Father's Day Off is an animated short starring Goofy and Goofy Jr.
Synopsis[]
Goofy is left to do the housecleaning while Mrs. Goof goes out. She really should have known better!
Plot[]
One day, Goofy and his son Goofy Jr. (called George in this short) are staying at home, while Mrs. Goofy is going somewhere. Goofy is confident that he can clean the house while she's away. Mrs. Goofy then leaves, running over the fence and plowing a tree in the process. Goofy starts doing some chores very quickly, while getting his son ready for school, until the latter tells him he's not going to school because it's Saturday.
Later, after dusting the table and doing the dishes, Goofy catches his son drawing on the wallpapers and cleans it. However, as the stick figure Goofy Jr. has drawn won't clear off, Goofy moves the radio set against the tagged wall. He turns it on and listens to a radio soap opera that moves him to tears.
Things start to get downhill after that. Goofy Jr. breaks the window while playing baseball with a friend, the family dog, Rover, soils the flooring with muddy pawprints, and Goofy catches some birds perched on his laundry. Right when Goofy scares the birds off, Rover, leashed on the laundry stand, chases a cat, causing the stand to spin out of control, scattering the clothing all over the backyard.
After putting all the dirty clothes in the washing machine, Goofy decides to vacuum the floor, but he can't find the vacuum cleaner. He goes into a packed storage room, and Goofy Jr. finds the vacuum's outlet and plugs it. However, Goofy Jr. gets sucked into the vacuum. Goofy frees his son and then sends him to the bathroom to wash himself.
While vacuuming, Goofy catches Rover having peed on the floor and kicks him out. He then resumes listening to the soap opera on the radio, until he discovers that the house has been partially flooded, which was caused by Goofy Jr. splashing water around while bathing.
The cleaning man rings the doorbell to bring back Mrs. Goofy's dress. Goofy opens the door, but this evacuates all the water. The dress gets splashed and shrinks, so Goofy quickly goes upstairs to iron it, in order to give it its normal size. Shortly after, he answers the phone, then finds himself caring of a neighbor's baby. When he opens the door to a door-to-door salesman, Goofy realizes he left the iron plugged, causing to overheat and burn a hole through his wife's dress. When he tries to find a water hose, the telephone rings again, and Goofy answers. In a hurry, he goes back upstairs, leaving the phone against the radio, during a scene in a radio crime drama where a character gets shot. The phone operator, upon hearing, believes someone got murdered and immediately calls the police.
Mrs. Goofy finally gets home when Goofy is trying to put out the fire in the laundry room. He quickly sits down on his chair. Mrs. Goofy asks her husband how everything went. Goofy says things went smoothly, but at this moment, dozens of firemen and cops storm into the house. The sheriff asks where the body is, but Goofy doesn't know what he's talking about. The overheated iron then goes through the ceiling and knocks Goofy out. The cartoon ends as few journalists start taking pictures of an unconscious Goofy.
Voice cast[]
- Pinto Colvig - Goofy
- June Foray - Goofy Jr.
- Lucille Williams - Mrs. Geef
- Alan Reed - Radio Announcer #1
- Clint McCauley - Radio Announcer #2
- Staff voices including Dan MacManus, Xavier Atencio, Bea Tamargo, Joe Nunez, John Sibley, Helen Seibert, Clarke Mallory, Lance Nolley, and Al Bertino - Neighbors
Releases[]
Television[]
- Walt Disney Presents, episode #7.13: "A Salute to Father"
- Donald Duck Presents, episode #55
- Disney's Salute to Mom
- A Goofy Movie (syndication airing)
Home video[]
DVD
- Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
Trivia[]
- According to A Salute to Father, this short takes place on September 26. Goofy Jr. also mentions that it is a Saturday. This suggests that the short takes place in 1953 or 1959, as September 26 was on a Saturday on those two years.
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