Episode Transcript
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Today or tonight is guys night and we're talking about one the most underrated movies in all of Disney, nay, all of film, a goofy movie. So join us as we unlock the magic of this true Disney classic. Now let's jump into the episode because the magic starts right now.
Good. Clap right there. All right. Welcome Mouse Ears Universe.
I am back. Guess who's back. Back again. Brooks is back. Tell a friend, guess who's back. Guess who's. I don't want to get copyrighted. I am one of your wonderful hosts tonight, Brooks. And with me is my partner in crime, the other half of guy's night, defunkle himself.
Kelton. Kelton, how are you doing?
[00:01:49] Speaker B: Hey, Brooks. I am. I'm happy to have you back. It's good to be back.
[00:01:54] Speaker A: I have missed you all.
[00:01:54] Speaker B: It really is.
We have missed you big time. And I think I have really missed y'all. I'm telling you, I mean, if I.
[00:02:05] Speaker A: Had a choice between being on here and working overtime, I would rather be on here. So.
[00:02:13] Speaker B: Absolutely. I mean, you know, this is just.
This beats working overtime any day of the week.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: Week, month, year, does not matter. That's right.
But before we dive into today's episode, which I am truly excited about, today's episode is one of our favorite parts of the whole process, trivia.
Kelton, I know you're a little froggy in the throat. Do you want me to take the trivia?
[00:02:51] Speaker B: No, I got it. I'll do it.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:02:52] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, it's a. It's been a long week, but I see if I can get through the trivia here without having to, you know, hack up along for all of our listeners. But as always, today's trivia question is brought to us by the fabulous sponsors, Fairy Tale Journeys Travel. Next time you want to book a Disney cruise, let the agents at Fairytale Journeys take care of all the details for a stress free experience at no extra cost to you. When you book with them, not only do you get expert advice, but you can also receive up to $1,000 of onboard credit. This offer is exclusive to bookings made with ftj, so contact them today and let them know that the podcast sent you so you can enjoy a magical Disney cruise getaway.
So, because tonight we're talking about my favorite movie. Your favorite movie. It should be everybody's favorite movie at this point.
[00:03:58] Speaker A: We're talking about the Country Bears.
[00:03:59] Speaker B: No, I'm kidding.
Still a little sour on that one. But since tonight's theme is a Goofy movie. And then we, you know, we have the documentary Not Just a Goof, that just came out as well on Disney.
So here's today's trivia question, or I should say this episode's trivia question. What famous musicians were the inspiration for the Power Line character? Now, if you did watch Not Just a Goof, you should know this answer. We're not going to give you any hints, but if you don't know it, maybe pause this, go watch, come back. You'll know it by the time Brooks and I are done talking about it.
So the question was, what famous musicians were the inspiration for the Power Line character? Brooks, back to you.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: All right, thank you, Kelton. You're so good at the trivia, let me tell you.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Thank you. Hey, what did you think of my after hours introduction a couple episodes back?
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Well, I loved it.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: I hope. I hope the people did, too.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: I love it.
So, again, yeah, if you haven't figured it out by now, we're doing a. We're doing something a little different here this episode.
Usually we, you know, we're podcasts about all things travel, but mostly Disney.
We're going into a topic that's not really represented that much except for merch. Really? In the parks at all.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: Well, yeah, and this year's a big one.
[00:05:39] Speaker A: Yeah. So we are Talking about the 1995 classic A Goofy Movie.
Now, I grew up watching this movie constantly.
It was, and I would say probably some OG fans that listen to the BB&J podcast. That was a podcast that my brother and I did for a couple of episodes.
One of the episodes we did was our favorite Disney movies.
And at the time, I didn't really think about it, but he had a Goofy movie in his top five.
And I would say, my.
As I've gotten older, my list has changed.
And A Goof, I would say a Goofy movie is just one of those that, I mean, I could watch every.
[00:06:42] Speaker B: Day over and over.
[00:06:44] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. Easily number one, not very long. It is under 80 minutes.
There's. I feel like there are some, like, at, like, episodes on Disney plus now of their series that are longer than this.
[00:07:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: Animated film.
But is one of those that has just.
It's aged very well.
You know, we're. I feel like we're going to rep. We're going to reference the documentary that just came out here recently a lot.
But it's. It's one of those that now I feel like it's starting to get more. Even more of a resurgence because people that watched it when they were kids are now watching it with their children and. Well.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: And that, you know. And that's a very interesting point, especially with, you know, y'all have an Ali. We have Kenny. We've watched it with Kenny a number of times. And I. I sit there and go, oh, man. First off, this is definitely a much shorter movie than the movies they're making now.
But after watching the documentary, because we just finished that just a couple of hours ago after watching the documentary, it's very interesting. I think it's great that Disney put out something like that, telling the backstory on that, because that's stuff that we would never.
You'd never know.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Right?
[00:08:31] Speaker B: I think it's. I think it's great.
[00:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah. And it.
I've always been a fan of the music as well.
Eye to Eye is probably my favorite Disney song, is one that I can get. I listen to, and I instantly get pumped.
I don't know how many times when I ran my half marathon, I don't know how many times I listen to that song.
Whenever I was getting low on energy, I just turn on that song, and all of a sudden I'm like, oh, I'm running again.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: That is the power of music.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: Yes. But, like, even not just. I mean, the two songs that really stand out, pun intended, are Eye to Eye and Stand out, both brilliantly performed by Tevin Campbell.
But I mean, even, like, the other songs in, like, on the Open. On the open Road, Lester's Possum Park, Come on. Which, I mean, until I started listening to the soundtrack, didn't realize there was, like, a whole other verse to that song and everything that's not even featured in the movies.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: It's nuts.
That's a great part of the movie. I love.
[00:09:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: I love Lester's.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: Don't you want to be. Huh. Hanging from a tree, huh. And the parking's always free, which is rare to find this day and age.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: That's true.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: I mean, you stay at A parking everywhere. You stay at a hotel, you pay for parking. I pay for parking to park at work, you know. Yeah, it's for a better parking space. For a guaranteed parking space.
Otherwise I would have to get there like an hour early to fight all the students.
[00:10:28] Speaker B: No, thank you.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: Nope.
And even then we get a little bit of rain and that that lot's flooded.
But then you have the heartfelt song nobody else but you with with Goof and Max just on their car.
So as you can tell, like we it's one that really hits.
But if you have not seen a Goofy movie, what are you doing?
Why are you listening to us? It's the one time I would say go, stop listening to us. Go watch it and then come back.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Make sure to come back.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: Yeah, one of my co workers today, I was talking about, we were going to be talking about Goofy movies. She was like, you know, I have never watched that. I looked to her, I looked at her, I'm like, well, I know what you're doing tonight, so Lori, you better have watched a Goofy movie. But little synopsis.
A Goofy Movie is a 1995American animated musical comedy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, directed by Kevin Lima, which he also went on to direct another movie with incredible music, Tarzan.
The film is based on the Disney afternoon television series Goof Troop and serves as a standalone spin off to the show. Taking place three years after the events of Goof Troop, the film follows Goofy and his now teenage son Max as they embark on a misguided cross country father son fishing trip across the United States.
[00:12:22] Speaker B: Misguided was a great way to put that.
[00:12:24] Speaker A: Yeah, it. I mean, number one, like Goofy must have some amazing PTO to be able to just that afternoon, across the country, that afternoon, just. You know what? I'm gonna go on a camping trip with my son and his boss too. Pete was able to just do the exact same thing.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Anybody else jealous of the.
I don't even know the right word to put it, but it was a glamper I'll call it. When they pull up in the national forest and poor, poor Goofy and Max are, you know, in the tent and here comes Pete and some, you know, 57 foot monster of a motorhome. Bowling alley.
[00:13:14] Speaker A: I was gonna say with the bowling alley.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: What else do we have? Oh, the huge satellites and all the cables running around and then the patio. Doesn't it? I think it falls like right on top of Goofy's support. You know, Goofy's just a dad that's trying like the rest of us in America.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: So.
But. And.
And then also, like, whenever they're Goofy and Max are in that hotel and he like, oh, it's just a little tiny cord.
So. But again, it's a movie that has aged well growing up. Relate. You could relate to Max. You know, you're just wanting to do your own thing, live your own life, right? And then now as an adult and more so as a parent, you're like, you just want to hold on and cherish each moment. Literally when at one point, when they're having the fight, I'm not a little boy anymore. He's like, yeah, but you're my little boy. I remember having that exact same conversation with my dad.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: That one.
That one hurt. And all I could do, I just picked up Kenny and I hugged him.
Because they grow up fast.
[00:14:37] Speaker A: So I do. I do that with aliens.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: She'll be like, no, no. And they just scream and start to, you know, wiggle.
[00:14:44] Speaker A: And you're just like, you'd. You don't understand. Just. I'm going to hold you tighter.
[00:14:49] Speaker B: That's right. Should we. You want to talk a little bit about the. The documentary?
[00:14:54] Speaker A: Sure. So what kind of sparked all this is the documentary that was just released on April 7th on Disney plus, not just a goof.
It actually premiered at Doc Land's Documentary Film Festival on May 4th. Be with you and I'll see you 2024. And then it was released on Disney on April 7th, 2025. Exactly 30 years.
Doesn't that make you feel old? After a Goofy movie. Excuse me. After a Goofy movie was released.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: It'll be okay, Brooks. I promise we'll make it through this episode.
It's going to be rough.
[00:15:43] Speaker A: But before we get into talking about the documentary, which actually was longer than the movie itself, the movie itself, one thing too that I saw someone talking about, and I'm like, I completely forgot about that part.
If you had the vhs, which I definitely did, you. You had previews before movie. Nowadays you can just start. You start the movie right up.
But it had.
It had this music video that have really, absolutely nothing to do with the Goofy movie.
But it was Dr. Looney's remedy.
And it's just this crazy. If you have a chance, look it up. A Parachute express, song called Dr. Looney's Remedy on their video. Apparently they had a video called Come Sing with Us. I guess they did a bunch of songs and they picked the Dr. Looney's remedy to put. To put on that.
[00:17:03] Speaker B: Well, that's interesting.
[00:17:06] Speaker A: So. But.
Oh, did you ever See that music video?
[00:17:12] Speaker B: I did not. I mean, now.
[00:17:14] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:17:15] Speaker B: So. But now you do have to remember 1995, actually, I was. When the movie came out, April 7th, I was three, because my birthday actually falls just a couple of days, you know, past that.
So I don't remember too much probably until the late, you know, 1998, 1999, when I really start remembering stuff. But I do remember watching it on vhs.
So I don't remember the music video in the beginning.
[00:17:46] Speaker A: It's just this kind of crate. We'll pull it up later. But it's just one of these crazy music videos.
[00:17:55] Speaker B: That's awesome.
[00:17:56] Speaker A: But with the documentary, I didn't realize kind of how close this movie probably was from not being released at all.
[00:18:09] Speaker B: So it's funny that you, you know, you mentioned something like that, because it.
We had the Lion King that released the year before, which, of course, we all know did fantastic. And then the unfortunateness with, you know, Jeffrey Katzenberg getting axed by Eisner. I would love first. I would love to know what happened there, you know, because throughout the documentary, I mean, so we saw in the beginning on how everything was coming together, which I thought was absolutely crazy. I mean, they had an $18 million budget, which in the 90s had to have been, you know, outrageous. But when you're hand drawing every single.
[00:18:57] Speaker A: Compared. I would say compared to other movies is not huge.
[00:19:05] Speaker B: No, it's. It's not.
[00:19:06] Speaker A: And, you know, in comparison, the Lion King had a $45 million budget.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: So almost a third of the money. And it. They were trying to see if they could. If they can make, you know, a popular movie with not spending that much money, which.
[00:19:29] Speaker B: So you almost have to look at it. So I kind of understand where, you know, where Jeffrey Katzberg was kind of coming from throughout the documentary, when they're talking, you know, they're showing them the storyboards and then, you know, making the different, you know, screen recordings and things and talking how it was just different.
Think of all the movies before this one. How, you know, there was always a villain, there was a parent that was no longer there type of thing. This was completely new to the Disney company. And it was just, you know, we going from a goof troop in the kind of goofy. You know, that's not the right word, but not really fumbling either. He's just kind of a different character to having a, you know, being a father and trying to do good by his son and all. It's just a very different. Different movie than what Disney was making. At the time.
So I don't. I don't know what they were trying, you know, like what the upper leaders in, you know, Walt Disney Imagine Animation were thinking, you know, trying to a. This movie. Because I, I man, it. It just. It was kill. And I don't know what happened or why it took so long to become as popular as it is now. I mean, I'd love to know.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:15] Speaker B: Went a little off topic from the documentary there.
[00:21:19] Speaker A: Well, I mean, I feel like it's exactly.
I feel like it's right on topic, especially if we're talking about the documentary.
Because, like, I mean, number one, like, usually they were.
They had like four or five years for an animated movie. They did this in two and a half.
[00:21:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:41] Speaker A: They had a small. They had a smaller team.
They talked about it was mainly animated in.
Yeah. Disney Animation Paris.
So.
But I would say. Yeah, I would say the biggest thing was. And it was really the first. They have not. I feel like they haven't really done it since either. They took one of their core one, the Fab Five that a character that everyone recognizes, but I mean, his name is. Is.
Goes along with just being a goof. A goofball. Like, his name is Goofy and grow. Like, that's how I would describe myself. I'm a Goofy guy.
But it was showing that there's more to these characters.
And like you. You saw it a little bit with Goof Troop, which if you have not seen.
Oh, those, those Disney Afternoon number one. Amazing, amazing. Intro music My father, My son. Oh, man.
But it took a character and gave them layers and you know, I think they said at one point, try to almost try to create a John Hughes film in animation because like you said, they did something different.
It wasn't a two, like, it wasn't the character taking on a bad guy and everything. It was.
It's really just a father and son taking a trip like these.
[00:23:41] Speaker B: You know, Goofy makes those memories.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah, Goofy and Max do some heavy lifting in this film.
But not only that, the, like the, the actors themselves, like taking, you know, the voice of Goofy. He's been in voice for years. Bill Farmer. Amazing being able to.
And this is something that is amazing to me with voice actors being able to take that voice, but then also create that feeling and that emotion while being in that voice. Like, you can tell that every person in this movie put their heart and soul into it. And I feel like that's part of why it stood. It has stood the test of time.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Bill Farmer truly is Goofy. There will when the Unfortunate time comes, there will be no more goofy in my eyes. Jason Marsden is Max.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: You know, Jim Cummings is just a plethora of, you know, of characters. Almost the same way as when, you know, when. When you look at Ryan Reynolds, it's Deadpool. That's just how. You know that. That's just how it goes. And it's. It is true. What. And that's what was really cool about the documentary is being able to see, you know, clips of when they. When they do their sound record, when they're recording for the video presentation or the movie presentation to Jeffrey Katzenberg and, like. And having Bill Farmer and Jason Marsden sit there and talk, you know, about their experiences from 30 years ago. And plus, I mean, then look at everybody, like, Bill Farmer.
He's looking really good for being 30 years older. It doesn't look like he's changed very much to begin with.
[00:25:50] Speaker A: But then looking back to some of the names that they had.
Rob Paulson as pj, which he was on Animaniacs as well, and then the principal, it was inconceivable, but the principal, Wallace, Sean, which.
Oh, man, I cannot think. The Sicilian. I cannot think of his name in Princess Bride, but.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: Yeah, that escapes me, too.
[00:26:26] Speaker A: You have not seen the Princess Bride?
[00:26:28] Speaker B: No, I've seen a Princess Bride, but I can't think of the name.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's inconceivable that I cannot think of the name.
[00:26:36] Speaker B: I'm not uncultured. Brooks. Of course I've seen Princess Bride.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Hey, Kelsey had never seen the Princess Bride until I met her, but.
[00:26:46] Speaker B: Well, then you got the. Who is that Jenna Von. Is it? Oi. I don't know how to.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Yeah, Jenna Von. Oi.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: As Stacy. That Stacey.
[00:26:59] Speaker A: Talk to me. Talk to me. Talk to me, baby.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: God, I love it. You know where that. Did you hear where that came from?
That was so. That was in the doc, I think in the documentary.
That line is actually from kind of an R B rap song from the 90s. I mean, Stacy's not the name that they show, but that line. Yeah, it's so. So when as they're sitting in the auditorium getting ready, you know, like, for summer, and it. That kills me. I. I say that to Casey all the time.
I love it. I love that.
[00:27:37] Speaker A: Casey, you say, talk to me, Talk to me. Talk to me, baby.
But it's fun. It's funny that because she voiced Stacy, which at that time she was popular for being on the show Blossom, that that might be before your time.
[00:27:56] Speaker B: I think so.
[00:27:57] Speaker A: So that was a Very popular show in the early 90s. From 1990 to 1995.
Mayhem. Bullock that played Sheldon's wife on Big Bang Theory.
[00:28:12] Speaker B: Amy. Yes.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: Yeah. Amy Farrah Fowler.
That's where she got her big start. That's where she was known from.
But Jenna Von Oy played Blossom's best friend and believe her. And Blossom's brother.
Yeah. Blossom's brother Joey.
Or better known Joey Lawrence.
Yo.
He. He was also. I didn't know this, but he was also in the movie too. Again, that might be a little more. Again, before your time.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: It was.
[00:28:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
If you see. If you see a picture of him, you would know who he is, you know. Do you know the Lawrence brothers?
[00:29:02] Speaker B: Yes, the name sounds familiar.
[00:29:04] Speaker A: He's the oldest one.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: Gotcha.
[00:29:06] Speaker A: Gotcha. But, yeah, like, it's. It's amazing the people that they got to work on this movie getting a young. We talked to him a little bit about him before, but Tevin Campbell, just crushing it as Power Line.
[00:29:23] Speaker B: That was a great pick.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: Yeah. The fact that he.
The way that they found him to just the producer that they were working with with the movie is like, hey.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: I know the guy.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: Yeah. Working with Prince over here.
You know, just. Just be. Just happened to be working with Prince and there's this guy.
And then we also have the backup singers for Prince and one of the feature singers for Prince.
[00:29:53] Speaker B: You know, bring them all in.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: Yeah, we're just bring them all in.
I took Disney in the early 90s, like their music and I say that too with. They have good music now, don't get me wrong.
[00:30:07] Speaker B: And it hits me different.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: Yeah. This may be a hot take for some people. It is not as good as.
I mean, this, like, this movie with eye to eye and stand out.
Like bringing in Elton John for the Lion King.
[00:30:27] Speaker B: How about Phil Collins for Tarzan?
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, Kevin. Kevin Lima has. Has something.
[00:30:34] Speaker B: Yeah, it does it. The music truly hit. I mean, we have. We've got great music now from know. Excuse me. From even all the. The Frozens.
Moana has a killer soundtrack.
Encanto's got a great soundtrack.
I'm even. You know, I'm even fans of.
Oh my gosh. Cars. Wow. I can't believe that escaped me. You know, I'm a huge Rascal Flats fan from. You know. And they're from the. You know, they're the 90s there. So it's all. It's all great music. But there's just something about the music from the earlier you. I'm 100% in agreeance with you there yeah.
[00:31:17] Speaker A: But to me it's interesting too. So the. The director, he was previously an animator.
Worked on. I don't know if you ever saw a Brave Little Toaster.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:31:32] Speaker A: He worked on Oliver and Company. Great music as well.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: Billy Joel.
[00:31:37] Speaker A: Yep. He. He worked on the Little Mermaid. He worked on Rescuers Down Under.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: Come on, let's go.
[00:31:45] Speaker A: Beauty and the Beast. Rover Dangerfield.
[00:31:49] Speaker B: That one. I don't know.
[00:31:50] Speaker A: You know, Ronnie, Ronnie Dangerfield. No respect. No respect.
[00:31:55] Speaker B: Yes. Yes.
[00:31:56] Speaker A: Basically, they made him a dog and then. And then they animated him as a dog. No kidding. He also. But he also worked on Aladdin, the story with Aladdin. And then that's when they brought him in to be.
Help create a goofy movie, which he also voiced Lester. And Lester was your favorite possum. He was also the growling noises for Roxanne's father.
[00:32:29] Speaker B: I kind of understand Roxanne's father a little bit.
[00:32:31] Speaker A: Oh, I definitely do. With my little girl. And then he was the security guard chasing Max, so.
But it's funny that you talked about Frozen, the movie that he next directed Tarzan.
His co director was Christopher Buck, who then became the director for Surf's Up. Frozen. Frozen. Two Wishes God about Surf's Up. Yeah. That's a good movie too. But we're getting off track a little bit.
[00:33:10] Speaker B: Yeah. Should we. Should we kick on over to. Honestly, our favorite movie?
A goofy movie.
[00:33:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:17] Speaker B: Like, so breaking down. I mean, what. We could start with. What's your favorite part of. Like, you actually have to. You gotta pick a favorite part because there's a lot.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. There's a lot to choose from.
[00:33:33] Speaker B: I mean, do you have one off top of your head?
[00:33:36] Speaker A: All the above. No, I'm kidding.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: And it could be a couple, like, so, you know, like one of my.
[00:33:44] Speaker A: Why don't you go first?
[00:33:45] Speaker B: So. Well, first off, you know, Lester's the possum Park. That whole scene is straight.
[00:33:54] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:33:55] Speaker B: Country bear jamboree before the refurb 100%.
And then on top of that, when.
When Bigfoot ends up with the headphones on his head and he's just listening to the disco, he's just kind of like, you know, those are. Of course. And then you can't. You can't forget.
Well, I'll. I'll let you. Because there's. I know there's a couple of good ones that are. And there's one player behind you right now.
[00:34:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the concert.
But when you're talking about Bigfoot, probably one of my favorite parts is this one.
[00:34:30] Speaker B: I love Goofy sitting There with the camera, just asking them to back up a bit.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: It's probably a two pounder.
[00:34:40] Speaker B: Oh.
And then, you know, I mean, I'll.
[00:34:45] Speaker A: I'll say, I'll say this too.
I was a little bit old one. I would say one of my first crushes was probably Roxanne.
[00:34:53] Speaker B: Roxanne. Mine too.
[00:34:55] Speaker A: I mean, she was just something else.
[00:34:59] Speaker B: So.
And then a very, you know, because. So this is where this movie gets a little different from, you know, the, the previous ones that Walt Disney Animation put out.
The sentimentalness between a father and the son. As Bigfoot is sleeping on top of the car.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: And Max hands his dad the empty cup of soup. And there's five letters at the bottom.
And it said. And it spells out, hi, dad. Goofy looks up and Max is curling up in the passenger seat. And I'm just like, oh, done, done.
No more. Can't do it.
[00:35:42] Speaker A: He's gonna be like, dad, why do we have to watch this movie, like in increments?
[00:35:48] Speaker B: I have to cry. Give me just a second.
[00:35:50] Speaker A: It's like number one son. Great use of that word.
[00:35:55] Speaker B: You know, there's a lot, there's a lot of really, you know, very, very creative scenes in this movie.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I mean, I feel like it captures a real relationship between a father and son growing up.
And another movie that I feel like kind of captures like real relationships, but like, is another kind of underrated movie. Onward. Kind of a older brother and a younger brother. That one, I remember seeing that one. And literally after we finish Kelsey turns me, it's like, you need to watch that with your brother because, like, going off a little bit with a Goofy movie, like, growing up, I wasn't the closest with my dad.
We got closer later as I got older, but I was very close with my brother.
And like, when I talk about, like, without Onward, like seeing how the brother was always there for the older brother's there for his younger brother, reminded me a lot of my brother. But with the, with the Goofy movie too, where like, the father is trying to have the relationship with the son and the son is pushing back for a while I did that.
But as I got older, we like, we got a lot closer.
And literally a lot of the stuff that kind of came up in this movie, my father and I had as well. Didn't mean to talk about any of this.
[00:37:55] Speaker B: See, we do get sentimental here on the Mouse Ears podcast. I mean, if you don't every.
[00:37:59] Speaker A: Every guys night.
[00:38:00] Speaker B: Yeah. If you don't believe us, go back to season. I want to Say it's season two and we talk about. I want to say it's our favorite fireworks show and it just goes real serious about wishes.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: Yeah, I was going to say happily ever after. Happy. Happily after versus wishes.
[00:38:17] Speaker B: That. That's the one that was a real serious episode.
[00:38:22] Speaker A: But yeah, the light and I feel like, what again, what makes a Goofy movie timeless? And it's. There are. I mean, again, I love Disney movies, but I feel like there aren't a ton of Disney movies that are. Have aged as well as a Goofy movie has.
[00:38:48] Speaker B: I can agree with you on that, but.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: And it's something that they. That they tried to do and I feel like they succeeded wholeheartedly. They tried to create. They tried to show a real relationship between a father and son and it.
Between the two. And it went from both like the country song. I start walking one way, you start walking mine. We meet in the middle.
They both gave ground to meet in the middle to create that relationship.
[00:39:30] Speaker B: Pretty sure that's a Diamond Rio song.
[00:39:32] Speaker A: Yeah, that's real. That's growing up.
[00:39:38] Speaker B: Yep.
Well, so Max says it. They. They. They say it right when they are on top of.
Of Goofy's car floating down the river. And all Max is saying is how he just wants to kind of build his life on his own.
And Goofy's response was he just wants to be a part of it.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: Right.
[00:40:03] Speaker B: No, he's not trying to hold them back, but just be included.
[00:40:09] Speaker A: Right.
[00:40:10] Speaker B: You know, especially with Max being his only son. I mean, Goofy's just on his own.
[00:40:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:40:17] Speaker B: Well, until the second movie.
[00:40:20] Speaker A: It's an extremely goofy movie that gets his girlfriend. Yeah.
[00:40:24] Speaker B: Oh, it. I mean, it is so.
And then going along with.
I mean, we've got a few other, you know, excellent songs. Like on the Open Road is probably another one of my favorites. Where. And this is where I think the. The animators get really creative. And if you haven't seen it, you know, they're on a hot. On a highway, interstate, however you want to call it. And as they're going down and singing, you've got character. I mean, you know, Mickey and Donald are there and there's Char. They're pulling characters from who knows however many cartoons or other clips to fill this. But Bill Farmer and Jason Marsden just killed it.
[00:41:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: On that section, you know, singing together, feeding off each other. Like being in that booth and getting to experience that live. I bet it's something else. And there's a video clip.
I don't think it's on Disney. Plus, I did see it on YouTube that they're actually in a 1970s AMC and singing together. So that's another fantastic one.
[00:41:47] Speaker A: Yeah, they did. I believe they did their own kind of. It was kind of a trailer for the documentary. But yeah, they found. Found a car that they have based the. The. The goof. I would say the goofmobile off of. And those two actors, which I would say probably now the actor that played that played Max, he's probably around the same age that Bill Farmer was back then.
And like, and we talked about how timeless this movie is and everything. When it came out, it did not do that well.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: So that weekend, what did they say? Yeah, it was second in the box office.
[00:42:39] Speaker A: Yeah. But it sold to Bad Boys.
[00:42:43] Speaker B: Yes, to Bad Boy. And it sold half that. It made half the money that Bad Boys did. Yeah, Bad Boys. Yeah.
[00:42:52] Speaker A: And did you notice what was in third place? Tommy Boy, which is horrible.
[00:42:57] Speaker B: Tommy Boy is a fantastic movie by the way.
[00:43:00] Speaker A: Like, you know, another one of my favorites, Chris Farley.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: Like, I mean I do also granted.
[00:43:10] Speaker A: A little different than a Goofy movie.
[00:43:12] Speaker B: Just. Just a very small amount.
[00:43:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:14] Speaker B: Of a difference.
[00:43:16] Speaker A: Oh. But it, it didn't like really started gain traction until it came out on video. And I think one of the reasons was, I think they kind of said was it was cheaper than some of the other videos.
[00:43:31] Speaker B: Yes, it was. It was a little bit cheaper in cost when it came out on VHS and then plus they were also playing it on the Disney Channel a lot more than some of the other movies as well.
[00:43:43] Speaker A: Well, I think, I think part of that probably too was it wasn't a.
Wasn't the Walt Disney animation. Is that Walt Disney Television animation?
So it's kind of like how some of the. Some of the movies now that don't do that great in theaters, but when they get released on Disney plus have this surgeons. Encanto was kind of like that.
[00:44:10] Speaker B: Yep. I do agree.
[00:44:12] Speaker A: Which of course Encanto came out like two or three weeks before COVID or something like that.
So it kind of.
Which you can't. Couldn't really predict that. But I feel like once it got released on Disney plus you saw this huge like surge for it. And now as Ellie was literally, literally went to bed tonight in a Mirabelle sleep dress.
[00:44:46] Speaker B: Well, that's adorable.
[00:44:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
We need to find her a power line suit or something.
But. And they talked about this some in that documentary. They didn't realize how much of a following the movie had until it have kind of reached its 20th anniversary in 2015. They had a small panel at D23.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Probably in a. In a back room.
[00:45:15] Speaker A: Yeah, probably. Probably wasn't thinking too much about it. It's like, oh, it's the 20th anniversary, and they. They were literally having to turn people away.
[00:45:27] Speaker B: I. I think the documentary said they turned well over a thousand people.
[00:45:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:45:31] Speaker B: But so 2015, we just went back and I went and found on YouTube the end of the panel. Now the whole panel is all. Is on YouTube. And I. I do remember watching because I know Casey and I were cast members at that time, so some of the merchandise had come out, you know, for that, but. And one of my favorite pieces of merchandise is my power line T shirt that I don't wear anymore because, well, I kind of grew. And not on the good way at that point, because this was 10 years ago. But it's the 1995 standout Tour T shirt.
[00:46:10] Speaker A: That's so awesome.
[00:46:11] Speaker B: You know, that is. I really should make into a pillow. So, I mean, go straight back to, you know, back to Florida.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: Do you do that? Do you have your goal close? Like, I want to fit into this. This is my goal.
[00:46:28] Speaker B: I have given up on New Year's resolutions.
So we're just gonna. We're gonna. We're gonna leave it at that. That's. Yeah. I stopped having goals a long time ago.
[00:46:38] Speaker A: But they talked about how, like, people were talking about it's their favorite movie. And even the actors that were. That played these characters had no idea.
Well, so much people loved this movie.
[00:46:57] Speaker B: That's an interesting point.
Casey and I were talking about that tonight after we finished the documentary, because she even said back then, all the Disney company did was just listen to these newspaper editors.
All of that, because that's what they thought. That was the big thing. But look at what they're doing now.
They are starting to listen to more of the people. We see it in the park. They brought back the Terry of the noodles at Ohana's. We got happily ever after 2.0 after the 50th for Walt Disney World.
[00:47:41] Speaker A: I was shocked about that.
[00:47:44] Speaker B: So was. I remember. I remember on October 1st of 2021, sitting on the couch watching the livestream for Enchantment. I watch it. I turned to Casey and I said, is that it?
Like, so when they announced the same thing to.
[00:48:04] Speaker A: With Kelsey.
[00:48:06] Speaker B: So. But I completely forgot where we were with the Goofy movie, which is absolutely horrible.
[00:48:12] Speaker A: The panel.
[00:48:14] Speaker B: The panel.
So at the end, when they announce and bring out Kevin Tamble, Tevin Campbell. Wow. Along with a couple of the dancers to do eye to eye in front of that small crowd.
And I think that Disney went, oh, my goodness.
And you even heard Kevin say it as well in the documentary.
Had no idea what this movie meant to people.
These were the movies that were touching the hearts, bringing the people, bringing families together. That is doing what Disney does best.
And I think that's why they're kind of getting back to where they are today. God bless a Goofy movie, though. Oh, man.
[00:49:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:49:16] Speaker B: And even. It even talks about, you know, going from the very beginning of the movie to.
To Max and Max. PJ On. Oh, my goodness. What is the other friend's name? I keep forgetting it.
[00:49:33] Speaker A: Bobby.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: Bobby Zimmerman. Zimmerman, right. Yeah. Bobby Zimmerman, played by Polly Shore, Like, New Jersey Polly Shore, the kind of crazy guy.
[00:49:46] Speaker A: Oh, man, he. I just know him as a crazy.
[00:49:50] Speaker B: Guy, you know, so he's getting, you know, Max is getting all excited to try to talk to Roxanne and all this stuff, and then, you know, as he's gonna spend summer with her. And then all of a sudden, dad wants to take him on, you know, a trip because Pete puts some idea in his head as he's working at what I is either a JCPenney or a Dillard's. I mean, I was thinking Kmart. Oh, could be a Kmart.
[00:50:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:18] Speaker B: That photo area looked oddly familiar. Yeah, I have seen one of those in my lifetime.
So you know about how because he got in trouble at school because of this really awesome concert he put on being Power Line and all this, and now he's going to end up in jail and in a gang and all of this stuff. So here we are now on this road trip and how it ends. Like you said, middle ground, you know, Max realizing that Goofy just wants to be with him, and Goofy realizing how important, you know, the Power Line concert was, and then perfection through perfection. Gosh, what a great movie.
[00:51:07] Speaker A: Yeah. True. Truly was.
And it again, is one of those that the more like, you relate to Max, you're a kid. You relate to Goof as you get older.
I feel like we all related to all the students when we were in high school. Just like, hallelujah.
It's summer.
[00:51:35] Speaker B: So. So when do we go into our principal Mazer phase?
[00:51:40] Speaker A: I don't know if I'll ever have science slumber parties.
[00:51:43] Speaker B: You don't want science slumber parties?
[00:51:46] Speaker A: I don't know if I've ever. I never did go to my principal. It's like, what can I do to not waste my summer vacation? I think I don't want to spend my summer sleeping or partying with My.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: Friends sitting on your butt.
[00:52:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:02] Speaker B: By the way, my brother in law always thought that line was sitting on my bus with an ass. Not. But.
And I text him, I was like, have you never, you know, see that exact part right there, you know, is playing behind you? Like, man, I'm gonna need you to listen to that song again. Because he's clearly saying sitting on his.
[00:52:28] Speaker A: At first, at first I was going to say. I thought you were going to say my brother. Brother in law looks exactly like the post. No, no, but it, it's just. It butchers. It brings the feels.
[00:52:42] Speaker B: It does. But you also never answered what your favorite part of the movie was.
[00:52:46] Speaker A: I, I did the whole thing.
[00:52:49] Speaker B: Give me a part. Give me a part. One part. There's got to be one part that stands out more than the others.
[00:52:56] Speaker A: Pun intended.
[00:52:58] Speaker B: Pun intended.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: Maybe the mambo king. Everybody mambo again. The job that Goofy had to at 7:30, be able to just wake up his kid to let. To get him to go to school, go to work, and then get off and be fully packed for a fishing trip by the time his son gets home from school.
[00:53:32] Speaker B: He had to have been working from home that day.
Had to have been.
[00:53:36] Speaker A: I think that was before you could.
[00:53:38] Speaker B: Work from home mostly. I mean, because he, he had everything.
[00:53:45] Speaker A: He really did everything.
[00:53:47] Speaker B: There's gotta be at least $10,000 of bait and tackle in that, you know, in that box there.
[00:53:53] Speaker A: I mean, how much do you think he lost whenever he first hit the overpass? And he lost stuff.
[00:54:00] Speaker B: It could have been a five dollar lure.
[00:54:02] Speaker A: Yeah, true.
I mean, and who hasn't on, on a fishing trip tried to perform the perfect cast.
[00:54:11] Speaker B: I have failed every time.
I cannot perform with or without the fishing pole.
So.
[00:54:22] Speaker A: But it, if we say that if he, if you had to give, you know, the Siskel and Ebert thumbs up, what, you know, what would you give a Goofy movie? Two thumbs.
[00:54:36] Speaker B: If I had more, I would give them.
[00:54:38] Speaker A: Well, here's two more right here.
[00:54:40] Speaker B: There we go. We got four.
[00:54:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:54:42] Speaker B: So if you, if you liked the goofy movie, let us know. Let's see the thumbs. Let's see the likes for the video.
[00:54:51] Speaker A: If you like the movie, give it. Give us a thumbs up on YouTube.
[00:54:58] Speaker B: There we go.
[00:54:59] Speaker A: Either in the comments or with that like button.
[00:55:03] Speaker B: Do the same. You could do the same on Spotify. Yeah, we. I love, I would love to hear, you know, from y'all out there, I'd love to hear what Yalls favorite part if you.
[00:55:14] Speaker A: Actually, I was. One of my favorite parts too was probably the part that just came up on the screen where Donald Duck made a little cameo. Yeah, I love my Donald. See, I want that. I want them to.
With as much love. I feel like lately Goofy Movie has been getting to try to recapture maybe some of that magic to do Donald and his nephews like a. Like.
I mean, DuckTales you have is more with Scrooge, but do Donald and Huey.
[00:55:50] Speaker B: Dewey and Louie something more than just the shorts that we have them with. We. And that. So that was one of the other things they said this, you know, the Goofy movie is the first movie like. And I think may. And correct me if I'm wrong, if you had already said this cut me off. But they had said that a Goofy movie was one of the. The first movie for the Fab Five. You know, individually for the Fab Five and there.
[00:56:17] Speaker A: Other than I feel like Mickey's Christmas Carol and stuff.
And I'm. I'm racking my brain of another one that is a movie like this with like this characterization. Like nothing with Mickey and Minnie, nothing with Donald.
[00:56:40] Speaker B: Pluto, nothing with Donald, nothing with Daisy.
[00:56:43] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:56:44] Speaker B: Or your Fab Five. Yeah. So which is 30 years.
We'll see what Walt Disney Imagination has planned for the next 30.
[00:56:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
I could talk about Goofy Movie all night. All day, all night.
[00:57:01] Speaker B: Such a great movie all weekend long right here on the Mouse Ears podcast.
[00:57:06] Speaker A: All right, so stay tuned for another 12 hours. No, I'm kidding.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: I don't think I could go 12 hours. Just recording consistently. That's a long time.
[00:57:18] Speaker A: That is a long time.
[00:57:20] Speaker B: One day when we move closer to Orlando, we'll do that.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: Yeah. But before we start wrapping it up, Kelton, you want to give the answer to our trivia question.
[00:57:32] Speaker B: So if you remember back our trivia question, what famous musicians were inspired the inspiration for the Power Line character himself?
And there was actually three.
So you have Prince, Senor Michael Jackson and Bobby Brown himself. All three were inspiration into the creation of what we have now, Power Line.
[00:57:59] Speaker A: And see, I thought it was just Prince.
[00:58:03] Speaker B: See, I kind of. I kind of thought the same as well then I saw some of. When you're in, you know, when you're rocking to eye to eye, I see some Michael Jackson, especially with the dance, some of the dance moves. Bobby Brown, that one, you know, that one threw me there.
[00:58:20] Speaker A: Well, that's kind of the movement and everything too. So he was kind of the.
I would say the in between. But.
Well, the fact too that they. Tevin Campbell was working with Prince. Yeah. Rosie Gaines was one of Prince's feature singers. And was it the Welker family or something?
The. The other background singers.
[00:58:44] Speaker B: I'm trying to remember what they had said in the diagram.
[00:58:47] Speaker A: I think it was like the Welker family or something.
Which one part that guy sing in the background while on crutches. Did you notice that?
[00:58:57] Speaker B: I know.
[00:58:58] Speaker A: I was like, killing it. I know he is killing it.
[00:59:02] Speaker B: But y'all can go back and watch on YouTube, you know, some of the panel stuff from 2015 in the 20 year. There's plenty of that. There's also a quote unquote, live action standout.
[00:59:17] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:59:17] Speaker B: On YouTube. That was created about four or five years ago, right before COVID So that's really.
[00:59:24] Speaker A: That's really cool, too. Yeah, so they.
[00:59:26] Speaker B: They did. They did. Awesome. Oh, I. I love the clip coming up behind you right now, Roxanne.
But ended here. That's a good way to go out.
[00:59:41] Speaker A: But now I'm just waiting for a few years after the monstropolis in Hollywood Studios opens up. And even though. And I say this, I love the Muppets. I love the Muppets. Disney has tried to get this current generation to be a fan of the Muppets. They have tried. They have tried giving it their all you need to rebrand Rock and Roller Coaster to Powerline like after.
After a couple years. Or make it a rotating thing. All you gotta do is put a. Like, put a wrap on that guitar to different.
[01:00:24] Speaker B: It's. Yeah, it's 2025. It should be easy to. You know, most of the stuff is. TV's in the queue anyway. Yeah, you can just upload new songs to the. You know, to the ride vehicles. It's.
They're missing.
[01:00:42] Speaker A: Or you could. Or you could have it like, you don't know which concert you're going to until you go.
[01:00:49] Speaker B: There you go.
[01:00:51] Speaker A: And you could be going to a Power Line concert.
You could be going to a Muppets concert, I think. Yeah. I mean, you could have a change. Almost like they do with Guardians of the Galaxy, where it's almost a different ride each time, man.
See, we tied it into travel.
[01:01:13] Speaker B: There it is.
[01:01:14] Speaker A: But there it is. Well, folks, that just about does it for this week's episode of the Mouse Ears podcast. Don't forget to join our Mouse Ears Podcast Facebook group and follow us on TikTok, Instagram and X to stay up to date on all things travel, but mostly Disney. And if you're interested in having a Fairytale Journeys agent, book your next trip, visit fairytalejourneys.com and let them know that the podcast sent you. Lastly, if you enjoy our weekly episodes to the Mouse series podcast, which I don't see why you cannot like them, why you cannot enjoy them, which I feel bad week. There's more than just us. We have the ladies of the podcast. The ladies Jenny, who is actually on her way to see Epic Universe.
[01:02:10] Speaker B: She's driving right now. Thursday 17th of April.
[01:02:14] Speaker A: So jealous. So jealous. And you have the face of the of the Mouse Ears podcast, Steph, who graciously let us have this God so night.
[01:02:25] Speaker B: Yeah, we kicked her off for tonight. Sorry, Steph. We'll see you next week.
[01:02:28] Speaker A: Yes. But if you enjoy our episodes, we would love for you to leave us a review wherever you listen to us or watch us until the next episode. Thanks, everyone. Bye.
