Who is Goofy?
A: Goofy is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company.
He is a tall, anthropomorphic dog who typically wears
what?
A: A turtleneck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat.
Who is Goofy a close friend of?
A: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Max Goof's father.
He is normally characterized as hopelessly what?
A: Clumsy and dim-witted.
Occasionally, Goofy is shown as what?
A: Intuitive and clever, albeit in his own unique, eccentric way.
Goofy debuted in animated cartoons, starting in
1932
with what?
A: With Mickey's Revue as Dippy Dawg, who is older than Goofy would come to
be.
Later the same year, he was re-imagined as what?
A: A younger character, now called Goofy, in the short The Whoopee Party.
During the 1930s, he was used extensively as part of a
what?
A: A comedy trio with Mickey and Donald.
Starting in 1939, Goofy was given his own what?
A: His own series of shorts that were popular in the
1940s and early 1950s.
What two Goofy shorts were nominated for an Oscar?
A: How to Play Football (1944) and Aquamania (1961).
He also co-starred in what short series with Donald?
A: Polar Trappers (1938), where they first appeared without Mickey Mouse.
Three more Goofy shorts were produced in the 1960s
after which Goofy was only seen where?
A: In television and Disney comics.
He returned to theatrical animation in 1983 with what?
A: Mickey's Christmas Carol.
His most recent theatrical appearance was what?
A: How to Hook Up Your Home Theater in 2007.
According to Pinto Colvig, the original voice artist
for the character, Goofy was inspired by what?
A: A "grinny, half-baked village nitwit" from his hometown of Jacksonville,
Oregon.
He had previously used his mannerisms for a stage
character he created named what?
A: "The Oregon Appleknocker".
After a discussion with Walt Disney and director
Wilfred Jackson, it was decided that this would be the basis for a what?
A: A new member of the expanding Mickey Mouse cast.
Colvig would spend the next day in the recording studio
doing what?
A: Acting out the new cartoon character in front of animator Tom Palmer.
Based on what, Palmer would sketch out what would
become Goofy?
A: Colvig's "grotesque poses and expressions".
In a 1930s lecture, Babbitt described the character as
what?
A: "Think of the Goof as a composite of an everlasting optimist, a gullible
Good Samaritan, a half-wit, a shiftless, good-natured hick".
In the comics and his pre-1992 animated appearances,
Goofy was usually single and what?
A: Childless.
Unlike Mickey and Donald, he did not have a what?
A: A steady girlfriend.
In the comics, Goofy usually appears as Mickey's
sidekick, though he also is occasionally shown as a what?
A: A protagonist.
Where does Goofy live?
A: In Mouseton in the comics and in Spoonerville in Goof Troop.
In comics books and strips, who are Goofy's closest
relatives?
A: His smarter nephew Gilbert and his grandmother, simply called Grandma
Goofy.