John McLeish

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.

Mild-mannered average guy Mr. Walker (Goofy) turns into violent Mr. Wheeler when he starts driving. Back on his feet, Mr. Walker finds it nearly impossible to cross the street.

Prepare-se para um passeio frenético a bordo da carroça de J. T. Sapo, com seus encantadores amigos Verruga, Rato e MacBadger. E depois conheça a emocionante trama do esguio Ichabod, que, para conquistar a bela Katrina, terá que disputa-la com Brom Bones, o malfeitor da cidade.

Inspired by a magazine ad, Goofy sends for a mail order body building course. First is weight lifting; after Goofy finally gets the weights up, a fly lands and sends him crashing through several floors in the apartment building. Chinups: the bar itself goes up and down. Then a rubber-band stretch device, which Goofy quickly tangles up in, sending him crashing through the building and several other pieces of equipment.

O filme conta a história de “O Sapo Maluco”, baseado na obra “The Wind In The Willows” de Kenneth Grahame. J. Thaddeus Toad é o milionário dono da mansão Toad Hall, mas suas manias e costumes extravagantes o têm enchido de dívidas. Seus amigos Mole, Rat e Badger são os que tentam manter a situação instável, pois ao contrário o Sapo corre o risco de perder sua mansão. Quando J. Thaddeus fica obcecado por sua mais nova mania – um automóvel motorizado – ele é injustamente acusado de roubar um carro. Agora resta aos seus amigos salvarem o Sr. Sapo e recuperar Toad Hall das mãos das doninhas.

Professor Small and Mr. Tall are on a Mississippi riverboat, where they attempt to race Captain Nobody- a ghost- on his boat. They win the race when Mr. Tall finds his lost lucky rabbit's foot.

A homely mermaid tries to get a stranded sailor all to herself.

Willoughby Wren gets a job at a circus and, with the help of this magic hat, saves the circus from an escaped gorilla.

Hairlock Combs, a parody of Sherlock Holmes, and his partner Dr. Gotsome bumble through an investigation of a stolen dinosaur skeleton.

Focuses on an inept golfer.

A collection of spot gags spoofing travelogues complete with narration.

Pegleg Pete is practicing his trombone, badly. So badly, it's annoying the gods Jupiter and Vulcan and neighbor Donald. Only Donald has the temerity to confront him. He does, and Pete kicks him back home. The gods see this, and decide to give Donald a little bit of power which instantly goes to his head.

Goofy provides a history of ships and sailing.

An anti-Hitler cartoon. While the soundtrack survives in full, the animation is partly lost.

Small and Tall break a mirror on a train trip and their seven years of bad luck start immediately. Stranded by an accident, they have trouble in a ghost town and finally are lost in the desert. The mirror saves them when they piece it back together, and everything is okay until they break the mirror again and their troubles start anew.

Donald tries his best to be polite and dignified as a hotel bellboy. But when his first guest is Pete Junior, the job is next to impossible.

Pateta demonstra com habilidade indiscutível um outro passatempo, a pesca.

O tratado educacional de natação e mergulho do Pateta.

Pateta ilustra as várias modalidades olímpicas do atletismo, assim como os eventos e rituais relacionados à condução da tocha.

Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.

A wartime cartoon that satirizes the Axis leaders of World War II.

Donald Fauntleroy Duck gets his draft notice and goes in, past all the amazingly enticing recruiting posters, to sign up. First he has to pass the physical. Despite his flat feet, he makes it. Donald wants to fly, but first he has to make it through Sergeant Pete's boot camp. He has a terrible time with close-order drills, and standing at attention without moving when he's over an ant-hill proves a real challenge. Eventually, Donald ends up on endless KP.

Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.

Goofy takes a lighthearted look at self defense through the ages: cavemen, knights, the age of chivalry, and finally boxing.

Pateta está hospedado no resort Sugar Bowl, e demonstra as noções básicas do esqui alpino.

Dumbo é um bebé elefante que nasceu com umas orelhas enormes. Um dia ele conhece Timóteo, um ratinho que mete medo à maioria dos elefantes do circo onde vive Dumbo. Ao contrário do que se podia esperar, o rato e o elefante acabam por se tornar amigos e, juntos, eles tornam-se as maiores atracções do circo. Usando suas orelhas, Dumbo faz o que nenhum outro elefante consegue: voar!

Aided by his horse, Percy, Goofy takes horsemanship to a new level.

Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon. Meanwhile Goofy proves totally incapable to control any of its movements in the air, let alone the 'landing' which is too messy even for a bombshell.

Gepeto é um carpinteiro solitário que, um dia, resolve fazer um boneco de madeira para lhe fazer companhia. Durante a noite, a Fada Azul dá vida ao boneco, que passa a se chamar Pinóquio. Ansioso para se tornar um menino de verdade, Pinóquio se mete em várias confusões, apesar dos constantes avisos de seu amigo Grilo Falante. O boneco tem uma particularidade: sempre que mente seu nariz cresce. Até o dia em que precisa resgatar seu criador, quando ele fica preso na barriga de uma baleia.

Krazy is sent on a mission to explore planet Mars.