self Defense", Goofy tries his hand at shadow boxing — and has his butt handed to him by his own shadow. |
| 255 | * LovableJock: His "Sport Goofy" persona in the 1980's, cashing in on his sports-themed cartoons from the 1940's, often involves him helping kids out, especially in children's books. |
| 256 | * TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: |
| 257 | ** In "Tomorrow We Diet", a fat Goofy is lectured on good nutrition by his reflection. |
| 258 | ** "Goofy Gymnastics": While being tossed around the apartment by his equipment, Goofy stops before his mirror. As a recoiling cable pulls Goofy back, his mirror reflection comes to life and merely waves without speaking. |
| 259 | * MeaningfulName: He's very, you know, [[TheDitz Goofy]]. |
| 260 | * MindScrew: The ending of "Tomorrow We Diet!" has this in spades. [[spoiler:Did Goofy eat the food or was it just his imagination? Is the guy who looks like him real or is he just a representation of his inner shame?]] |
| 261 | * MoodyMount: His mount in "How to Ride a Horse". |
| 262 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: In "Victory Vehicles"; in a wartime economy where gasoline has become scarce and expensive, making travel difficult, the humble pogo stick is presented as the ultimate mode of transportation. |
| 263 | * MustHaveNicotine: Makes up the bulk of the plot of "No Smoking" (and provides the trope image, for that matter). Goofy, in his George Geef persona, decides to quit smoking, but soon finds that ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere and spends the rest of the cartoon scrambling desperately around town attempting to obtain tobacco in any form. HilarityEnsues. |
| 264 | * MythologyGag: Goofy is often associated with the song "[[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_World_Owes_Me_a_Living The World Owes Me a Living]]", which in full tells the story of "Literature/TheGrasshopperAndTheAnts". Not so coincidentally, the song first appeared in Disney's Silly Symphony adaptation of the fable, wherein the grasshopper was voiced by Pinto Colvig, the actor who later voiced Goofy. |
| 265 | * {{Nephewism}}: |
| 266 | ** {{Averted|Trope}} in some animated versions. While the other main characters of the Franchise/MickeyMouse franchise have their own nieces and nephews, Goofy has a son, Max. |
| 267 | ** Played straight in the comics, where he has a nephew named Gilbert. |
| 268 | * NewJobAsThePlotDemands: This is Goofy's whole shtick. Popular opinion is that due to being such a klutz, he can never keep a job for long. |
| 269 | * NiceGuy: His current characterization. He's clumsy as all get out, but he's a very loving friend and ThePollyanna. |
| 270 | * NoFourthWall: Every short with a narrator will always have Goofy directly interacting with him at some point. |
| 271 | * NotSoAboveItAll: The {{Narrator}} in the "How to" shorts often sounds uptight acting as the StraightMan against the Goof's antics, but at times, he would stray off-topic, such as in ''The Olympic Champ'', when Goofy is pole-vaulting and gets stuck, he takes some time to recite some poetry. |
| 272 | * OfficialCouple: |
| 273 | ** For a while, Goofy's more-or-less official girlfriend was Glory Bee, a young DogFace woman from the comic strips. |
| 274 | ** The "George Geef" shorts have him married to a seemingly-human woman whose face is always [[TheFaceless out of the camera]]. |
| 275 | ** More recently he's been paired with Clarabelle Cow. |
| 276 | * OldTimeyBathingSuit: Goofy wears this anytime he goes out in the water. |
| 277 | * OurZombiesAreDifferent: In "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E10GhoulFriend Ghoul Friend]]", he appears a zombie that despite still having decayed flesh on it, behaves more like [[DemBones skeletons]], with the ability to move separated limbs down to reassembling himself. [[spoiler:And at the end of short, his demeanor remained as helpful and friendly as ever towards Mickey.]] |
| 278 | * ParentalHypocrisy: One subplot in a House of Mouse episode dealt with him holding back Max from driving lessons because he didn't think he could be a responsible driver. Later, they put on the ''Motor Mania'' short depicting his far more irresponsible driving, ending up with Max calling him out and him conceding the point. |
| 279 | * PluckyComicRelief: Usually the dimwitted comic-relief in ''many'' shorts. |
| 280 | * ThePollyanna: It is easy to sympathise with Goofy, but oddly, almost impossible to ''pity'' him. For all his innocence and mishaps, nothing can keep him down; he will try and fail, try and fail, try and fail until the end. He is happy with who he is and how the world treats him, and for those rare seconds when he ''is'' sad, he will shortly brush it off, move on, and find a way to be happy, no matter ''what.'' |
| 281 | * PopTheTires: On the short "How to Be a Detective", the thug that Goofy is pursuing pours tacks on the road. Goofy quickly uses a broom to sweep them out of the way. |
| 282 | * ProudPapaPassesOutTheCigars: |
| 283 | ** The short "Fathers Are People" opens with Goofy (as George Geef) passing out cigars to his coworkers to celebrate him becoming a father. |
| 284 | ** In "No Smoking", Goofy tries to get a cigar from a coworker who became a father, but it gets yanked away because he just quit smoking. |
| 285 | * PrivateDetective: Goofy as Johnny Eyeball in "How to Be a Detective". |
| 286 | * PutMeInCoach: TheRuntAtTheEnd on "Double Dribble", who wants to be called from the bench, and is only put in because he's the only alternate left. |
| 287 | * RapidFireNailBiting: |
| 288 | ** On the cartoon "Californy Er Bust", a horse startled by a stagecoach starts biting on its horseshoe nails. |
| 289 | ** On "How to Play Golf", when Goofy's putt shot circles around the rim of the hole, with nail clippings flying out. |
| 290 | * RealMenWearPink: Even in his [[TheEveryman George Geef]] persona, Goofy can't resist getting InTouchWithHisFeminineSide. In "Father's Day Off," while he is [[ADayInHerApron trying to keep house]], Goofy finds himself listening to a radio soap opera and getting caught up in the story, to the point where he [[OcularGushers starts crying his eyes out]]. |
| 291 | * RearrangeTheSong: The title card music for the majority of Goofy shorts was rearranged beginning in the 1950s with more of a big band/swing feel. |
| 292 | * RedOniBlueOni: The laid-back, affable blue to Donald's uptight, temperamental red whenever they're paired up. |
| 293 | * RemovableAnimalMarkings: In "Tiger Trouble", Goofy's elephant sits on the tiger. When the tiger gets up, he finds that all his stripes are gone; [[ButtSticker they are now stuck on the elephant's behind]]. |
| 294 | * RewindGag: Often done on the "How-to" shorts, when the narrator asks for the scene to play again. A notable example is "How to Ride a Horse", where the run before a failed jump is run backwards (complete with backwards music) and the horse ends up running up a tree. |
| 295 | * {{Rotoscoping}}: The short "Baggage Buster" used rotoscoping to animate Goofy, resulting in more down to earth movement for him. Both "Hello Aloha" and "How to Dance" also uses rotoscoping for a brief scene of a Hula dancer. |
| 296 | * SafeDrivingAesop: |
| 297 | ** "Motor Mania", in which Goofy plays a dual role as kind pedestrian Mr. Walker and demon driver Mr. Wheeler. |
| 298 | ** "Freewayphobia" and "Goofy's Freeway Troubles" were produced to teach how to drive safely in the then-new freeway system, having Goofy play various types of unsafe drivers. |
| 299 | * {{Scatting}}: Goofy does this while singing "The World Owes Me a Living": |
| 300 | -->''Ohh, the world owes me a living... deedle-didle dodle-didle dum...'' |
| 301 | * ShamefulShrinking: Goofy shrinks after being caught outside in his nightgown in the cartoon "Father's Week End". |
| 302 | * SickEpisode: "Cold War", wherein Goofy, in the role of [[TheEveryman George Geef]], catches a cold while at work and only gets better when [[TheFaceless his wife]] nurses him to health in a very over-the-top way. |
| 303 | * SignatureLaugh: "A-hyuck!" |
| 304 | * SimpletonVoice: He has a deep, iconic voice with a Southern accent to go along with his stupidity. |
| 305 | * TheSmartOne: While still [[TheDitz slow]], he tends to pick things up a lot faster than his companions in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. He's apparently more computer-literate than Mickey here, too! |
| 306 | ** Although when an error for a "corrupted file" pops up he says it went all ker-skuffled. |
| 307 | * SnootySports: The 1949 cartoon "Tennis Racquet" has many jokes about how unpopular tennis was at the time. A long line of cars that appear to lead to the court is actually going to a flower show. The tightly packed spectators actually take up a small portion of the bleachers. The groundskeeper is seen cutting down six-foot-tall grass before the match as if it hasn't seen action all year; and is seen tending the court during the game, oblivious to the players running around him. |
| 308 | * SoapPunishment: Happens to Goof, Jr. in "Fathers Are People". Incidentally used as the trope page's main image. |
| 309 | * SpecialEditionTitle: The original titles to ''How to Play Football'' had the credits spelled out by cards in the bleacher stands. Current reissue prints have more standard titles. |
| 310 | * StockAudioClip: Goofy barely spoke in his '40s shorts (the original voice, Pinto Colvig, had left Disney for Max Fleischer's studio; he returned eventually, however) and when he did, most of the time his lines and yells were from previous Disney shorts. |
| 311 | * StockScream: |
| 312 | ** The famous Goofy Holler. Originally done in ''The Art of Skiing'' by Hannes Schroll, a former Austrian Alpine skier and owner of the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort and professional yodeler. |
| 313 | --->"YAAAAAH-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-HOOEY!" |
| 314 | ** He had two others during the 1940s and '50s. These examples were justified due to Pinto Colvig, Goofy's original voice actor, temporarily leaving Disney due to a falling-out with Walt Disney, forcing the company to reuse some of Colvig's voice samples for consistency's sake. |
| 315 | * SurprisinglyCreepyMoment: Of all things, he appears as a '''zombie''' in "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E10GhoulFriend Ghoul Friend]]". [[spoiler: But after the initial misunderstandings, [[DarkIsNotEvil he's revealed to be as friendly and helpful as ever.]]]] |
| 316 | * SweepingTheTable: In the short "No Smoking," Goofy decides to quit smoking, and he shoves all the tobacco-related items off his work desk and into the trash bin next to it. |
| 317 | * TomatoSurprise: In ''[[http://disneycomics.free.fr/Mickey/Murry/show.php?s=date&loc=W_WDC_284-08P The Return of the Phantom Blot]]'', [[spoiler:an accident Goofy ends up in at the beginning of the story causes him to think he is the Phantom Blot during the night, and ends up very sleepy during the day]]. |
| 318 | * TooDumbToFool: In the comics. In one story, ''Mickey Mouse and the Jewel Thief'', Goofy is the one character who is immune to the title crook's hypnotic powers. |
| 319 | * TookALevelInJerkass: |
| 320 | ** In "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS1E1NoService No Service]]", one of the ''Mickey Mouse'' series of animated shorts, Goofy runs a seaside grill and so strictly follows the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy that he unceremoniously turns ''Mickey and Donald'' away because the former does not wear a shirt and the latter does not wear shoes, even if they're his friends and he has known them and their attires for a long time. When Donald tries to gain access wearing Mickey's shoes and red pants, Goofy asks to see an I.D. So Donald digs into the pants and pulls out ''Mickey's'' driver's license. |
| 321 | --->'''Goofy:''' ''(infuriated)'' What're ya, clownin' me? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis That. Ain't. You.]] ''(kicks Donald out)'' [[GetOut And stay out!]] |
| 322 | ** In "Tomorrow We Diet!" his inner self is horribly insulting and mean-spirited towards his weight problems [[spoiler: and even eats his food in the end after forcing him not to eat!]] |
| 323 | * {{Tritagonist}}: When teamed up with WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck. |
| 324 | * VocalDissonance: In four of the "George Geef" cartoons of 1951, Goofy has a different voice entirely from the SimpletonVoice he normally has. |
| 325 | * VocalEvolution: Pinto Colvig, Goofy's original voice actor, played the character all the way up to his death in the mid 60's, so as time went by, his voice subtly changed to become less, well, goofy sounding. By the time he last played the character in "Goofy's Freeway Troubles" and "Donald Duck Goes West", his Goofy voice has a lower and more worn sounding voice than he did in the 30's and 40's cartoons. |
| 326 | * WartimeCartoon: "Victory Vehicles" and "How To Be A Sailor". |
| 327 | * WhamLine: "Motor Mania" ends with Goofy (as Mr. Wheeler) yelling something he'd never said before, and has never said again since: |
| 328 | -->'''Mr. Wheeler:''' ''[at both the narrator and '''at us''']'' Aww, '''''SHUT UP'''''!!! |
| 329 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Goofy's son and wife are nowhere to be seen in more modern stories, unlike ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' (which introduces his son Max) or ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' (where Max works as the parking valet). |
| 330 | * YourOtherLeft: One section in "How to Ride a Horse" shows the right and wrong way to mount a horse: |
| 331 | -->'''Narrator:''' The right side happens to be the wrong side. This leaves us the left side, which is right. Therefore, since the left is right and the right... wrong, we begin the left foot -- that's the right foot -- in the left stirrup, which is right, being the left foot, since the right would be wrong. |
| 332 | ** Goofy being [[TheDitz Goofy]], of course, he mounts his horse on the right side, which happens to be the wrong side, which, as the narrator says, "can sometimes lead to [[{{Understatement}} slight difficulties]]", especially since his horse is [[MoodyMount relatively obstinate]]. |
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