Goof Troop

Goof Troop
Title logo, featuring Goofy and Max in the foreground
Also known as	Disney's Goof Troop
Genre	Animated sitcom
Created by	Peter Montgomery
Voices of	Bill Farmer Jim Cummings Dana Hill April Winchell Rob Paulsen Nancy Cartwright Frank Welker
Theme music composer	Randy Petersen Kevin Quinn Robert Irving
Opening theme	"Goof Troop" performed by Phil Perry
Ending theme	Goof Troop Music
Composer(s)	Mark Watters
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	78 (+1 special) (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	Robert Taylor (also supervising producer) Roy Wilson Hank Tucker Ken Kessel
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Walt Disney Television Animation
Distributor	Buena Vista Television
Release
Original network	The Disney Channel (1992) Syndication (Season 1) ABC (Season 2)
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	September 5, 1992 – December 5, 1993
Chronology
Followed by	A Goofy Movie A Goofy Movie 2: An Extremely Goofy Movie
Website	movies.disney.com/goof-troop

Goof Troop is an American animated comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series focuses on the relationship between single father Goofy and his son, Max; as well as their neighbors Pete and his family. Created by Peter Montgomery, the main series of 65 episodes aired in first-run syndication from 1992 to 1993 on The Disney Afternoon programming block, while an additional thirteen episodes aired on Saturday mornings on ABC. A Christmas special was also produced, which aired in syndication on November 1, 1992.^[1] Walt Disney Pictures released two films based on the television series: the theatrical A Goofy Movie, released on April 7, 1995; as well as the direct-to-video sequel An Extremely Goofy Movie, released on February 29, 2000.

Premise

Goof Troop bears similarity to several early-1950s Goofy cartoon shorts which depicted Goofy as a father to a mischievous red-haired son.

Goofy, a single father, moves back to his hometown of Spoonerville with his son, Max. As it happens, Goofy and Max end up moving in next door to Goofy's high school friend: Pete, a used car salesman and owner of Honest Pete's Used Cars; Pete's wife Peg, a real estate agent; and their two children, son P.J. (Pete Jr.) and younger daughter Pistol. Max and P.J. become best friends and do practically everything together. A large portion of humor comes from the relatively normal Max's personality sharply contrasting with his father.

Broadcast history and feature films

Goof Troop was originally previewed on The Disney Channel from April 20, 1992 into July 12 of that year.^[2][3] Like its predecessors DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin and Darkwing Duck and its successor Bonkers, Goof Troop was previewed in syndication (on September 5, 1992) with a pilot TV movie, which later aired as a multi-part serial during the regular run. The series aired on The Disney Afternoon block of syndicated animated series during the 1992/1993 broadcast season; concurrent with the Disney Afternoon shows, another 13 episodes aired on Saturday mornings on ABC in 1992. Reruns of the series later aired on The Disney Channel (starting on September 3, 1996),^[4] and later on sister cable channel Toon Disney. Reruns were shown on Toon Disney until January 2005. The program made a return from September 2006 until August 2008, and the Christmas special still aired on Christmas (although it is unknown if the special will ever be shown on Toon Disney's replacement Disney XD) in the United States.

Goof Troop was adapted into the feature film A Goofy Movie (1995) and its direct-to-video sequel and TV series finale, An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000). Both films are spin-offs of the series and take place a few years after the series. The two movies featured Bill Farmer, Rob Paulsen and Jim Cummings reprising their character roles from Goof Troop in these two movies, with Jason Marsden providing the voice of a now-teenager Max. Dana Hill, who provided the voice of Max, died on July 15, 1996 at the age of 32, after suffering a massive stroke related to her diabetes.

The Goof Troop premise was also incorporated into 1999's Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas and its 2004 sequel, Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, the latter continuing Max's age-progression to a young adult that has recently started dating and is reluctantly bringing his girlfriend home to meet his father.

Character and place titles

Pete's wife Peg is a play on "Peg Leg Pete," one of Pete's names in the classic Disney shorts. Likewise, his daughter Pistol is a play on another such name, "Pistol Pete."

The town of Spoonerville is named after layout artist J. Michael Spooner, who designed many of the background layouts for the series.

In "Axed by Addition," Max uses the "Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard" line to distract the doctors from performing surgery on PJ. This line was from the Three Stooges short, Men in Black.

Characters

Main cast

Goofy

Goofy (voiced by Bill Farmer) is the single father of Max Goof. This is mentioned briefly in one episode, where it's said that Max's mother is "up there amongst the stars". It is a direct implication that she died in an undisclosed time. He and his son, Max, move next door to the Pete's from their trailer home in the city. Goofy's biggest weaknesses are his short attention span, scatterbrain, and clumsiness. He often drives his neighbor Pete up the wall. Goofy is very calm, lovable, and many times will turn the other cheek when Pete insults him (or just doesn't realize he's been insulted), though occasionally, he does get angry and gets back at him when the offense goes too far. He is very forgiving, and still considers Pete to be a friend no matter how often Pete is mean to him.

Pete

Peter 'Petey/Pete' Pete, Sr. (voiced by Jim Cummings) is a used-car salesman, who lives with his beautiful wife, Peg, and two children, his son PJ and his daughter Pistol. He is villainous, dishonest, abrasive, cunning, and suspicious. They live next door to Goofy and his son, Max. He is very cheap. He often exploits his good hearted yet addled friend, Goofy. His schemes often backfire, or he feels guilty about his horrible behavior and works to set things right. His wife, Peg, often attempts to rid Pete of his uncouth attitude, and his son PJ is the complete opposite of his father in behavior, as he is good friends with Max, who is himself nearly opposite of Goofy, in the series and the feature film A Goofy Movie and its direct-to-video sequel, A Goofy Movie 2: An Extremely Goofy Movie.

It is revealed in the show's pilot episode ("Forever Goof") that one of the reasons why Pete dislikes Goofy so much and takes pleasure in conning or undermining him. 25 years before the start of the series when Pete was a quarterback in a big high school football game, it was Goofy who accidentally caused Pete to fumble the ball and lose the game because Goofy accidentally kicked him in the face, revealing that Goofy was on the cheerleading squad in high school. In the episode "Come Fly with Me", Pete gets zapped by Hank 5000 and then turned into a fly, which parodies the 1958 film The Fly and its 1986 remake.

In the series, he is the co-protagonist and antihero. In the beginning, he viscerally hates Goofy, and tries unsuccessfully to oust him from his house so he can build a fine fishing reserve in its place. However, Pete and Goofy are much closer pals in the feature film A Goofy Movie, and its direct-to-video sequel, A Goofy Movie 2: An Extremely Goofy Movie.

Max Goof

Max Goof (voiced by Dana Hill), is the son and only child of Goofy. He is 11½ years old,^[5][6] and is in the same grade as his best friend P.J. at their junior high school.^[7][8] While he is generally active, nice, alert and friendly, he can also be very manipulative and/or coercive when pushed or tricked, sometimes even par with Pete, who is usually the one who causes this and as such, is usually the target, but more frequently manipulates P.J. as well. He loves his dad, and is close to him, but wishes he would be a little more normal. He wears purple sweatpants with a yellow stripe, trademark gloves, brown sneakers with a green stripe in the middle, and a red shirt with yellow stripes. In the feature film A Goofy Movie, and its direct-to-video sequel, A Goofy Movie 2: An Extremely Goofy Movie, a now teenaged Max (voiced by Jason Marsden) feels embarrassed by his father's demeanor. Inevitably Max realizes Goofy has his best interest in mind and wants nothing more than to connect with him.

Peg Pete

Peg Pete (voiced by April Winchell) is Pete's wife and the mother of both P.J. and Pistol. In the pilot episode, it is revealed that Peg was a cheerleader in high school where she met Goofy and Pete. Peg works as an real estate agent in Spoonerville. She is a fashionable woman that usually wears a pink sweater, tight white pants, pink high heels, hoop earrings, and professional attire going to and from work. When Goofy briefly left Spoonerville, Peg married Pete and settled down.

Over the course of the series Peg is shown to be a no-nonsense type of mom who fits the types of being wise, quick witted, sarcastic, sometimes short-tempered, through often cantankerous natured, and loud at times – mostly towards her husband and sometimes towards her children and anyone who crosses her. For whatever reasons, she often defends Goofy against Pete, even going as far as kissing him to prove a point. Peg has such a loyalty towards Goofy (even favoring him well enough over Pete every now and then) because he is a kind person and is very good friends with him and Max who she treats as her own son. Max looks up to Peg and respects her as if she was his mom.

Peg is not present in either feature films which cause many fans to speculate that her and Big Pete had gotten divorced during the time in between the show and movies. During the show, Peg was known to visit her mom (who Pete hated but respected) and took both kids or Pistol alone with her when Pete got out of hand with his antics. Even so, during the series she shows that she loves her husband dearly. As a potential result of the above, Peg was not introduced in any other Walt Disney franchises after Goof Troop went off air but is fondly remembered as a strong female lead in a show.

P.J. Pete

Peter 'P.J.' Pete, Jr. (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is the eldest child of Pete and Peg, Pistol's older brother, and best friend of Max Goof who calls him "Peej" on an occasion. He is in the same grade as Max and loves both parents, mainly Peg very much because she understands and listens to him. Max and P.J. have a very strong friendship to where it is brotherly.

He is generally shy, laid-back, kind, and sometimes acts and talks as if he is never enthusiastic about anything like many active preteens/teenagers that like relax at home. Max is a positive best friend and encourage P.J. to work together to achieve something. Like Max, P.J. sometimes questions Pete's intelligence before, during, and after he gets involved in any of his dad's plans or schemes.

No matter how reluctant P.J. is after he voices he doesn't want to do things with his dad that will backfire – Pete becomes irritated and guilt trips P.J. When Peg find out, she angrily fusses at Pete for doing so. P.J. strongly resembles his dad physically, loves to eat and shares, wears a blue jacket, a pink turtleneck, white gloves, cerulean pants, and brown sneakers with a yellow stripe in the middle.

Pistol Pete

Pistol Pete (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is the youngest child of Pete and Peg, and is P.J.'s younger sister. She has long red hair in two pigtails. She is 4½ years old,^[9] and is in preschool. Pete absolutely adores Pistol and gives her any and everything she wants without question and calls her nicknames like "daddy's little princess." Pistol is very cute, talks with a lisp, and is hyperactive like many happy children – that does not mean she is a morally disruptive little girl. She a typical girly girl who loves ponies, sparkly things, dolls, fairies, and everything pink.

During the series, Pistol gets herself into a mess a few times, and either P.J. and Max, or even her father to have to bail her out in which she thanks them for. Pistol talks a lot, asks many questions rapidly (at times not letting anyone finish their sentence), and annoys some of her fellow characters or charms them. She wears a white shirt, a yellow skirt, pink socks and white velcro shoes. Like most differently aged siblings, Pistol has gotten P.J. into trouble for something she did.

Pistol is not seen in the movie sequels, so it's possible that Peg and Pete got divorced between the show and the movie and Peg won custody of Pistol.

Waffles and Chainsaw

(Both are voiced by Frank Welker)
Waffles is Goofy's male pet cat. Goofy and Max tend to adore him. Like many cats and dogs, Waffles also likes to torment Chainsaw on occasion.
Chainsaw is Pete's female pet dog. While Peg, Pistol, and P.J. like Chainsaw and play with her, Pete often despises her. She has a tendency to take Pete's valuables (and sometimes other's as well) and bury them in the yard, perhaps providing the cause of Pete's disgust of her.

Other characters

• Danielle the TV News Reporter (voiced by April Winchell) appears in a few episodes; one is "Goof Fellas."
• Spud and Wally (voiced by Pat Fraley & Jerry Houser) are two criminals and the major antagonists who literally steal Pete's house in "A Nightmare on Goof Street", who makes off with his RV in "O, R-V, I N-V U", and hold him for a ransom in "The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy", in which they are finally incarcerated. Even though they're dimwitted, they are described in the latter of the episodes as "two of the most wanted crooks in the country".
• General Robert "Bob" Sparrowhawk (voiced by William Windom) is Peg's retired uncle and great-uncle of PJ & Pistol.
• Harold Hatchback (voiced by Rob Paulsen & Patrick Duffy) is the public announcing host and Pete's rival, that appeared in "Wrecks, Lies, & Videotapes", "Buddy Building", "Mrs. Spoonerville", and "Slightly Dinghy".
• Coupe Hatchback (voiced by Conor Duffy) is the strongest son of Pete's rival and a public announcing host, Harold Hatchback, and he is also Max and PJ's friend (met in Buddy Building episode)
• Leech (voiced by Rob Paulsen) is the bully, criminal, and an antagonist in the episodes, "Buddy Building" and "Max-imum Insecurity".
• The Chief of Spoonerville Police (voiced by Jim Cummings) is the chief of Spoonerville Police that appears in the episodes, "In Goof We Trust", "Buddy Building", "Counterfeit Goof", & "Max-imum Insecurity".
• The Mayor of Spoonervile (voiced by Jim Cummings) is the Mayor of Spoonervile. He appears in "Inspector Goofy" and "A Goof of Its People".
• Giblet the Clown (voiced by Frank Welker) is a red-nosed clown with red lips and hair, a party hat and tie, a car horn, and a green suit who actually works with the Ringmaster. He appears in "Hot Air", "Three Ring Bind" and "Buddy Building".
• The Ringmaster (voiced by Corey Burton) is Giblet's boss and Ringmaster of a rundown circus. In "Three Ring Bind", he fills the role of the antagonist as he and Giblet try to sell his circus animals to be made into puppy chow. He and Pistol become bitter enemies after the latter arrives at his circus, plays with his animals, and eventually lets them go home with her.
• Douglas Twinkmire' is the chief of safety at Spoonerville school but is actually Mr. Big who sent Tooth and Nails to steal money from other children and then give them back in return for their baseball cards.
• Tooth and Nails - Douglas's henchmen who sends them out to take money from other children.
• Dutch Spackle (voiced by Charles Nelson Reilly & Michael Bell) is the repairman of two episodes, "Unreal Estate" and "A Pizza the Action".
• Bubbles (voiced by Frank Welker) is a friendly and nice green pigmented, dragon-like dinosaur from the episode, "Great Egg-spectations".

Goof History cast

• Fester (Ness) Swollen, is Ancestor Goofy's partner, voiced by Michael Gough).
• Goofy Knock Knees, is Goofy's first ancestor; appears in the episode, "Goofin Hood and His Melancholy Men", the first of the "Goof History" episodes. A spoof of Robin Hood.
• Elliot Goof, is Goofy's second ancestor; appears in the episode, "The Ungoofables", the second of the "Goof History" episodes. A spoof of The Untouchables.
• Sherlock Goof, is Goofy's third ancestor; appears in the episode, "Sherlock Goof", the third of the "Goof History" episodes. A spoof of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mopalong Goofy, is Goofy's fourth ancestor; appears in the episode, "Gunfight at the Okie Dokie Corral", the fourth of the "Goof History" episodes.
• Caveman Goof, is Goofy's fifth and final ancestor; appears in the last episode, "Clan of the Cave Goof", the last of the "Goof History" episodes.

Additional voice cast

• Kath Soucie as Debbie, Max's cousin and Goofy's niece
• Jerry Houser as The Duke, the leader of The Pharaohs, a gang of high school teenagers
• Kevin Michael Richardson
• June Foray
• Linda Gary
• Gary Owens as Mr. Hammerhead
• Andrea Martin as Mrs. Williby
• Barry Gordon
• Tress MacNeille
• Hal Rayle
• Tino Insana as Colonel Carter
• Miriam Flynn
• Joe Piscopo
• Charlie Adler as Magician's hat, Igor, Street Theatre Teacher
• Nancy Cartwright as Melvin – A member of Spoonerville school's safety club.
• Bill Farmer as Dr. Frankengoof – Goofy's great-uncle from the Old Country and the creator of the Frankengoof Monster.
• Jim Cummings as the Frankengoof Monster.

Episodes

Comics

• In addition to the animated series, Goof Troop was adapted into various comic strips,^[10] which were printed in several Disney comic books, such as Disney Adventures and Disney's Colossal Comics Collection.
• PJ, Max, and Pistol makes cameo in the Boom Comic's Darkwing Duck on 2010.

Home video releases

VHS releases

On May 7, 1993, Disney released three VHS cassettes of the series in the United States, titled "Banding Together",^[11] "Goin' Fishin'",^[12] and "The Race is on!".^[13] They included the episodes "Shake, Rattle & Goof", "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime", "Slightly Dinghy", "Wrecks, Lies & Videotape", "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp", and "Tub Be or Not Tub Be".^[11][12][13] The videotapes included a Goof Troop music video which played at the end of each tape.

VHS Name	Episode Titles	Release Date	Stock Number
Banding Together	"Shake, Rattle & Goof" & "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime"	May 7, 1993	1695
Goin' Fishin'	"Slightly Dinghy" & "Wrecks, Lies & Videotape"	May 7, 1993	1694
The Race is On!	"Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp" & "Tub Be or Not Tub Be"	May 7, 1993	1682

Additionally, on September 28, 1993, the Goof Troop episode "Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas" was released together with the Darkwing Duck episode "It's a Wonderful Leaf" on one VHS cassette as a special release called Happy Holidays with Darkwing Duck and Goofy!^[14][15] On October 5, 1993, the Goof Troop episode "Hallow-Weenies" was released together with the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "Ghost of a Chance" on one VHS cassette as a special release called Boo-Busters.^[16][17] The episode "FrankenGoof" was released with the DuckTales episode "Ducky Horror Picture Show" on another special VHS release titled Monster Bash.

UK, Australia and New Zealand releases

On November 26, 1993, three VHS cassettes containing 6 episodes of the series were released in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

VHS Name	Episode Titles	Release Date
Goof Troop (Volume 1): Goin' Fishin'	"Slightly Dinghy" & "Wrecks, Lies & Videotape"	November 26, 1993
Goof Troop (Volume 2): Banding Together	"Shake, Rattle & Goof" & "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime"	November 26, 1993
Goof Troop (Volume 3): The Race is On!	"Tub Be or Not Tub Be" & "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp"	November 26, 1993

DVD releases

On February 14, 2006, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released Goof Troop: Volume 1 on DVD in Region 1.^[18] This one-disc release features three episodes, including "Slightly Dinghy", "Wrecks, Lies & Videotape", and "Shake, Rattle & Goof", with no bonus material. Many fans did not buy Goof Troop Volume 1 because it has only three episodes and additional episodes were only available on VHS. At the time, many fans were still waiting for Disney to put out Goof Troop Volume 1 again with more episodes.^[19] The DVD release of A Goofy Movie features one episode titled "Calling All Goofs", but the intro is removed. A Disney Movie Club exclusive DVD titled "Have Yourself A Goofy Little Christmas" contains the holiday special of the same name.

In 2013, Disney Movie Club released two new volumes of Goof Troop on DVD.^[20] Each volume released from the Disney Movie Club includes 27 episodes of the show for a total of 54 episodes released, leaving 25 unreleased episodes to go.^[21]

Goof Troop Volumes 1 and 2, in addition to "Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas", had a wider retail DVD release in January 2015 ^[22][23] and were Wal-Mart Exclusives in Canada ahead of that wider release date.^[24]

DVD name	Ep #	Release date
Goof Troop	3	February 14, 2006
Goof Troop Volume 1	27	April 30, 2013
Goof Troop Volume 2	27	April 30, 2013

Video on demand

The entire series is currently available for purchase on Amazon Instant Video in Germany, with the episodes being split into six seasons.

Books

• Great Egg-spectations
• Goin' Gold-Fishing

Legacy

Goof Troop had a lasting impact on Goofy's career as many later appearances were built on the show's status quo. These include A Goofy Movie, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, An Extremely Goofy Movie, House of Mouse and Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas. Goofy and Pete also appeared on Bonkers and Raw Toonage in their Goof Troop designs.

Adaptations

• A Goofy Movie (1995)
• An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)

In other languages

• Italian: Ecco Pippo!
• Russian: Гуфи и его команда
• Spanish: La tropa Goofy
• German: Goofy und Max
• Français: La Bande à Dingo
• Polish: Goofy i inni
• Finnish: Hopon poppoon

References

External links

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• Official website
• Goof Troop on IMDb
• Goof Troop at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Goof Troop at TV.com
• Goof Troop at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on August 28, 2016.