Goofy

About Goofy in brief

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. He is normally characterized as hopelessly clumsy and dim-witted, yet this interpretation is not always definitive. Goofy debuted in animated cartoons, starting in 1932 with Mickey’s Revue as Dippy Dawg. He also co-starred in a short series with Donald, including Polar Trappers, where they first appeared without Mickey Mouse. In the comics and his pre-1992 animated appearances, GoofY was usually single and childless. In his 1950s cartoons, he usually played a character called George G. Geef who was married and at one point became the father of a kid named George Junior. In other 2000s-era comics, the character’s full name has occasionally been given as Goofus D. Dawg, likely in reference to the 1950s name. He has also been featured in television, most extensively in Goof Troop, House of Mouse, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Mickey Mouse, and Mickey and the Roadster Racers. His last theatrical appearance was How to Hook Up Your Home Theater in 2007. He was portrayed as a single father with a son named Max, and the character of Max made further animated appearances until 2004. After 2004, Max disappeared, thus removing the division between the two animation and comics continuity from place to place in comics.

In 1950s-produced cartoon shorts depicting his cousin Gilbert, his closest relatives are his nephew Gilbert, a spoof archaeologist who is a fictional archaeologist in the fictional town of Spoonerville, Arizona. He usually appears as Mickey’s sidekick, though he also is occasionally shown as a protagonist in Mickey’s Mouseton, the fictional sidekick of Mickey’s nephew, Mickey Mouseton. The character was inspired by a “grinny, half-baked village nitwit” from his hometown of Jacksonville, Oregon, and he had previously used his mannerisms for a stage character he created named “The Oregon Appleknocker”. After a discussion with Walt Disney and director Wilfred Jackson, it was decided that this would be the basis for a new member of the expanding Mickey Mouse cast. In a 1930s lecture, Babbitt described the character as: “Think of the Goof as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a gullible Good Samaritan, a half-wit, a shiftless, good-natured hick”. Unlike Mickey and Donald, he didn’t have a steady girlfriend, The exception was the 1950’s cartoons, in which Go ofy played acharacter called George Geef. In many other sources, both animated and comics,. the surname Goof continues to be used. In the Go of Troop series, however, Goo’s wife was never shown, while his wife was always unseen—but always with her face—in 1950s cartoon shorts.