{"id":234399,"date":"2023-06-10T21:51:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=292845"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:57:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:57:42","slug":"its-not-a-dog-we-analyze-the-big-question-of-the-millennium-what-the-hell-is-goofy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/its-not-a-dog-we-analyze-the-big-question-of-the-millennium-what-the-hell-is-goofy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Goofy Debate: Exploring the Elusive Nature of Goofy&#8217;s Species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mickey <\/strong>is a mouse. There is no doubt about it, just like Donald is a duck. And Pluto is a dog. It&#8217;s easy to distinguish Clarabella as a cow and Chop and Chop as squirrels, but the million-dollar question has been lurking since 1932: <strong>What the hell is Goofy?<\/strong> Yes, yes, you can laugh all you want, but there&#8217;s something hiding between that long nose, those ears and that goofy laugh. And we&#8217;re willing to go all the way.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Disney+\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/246b1fd4-6164-4c6f-9318-27e1cb587dc6\/489019137\/disney-plus-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Disney+<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disney-plus.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disney-plus.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is it a dog?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The first answer is obvious: it&#8217;s a dog, isn&#8217;t it?<\/strong> In his first appearance he was called &#8220;Dippy Dawg&#8221;, which already gives us an idea of the origin of the character. In 1939 he was finally given the name we all know, in the <strong>short <\/strong>film &#8216;Goofy and Wilbur&#8217;, but it didn&#8217;t make anything clear about him. At that time Pluto had already been around for nine years, and he is undoubtedly a classic dog, the first thing that comes to mind when you think of one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people say &#8220;They are just drawings, don&#8217;t think about it: they are both dogs. <strong>Only one talks and reasons and the other does not<\/strong>. There must be something else going on. His more modern girlfriend is Clarabella, a cow: if Minnie is a mouse and Daisy is a paw, you would think that at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/king-lion-saga-disney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disney <\/a><\/strong>they suffer from the &#8220;Noah&#8217;s ark&#8221; syndrome and put animals of the same species together. Then it&#8217;s settled, isn&#8217;t it? Goofy Goof is a cow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Goofy sfx - Goofy and Wilbur\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xf1oNyhPUrs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is it a cow?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Well. Or not. Goofy has been known to have other girlfriends who were definitely of the canine branch: chances are he doesn&#8217;t care, or that no one at Disney has spent as much time brooding over Goofy&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/stomp-michael-douglas-cannes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">love <\/a><\/strong>life as the fans have. <strong>In the 1960s his girl was Glory-Bee<\/strong>, whose description only indicated that she has a dog&#8217;s nose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s more: as we learned in the immeasurable &#8216;Goofy and Son&#8217; he was married to a woman of whom we only know her name (Mrs. Goof) and they had a son, Max, who although he has the same problems as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/tiktok-90s-tara-town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Goofy <\/a><\/strong>in terms of his animal origins, has more of a doggy face. Disney has stated that we have never met Goofy&#8217;s ex on screen, so we can rule out any of his loves. <strong>At least it&#8217;s clearer that he&#8217;s a dog. Sort of.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Goofy sfx - How to fish\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Op-bQdVjLPc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More or less?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes: Bill Farmer himself, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/constantino-romero-best-dubbing-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voice <\/a><\/strong>actor for Goofy since 1987, broke with everything when he bluntly said, in an interview with Yahoo, &#8220;<strong>Its not a dog<\/strong>&#8220;. Eye. &#8220;Pluto is a dog, but Goofy seems to be in the canine family in the same way that a wolf is not a dog but is also in the canine family&#8221;. Before being able to open new theories, the actor himself discards them because he knows how annoying fans can be with our absurd niches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think Canis Goofus is the technical Latin term for what Goofy is. <strong>It&#8217;s simply Goofy<\/strong>.&#8221; Forever sunk. We started writing not knowing what the hell Goofy is (but seriously suspecting the doggy option) and now all we keep knowing is\u2026 we keep not knowing anything. Please, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-craziest-curiosities-of-avatar-2-the-way-of-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Disney<\/a><\/strong>, we need a solution. 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There is no doubt about it, just like Donald is a duck. And Pluto is a dog. It&#8217;s easy to distinguish Clarabella as a cow and Chop and Chop as squirrels, but the million-dollar question has been lurking since 1932: What the hell is Goofy? Yes, yes, you can laugh all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/its-not-a-dog-we-analyze-the-big-question-of-the-millennium-what-the-hell-is-goofy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Goofy Debate: Exploring the Elusive Nature of Goofy&#8217;s Species&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9263,"featured_media":234400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2350,1351,4492,3877],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-234399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiondisney-plus","tag-disney","tag-goofy","tag-nostalgia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319773,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234399\/revisions\/319773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234399"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=234399"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=234399"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=234399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}