Goofy Gymnastics
Directed byJack Kinney
Story byDick Kinney
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringPinto Colvig (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher (uncredited)
Narrated byJohn McLeish (uncredited)
Music byOliver Wallace
Animation byJohn Sibley
Wolfgang Reitherman
Ed Aardal
Dan MacManus
Layouts byAl Zinnen
Backgrounds byMerle Cox
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 23, 1949 (1949-09-23) (U.S.)
Running time
6:30 (one reel)
LanguageEnglish

Goofy Gymnastics is a Goofy cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures on September 23, 1949.[1]

Plot

Goofy enters home tired after a hard day at work. Exhausted, he suddenly notices an exercise advertisement in his newspaper. He orders gymnastics equipment and with the aid of an instruction record he tries out using the barbells, the chin-up bars and cable expanders, all of which meet with disastrous results. Goofy destroys the floors of his apartment in the process and flies out of the window before he is swung back against the muscular chart of his equipment. While he stands behind the cardboard muscular man he is glad that he finally resembles a muscular man.

Legacy

"Goofy Gymnastics" is one of Goofy's most popular and famous cartoons. The cartoon is also shown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) during the scene where Roger and Eddie hide in a cinema. Roger Rabbit laughs out loud with the cartoon, praises Goofy's timing and finesse and claims he is a "genius." However, this is an anachronism, since "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" takes place in the year 1947, while Goofy Gymnastics was released in 1949. This cartoon was also shown in September 2002 as part of the "Salute to Sports" episode of House of Mouse.

Voice cast

Home media

The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy[3] and on the "Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites Extreme Sports Fun" Volume 5. It was released to Disney+ on July 7, 2023.[4]

References

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Fitness v. Fatness (Part 4): The Fattening Forties |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  3. ^ "The Complete Goofy DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  4. ^ The D23 Team (June 19, 2023). "Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts". D23. Retrieved June 19, 2023.((cite web)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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