The 1932 Mickey’s Revue animated short kicks off with Mickey Mouse conducting the overture and a bespectacled geezer of a human-type dog in the audience particularly enjoying the show. Throughout the variety show, his distinctive “a-hyuck, a-hyuck” laugh—voiced by Pinto Colvig—continues to annoy the other spectators. That character and that laugh were so appealing to Walt Disney and his staff that he was featured in other shorts and ultimately evolved into the character we all know as Goofy. Goofy was first given the name Dippy Dawg when he appeared in newspaper comic strips, but it wasn’t until 1939’s Goofy and Wilbur cartoon short that he officially became known as Goofy.
