* ActorAllusion:
** Once or twice in the old cartoons, Goofy would be humming the song "The World Owes Me a Living", the song of the WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies short "The Grasshopper and the Ants", the eponymous grasshopper also being voiced by Goofy's actor, Pinto Colvig. This song is also very applicable to Goofy's early happy-go-lucky nature.
** In his very first solo cartoon, "Goofy and Wilbur" (where, ironically, he is not voiced by Colvig (see TheOtherDarrin below)), he also has a pet grasshopper named Wilbur, which is most likely an allusion to this as well.
* CreatorBacklash: Director Jack Kinney disliked the "George Geef" cartoons of 1951, calling them "disasters" in a later interview.
* ExecutiveMeddling: According to some of the Disney staff members, Walt Disney himself[[note]]who, according to Harry Tytle, found the Goofy cartoons "no good for merchandising"[[/note]] tried to give more personality to Goofy by retooling him into TheEveryman, with the gag-based nature of the older "How-To" cartoons giving way to SliceOfLife scenarios. As noted in CreatorBacklash above, director Jack Kinney, for one, did not like the move.
* FollowTheLeader:
** A few of Disney's staff members admitted to cribbing the narrator for the "How To..." cartoons from, of all things, Creator/TexAvery's travelogue spoofs. [[ApprovalOfGod Avery was reportedly very flattered]].
** Creator/GeorgeLucas based [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Jar Jar Binks]] on Goofy.
* GodNeverSaidThat: During an interview done in the wake of the publication of his biography on Creator/WaltDisney, Neal Gabler claimed that Walt "absolutely hated" the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoons, thinking they were nothing but "stupid cartoons with gags tied together." However, there is no primary source to confirm that Walt actually said that. The fact that Neal Gabler didn't cite all his sources--a ''major'' flaw for a biographer--doesn't help.[[note]]If anything, Harry Tytle, who actually worked with Walt, is a more reliable source on the matter; according to his book ''One of Walt's Boys'', in a chapter called "Shorts Go Out of Style," Walt's main issue with the Goofy cartoons was the difficulties they posed during the waning years of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, especially when it came to merchandising.[[/note]]
** To make matters worse, there is a recent rumor on Reddit which claims that one of the notes Walt wrote towards the end of his life reads "Kill Goofy." Of all of Walt's notes on his desk (most of which indeed date back to his final years), not one of them says anything of the kind.
* TheOtherDarrin: Has been voiced by many different actors (Pinto Colvig, Hannes Schroll[[note]]Who originally provided the famous Goofy Holler[[/note]], Bob Jackman, George Johnson, Hal Smith, Tony Pope, Will Ryan, Jack Wagner and his current actor, Creator/BillFarmer) over the course of his career.
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