This fun fact may make you go, “Gawrsh!”
Bill Farmer has provided the voice for Goofy for decades and now he's got a surprise for fans: Goofy is not, as many fans believe, a dog like his trusty pal Pluto, Mickey Mouse's loyal pet hound. Nor is Goofy a cow, like his girlfriend Clarabelle.
"He's not a dog," Bill Farmer, who has since provided the voice of Goofy since 1987, said on the Aug. 4 episode of Australian hosts Leigh Livingstone and Tim Iffland's Popcorn Podcast With Leigh and Tim. "But he's a canine. So it's kind of like a wolf is not a dog but it's a canine. Same thing. 'Goofus Canis,' that's what he is." The 71-year-old continued jokingly, "Or he's a 'mog.'
He has made similar comments in past years. In 2021, in response to a fan debate on the matter, he tweeted, "Goofy is certainly not a cow! Neither is he a dog!"
The actor also said in 2020 that Goofy was not a dog. "Goofy seems to be in the canine family in the same way that maybe a wolf is not a dog, but they also are in the canine family," he told Yahoo! Entertainment at the time, later adding, "He's just Goofy."
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