The Essential Goof

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2002
7m

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This little featurette consists mostly of an outline about how Goofy should be animated - meaning, how his body and gestures work, and how his personality should be depicted. The outline had... Read allThis little featurette consists mostly of an outline about how Goofy should be animated - meaning, how his body and gestures work, and how his personality should be depicted. The outline had been written by Disney animation legend Art Babbitt in the late 1930s.This little featurette consists mostly of an outline about how Goofy should be animated - meaning, how his body and gestures work, and how his personality should be depicted. The outline had been written by Disney animation legend Art Babbitt in the late 1930s.

Writer
- Leonard Maltin
Stars
- Earl Boen
- Leonard Maltin

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Writer
- Leonard Maltin
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- Earl Boen
- Leonard Maltin

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Though the host speaks for about 68 seconds here . . .

. . . most of THE ESSENTIAL GOOF is devoted to a voice-over guy reading the long-ago--that is, 1935--words of the man who arguably was Goofy's character designer, Art Babbitt. Now that the calendar pages have turned to the year 2022, Babbitt's Goofy talk was first heard "four score, and seven years ago," to quote some dude named Hal. According to Art, Goofy is "an everlasting optimist, a gullible Good Samaritan, a half-wit, a shifty, good-nature'd hick. Goofy is the type of gentleman who would use extraneous apostrophes to prevent defective spell checkers from underlining correct usages.