He’s actually really versatile and has had a hell of a career, looking at it, moving between TV and voice acting pretty frequently. He was also Kovu in “The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride”, and does a lot of video game VA work, too. He spent the ’90s on Fox’s “Peter Pan and the Pirates” as the voice of Peter, JT’s friend Rich on “Step By Step” (a minor rule that soon led to him dating the Dana character, but I don’t know that off the top of my head because I never watched that show every week, shut up I didn’t). Though really, his lie was WAY over the top, even for something he came up with off the top of his head.Ībout the Performer: Jason Marsden (unrelated to James) was a Child Actor who played a few minor roles, like “General Hospital” and Eddie Munster in a “Munsters” remake, then got a lot of Disney work. Though generally, being a teenager, both are semi-believable plot turns, since teens are dicks. THEN, he could have basically told Roxanne the truth about the fishing trip, rather than making up a big story to impress her. First off, he could have explained to his dad what happened at school, or that he had a date with a girl (to avoid going on the fishing trip). It’s funny to think about how much could have been avoided in this film had Max not been an idiot. Max is a straight-up JERK sometimes, and closes off from his dad repeatedly. ![]() So there’s a lot that any teenager could identify with here- he’s actually one of the few cartoon teens I’ve ever seen who so masters the “unbearable burden on any social occasion”-ness of teens- most are rebellious in a whiny way (Ariel), or more generally curious/naiive/weird. In “A Goofy Movie”, he’s morphed into your typical bitter, cynical teen who thinks his dad is an idiot (okay, he’s pretty much right, there), obsesses over a girl, and gets picked on by the kids at school (he has his lunch taken, he’s threatened by another, and generally everyone disrespects him and laughs at him). Max was kind of a generic character in Goof Troop, doing a bit of the scheming and lying, but generally fitting a “normal kid” character archetype. Farmer is a fairly “old-school” Voice Actor, doing numerous characters that don’t sound alike, such as performing Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, and Foghorn Leghorn in “Space Jam”. He, Tony Anselmo (Donald Duck), Wayne Allwine (Mickey) and Russi Taylor (Minnie) all started at around the same time, as I guess the old actors were getting old. ![]() And it’s funny how Goofy maintains a bit of dignity considering how common it is to see one of the original “Dopey Dad” archetypes (before that became the default father character in every piece of media, ever)- you can see that he genuinely loves his kid, and wants what’s best for him- he’s just a little “off”.Ībout the Performer: Bill Farmer has been playing Goofy since 1987, and otherwise works as a comedian. It was in this tradition that Goof Troop was formed, making him the clownish dad to “Goofy Jr.”, now known as Max. ![]() He was a general clown in the old Disney shorts, but the 1950s saw different sides to him- that of a Family Man or a “How To” Guidesman, generally always getting hit in the ass on the way. Goofy (the last name is implied to be Goofey on the intergenerational map, but most people just call Max “The Goof Boy” and the like, and other canon says it’s “Goof”) is one of Walt Disney’s longest-standing characters, that of the incompetent dumbass.
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