Spoonerville

"Welcome to Spoonerville, an average town with an average population in an average part of the country! It has houses, streets, and sidewalks, places for kids to play and adults to relax. Spoonerville is a nice place to be an adult. It's a great place to be a kid. And it's a quiet, peaceful place to live... most of the time..."

- Opening narration description Spoonerville from "The Power of Positive Goofing"

Spoonerville is the hometown of Goofy, Pete, and their respective families, as seen in the 1992 TV series Goof Troop and its spinoff feature films A Goofy Movie and An Extremely Goofy Movie.

It is named after layout artist J. Michael Spooner, who designed many of the backgrounds layouts of the town seen in Goof Troop.

History
Spoonerville has been given a widely diverse history across various mediums. In the pilot episode of Goof Troop, Goofy briefly mentions that the town was "built on a reclaimed swamp in 1932," but this was never again mentioned afterward.

In the April 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine, a Goof Troop comic strip titled "Losted Founder's Day" tells a completely different origin for Spoonerville. In this comic, Max's teacher explains that the early history of the valley where Spoonerville resides (named Spooner Valley in this comic) is largely unknown, a mystery wrapped in the claims of forklore, tradition, and hearsay. Some say it was gold prospectors who first came to the valley back when it was a dry desert, while other say it was settlers, with a man named Farmer Spooner being the first.

Max, however, recounts a version of Spoonerville's origin that combines all of the various claims together, which he had learned from his father, Goofy, who had himself been told it by his own grandfather: In the 1800s, two prospectors named Sourdough Goof and Grubstake Pete came out to the valley where Spoonerville would later be in order to mine it for gold. Meanwhile, a farmer named Spooner had also come out west to start up a farm in this valley. While Sourdough and Grubstake were unsuccessful at finding any gold, Farmer Spooner used their efforts to help himself unearth a large underground reservoir of water that shot up to the surface and formed Spooner Lake. He then started his farm and eventually founded the town that would come to be known as Spoonerville.

Though no gold had ever been found, the episode titled "Fool's Gold" reveals that there is indeed a rather large deposit of gold buried very deep beneath the surface of Spoonerville; a deposit so large that it has been proven realistically unfeasible to excavate it in its entirety.

In the November 1992 issue of Disney Adventures, another Goof Troop comic, titled "Hamming It Up!", has Goofy state that, before Spoonerville became a city, there used to be a lot of farms in the area back when he was little. This fits with how, in the present day, there are still some farms seen in the areas around Spoonerville, with one particular rural community dubbed the Spoonerville Heartland in the episode "A Goof of the People", and whose cow herds are even registered voters.

In the April 1995 issue, #6, of The Disney Afternoon comic book series, titled "Dog Days", it is revealed that the site where the Goofs' house currently stands used to be occupied by a hot dog establishment called Tut's Doghouse.

Spoonerville has also been the home to traditional events that have occurred year after year for several years. The episode "Tub Be or Not Tub Be" sees Spoonerville holding its tenth annual Water Carnival, in which one of its biggest events is the Bathtub Race that runs all through and outside of the town. In "Mrs. Spoonerville", the titular Mrs. Spoonerville Society Semi-Biannual Househelper Contest take place. And in the aforementioned "Hamming It Up!" comic, it is yet again the time of year for Spoonerville to have its big county fair.

Location
The exact location of Spoonerville has never been concretely defined in any of its appearances. What is known is that it is located somewhere in the United States both on and around a peninsula that lies within a great wooded valley surrounded by mountain ranges and a river that runs into a large body of water. Its winters are cold and snowy (as seen in "Winter Blunderland", "Gymnauseum", and "A Pizza the Action") while its warmer weather can be intensely hot (as seen in "The Ungoofables", "Bringin' on the Rain", and the July 1993 comic strip "Chill Out!")

The most common assumption is that Spoonerville is located somewhere in the state of Ohio, based on how, more than once in A Goofy Movie, the road map used by Goofy for his and Max's trip from Spoonerville to Lake Destiny, Idaho indisputably shows the map's route to begin somewhere in Ohio. This theory is further supported by the Goof Troop episode "Wrecks, Lies & Videotape" in which TV personality Biff Fuddled (who is shown to be local to Spoonerville in his other episode appearances) briefly mentions that the TV station at which he hosts The World's Most Painful Home Videos is located in a place called "Contusion Tower, Ohio, 4270119".

However, many other episodes completely contradict this Ohio theory. "The Good, the Bad and the Goofy" in particular has Goofy reference Akron, Ohio and states that Ohio itself is "a long way back" from where he is at the time he says that in the episode: He is shown to be be at an old gas station situated on a vast, dry desert road that a local news report declares to be either part of or near to Spoonerville. And many other episodes (including that one) do indeed show Spoonerville to be within reasonable driving distance of desert areas, with the aforementioned comic strip "Losted Founder's Day" even declaring Spooner Valley to have once been a dry desert valley located "out west". As there are no deserts in Ohio, this would instead suggest Spoonerville to reside somewhere in the Western United States.

Further supporting this is how, in the episode titled "O, R-V, I N-V U", Pete take a road trip to Las Vegas that he seems to complete in less than a single day. And, the Disney Adventures five-part crossover comic storyline "The Legend of the Chaos God" declares Spoonerville to be far enough away from New York that it takes "many days" for Edger the Crow to fly from that city to reach the particular spread interstate highway that leads directly to Spoonerville. Subsequently, the same comic storyline also implies Spoonerville to be within a single night's driving distance of Duckburg, which is traditionally located in the (fictitious) state of Calisota, which itself is generally considered to be located where Northern California would be in the real world.

And yet, further episodes also contradict both of the above theories by sometimes presenting Spoonerville as a coastal city. While the large body of water that borders Spoonerville is shown in some episodes to be a large lake (Spooner Lake ), other episodes instead present it as a bay that leads out to sea. The episode "Slightly Dinghy" even names it Spooner Bay, and features a coral reef structure far off the coast named Scarrier Reef, where lies the legendary sunken treasure of the pirate Nearbeard, guarded by a fish called Tiny Tuna (a saltwater fish). And, "Calling All Goofs" features the Spoonerville Harbor, where Goofy attempts to travel by ship from Spoonerville to a place called Tierra del Foongo (which is presumably outside the U.S. since it's a parody of Tierra del Fuego), where he and Max originally attempted to travel by airplane.

And then, there is Goofy's original claim from the pilot episode that Spoonerville had been "built on a reclaimed swamp in 1932," which suggests the town to be in a wetlands state.

In the end, all of these conflicting sources make it virtually impossible to pinpoint exactly where Spoonerville is supposed to be, as it could be literally be anywhere in the country that the plots of whatever episode/movie/comic/etc. needed it to be, regardless of all of the inconsistencies that came about as a result of such flexible storytelling.

Goof Troop
"Entering Spoonerville, built on a reclaimed swamp in 1932 and home of the world's worst-dressed store window, and on your right the drive-in, the drive thru, the drive up, the dry cleaners! Museum's got the slowest snail, seediest grape, and the only known prehistoric gopher skeleton. On your left El-Bobbo Burgers, home of the Double-Cheesin' People-Pleasin' Ton o' Fun on a Bun! Got your high school, grade school, preschool, summer school, cemetery, aviary, and the home of Chuck Berry. Here we have the suburbs, a chicken in every pot and a boat in every driveway!"

- Goofy's "10-cent-tour" of Spoonerville

Spoonerville is the setting of the 1992 Goof Troop TV series, in which it debuts and serves as the hometown of Goofy, Pete, and their respective immediate families. Goofy and his son Max begin the series by living in a trailer park located in another city (quite possibly Mouseton ), from which they move to Spoonerville and into the house next door to Pete in the pilot episode. Goofy notes that he is specifically moving back to Spoonerville after a presumed long absence, since he, Pete, and Pete's wife Peg all act like Goofy had been gone from Spoonervile since high school, while Max is strongly implied to have never lived in Spoonerville before his moving there with his father.

Despite this, several episodes of the series would instead treat Goofy and Max as having always lived in Spoonerville, next door to Pete, for multiple years, with only two episodes ever referring back to the pilot episode's original status quo for the Goofs.

Various adventures and misadventures take place in and around Spoonerville throughout the full course of the series, whether such events are confined to the homes of Goofy and Pete or spread to other places within the city limits.

The city is populated predominately by anthropomorphic dog people like Goofy and Max, but is no stranger to a few other anthropomorphized animal species like cats (namely Pete and his family), pigs, rats, and cows/bulls. It is also shown to have its own class of high society, with such upper class citizens as Mr. Farnsworth in "Waste Makes Haste" and Mrs. Willoughby in "Goofin' Up the Social Ladder" residing in wealthy mansions. A skyscraper in the downtown area named Huge Tower is occupied by the wealthy Mr. Howling Huge, as seen in "Where There's Smoke, There's Goof".

Max starts off as a preteen who attends Spoonerville Jr. High along with Pete's son P.J., while Pete's daughter Pistol attends a Kindergarten class at a local preschool. Goofy, Pete, and Peg were old high school friends, having previously attended Spoonerville High twenty-five years prior, and from which they graduated together along with fellow alumnus Mrs. Wanda Jean Schmeltzer. Goofy and Pete in particular are old childhood friends, having grown up together. In the present, Goofy has earned his diploma for the degree of Widget Waffler Deluxe, while Pete is the owner of Honest Pete's Used Cars and Peg runs her own real estate agency, Peg-O-My-Heart Realty.

The town's mayor is Mayor Baba, while a different-looking mayor is seen in "Window Pains", and Goofy himself is elected to mayor in "A Goof of the People". Dutch Trecker is the district attorney, and there is a chief inspector who works (or worked) at City Hall, while the police department is headed by a no-nonsense police chief. Conversely, the fire department is run by a rather absent-minded fire chief.

Local television faces include news reporters Danielle Wrathmaker, Dan Blather, Sandee Seznee, Roland R. Havacheque, Mutt Tanner, and another unnamed female reporter. TV personality Biff Fuddled works at KBOB T.V., hosting such shows as Odd Facts, Strange Stuff, and Things Too Weird to Fake and The World's Most Painful Home Videos. He also reported the news once and hosts the Mrs. Spoonerville Society's househelper contest. The city's newspaper is the Spoonerville Times.

Spoonerville is also the home to a number of sporting events and teams. The Spoonerville Sparrows are the town's Major League Baseball team, with Lefty McGuffin as one of its southpaw pitchers. The town's Little League Baseball team is the Spoonerville Sluggers, coached by Coach Roach, and on which Goofy and Pete used to play as kids thirty years prior. The Spikers are a football team presumably local to Spoonerville in the National Football League. Spoonerville Amphitheater is used for such events as the aforementioned Mrs. Spoonerville contest and Wrestling for Dollars matches featuring Spoonerville's resident wrestling champion Myron "The Incredible Bulk" Brogan.

Unfortunately, Spoonerville also has its fair share of crooks, crime lords, and ne'er-do-wells. In "Counterfeit Goof", a counterfeiting ring is run by a Mr. Braxton, while in "Goof Fellas", Larry "No Thumbs" Noodleman (A.K.A, "Mr. Big" or sometimes just called "Hey, You") heads "one of the toughest, roughest, meanest, rudest gangs in all of Spoonerville". Robber duo Spud and Wally pop into Spoonerville a couple of times to steal things, and small-time teenage thug Leech is always looking to cause trouble, whether it's frisking children for their lunch money, pick-pocketing bystanders, or shoplifting local stores (as seen in "Maximum Insecurity").

Similarly, Southside Spoonerville is a rather dreary, urban area filled with so-named roads as Bleak Street and Nowhere Avenue, the intersection of which is where bullies can be found committing shakedowns on hapless innocents.

Certain episodes like "Big City Blues" and "Nightmare on Goof Street" show Spoonerville to be within driving distance of another, much larger, and more upscale city that lies just down the interstate, and which may or may not have been the same other city from which Goofy and Max moved to Spoonerville back in the pilot episode.

Spoonerville is also the setting for all printed media related to Goof Troop, including the three Goof Troop storybooks (the Junior Graphic Novel, "Goin' Gold-Fishing", and "Great Egg-Spectations"), and all of the Goof Troop comics published in Disney Adventures, Disney's Colossal Comics Collection, and The Disney Afternoon. It is also setting of the French-original La Bande à Dingo comics published in Le Journal de Mickey and the Disney Club graphic novel "Le Visiteur De L'Extra Temps".

It also the setting for Goof Troop ' s video game of the same name.

A Goofy Movie
As a spinoff of Goof Troop, the 1995 feature film A Goofy Movie (and all of its printed media adaptations and tie-ins) naturally sees Spoonerville as the setting for its first act and its final scene, though the town is unnamed in the movie.

Max and P.J., now high schoolers, attend Spoonerville's local high school, while Goofy and Pete now work at The Children's Portrait Studio in a department store at the town's mall. In this movie, much of Spoonerville's teenage population are fans of music superstar Powerline, and when Max tells his crush Roxanne that he and Goofy will be performing onstage with Powerline at a concert in Los Angeles, word of this spreads around the town, turning Max himself into a local celebrity.

When Goofy decides to take Max on an impromptu cross-country road trip in the movie's first act, he and Max hit the road and leave Spoonerville, but not without first passing through a neighboring big city along the way, which may or may not be the same city that was previously seen in "Big City Blues".

At the film's conclusion, Goofy and Max return home to Spoonerville from their vacation.

An Extremely Goofy Movie
Spoonerville is only briefly featured in An Extremely Goofy Movie, the 2000 direct-to-video sequel to A Goofy Movie, as the majority of the film instead takes place at the State college located outside of Spoonerville (which is again unnamed in this movie).

With Max and P.J. now high school graduates bound for college, the two of them move out of their respective homes and leave Spoonerville, along with their friend Bobby Zimuruski, to attend the State college. Meanwhile, Goofy is now employed as a factory worker at Beekins Toy Company, but it is not known if Beekins is located in Spoonerville or not. Goofy loses his job and eventually joins Max at the college to finish his own education and get a college degree so that he can seek a new job.

At one point, Goofy returns to his home in Spoonerville to confide in Pete after Max, in a fit of anger, had disowned Goofy as his father. Once Goofy regains his focus, he returns to the college to make things right with his son, his education, and his new girlfriend Sylvia Marpole.

Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
While it goes unnamed in this special, the town that Goofy lives in seen in the "Christmas Maximus" segment of Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (and its graphic novel adaptation) may very possibly be Spoonerville.

Max, now a young adult living in another city up north, is returning home for Christmas to introduce his lady friend Mona to Goofy. Max and Mona take a train to Max's hometown; Goofy meets them at the train station to pick them up and bring them back to his house, where they spend their Christmas together.

DuckTales (2017)
Though not seen, Spoonerville is briefly mentioned alongside St. Canard in "Woo-oo!", the pilot episode of the 2017 DuckTales TV series, in which both cities are said to be among the expanding markets of Scrooge McDuck's ever-growing business empire.

Places of Interest
Residential Homes
 * The Goof Family House, 365 W. Main Street
 * The Pete Family House, 367 W. Main Street
 * Huge Tower
 * The Minx Mansion
 * Mr. Braxton's mansion
 * Mr. Farnsworth's mansion
 * Larry "No Thumbs" Noodleman's mansion
 * The home of Chuck Berry

Schools & Education
 * Pistol's preschool
 * Spoonerville Elementary School
 * Spoonerville Jr. High School
 * Spoonerville High School
 * Alpha Humanities School of Street Theatre
 * A summer school
 * A ballet school

Food & Entertainment
 * Eikleberry Park
 * Goony Golf
 * Terrorland
 * Behemuth Burger Drive-in Restaurant
 * Happy Dog Food Emporium
 * Gorilla Burger Drive-in Restaurant
 * Pizza Palace
 * Alex movie theater
 * A closed circus
 * Spoonerville Museum
 * El-Bobbo Burgers
 * An aviary
 * Spoonerville Amphitheater
 * A diner run by Myron Brogan
 * A horse race track
 * The Spoonercaddie Arena and Stock Yards
 * Tut's Doghouse (formerly, now its site is occupied by the Goofs' house)

Stores & Shopping
 * Bob's Market
 * Wall Paper Inc.
 * Laundroplex U-Wash & Dry Cleaners
 * The Great Garbonzo's magic shop
 * Honest Pete's Used Cars
 * Earl's Auto
 * An electronics store
 * Knives Я Us
 * Norton Drugs

Civic & Other
 * A courthouse
 * A police station and jail
 * A hospital
 * A church
 * Beverly Acres
 * Spoonerville Harbor
 * Rocketdarn
 * Fire Station No. 1
 * SlimeCo (formerly, replaced by a ballet school)
 * A cemetery

Trivia

 * In other languages where its name is changed, Spoonerville is known as "Loufoqueville" (French, meaning "Goofyville" ), "Vovsekøbing" (Danish, meaning "Doggieville"), Hundshausen (German, meaning "Dogsville" or "Houndsville"), and "Hopolan" (Finnish, meaning "Goofyville" ).
 * Of all of the above appearances Spoonerville has made, its mention in the pilot episode of the 2017 DuckTales TV series is the only one that is definitely in a separate continuity from the others. Though, Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas may as well be separate due to the continuity issues of that special (see the Trivia section of that special's article for more).