Goofy shows he can’t handle fatherhood or housework alone.
All right Goofy junior is now school aged, although he doesn’t
go to school because it’s Saturday, and Goofy has to care for him and the house
while his mother goes out for some unspecified reason. When I was younger I enjoyed the bad driving
jokes, because I thought they were specific to the character of Goofy’s
wife. However, now that I’m older and know
that the bad driving is supposed to be a crack at all women that charm has
seriously worn off. Oh, well at least I
can enjoy the adultery running gag since I’m old enough to get that too.
I like the overall pace of this short as the mishaps start
small like spilled milk that Goofy lets the cat clean up and slowly escalate
until the house is filled with smoke, firemen, and police. I love Goofy getting distracted by the melodramatic
radio show, and the slapstick of him getting the washing all over the
yard. It’s totally cliché in that Goofy
is the buffoon father who can’t do anything right, but as I said the pacing
works and I love seeing things like the car, the radio, and the washing machine,
because it’s not the 50’s anymore and all that stuff has changed over the
decades. It’s neat to see how everyday
things used to look, at least in animated form.
So I like this short.
Sure the plot has been done to death and the women driving jokes totally
date it and leave a sour taste, but the pacing is good, a lot of the other gags
are funny, and I just love the look of 50’s Disney suburbia.
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