Walt Disney Treasures The Complete Goofy (2002)

This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 but none of the great MickeyDonaldGoofy films from the mid30s The How to Ride a Horse sequence in The Reluctant Dragon 1941 set the pattern for many of these cartoons An elegant narrator artist John Ployardt explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture quoted in the DVD bonus material as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure One of the funniest entries in the series Hockey Homicide contains several studio injokes dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson and referee CleanGame Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino Norm Ferguson and director Jack Kinney