1. Walt Disney Treasures - The
Complete Goofy starring George
Johnson, Pinto Colvig, John
McLeish, Fred Shields, Alan Reed
Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
In Stand By Me (1986), one of the boys asks, If Mickey is a mouse and
Donald is a duck, whats Goofy? The answer: hes a dog. Originally named
Dippy Dawg, the Goof, as the animators called him, made his debut as an
obnoxious hayseed in Mickeys Revue (1932). This generous collection
includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961
(but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-30s). The
How to Ride a Horse sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the
pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John
Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The
character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in
the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an
enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries

2. in the series, Hockey Homicide, contains several studio in-jokes: dueling
stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game
Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack
Kinney. During the 50s, Goofy was transformed into a genial suburban
Everyman in such domestic sitcoms as Fathers Are People, Two Weeks
Vacation, and Fathers Day Off. The animators reduced his floppy ears
and buck teeth, improved his posture, and gave him a brisker walk. The
best-known short from this period is Motor Mania (1950), a mildly didactic
spoof of American behavior on the road that was shown in drivers
education classes for decades. (Unrated: Suitable for all ages: cartoon
violence) --Charles Solomon
This set is simple: a compilation of all of Goofys theatricial shorts in
chronological order. Nothing more, nothing less. All shorts are presented
in sparkling fashion with brightness unlike the versions found on 80s VHS
collections like SPORT GOOFY and GOOFY OVER SPORTS.
One problem: No PLAY ALL feature. It baffles me why Disney did not put
one of these on the discs.
Thats very minor, however. The discs rock! The only thing possibly
missing are A GOOFY MOVIE and AN EXTREMELY GOOFY movie. That
would make the disc unparalleled.
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