House of Mouse : Season 2 Episode 10
"Super Goof"

Air Date February 2, 2002

Synopsis

Goofy becomes "Super Goof" when he unknowingly eats peanuts contaminated by a weird meteor from another galaxy.

Shorts Shown

How to Take Care of Your Yard

Locksmiths

Comments

From Lee Suggs : This episode introduces a great concept, which hopefully will develop into some great stories and situations. Super Goof is another wonderful import from the printed Disney Comics. A "goofy" take on Superman, Super Goof has one of the most amusing appearances I've ever seen.(Gotta love the longjohns costume. ;o) His perfectly ridiculous origin fits Goofy perfectly. The booming "Meanwhile in Outer Space..." transitions are just the right touch of Saturday Matinee corniness. However, after a great introduction, ("so strong he can lift 100 Dalmatians...." LOL) I felt like little was done with a great concept. Super Goof does an act, (juggling the female elephants from Dumbo) forsakes his super powers when people like him better than Regular Goof, and finally "Saves the Day..." when a comet threatens the House of Mouse. There were some great sight gags, (the amplified Goofy Laugh/Goofy Searchlight to signal SG and Super Garbage Truck) but I was left wanting to see a lot more of this new character. Hopefully this is just the beginning of the Super Goof's career and we'll see him in cartoons and in a lot more of those great sight gags.

From Juan F. Lara : I was a big fan of the "Super Goof" comics. So I had a great time watching that version of Goofy get animated for the first time.

The makers had a lot of fun playing out the superhero conventions:

- Goofy's narrator went on comic book mode, saying everything in hyperbolae. For a funny sight gag they sometimes matched the narration with the lines written out in bold letters.

- They used various Disney characters for clever ways to demonstrate Super Goof's power. I especially liked his use of x-ray vision to rescue Pinocchio and Gepetto, and his using the "Dumbo" elephants to demonstrate his super strength. (Those elephants have already had acrobatic experience after all.)

- I laughed a lot all through the comet scene. They got a little playful with Clarabelle Cow, leading to a cheeky sight gag where the comet comes very close to hitting its "target". I also liked the way Goofy disposed of the comet. He must've figured the Super Garbage Truck could take care of it. ("That was silly.")

The HoM segment felt rushed though. Just a couple of scenes after Goofy ate his first Super Goober everyone in the club knew about and idolized Super Goof. I wondered if actually several nights had passed since Super Goof's origin. Only a few seconds after Super Goof was enjoying his fame Goofy was getting fed up enough to ditch the goobers, but a few seconds after that he went back to being Super Goof. Goofy's changes of heart felt jarring. This was another episode that showed how limiting the HoM segment's 7 minute allotted time can be. I wished this ep's segment could've have 16 minutes at least.

BTW: Rich Pegasus won't be happy seeing Goofy and Clarabelle as a couple again. This was especially baffling as Horace Horsecollar had a prominent cameo in this ep. How does he feel about this?