It took 7 different render edits (8 if you include me trying to get away with playing the chorus of I2I during the Patreon scroll at the end), BUT WE MADE IT!
So Jon Gray always seemed to think the dogface characters were black coded too, but they literally were in the Mickey Mouse comics and he writes them so.
This movie is so underrated. I had a troubled past with my dad. We did not have the easiest father son relationship so this movie really hit home with me both as a kid and as an adult. When I was a child I was on Max side, but as an adult I empathize and support Goofy. Cherish the time you have with your parents. You never know how much time you have left. My dad got killed when he was 47. I was 22 at the time and we never got the chance to resolve our problems. It's my biggest regret.
I totally agree with you. I'm sorry you weren't able to resolve your issues but I'm sure he understands and has let go, so I hope one day you'll be able to not regret it. As we get older, I think it becomes easier to understand why people can be forced into situations or are predisposed to certain characteristics. Personally, my dad was never around growing up so a part of me wanted to be able to have a dad that would just be there. As an adult, I do recognize the fact that it was probably better for him to never be around then be around and be super shitty.
Your comment made me tear up. Very few things hurt as much as regret. But, I hope you take solace in the fact that among all the struggles and unsaid feelings, your father loved you and you loved him. Your bond as father and child remains sacred beyond all the fights and disagreements you may have had with him. I hope your heart feels lighter one day and you don't carry any guilt about it x
My favorite line in the whole movie is when Max says" I'm grown up, I have my own life now". Goofy just says "I know I just wanted to be a part of it." That line gets me in the feelings every time!🥺
There was a talk at my church about the rod & they brought up the point about the shepherd. "He uses it guide his sheep not beat them". That analogy has stuck with me ever since.
There is a consensus among Old Testament scholars, hebrew men have the authority to beat those under his command, which include their children, wives, slaves, concubines and animales. When Abraham came down from the mountain with Isaac, not only bring a knife to the penis of his own child, but he also does the same with all his male slaves in his house, an act that any sane person would describe as violence. If modern christians want to interpret "beating with te rod" as the metaphorical "guide as a shepherd" I guess is fine cause less children will be beating, but is intellectually dishonest nonetheless.
You do realize that if a sheep keeps leaving the flock and going it's own way, the shepherd breaks the sheep's legs and carries it around right? The rod is indeed used to beat the child, that was literally the point of all of Israel's captivities, the nations coming in and spoiling them were the rod, because Israel refused to listen, hell that was why they spent 40 years in the wilderness. The point is using such discipline with wisdom, not all things require a beating, not all children require one either, some learn better then others and are more humble and understanding. Others you need to give a whopping to because the alternative is someone else doing so, and they're not likely to stop.
@@zanru6897 the sheep thing's not true & you should never beat a kid. It you want to teach them stuff you need to know what their personal currency is and restrict that. Hitting someone doesn't teach them the rules it teaches them to avoid you.
I remember both sympathizing with Max as a kid for feeling like he wasn’t being heard or understood by his parents and also kinda resentful of him because his dad loved him so much. Made huge meals, involved himself in his kids life, planned elaborate trips, and did everything he could to protect him. I would have killed for a dad like that.
Yes me too it took my dad 30 years to finally explain why he behaved the way he did and what part my granny and my mum played in his experience with me. It's not all perfect but better. Now i try to do things by myself and one day find a partner who wants to join me.
I think that is perhaps part of what the Video poster is saying. It came off as almost a parental fantasy to the black community, because our parents were more like Pete, while showing even goofy's style still had its own set of problems.
Same. It isn't like I don't understand Max's frustrations, but since I had a father who was never involved in my life and bothered to even try, I really appreciated Goofy's efforts and wished he was my dad.
As a Mexican American lil child I related way too hard with pjs reaction to his dad's punishment, because that was my reality and I envied the hell out of max for not appreciating his dad. Idk how but you condensed my childhood memories in a concise and poignant manner.
When I saw the title I was like "oh black people liked this too? figures, they have good taste" (I was raised on black sitcoms lol) Disney Channel in Mexico played this movie ALL THE TIME and when disney plus came out, first thing we did was watch A Goofy Movie, and then Goof Troop
same here but i was raised by a step-dad from georgia who had some serious problems growing up from his father which he was trained to think was normal still have some mexican influence too, just now am i realizing how crazy my family treats each other. my abuela gossips about her own adult children and bashes on them, my tia has had so much pressure placed on her that she rarely visits anymore, my father has distanced himself entirely due to the poor treatment and my cousin is getting judged for not being "a good boy like me." i am one of the only "good" children her children have raised in her eyes, sure we're all her grandchildren, my baby primos and primas included, but for some reason she focuses on me and has decided to give me special treatment and i dont know why. i'm wondering if you know why?
@@CaspersGhost perhaps you share the looks or personality of a family member that your abuela was dearly loved by when she was young, so she associates u with that person and dotes favorably on you. or u have the lifestyle that she wishes she couldve had herself when she was young. i have somewhat the same experience: i look almost exactly like my dad, who is my grandfathers only son that survived to adulthood, and im the first grandchild. so its a triple wammy for favoritism. he and my granma had a lot of babies that he couldnt bond with before death so my aunts tells me he was fairly distant when they were young , but now that hes retired w a nice pension and could rest assured that his family name is carried on, he can allow himself to spoil me. a lot of it comes down to complicated emotions and a sad history :(
I remember seeing this in theaters as a kid. I didn't understand why at the time, but I remember having really complicated, sad feelings after the scene at the Possum Park. I think it was seeing Goofy trying to share something he loved a lot with Max, and Max not being able to relate to it at all. Coupled with that was the sadness of this busted, old rodeside show that was clearly falling apart. Legitimately haunting for some weird reason lol.
For me, it was even harder because I got this impression it was something Max had liked when he was LITTLE -- it's like going to Chuck E Cheese for your birthday as a kid, then trying to go back as a grown up and the magic is gone.
watching that scene as a kid was the first time I really realized that all the old junk parents seem to want to make you sit through wasnt always old, busted run down junk - it was once freshly painted, well greased, and cutting edge. It was their childhoods they were trying to show us, they just couldn't see that over the decades those things were worn out and kinda scary to us. It made me pause and wonder if my dads dad ever tried to show him strange devices and badly drawn cartoon characters. Might of been my first true generational-existential thought.
I think it's sweet this movie resonated with young black Americans so much. It really does capture a feeling and a mood of the era. To me, Pete and Goofy represented my divorced parents' approaches to raising children. PJ was the spitting image of one of my black friends when I was younger. I'm not from the city so I can't relate in that respect. It was during their time in the rural areas and on the road I most connected with the movie. Makes sense considering that's how I spent a lot of my younger life. Camping, fishing, floating down the river, always in the car going somewhere. Things I loved as a young child that became more quaint and distant as I grew up and developed interests outside of my dad's. Just a fantastic movie. Honorable mentions go out to An Extremely Goofy Movie and the disco scene at the club. The way the dancing is shot, the way characters are framed, the energy, Sylvia Marpole's big natural hair. To me it dripped with the feeling of older black media like Soul Train.
I didn't know I needed this but I absolutely do!!!! A Goofy Movie was on repeat on my TV as a kid and I was obsessed with it. That scene where they are eating pizza on the water bed, absolute classic 👌🏽
I do appreciate that the movie is not just an OK Boomer film; this movie I think should be taught in schools about how to fix generational conflict I mean really it is it is a perfect distillation of the miscommunication the lack of agency young people have in their lives and adult's need to pass a torch or something similar based solely on their own experiences.
Not black, but my dad used to literally say the phrase "when I say jump, you say how high." And if I said yes or no, he'd stop us and make sure we added the word sir. He definitely conflated intimidation and fear with respect. I love my dad a lot, but it took time to get over that.
I've never understood parents who required their children to call them ma'am or sir. Those kinds of parents always scared me. My mom is strict enough without pulling that stuff.
A simple answer is that Max had a fly look and vibe to him. He didn’t act like the typical white kids we had to see so it had flavor. He wore clothes that looked like a black teen and walked like a black kid too. Same for some other characters. The movie felt very urban.
This is such an excellent piece of socio-historical analysis, I wasn't expecting to have feelings about redlining when I clicked on this but I should've known you'd take me to school 😭
The explanation of "spare the rod, spoil the child" hit me really hard. I got very teary eyed hearing that our perception of what the rod was is not the same rod I thought it was. I'm the youngest out of 4 with all my older siblings being over 10+ years on me. I was spoiled rotten and was often put down often because of it (i.e if I had problems my family said I didn't know what I was talking about, being told I didn't have a valid opinion, being told i was selfish, ect.) And because my sisters knew all about the expression of sparing the rod, I took that expression very seriously when I was a teen because I thought I wasn't "disciplined" enough so I inflicted a lot of emotional baggage on myself in order to "humble" myself and to prove to people that I had a valid enough voice to be heard and not some spoiled kid talk. I still carry with me a bunch of bad habits because of what I did when I was younger such as over worrying over miniscule/unimportant things. In the end, it really didn't matter and how I have to unlearn all that. Putting into perspective of what the rod actually is - well, it's a lot to process, I suppose.
Its interesting the demos this movie hit with. Watching the trio of Disney Xmas stories with the wife & son i noted how PJ was missing and she asked "who's PJ." "You know, PJ, Peter Junior, Pete the cat's son, Max's best friend" "I dont remember him, are you sure?" "You dont remember the Goofy movie?" "I dont think I've ever seen it... I thought you didnt have disney channel growing up..." "I didnt, but its the goofy movie, the defining disney movie of our generation before toy story came out..." we then pulled it up on Disney+ and watched it and you know it hits different as a parent.... Where you saw both Pete and Goofy as the bad guys as a kid, you see 2 single dad's trying their best based on their differing philosophies of parenting. The line pointed out "You may not agree with how I raise Max, but my son loves me." with the response "My son respects me." gives you the notion that its a non-intersecting ven diagram between the 2 thoughts. But you can have both as Goofy proves in the end.
It's unfortunate that some parents assume those concepts are mutually exclusive. I'd rather my children respect me because they love me and vice versa.
props for using PJ's full name.XD also on the point of pete and goofy it should be noted that both max and goofy were in the wrong (max was moody and didn't appreciate what a great dad goofy was and goofy was so caught up in his own fears that he never listened to his son until forced to) so both were the "bad guy" (there's no real bad guy in this movie). pete is just kind of a dick though and always has been (this is shown in the goof troop show that the movie is based on where he has both a wife and daughter and he's still kind of a ass) so no big change there.
I'm surprised you knew Pete was a cat. I didn't learn that for a long, long time. He doesn't look like a cat, and my first exposure was Goof Troop and A Goofy Movie, where it seems like everyone is a dog.
Man, I'm a white guy, but the whole thing about discipline, "respect", and lack of proper communication just hit me so hard, it really felt like you've been talking straight to me. I mean, I have never been hit by my parents, but the psychological pressure was surely there, especially from my dad, the same way you interpreted Pete and PJ. I know I'm not the only person who went through that, but you've put into words what I've always felt but couldn't properly explain, in such a relatable way that I kinda feel better, in a sort of "you're not alone bro" manner. Thanks.
Yup, latino right here and yeah. The belt and the pressure. It cuts deep, My dad never felt like a parent, just an authority figure if that makes sense. I mean I love him but shit, he treated me like his maid. Never any how was your days or anything. That sort of buddy buddy interaction Max and Goofy have in the hotel room hurt. I have never once had that relationship with my dad. I’m not myself around my dad, and I feel like I can’t. I’m not allowed to punch a pillow to vent. “If I’m gonna hit something hit him”. It’s just like I’m constantly being judged. It’s sort of instilled this sense of fear and inadequacy into my psyche. Little things caused the scale to tip for my dad and I got a very disproportionate reaction from him. Not physical once I got older but disproportionate nonetheless. There’s something fundamentally wrong with our relationship that has effected me my entire life, and yet at one point I stopped seeking to make it better. He instilled the obedience and begrudging acceptance into me I guess. Strict is one thing, but strict and nothing beyond that is another. Once again he just felt like a disciplinary figure. My mother passed away when I was 10, so it was just my dad.
As a white woman one can become, (only an albino is whiter than me 😅) Then I have the same problem with my parents. Just psychologically, Pete is my mother and I'm PJ (probably why I had a crush on PJ when I was little) While my father is more like Goofy, minus the humor and love. But then my parents are also much older than me by 30+ years... (And for those who don't get my bad sense of humor, I'm Scandinavian)
Also, that inherent fear of telling one's parents something is present in white households, but I think it boils down to their ages. My parents were MUCH older than normal, with my father already having daughters from a prior marriage who were over a decade older than me. My mother was older, though not that old. Thus, they came with the, "You look at me funny and I'll beat the shit out of you. If someone calls CPS, I'll beat the shit out of you again when I get out of jail," mentality. I think the behaviors you've seen came from people who had younger parents. White boomers were never known to hesitate about beating the FUCK out of their kids for the slightest infractions, because the generation before them did that too, and would go so far as to throw unruly boys out of the house at 12, 13, 14 years old. Male child prostitution was off the charts in the 1970s and 1980s for this very reason, and almost all of them were white boys. I wish I could find the video discussing that with a man who dedicated years into researching it because he was already onto the sex scandals relating to kids in the 1980s. He was killed in... 1984, I think, once he started sharing those findings. He found that black families, for better or for worse depending on the parents, were far less inclined to throw trouble kids out, and would work with them instead (whether that was getting them help, or beating the fuck out of them, was variable). I don't say this to invalidate what you're saying, but more an interesting observation in the dynamics differences and similarities you mention, along with generational differences.
That’s really interesting, results of that study aren’t so surprising when we take a look at family structures! Black people, poc in general, and anyone in general who isn’t really white anglo-saxon protestant come from a more collectivist culture. We are raised in a culture where the family as a whole is what our lives revolve around. White (older) wasps tend to come from an individualistic culture where like you said for better or worse, you aren’t obligated to maintain contact with your family and can move or be kicked out easily. Of course culture between between different ethnicities vary, I speak on my experience from a Mexican American family :)
@@intrstellas Its a bit of a mix, speaking as a white millennial. If I try to leave my family, I have to claw my way out. On the other hand, my failures could mean I get kicked out at 16, which happened to me.. Family is important as long as it is beneficial. Somebody who is *clutches pearls* a drug addict, or a criminal, or god forbid.... poor!!! Needs to be excised from the family tree. It's a lesser version of the model minority Asian trope. People are just fucked...
@@Sojo214 Personally, as a white gen z with a baby boomer parent and a gen x parent, its similar for me but not quite. My eldest sibling (im the youngest of 5, shes 34 in 2 days) has done many a crime and drug, but we still hold out hope for her and do what we can to help her, and shes doing better now. There's still times where she engages in screaming matches but other than that she's starting to chill now. We share that family is all you've got mentality, while also being more sectioned off like many white families are. although that mostly comes to age differences and physical distance more than anything.
I’m Puerto Rican and I was born in 2002, I’m a 90s kid only in soul. I still find everything you laid out here, especially a lot of the parenting stuff, extremely relateable.
As a fellow 2000's boricua, i think we can say that we've received a lot of the same media that 90's kids got, especially since new stuff wasn't so accesible (at least in my area)
Born in 1982, the time this movie came out was PERFECTION. I absolutely adore this movie, even to this day I consider it one of the best Disney movies ever made. Though it doesnt have the global love that Lion King or Frozen has.. it has a million times more heart and realism than those two movies combined. Nobody had 'superpowers' they were just regular people dealing with regular family problems. Also Goofy is just a fantastic dad, I remember being so envious of a father who cared so much for their child as I had pretty neglectful and disrespectful parents who didnt seem to care about me -at all-. Films like this are important for kids who were like me. It really taught me how to problem solve and be truthful even if it means to hurt someone elses feelings. Also the movie was just plain fun and had AMAZING songs!
It really says something that when I heard “The rod is actually a shepherd’s crook” my mind went “Oh! That sounds way more painful! And it has a longer reach!”
@@ayeilak5 Yeah, i don't think it's for everyone, specially the scenes where the protagonist has to do unspeakable things to the girls he chooses as partner. The most screwed up part was where they formed the girls into a circle and recreated the human centipede, that was hardcore!
My husband absolutely LOVES this move so I finally gave in and watched it. He was born In 89’ and I was born in 95’. We also watched this with our 5 year old son and he was dancing and laughing along with his dad. I hope I never forget that memory. 😌
And then all of a sudden my youth makes sense! I once told my boyfriend that A Goofy Movie is the most underrated movie ever! And at 36 I still listen to the soundtrack almost every week!!!
Yeah...I agree a lot with what you said about content creators being slightly detached from the generations they portray. As someone who is Gen Z, "Euphoria" at times can come off as a mockery of us. "A Goofy Movie" will forever be a classic in my eyes and this analysis was great. I love that us black people have claimed it.
@@Daphanewithpain The point of my comment wasn't to compare the two, though I understand it comes off that way. "A Goofy Movie" was intended for children while "Euphoria" is intended for...well I actually don't know because not even the audience can agree on who it's for (I say this as someone who watches it.) No one can seem to agree if the show is for teenagers or for adults so...
My dad and I didn’t get along when I was a kid. His dad was awful and he suffered from depression and anxiety; which was passed down to me. This was a movie he really enjoyed to watch with me. And I lost him last year. I love him, and am grateful we had this when I was a boy.
I always assumed pete beat pj. They don't show it but it felt like that. Growing up in a similar situation. I remember hating max for not appreciating such a loving father. Goofy was everything I wanted in a parent. 😊
Haha yeah. I was low key terrified of Pete all the way through the movie because he was such a threat in my head. PJ was the character I associated with most as a kid because by god I would get my ass handed back to me if I had tried anything like that. We were a percussive parenting household sure enough.
My sister and I watched this movie on repeat as kids! I'm glad to hear that it resonated specifically with black millenials. This movie is such gold. Love the Powerline shirt!
That's funny, I was just thinking about how most "coming of age" movies I saw in my youth were incredibly alienating to me when growing up, and thus had been stewing on the tragedy that writers could only tell stories about their own upbringing by the time it was too late for the next generation to relate. A Goofy Movie, however, definitely felt the closest to my own experiences growing up, though I could tell I was just a little too young to have caught the cultural wave that Max represented. Now I am a "porcelain person" so I can't say much about the black experience, but I *was* born on that dividing line between late millenial/early zoomer and lived my whole childhood in a poor neighborhood. My dad is and always was a spot-on Goofy: he was single, but women loved him; he was an absolute dork, but owned it; he was a great dancer, but it was outdated; he loved camping, and would often force me on trips; even down to the reluctant trust in authority figures from his own generation and the communication issues with his son, it felt like they based the character on my pops. However, because I was too young to recognise in which ways Goofy was being irresponsible (and possibly because of some self-image issues I was going through at the time) I HATED Max for how he acted in the movie. I still remember my own father's look of horror when I mentioned it, likely because of how much Max reminded him of myself. My best friend was an exact PJ, too; his mom abused him (both mentally and physically) in order to "teach him respect," and she would constantly get into arguments with my dad about the proper way to raise a child. I am so sick of the phrase "spare the rod and spoil the child" that I almost instinctively rolled my eyes when you brought it up. While I recognise now that she had her own problems she was dealing with, I will never forget the emotional damage she had done to him. Still, he was a very respectful young man, and absolutely loved my dad. There was this feeling of economic envy I felt for his family which I projected onto Pete, too-- my bro was never "well off," but his grandparents were, so they could afford stuff like a camper and a home bowling alley just like Pete had. I was waiting the entire video for you to talk about Pete's class as an aspect of your analysis, and it came as a surprise to me that you hadn't. I wanna go more into aspects I related to with a scene-by-scene breakdown, but this post is long enough as it is. Anyway, cool video. I liked the perspective you offered, and it was fun to go down Memory Lane.
Dude, fucking immaculate work. The explanation of "the rod" has blown my god damn mind and just, explaining the core difference by bringing out PJ's received parenting vs that of what Goofy did/didn't do gave me child. Let's fucking go dude. Can't wait to see what's next!
a goofy movie is a masterpiece that transcends all races,religions,ages and creeds. also powerline is the greatest musical artist of any generation and i will personally fight anyone that dares say otherwise.
Mexican millenial here. And I related a lot to your video since in Mexico this movie was huge! . What I noticed through the years is that black culture and Latino culture has a lot of things in common when it comes to their upbringing. Amazing video 👏
I’m Dominican-Puerto Rican and this movie hit me big time. I also felt the characters looked like a lot of black-ish Hispanics. Like my aunts look like Roxanne and the Beatnik black girl. IDK but I felt seen.
As a latine queer, I identified a lot with your analysis of the parental styles on goofy and pete. I was raised on beat ups and violence every time I “misbehaved”, and it was a lot being the gay kid of the family and having ahdh. I never felt like I could trust my mom with anything because she would react the way she always did, and it has messed up the way I relate to all the people I care about. I always loved this movie and the sequel, is it feels kinda like a full circle to see this kind of analysis if the film. Thank you for the video 🙌🏽
My parents also used THAT ‘Spare the rod’ definition. They’ve softened up a bit over the years and have endless kindness and forgiveness for their grandchildren of course. Still, us kids (adults now) feared them and I think we all still do, at least a little. This is a fantastic movie and a great analysis! The algorithm has blessed you (and us!) I can tell you out a lot into it. I’m glad to hear that this movie spoke to young black kids. It has so much depth and emotion for a piece of media you’d expect to be silly, mindless fun. Of course, there’s some of that sprinkled in too. And the music!
When you talked about 80s (or late 70s in Grease's case) movies that don't really resonate with Millennials, you reminded me of how Heathers was an 80s movie which really resonated with Millennials (if in later musical form) but not so much with Gen X (as it underperformed on release), probably because of how critical it was of 80s teen movies before it
I grew up in the 2000's and I think a tv show that captured that era and being a kid really well was Kids Next Door. It kinda didn't occur to me as a kid but watching it back as an adult, it seemed almost more like a giant neighborhood game within the kid's imaginations that the adults are joining in on than an actual war between adults and kids...
Dang, that was really great. Any time I’m watching a parent child bonding movie, ‘A Goofy Movie’ is always the benchmark I compare it to. It’s so rich and full of life and I’m always really happy when I find someone else who has connected with it like I did. Thanks for the awesome video!
I was about 12 when i first watched the goofy movie, it really stuck with me. In our home we had a family movie every weekend, one of the only positive things my mum did, she'd let us pick a movie each week, though i seldom got the chance to pick a movie cos my sibling was the fav so always got the choice. One day my sibling picked the goofy movie and I thought I'd hate it, that it'd be an excuse for boys doing dumb stuff in a movie. I was heaviky parentified as a kid and was surprised by how much i related to and wanted to be like Goofy, he was the kind of parent i wish i had and knew i wanted to be like. He makes mistakes, but his love for Max is evident in every moment of the show. We ended up with me loving the movie and my family saying it was boring and too sentimental, so never got to watch it again until they wentnout and forgot about me, when id have tv access solo. It was one of those stories i saw as a child that helped me to understand why our home was so toxic and what i should be aspiring towards (its no joke i was basically morally raised by tv, most of my core values and morals were learnt from tv/films/books, despite i was raise Catholic and i was a good girl to stay safe).
Sadly, I grew up nearly no POC. Only one older teen named Robert in my youth and his dad. My mom was asian, My dad was always working or trying to keep food on the table through underpaid govt work. I often felt that ‘under the thumb’ from my mom, but a more goofy side from my dad. I love this look into your perspective. Very eloquent and well delivered. ❤ It also opened my eyes in more than a few ways. the clarification of the ‘Spare the Rod’ verse. I related with Max in very much the same way, crushes make anybody crazy. At any rate, loved this video. Such charisma, I wanna hear more from you.
You know it’s funny that growing up I always related to Max and Goofy on the pressure from others to be less close. I remember hearing people regardless of race make comments to my mom about how she wasn’t disciplining me enough and making her feel weak. And peers making me feel like there was inevitably something wrong or weak about me for never having been beaten. Obviously other people would relate to the opposite but I never gave it a lot of thought at the time. It’s just interesting.
This movie is definitely one of the best Disney movies. Even though I'm a 90's kid, I think I didn't end up seeing this one until late high school. But when I did, it quickly became one of my favorites. Just something about it is so sincere, and I'm a sucker for good wholesome parent-child relationship stuff in movies. I'm not black, but it makes me happy to hear it resonates in a special way with black millennials.
Wow, what an amazing analysis. You brought up things I never thought about or considered. I grew up in a Hispanic household, and the first years of my life were spent in a poor neighborhood in Austin TX. Now that I think about it, it was probably a redlined area. I've grown up with this movie, and after all those viewings, I never realized that I could relate to PJ. My father was definitely more of a Pete. Keeping us kids under his thumb. I grew up feeling like PJ, having more fear for my father than respect. Being terrified to step out of line, otherwise its a beatdown. Thanks for this analysis, man. I now have a new appreciation for this movie.
Well...I have never felt so engrossed in a commentary in a while. Thank you, I'm a baby millennial born on the cusp literally the month this movie came out lol but I watched it growing up and always felt a deep connection with the story, it makes me feel at home and heard (almost). Definitely subscribing, love it.
I'm a white dude and this movie is one of my all-time favorites. I'm genuinely so happy that it continues to find new audiences and get the respect it deserves. Also; 'I2I' is the best song from a Disney movie, bar none. I was at my GF's house this past Thanksgiving and while I was aware of how big it was among black millennials, I had no idea just HOW big until she and her cousins and their respective family were so excited to continue their yearly tradition of sitting down and watching it together.
Your thesis/review is pretty interesting and I respect the hell of it. For me, when I was a kid, I enjoyed the movie many times, not because of the likeable and memorable characters, but also shows what I have to go through when I become a teenager.
I'm not black, but i always love to hear about black culture and what poc have to say, ¡This was such an interesting point of view for the movie! As a gen z that was like Max as well when i was little, i always felt bad for him, but i remember feeling so bad for Goofy as well, that it made feel as conflicted as much as i loved the story and the resolution😂 I think the talent of the writer of this movie trully shines, even if based on his own experiences and contact with younger people, because it is THAT good, and if someone relates to my story this intensively, and enjoys it this much, i would feel like i've done my part on the world, and it was all worth it❤ That's why i really appreciate this video, it showed me how much you like this movie, even seeing it between the cracks and softly analizing it's rims, like all art should be appreciated.🎉
Why was I so excited to see this randomly show up on my homepage? I watched this movie weekly, *every* summer. Thank you! I was literally having a midlife crisis yesterday; this made me feel like a youth for 30 minutes.
I absolutely love A Goofy Movie! I watched it on TV all the time and I wanted to go to a Powerline concert so bad! 😂 thank you for such a deep and interesting analysis of one of the most underrated Disney films. Edit: also I relate so much to the poverty aspects. I’m white but my school district was poor and mostly black and we had NOTHING most of the time. My high school didn’t have buses and we didn’t do a school play and they used to run out of food in the cafeteria. We definitely didn’t have an AV club either!
as an adult, it makes me sad to realize so many of the choices my dad made while parenting were born from fears he never really expressed to me when I was a kid. Love any and all readings of this crazy underrated parenting movie
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So Jon Gray always seemed to think the dogface characters were black coded too, but they literally were in the Mickey Mouse comics and he writes them so.
You should talk about the new proud family when it comes out today
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This movie is so underrated. I had a troubled past with my dad. We did not have the easiest father son relationship so this movie really hit home with me both as a kid and as an adult. When I was a child I was on Max side, but as an adult I empathize and support Goofy. Cherish the time you have with your parents. You never know how much time you have left. My dad got killed when he was 47. I was 22 at the time and we never got the chance to resolve our problems. It's my biggest regret.
I am sure he regretted it too ❤ so sorry for your loss. I hope you find healing
I’m so sorry he was taken from you and I’m sending you lots of prayers.
I totally agree with you. I'm sorry you weren't able to resolve your issues but I'm sure he understands and has let go, so I hope one day you'll be able to not regret it. As we get older, I think it becomes easier to understand why people can be forced into situations or are predisposed to certain characteristics. Personally, my dad was never around growing up so a part of me wanted to be able to have a dad that would just be there. As an adult, I do recognize the fact that it was probably better for him to never be around then be around and be super shitty.
Your comment made me tear up. Very few things hurt as much as regret. But, I hope you take solace in the fact that among all the struggles and unsaid feelings, your father loved you and you loved him. Your bond as father and child remains sacred beyond all the fights and disagreements you may have had with him. I hope your heart feels lighter one day and you don't carry any guilt about it x
Damn bro that was some heavy shit, I'm sorry for your loss.
My favorite line in the whole movie is when Max says" I'm grown up, I have my own life now". Goofy just says "I know I just wanted to be a part of it." That line gets me in the feelings every time!🥺
I audibly “Awwww”ed when he said that
I still cry during that line every time I watch the movie.
There was a talk at my church about the rod & they brought up the point about the shepherd. "He uses it guide his sheep not beat them". That analogy has stuck with me ever since.
Do you think that the beatings are a result of the inability to shepherd properly?
There is a consensus among Old Testament scholars, hebrew men have the authority to beat those under his command, which include their children, wives, slaves, concubines and animales. When Abraham came down from the mountain with Isaac, not only bring a knife to the penis of his own child, but he also does the same with all his male slaves in his house, an act that any sane person would describe as violence.
If modern christians want to interpret "beating with te rod" as the metaphorical "guide as a shepherd" I guess is fine cause less children will be beating, but is intellectually dishonest nonetheless.
You do realize that if a sheep keeps leaving the flock and going it's own way, the shepherd breaks the sheep's legs and carries it around right? The rod is indeed used to beat the child, that was literally the point of all of Israel's captivities, the nations coming in and spoiling them were the rod, because Israel refused to listen, hell that was why they spent 40 years in the wilderness. The point is using such discipline with wisdom, not all things require a beating, not all children require one either, some learn better then others and are more humble and understanding. Others you need to give a whopping to because the alternative is someone else doing so, and they're not likely to stop.
@@zanru6897 the sheep thing's not true & you should never beat a kid. It you want to teach them stuff you need to know what their personal currency is and restrict that. Hitting someone doesn't teach them the rules it teaches them to avoid you.
Ehhh, the shepherd did beat sheep with the rod. Sheep have terrible eyesight. But they also used it to fight predators.
I remember both sympathizing with Max as a kid for feeling like he wasn’t being heard or understood by his parents and also kinda resentful of him because his dad loved him so much. Made huge meals, involved himself in his kids life, planned elaborate trips, and did everything he could to protect him. I would have killed for a dad like that.
Yes me too it took my dad 30 years to finally explain why he behaved the way he did and what part my granny and my mum played in his experience with me. It's not all perfect but better. Now i try to do things by myself and one day find a partner who wants to join me.
Yes. I was crazy mad at him treating pops like that. But I would have done the same
I think that is perhaps part of what the Video poster is saying. It came off as almost a parental fantasy to the black community, because our parents were more like Pete, while showing even goofy's style still had its own set of problems.
SAME
Same. It isn't like I don't understand Max's frustrations, but since I had a father who was never involved in my life and bothered to even try, I really appreciated Goofy's efforts and wished he was my dad.
Gotta add that "Stacy, talk to me, talk to me" to more black influence, that's a whole Jodeci Come & Talk to Me reference.
This 👏🏾
Wow
Classic
Took me years to realize it until I first listened to that song lol
And the person who voiced that nerd kid... is also Zuko from Avatar.
It's funny because if Max and Goofy had talked about what happened, Goofy would LOVE what Max did at the assembly.
As a Mexican American lil child I related way too hard with pjs reaction to his dad's punishment, because that was my reality and I envied the hell out of max for not appreciating his dad. Idk how but you condensed my childhood memories in a concise and poignant manner.
When I saw the title I was like "oh black people liked this too? figures, they have good taste" (I was raised on black sitcoms lol)
Disney Channel in Mexico played this movie ALL THE TIME and when disney plus came out, first thing we did was watch A Goofy Movie, and then Goof Troop
same here but i was raised by a step-dad from georgia who had some serious problems growing up from his father which he was trained to think was normal
still have some mexican influence too, just now am i realizing how crazy my family treats each other. my abuela gossips about her own adult children and bashes on them, my tia has had so much pressure placed on her that she rarely visits anymore, my father has distanced himself entirely due to the poor treatment and my cousin is getting judged for not being "a good boy like me."
i am one of the only "good" children her children have raised in her eyes, sure we're all her grandchildren, my baby primos and primas included, but for some reason she focuses on me and has decided to give me special treatment and i dont know why.
i'm wondering if you know why?
You and me my friend. It’s the fate that befalls, if not all, most of Hispanic-Americans.
@@CaspersGhost perhaps you share the looks or personality of a family member that your abuela was dearly loved by when she was young, so she associates u with that person and dotes favorably on you. or u have the lifestyle that she wishes she couldve had herself when she was young. i have somewhat the same experience: i look almost exactly like my dad, who is my grandfathers only son that survived to adulthood, and im the first grandchild. so its a triple wammy for favoritism. he and my granma had a lot of babies that he couldnt bond with before death so my aunts tells me he was fairly distant when they were young , but now that hes retired w a nice pension and could rest assured that his family name is carried on, he can allow himself to spoil me. a lot of it comes down to complicated emotions and a sad history :(
seconding this as a latino-american growing up poor in a redlined black neighborhood - not that I even fit in well there
So it’s a literal certified hood classic
I remember seeing this in theaters as a kid. I didn't understand why at the time, but I remember having really complicated, sad feelings after the scene at the Possum Park.
I think it was seeing Goofy trying to share something he loved a lot with Max, and Max not being able to relate to it at all. Coupled with that was the sadness of this busted, old rodeside show that was clearly falling apart. Legitimately haunting for some weird reason lol.
oh,it hit hard. not as much as "hi dad soup" but still hard.
For me, it was even harder because I got this impression it was something Max had liked when he was LITTLE -- it's like going to Chuck E Cheese for your birthday as a kid, then trying to go back as a grown up and the magic is gone.
@@phastinemoon TRUE that was a big part of it too.
watching that scene as a kid was the first time I really realized that all the old junk parents seem to want to make you sit through wasnt always old, busted run down junk - it was once freshly painted, well greased, and cutting edge. It was their childhoods they were trying to show us, they just couldn't see that over the decades those things were worn out and kinda scary to us. It made me pause and wonder if my dads dad ever tried to show him strange devices and badly drawn cartoon characters. Might of been my first true generational-existential thought.
@@SaltedSapphic awe ;-; here stranger, *hug*
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I think it's sweet this movie resonated with young black Americans so much. It really does capture a feeling and a mood of the era. To me, Pete and Goofy represented my divorced parents' approaches to raising children. PJ was the spitting image of one of my black friends when I was younger. I'm not from the city so I can't relate in that respect. It was during their time in the rural areas and on the road I most connected with the movie. Makes sense considering that's how I spent a lot of my younger life. Camping, fishing, floating down the river, always in the car going somewhere. Things I loved as a young child that became more quaint and distant as I grew up and developed interests outside of my dad's. Just a fantastic movie.
Honorable mentions go out to An Extremely Goofy Movie and the disco scene at the club. The way the dancing is shot, the way characters are framed, the energy, Sylvia Marpole's big natural hair. To me it dripped with the feeling of older black media like Soul Train.
Yes only black kids have divorced parents, fat friends, and go camping with their dads yes. Good analysis.
@@Solar_CorpusIsn't it exhausting always seeing the worst in everything? Have you ever considered investing in some critical reading skills?
"The second hand smoke of the generation that came before you." -- That could not have been better articulated! #subscribed
I’m not sure how you managed to fit all that into 34 minutes, but you had my attention the entire time. How long have you been chewing on this essay?
THREE 👏🏾 YEARS 👏🏾
So well done! Thank you so much for putting this all together!
@@Readus101 actually gasped when i read that
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Time well spent.
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You are about to get mad hits after the last episode of Atlanta!!!!
Lol
Right!? He could seriously do a follow-up with just "Told ya!"
I didn't know I needed this but I absolutely do!!!! A Goofy Movie was on repeat on my TV as a kid and I was obsessed with it. That scene where they are eating pizza on the water bed, absolute classic 👌🏽
that pizza had no right to look that good and that room had no right to be that awesome.XD
Me too.
So much so, that I'm still waiting for Bringing with Babish to do an episode on how to make the pizza.
I do appreciate that the movie is not just an OK Boomer film; this movie I think should be taught in schools about how to fix generational conflict I mean really it is it is a perfect distillation of the miscommunication the lack of agency young people have in their lives and adult's need to pass a torch or something similar based solely on their own experiences.
Not black, but my dad used to literally say the phrase "when I say jump, you say how high." And if I said yes or no, he'd stop us and make sure we added the word sir. He definitely conflated intimidation and fear with respect. I love my dad a lot, but it took time to get over that.
I've never understood parents who required their children to call them ma'am or sir. Those kinds of parents always scared me. My mom is strict enough without pulling that stuff.
A simple answer is that Max had a fly look and vibe to him. He didn’t act like the typical white kids we had to see so it had flavor. He wore clothes that looked like a black teen and walked like a black kid too. Same for some other characters. The movie felt very urban.
welcome to the 90's.XD
Are you saying that Max walked with the exaggerated swagger of a black teen?
@@MadHatter42 omfg I love you so much
I always imagined his mom was a light skinned black woman and that’s why he was so fly
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This is such an excellent piece of socio-historical analysis, I wasn't expecting to have feelings about redlining when I clicked on this but I should've known you'd take me to school 😭
The explanation of "spare the rod, spoil the child" hit me really hard. I got very teary eyed hearing that our perception of what the rod was is not the same rod I thought it was. I'm the youngest out of 4 with all my older siblings being over 10+ years on me. I was spoiled rotten and was often put down often because of it (i.e if I had problems my family said I didn't know what I was talking about, being told I didn't have a valid opinion, being told i was selfish, ect.) And because my sisters knew all about the expression of sparing the rod, I took that expression very seriously when I was a teen because I thought I wasn't "disciplined" enough so I inflicted a lot of emotional baggage on myself in order to "humble" myself and to prove to people that I had a valid enough voice to be heard and not some spoiled kid talk. I still carry with me a bunch of bad habits because of what I did when I was younger such as over worrying over miniscule/unimportant things. In the end, it really didn't matter and how I have to unlearn all that. Putting into perspective of what the rod actually is - well, it's a lot to process, I suppose.
I'm youngest in my family. i can relate to this. I'm still suffering this a little as well to this day!!
Its interesting the demos this movie hit with. Watching the trio of Disney Xmas stories with the wife & son i noted how PJ was missing and she asked "who's PJ."
"You know, PJ, Peter Junior, Pete the cat's son, Max's best friend"
"I dont remember him, are you sure?"
"You dont remember the Goofy movie?"
"I dont think I've ever seen it... I thought you didnt have disney channel growing up..."
"I didnt, but its the goofy movie, the defining disney movie of our generation before toy story came out..."
we then pulled it up on Disney+ and watched it and you know it hits different as a parent.... Where you saw both Pete and Goofy as the bad guys as a kid, you see 2 single dad's trying their best based on their differing philosophies of parenting. The line pointed out "You may not agree with how I raise Max, but my son loves me." with the response "My son respects me." gives you the notion that its a non-intersecting ven diagram between the 2 thoughts. But you can have both as Goofy proves in the end.
It's unfortunate that some parents assume those concepts are mutually exclusive. I'd rather my children respect me because they love me and vice versa.
props for using PJ's full name.XD also on the point of pete and goofy it should be noted that both max and goofy were in the wrong (max was moody and didn't appreciate what a great dad goofy was and goofy was so caught up in his own fears that he never listened to his son until forced to) so both were the "bad guy" (there's no real bad guy in this movie). pete is just kind of a dick though and always has been (this is shown in the goof troop show that the movie is based on where he has both a wife and daughter and he's still kind of a ass) so no big change there.
I'm surprised you knew Pete was a cat. I didn't learn that for a long, long time. He doesn't look like a cat, and my first exposure was Goof Troop and A Goofy Movie, where it seems like everyone is a dog.
@@AlexisMitchell87 love is a very recent concept in relationships, whether romantic or parental.
@@Heyu7her3 what do you consider recent? It's a type of bond rather romantic, platonic, or familial, described throughout all of recorded history.
I found this video because Atlanta's next episode has the description "An inside look at the production of the American classic ’A Goofy Movie‘"
Man, I'm a white guy, but the whole thing about discipline, "respect", and lack of proper communication just hit me so hard, it really felt like you've been talking straight to me. I mean, I have never been hit by my parents, but the psychological pressure was surely there, especially from my dad, the same way you interpreted Pete and PJ.
I know I'm not the only person who went through that, but you've put into words what I've always felt but couldn't properly explain, in such a relatable way that I kinda feel better, in a sort of "you're not alone bro" manner. Thanks.
Yup, latino right here and yeah. The belt and the pressure. It cuts deep, My dad never felt like a parent, just an authority figure if that makes sense. I mean I love him but shit, he treated me like his maid. Never any how was your days or anything. That sort of buddy buddy interaction Max and Goofy have in the hotel room hurt. I have never once had that relationship with my dad. I’m not myself around my dad, and I feel like I can’t. I’m not allowed to punch a pillow to vent. “If I’m gonna hit something hit him”. It’s just like I’m constantly being judged. It’s sort of instilled this sense of fear and inadequacy into my psyche. Little things caused the scale to tip for my dad and I got a very disproportionate reaction from him. Not physical once I got older but disproportionate nonetheless. There’s something fundamentally wrong with our relationship that has effected me my entire life, and yet at one point I stopped seeking to make it better. He instilled the obedience and begrudging acceptance into me I guess. Strict is one thing, but strict and nothing beyond that is another. Once again he just felt like a disciplinary figure. My mother passed away when I was 10, so it was just my dad.
same here brother
As a white woman one can become,
(only an albino is whiter than me 😅)
Then I have the same problem with my parents.
Just psychologically, Pete is my mother and I'm PJ
(probably why I had a crush on PJ when I was little)
While my father is more like Goofy, minus the humor and love.
But then my parents are also much older than me by 30+ years...
(And for those who don't get my bad sense of humor,
I'm Scandinavian)
Also, that inherent fear of telling one's parents something is present in white households, but I think it boils down to their ages. My parents were MUCH older than normal, with my father already having daughters from a prior marriage who were over a decade older than me. My mother was older, though not that old. Thus, they came with the, "You look at me funny and I'll beat the shit out of you. If someone calls CPS, I'll beat the shit out of you again when I get out of jail," mentality. I think the behaviors you've seen came from people who had younger parents. White boomers were never known to hesitate about beating the FUCK out of their kids for the slightest infractions, because the generation before them did that too, and would go so far as to throw unruly boys out of the house at 12, 13, 14 years old. Male child prostitution was off the charts in the 1970s and 1980s for this very reason, and almost all of them were white boys.
I wish I could find the video discussing that with a man who dedicated years into researching it because he was already onto the sex scandals relating to kids in the 1980s. He was killed in... 1984, I think, once he started sharing those findings. He found that black families, for better or for worse depending on the parents, were far less inclined to throw trouble kids out, and would work with them instead (whether that was getting them help, or beating the fuck out of them, was variable).
I don't say this to invalidate what you're saying, but more an interesting observation in the dynamics differences and similarities you mention, along with generational differences.
That’s really interesting, results of that study aren’t so surprising when we take a look at family structures! Black people, poc in general, and anyone in general who isn’t really white anglo-saxon protestant come from a more collectivist culture. We are raised in a culture where the family as a whole is what our lives revolve around. White (older) wasps tend to come from an individualistic culture where like you said for better or worse, you aren’t obligated to maintain contact with your family and can move or be kicked out easily. Of course culture between between different ethnicities vary, I speak on my experience from a Mexican American family :)
…Huh well that suddenly explains some fucked up jokes I’ve seen on American dad
@@intrstellas Its a bit of a mix, speaking as a white millennial.
If I try to leave my family, I have to claw my way out. On the other hand, my failures could mean I get kicked out at 16, which happened to me..
Family is important as long as it is beneficial. Somebody who is *clutches pearls* a drug addict, or a criminal, or god forbid.... poor!!! Needs to be excised from the family tree.
It's a lesser version of the model minority Asian trope. People are just fucked...
@@Sojo214 same here, white millenial sis ✌️
@@Sojo214 Personally, as a white gen z with a baby boomer parent and a gen x parent, its similar for me but not quite. My eldest sibling (im the youngest of 5, shes 34 in 2 days) has done many a crime and drug, but we still hold out hope for her and do what we can to help her, and shes doing better now. There's still times where she engages in screaming matches but other than that she's starting to chill now. We share that family is all you've got mentality, while also being more sectioned off like many white families are. although that mostly comes to age differences and physical distance more than anything.
I’m Puerto Rican and I was born in 2002, I’m a 90s kid only in soul.
I still find everything you laid out here, especially a lot of the parenting stuff, extremely relateable.
The early 2000's were just the 90's Part II.
It’s okay most of us are 90s babies and kids of the 2000s and like someone said the 2000s was the 90s part 2
2001 here
As a fellow 2000's boricua, i think we can say that we've received a lot of the same media that 90's kids got, especially since new stuff wasn't so accesible (at least in my area)
@@noriakikakyoin8587 Yeah as a 1996 baby i still consider myself a 90s kid, cause i got all the hand-me-downs and the old vhs's and all that
Born in 1982, the time this movie came out was PERFECTION. I absolutely adore this movie, even to this day I consider it one of the best Disney movies ever made. Though it doesnt have the global love that Lion King or Frozen has.. it has a million times more heart and realism than those two movies combined. Nobody had 'superpowers' they were just regular people dealing with regular family problems. Also Goofy is just a fantastic dad, I remember being so envious of a father who cared so much for their child as I had pretty neglectful and disrespectful parents who didnt seem to care about me -at all-. Films like this are important for kids who were like me. It really taught me how to problem solve and be truthful even if it means to hurt someone elses feelings. Also the movie was just plain fun and had AMAZING songs!
It really says something that when I heard “The rod is actually a shepherd’s crook” my mind went “Oh! That sounds way more painful! And it has a longer reach!”
Well the crook is to hook a sheep that's about to walk off a cliff or drown themselves for no good reason. Sheep are idiots.
Oh no!
@@brianboru2762 like people
The recent episode of Atlanta made me remember this vid existed
Moment that earned the like: "That's why _Euphoria._
No, that's it, that's the whole sentence."
@@ayeilak5 of course 😭 teens are gunna try and chase what happens if they give them all a happy ending an
@@ayeilak5 I would say it’s interesting especially when you find out it was based on an Israeli version that no one can find
@@ayeilak5 Yeah, i don't think it's for everyone, specially the scenes where the protagonist has to do unspeakable things to the girls he chooses as partner.
The most screwed up part was where they formed the girls into a circle and recreated the human centipede, that was hardcore!
@@Re_V what
This hitting my recommended after that Atlanta episode is wild
It is interesting to see this was made months before FX Atlanta’s The Goof Who Sat by the Door episode. Good work.
My husband absolutely LOVES this move so I finally gave in and watched it. He was born In 89’ and I was born in 95’. We also watched this with our 5 year old son and he was dancing and laughing along with his dad. I hope I never forget that memory. 😌
And then all of a sudden my youth makes sense! I once told my boyfriend that A Goofy Movie is the most underrated movie ever! And at 36 I still listen to the soundtrack almost every week!!!
Yeah...I agree a lot with what you said about content creators being slightly detached from the generations they portray. As someone who is Gen Z, "Euphoria" at times can come off as a mockery of us. "A Goofy Movie" will forever be a classic in my eyes and this analysis was great. I love that us black people have claimed it.
Very true
yeah its way to realistic and full of cheating, drugs, drama not really my thing so yeah goofy movie was top tier compare to
euphoria
yeah, Euphoria isn't about you champ. Not by a mile.
@@chand911 It's about Sam Levinson but go off I guess.
@@Daphanewithpain The point of my comment wasn't to compare the two, though I understand it comes off that way. "A Goofy Movie" was intended for children while "Euphoria" is intended for...well I actually don't know because not even the audience can agree on who it's for (I say this as someone who watches it.) No one can seem to agree if the show is for teenagers or for adults so...
Even though I'm white, I was raised in a lower middle class home with my dad being a former cop and this discussion still resonates with me.
Oh man, a former cop? That sounds scary.
"Wow this video was good. What if I...." - Donald Glover
My boy did it before Donald Glover
This was suggested to me after watching that Atlanta episode
sameee
My dad and I didn’t get along when I was a kid. His dad was awful and he suffered from depression and anxiety; which was passed down to me. This was a movie he really enjoyed to watch with me. And I lost him last year. I love him, and am grateful we had this when I was a boy.
😢 dang man I hope you find peace in your future
I always assumed pete beat pj. They don't show it but it felt like that. Growing up in a similar situation. I remember hating max for not appreciating such a loving father. Goofy was everything I wanted in a parent. 😊
6:45 I really like that line! “The content you experience is the secondhand smoke of the generation before you”
Haha yeah. I was low key terrified of Pete all the way through the movie because he was such a threat in my head. PJ was the character I associated with most as a kid because by god I would get my ass handed back to me if I had tried anything like that. We were a percussive parenting household sure enough.
Have to watch the newest episode of Atlanta “ a goof by the door” sum like that
I’m here after the new Atlanta episode
Here after the latest Atlanta episode.
Donald 100% has seen this video
My sister and I watched this movie on repeat as kids!
I'm glad to hear that it resonated specifically with black millenials. This movie is such gold. Love the Powerline shirt!
Whos here after the Atlanta episode
That's funny, I was just thinking about how most "coming of age" movies I saw in my youth were incredibly alienating to me when growing up, and thus had been stewing on the tragedy that writers could only tell stories about their own upbringing by the time it was too late for the next generation to relate. A Goofy Movie, however, definitely felt the closest to my own experiences growing up, though I could tell I was just a little too young to have caught the cultural wave that Max represented.
Now I am a "porcelain person" so I can't say much about the black experience, but I *was* born on that dividing line between late millenial/early zoomer and lived my whole childhood in a poor neighborhood. My dad is and always was a spot-on Goofy: he was single, but women loved him; he was an absolute dork, but owned it; he was a great dancer, but it was outdated; he loved camping, and would often force me on trips; even down to the reluctant trust in authority figures from his own generation and the communication issues with his son, it felt like they based the character on my pops. However, because I was too young to recognise in which ways Goofy was being irresponsible (and possibly because of some self-image issues I was going through at the time) I HATED Max for how he acted in the movie. I still remember my own father's look of horror when I mentioned it, likely because of how much Max reminded him of myself.
My best friend was an exact PJ, too; his mom abused him (both mentally and physically) in order to "teach him respect," and she would constantly get into arguments with my dad about the proper way to raise a child. I am so sick of the phrase "spare the rod and spoil the child" that I almost instinctively rolled my eyes when you brought it up. While I recognise now that she had her own problems she was dealing with, I will never forget the emotional damage she had done to him. Still, he was a very respectful young man, and absolutely loved my dad.
There was this feeling of economic envy I felt for his family which I projected onto Pete, too-- my bro was never "well off," but his grandparents were, so they could afford stuff like a camper and a home bowling alley just like Pete had. I was waiting the entire video for you to talk about Pete's class as an aspect of your analysis, and it came as a surprise to me that you hadn't. I wanna go more into aspects I related to with a scene-by-scene breakdown, but this post is long enough as it is.
Anyway, cool video. I liked the perspective you offered, and it was fun to go down Memory Lane.
This popped up in my feed after watching last week episode of Atlanta 😂.
Yo not sure if you watch Atlanta but definitely check out the goofy episode in the latest season.
Dude, fucking immaculate work. The explanation of "the rod" has blown my god damn mind and just, explaining the core difference by bringing out PJ's received parenting vs that of what Goofy did/didn't do gave me child.
Let's fucking go dude. Can't wait to see what's next!
a goofy movie is a masterpiece that transcends all races,religions,ages and creeds. also powerline is the greatest musical artist of any generation and i will personally fight anyone that dares say otherwise.
I use to try telling people that A Goofy movie was about a black father trying to bond with his son.
Mexican millenial here. And I related a lot to your video since in Mexico this movie was huge! . What I noticed through the years is that black culture and Latino culture has a lot of things in common when it comes to their upbringing.
Amazing video 👏
I’m Dominican-Puerto Rican and this movie hit me big time. I also felt the characters looked like a lot of black-ish Hispanics. Like my aunts look like Roxanne and the Beatnik black girl. IDK but I felt seen.
Of course we connected I see with Roxanne
As a latine queer, I identified a lot with your analysis of the parental styles on goofy and pete. I was raised on beat ups and violence every time I “misbehaved”, and it was a lot being the gay kid of the family and having ahdh. I never felt like I could trust my mom with anything because she would react the way she always did, and it has messed up the way I relate to all the people I care about.
I always loved this movie and the sequel, is it feels kinda like a full circle to see this kind of analysis if the film. Thank you for the video 🙌🏽
Hope you've found peace and love in this world, luv 💗You had it hard, but it sounds like you managed to keep your chin up
Don't Care your Gay
Here after the Atlanta episode The Goof Who Sat by the Door, and its been an amazing rabbit hole to go down
My parents also used THAT ‘Spare the rod’ definition. They’ve softened up a bit over the years and have endless kindness and forgiveness for their grandchildren of course. Still, us kids (adults now) feared them and I think we all still do, at least a little.
This is a fantastic movie and a great analysis!
The algorithm has blessed you (and us!) I can tell you out a lot into it.
I’m glad to hear that this movie spoke to young black kids. It has so much depth and emotion for a piece of media you’d expect to be silly, mindless fun. Of course, there’s some of that sprinkled in too. And the music!
You a write for Atlanta 😂 great breakdown family
Coming across this video after just watching the episode of Atlanta. I can’t help but feel like the show writers also watched this lol
When you talked about 80s (or late 70s in Grease's case) movies that don't really resonate with Millennials, you reminded me of how Heathers was an 80s movie which really resonated with Millennials (if in later musical form) but not so much with Gen X (as it underperformed on release), probably because of how critical it was of 80s teen movies before it
Not this amazing video being recommended to me after watching one of Atlanta's top five episodes of the entire series. Perfect.
I grew up in the 2000's and I think a tv show that captured that era and being a kid really well was Kids Next Door. It kinda didn't occur to me as a kid but watching it back as an adult, it seemed almost more like a giant neighborhood game within the kid's imaginations that the adults are joining in on than an actual war between adults and kids...
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You cracked this case before the atlanta Tv show amazing bro , as a kid I always thought he was black
I remember watching this video way before season 4 of Atlanta. The universe works in mysterious ways. Black consciousness is always flowing…
"The content you experience is the second hand smoke of the generation that came before you"
Dang, that was really great. Any time I’m watching a parent child bonding movie, ‘A Goofy Movie’ is always the benchmark I compare it to. It’s so rich and full of life and I’m always really happy when I find someone else who has connected with it like I did. Thanks for the awesome video!
Atlanta brought me here (if you know, you know)
PLEASE DO A REACTION VIDEO TO THE ATLANTA S4E8 GOOFY EPISODE!
who here after atlanta episode?
I was about 12 when i first watched the goofy movie, it really stuck with me. In our home we had a family movie every weekend, one of the only positive things my mum did, she'd let us pick a movie each week, though i seldom got the chance to pick a movie cos my sibling was the fav so always got the choice. One day my sibling picked the goofy movie and I thought I'd hate it, that it'd be an excuse for boys doing dumb stuff in a movie. I was heaviky parentified as a kid and was surprised by how much i related to and wanted to be like Goofy, he was the kind of parent i wish i had and knew i wanted to be like. He makes mistakes, but his love for Max is evident in every moment of the show. We ended up with me loving the movie and my family saying it was boring and too sentimental, so never got to watch it again until they wentnout and forgot about me, when id have tv access solo. It was one of those stories i saw as a child that helped me to understand why our home was so toxic and what i should be aspiring towards (its no joke i was basically morally raised by tv, most of my core values and morals were learnt from tv/films/books, despite i was raise Catholic and i was a good girl to stay safe).
Donald Glover definitely watched before he made the episode on Atlanta
The show Atlanta brought me here but this theory been floating around.This video is great
Me and the homegirls grown asses just watched this last week 🤣 I absolutely love that movie.
Sadly, I grew up nearly no POC. Only one older teen named Robert in my youth and his dad. My mom was asian, My dad was always working or trying to keep food on the table through underpaid govt work. I often felt that ‘under the thumb’ from my mom, but a more goofy side from my dad.
I love this look into your perspective. Very eloquent and well delivered. ❤ It also opened my eyes in more than a few ways. the clarification of the ‘Spare the Rod’ verse.
I related with Max in very much the same way, crushes make anybody crazy. At any rate, loved this video. Such charisma, I wanna hear more from you.
Wow saw this video months ago and just watched the newest episode of Atlanta s4 ep 8 and had to come back and rewatch! Great video btw !
I found this after watching the Goofy Movie episode on Atlanta! 😂
You know it’s funny that growing up I always related to Max and Goofy on the pressure from others to be less close. I remember hearing people regardless of race make comments to my mom about how she wasn’t disciplining me enough and making her feel weak. And peers making me feel like there was inevitably something wrong or weak about me for never having been beaten. Obviously other people would relate to the opposite but I never gave it a lot of thought at the time. It’s just interesting.
This was good timing for me to find this video after that episode of Atlanta came out. Great insight, great video.
I can’t be the only one thinking about that one Atlanta episode rn
This movie is definitely one of the best Disney movies. Even though I'm a 90's kid, I think I didn't end up seeing this one until late high school. But when I did, it quickly became one of my favorites. Just something about it is so sincere, and I'm a sucker for good wholesome parent-child relationship stuff in movies. I'm not black, but it makes me happy to hear it resonates in a special way with black millennials.
This gotta be where Atlanta got the idea from I didn’t even search for this it was in my recommended good vid 🔥
So this was before Atlanta episode. 🔥
Wow, what an amazing analysis. You brought up things I never thought about or considered. I grew up in a Hispanic household, and the first years of my life were spent in a poor neighborhood in Austin TX. Now that I think about it, it was probably a redlined area. I've grown up with this movie, and after all those viewings, I never realized that I could relate to PJ. My father was definitely more of a Pete. Keeping us kids under his thumb. I grew up feeling like PJ, having more fear for my father than respect. Being terrified to step out of line, otherwise its a beatdown. Thanks for this analysis, man. I now have a new appreciation for this movie.
Well...I have never felt so engrossed in a commentary in a while. Thank you, I'm a baby millennial born on the cusp literally the month this movie came out lol but I watched it growing up and always felt a deep connection with the story, it makes me feel at home and heard (almost). Definitely subscribing, love it.
I'm a white dude and this movie is one of my all-time favorites. I'm genuinely so happy that it continues to find new audiences and get the respect it deserves. Also; 'I2I' is the best song from a Disney movie, bar none. I was at my GF's house this past Thanksgiving and while I was aware of how big it was among black millennials, I had no idea just HOW big until she and her cousins and their respective family were so excited to continue their yearly tradition of sitting down and watching it together.
Your thesis/review is pretty interesting and I respect the hell of it.
For me, when I was a kid, I enjoyed the movie many times, not because of the likeable and memorable characters, but also shows what I have to go through when I become a teenager.
I'm not black, but i always love to hear about black culture and what poc have to say, ¡This was such an interesting point of view for the movie!
As a gen z that was like Max as well when i was little, i always felt bad for him, but i remember feeling so bad for Goofy as well, that it made feel as conflicted as much as i loved the story and the resolution😂
I think the talent of the writer of this movie trully shines, even if based on his own experiences and contact with younger people, because it is THAT good, and if someone relates to my story this intensively, and enjoys it this much, i would feel like i've done my part on the world, and it was all worth it❤
That's why i really appreciate this video, it showed me how much you like this movie, even seeing it between the cracks and softly analizing it's rims, like all art should be appreciated.🎉
Why was I so excited to see this randomly show up on my homepage? I watched this movie weekly, *every* summer. Thank you! I was literally having a midlife crisis yesterday; this made me feel like a youth for 30 minutes.
For those that are sensitive, there are some gnarly flashing lights at 14:09
I hope bro got a writing credit on atl.
love that this was recommended to me after Atlanta's episode
In before Donald Glover makes an episode of Atlanta about this
I absolutely love A Goofy Movie! I watched it on TV all the time and I wanted to go to a Powerline concert so bad! 😂 thank you for such a deep and interesting analysis of one of the most underrated Disney films.
Edit: also I relate so much to the poverty aspects. I’m white but my school district was poor and mostly black and we had NOTHING most of the time. My high school didn’t have buses and we didn’t do a school play and they used to run out of food in the cafeteria. We definitely didn’t have an AV club either!
I'll miss Atlanta 😔
Damn, is this the inspiration for the Atlanta episode?
JUST SAW THE GOOFY MOVIE DOCUMENTARY R.I.P THOMAS WASHINGTON ! THANKS READUS!
Huh, was not expecting an in depth analysis of the differences between Pete and Goofy's parenting when I clicked thise video.
Very well done.
I just came from FX’s Atlanta! Have a deeper love and appreciation for this film now!
as an adult, it makes me sad to realize so many of the choices my dad made while parenting were born from fears he never really expressed to me when I was a kid. Love any and all readings of this crazy underrated parenting movie