90 Fun Facts About A Goofy Movie

Which film reached cinemas the same year as A Goofy Movie?

Toy Story. A Goofy Movie was due in November 1994 but slipped to April 1995, so it reached cinemas only seven months before the first fully computer-animated feature.

A Goofy Movie was the directorial debut of which later Tarzan co-director?

Kevin Lima. He also gave himself small parts in the film, among them the father of Max's crush, and he later directed Enchanted.

Goof Troop joined which Disney cartoon line-up in 1992?

The Disney Afternoon. Goofy had been single and childless in most of his cartoons until the series made him a single father raising Max, the son the film is built around.

Where does Goofy plan to take Max fishing in A Goofy Movie?

Lake Destiny, Idaho. Goofy once fished there with his own father, and he insists on following the very same map, stop for stop, with Max.

In A Goofy Movie, Max tells his crush he'll be on stage at which pop star's concert?

Powerline. Max calls him the biggest rock star on the planet, and Goofy replies that he can't be bigger than Xavier Cugat, the mambo king.

Who has voiced Goofy since 1987, including in A Goofy Movie?

Bill Farmer. A stand-up impressionist newly arrived in Hollywood, he won Goofy at his first big cartoon audition after studying the original voice, Pinto Colvig.

Which actor took over as the speaking voice of Max when A Goofy Movie made him a teenager?

Jason Marsden. On television Max had been an 11-year-old voiced by the actress Dana Hill, so ageing him into a teenager for the film meant finding him a new voice.

In the nightmare that opens A Goofy Movie, Max turns into whom?

His dad. Just as his crush is about to kiss him, Max starts changing into Goofy and frightens her away.

Which comedian gave an uncredited performance as Max's friend Bobby in A Goofy Movie?

Pauly Shore. He went unbilled in 1995, but when Bobby followed Max to college in the 2000 sequel his name was in the credits.

Who provided the singing voice of the pop star Max idolises in A Goofy Movie?

Tevin Campbell. Twenty years later he turned up at the film's D23 Expo reunion in Anaheim and closed the panel by singing the finale live.

Who provided Max's singing voice in A Goofy Movie?

Aaron Lohr. The Newsies and Mighty Ducks actor sang Max's songs while another actor spoke the lines; he later left acting altogether and became a therapist.

Which actor voices Max's high-school crush in A Goofy Movie?

Kellie Martin. Her character forgives Max's lie in the final scene, telling him she has liked him since the first time she heard his goofy laugh.

Which character actor voices the strict Principal Mazur in A Goofy Movie?

Wallace Shawn. The Princess Bride's Vizzini plays a principal who phones Goofy to warn that Max is headed for the electric chair, the scare that sets the whole trip in motion.

Which voice actor plays Pete, Goofy's neighbour, in A Goofy Movie?

Jim Cummings. A year earlier he had finished 'Be Prepared' in The Lion King when Jeremy Irons's voice gave out partway through the song.

Stuck in the car overnight in A Goofy Movie, Goofy opens a can of which soup with his teeth?

Alphabet soup. Goofy reminds Max that as a small boy he spelled out 'Hi Dad' with the letters, which is why the two of them call it 'Hi Dad' soup.

What is Goofy's job in A Goofy Movie?

Child photographer. He is taking children's portraits in a department store when the principal phones about Max, and it is his workmate Pete who talks up the great outdoors.

Which film beat A Goofy Movie to the top of the box office on its April opening weekend?

Bad Boys. Will Smith's cop comedy opened the same day and took $15.5 million, while the Goofs, on slightly more screens, managed $6.1 million.

Most of A Goofy Movie was animated not in Burbank but at Disney's studio in which city?

Paris. With nothing like a Lion King budget, the crew leaned on Disney's overseas studios: Paris drew most of the film and Sydney added further scenes.

Carter Burwell, who wrote A Goofy Movie's score, is the regular composer for which filmmaking brothers?

The Coen brothers. Disney wanted something more sweeping than his banjo-and-choir score for Goofy, so Don Davis, later the Matrix composer, was hired to rework it.

Which song opens A Goofy Movie, sung by Max and his classmates on their way to school?

After Today. Tom Snow and Jack Feldman wrote it, and in 2009 a student's shot-for-shot live-action remake of the number went viral on YouTube.

Which Disney boss's road trip with his daughter inspired A Goofy Movie's story?

Jeffrey Katzenberg. Passed over for promotion after Frank Wells died in 1994, he left Disney before the film opened and co-founded DreamWorks, so it was released without its champion.

Which creature crashes Goofy and Max's campsite in A Goofy Movie?

Bigfoot. A fishing lesson goes wrong when Goofy's line hooks Pete's steak and draws the monster in after it, leaving father and son shut in their car all night.

Down which river does the Goofs' runaway car float before the waterfall in A Goofy Movie?

The Colorado. Goofy storms out at the Grand Canyon without setting the brake, so the car rolls off with both of them in pursuit and ends up afloat on the river.

In An Extremely Goofy Movie, Bobby wonders aloud why cartoon characters like him are always wearing what?

Gloves. Animation historians have one answer for him: white gloves made hands show up against the black bodies of early cartoon characters.

Where did Disney premiere An Extremely Goofy Movie in 2000?

Home video. It came out on leap day, 29 February 2000, in the very format where the first film, a modest earner in cinemas, had found its devoted audience.

Why does Goofy end up enrolling at Max's college in An Extremely Goofy Movie?

Empty-nest syndrome gets him fired. Daydreaming about Max, he causes an explosion at the toy factory where he works, and the unemployment office says nobody will hire him without a degree.

Who is the leader of the Gamma Mu Mu fraternity and villain of An Extremely Goofy Movie?

Bradley Uppercrust III. He cheats at every turn and leaves his own sidekick trapped in a fire, so the film ends with that sidekick hurling him into a blimp.

Which competition is at the centre of An Extremely Goofy Movie's plot?

The X Games. Max's team wins the college title only after he and Goofy stop mid-race to pull a rival from burning wreckage, and the rescued rival then helps Max to the line.

Which Cheers actress voices the librarian Sylvia Marpole in An Extremely Goofy Movie?

Bebe Neuwirth. Max steers his dad towards her librarian to get him out of his hair, and the pair fall for each other over a shared love of the 1970s.

Which A Goofy Movie character is missing from the sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie?

Roxanne. The sequel never explains where Max's girlfriend went, but she was not forgotten: she came back for a date with him in the TV series House of Mouse.

What was Goofy called in the early 1930s, before he got the name Goofy?

Dippy Dawg. The name came from the newspaper comic strips; on screen in 1932 he was just a bearded old-timer in the audience with a very loud laugh.

In his 1950s suburban-everyman cartoons, Goofy was often known by which name?

George Geef. As Mr Geef he had a wife whose face was never shown and a small son, which made him a family man decades before the cartoons gave him Max.

Which two words are Goofy's best-known catchphrases?

Gawrsh and ah-hyuck. The chuckle came first: Pinto Colvig, a former circus clown, laughed so memorably as a face in a cartoon crowd that the studio kept the character on.

Goof Troop, the 1992 series that introduced Max, is set in which fictional town?

Spoonerville. The series begins with Goofy moving back to his home town with Max, only to find his old high-school friend Pete living next door.

In the 1992 series Goof Troop, what are the names of Pete's two children?

P.J. and Pistol. P.J. dates back to a 1942 Donald Duck cartoon, but his little sister was invented for the series and never made it into either Goofy film.

In A Goofy Movie, the monster outside the car ends up dancing to which disco hit on stray headphones?

Stayin' Alive. The headphones drop onto his ears by accident and the Bee Gees do the rest, keeping him happily occupied while father and son sit out the night.

Pete, Goofy's neighbour in A Goofy Movie, was already the villain of which early Disney cartoon?

Steamboat Willie. Pete was already three years old: he debuted in 1925 as a bear, was redrawn as a cat for these cartoons, and is now Disney's oldest character still in use.

Which honour did the long-time voice of Goofy receive in 2009?

Disney Legend. Living honorees press their handprints and signature into a bronze plaque, and his now sits with the others in the Legends Plaza at the Burbank studio.

The actor behind the teenage Max also voiced which lion in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride?

Kovu. He was also the voice of Binx, the talking black cat in Hocus Pocus, even though another actor played Binx as a boy on screen.

Which fishing move, handed down through generations of Goofs, do Goofy and Max end up doing on stage?

The Perfect Cast. Goofy's routine mixes clock positions and ballet steps with 'I'm a little teapot', and it saves both of them at the waterfall before it becomes a dance.

Which musician, whose producer made the songs, was one model for A Goofy Movie's pop star?

Prince. To win over the singer they wanted, the film-makers went to Prince's own producer, David Z, who recorded the songs at Paisley Park.

A Goofy Movie had its premiere far from Hollywood, at a cinema inside which Disney resort?

Walt Disney World. The film opened at the Pleasure Island multiplex in Florida, and two months later Disney gave Pocahontas an open-air premiere in New York's Central Park.

What is the title of the 2024 documentary about the making of A Goofy Movie?

Not Just a Goof. It retells the crew's stories in new animation that redraws the film-makers as Goofy-style characters, and it reached Disney+ on the film's 30th anniversary.

Disney executives wanted to recast Goofy for A Goofy Movie with which big-name comedian?

Steve Martin. The idea was dropped, but Goofy's regular actor was still made to record in his own natural speaking voice before those sessions were scrapped for the classic one.

In A Goofy Movie, what fee does Bobby charge for helping Max hijack the school assembly?

A can of spray cheese. Bobby squirts his Cheddar Whizzy straight into his mouth and later sculpts a 'leaning tower of Cheeza' with it while waiting to see the principal.

Lester's, the run-down amusement park the Goofs visit in A Goofy Movie, is themed on which animal?

Opossum. The park's emcee was the last role of Pat Buttram, Disney's Sheriff of Nottingham, who died before the release, and the film is dedicated to him.

Which TV series aired a 2022 mockumentary episode about the making of A Goofy Movie?

Atlanta. 'The Goof Who Sat By the Door' invents a Black animator who becomes Disney's chief executive by mistake and sets out to make the Blackest film of all time.

What tiny flaw forced the crew to reshoot much of A Goofy Movie?

A dead pixel on a monitor. Every frame was filmed off that screen, so the black dot was in every shot; the director later said the redo saved the film by buying time to finish it.

Which Disney icon cameos as a hitchhiker beside Donald Duck in A Goofy Movie?

Mickey Mouse. He was voiced by Wayne Allwine, who started in Disney's mailroom, played the mouse for 32 years and married Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie.

Max hijacks a school assembly in A Goofy Movie on what day?

The last day before summer. The stunt lands Max in the principal's office but wins him a date, and his panicked lie about that date sets the whole road trip in motion.

Super Goof, Goofy's comic-book superhero alter ego, gets his powers by eating which food?

Peanuts, which the comics call super goobers, turn Goofy into Super Goof for only a couple of hours, so his powers tend to wear off at the worst moment.

Nancy Cartwright, who voiced Pete's young daughter in Goof Troop, is far better known as the voice of whom?

Bart Simpson earned Nancy Cartwright a Primetime Emmy and an Annie Award; in Goof Troop she played the little girl who lives next door to the Goofs.

An Extremely Goofy Movie was released in 2000 on which notable calendar date?

February 29 was the release date, so the sequel arrived on a leap day, almost five years after A Goofy Movie reached cinemas in April 1995.

Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Goofy, also voiced which two of Snow White's seven dwarfs?

Grumpy and Sleepy both spoke with Pinto Colvig's voice in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and he went on to play a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz.

In which role-playing franchise is Goofy captain of the royal guard and an ally of the hero Sora?

Kingdom Hearts makes Goofy captain of the royal guard at Disney Castle, and he sets out with the court wizard Donald Duck to search for their missing king.

Which Dickens character does Goofy play in Disney's 1983 animated version of A Christmas Carol?

Jacob Marley's shackled ghost was Goofy's part, and the featurette marked his return to cinemas after years of being seen only on television and in comics.

In A Goofy Movie, the pop concert that Max promises to appear at takes place in which city?

Los Angeles is where the concert is staged, and Goofy and Max end up sneaking on stage and becoming part of the show.

What finally happens to Goofy's battered car outside the house of Max's crush in A Goofy Movie?

It explodes, throwing Goofy up through the porch roof, which is how Max ends up introducing him to the girl he has spent the trip trying to impress.

Which A Goofy Movie song inspired a TikTok dance craze in 2020?

I 2 I, the number that closes the film's big concert, had TikTok users dancing along a quarter of a century after the film opened, one sign of how far its cult following had grown.

While Goofy sleeps in the car in A Goofy Movie, what does Max secretly alter to reach the concert?

The route on the map is what Max redraws, a deception Pete later overhears him confessing at a motel and reports to Goofy.

After their night stuck in the car in A Goofy Movie, which job does Goofy hand over to Max?

Navigator is the title Goofy gives Max, letting him pick every stop, and the pair finally start to enjoy the trip together.

Which trait of Goofy's has Max already inherited, to his dismay, when A Goofy Movie begins?

His laugh is what Max dreads most, yet at the end his crush admits that the goofy chuckle was the very thing that made her like him.

Which critic gave A Goofy Movie three stars even though a projector fault cut short his screening?

Roger Ebert saw only part of the film before the projection booth failed, then watched the rest and decided his three-star rating had been about right.

Which Disney film beat A Goofy Movie to Best Animated Feature at the 1995 Annie Awards?

Pocahontas won four Annies that night, while A Goofy Movie converted none of its five nominations.

Jenna von Oÿ and Joey Lawrence, both heard in A Goofy Movie, were co-stars of which 1990s sitcom?

Blossom ran until 1995, the year the film came out: von Oÿ played best friend Six and Lawrence played Joey Russo, and here they voice classmates Stacey and Chad.

Chris Matheson, a co-writer of A Goofy Movie, also co-created which big-screen comedy duo?

Bill and Ted were dreamed up by Chris Matheson with Ed Solomon, and the two writers scripted all three of the duo's time-travel films.

Rob Paulsen, the voice of Max's best friend in A Goofy Movie, voiced which Ninja Turtle in the 1987 cartoon?

Raphael was Rob Paulsen's turtle in the original series, yet when the cartoon was remade in 2012 he came back as Donatello instead.

Dana Hill, the voice of Max in Goof Troop, played Audrey Griswold in which National Lampoon comedy?

European Vacation gave Dana Hill the part of the Griswolds' daughter; type 1 diabetes had slowed her growth, so she went on playing children long after her own childhood.

A Goofy Movie is dedicated to Pat Buttram, who voiced an emcee and played Mr. Haney on which sitcom?

Green Acres made Pat Buttram a familiar face as Mr. Haney; the amusement-park emcee was his final role, and he died soon after finishing his recording.

Which rebooted Disney cartoon brought Goofy back, in his Goof Troop look, as a sitcom neighbour?

DuckTales made him the neighbour after Donald accidentally wishes his family into a 1990s sitcom, and Goofy uses his bond with Max to explain what normal means.

In An Extremely Goofy Movie's final race, Goofy knocks out the rival fraternity leader with what?

A horseshoe does the job in the last stretch, though Goofy's closing trick also traps Max and the Gamma heavy Tank under a fallen logo.

At the end of An Extremely Goofy Movie, an angry Tank flings his own fraternity leader into what?

A blimp floating over the contest is where he lands, Tank's payback for being left pinned under wreckage while his leader skated on past.

In An Extremely Goofy Movie, the loser of Max's bet with the Gammas must serve the winner as what?

Towel boy is the forfeit, agreed after the Gammas invite Max to join but refuse to take his two friends, and Max calls the debt off once he has won.

In An Extremely Goofy Movie, Pete plans to turn his college-bound son's bedroom into what?

A bowling alley is Pete's plan, because he has little attachment to his son and is delighted to see him leave for college.

In An Extremely Goofy Movie, Max's shy best friend charms the Beret Girl with a gift for what?

Poetry is his surprise gift, and it wins over the beatnik who performs on stage at the campus café, the Bean Scene.

Some reviewers called An Extremely Goofy Movie a weaker version of which Rodney Dangerfield comedy?

Back to School also sends a father to study at his son's college, which is why reviewers reached for the 1986 comparison.

A psychedelic dream scene in An Extremely Goofy Movie is drawn in the style of which Beatles film?

Yellow Submarine is the model for the trippy dream sequence, one of several film nods in the sequel alongside parody titles such as The Gooffather and Pup Fiction Too.

Which sitcom star, famous as Robert Barone, voices the Gamma heavy Tank in An Extremely Goofy Movie?

Brad Garrett won three Emmys as Robert Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond, and he has also voiced characters in Finding Nemo, Ratatouille and Tangled.

What does the Gamma leader secretly fit to Goofy's skateboard in An Extremely Goofy Movie?

A rocket booster fires Goofy to a win over his own son in the qualifiers, a rigged result that leaves Max furious with him.

In Goof Troop, Goofy's next-door neighbour Pete makes his living selling what?

Used cars are his trade at Honest Pete's Used Cars, a steady job far removed from the outright villain he had played in Disney cartoons since the 1920s.

In Goof Troop, what is the name of Pete's wife, who works as a real estate agent?

Peg often tries to rid Pete of his uncouth attitude; outside Goof Troop, Italian comics gave him a girlfriend called Trudy instead.

Shinji Mikami, designer of Goof Troop for the Super Nintendo, went on to create which horror series?

Resident Evil made Mikami famous, but first came this 1993 Capcom puzzle adventure, in which one player controls Goofy and a second can join in as Max.

The famous Goofy holler was first heard in a 1941 cartoon in which Goofy attempts which sport?

Skiing gave Goofy his trademark yell: the yodel was recorded by the Austrian skier Hannes Schroll, and it is the only sound Goofy makes in the whole short.

Wilbur, Goofy's fishing partner in his first solo cartoon in 1939, is what kind of creature?

A grasshopper called Wilbur skips across the water as live bait, luring fish towards Goofy's waiting net in the short Goofy and Wilbur.

Pinto Colvig, the first voice of Goofy, was also the first to play which children's entertainer?

Bozo the Clown began on a 1946 storytelling record with Colvig in the role, and he played the character again when Bozo reached American television in 1949.

Which Disney character has Goofy's long-time voice actor also performed since 1990?

Pluto has shared an actor with Goofy since 1990, echoing the 1930s, when Pinto Colvig supplied both Goofy's voice and Pluto's barks.

Which cartoon duo beat Goofy's 1944 short How to Play Football to the Oscar for animated short?

Tom and Jerry won for MGM, leaving Goofy's football spoof as one of only two of his shorts ever nominated for an Academy Award.

In the 1942 Disney feature Saludos Amigos, Goofy learns the ways of the gaucho in which country?

Argentina's pampas are where the narrator drops cowboy Goofy, fresh from Texas, and a scene of him smoking a cigarette was later cut from some home-video releases.

Goofy's 1950 short Motor Mania, where a gentle man turns monstrous at the wheel, echoes which tale?

Jekyll and Hyde is the template: polite pedestrian Mr. Walker becomes the reckless Mr. Wheeler the moment he starts his car, then reverts as soon as he parks.

Goofy's Italian comic-book cousin Arizona Goof is a spoof of which big-screen adventurer?

Indiana Jones is the target, and the joke is plainer in Italy, where the globe-trotting cousin goes by the name Indiana Pipps.