History WesternAnimation / GoofTroop

* LongList: All the food that Peg finds under Pete's clothes at the beginning of "To Catch a Goof". It contains, among other things, BreadEggsBreadedEggs, AndADietCoke, and TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers.

* {{Catchphrase}}:
** Pete ends a lot of his sentences with an exclamation of "See!?" He also has the extremely loudly yelled "PJ!"
** PJ, being TheDragAlong, will often say either "I don't know, Max" or "I don't know about this, Max", sometimes substituting "man" for "Max."

Although it was canceled in 1993 on both ''The Disney Afternoon'' and ABC, with the latter channel replacing the show with ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' that fall, this series led to the creation of two movies: ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'' and ''WesternAnimation/AnExtremelyGoofyMovie''. WordOfGod is that yes, they are in the same canon, despite the absence of Peg and Pistol, and the difference between the TV series and the movies like Goofy's and Pete's houses and their location. There was also a [[VideoGame/GoofTroop video game]] for the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNES Super Nintendo]]. As with its fellow ''Disney Afternoon'' shows, it received [[MythologyGag lots of references in]] ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', with one episode featuring Goofy in a guest role using an updated version of his design from this show (Max and Roxanne are confirmed to exist, though they only appear in photographs).

''Goof Troop'' is a cartoon from the early [[TheNineties Nineties]], inspired by the most well-known series of WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts featuring WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}}. It premiered as part of ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'' syndicated block on September 5, 1992. Seven days later, it began airing as part of Creator/{{ABC}}'s Saturday Morning Cartoon block for thirteen episodes. In this series, Goofy is the father of an 11-year old named Max and lives in the suburbs. Goofy also lives next door to longtime Disney antagonist WesternAnimation/{{Pete}} (who in this version has been turned into less of a villain and more of a total {{Jerkass}}), his wife Peg, and his two kids, PJ and Pistol. Even so, Goofy is still just as klutzy and, well, goofy as he was in any of the Disney shorts.

* TenderTears: Goofy is the type of KindheartedSimpleton who id quite easily moved to tears. Of course, this being Goofy, some of his weeping fits overlap with OcularGushers and/or InelegantBlubbering, much to [[{{Jerkass}} Pete's]] disgust.

* TenderTears: Goofy is the type of KindheartedSimpleton who quite easily moved to tears. Of course, this being Goofy, some of his weeping fits overlap with OcularGushers and/or InelegantBlubbering.

* TenderTears: Goofy is the type of KindheartedSimpleton who weeps openly and often. Of course, this being Goofy, some of his weeping fits overlap with OcularGushers and/or InelegantBlubbering.

* NeverSayDie: Almost always {{averted}} -- the words "dead", "die", and "kill" are actually used ''a lot''. However, in "Bringin' on the Rain", Pete does try to avoid using the word "die" when describing his bogus condition. This is PlayedForLaughs, however, because Goofy is being LiteralMinded.

** In "O R-V, I N-V U" and "Nightmare on Goof Street", Spud is fat and redheaded with a short snout and short curly hair and Wally is skinny and blond with a long snout and long straight hair. "The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy" has them trade bodies ''except'' for their hair colors and gives Spud a prominent five-o'-clock shadow that never appeared before on either of them.

* KarmaHoudini: The two con men in "Nightmare on Goof Street", who receive no comeuppance for scamming Pete into allowing them to tear his house apart.

** "Bringing' on the Rain" has a very satisfying one. Pete frames Goofy for overusing water during a drought and redirects his water meter to Pete's house so as to grow a garden and win a competition. Even though the judge delivers a harsh sentence to Goofy, he realizes that there is no way a man could use that much water and takes him to his house to investigate. Meanwhile, Max gets it in his head to sacrifice Pete's fishing gear to invite rain, and said ritual uncovers the tampered meter. The judge sees the exploded meter on Pete's side of the yard, as well as the rainforest. Pete tries to cover it up by saying it's all weeds he's trying to get rid of, but the judge quickly clears Goofy of all charges, indicts Pete for mail fraud and running a scam, and sentences him to the same cell that Goofy was occupying.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Despite being honest and kind, PJ has shown on several episodes that it's not wise to make him angry. Also Peg, who can punch out guys twice her size.

* DependingOnTheArtist: In some episodes, PJ has buck teeth. In others, he doesn't. Also, the show staff and the movie staff don't seem to agree on how hairy Pete and PJ's bodies are, nor do the show staff seem to agree with ''each other'' about Goofy and Max's.

** Don't eat Goofy's "Goofy Burgers". You'll regret it. Goofy also made Pete a peach pit pie and a "shoefly pie" that Peg wanted as far away from her as possible.

* OffModel:
** Overall, this trope's a given due to the amount of animation studios involved[[note]]The animation studios include the aforementioned [=WDAJ=], Creator/AnimalYa, Creator/TamaProductions, Creator/WangFilmProductions, Creator/KennedyCartoons, Creator/SunwooEntertainment, Moving Images International, the Creator/WaltDisneyAnimationUnits in Australia and France and Guimares Productions. With Wang, Animal-Ya, Creator/NakamuraProductions, Bon Art, Kennedy Catoons Manilla, Creator/JadeAnimation, Creator/FreelanceAnimatorsNewZealand and Creator/PacificRimAnimation serving as further subcontractors[[/note]].
** Walt Disney Japan was the only studio to draw PJ with large buck teeth. The other studios either downplayed this visual trait like Guimares or Wang did, or removed them entirely and gave PJ human-style teeth.
** In "For Pete's Sake", Peg is briefly drawn with prominent lips.

* ThemeNaming: The Pete family. Pistol and Peg are named after incarnations of Pete, and PJ shares his father's name.

** In "Bringin' On the Rain" he steals water from Goofy to grow a garden and win $5000 dollars in a gardening contest. After he's found out and arrested for hoarding water during a drought (and presumably also for framing Goofy for it) he learns that the contest was a scam to get people to buy seeds.

* AssKicksYou: A major part of Lethal Goofin' is that PJ beats up bullies by smacking them with his rear end.

* CookingDuel: Goofy and Pete have a literal cooking duel in "Mrs. Spoonerville", while they have a contest to see who can collect the most garbage for recycling in "Waste Makes Haste."

* DecompositeCharacter: In "The Ungoofables" which is a parody of ''Film/TheUntouchables'', Eliot Ness is split into two characters: Eliot Goof and Fester Ness.

* DepravedDentist: {{Subverted}} in "Clan of the Cave Goof." It looks like the dentist has a four-foot-long drill that he plans to use on cave Pete, but it turns out to be a watering can ''shaped'' like a four-foot-long drill, and the dentist is a competent, compassionate professional.

* HypnoFool: In at least one episode Pete tries to hypnotise Goofy into doing something for him, but since he's... well... Goofy, [[TooDumbToFool he still doesn't understand his commands and screws up]].

* ImaginaryFriend: In "Pistolgeist" there's Inky, a character from one of Pistol's books, who turns out to be [[spoiler:[[NotSoImaginaryFriend very real]], and Pistol almost runs away with her.]]

** In "Dr. Horatio's Magic Orchestra," PJ backs Goofy's BaitAndSwitchComment up, mentioning the "incident with the earless monkey," which, apparently, they all agreed off-screen to never bring up again.

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: A character in Pistol's favorite book is revealed to be real at the end of "Pistolgeist."

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Peg's uncle, Bob Sparrowhawk, who appears in "Major Goof." Loved by PJ. Disliked greatly by Pete. Whilst Bob isn't actually deliberately mean to Pete, he makes things hard for him.

** Max asks PJ to rate how much Pete likes him (Max) on a scale from one to ten in "O, R-V, I N-V U." PJ responds "less than zero."

* ParentalIncest: {{Downplayed}} in "Puppy Love." PJ going on a pretend date... with his own mother... As part of a plan to get another girl to like him, but still weird.

** Pete is surprisingly kind to PJ in "Puppy Love," and doesn't have the "one of us is dying" excuse he usually does. Unfortunately, all the nice things he does end up hindering PJ anyway... though by accident.

* ProducePelting: Goofy is on the receiving end of this when he tells terrible jokes to stall he audience while Pete tries to get Max and PJ free in "Shake, Rattle, and Goof."

* QuirkyHousehold: The Goof family. A single parent family with a clumsy idiot as the parent and a snarky, HighSchoolHustler kid, their bond is phenomenally strong, shown especially well in "Date with Destiny" and "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp."

* RageBreakingPoint: PJ starts out merely feeling insecure due to Pete mistreating him in "From Air to Eternity." Even rejecting him as a punishment for something he didn't do just makes him sad. However, when he finds out Pete was also being a {{Hypocrite}}, PJ gets so angry even Max is terrified by his behavior. They then work together to get revenge on Pete.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The judge who sentences Goofy for overusing water realizes that one man ''couldn't'' use that much water. He asks Goofy what happened to it, in exchange for reducing his sentence. Goofy honestly says he doesn't know -- because Pete said he needed the water for his "medical condition". The inspector then takes Goofy to his house, where he finds out Pete tampereed with the Goofs' water meter.

* RepetitiveName: Goofy Goof, Peter Pete and Peter Pete Junior (PJ). The show never plays this up--[[DownplayedTrope just the opposite, in fact]]. We know their first names and their last names independently of each other, but the show never calls any of them by their full names

* RubeGoldbergDevice: The soda dispenser at the beginning of "Clan of the Cave Goof."
* RuleOfEmpathy: In stark contrast to the comical nature of the rest of the show, almost all of PJ's focus episodes are played entirely straight--highlighting just how scared/guilty/self-hating/lonely/resentful PJ feels as a result of his mistreatment. Then we get Pete as TheChewToy...

** They ''really'' milked the overflowing OutOfControlPopcorn joke in "Cabana Fever," from when it happened, to Pete bringing it up multiple times, and eventually to [[ChekhovsGag resolving the plot]].

** A milder example is that in "Goofs of a Feather", PJ wonders how he's going to face his "friends" now that his dad's a "duck-killer". In "Goodbye, Mr. Goofy" PJ reveals that Max is the only friend he's ever had, which, considering his [[ShrinkingViolet personality]] and how he behaved in "Good Neighbor Goof", is probably true (and Max ''knows'' that Pete is a {{Jerkass}} and that PJ [[NiceGuy isn't]]). Even stranger, "Goofs of a Feather" has the same writer as both "Good Neighbor Goof" ''and'' "Goodbye, Mr. Goofy."

** "Axed By Addition", where Max talks PJ into PlayingSick so he can cut school. It was so he could have the best day of his life before being GroundedForever for getting an F in math--and then it's revealed he got an A.
** "Slightly Dinghy" where Max convinces an even-more-reluctant-than-usual PJ to ask Pete to go fishing with him so that he can find the treasure of the lake to afford a video game--and not only did Goofy already find the last quarter he needed [[DramaticIrony (which the audience knew)]], there was also a WorthlessTreasureTwist.

** "Unreal Estate", where Pete spends his contractor money on a gadget and works with Goofy to build the house--which works about as well as is expected. Then he ''finally'' manages to get the house exactly how it needs to be and then it's revealed the homebuyers only wanted the land.
** "Goodbye Mr. Goofy" where Pete steals Goofy's mortgage money in an attempt to make him move out, it backfires, Pete spends the entire episode trying to give Goofy his money back after it was lost to no avail--and then it's revealed that it was in the ice cream maker the whole time.

** Pete's get rich quick scheme in "Pete's Day At the Races" is very similar to that in ''Film/TheProducers'', where he drastically oversells shares on the winnings of horse he's recently acquired that doesn't appear to have a prayer of winning any race...unfortunately, once Goofy removes a nail in his hoof that was slowing him down, he turns into a world champion race horse and ends up winning. Like with Max and Leo, Pete ends up in prison due to his inability to pay off the shareholders.
** Pete says "I do believe in ghosts, I do believe in ghosts, I do, I do, I do!" in "Hallow-Weenies", just like the Cowardly Lion does in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', except that he says "ghosts" in place of "spooks." In "And Baby Makes Three" he replicates the "and you were there!" speech from the same movie.

** Sammy the Horse watches an episode of ''Series/MisterEd'' in "Pete's Day at the Races."

** In "Terminal Pete," the gopher that Pistol befriends basically looks like a slighty off-color version of [[WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresofWinniethePooh Gopher]].

* SignsOfDisrepair: {{Exaggerated}} in "Gunfight at the Okie Doke Corral." The townsfolk all hang out at the "local salon", getting their hair done, manicures, etc. Goofy's ancestor wipes dirt off the windows revealing that it was actually supposed to be a sal'''oon''', and everybody cheers because they don't have to treat it like a salon anymore.

** Played straight in "E=MC Goof." Pete chooses to go after his "space souvenirs"... toward the sun... instead of just being happy the rocket was going down to earth [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and we don't see him for the rest of the episode.]]

* SleepingDummy: A variation occurs in "Pistolgeist." Pistol has ''already'' left the house and Max impersonates her with a wig in bed so that PJ doesn't get in trouble for letting her.

* SportsDad: Goofy and Pete in "Take Me Out of the Ball Game." Bearing a lot of nostalgia for the sport, they both force their sons into playing baseball, despite neither boy wanting anything to do with it. By the end of the episode though, it becomes clear that the glory days Goofy and Pete espoused so much about may not have been true and that they were just hoping to live their dream baseball careers vicariously through Max and PJ.

* SpringtimeForHitler: In "Pete's Day at the Races," Pete wins ownership of a racehorse who can't run, so he gives away shares of ownership in the horse to people who buy cars from his lot. He gives away more shares than he should, but figures its okay since the horse can't possibly win. Goofy ends up fixing the horse's foot, and unknowingly sabotages all of Pete's attempts to prevent it from winning.
* StabTheSalad: In "Midnight Movie Madness," Goofy grabs a sharp kitchen knife to cut salami and uses a chainsaw to cut down a loose tree branch. Everyone else is rather jumpy due to thinking about the Mutilator.

** In "Good Neighbor Goof" Pete gives PJ "the family boots" (boots with heavily weighted cement soles). After PJ struggles to walk in them and falls down the stairs, Max arrives and asks, "Family boots, huh?"
** In "Max-Imum Insecurity" PJ quickly apologizes to Leech for not having lunch money for him to beat out of him because it's Saturday. Max (who had fallen behind) does exactly the same thing after PJ flees.

* SurvivalMantra: "It's only a game! It's only a game!" in "From Air to Eternity." PJ first adopts this phrase when playing a virtual reality stunt game to help him cope with his fear of heights, and later uses it again when it's actually ''false''... evidently it's reassuring enough that he manages to skydive unharmed, but not to calm him down when he's being carried away by a storm.

* TalentContest: Max participates in one as a magician in "Talent to the Max."

* TinCanTelephone: Max and PJ use one to communicate in "Good Neighbor Goof." Max later uses it to pull PJ into his bedroom through the window after they were forbidden to see each other. The telephone appears again in "You Camp Take It with You", but is useless due to PJ being asleep.

* ToughLove: Pete sometimes seems to believe mistreating PJ will be good for him in the end, as indicated by his apologetic statement in "Axed by Addition."

* WhyAreYouNotMySon: In "O, R-V, I N-V U," Pete compliments Max on his insight saying Max reminds him of himself and openly asking why PJ can't be more like Max. He was probably unaware that PJ was listening in on that particular conversation, but later in the episode he blatantly rejects PJ in favor of Max repeatedly. Generally speaking, however, Pete's relationship with Max is just as bad as his relationship with PJ.

* YourSizeMayVary: Peg's proportions fluctuated a lot. In "Fool's Gold" she was able to fit through a small basement window with no problems, but in "Goofin' Up the Social Ladder" she struggled to fit through a gate with bars about 20 inches apart.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While preparing to sacrifice Pete's fishing gear to invite rain in "Bringin' on the Rain," Max and PJ find a strange pipe in the ground, and the Goofs' water going to Pete's house. PJ tries to righteously ask if Max is insinuating that his dad would do something so unethical...cue his OhCrap and meekly saying "For the sake of our friendship, don't answer that."

** In "Good Neighbor Goof," Goofy tries and fails to open a treasure chest while Max watches without either one seeing or pointing out the padlock on the front.

* FamilyBusiness: During several episodes it's clear that Pete intends PJ to take over his business some day, especially when he makes him take over the job for a day in "To Heir Is Human."

* FeudingFamilies: The Goof and Pete families on several occasions, most notably in "Good Neighbor Goof" and "Waste Makes Haste," where members of one family either refuse or are forbidden to talk to members of the other.

** DoubleSubverted in "Good Neighbor Goof." Pete overapplies hot sauce to Goofy's omelette hoping to {{invoke|dTrope}} this, but Goofy is unaffected and even wants ''more'' hot sauce. Then Pete takes a bite and his mouth catches on fire so hard he ends up using all the water in his pool to extinguish the flames.
** The judges get fire breath from trying Pete's chili in "Mrs. Spoonerville."

* ForgottenAnniversary: "Peg o' the Jungle" mentions this is a common occurrence for Pete--he always forgets and then heads off to get Peg some [[ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping cheap gift at the very last second]]. Peg is sick of going through the motions and so comes up with a ZanyScheme of her own to get back at him, involving the rest of the cast disguising themselves as Pete and Peg pretending not to know who her real husband is until he proves himself with a romantic gesture.

* GentleGiant: PJ is what you get when the GentleGiant is just 11 years old. He's not too bright, overdominated, insecure - and can bench-press 150lbs, punch out bullies and takes on most of his father's manual labour. He seems totally unaware of his own strength.
* GiftGivingGaffe: DoubleSubverted in "Max-Imum Insecurity." Pete surprised Peg with a power tool (while talking it up as something she would love) which made her very angry. Then later she found his "real" surprise of her favorite perfume. The perfume was stolen and she was never supposed to find it in the first place, so by the end of the episode she's just as mad as she was at the beginning.

* GladIThoughtOfIt: In "Fool's Gold," after Peg says they'll be rich, Pete says, "Not only that. We'll be ''rich!''"

* GreenAesop: There's an anti-pollution message in "A Goof of the People." However, it's presented as a SpaceWhaleAesop for laughs.

* GroundedForever: In "Axed By Addition" Pete threatens to ground PJ forever if he fails his math test, a threat the latter takes ''very'' seriously and even [[PlayingSick plays sick]] in order to get in one last day of freedom. Once Pete finds out the truth, he yells at PJ for not guessing he was bluffing... and then says he's grounded forever for ''that,'' though he has a change of heart when he finds out that [[ShaggyDogStory PJ didn't even fail in the first place.]]

* HauntedHouse: Appears in "Hallow-Weenies." The ghosts inside, a band, don't want to stay but can't leave until they perform their show.

** Peg is a {{subversion}} in "Goof Fellas." She sleeps through Goofy jackhammering the roof repeatedly, and Pete screaming for him to keep it down, but then wakes up to Pete making a tiny whimper and asks him to keep it down because she's trying to sleep.

* ICanSeeMyHouseFromHere: Goofy says this when shot high in the air from a fire hose explosion in "Where There's Smoke, There's Goof."

* IGaveMyWord: In "Tub Be or Not Tub Be," PJ makes a promise to Max not to share any information and to Pete not to tell on him (though at the point he didn't know what Pete was making him promise not to tell on him ''for''). When PJ finds out Pete has been using him as an unwitting spy, he is forced to choose whether to break a promise to Max or his dad. He still keeps his word [[LoopholeAbuse to the letter]] to both of them, even refusing to answer Max's request for confirmation that the cheating was Pete's fault.

* IHaveThisFriend: In "Max-Imum Insecurity," Max and PJ want to gauge how Pete would react if he found out that they stole a bottle of perfume (it was actually [[GreaserDelinquents Leech]] who stole it, but he gave it to Max and PJ to guard), so they ask him about a hypothetical scenario. Pete tells them about how [[HypocriticalHumor stealing is completely unethical]] and that if he caught anyone stealing he would [[CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon sand them with his new sander]].

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: ZigZagged in "As Goof Would Have It." Peg puts Pete on a diet that involves a medication or supplement in the form of a granola bar. Pete fears the taste, but to humor his wife, he tastes one, and they're so good he goes through a week's worth in a single sitting. Peg informs him that they're supposed to be in addition to his three squares a day, otherwise they may as well be candy (this is confirmed by the label).

* {{Imprinting}}: Bubbles, who hatches out of an egg Max and PJ find in "Great Egg-Spectations." Max intends to keep her as a pet.

** In "Inspector Goofy" Pete (trying to get Goofy a job as a city inspector) claims he has "an open mind" by lifting up Goofy's ears and revealing you can see straight through.
** In "Come Fly with Me" Pete, having been transformed into a fly is desperately trying to get Peg's attention and flies into one of her ears so she can hear him speaking. She ''can'' hear him, but unable to see where he is speaking from she tilts her head and Pete falls right out.

* IneptTalentShowContestant: Max is a {{double subversion}} in "Talent to the Max." At the beginning of the episode, he is terrible at magic tricks and likely to lose the talent show. He then finds a magic hat that makes him good at them. However, the magic hat is evil and the only way to defeat it is to admit to being terrible at them, which he does on-stage.

* InstantWakingSkills: PJ in "Max-Imum Protection." Hearing [[DistressedDude Max ask him for help]] is enough to [[UndyingLoyalty wake him and boost him right into action.]]

** Pete is always a {{Jerkass}}, but "Bringin' on the Rain" shows him as worse than usual. He generally will pick and choose which one of Goofy and PJ to torment in a significant way (if either)--in this episode he does both at the same time. He is also crueler to both of them than usual and has no remorse at all in the entire episode. He only eventually relents about Goofy's treatment once caught, and callously acknowledges PJ's as if it weren't a problem ''twice'' (to which the MickeyMousing facial expressions intentionally draw attention).
** PJ carries one in "Queasy Rider." Generally speaking, he isn't the type to laugh at innocent victims of humiliation, especially not his best friend, but in this episode he does, which doubles as a ConformingOOCMoment. He also has almost no patience for Max being rude to him before pranking him, while he's ordinarily very tolerant.

** Pete telling Goofy that Max is always getting PJ in trouble in "Big City Blues." While it sounds like his typical anti-Goof sentiment, Max ''does'' usually rope [[TheDragAlong PJ]] into his {{Zany Scheme}}s.
** Tan Roadster [[WhatDoesSheSeeInHim telling Peg she could do a lot better than Pete]] in "Gymnauseum."
* JerkassRealization: Parodied and subverted by Pete in "Axed by Addition." When PJ [[PlayingSick plays sick]], Pete freaks out about how much of a jerk he has been to PJ, with some reasons that make sense and some that are [[FelonyMisdemeanor extremely mundane]], sobbing confessions to everyone he sees, which creeps out most of them. He then assumes that everything on PJ's list is secretly his fault. He chases PJ home and begs for forgiveness, only to drop PJ carelessly when the phone rings and start being a jerk to him again as soon as he finds out PJ's not really dying.

* KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Pretty much played straight in "Midnight Movie Madness." Pete (intentionally) and Goofy (unintentionally) make it worse for Max and P.J.

* LatexPerfection: Parodied in "Buddy Building." At one point on their mission, Goofy and Max bump into each other, and then Goofy tugs off his rubber mask to reveal Pete. But then he [[MultiLayerFacade pulls off that mask]] to reveal Giblet the Clown, and [[OverlyLongGag under that is]] a [[AttractiveBentGender cute female dogface person]], and then "she" pulls that mask off to reveal Goofy once again, who somehow is able to [[BodyHorror take off his own face]], but Max isn't amused.

* LookBehindYou: The common {{subversion}} occurs in "Sherlock Goof." Pete's character, Prof. Inferiority, snags his net on the side of his tub filled with a dangerous solvent intended to kill Sherlock Goof. Sherlock tries to warn him, he doesn't listen, and the solvent gets poured all over the room.

** Max uses this to aid PJ in both "Everything's Coming Up Goofy" and "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime." In the former, he resorts to asking PJ if Pete forbade him from playing with his tank on the walls and ceiling after he said pretty much every ground in existence ''was'' expressly forbidden. In the latter, Pete says PJ is not allowed to move the VCR, but Max notices he [[ExactWords didn't say]] they couldn't plug into it.
** PJ himself uses this when he accidentally made contradictory promises in "Tub Be or Not Tub Be." He pointedly never actually ''tells'' Max and Goofy that Pete was cheating even when directly asked for confirmation. He just makes it impossible to draw any other conclusion by conspicuously knocking the camera out of his hat.
* LoserSonOfLoserDad: When he's being particularly cynical Pete seems to consider Max an example, at one point telling Max that he's "just a carbon copy of your old man anyway, a Goof!"

* MickeyMousing: Often used even to signal changes in facial expressions. "Midnight Movie Madness," the first episode in production order, uses an entirely-original scene-specific music score by Robert Irving that often utilizes this. Subsequent episodes generally instead use recurring multi-purpose music cues (a standard practice for television animation at the time) composed by Mark Watters.
* MirrorCharacter: Pete and Max ''loathe'' each other most of the time, but they have more in common with each other than with anyone else on the show: they're both ambitious leaders, fairly self-centered and prone to using other people as means to an end, and far better at coming up with ideas than thinking them through. They'd never admit it though--except in "O, R-V, I N-V U" where they end up bonding so well that a WhyAreYouNotMySon situation arises.

* MistakenForBadass: As stated in "Queasy Rider," Goofy was once known as "the Skull". Though apparently nobody knew it was short for ''numb''skull.

** Max is referred to as "Goofy Jr." several times during "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp." Goofy Jr. was Max's prototype's name.
** [[WhoIsDriving Who is (not) flying]] in "Hot Air?" Goofy. Just like in the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}}, "Mickey's Trailer."
** Peg and Pistol are named after two of Pete's nicknames in the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts - Peg-Leg Pete (evil pirate) and Pistol Pete (evil cowboy).
** In "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime," Goofy's mime instructor has cue cards showing pictures, and when it comes to "duck", the image is of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck.

** "Educating Goofy" has Max deliberately misspell cat as K-A-T at the spelling bee. His predecessor Goofy, Jr. misspelled cat the same way in the Goofy short "Teachers are People."

* NeverSayDie: Almost always {{averted}}--the words "dead", "die", and "kill" are actually used ''a lot''. However, in "Bringin' on the Rain", Pete does try to avoid using the word "die" when describing his bogus condition. This is PlayedForLaughs, however, because Goofy is being LiteralMinded.

** A small, pudgy, dog-eared character model with a squeaky campy voice--named Mr. Huge in his first appearance. He's consistently rich, but the way he made/makes his money varies.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Invoked in "Talent to the Max"; Max gets a swelled head due to suddenly becoming good at magic and even unthinkingly dumps PJ [[TheCassandra who was just trying to protect him]] from the magic hat. The magic hat in question is a sapient ManipulativeBastard and will resort to MaliciousSlander to get its way--which is to control people whose egos get too big because of its influence on their magic abilities.

* AllForNothing: Many of Pete's endeavors to get money prove to be this

* AnchoviesAreAbhorrent: In "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp," after failing to get an award, Goofy is bummed. Max tries to make him feel better by offering to get pizza with him. Goofy declines, [[InvertedTrope until Max offers to add "the little fishies" to the pizza]].

* AnimateInanimateObject: An expressive fire truck in "Where There's Smoke, There's Goof." No other vehicle has a face. There are also the embers in the same episode, the magic hat in "Talent to the Max", the instruments of "Dr. Horatio's Magic Orchestra" and some bullets in "Gunfight at the Okie-Doke Corral."

** During the first part of Pete's breakdown in "Axed By Addition," he starts out feeling guilty for things like making PJ stay up all night studying, doing menial chores/humiliating things, and then becomes more ridiculous, ending with "I even made him use a ''handkerchief''." Then Pete uses BreadEggsMilkSquick the next time we see him.
** When Goofy and Pete set up rules in their houses in "Good Neighbor Goof," the last rule Goofy gives Max after various "no contact with the Pete house" rules is "never stick peas up your nose." Goofy prefaces this rule with [[BlatantLies "lastly, but not leastly."]]

* AssumedWin: Played for laughs with a dash of DramaticIrony in "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp." Pete assumes that he will win the award for being the best father in the class. When Goofy (unsurprisingly) wins instead, PJ has to try to stifle his giggles.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Pete basked in this trope, usually to his own detriment. In "O, R-V, I N-V U", he designed the most state-of-the-art RV you could possibly imagine...which then gradually fell apart as soon as he began to drive it.

* BaitAndSwitchSentiment: In "Dr. Horatio's Magic Orchestra," Peg says stealing the instruments from Goofy is the lowest Pete's ever sunk. Goofy says Peg is not being fair to Pete... because "he's sunken much lower, hundreds of times, ''thousands'' of times."

* BearHug: Played rather darkly in "Good Neighbor Goof." Pete gives one to PJ but it's hardly affectionate--it's all part of manipulating him into doing nearly interminable can crushing so that he won't be able to hang out with Max. PJ's relationship with his father is summed up nicely by him looking very uncomfortable but not squirming, and wobbling helplessly over his boots once Pete lets go.
* BearsAreBadNews: Played relatively straight in "Goof Troop Christmas" and "Winter Blunderland." {{Subverted}} in "You Camp Take It With You", where the bear that everyone except [[FearlessFool Max]] was worried would or did eat the boys turns out to be just another father trying to protect and care for his son in the wilderness. Of course, in the latter case, he was a SpeechImpairedAnimal and his baby had a diaper. In the ending scene, he actually seems nicer than Pete [[{{Jerkass}} (not that that's saying much)]].

* BeingWatched: In "Come Fly with Me," PJ tells Max that it might be a bad idea to keep playing on Pete's computer because it seemed like he was watching them. While Max dismisses the notion as instilled paranoia, PJ doesn't know how right he was--Pete ''was'' right behind them... [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as a fly]].

* {{Bigfoot|SasquatchAndYeti}}: Encountered during a ski trip in "Winter Blunderland." A female who fell in love with Goofy.

* BrutalHonesty: PJ is surprisingly blunt about the quality of Max's performance in "Talent to the Max", though this may have been because he didn't want Max to be humiliated at the real talent show. He also continually corrects Max when Max denies he looks anything like Goofy in "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp", and says this when Max leads him into a locked trunk in "Shake, Rattle, and Goof."

* TheBully: There are several bullies that show up in the series to torment Max, PJ, and/or other kids. Most of them are only in one episode, though [[GreaserDelinquents Leech]] is in both "Max-Imum Insecurity" and "Buddy Building." Other notable bullies include Duke and the Pharaohs from "Leader of the Pack", Douglas, Tooth, and Nails from "Lethal Goofin'", and Marty from "Puppy Love."

* CallBack: Plucking dog hair out of the carpet with tweezers--Pete said he made PJ do it "one time" in "Axed By Addition", but evidently it was more than once, since the task was referenced as something PJ currently needed to do in two later episodes ("Take Me Out of the Ball Game" and "And Baby Makes Three").
* CallingTheOldManOut: PJ is a bit too meek to confront Pete directly, but he certainly was willing to do it ''in''directly in "From Air to Eternity." PJ, with Max's help, tricks Pete into confessing to lying about being afraid of heights, after Pete spends the episode causing him serious anguish based on that lie. During the confession PJ pretends to be surprised, but does not shy away from shaming his father when the "new information comes to light."

* TheChewToy: While everyone can find himself on the receiving end of the slapstick a lot of the time, Pete's episodes are based almost entirely on laughing at his misery--[[LaserGuidedKarma though it is mostly retributive]].
* ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam: In "Tee for Two," Pete wants to tear down the miniature golf course which upsets ''everyone'' else in the cast because they had fond memories there. It turns out that the reason Pete wanted to tear it down in the first place is [[spoiler:because ''his'' memories of it were [[FreudianExcuse not so fond.]]]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Coupe Hatchback, Max and PJ's new friend, disappears without further mention after one episode ("Buddy Building"), as does Rose Deckenbloom, PJ's crush in "Puppy Love."
* ClassReunion: One where everyone should get an award in "Meanwhile, Back at the Ramp." Goofy has not done anything award worthy... except for being a {{Good Parent|s}}.

* CoincidentalBroadcast: The fortune teller ad that pops up when Pete is trying to figure out a way to avoid his bad luck in "Rally Round the Goof." Combined with TheTelevisionTalksBack.

* CompressedVice: Goofy is randomly a BigEater in "The Incredible Bulk." This is never brought up again. Strangely, the characters who are more consistently played as {{Big Eater}}s are astonished by Goofy's appetite.

* ConspicuouslyLightPatch: The most obvious example is when Pete is shoving his competition into a locker in "Mrs. Spoonerville."

* CoveredInMud: Max and PJ fall into the mud while crushing the cans in "Good Neighbor Goof." PJ later tracks mud all over the house, which leads to Pete finding out that PJ has been spending time with Max. He's not happy about it.

* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: In "Max-Imum Insecurity" Pete says he would sand anyone he caught stealing with his new sander.

* DatingServiceDisaster: Played with in "Date with Destiny." Due to Pete deliberately sabotaging Goofy's attempt to submit a profile to a dating service, he ends up on a "date" with an on-duty contractor. She destroys his house, because she [[OneDialogueTwoConversations completely misunderstands him]].

* DemotedToExtra: Despite the series having Max, PJ, Goofy and Pete all getting equal attention, the films are mostly about Max, and, to a slightly lesser extent, Goofy. In ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'', PJ gets more screentime, but Pete appears for about four minutes.

* DidYouThinkICantFeel: In "O, R-V, I N-V U," Max ends up partnered with Pete on an RV project, and ignores PJ without noticing that he feels lonely and inferior as a result, expecting him to do favors and run errands for them. This exchange occurs roughly two-thirds of the way through the episode:

** In "Dr. Horatio's Magic Orchestra," Pete decides the appropriate punishment for PJ whistling two bars of a song is to threaten to permanently disfigure his lips. Used to indicate just how ''much'' Pete hates the song, since he usually doesn't engage in any (intentional) physical harm at all, and Peg does tell him he's out of line.

* DivingSave: PJ does this to prevent Max from being hit by a moving bus in "Big City Blues" and from being caught in the crossfire of an exploding barbecue in "Where There's Smoke, There's Goof."

* DramaticIrony: Many, many episodes run on this. Just a few examples: In "Slightly Dinghy", Max doesn't know that Goofy found the quarter he was looking for even though the audience did before they went on the trip. In "And Baby Makes Three" the audience is aware early on that Peg is selling an expensive house and is planning to spend the profits on her family, but the entire cast [[IdiotBall (even Pete)]] is convinced she's having a baby.

* DudeNotFunny: In "Puppy Love," Max cracks a joke about how PJ should go to the school dance with [[TheBully Marty]] because "you sure see him enough!" PJ is upset by the joke.
* DumbMuscle: Tooth & Nails, the bullies who steal quarters from other kids in "Lethal Goofin'," are just working for Douglas.

* EarlyBirdCameo: One of the kids on the little league team in "Take Me Out of the Ball Game" turns out later to be Douglas Twinkmeyer, the main antagonist of "Lethal Goofin'."
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: It'd be hard to imagine the [[ShrinkingViolet PJ]] of "Puppy Love" and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' abruptly kissing a girl who wanted nothing to do with him, but he at least tries to without in-universe justification in "Axed by Addition."

* ExpressiveHair: In "Tee for Two" Peg's hair droops when she's sad and bounces right back up when her mood changes to anger.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Peg and Pistol ''usually'' manage to avoid the slapstick (but not always, and usually it's because they avoid the adventure entirely), but the same cannot be said for several female guest stars, such as the female reporter, Gilda, and Duke's girlfriend.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Bubbles, who hatches out of an egg Max and PJ find in "Great Egg-Spectations." Max intends to keep her as a pet.