So yeah… if Goofy has a son… then where is the wife? Or did Goofy get so wasted one night that he had “unprotected sex” and “accidently” got stuck with his little kid P.J.?
You know that story about that Jesus guy? Its kinda like that. But goofy, not holy.
Ok, and so how did both Mickey and Donald get nephews? (Mickey’s nephews might be lesser known, but he has nephews.)
The Disney Co has a lot of 'splaining to do! 
- Jinx
I always pictured the Goofy from “Goof Troop” as a widower. PJ is not Goofy’s kid. PJ is the friend of Goofy’s son. PJ is the son of Goofy’s neighbor (Pete?).
Goofy’s son’s name is Max.
Goofy had a wife in the '50s shorts, when Max was a little kid who looked nothing like his father and nothing like he does now - and wasn’t yet named Max, just Junior. However, the wife was never seen, only heard yelling from the next room over.
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Actually, I always pictured Goofy in the father-role as either a widower or divorced. He does seem pretty sad a lot of the time. :-/
But either case really works… the single-father/single-parent role is very relevant to society today, and Max being a kid with one parent opens up doors for kids to relate to. Probably a good role to fill.
Though it is interesting that cartoon characters with children rarely have a mate. They are frequently adopted, though. The last cartoon I ever watched was Darkwing Duck (shaddup), but the single-parent role in it was a very big part of the storyline (shaddup again).
Who remembers that little baby that Popeye always carted around?
What was up with her/him?
IIRC, sweet pea was a foundling.
Well, as others have noted, the “off screen” explanation is probably that making a male character a widower (or occasionally a divorcee) is “When you come right down to it, what we’re really talking about here, guys, is a cheap plot device that enables young, swinging bachelors to mix it up with a hot, young lady and still have adorable kids that they can dispense folksy, homespun advice to.” In the words of the giants. (The cast and writers of MST3k, during episode 506, “Eegah!” to be exact. They go into the subject in more detail.)
The usual “On screen” reasons for a missing mate seem to be: Car Accident, Cancer/Leukemia, Divorce/Parental Abandonment, Medical Complications after Childbirth, and Plane Shot Down during The War. Roughly in order of occurrence, although Divorce is rising on the list, being more socially acceptable these days…though from a storyteller’s point of view, it (Divorce) can bring up important questions that really can’t be answered simply or lightheartedly, at least not without adding another character to the cast, at least in a supporting role. So on, say, the TV show “Rugrats,” the inevitable “Very Special Episode” explaining Chuckie’s missing mother is more effective with the “Chuckie’s mom died after he was born” explanation, than something like “Chuckie’s Mom left Chuckie’s Dad, but for some reason his Mom won’t have anything more to do with him.” And there’s not much you can do with the “Some Reason” in the latter scenario without taking the series down a MUCH “darker” path, story-wise, than would really be appropriate for the genre. Especially if the “missing” parent after the divorce/abandonment is supposed to be the mother.
Back to the subject at hand, though, Goofy DID gain a girlfriend in “An Extremely Goofy Movie.” She was Sylvia Marpole, a college librarian. Although in the “House of Mouse” TV series, one episode showed him pining from loneliness, but being cheered up after finding Clarabelle the Cow was his secret admirer. This is somewhat confusing, seeing as how the characters in House of Mouse seem to have roughly the same life history as their “on-screen” personas (No explanation is given for the resurrection of the dead villains) This leads one to believe that either a) Sylvia broke up with Goofy, or, more likely, b) The show’s writer either forgot or chose to ignore, the fact that goofy was supposed to already have a girlfriend. Whoops.
I’m pathetic, aren’t I?
Ranchoth
(Not to mention long-winded)
The following old joke might shed some light:
Judge–In the case of Mickey Mouse vs. Minnie Mouse, Mr. Mouse wants a divorce because of Mrs. Mouse’s insanity.
Mickey–Wait a minute, your honor! I never said she was crazy. I said she was f@&%ing Goofy!
prequel to AskNott’s joke:
Mickey woke up one morning to find " Mickey Sucks " written in piss in the snow. Mickey called the police and had them find who did it.
" Mr. Mouse we found who did it. Its Goofy’s pee but Minnie’s handwriting."
According to the Goof Troop series, Max was adopted.
Of course, in the late 1950s or so, Goofy inexplicably became the white-bread worker “Mr. Geef,” who had a wife and children.
Q. How did Mickey and Minney Mouse first meet?
A. They were just drawn together!
You did see her sometimes, but never her face – kinda like Vera on Cheers. I distinctly remember that she had great legs, and even as a child I wondered what she was doing with Goofy. But I guess she may have had the face of a dog.
Huey, Duey, and Luey are the sons of Donald’s sister, Dumbella. She appears once only, drops off the triplets and vanishes.
I’m still in the dark on how or even if the triplets and Donald are related to Scrooge McDuck.
That and how in the name of space mountain Ma Beagle birthed and raised all those Beagle boys were the two great mysteries of DuckTales
Re-Popeye
Popeye and Olive Oil did have a son in the saturday morning series(wait for it) Popeye And Son. IIRC Bluto had married some bovine woman or another and had a son of his own. Tragically, Alice the Goon’s love for Wimpy remained unrequited.
Are you sure about that? I remember than Gosalyn from “Darkwing Duck” was adopted, but I don’t remember that about Max.
And the “Mr. Geef” cartoons…those were weird. I always referred to the “Mr. Geef” character as a “Goofy-oid” being; similar to, but biologically distinct from, the Goofy species proper.
Ranchoth
(“Do you guys ever wonder…why we ware gloves all the time?”)
Carl Barks, the creator of Scrooge McDuck, has Donald say in one of his comic stories (“Race to the South Seas” or something like that) that Scrooge is his mother’s brother. So, he is literally Scrooge’s nephew. Since Huey, Dewey, and Louie are the sons of Donald’s sister (his nephews) they are Scrooge’s grandnephews.
Don Rosa, another, more recent, Disney comic artist (and author of “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck,” Scrooge’s life story), created a whole Duck family tree a while ago. It was printed in Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #600.
Come on guys we all know that Goofy’s just an actor. I mean Andy Griffith isn’t REALLY a sherriff…
is he?
ZJJ
According to a letter written to Roger Ebert (reprinted in Questions for the Movie Answer Man), a person wrote in stating that having been forced to watch hours of the Disney Afternoon, they can say “Max was adopted prior to the beginning of Goof Troop on television,” (Ebert 110), so there was no child custody case as Ebert wondered in his review of A Goofy Movie (which was a bit truncated, since the film broke). Although Ebert was right-a cartoon about Goofy’s child custody battle would be interesting.
I have nothing to add regarding Minnie’s insanity case. Mickey and Minnie have known each other since at least Steamboat Willie, and the modern day people who provide the voices for Mickey and Minnie are married in real life (I kid you not). Although, however, Mickey Mouse retired from the theatrical cartoon business in 1953, whereas his friends such as Donald and Goofy continued to make cartoons. Perhaps Mickey wandered into a deep depression at this time due to the Minnie-Goofy relationship. Bugs Bunny also retired early on the Warner side, so maybe there was a problem there as well.
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Ebert, Roger. Questions for the Movie Answer Man. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel, 1997.[/sub]