The BEST episodes directed by Jack Kinney
#1 - How to Be a Sailor
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1944 - Episode 2
A history of sailing through the ages; from a prehistoric Goofy using a log, through the Age of Sail ("iron men, wooden ships") and on to modern times.
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#2 - How to Be a Detective
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 17
Goofy is hired to solve a mystery of a missing "Al." He searches the city for clues, but constantly runs into a city sheriff (who is portrayed by Pete) who tells him to let the police handle it. A car chase occurs and the drivers ram into a haystack. It turns out that Al is actually the city sheriff who is supposed to get married to the woman who hires Goofy to find him.
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#3 - Father's Day Off
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 1
Mrs. Goofy leaves for the day leaving the house in the hands of her husband, Goofy. Goofy is confident that he can handle the day's household chores but he keeps making typical goof-ups while attempting them. His first mistake is sending Junior to school on a Saturday. At first, he just makes small blunders but, of course, they keep escalating to the point where his house is flooded, scribbled on, set on fire, invaded by firemen and policemen alike, and, basically, an utter disaster area when the wife returns.
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#4 - Motor Mania
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 10
Goofy plays Mr. Walker: a kind hearted soul until he gets behind the wheel of his car and, like Dr. Jekyll turning into Mr. Hyde, he becomes Mr. Wheeler and his personality completely changes.
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#5 - Two Weeks Vacation
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 15
After several long days at work, Goofy finally takes a much needed vacation. However, his trip never quite gets off the ground mainly because he spends most of it stuck behind a slow moving trailer. When he gets a flat tire, the mechanic inspects every part of his car except the tire. The only motel he can find is a little shack too close to a railroad track. On the road once more, he gets stuck behind said trailer again only to pass it and discover no one is driving it.
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#6 - Home Made Home
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 5
Goofy builds his dream home; a job that was probably better left to the professionals.
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#7 - Hello Aloha
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 4
Goofy lives out the working-man's dream of walking away from his job and moving to a tropical island paradise.
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#8 - The Art of Skiing
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1941 - Episode 16
Goofy teaches us how to ski; sometimes forward, sometimes backwards, but one way or another he makes it down the mountain.
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#9 - Get Rich Quick
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 13
Goofy tries to win big at gambling; a habit his wife has a major problem with until he brings home the bacon.
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#10 - Der Fuehrer's Face
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1943 - Episode 1
A German ""oom-pah"" band parades through town extolling the ""virtues"" of the Fuehrer with the title song. They awaken Donald Duck who has to go to work in a Nazi munitions factory, much to his regret. Luckily in the end, after a frantic workday trying to alternate between making bombs and saluting Hitler, he finds that it has all been a nightmare and that he is still living the the good old U.S.A. Der Fuehrer's Face won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons.
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#11 - The Olympic Champ
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1942 - Episode 14
An overview of the Olympic Games, with demonstrations of the various games by Goofy.
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#12 - How to Fish
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1942 - Episode 18
Goofy demonstrates yet another pasttime, fishing. His demonstrated skill fails to explain where all the trophies mounted in his study came from.
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#14 - Baggage Buster
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1941 - Episode 6
Goofy is given a deceptively simple job : put a magicians trunk on an incoming train. Unfortunately for him, the trunk seems to have a mind (and a life!) of its own.
#15 - The Art of Self Defense
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1941 - Episode 18
Goofy defends himself through a history of the manly arts through the ages.
#16 - Chips Ahoy
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1956 - Episode 1
Chip 'n' Dale find an acorn heaven on an island in the middle of a pond. But they need to borrow Donald's ship in a bottle to get there.
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#17 - Two Gun Goofy
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 8
Bandit Pistol Pete enters a lawless western town and robs a bank. The town is in desperate need of a sheriff. Enter wandering cowboy Goofy who notices a pretty girl being held up in a stagecoach robbery by Pete. Lovestruck and completely oblivious to Pete, he foils the robbery while getting to know the girl better. This earns him a reputation as a great gunslinger and he is challenged to apprehend Pete. Pete tries to get his revenge on Goofy but every attempt backfires due to Goofy's clumsiness usually directed unintentionally at Pete.
#18 - Goofy's Glider
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1940 - Episode 12
Goofy learns to fly with his own homemade glider; but he has to try any number of ways to gain enough speed to get it off the ground.
#19 - How to Play Baseball
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1942 - Episode 12
Everything you've always wanted to know about baseball, with Goofy as all 18 players.
#20 - How to Swim
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1942 - Episode 15
An educational treatise on swimming and diving, as only Goofy can teach us how.
#21 - Duck Pimples
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 9
Donald's over-active imagination is inspired by scary stories on the radio and in books.
#22 - Tennis Racquet
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 9
A tennis match between Goofy and Goofy, with Goofy spectators, a Goofy announcer, and a Goofy groundskeeper tending the court during the match.
#23 - Goofy Gymnastics
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 11
Goofy tries a gymnastics course in order to beat fatigue at the end of the work day.
#24 - Victory Vehicles
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1943 - Episode 8
Goofy demonstrates different modes of transportation for wartime travel.
#25 - The Brave Engineer
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 4
A fanciful resetting of the tale of Casey Jones who, through all sorts of dangers and trials, always brings his train in on time (at least, what's left of it.)
#26 - The Lone Chipmunks
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 3
Chip 'n' Dale in the old west, trying to bring in Black Pete for a $10,000 reward.
#27 - Pigs is Pigs
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 4
Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
#28 - Casey Bats Again
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 5
Casey comes to the plate again, this time as the manager of a team comprised of his nine daughters who manage to win despite Casey's leadership.
#29 - Lion Down
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 1
Goofy plans a relaxing day at rest, but he needs a second tree at his penthouse apartment to hang his hammock. So, he brings one back from the forest only to find it includes a mountain lion who wants some rest as well.
#30 - Cold Storage
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 3
In the dead of winter, Pluto has to fight a stork who has taken over his nice warm doghouse.
#31 - Tomorrow We Diet!
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 10
Goofy tries to lose weight by dieting, but has problems with his mirror talking back to him.
#32 - Fathers Are People
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 15
Goofy experiences the ups and downs of trying to be a father.
#33 - No Smoking
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 17
Goofy tries a number of ways to give up smoking.
#34 - Lion Around
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 2
Donald's nephews disguise themselves as a mountain lion to scare Donald, when a real mountain lion comes wandering along.
#35 - Donald's Diary
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 2
Donald finds out what happens when his dreams come true and he finally gets married to Daisy.
#36 - Father's Lion
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 1
Goofy teaches his son the finer points of camping out, with a mountain lion in hot pursuit.
#37 - Man's Best Friend
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 6
Goofy buys a pet dog (Bowser) and has trouble training it. As Bowser gets bigger, he becomes a larger problem, angering the neighbors. Goofy goes out for the night, and Bowser proves not to be much of a guard dog until Goofy comes home and tries to get in.
#38 - Teachers Are People
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 10
As the narrator explains, educating children is one of the most important things today and the heroic man who takes on this role is "the school teacher" (Goofy, naturally). After taking role call, Goofy tries to teach the class but keeps having to deal with a mischievous trouble-maker named George who enjoys sneaking out of class to go fishing, eating the teacher's apple, squeaking chalk, making faces while teacher gives a geography lesson, and terrorizing the other students with his water pistol. In the end, George's mischief goes too far when he destroys the school with an exploding bomb and is forced to write "I will not bomb the school again" 100 times!
#39 - Bone Trouble
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1940 - Episode 6
An empty dog dish is all that awaits Pluto when he gets up in the morning, so he tries to steal a bone from the dog next door.
#40 - For Whom the Bulls Toil
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 3
Goofy, driving through Mexico, deals with a stubborn bull on the road who eventually charges, and Goofy unwittingly subdues the bull. Mexicans who are watching the scene believe that Goofy is "the great Matador" and the minute Goofy arrives in Mexico City, they dress him like a matador and make him do battle with another bull. The reluctant Goofy tries to escape the enormous bull although after a while, once again, he triumphs over the bull by accident.
#41 - Father's Weekend
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 6
Goofy plays everyman again. He's an average working joe who demonstrates "the up on time/work on time/bed on time" routine while going from work to home every weekday. On Saturday night, however, he parties it up and attempts to get some rest the next Sunday but with his son around, it's impossible. He insists Dad take him to the beach and, although Goofy refuses, he ends up going anyway where he gets into all sorts of trouble mainly as the result of chasing his son all over the place. Worse yet, when he leaves, he falls victim to the world's biggest traffic jam. As a result of all this, he is relieved to go back to work the following week!
#42 - How to Dance
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 7
A history of the dance, from primitive man down to modern times shows that man maybe hasn't progressed as far as he thinks he has.
#43 - Football (Now and Then)
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 9
The merits of how football as played in the past and how it is currently played are argued about by a grandfather and his grandson.
#44 - How to Sleep
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 14
Goofy falls asleep everywhere - at work, in the car - everywhere except when his head hits the pillow at night.
#45 - How to Play Golf
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1944 - Episode 4
An analysis of the game of golf, the Goofy way.
#46 - Tiger Trouble
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 1
Tiger hunting in Africa with Goofy as a reluctant Great White Hunter.
#47 - African Diary
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 5
Akin to the earlier short "Tiger Trouble", this time Goofy's game is rhinoceros.
#48 - Californy 'er Bust!
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 7
Goofy takes a covered wagon on the overland trail to California.
#49 - Hockey Homicide
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 12
A hockey game concentrating on the finer points of "sportsmanship" as both players and spectators get into the fight.
#50 - Hold That Pose
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 16
Goofy finds a new hobby to while away his free time : photography. And what better subject for the amateur photographer than nature? Ask a cantankerous grizzly bear, who doesn't seem to appreciate Goofy's attempts to get him to pose.