What no one has ever noticed is that there is an element of race relations allegory going on here.
Pluto is a dog, but is Mickey’s pet and wears a collar. Goofy is a dog, yet no one’s pet.
Mickey represents whites in America. Pluto represents (depending on era) either slaves or otherwise oppressed African-Americans in the South. Goofy represents those blacks who lived in non-slave states. For some reason, he is portrayed as being a moron.
Well… except that GOOFY is the one who’s black and white, Pluto is that puke-coloured yellow. You saying that Afro-Americans are puke coloured?
I don’t think you can make an unsubstantiated generalization like that without some back up. Besides, I don’t think that Pluto and Goofy ever appear together in the same cartoon, so you’re drawing your analogy from separate works.
So, my response is in kind: you’re totally wrong. Micky represents communism, Pluto represents subservient socialism, and Goofy represents the decadence of capitalism. The whole thing is a treatise on Marxism Triumphant.
The decadence of capitalism is represented by Donald Duck who is fated to always be outwitted by the Socialist freedom fighters, Chip ‘n’ Dale. Goofy, of course, represents the ignorent American who chooses to chase the pot of gold at the end of the yellow brick road. If you’ve seen “Fantasia”, you know who the wizard is.
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I think you’re overlooking the obvious fact that Goofy is a collective folk rememberance that many dogs walked upright and could talk before 800 BC. It was only after that, when, as Immanuel Velikovsky proved, Jupiter ejected a comet which passed so close to the Earth that it hit the upright dogs on the head and killed them all, leaving only the lowly, four-legged creatures we see today. The comet settled into a new orbit as the planet Pluto. Disney’s naming the quadraped after the planet conclusively proves that this occurred.