What the hell IS Goofy, anyway?! Dog or Man?

[Malenko]

I don't know what you're talking about

[Guest Ringmaster]

There are no fathers and mothers, the story goes like this:

Donald Duck's mother is Uncle Scrooge's sister. When Scrooge left from Scotland to go to Duckburg, she fell in love with some guy who's name escapes me, and gave birth to Donald and his sister.

Donald's sister gave birth to the triplets and raised them until one day, they blew up a flare under their father's couch. She sent them to live with Donald until he healed up, and in story terms, they are still waiting for that to happen.

Now Scrooge remained at home in his big safe thing and just stayed there because he was bitter at having lost love in the Yukon. One day, Donald decided to go visit him, and Scrooge felt the warmth from his family and decided to keep them on in his various adventures.

And for the last time, GOOFY IS A DINGO, NOT A DOG.

Keeping in mind that his name translated in various languages means Dingo, Walt Disney created the character after having seen several Dingos and finding them to be humourous.

[Malenko]

There are no fathers and mothers, the story goes like this:

Donald Duck's mother is Uncle Scrooge's sister. When Scrooge left from Scotland to go to Duckburg, she fell in love with some guy who's name escapes me, and gave birth to Donald and his sister.

Donald's sister gave birth to the triplets and raised them until one day, they blew up a flare under their father's couch. She sent them to live with Donald until he healed up, and in story terms, they are still waiting for that to happen.

Now Scrooge remained at home in his big safe thing and just stayed there because he was bitter at having lost love in the Yukon. One day, Donald decided to go visit him, and Scrooge felt the warmth from his family and decided to keep them on in his various adventures.

And for the last time, GOOFY IS A DINGO, NOT A DOG.

Keeping in mind that his name translated in various languages means Dingo, Walt Disney created the character after having seen several Dingos and finding them to be humourous.

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Edited June 10, 2005 by Malenko

[Guest Ringmaster]

One of Don Rosa's comics portrays her as a distant relative, although Carl Barks claims its just one of those cases where they call her aunt because she's their uncle's girlfriend.

[Guest Wrestling_Man]

If anything, Goofy is a Mawg: "Half man, half dog- I'm my own best friend".

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[Billy Castillo]

There are no fathers and mothers, the story goes like this:

Donald Duck's mother is Uncle Scrooge's sister. When Scrooge left from Scotland to go to Duckburg, she fell in love with some guy who's name escapes me, and gave birth to Donald and his sister.

Donald's sister gave birth to the triplets and raised them until one day, they blew up a flare under their father's couch. She sent them to live with Donald until he healed up, and in story terms, they are still waiting for that to happen.

Now Scrooge remained at home in his big safe thing and just stayed there because he was bitter at having lost love in the Yukon. One day, Donald decided to go visit him, and Scrooge felt the warmth from his family and decided to keep them on in his various adventures.

And for the last time, GOOFY IS A DINGO, NOT A DOG.

Keeping in mind that his name translated in various languages means Dingo, Walt Disney created the character after having seen several Dingos and finding them to be humourous.

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Why do Huey, Dewey and Louie call Daisy, aunt Daisy? Wouldn't that make her Donald's sister as they were just dating and so it couldn't be by affinity?

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[Hobo]

(though Disney don't openly admit it, but he does have kids...)

Yes they did in "A Goofy Movie" and "Goof Troop" he has a son called Max. But Goofy is of course a single parent.

Where does Darkwing Duck fit in? And how did he get Launchpad (the pilot from Duck Tales, at least I think that was his name). This thread is both nostaligic and confusing!

[Boulder]

Firstly,

Carl Barks's Duck Family Tree

How the ducks are related is an old much-debated topic in duckdom, and it has been discussed at some length in the Disney comics list as well. This file does not contain The Answers to those questions, but just information on one interesting source of such information, namely a duck family tree that Carl Barks made in the early fifties for his own reference. I won't try to redraw it here, but the information in it is:

Old Scotty McDuck had the following children:

Matilda McDuck who married Goosetave Gander,

Scrooge McDuck,

Hortense McDuck.

Grandma Duck had the following children:

Quackmore Duck,

Daphne, who married Luke the Goose.

Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck married and had Thelma Duck (the mother of Huey, Dewey and Louie) and Donald Duck.

Luke the Goose and Daphne had one son, Gladstone, who was orphaned when Daphne and Luke overate at a free-lunch picnic. Gladstone was then adopted by Matilda McDuck and Goosetave Gander!

Gus Goose was a nephew of Luke the Goose making him a very distant cousin of Donald.

This tree was only a rough sketch, and is published in Carl Barks Library, Set VI, p. 476. On the same page is also Mark Worden's cleaned-up version originally published in CAPA-alpha [issue number?]. A peculiar change is that in Mark Worden's version Goosetave Gander is renamed! In Worden's original version in CAPA-alpha it was Goosetale instead, but in the reproduction in CBL it's Goosetail! [What's the story behind those changes?] [Are there any other differences between the printings of Worden's tree?]

Later this tree was the main source for Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

(though Disney don't openly admit it, but he does have kids...)

Where does Darkwing Duck fit in? And how did he get Launchpad (the pilot from Duck Tales, at least I think that was his name). This thread is both nostaligic and confusing!

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Darkwing doesn't need to fit in. He's an alien who came to earth, assumed the name of Drake Mallard, moved next to the Muddlefoots, and adopted Gosalyn. He also took Launchpad as his mechanic/assistant, presumably after Launchpad finished working for Scrooge McDuck.

And for the record, those old "common man" Goofy cartoons were incredible. They had these little, often narrated sketches with him fishing, hunting, working out (mostly "sporting" type) stuff, and they were just brilliantly done. They were aired together with Sport Goofy, a cartoon made in the 80s in which Goofy leads some of the other Disney characters in a soccer match.

I don't know a whole lot about Disney, but I do know my Goofy and Duck related material.

Blathering blatherscythe!

EDIT: Apparently, Darkwing wasn't really an alien... one episode said he was, but that part was (intentionally) not true. Damn confusing cartoons!

Edited June 12, 2005 by Scott Boulder Fried

[Godfatha]

Although I did like the episode when Gizmo Duck joined the Justice Ducks on Darkwing Duck. It took me back to Ducktales.

[Billy Castillo]

Firstly,

Carl Barks's Duck Family Tree

How the ducks are related is an old much-debated topic in duckdom, and it has been discussed at some length in the Disney comics list as well. This file does not contain The Answers to those questions, but just information on one interesting source of such information, namely a duck family tree that Carl Barks made in the early fifties for his own reference. I won't try to redraw it here, but the information in it is:

Old Scotty McDuck had the following children:

Matilda McDuck who married Goosetave Gander,

Scrooge McDuck,

Hortense McDuck.

Grandma Duck had the following children:

Quackmore Duck,

Daphne, who married Luke the Goose.

Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck married and had Thelma Duck (the mother of Huey, Dewey and Louie) and Donald Duck.

Luke the Goose and Daphne had one son, Gladstone, who was orphaned when Daphne and Luke overate at a free-lunch picnic. Gladstone was then adopted by Matilda McDuck and Goosetave Gander!

Gus Goose was a nephew of Luke the Goose making him a very distant cousin of Donald.

This tree was only a rough sketch, and is published in Carl Barks Library, Set VI, p. 476. On the same page is also Mark Worden's cleaned-up version originally published in CAPA-alpha [issue number?]. A peculiar change is that in Mark Worden's version Goosetave Gander is renamed! In Worden's original version in CAPA-alpha it was Goosetale instead, but in the reproduction in CBL it's Goosetail! [What's the story behind those changes?] [Are there any other differences between the printings of Worden's tree?]

Later this tree was the main source for Don Rosa's Duck Family Tree.

(though Disney don't openly admit it, but he does have kids...)

Where does Darkwing Duck fit in? And how did he get Launchpad (the pilot from Duck Tales, at least I think that was his name). This thread is both nostaligic and confusing!

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[Johnny Latino Heat]

I always thought Goofy was the product of a Disney genetic engineering experiment gone wrong