This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.
John McLeish
as Narrator
Pinto Colvig
as Goofy
Kevin Corcoran
as Goofy Jr.
Alan Reed
as Narrator - Mechanic - Hitch-Hiker
Billy Bletcher
as Al Muldoon
Harry Owens
as Himself - Orchestra leader
John Dehner
as Narrator
June Foray
as The Dame - Mrs. Geef
Bobby Driscoll
as Goofy Jr.
Bob Jackman
as George Geef
Harlow Wilcox
as Narrator
Doodles Weaver
as Narrator
