Talk:Mickey Mouse (TV series)/@comment-6298231-20130701164538/@comment-3040909-20140220184428

The Mickey shorts never really had a consistent continuity.

Plus, Goofy played "out-of-character" antagonistic jerk roles many times before in the past, like in Ye Olden Days (where he portrayed the Prince), Motor Mania (as Mr. Wheeler), Mickey's Christmas Carol (as Jaco Marley) and Freewayphobia and Goofy's Freeway Troubles (as the various bad drivers demonstrated in those two) as well as in many of the sports shorts (How to Play Football, Hockey Homicide, etc).

I say just think of it this way--the characters are long-time actors that sometimes take on many different kinds of roles depending on what the story is. People tend to forget that when Goofy was Dippy Dawg, he was more of a jerk. With "No Service", for example, they were going back to his old "Dippy Dawg" personality.

Also, the Goofy in "No Service" is most likely, instead, one of the many Goofy look-alikes from the sports shorts or the "George Geef" period, where they were often pretty aggressive (especially in "How To Play Football", "Hockey Homicide", "Fathers are People", "Man's Best Friend" and others), instead of the standard "Mickey's pal" Goofy.

These shorts are obviously trying to reinstate the original versatilities of the characters as actors, especially Goofy, with him being cast in random roles in some of the episodes, including his "No Service" role, his brief appearance as a woman in "New York Weenie" and his appearance as a zombie in "Ghoul Friend", all of whom are most likely just some of those many Goofy-a-likes from the classic shorts instead of the traditional Goofy.