As much as I loved this show back in the day, I never had time to watch it regularly. Although I watched it as often as I could I never remember Max's mother appearing in the show or even being mentioned. So what was the deal? Had she died? Was Goofy divorced? Was she married to Goofy but just didn't get out much? Just wondered if an explaination was ever given.
shareWell, I don't know, like; but he does look suspiciously mouselike to me.
I reckon Minnie got drunk one Christmas and mistook Goofy for Micky under the mistletoe, and then mistook him some more in the back bedroom. That's why the issue is never mentioned; if Micky finds out, there'll be hell on.
LOL, that was funny. MAybe Goofy got so horny, went to Vegas and screw up a "Honker". THen Honker returned his favor. And wuala!!!! MAX.
shareAs long as it's not Clarabelle the Cow, I think I can live with most any explanation. {:)}
"Ewww! Yucch! I mean, my goodness!" Sid, "Ice Age"
I read somewhere that one of the producers of the show said that Max's mum had left for the mall one day and never returned!
shareAw, Goofy probably arrived as a foundling in the post like Swee'Pea out of Popeye, or something like that. Disney doesn't like the idea of genitals or wombs.
Maybe somewhere there's a deleted episode where Max comes home and finds Goofy with a little head and arm growing out of his side and goes, "Dad! What is that?" And Goofy goes, "I'm just budding you a new little brother, Maxie! Hyuck!"
Actually Max has a mom, and she is shown in early cartoons where Max (still unnamed in the early cartoons) is a baby.. but you only see her hand or her foot. Then at some point she disappears and goofy suddenly starts being more father-like to Max, who I believe was a baby at the time. Max's mother has never been given a name, you just have to use your immagination. She's not an important character in the Disney family so they never mention her, nor do they feel the need to do so.
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Wow! So Goofy's a slut? Hyuck! Who'd a thunk it?
shareI not sure. Well Goofy wife died after Max's birth or got killed what Goofy feel a tree or something on her & didn't tell Max what really happed to his mom.
shareA reocurring thing with Disney is the absence or death of the mother. Go down the list of Disney movies you can think of and in most of them you will probably find that there is either no mother or the mother dies somewhere during the movie. Max's mom is the typical Disney mother and rather then have Goofy hook up with some character only to have her tragically killed off, they simply never mention her.
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Jasmine's mother may have died in childbirth. Same goes for most of the other Disney princesses who all have fathers but no mothers. Life was hard back in those days.
Makes a bit less sense for the modern day suburb dwellers such as Max though.
I always took it as Disney liked to use the formula from single parent sitcoms of the 50's and 60's. Divorce was never an option for reason so they just kinda pushed explanations aside.
shareDucktales: So Donald Duck is the Nephew's Uncle. So who is their Aunt, and where are their parents?
Rescue Rangers: Gadget's parents passed away in the past, so Gadget is left alone until the Rangers meet her.
Talespin: Who are Kit's parents? Who is Molly's dad?
Darkwing Duck: Who are Gosalyn's parents?
Goof Troop: Max's mom, obviously.
Aladdin: Jasmine's mother?
Back in the early days of the Donald Duck comic (where the nephews made their first appearance) it is stated that their mother's name is Della Duck and she sends them to live with their Uncle Donald for some unexplained reason. Later on in the cartoons, and I'm talking way before DuckTales and Quack Pack, their mother is mentioned or shown (I'm not sure) again and her name has been changed to Dumbella Duck.
I couldn't tell you who Gosalyn's real parents were but Drake/Darkwing adopted her so he's technically her father.
My guess is Jasmine's mother passed away during childbirth. At least it always seemed that way since I recall any mention of her is in past tense and there's usually an air of sadness.
I don't think that was ever mentioned in Goof Troop itself; in Goofy's old '50s shorts he was married to a redheaded human woman, and it's true you never see her entirely, though you do see her from the back once, which is how I know she has red hair. (Well, that, and in the first short with this kid, "Fathers Are People", he babbles a lot of details about the new baby and one of the things he says is "his mother's hair"--and the kid is a redhead.)
For the wife, see "How to Dance" and look for the shot at the end where he's "ready to take the dance floor!"--the woman he's leading out onto the floor is her.) In those shorts, it was one of those odd universes where animal people and humans mix freely and nobody seems to think anything of it--see Quack Pack for a modern example.
However, this was _not_ Max's mom--rather, these shorts are sort of an alternate timeline and perhaps you could consider it a proto version of the _idea_ behind Goof Troop, but it's not the same people. Why do I say this? Several reasons:
--Mainly, it's not really quite Goofy in these shorts. He's named George Geef. Okay, so maybe Goofy is a nickname...well...maybe...but he has a different personality, is more educated, has more money, lacks his distinctive accent/speech patterns, wears a suit and even is usually missing his fur! And also sometimes the ears. But anyway, it's the personality that does it for me. Geef is smarter, but also _meaner_, way hotter tempered and more prone to stress. Goofy however is the epitome of Laid Back.
Whether this is some alternate version of Goofy or Goofy is an "actor" playing a different part in these shorts, is not said. It's up to the individual, I guess.
--The kid is not named Max, he's George Geef Jr./sometimes called "Buster". And he's not just a baby--in one short you see him as like a four or five year old, then another jumps ahead to when he's probably around 7-9 and they're going camping. (And are they going (sings dramatically) ON THE OPEN ROOOOAAAD?) He does have some resemblance to Max, but lacks the long floppy ears, has fur only on his head/around the muzzle, the nose on the end is the same shape but is pink, and basically, well, he actually _looks_ half-human, surprisingly.
Anyway, he gets lots of lines, plenty of screen time and takes a major part in the story of a couple shorts--you really get to see him well! I'm not just making this up. To get a good look at Jr, the shorts you want are "Fathers Are People" and "Father's Lion", for example.
The closest you could say Buster Geef is to Max Goof is perhaps, maybe, half brother. They _do_ look a bit alike...but only IF you count these shorts as being part of the same, erm, "reality". I'm not sure if I would...it's confusing.
ANYway. Sorry, sorry...I have a tendency to ramble. As far as Max's mother (who would presumably be a dog-person like Goofy), I always assumed she was dead...but in a dramatic way. Maybe, missing _presumed_ dead after her plane went down the jungles of Darkest Africa and she's had amnesia all this time. You know. The usual. :P
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I agree with Gaos. When I was younger, I used to think, that George Geef Jr and Max Goofy were the same boy. But now I know, that they're not. So the red-haired woman, who was Goofy's wife in the old shorts, is probably not Max's mother either.
Intelligence and purity.
Ok, This is kinda a long story.... Ok. In 1969 Disney relesed a series of comics and in them Goofy had a girlfriend. In the comic book his girlfriends name was Glory Bee Aka Penny. Penny is a character that I never heard that much about other than she was Maxs mother and that she was Best freinds with Minnie and Daise. Likc Goofy is with Mickey and Donald.
Ok anyway when the Walt Disney Company aired "The Ink and Print club" they aired several cartoons per show. Some cartoons like "Fathers are people too (aired in 1951)and "Fathers day off" showed Goofy( Without the buck teeth.) living a normal life with his son named Junior( This is Max as a young child) and his Wife Penny. It is true that in the cartoon shorts that you could only see her from the neck down, you are able to see that she has red hair. In these shorts their son also has red hair. The "The Ink and Paint club" aired for several years till it final went off the air(or was discontenured).
In 1992 the Walt disney company aired "Goof troop". This was the frist time that Goofys son had been mentained since the Ink and Print club ended. The animaters wanted for Goofys son to have matured and to resemble Goofy more. So thats why Max's hair was black. And sometime in the makeing of the show Max's name changed from Junior To Max.
Now Sometime between the airing of Goof Troop and Ink and Print club something happened to Goofy wife. Disney has never annouced what happened to her.
In an interview with Bill farmer(Voice of Goofy) He joked that she had gone to the Mail box and never retured. Even though he was joking, it makes you wonder if there is any truth behind it. There is also some rumers that she died in a car crash because Penny is said to not have been the best driver. Some people think that her and Goofy got divored. Keepin mind that Goofy is really protective of Max and if his Died that may have infulence how protective that he is of Max.
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Penny was blonde actually, so she can't have been the same character as Mrs Geef.
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I remember one episode where Max lies to the school Principal about Goofy getting a wife. That leads to many funny problems.
Eventually he comes clean to Goofy and he said something a long the lines of: "A wife? I thought we were doing well together. But if you want a mom...?"
Max didn't seem emotional about it, other than being worried about getting caught by the Principal.
My take with that is that Max's mom died before he was old enough to remember her.
In one episode, Goofy tells Max "she's up there with the stars." So it's possible that Max is aware that he had a mother, but that she passed away.
I assumed she died while she was giving birth to Max.