History WesternAnimation / GoofTroop

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]].

* UnfortunateNames: Pete's character/ancestor in "Sherlock Goof" is named Professor Inferiority.

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* CompanyCrossReferences: ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' appears on Pete's TV from time to time.

* AnachronismStew: Multiple ancestors episodes have tales that take place before cameras were invented but still have photos in the family album. "Clan of the Cave Goof" is the biggest offender of this, having things like dentists, gag items, and the stock market exist when fire is scarce and wheels don't exist at all.

* 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 [[NotSoDifferent 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)]].

* NotSoDifferent: 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.

* {{Fainting}}: The emotional and exhaustion versions happen to PJ frequently. The former happens most often when he realizes he just suffered horribly in vain or as shock responses, while the latter typically happens to show just how hard he works, willingly or otherwise. Oddly, despite filling the role where it is likely to occur and fainting frequently for other reasons, he doesn't ever fall victim to the girly man faint.

* RealityEnsues: Public officials are not so stupid that they won't be able to tell something fishy is going on when the house supposedly using tons of water during a drought looks like a desert, while the house next door looks like a tropical rainforest.

* OutOfOrder: Toon Disney and other syndicated channels aired the two-part pilot as episodes 33 and 34--giving the odd effect of having people who have known each other forever meet and learn about each other, and having Pete [[AesopAmnesia (briefly)]] learn about a problem with his habitual behavior in the "first" episode. This syndicated order was carried over to the DVD box set.

* 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.

** "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, indites Pete for mail fraud and running a scam, and sentences him to the same cell that Goofy was occupying.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Happens quite a bit, usually once an episode, done with brief moving background shots.

** 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. He also has almost no patience for Max being rude to him before pranking him, while he's ordinarily very tolerant.

* AlliterativeName and 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.
* AmusingInjuries: A staple. It's unlikely for [[TheChewToy Pete]] to go an episode without incurring at least a couple, and the other main characters aren't all that far behind.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: The characters sometimes initially don't believe in an episode's fantastic element, despite finding other fantastic elements in other episodes without commenting on it. The ghosts in "Hallow-Weenies" and the NotSoImaginaryFriend in "Pistolgeist" are examples of the former, while the magic hat in "Talent to the Max" and the horns in "Dr. Horatio's Magic Orchestra" are examples of the latter. Goofy in a FurryConfusion joke says "I didn't know dogs could talk", but even if we assume that [[FurryDenial the characters are as human as they claim]], the bears in "You Camp Take It with You", the shark in "Cabana Fever", and the ducks in "Goofs of a Feather" ''can'' talk, and no one cares. It doesn't help that in some episodes like "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime" and "Midnight Movie Madness", the characters ''should'' have been skeptical but aren't.

** Everyone in "Wrecks, Lies and Video Tape", when they try to convince Pete to stop being a jerk.

* BadToTheLastDrop: Tasmanian Tar Roast Coffee in "Close Encounters of the Weird Mime" has no noticeable caffeine intensity, but is able to shatter the mug it's in and erode the ground. Peg bought 50 pounds of it because it was on sale.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: In "Window Pains" all three adult characters fall from a great height. Pete is in a full-body cast, Goofy has both legs in casts all the way up, and Peg... has her arm in a sling.

* ContinuityNod: "Goodbye Mr. Goofy" makes an allusion to the pilot when Goofy said he and Max would be "going back to the trailer." One of the few in the series, but the [[OutOfOrder syndication order]] opted to [[ViewersAreGoldfish show the pilot right before it]].

* 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 that happens without in-universe justification in "Axed by Addition."

* {{Fainting}}: The emotional and exhaustion versions happen to PJ frequently. The former happens most often when he realizes he just suffered horribly in vain or as shock responses, while the latter typically happens to show just how hard he works, willingly or otherwise. Oddly, despite fulfilling the role where it is likely to occur and fainting frequently for other reasons, he doesn't ever fall victim to the girly man faint.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Mr. Sludge's employee in "A Goof of the People" is named Melvin but his boss constantly forgets and calls him by different names that start with M,

** Outside of the main cast Spud and Wally also fulfill this role when they show up, though they are minor enough it's not very clear what their roles are, but it appears to follow the show's standard "fat guy is straight(er) man" pattern.

** Outside of the main cast, ThoseTwoBadGuys Spud and Wally also fulfill this role when they show up, though they are minor enough it's not very clear what their roles are, but it appears to follow the show's standard "fat guy is straight(er) man" pattern.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Spud and Wally, the crooks who show up in "O, R-V, I N-V U", "Nightmare on Goof Street", and "The Good, The Bad, and the Goofy" to cause trouble for the main cast while bantering with each other.

** One of the things Goofy lists finding in his trunk in the Christmas special is Literature/{{green eggs and ham}}.

The show was animated by 9 different studios: Walt Disney Australia (24 eps), Sunwoo, South-Korea (17 eps), Kennedy, Canada (15 eps), Wang, Taiwan (9 eps), Walt Disney Japan (5 eps), Walt Disney France (5 eps), Guimaraes, Portugal (2 eps), Freelance, New-Zealand (1 ep), and Moving Images, Philippines (1 ep).

** Walt Disney Japan was the only studio to draw PJ with large buck teeth. The other studios either downplayed this visual trait or removed them entirely and gave PJ human-style teeth.

* 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, pretend I didn't say that."

* LaserGuidedKarma: Pete is punished by the universe for every transgression without fail, unless the people he harmed take revenge on him, even if it doesn't necessarily happen in the same episode. "Fool's Gold" makes it explicit with a BoltOfDivineRetribution, while "Unreal Estate" had Dutch {{lampshade}} it before bargaining with him.