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00:00Did you know that a Disney executive really wanted to cast Steve Martin as Goofy?
00:04Gorsh, what a terrible idea.
00:06Disney's A Goofy Movie was unlike any of the studio's previous animated features.
00:10The 1995 release attempted to combine the slapstick zaniness of Goofy with the drama of adolescent angst.
00:16To this day, it's the only Disney movie that opens with an intensely horny body horror nightmare sequence.
00:21The production of A Goofy Movie is now the subject of a new documentary, Not Just A Goof.
00:25The doc, which was produced independently but is now streaming on Disney+,
00:29doesn't shy away from depicting the Mouse House's corporate blunders.
00:32Specifically, there's a segment focusing on former Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg's inane casting suggestion
00:38that Steve Martin play Goofy as himself.
00:41And he had this great idea.
00:43What if Steve Martin were Goofy?
00:48Wouldn't that be fabulous?
00:49Imagine how you could sell that.
00:51That would be great.
00:52I think I asked Jeffrey, I said, so that means you want Steve Martin to do the Goofy voice?
00:57No, no, no, no, no.
00:58He's going to use his own voice so that we know who he is.
01:01Obviously, this made zero sense considering that the movie was a follow-up to a pre-existing TV series
01:06starring a character whose speaking voice was established in the 1930s.
01:10Director Kevin Lima thought this was a terrible idea but couldn't shoot it down outright because Jeffrey was the boss.
01:16So Lima set out to prove to Katzenberg that this approach was a bad idea.
01:20Instead of paying for Steve Martin, he had Bill Farmer.
01:23The voice of Goofy records several scenes using his natural non-goof voice.
01:27Unfortunately, the actor had a complete meltdown over the studio's criticisms.
01:32I went home and I didn't get much sleep those days because I was worried,
01:36don't they want to hear Goofy when they hear a Goofy movie?
01:39We have to prove to Jeffrey that it's a bad idea.
01:43So we did several days of recording in my voice.
01:46When Katzenberg was shown the resulting footage pairing Goofy animation with the sound of a regular dude talking,
01:51he did a complete 180 and thankfully they didn't do it and the Goofy movie was saved.