"The Goofy Success Story" is an episode of Disneyland. It aired on December 7, 1955.
Synopsis[]
Goofy's rise to stardom is featured here, starting with a look at Hollywood, where talent scouts seek out the next superstar. They find Goofy (birth name Dippy Dog) in a movie theater watching a Mickey Mouse cartoon and laughing at it, and he is "discovered". And so begins the career of an actor with a unique laugh. They change his birth name, "Dippy Dog" to his stage name, "Goofy".
Soon, Goofy becomes one of the most popular stars in Hollywood, but his optimism turns to depression during an award show in which he doesn't receive a single award. Goofy contemplates walking down into the sea to end his misery, but he receives a telegram from the studio saying that he's being offered a double role in a new film about driver safety. At the end, Goofy receives a safety award for his film.
Featured cartoons (in order)[]
Cast[]
- Pinto Colvig as Goofy and Pluto
- John McLeish as the Narrator
- Hans Conried as J.B. the studio mogul
- Dick Wesson as the award show host
- June Foray as the voice of the sea
Trivia[]
- This episode was released theatrically overseas in 1959.
- A rerun of this episode accompanied the prime-time premiere of the Goof Troop 2-part series premiere "Forever Goof".
- This episode was featured as a bonus on the 2000 Gold Classic Collection DVD release of A Goofy Movie.
- Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have cameo appearances on the set of Moving Day. The former is shown in his classic 1930's design, rather than his 1940's-50's redesign.
- Pluto has a cameo winning the last award (we see his shadow only).
- The recycled footage of clapping hands was taken from the Willie the Operatic Whale segment of Make Mine Music.
- Footage of the award show is featured, with redubbed dialogue, in the primetime special DTV Doggone Valentine.
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