1. Goofy is a cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company.
55 Facts About Goofy
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Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog who typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora.
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Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, and is Max Goof's father.
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Goofy is normally characterized as hopelessly clumsy and dim-witted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive; occasionally, Goofy is shown as intuitive and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.
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Goofy debuted in animated cartoons, starting in 1932 with Mickey's Revue as Dippy Dawg, who is older than Goofy would come to be.
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Two Goofy shorts were nominated for an Oscar: How to Play Football and Aquamania.
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Goofy co-starred in a short series with Donald, including Polar Trappers, where they first appeared without Mickey Mouse.
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Three more Goofy shorts were produced in the 1960s after which Goofy was only seen in television and Disney comics.
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Goofy returned to theatrical animation in 1983 with Mickey's Christmas Carol.
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The exception was the 1950s cartoons, in which Goofy played a character called George Geef who was married and at one point became the father of a kid named George Junior.
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The character of Goofy originated with his voice actor, a former circus and vaudville actor, comedian, clown and chalk talk artist Pinto Colvig, who began working as a story man for the Disney Studio in 1930.
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Goofy was originally a sort of stock character in mob scenes, so on, but nobody attempted to do anything with him, so I can't say that I created Goofy, but I was the first that made him into a character.
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Babbitt's scene with Goofy was originally timed to be 7 feet of film ; however, Babbitt padded his scene adding additional bits of comic business, with the final scene being 57 feet long.
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Babbitt wrote a two-and-a-half page character bible of Goofy, entitled Character Analysis of the Goof that circulated the studio in late 1934.
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Goofy's figure was a distortion, not a caricature, and if he was supposed to have a mind or personality, he certainly was never given sufficient opportunity to display it.
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Goofy can move fast if he has to, but would rather avoid any over-exertion, so he takes what seems the easiest way.
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Goofy is willing to help anyone and offers his assistance even where he is not needed and just creates confusion.
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Goofy's brain being rather vapoury, it is difficult for him to concentrate on any one subject.
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Goofy is a good-natured, dumb bell who thinks he is pretty smart.
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Goofy is very courteous and apologetic and his faux pas embarrass him, but he tries to laugh off his errors.
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Goofy has music in his heart even though it be the same tune forever, and I see him humming to himself while working or thinking.
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Babbitt's Goofy was the first Disney character after [Norm] Ferguson's Pluto to have a visible inner life and Goofy, stupid though he was, was clearly more complex than Pluto.
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Kinney found Goofy to be "a nice long, lean character that you could move; you could get poses out of him, crazy poses".
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Goofy's clothing changed from a casual style to wearing business suits.
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Goofy began to look more human and less dog-like, with his ears hidden in his hat.
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Goofy would be given a formal name in these cartoons, George Geef.
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Goofy cites as an example Aquamania, where everyman Goofy drives to the lake for a boat ride.
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Goofy is portrayed as one of the numerous people who had the same idea about how to spend their day.
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Goofy had an act in the 1969 tour show Disney on Parade with costar Herbie the Love Bug.
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Goofy's profile began to rise again after his appearance in Mickey's Christmas Carol as the ghost of Jacob Marley.
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Goofy later appears at the end of the film with the other characters.
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In one episode of Bonkers, Goofy has an off-screen cameo whose distinctive laugh is "stolen" by a disgruntled toon.
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Goofy returned to his traditional personality in Mickey Mouse Works and appeared as a head waiter in House of Mouse.
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In both Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse, Goofy seemed to have a crush on Clarabelle Cow, as he asks her on a date in the House of Mouse episode "Super Goof" and is stalked by the bovine in the Mickey Mouse Works cartoon "How To Be a Spy".
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On Toontown Online, an interactive website for kids, Goofy previously ran his own neighborhood called Goofy Speedway until the close of Toontown.
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Goofy Speedway was a place where players could race cars and enter the Grand Prix.
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Goofy appears in the children's television series, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, with his trademark attire and personality.
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Goofy starred in a new theatrical cartoon short called How to Hook Up Your Home Theater, that premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
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In 2011, Goofy appeared in a promotional webtoon advertising Disney Cruise Line.
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Goofy is a main character on Mickey and the Roadster Racers.
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Goofy has appeared in the third season of the 2017 DuckTales TV series; based on his Goof Troop incarnation.
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Guest starring in the episode, "Quack Pack", Goofy appears as the Duck family's wacky neighbor after Donald accidentally wished them into a '90s sitcom.
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Donald hires him to be the photographer for a family photo, but after the Ducks realize what Donald did, Goofy helps him understand that "normal" does not necessarily mean the same thing between families; using the relationship he has with his son Max as an example.
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Accordingly, Goofy remained alone as Mickey's sidekick, replacing Horace Horsecollar as Mickey's fellow adventurer and companion.
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Goofy has a characteristic habit of holding his hand in front of his mouth, a trademark that was introduced by Paul Murry.
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In 1990, when Disney was publishing their own comics, Goofy starred in Goofy Adventures, that featured him starring in various parodies.
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Super Goof is Goofy's superhero alter ego who gets his powers by eating super goobers.
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Goofy became the first Disney character to be a superhero, but several would follow, including Donald Duck as Paperinik.
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The third and definitive version debuted in "The Thief of Zanzipar" in Walt Disney Super Goof No 1, written by Bob Ogle and drawn by Murry, in which the origin of his powers are special peanuts Goofy finds in his backyard.
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On Disney's Toontown Online during the Halloween season, Goofy is Super Goof for the occasion.
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Goofy appeared in one episode of House of Mouse and in two episodes of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
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Goofy is the captain of the royal guard at Disney Castle in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.
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Goofy reappears in the prequel, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, in a relatively minor role.
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Goofy was later replaced by Jack Bailey in 1939, and George Johnson from 1940 to 1942.
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Goofy then voiced him in Sport Goofy in Soccermania in 1987 and Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 1988.