Goofy Gymnastics
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{{Infobox film
| name = Goofy Gymnastics
| image = Goofy Gymnastics.jpg
| caption =
| director = Jack Kinney
| animator = John Sibley
Wolfgang Reitherman
Ed Aardal
Dan MacManus
| story = Dick Kinney
| starring = Pinto Colvig (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher (uncredited)
| narrator = John McLeish (uncredited)
| music = Oliver Wallace
| layout_artist = Al Zinnen
| background_artist = Merle Cox
| producer = Walt Disney
| studio = Walt Disney Productions
| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1949|09|23|U.S.}}
| color_process = Technicolor
| runtime = 6:30 (one reel)
| language = English
}}
Goofy Gymnastics is a Goofy cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures on September 23, 1949.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/86/mode/2up |pages=86–87}}
Plot
Goofy enters home tired after a hard day at work. Exhausted, he suddenly notices an exercise advertisement in his newspaper. He orders gymnastics equipment and with the aid of an instruction record he tries out using the barbells, the chin-up bars and cable expanders, all of which meet with disastrous results. Goofy destroys the floors of his apartment in the process and flies out of the window before he is swung back against the muscular chart of his equipment. While he stands behind the cardboard muscular man he is glad that he finally resembles a muscular man.
Legacy
Goofy Gymnastics is one of Goofy's most popular and famous cartoons. The cartoon is also shown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) during the scene where Roger and Eddie hide in a cinema. Roger Rabbit laughs out loud with the cartoon, praises Goofy's timing and finesse and claims he is a "genius". However, this is an anachronism, since Who Framed Roger Rabbit is set in 1947, while Goofy Gymnastics was released in 1949. This cartoon was also shown in September 2002 as part of the "Salute to Sports" episode of House of Mouse.
Voice cast
Home media
The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy{{cite web |title=The Complete Goofy DVD Review|url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/completegoofy.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=20 February 2021}} and on the "Walt Disney's Classic Cartoon Favorites Extreme Sports Fun" Volume 5. It was released to Disney+ on July 7, 2023.{{cite web|url=https://d23.com/disney-to-debut-28-restored-classic-walt-disney-animation-studios-shorts/|title=Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts|author=The D23 Team|work=D23|date=June 19, 2023|accessdate=June 19, 2023}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100310121051/http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1949/goofygymnastics.html Disney Shorts information]
- {{IMDb title|0041421}}
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Category:1940s Disney animated short films
Category:Goofy (Disney) short films
Category:Films directed by Jack Kinney
Category:Films produced by Walt Disney
Category:Films scored by Oliver Wallace
Category:1949 animated short films
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