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* ComedicUnderWearExposure: As the rhinoceros starts charging toward him, a terrified Goofy briefly briefly jumps out of his clothes exposing his green boxers with purple spots.

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* ComedicUnderWearExposure: As the rhinoceros starts charging toward him, a terrified Goofy briefly briefly jumps out of his clothes exposing his green boxers with purple spots. They get exposed again when the tick bird starts pecking his rear.
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* BeakAttack: After the rhino gets his horn stuck inside Goody's rifle and probably destroyed when the Goof pulls the trigger, his tick bird companion lends an assist by perching on the gun's stock and pecking woodpecker-style at the fleeing Goody's backside.
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* OhSnap!:

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* OhSnap!: OhCrap:
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** Goofy and his fellow hunter are shocked when they realize the tick bird they spotted is on the back of a black rhinoceros. They are especially terrified when the rhinoceros comes charging toward them. Goofy also knows he’s screwed when realizing his gun has no bullets as the rhinoceros approaches him.
** The rhinoceros is pretty apathetic when the tick bird alerts him that hunters are nearby. Then he is shocked when the tick bird informs him that the hunters are armed with guns.
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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a bird.

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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While out hunting for Africa’s Africa's biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a bird.



* VisualPun: The Ivory Coast of Africa is depicted as a set of ivory piano keys.

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* VisualPun: The Ivory Coast of Africa is depicted as a set of ivory piano keys.keys.
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* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Friday the 13th, the day Goofy on his big game meets his unfortunate moment when he was spotted by a black rhinoceros.



** Goofy stated he landed on the romantic Ivory Coast[[note]]where the ivory piano keys are located[[/note]], however Ivory Coast is positioned in the regions between Ghana[[note]]Gold Coast at the time being in 1945[[/note]] and Nigeria.

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** Goofy stated he landed on the romantic Ivory Coast[[note]]where the ivory piano keys are located[[/note]], however Ivory Coast is positioned in the regions between Ghana[[note]]Gold Coast at the time being in 1945[[/note]] and Nigeria.
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“African Diary” is a 1945 WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} starring WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}.

Goofy travels to Africa for an expedition, bungling in the safari in search of a wild game.
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“African Diary” ''African Diary'' is a 1945 WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} starring WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}.

WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}. Directed by Jack Kinney.

In this short,
Goofy travels to Africa for an expedition, bungling in the safari in search of a wild game.
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Goofy travels to Africa for an expedition.

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Goofy travels to Africa for an expedition.expedition, bungling in the safari in search of a wild game.



** Goofy stated he landed on the romantic Ivory Coast[[note]]where the ivory piano keys are located[[/note]], however Ivory Coast it was positioned in the regions between Ghana[[note]]Gold Coast at the time being in 1945[[/note]] and Nigeria.

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** Goofy stated he landed on the romantic Ivory Coast[[note]]where the ivory piano keys are located[[/note]], however Ivory Coast it was is positioned in the regions between Ghana[[note]]Gold Coast at the time being in 1945[[/note]] and Nigeria.

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->''"After an uneventful voyage, we sighted Africa, the dark continent, land of adventure. Africa, the unknown. Black, foreboding mysterious Africa."''




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* ArtisticLicenseGeography:
** Goofy stated he landed on the romantic Ivory Coast[[note]]where the ivory piano keys are located[[/note]], however Ivory Coast it was positioned in the regions between Ghana[[note]]Gold Coast at the time being in 1945[[/note]] and Nigeria.
** The Great Pyramids of Giza was positioned in-between Libya and Chad.
** Egypt in RealLife is clearly a desert country from satellite view, where as the map depecited here is seen covered with lots of trees.
* {{Bookends}}: The episode starts when Goofy landed in Africa, crossing through the safari with the local herd across the forests, mountains and wastelands. By the time Goofy is fleeing Africa from the rhinoceros, it goes all through the same procedure albeit in reverse.
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Removing misuse. Beign scared of a hunter would be logical for a rhino.


* BerserkButton: The rhinoceros grows furious when realizing there are hunters nearby. He promptly charges at Goofy and his fellow hunter.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.


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* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a bird.
-->'''Narrator:''' Why, it's only a tick bird, which always makes his home on the back of the black rhinoceros... (''gasp, Goofy does a DoubleTake'') ''Black rhinoceros!''
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* ComedicUnderWearExposure: As the rhinoceros starts charging toward him, a terrified Goofy briefly briefly jumps out of his clothes exposing his green boxers with purple spots.


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* RightOutOfMyClothes: Goofy briefly jumps out of his clothes when the rhinoceros starts charging toward him. Then he jumps back into his clothes.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.

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“African Diary” is a 1945 Classic Disney Short starring Goofy.

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“African Diary” is a 1945 Classic WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short Short|s}} starring Goofy.
WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}.




* {{Bait-And-Switch}}: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.

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* {{Bait-And-Switch}}: BaitAndSwitch: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy what appears to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.



* CaptainsLog: The story is narrated from Goofy's travel diary. Shots of said diary show plenty of spelling errors and smudges.
* EmptySwimmingPoolDive: As Goofy walks over to the waterhole to bathe, a hippo sees him and scrambles out, displacing all the water. Goofy doesn't notice and ends up swimming in dirt.



* PunBasedCreature: An aural example. The tick bird can be heard ticking when it first appears.



* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The hippocampus when Goofy comes running toward the waterhole.
* {{Screw This, I’m Outta Here}}: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.

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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The hippocampus hippopotamus when Goofy comes running toward the waterhole.
* {{Screw This, I’m Outta Here}}: ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
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Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.



* TooDumbToLive: Goofy has the right idea that he needs a permit to shoot a rhino. Still, he chooses the wrong time to search through his files for such permit while the rhino is charging at him. Goofy finds the permit and prepares to shoot the charging rhino, only to realize he forgot to load his gun with bullets. As the rhino approaches Goofy, he catches the gun clogging its barrel with his horn. Goofy loads his gun with bullets and pulls the trigger. Since the barrel is still clogged, Goofy causes the gun to explod, also damaging the rhino’s horn and further provoking him.

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* TooDumbToLive: Goofy has the right idea that he needs a permit to shoot a rhino. Still, he chooses the wrong time to search through his files for such permit while the rhino is charging at him. Goofy finds the permit and prepares to shoot the charging rhino, only to realize he forgot to load his gun with bullets. As the rhino approaches Goofy, he catches the gun clogging its barrel with his horn. Goofy loads his gun with bullets and pulls the trigger. Since the barrel is still clogged, Goofy causes the gun to explod, explode, also damaging the rhino’s horn and further provoking him.him.
* VerbalBackspace: As a hartebeest walks away from the watering hole, it's butt is facing the camera, which forms the shape of a heart. The narrator starts to explain that the hartebeest is "named for the shape of its..." the creature faces the camera and the narrator switches to "horns" (which also happen to form a heart as well).
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* {{Screw This! I’m Outta Here}}: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.

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* {{Screw This! This, I’m Outta Here}}: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.
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* {{Bait-And-Switch}}: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy something that appears big off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.
* BerserkButton: The rhinoceros grows furious when realizing there are hunters nearby. He promptly charged at Goofy and his fellow hunter.

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* {{Bait-And-Switch}}: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy something that what appears big to be a large animal off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.
* BerserkButton: The rhinoceros grows furious when realizing there are hunters nearby. He promptly charged charges at Goofy and his fellow hunter.
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* TheHyena: One of the animals visiting the waterhole during the night is a laughing hyena. The hyena continues laughing even after falling into the water.

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* ScreamsLikeAGirl: The hippocampus when Goofy comes running toward the waterhole.

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* ScreamsLikeAGirl: ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: The hippocampus when Goofy comes running toward the waterhole.


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* TooDumbToLive: Goofy has the right idea that he needs a permit to shoot a rhino. Still, he chooses the wrong time to search through his files for such permit while the rhino is charging at him. Goofy finds the permit and prepares to shoot the charging rhino, only to realize he forgot to load his gun with bullets. As the rhino approaches Goofy, he catches the gun clogging its barrel with his horn. Goofy loads his gun with bullets and pulls the trigger. Since the barrel is still clogged, Goofy causes the gun to explod, also damaging the rhino’s horn and further provoking him.

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* BerserkButton: The rhinoceros grows furious when realizing there are hunters nearby. He promptly charged at Goofy and his fellow hunter.



* BerserkButton: The rhinoceros grows furious when realizing there are hunters nearby. He promptly charged at Goofy and his fellow hunter.

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* BerserkButton: ScreamsLikeAGirl: The rhinoceros grows furious hippocampus when realizing there are hunters nearby. He promptly charged at Goofy and his fellow hunter.comes running toward the waterhole.
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“African Diary” is a 1945 ClassicDisneyShort starring Goofy.

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“African Diary” is a 1945 ClassicDisneyShort Classic Disney Short starring Goofy.
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“African Diary” is a 1945 [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShort]] starring Goofy.

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“African Diary” is a 1945 [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShort]] ClassicDisneyShort starring Goofy.
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“African Diary” is a 1945 [[WesternAnimation/Classic Disney Short]] starring Goofy.

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“African Diary” is a 1945 [[WesternAnimation/Classic Disney Short]] [[WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShort]] starring Goofy.
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“African Diary” is a 1945 Classic Disney Short starring Goofy.

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“African Diary” is a 1945 Classic [[WesternAnimation/Classic Disney Short Short]] starring Goofy.
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* [[Bait-And-Switch]]: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy something that appears big off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.

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* [[Bait-And-Switch]]: {{Bait-And-Switch}}: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy something that appears big off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.



* [[Screw This! I’m Outta Here]]: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.

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* [[Screw {{Screw This! I’m Outta Here]]: Here}}: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.
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* BaitAndSwith: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy something that appears big off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.

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* BaitAndSwith: [[Bait-And-Switch]]: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy something that appears big off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.



* [[Screw This! I’m Ouuta Here]]: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.

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* BerserkButton: The rhinoceros grows furious when realizing there are hunters nearby. He promptly charged at Goofy and his fellow hunter.
* [[Screw This! I’m Ouuta Outta Here]]: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.
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“African Diary” is a 1945 Classic Disney Short starring Goofy.

Goofy travels to Africa for an expedition.

* BaitAndSwith: Double Subverted! While out hunting for Africa’s biggest game, Goofy and his fellow hunter spy something that appears big off in the distance. Goofy looks through his binoculars and only sees a tick bird. He and the other hunter are amused until the narrator mentions the tick bird is on the back of a black rhinoceros. Goofy looks through his binoculars again to see the rhinoceros.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The rhino’s eyes glow red once the tick bird warns him that hunters are nearby.
* [[Screw This! I’m Ouuta Here]]: Goofy’s fellow hunter flees the scene as the rhinoceros comes charging toward them.
** After failing to shoot the rhino, Goofy runs for it and decides to leave Africa.
* VisualPun: The Ivory Coast of Africa is depicted as a set of ivory piano keys.

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