🔎 Goofy (Disney) - Definition and Explanations

Introduction

Dingo (in English Goofy Goof or simply Goofy) is a fictional character from the Mickey Mouse universe created by the Walt Disney Company (The multinational Walt Disney Company was created in 1923 by Walt Disney. It's today...) in 1932. This anthropomorphic dog is one of Mickey's best friends. Its main characteristic is its great awkwardness. To describe him, director Jack Hannah calls him "Simple" and Dave Smith, the archivist of Disney, speaks of "stupidity associated with a good background".

After a career alongside Mickey and Donald, he was, in the years 1940 to 1960, the hero of his own series as well as of the sub-series How to... Goofy is also known for his roles of man (A man is an adult male individual of the species called Modern Man (Homo...) average having even a son and as well as for short films where the population is made up of variations of the character.

In 1954, he was joined by a nephew, Gilbert, then, in 1979, a cousin put forward by Disney in promotional campaigns mainly related to sport, and taken up in comic strips, Sport Goofy. However, in the 2000s, the two characters became one, as is the case in certain gags of French origin published in Le Journal de Mickey.

From the 1990s, Goofy became (again) a father in a television series in which his son was named Max. But nothing specifies who are the respective mothers of his sons. This 1990s series was extended by two feature films: Goofy and Max (1995) and Goofy and Max 2: Extreme Sports (2000).

History

1932-1934: Dippy Dawg becomes the "Goof"

The birth of Dippy Dawg

Goofy appears for the first time in the short film Mickey's Revue, May 25, 1932. Directed by Wilfred Jackson, this short film features Mickey, Minnie Mouse (Minnie Mouse is a cartoon character who is part of the Mickey Mouse universe. She...), Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow performing in concert. Among the spectators is a dog, whose rude and loud behavior quickly irritates his neighbors who eventually knock him out. Its characteristic laugh, invented by the comedian Pinto Colvig, distinguishes it from its neighbors who also have a canine appearance. For Flora O'Brien, this character only "laughs but memorably enough to be noticed by Walt".

This primitive version of Goofy contrasts with what the character will become: he is an old gentleman with a square pince-nez (A square is a regular polygon with four sides. This means that its...), with a goatee and a bushy tail, who still wears neither pants nor underwear. Walt Disney (Walter Elias Disney alias Walt (born December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois - died December 15...) and his team were impressed by his hoarse laugh and decided to reuse it. We must not lose sight of ( Sight is the sense that makes it possible to observe and analyze the environment through reception and...) that one of the characteristic features of animated films (Animation consists of giving the illusion of movement to using a sequence of images. These images...) of Disney is the "animation personality", the set (In set theory, a set intuitively designates a collection...) of small elements composing the gestures, the character of the character and making it more human.The characteristics of this character were a basis for a recurring hero.

We then find Dippy Dawg in the short film The Whoopee Party, released on September 17, 1932, keeping his laugh. The character of Dippy made four cinematographic appearances during the year 1932 and two others in 1933. He then constituted a recurring additional second role. and not a permanent member of Mickey's gang, a fact which John Grant says is due to the presence of another dog, Pluto.

These first appearances do not yet feature Goofy's upcoming features, the main one being chaos generation. Steve Hulett, transcribed by John Grant and Flora O'Brien, indicates that "in The Whoopee Party, Goofy helps Mickey to prepare a festive meal in the kitchen (Cooking is the set of techniques for preparing food for their ...) and does it without a hitch. His characteristics of clumsiness and naivety are yet to be fully discovered. [On the contrary], in 1942 in Mickey's Birthday, he is able to destroy the kitchen, the cake and the party with one hand (The hand is the prehensile effector organ located at ...), all (The whole understood as a whole of what exists is often interpreted as the world or...) with perfect innocence and good humor. »

In comics, the Mickey Mouse comic strips drawn by Floyd Gottfredson, which resumed publication in 1932 after the departure of Ub Iwerks, generally depicted the daily life (Life is the given name:) of Mickey Mouse. From January 8, 1933, Gottfredson covered the character in the weekly strips and dubbed it Dippy Dawg. This character is close to that of the films by certain physiognomic characteristics. Before becoming one of Mickey's relatives, Gottfredson makes Dippy a cumbersome neighbor and then gives him a more important place.

The production of Disney comics at this time is divided into several parts, the two most important being the daily strips (Monday to Friday) and the weeklies (Sunday). Dippy therefore first appeared in the weekly strips but quickly joined the daily ones. The first daily story (The Stories or the Investigation (in ancient Greek...) in which Dippy appears as a relative of Mickey, sharing his adventures, is Mickey and the Three Thieves, published from October 9, 1933 to January 9, 1934. It thereafter appears regularly in stories as a supporting character.

The "Goof"

The year 1934 marked the beginning of a turning point in Dingo's career. He is now part of the "Mickey Gang" alongside Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar, but unlike the latter two, he is little more than a supporting role and is promised more.

In The Orphan Gala, released on August 11, 1934, he was officially nicknamed "Goofy" and became a regular member of the gang alongside other newcomers: Donald Duck and Clara Cluck. His official name remains Dippy Dawg. But even within Disney studios, we are talking about the Goof character and not Dippy Dawg.

It was also this year that Art Babbitt wrote what could be called a "manifesto" for Goofy. He states: "In my opinion (Anderlik-Varga-Iskola-Sport (Anderlik-Varga-School-Sport) was used to designate a...), the Goof has so far been a poor cartoon character because of the both of his physique (Physics (from the Greek φυσις, nature) is etymologically the...) and of his expressive mentality which are indefinite and intangible...His only feature that previously identified him was his voice. This writing was apparently heard and implemented the following year. Art Babbitt is not his first feat with this manifesto. In 1932, when he had left the east coast of the United States to enter the Disney Studios in California, he had proposed to Walt Disney to "work three months (Le mois (From lat. mensis "month", and formerly at the plur .'menses') is a period of time...) for free and then either fire him or pay him what he deserves”.

1935-1937: The Mickey, Donald and Goofy trio

Mickey's Service Station directed by Ben Sharpsteen on March 16, 1935 marks the first adventure of the Mickey/Donald/Goofy trio as well as the implementation of remarks by Art Babbitt. This film marks an important stage in Dingo's life. The arrival of Art Babbitt breathes new life into the character by giving him new characteristics. Goofy then endorses a new personality scheme, reused during the following years. In this film, Goofy is a mechanic confronted with the repair of an engine (An engine (from the Latin mōtor: "the one that moves") is a device...). While he climbed on the engine and passes his arm through the mechanics (In everyday language, mechanics is the domain of machines, engines, vehicles, organs...), his hand touches him from behind but Goofy, after several attempts and a blow of the hammer (hammer can refer to :), realizes that it is himself. According to John Grant, it is thanks to this scene that "Goofy finally developed his glorious art of taking as much time as possible to achieve the least possible ". But for Babbitt to be able to take charge of this scene (The payload represents what is actually...), he would have passed (The past is first of all a concept linked to time: it consists of all...) a deal with Walt Disney, obliging himself to work on a scene with Pat Hibulaire (Pat Hibulaire (Peg-Leg Pete, Black Pete or just Pete in the original version) is a.. .), a character he hated.

This trio is baptized by Flora O'Brien the "three mousequetaires" ("three mouseketeers"), a play on words with mice (The term mouse is an ambiguous vernacular name which can designate, for French speakers, before... ) and musketeers. Their adventures are all based on the same model, described as "rigid structure" by John Grant: faced with a series of problems, they try to find a solution by acting all three separately, according to their character, and the conclusion together, often at their expense. Goofy also has the particularity of encountering normally inanimate objects that come to life and become his enemies until Goofy is simply surprised by the situation (In geography, situation is a spatial concept allowing the relative location of a. ..).

The archetype of this structure is Le Déménagement de Mickey (1936) where everyone moves what they can. Mickey officiates in the living room, Donald in the upstairs bedroom, and Goofy fights with a piano between the kitchen and his truck (The truck is a road vehicle weighing more than 3.5 tons, intended to transport... ) parked in the yard. The piano here is more than animated, it is alive and Goofy takes time to realize it. This characteristic of the piano joins the living objects of the Silly Symphonies and has become a recurring feature of Disney productions.

It happens regularly that Donald and Goofy interact as in Mickey patina (1935) or Chasseurs d'élans (1937). The two characters then meet in their adventures, but this seems to fit into the structure of the series. In Mickey Patina, Goofy tries to fish (The peach tree (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch) is a species of fruit tree in the family of...) through a hole drilled in the ice (La glace est de l' water in the solid state.) of the pond (A pond (estang, Latin stagnum) is a stretch of stagnant, shallow, surface water...). He then uses chewing tobacco as bait, a technique already used by Julius in Alice's Fishy Story (1924), but remains empty-handed until he catches something which turns out to be Donald Duck. In Elk Hunters (1937) they cooperate, donning together a female moose outfit (In biology, female (from the Latin "femella", little woman, young woman) is the...) to attract males in the viewfinder of Mickey.

In comics, in Mickey and the Ostrich (1936), Dippy gets the nickname "Goofy", more popular with the public.

The shorts Nettoyeurs de pendulums, released on October 15, 1937, and Les Revenants solitaires, released on December 24, 1937, are often considered the best episodes of the trio's shorts. In Cleaners of Clocks, according to Flora O'Brien, Goofy steals the show from Donald and Mickey in sequences that are a film within a film, culminating in a scene where he is suspended from the hands of the clock, reminiscent of Harold Lloyd in Get on it! (1923). In Les Revenants solitaires, the trio, formed as an "Ajax ghost extermination society" (precursors of sorts to the "Ghostbusters"), are hired to clean a house (A house is a medium-sized building intended for living of a family,...) haunted by its cumbersome inhabitants. Goofy utters one of his most memorable lines: "I'm brave but I'm careful" ("I'm brave but I'm careful!"). He also says seeing a ghost in a mirror (A mirror is an object with a sufficiently polished surface for an image to form on it...) instead of its reflection (A reflection is, in physics, the image virtual form formed by specular reflection...) "I never knew I was so beautiful". Where then is the truth?

When in 1937, Donald Duck obtained his own series following his success, Disney then no longer authorized Gottfredson to use Donald in the Mickey Mouse stories in comic books. Deprived of an important character, Goofy therefore remains as the only adjuvant (An adjuvant is something or someone who helps in the accomplishment of a process.) of Mickey, the two universes (Mickeyville mice and Donaldville ducks) will meet more and more rarely.

1938-1940: Duos and solo debut

It was not until 1938 that the name Dippy Dawg disappeared completely from the comics, the title of the book The Story of Dippy the Goof gives the character a new name but in the cartoons, the nickname then officially becomes Goofy the Goof. In France, he adopted the name Dingo in 1937, a name that would remain his for the rest of his career (Cf ). In 1939, the name of Goofy Goof was formalized in the first short film of the homonymous series.

During the series, the role of Mickey gradually diminishes in favor of his comrades for a simple reason: between Donald the frustrated and Goofy the dreamer, Mickey quickly appears as the one who must keep his feet on the ground (The Earth is the third planet in the Solar System in order of distance...) and it is therefore difficult to entrust him with gags. Arctic Trappers, released on June 17, 1938, marks Goofy and Donald's first adventure without Mickey. Owners of the "Donald and Goofy Trapping Co.", our heroes hunt - without success, we suspect - the walrus at the North Pole (The terrestrial geographic North Pole, or simply North Pole, is the highest point...) . However this film is still labeled in the Mickey Mouse series. Mickey is however back in Whale Hunters, released on August 19, 1938, which will mark the last performance of the trio in the “classic era”.

Goofy and Wilbur, directed by Dick Huemer and released on March 17, 1939, is Goofy's first solo adventure and the start of his own series. This film brings together and parallels the destinies of Goofy and Wilbur, his pet (A pet is an animal receiving protection from man in exchange for its...), a cricket. The two accomplices have to fight against a succession of bad luck.

As far as comics are concerned, Goofy is more of a duo with Mickey. Between 1938 and 1942, he participated as Mickey's best friend in seven long stories. So he is :

The 1940s-1950s: Goofy's series

The "Goofy" series

In the 1940s and 1950s, Goofy continued his career under his own series which included 58 short films released between 1939 and 1965. This creation of a series stems from several facts, such as the stopping of the Silly Symphonies, the slowing down (The slowing down signal (of the SNCF type) announces a needle (or several) in a deflected position. ..) Mickey Mouse - for lack of scriptwriting possibilities - but also a redeployment, wanted by Walt, of the animators in separate teams and specialized on characters. This distribution, in addition to being financially more economical, also allows a better quality on each character; Donald is thus entrusted to Jack Hannah and Jack King, Pluto to Norman Ferguson and Nick Nichols, Mickey to Bill Roberts and Riley Thomson, while Jack Kinney takes charge of Goofy.

Officially, there are only two series with Dingo, produced in parallel, but it is possible to cut this period according to several intertwining axes:

Flora O'Brien indicates that the Dingo of the 1940s is "less rounded (A rounding of a number is an approximate value of that number obtained, from its...) at the corners, less dazed and with a sens (SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) is a scientific project which aims at...) broader speed comedy". He also leads a career almost exclusively solo.

The "How to..." series

In the early 1940s, Jack Kinney proposed a new evolution for Goofy: he wanted to give him a more learned role and thus offer him a vast source of scenarios. After an enthusiastic reception from Walt Disney, he begins work on a short film. In 1941, in How to Horseback Riding included in the documentary film The Recalcitrant Dragon, Goofy began his new career, that of the sub-series of How to... (How to... ). But as Jack Kinney points out, quoted (The city (Latin civitas) is a word designating, in Antiquity before the...) by Flora O'Brien and taken up by John Grant, Goofy shows here "the most ridiculous way of riding since man stepped over a prehistoric horse".

After this first apprenticeship (Learning is the acquisition of know-how, that is to say the process...), several other Dingo films also have an initiatory or educational character. In these films, Goofy speaks little and a narrator provides the commentary, however he regularly pushes (Pousse is the name given to an illegal car race in Reunion.) his famous cry (of pain?): the "Goofy holler". However, translations into French have often caused the original How to... to disappear. John Grant explains that the narrator, John McLeish, artist (Is commonly called artist any person exercising one of the professions or activities...) of Disney but with a voice close to that of John Barrymore whom he imitated to make his colleagues, was employed in order to partially compensate for the lack caused by the (temporary) departure of Pinto Colvig. For his first recordings, Jack Kinney would have knowingly let him believe, after asking him to be as serious as possible, that he was recording educational texts.

Many of Goofy's short films created after the launch of the How To... sub-series can be related to it. John Grant thus defines the film A Knight for a Day (1946) as a variation on chivalry. We can thus note Foul Hunting (1947), on fishing, or They're Off (1948), on horse racing, but it seems that as the comic side took over from the educational, the short films n were not associated. This type of film continued throughout the production of the Goofy with, for example, Goofy swimming (Aquamania, 1961). It is these films that John Grant equates to films of an “initiatory or educational” nature, sports films being only one variation of the theme.

The Second (Second is the feminine of the adjective second, which comes immediately after the first or which...) World War

Like most characters in Disney short films, Goofy has was used during World War II as a badge for American troops. Despite his poor performance as a mechanic in 1935 at Mickey's Service Station, it became the badge of 374^th Twin Engine Training Squadron.

He participated like Donald in the "war effort" with propaganda films (Propaganda refers to the communication strategy used by a political power (or party)...) such as Victory Vehicles (1943), calling for fuel economy (A fuel is a fuel that powers a heat engine. This transforms...).

During the period 1941-1946, Goofy was present in 28 films, Mickey in 16 and Donald in 60. By comparing these figures, Flora O'Brien notes that Donald Duck is the "great hero of Disney for this period", Mickey "under a sun (The Sun (Sol in Latin, Helios or Ήλιος in Greek) is the star...) setting" and Goofy an "accomplished artist". The character continues his career with the numerous short films of the How To... sub-series and also in some sequences of feature films such as El Gaucho Goofy, third part of the feature film Saludos Amigos, thus being part of the team sent to the side of Walt Disney in America (America is a separate continent, to the west, from Asia and...) from the South (South is a cardinal point, opposite to north.). This short film poses Goofy as a gaúcho in the pampas, reminiscent of the film The Gallopin' Gaucho with Mickey, released in 1928.

Some other short films also allow him to walk in the footsteps (TRACES (TRAde Control and Expert System) is a veterinary health network of...) of Mickey Mouse or Alice Comedies by exploring the world (The word world can designate :). We can cite Tiger Trouble (1945) in India and Goofy and the Lion (1951) in Africa (covering an area of ​​30,221,532 km2 including the islands, etc.), Two Gun Goofy (1952) in the Far West (recalling Two-Gun Mickey) from 1934) and Dingo Toreador (1953) in Spain.

Goofy, sport and "Mr. Everybody"

Within the sub-series, the film How to Play Baseball (1942) inaugurates a narrative process where all the characters of the film are variants of the main character. Goofy thus gains psychological depth by endorsing the stereotype of “Mr. Everyone” struggles with quantity (Quantity is a generic term in metrology (account, amount); a scalar,…) of daily problems. Therefore, in the cartoons of this period, Goofy is never called by his name (despite its mention in the credits) but "George Geef" or "G.G. Geef", a normal man with which it happens of the adventures. It bears this name in:

The films How to Play Baseball (1942), How to Play Football (1944), Hockey Homicide (1945) and Double Dribble (1946) form a coherent whole. All four are based on sports, respectively baseball, American football, ice hockey and basketball, and use the process of multiple incarnations of Goofy for each role. In addition, the last three pay tribute to animators or Disney employees by using their name or a nickname to refer to the players. However, the latter two are not part of the How To... series. This cohesive set, along with other productions using Goofy in sports, form another facet or career of the character, the sporting Goofy that Flora O' Brien breaks it down in a special section of his book Walt Disney's Goofy: The Good Sport. She indicates that this association with sport is linked to the youth of Jack Kinney, a seasoned athlete and high jump champion (Height has several meanings depending on the area covered.) then an unconditional member of the Disney studios softball team. For the multiplication (Multiplication is one of the four operations of elementary arithmetic...) of Goofy, she specifies that it is the solution found by Kinney to reduce the costs linked to the use of various Disney characters. Indeed, these are only variations of Goofy without intrusion of Mickey, Donald or others.

Dingo's process of incarnations reaches its apogee (An apogee (from the Greek apogeios: far from the earth; apo: far + gê:...) in No Smoking (No Smoking) (November 23, 1951) in which Dingo, in a world of Dingos, is desperately trying to get rid of his addiction (Dependency is, in the phenomenological sense, behavior based on a craving...) to nicotine (Nicotine (by Jean Nicot) is a alkaloid present in tobacco leaves…) The film is also an exception in the policy of the Disney studios, which had as a rule to avoid any controversy, at a time when smoking was still considered natural and rewarding.

Flora O'Brien says this side of Goofy has been criticized - without specifying by whom - for "taking the character way too far from her roots". She replies that it is taken today as a reflection of the changes affecting American society in the 1950s, such as photography for everyone, automobiles, fathers babysitting or going on vacation (The holidays (in the plural, from the Latin vacare, “to be without”) are one...). One can also according to her see there a criticism of the society of the time, Dingo not respecting the social code established for centuries like the women at home while the men work.

A developing universe

In addition to the appearance of these series, the world around (Autour is the name that the avian nomenclature in French language (update) gives...) of Goofy grows with the appearance of new characters and a family.

Dingo is the first antagonist of the bear (Bears (or ursines, from the Latin ŭrsus, of the same meaning) are large mammals...) Nicodemus (Humphrey) in Hold That Pose (1950), before this last does not continue his career against Donald.

Dingo also had in Man's Best Friend (1952) a companion animal, a dog named Bowser.

On the comic side, the character has built up a large, albeit discreet, family over time.

In May 1954, Goofy was given a nephew, Gilbert, as intelligent as Goofy is naive. The draftsman (A draftsman is a person practicing drawing. The drawing resulting from the work of a...) Italian Romano Scarpa invented him in 1957 in Mickey and the Dingotarzan a "wild" brother living in the jungle: Dingotarzan).

In 1955, Goofy was the subject of a television biography in The Goofy Success Story, in which the fiction predominates. Goofy sees himself not invented by the Disney studio but "discovered" by Hollywood talent scouts in a cinema (We call cinema a moving visual projection, most often with sound. The term...), laughing at his characteristic laugh. It would only be after he joined Disney that he took on a pseudonym.

From 1956, the Disney studios stopped the regular production of short films and moved towards television (Television is the transmission, by cable or by radio waves, of images or...) which drains cinema audiences. In addition, the cartoons then cost 75,000 USD each, which is difficult to make profitable only by a theatrical exhibition.

The 1960s-1980s

During the 1960s, Goofy only appeared in three short films which put an end to his own series. We can notice the film Goofy swimming (1961) which won an Oscar.

Goofy's last significant appearance in an animated cartoon was on September 22, 1965 in Goofy's Freeway Trouble, which was not is other than the sequel to Freewayphobia No. 1, released a few months earlier.

Goofy does not reappear in animation until 1983. However, his career, like that of many Disney characters, continues with comics.

Persistence (Persistence (statistics)Persistence (computing)in painting: La...) in comics

But this year 1965 marks the beginning of an additional career for Goofy, that of super- hero. He first appeared in July 1965 in the Donald Duck #102 comic. Gilbert then becomes Super Gilbert. The peanuts grown by Goofy in his garden would have been hit by a cosmic ray (Cosmic radiation generally refers to the flow of high-energy particles...). The character of Super Goofy will have his own series in the United States from November 1965 to 1972.

Beginning in 1969, Del Connell and Floyd Gottfredson gave Goofy a bride (Bride is a moth from the family Noctuidae.) named Gloria, a mouse more anthropomorphic than Minnie. It is used regularly until 1977 then its appearances become occasional, until 1995 when it probably disappears because of inconsistencies with the television series La Bande à Dingo.

In 1976, screenwriter Cal Howard and cartoonist Hector Adolfo de Urtiága created the series entitled Goofy discovers... in which Goofy lends his features to a certain number (The notion of number in linguistics is discussed in the article " Number...) of famous men in History for a brief summary of their lives: Christopher Columbus, Isaac Newton (Isaac Newton (January 4, 1643 G – March 31, 1727 G, or December 25...), Galileo ( Galileo or Galileo Galilei (born in Pisa on February 15, 1564 and died in Arcetri near Florence,...), Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Gutenberg, Giacomo Casanova...

In 1979 Disneyland Records released Mickey Mouse Disco, a music album featuring disco versions of Disney musical classics, promoted through a compilation of animated shorts, released June 25, 1980.

On May 21, 1986, the Frenchman Claude Marin drew the character of Goofy in the guise of a baby (Baby onomatopoeia designates a human being at a young age. In...) for the Disney Babies series the publication of which began in the 1769 issue of Mickey's Journal.

In December 1988, screenwriter Bruno Sarda and designer Maria Luisa Uggetti invented an adventurer cousin for Goofy inspired by the character of Indiana Jones: Indiana Ding (Indiana Pipps in the original Italian version).

Back to animation with the sporty Goofy

In 1980, the Disney company, heavily involved in the promotion of sport, created a new sporty Goofy, physically more muscular, especially in the torso, with shorter teeth and a sporty wardrobe (La Garde-robe or by faux-Anglicism the dressing room or the dressing room). Capitalizing on short films from the 1940s to 1960s, the company gave Dingo a new role, that of promoting all sports. The main sport affected is then tennis. Goofy became the official mascot of the French Olympic tennis team in 1980. In 1981, he was appointed ambassador for West Germany (West is a cardinal point, opposite to East. direction...) of the German Sportlife Fund, in 1983 the International Tennis Federation announced at Wimbledon the creation of its first international competition for children, called the "Sport Goofy Trophy", which took place at the Walt Disney World Resort. For F. O'Brien, Goofy then underwent the fashion for fitness, becoming more athletic, while carrying the values ​​that the Disney company wishes to convey: "the imagination, the richness and the freshness of youth". It is in this context that the short film Fou de foot (1987) was released.

In 1983, Goofy made a return to the screens, like several Disney characters, in Le Noël de Mickey. Goofy plays the role of Jacob Marley's ghost in this adaptation of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. In Goofy lore, John Grant says he does a shuddering, incompetent performance of the ghost despite Hal Smith's vocal delivery. Flora O'Brien found this role to be "a strange reversal" compared to Goofy's performance in Ghostbusters (1937).

In 1988, he appeared in the feature film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, dubbed in the original version by Tony Pope.

The 1990s and 2000s

The revival of Goofy began in 1990, when Disney launched Goofy Adventures, a magazine devoted entirely to Goofy, but the success of this publication was not there. and the publication ends with the seventeenth number.

In 1991, the educational film Fitness Fun with Goofy uses excerpts from short sports films from the 1950s and 1960s to make a complete session of physical exercises of 19 minutes, illustrated by animations.

For its sixtieth anniversary, a parade named World According to Goofy Parade is organized in the park summer and fall period, from June 19 to November 16, 1992.

On the other hand, he returned to success on television with his own series launched in 1992: La Bande à Dingo (Goof Troop). With his son Max and his cat, he is confronted with his neighbor Pat Hibulaire and his family. This series could be the continuation of the adventures of Georges Geef, in the short films of the years 1950-1960, but Goofy keeps his name, his son is called Max (instead of Junior) and his wife is no longer present. Two feature films will be inspired by the series: Goofy and Max (A Goofy Movie) in 1995 and Goofy and Max 2: The Sportsmen of the Extreme (An Extremely Goofy Movie) in 2000.

At the same time, Goofy finds his traditional personality (without children) in the series Mickey Mouse Works (1999-2000), Disney's all in a box (2001-2004) and La Maison de Mickey (2006-2007).

On December 4, 2006, Disney announced the production of short films with Goofy. In 2007, Goofy was the hero of a short film bringing taste (For the faculty of judging beautiful things, see Taste (aesthetics)) of the day (The day or the day is the interval which separates sunrise from sunset Soleil; c'est la...) the series of How to..., How to connect your home cinema. This short film was released in cinemas in the United States as the first part of the film Benjamin Gates and the Book of Secrets but was planned with Once upon a time; in France it is with the film Maxi Papa (2008), without being present on the supports associated with this film.