The Olympic Champ is a Goofy cartoon released in 1942. The short was directed by Jack Kinney.
Synopsis[]
An overview of the Olympic Games, with demonstrations of the various games by Goofy.
Characters[]
- Goofy
- Narrator (voiced by John McLeish)
Releases[]
Television[]
- Disneyland, episode #2.24: "The Goofy Sports Story"
- Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, episode #10.23: "In Shape with Von Drake"
- Superstar Goofy
- The Mouse Factory, episode #12: "Spectator Sports"
- The New Mickey Mouse Club, May 13, 1977
- Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #15
- Good Morning, Mickey, episode #31
- The Roots of Goofy
- The Magical World of Disney, episode #33.2: "Disney's All-American Sports Nuts"
- Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #19
- Donald's Quack Attack, episode #55
- The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.35: "More Sports Goofy"
- Have a Laugh!, episode #49
- Treasures from the Disney Vault, December 18, 2018
Home video[]
VHS
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Sport Goofy
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics - Special Edition: The Goofy World of Sports
- Goofy's Greatest Hits
Laserdisc
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Sport Goofy
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics - Special Edition: Happy Summer Days / Fun on the Job! / The Goofy World of Sports
DVD
- Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
- It's a Small World of Fun, Volume 2
Streaming[]
Have a Laugh! changes[]
The following scenes were deleted from the short release due to time constraints:
- The opening narration is edited to remove the description of the Olympics as taking place "within the shadow of beautiful Mount Olympus, in the land of ancient Greece".
- The first scene of Goofy as torchbearer.
- All scenes between Goofy foot racing and the decathlon, including the hurdles, the pole vault, and the hammer throw.
- Goofy is hit several times on the butt.
Notes[]
- The background of Mount Olympus is reused from the opening shot of the Pastoral Symphony segment of Fantasia.
- During the pole vaulting sequence, the narrator quotes the poem "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Gallery[]
Storyboard of Goofy with the torch in The Olympic Champ.
Storyboard of Goofy about to do the hurdles.
Goofy does the hurdle race storyboard.
Goofy does the hurdle race storyboard.
Goofy in the hurdle race storyboard.
