The BEST episodes written by Dick Kinney

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 12

In a switch from "Tiger Trouble" and "African Diary," this time Donald plays the great white hunter, going after the "wild man of the jungle," Goofy.

#8 - Cold War

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 7

Goofy is attacked by a cold virus.

#9 - 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.

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - 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.)

#14 - 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.

#15 - Fathers Are People

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 15

Goofy experiences the ups and downs of trying to be a father.

#16 - Food for Feudin'

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 12

A feud begins when Pluto wants to hide his bones in the same tree where Chip 'n' Dale store their acorns.

#17 - 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.

#18 - No Smoking

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 17

Goofy tries a number of ways to give up smoking.

#19 - 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.

#20 - 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.

#21 - Social Lion

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 8

A lion decides to get a taste of civilization by letting himself be captured.

#22 - Jack and Old Mac

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1956 - Episode 4

A two-part short; the first part a telling of "The House that Jack Built", the second, a hillbilly family sings the song "Old MacDonald" as "Old MacDonald Had a Band."

#23 - A Cowboy Needs a Horse

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1956 - Episode 6

A young boy dreams of life as a cowboy, mending fences, fighting off indians, and "riding ... riding along."

#24 - Red Riding Hoodlum

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 2

Knothead and Splinters, Woody Woodpecker's nephews, are reading "Little Red Riding Hood" and are requested to deliver a bag of goodies to Grandma in the forest. They meet a wolf, who takes a short-cut to Grandmas, but Slinters and Knothead take an even shorter cut and get there before him. After the get through wearing him out, Grandma decides the wolf is a good prospect for matrimony and drags him off to the altar.

#25 - The Unbearable Salesman

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 6

Knothead and Splinter, sitting on Woody Woodpecker's knee, ask Woody to tell them how he acquired his bearskin rug. So Woody starts: "Once upon a time...

#26 - International Woodpecker

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 7

Woody Woodpecker helps his nephews, Knothead and Splinter, in their studies of Woodpecker History, by telling them how he figured in the cave-man era, and Greece, and was responsible for making the Lean Tower of Pisa lean, and also for discovering America. They then take off for a picnic on the moon, via Woody's rocket-ship.

#27 - 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.

#28 - Careless Caretaker

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 9

Smedley's the caretaker of Greenleaf Park, a job that he likes very much because he cares for all the trees, and he just loves trees. He suddenly is distressed, however, to find Woody Woodpecker pecking away at Gertrude, the oldest tree in the park.

#29 - No Sail

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 11

Goofy and Donald go sailing in a coin operated rented boat, but have to deal with sharks when they run out of nickles.

#30 - Stowaway Woody

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1963 - Episode 6

Woody flies onto a Hawaii-bound ocean liner, causing havoc for a captain and his dog. The ship's dog tries to catch him, with no luck.

#31 - Niagara Fools

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 11

Woody Woodpecker visits Niagara Falls---on the Canadian and American side both, according to some viewers---and asks about going over the famous falls in a barrel which the guard tells him it is forbidden, which immediately makes Woody decide to do it, anyway. Woody uses everything BUT a ladder in his attempts, and the guard prevents him going over several times, but the guard winds up in a barrel and goes over himself. Woody, dressed as a policeman, is awaiting him at the bottom to give him a ticket for breaking the law.

#32 - Plumber of Seville

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 3

Hercules, a small, bulbous-nosed plumber, receives a note saying he must "fix leak at Carnegie Hall". He arrives but, unfortunately, on the same night, various musical pieces are being conducted and, while Hercules noisily repairs the leaky pipe, manages to disrupt the concert in no uncertain terms. To make matters worse, he has wine with lunch, gets drunk, and falls in love with the female harp player. Finally, he fixes the pipe and presents the conductor with his enormous bill. The conductor throws him out where the harp player catches him and drives off to the park so they can continue "pitching woo".

#33 - The Goofy Gardener

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 9

Herman, a gardener employed at a ritzy estate lets nothing divert him from his gardening chores, and continues to perform them in the midst of a big, outdoor party being held on the grounds by the owner. Herman them blames the host for all the mistakes, mishaps and problems the guest have to endure.

#34 - 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.

#35 - The Bongo Punch

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 15

#36 - Room and Bored

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 4

Woody decides to make a home in a telephone pole where he encounters Smedley, a lineman determined to stop his company's property from trespass.

#37 - Robin Hoody Woody

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1963 - Episode 4

The evil king is busy counting his money. Woody and his Merry Men are dancing in Sherwood Forest. The old king's tax money comes up short because of Woody and his men. The king challenges Woody to a duel. The king uses cannonballs; Woody uses apple pies. The King is so angry that he starts throwing bags of money at Woody.

#38 - Fowled-Up Birthday

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 5

The first in a series of "Beary Family" cartoons, Walter Lantz's last original cartoon series. Bessie Beary, wife of Charlie Beary, introduces us to the family which also includes son, Junior, daughter, Suzy, and pet, Goose, which, as Bessie explains, does not get along with Charlie. The story which unfolds explains why. It was Suzy's birthday and Charlie went to get a goose for her birthday supper. Unfortunately, Suzy thought the goose was intended as a pet and untied it leaving Charlie at its mercy. Goose settles into the family unit although Charlie declares, "Someday I'm gonna cook that goose!"

#39 - The Tenant's Racket

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1963 - Episode 13

#40 - Chip an' Dale

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 15

Chip 'n' Dale's house is being chopped down by a snowbound Donald for firewood, along with their store of nuts!

#41 - 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.

#42 - Mother's Little Helper

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 10

Bessie Beary complains she is tired of always having to do the housework. Charlie offers to take care of things while she goes to the beauty parlor. Bessie, with good reason, does not trust Charlie and advises Goose to keep an eye out. Sure enough, Charlie does his chores as sloppily as possible leaving Goose to head over to the beauty parlor to tattle to Bessie who berates Charlie over the phone. Charlie soon discovers what a snitch Goose is and tries to "close that big beak".

#43 - 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!

#44 - Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1940 - Episode 12

No dogs are allowed on Pete's train, so Mickey tries to smuggle Pluto aboard with a variety of disguises.

#45 - Doc's Last Stand

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 19

Doc and Champ run a travelling store, a wagon of goods which they pull into an Indian reservation, "Scalpum Village". They succeed in selling goods to the various Indians but one lovesick Indian requires female companionship... and will pay big money for it. Not one to pass up a quick buck, Doc decides to disguise Champ as a female Indian.

#46 - Up a Tree

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1955 - Episode 5

Chip 'n' Dale once again try to save their tree home from lumberjack Donald. Donald, in return, shows us how many ways he can fall of the side of a tree.

#47 - 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.

#48 - 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!

#49 - 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.

#50 - 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.