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[unij]

Hmm. Okay, all you animation people on the flist, feel free to correct me here, but I've just been thinking.

In Disney, Mickey has Minnie, Donald has Daisy, but as far as I know, Goofy didn't ever really have much in the way of a love interest. And yet, of the three, Goofy is the only one in any continuity to have a child--they specifically made a point with Donald to have him only take care of his nephews.

So, basically, Disney made a point, with their three most iconic characters, to make the only one with a child be a single parent.

Just thought that was interesting.

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[dandywonderous.livejournal.com]

I want to say this is mentioned in the second Goofy movie (the one where Max goes to college), but I could be totally wrong.

This kind of reminds me of Chuckie and his dad in Rugrats. The mother's day episode where they actually address the fact that Chuckie's mom is dead always makes me bawl like a little baby (no pun intended).

Sometimes Goofy has a cow for a girlfriend in the really old cartoons, and also in Three Muskateers (a newer movie, I have it on DVD derp a derp).

[universejuice.livejournal.com]

I do remember the cow girlfriend from the early ones, but I was thinking they never made her really consistent. I hadn't seen the Three Muskateers one, though!

Yeah, the times they mentioned Chuckie's mom always made me super sad =( And there's a song about it in the Paris movie that I remember making me totally cry at the time.