How Are Pluto and Goofy Both Dogs?

[@fffianist]

It's because Goofy wears gloves. In the Disney universe the difference between human-animals and animal-animals is gloves. Gloves = you get to vote

[@SteveJubs]

#glovesforpluto

[@ivanalantiev2397]

You are right, but you got it backwards. Characters wearing gloves is a neat shortcut for animators to hide their clearly human-like hands. It is a common solution for anthropomorphic animal characters. If you'd think how their actual hands might look like, you'd start experiencing an uncanny valley effect really quickly.

[@kaisarr7632]

no its slavery

[@lazybonestm]

Segregation 💀

[@MidCentury43]

Wait so why doesn't Donald's species wear gloves

[@technoviking3827]

A video so much more profound that I expected, honestly.

[@needy3535]

Wow this is such a fascinating video. I genuinely wish it was longer! I feel like you just started to scratch the surface! Like. I've never thought about that lower yet loving space that we give to dogs as something that could also be done to a person.

[@professionalpro4142]

I think that's the fun thing about these videos. He only touches on topics and encourages us to look at media with a new perspective and apply what we learned.

[@soyitiel]

reminds me of a video essay I watched a while ago about the philosophical meaning behind pepe the frog meme, a topic so mundane and yet an analysis so deep. If a I find it again, I'll update this

[@trinaq]

"And is it fair that Pluto has to sleep in a doghouse, and wear a leesh, while Goofy, who is also a dog, gets to drive around in a car and play golf with Mickey?" Baby Shia LeBeouf has blown my mind! 🤯

[@eoincampbell1584]

why do so many people have this profile pic?

[@RowDy2Times]

Would you prefer humans be pets? Lol

[@sinnsage]

JUST DO IT!!!

[@samparr3368]

@@RowDy2Times sometimes they are…

[@obscure.reference]

@@eoincampbell1584 bots

[@heartpng]

i was not expecting it to get so profound in the second half, that comparison to bitbulls in Fruitvale Station is really moving

[@ktoth29]

I've never seen fruitvale station, but I was walking through the inner city once when a stray dog charged me, I kicked it and it went on its way and then got hit by a speeding driver. I remember reacting in a similar manner. I picked up the bleeding corpse out of the street and realized there wasn't anywhere I could take it, so I walked down the street carrying a dead dog until I found a vacant lot to drop it.

[@GabrielKnightz]

Personally, within the context of Disney, i always thought that Pluto was to Goofy what a Monkey is to a Human. Branching genetic offshoots of some earlier creature. We can also see Donald interacting with ducks and Mickey with mice so why not.

[@ellie8272]

That's how it works in Animal Crossing anyways.

[@ellie8272]

@@vashsunglasses This video wasn't based on a scientific or evolutionary perspective though. It's based on a social one. Why did the author choose to make both characters dogs? What do they represent?

[@BingFox]

You can also go another direction, like Bojack Horseman where there are no actual animals, so certain chickens are purposely given lobotomies and euthanized to provide protein for everyone else.

[@diskoebalo]

@@ellie8272 dogs are easier to animate than humans, that's why

[@ellie8272]

@@diskoebalo Okay but so are like, cats and stuff. Authors don't just make decisions arbitrarily, and it's fun to analyse what goes into designing a character. Oversimplifying things doesn't help anyone

[@LaytonAlex]

Another brilliant video. You are slowly but surely filling the Every Frame a Painting shaped hole in my heart.

[@ziademad4707]

Yes exactly

[@MrSoundtracksGalore]

Now we're asking the real questions here

[@scarface8736]

Now I feel dumb for thinking he was a cow my whole childhood…

[@eoincampbell1584]

Don't, lots of people get that impression because of how he's paired with Clarabelle. A quiz my siblings competed in when I was a kid even had the "Goofy's species?" question and put cow as the answer. Don't know who the quiz's fact checker was but I guess the internet wasn't as reliable back then.

[@Rosie_Rosebud]

I never for one minute bought that crap about Goofy being a cow. You could look at his character and tell he was a dog. Doing a comparison with Clarabelle, who actually is a cow, would be enough to tell you that he wasn't a cow. They looked completely different.

[@the_scarletta]

He is a cow

[@crazyottsel23]

You were a really dumb child if you actually thought he was a cow 😂😂😂

[@robchuk4136]

Other animals acting like dogs is one of my biggest pet peeves in animation! How to Train Your Dragon is great but it's a big example, and there are so many others too, lol

[@socialist-strong]

would mythical giant flying reptilian beasts act like dogs? maybe. you dont know :P

[@melissacooper8724]

I haven't been around a lot of horses, but I do know that they don't act like dogs in real life!

[@primtones]

Goofy isn't a dog, he's a human in funny animal form.

[@-Scrapper-]

And mickey mouse isn't a mouse?

[@primtones]

@@-Scrapper- Not completely, he's too big, talks and walks on hind legs.

[@haroldcruz8550]

@@-Scrapper- There's actually a very old video where Mickey Mouse was afraid of an actual mouse so yeah he probably isn't a mouse.

[@Trainboy452]

According to Bill Farmer (the current voice of Goofy and Pluto), Goofy is a canis goofus. And canis is Latin for dog. So BOOM!

[@timothymclean]

I thought this was going to be a light-hearted little video about Disney being weird, and halfway through it's about police brutality.

[@granddesign]

That was much more in depth than I expected, great job!

[@LeonhardWindecker]

Now you see it never disappoints, every video is so original

[@Maxvdk24]

The ending shot from Goodfellas fits perfectly, well done!

[@s.berkeakbaba]

There was nothing that we could do about it. Goofy was a made man, and Pluto wasn't. And we had to sit still and take it.

[@sobeso]

A few months later and FX Atlanta made a similar episode analysis

[@_MC529]

Why is Shia LaBoeuf ranting about this topic at like 11 years old is so funny?😂😂😂😂😂

[@mariyam9861]

Nice seeing Roma in here!! That movie is slept on. ive rewayched it and edited a mv of it and seeing all the scenes of Cleo and the family dog put together like this puts it in a new light. Great commentary on Cleos relationship to the family, as a disadvantaged Indigenous woman.

[@colewilson98]

I first heard this question posed in the movie “stand by me” and haven’t stopped wondering about it since

[@Brasegalan33]

They are both inspired by real-life dogs, but in the Disney universe they just are clearly from different species

[@madds5281]

I was not prepared for a dive into the human psyche on a video about goofy and pluto

[@ariverbythesea]

How on earth did you conceive this idea and made an actual meaningful essay out of this?

[@rajdeepkashyap5766]

I think there's another sub-stereotype which is more recent in nature. As now domestication of animal as a pet has skyrocketed in recent decades, some movie use dogs as sign of innocence (tapping the Pluto dynamic) that's why there are many movies where villian kills a dog to show how cruel he is. But this stereotype is also getting old now.

[@jhanelledionne]

This is such a fascinating topic & breakdown. I always thought the same thing about Arthur (the PBS cartoon aardvark) having a pet dog when his friend Binky was also a dog. Never thought about Goofy & Pluto!

[@ChrisDixon__]

1:48-1:57 asking the real questions 😤 Also, _Old Yeller_ is a timeless classic.

[@liverpool379]

I love that everyone is going into their knowledge of the deeper Disney lore to give an actual reason why goofy and Pluto aren’t equal

[@omarsotocarrillo]

I feel like a lot of people didn't get the analogy of the dog and the maid in Roma when it was there from the beginning of the film.

[@lekoe961]

In canon I'd like to think its the clothes that give the animal characters in Mickey's universe their sentience

[@JETZcorp]

STUNNED that he didn't use that clip from Stand By Me.

[@jriver226]

one of the things that has amazed me is the idea that killing a dog is seen as worse than a human. Outside movies and in video games like wargroove (where dogs run away, but humans die), or Hades (Where you avoid a fight with your dog by bribing him, spoiler) you see dogs as a paragon. it's a weird reflection of our views and culture.

[@iminni3459]

I suppose it's for a similar reason that killing a child almost never feels justified in media: they are so innocent that you can't justify it by saying that they "deserved it"

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Personally I think it makes sense. As human beings we understand the flaws of fellow humans, and as such we can accept that when a character dies on-screen, they either had it coming or at least understood the risks that lead to their death. Animals on the other hand exist in a far less complex state of being, and as such it always feels more emotionally impacting when we see an animal suffer or die with no ability to understand why it's happening to them (I guess the fact that it's harder to watch children die on-screen than it is to watch adults ties in to the same concept of innocence). Add to that the fact that dogs are among the most loyal and trusting of all animals and have been specifically bred to be our "best friends" for thousands of years, and it's not difficult to see why we are so attached to them and find it hard to maintain the same level of objectivity when seeing them die in a movie as we can with humans (I myself am fine with any amount of sickening gore on the screen in regards to a human, but I always skip over a scene where a dog dies, even if it's off-screen- say for example the scene in American Psycho where Bateman stabs the homeless guy's German Shepherd and you don't see it but hear it whimpering; I can't watch that, and yet The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of my favourite movies). It may be counter-productive in regards to the survival of our own species and all that, but personally I detest (or at least am ambivalent towards) the vast majority of human beings but love all dogs, and I've encountered a lot of people who feel the same way.

[@joywolf83]

naw it's just humans are horrible and rarely have a legitimate excuse for aggression. dogs that are aggressive, you still understand because you know they're either sick or protecting something

[@jriver226]

@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 I get that thinking, but you are ultimately saying human life is fundamentally less valuable than an animal's. It's a risky message, not gonna slippery slope, but still

[@jriver226]

@@joywolf83 I get the idea, but it's still a statement of the value of human life being less than a dog's. I'm not saying dog killing should be in all these games, but maybe in something like a game about death and killing it can be used to make you ask yourself if you are a monster. It's a sanitation issue for me, and a devaluation of human life.

[@TheRealMirCat]

Aliens are confused how some apes live in houses and some are in zoos.

[@S1nwar]

goofy died in vietman under mysterious circumstance

[@Ismaeltheog]

this was a great video thank you

[@pundertalefan4391]

Because Goofy isn't a dog. He's a Goof. They're a separate species, and there's a society of them. Old Disney fans will remember.

[@heartpng]

but he's still based on a dog, you're kinda missing the forest for the trees there.

[@Brurgh]

does that make Micky a Mick and Donald a Don?

[@pundertalefan4391]

@@Brurgh XD No. They're a duck and a mouse. Goofs are just a separate species, you see them a lot in the old shorts. :-)

[@ZipplyZane]

It's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but just Goofy. (George Geef does exist, but he usually didn't have the dog ears, suggesting he's a different guy.)

[@andrewb838]

Let’s not forget that in 2006 Neil deGrasse Tyson declared that Pluto is not a dog either. In fact, he said, neither of them are dogs, they are just two dimensional animations.

[@TheBoboSamurai]

Based comment

[@amdtoon]

This took a real twist I wasn't expecting

[@siegebug]

Pluto: cause i’m a kinky fucker

[@melissacooper8724]

I never really questioned it about Goofy and Pluto because of cartoon logic being different than real life logic.

[@alltimegamer1343]

HE'S BACK

[@dogeinhd1175]

The best channel 🐐🐐🐐

[@SarsaparillaJenkins]

Can’t believe youre gonna overlook the greatest romance in cinema history with Goofy and Clarabelle

[@melissacooper8724]

Don't forget it's a love triangle! Goofy, Clarabelle, and Horace Horsecollar.

[@cybersteel8]

Incredibly fascinating, I love delving into the nuances of the human and societal psyche. Good video.

[@IrontwistFiM]

well wait, I thought it was known that Goofy and Clarabelle were together? at least, whenever folks decide it's convenient?

[@timothymclean]

And when Clarabelle...exists.

[@ChaunceyGardener]

This is deep. Like an inflatable pool.

[@Keralasha444]

🤣🤣🤣 seriously it’s not that deep

[@bobiboulon]

3 am thought: In a setting where everyone is an anthropomorphic animal, Pluto would be their equivalent of a furry.

[@isaacclarke4229]

There aren't many episodes with both of them together

[@emmaelson6770]

Just watching the pilot of Goof Troop find it hilarious that Goofy has a cat and Pete has a dog

[@MarcosToscanoo]

I think that this question on the title is really dumb, its like asking "How the human and the chimpanzee are both monkeys?" how can a monke and a human be living on the same planet? Bro its just different species with distinct evolutive processes, idk its really easy to answer

[@joywolf83]

If monkeys evolved, why didn't all of them

[@Stunk4]

I'm surprised that the movie Amores perros isn't mentioned, good video

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

It's been 6 months!! Are you done with the channel or any new videos expected?

[@NowYouSeeIt]

New one in a week or two!

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@@NowYouSeeIt omg, you actually saw my comment on an old video! And replied! I look forward to it, I’m sure you have a busy life. Your channel is one of my favorite on movies and Hollywood.

[@dylon.edmunds]

I love how Now You See It is basically shit posting with these video ideas that actually turn out to be bangers

[@WetBoy]

Dude asking the real questions

[@mcol3]

I wish the pace was a bit slower, it felt rushed through from sentence to sentence, without leaving enough space to actually reflect on the content nor on the supporting films. Great stuff though!

[@lexiedgrooms5361]

I feel sad when when Pluto gets bullied a lot and the bully takes away Pluto's girlfriend

[@saminky]

ruh roh raggy, he's connected a simple cartoon to larger sociocultural phenomenons again

[@shanevanmatre3603]

Regular Show does this as well. Some animals are anthropomorphic some are not.

[@Grant-Shillings]

Really good job

[@Pyraticalpunk]

Amazing video

[@GuagoFruit]

In Jojo's bizzare adventures, people criticised the author Araki for always hurting/killing dogs. However Araki said he does that to illustrate the evilness of the people who would do such a thing to a dog. Idk how that fits here but yeah.

[@ellie8272]

Kicking the dog is a very common trope in fiction. It's designed to show someone as pure evil by hurting something harmless that we also love very much

[@TheDropOfTheDay]

I wish Jojo fans would stop trying to shove Jojo into everything. It’s so goddamn annoying.

[@CZsWorld]

This feels like a parody of a video essay.

[@MasterOfLego64]

I honestly think this video way over thinks it and applies and extracts deeper meanings that aren't actually there. Kind of frustrating to watch. I walked away pretty unsatisfied, it just felt like you were trying to squeeze insight out of a joke to make the video. Like that you had to really go looking for things to back up the view point you had already arrived at because you had to arrive at it for the video to work. Usually like your videos but this just ain't it.

[@obscure.reference]

ok but the real question is where do ducks and mice fit into the world of the goofy movie, because they don’t seem to exist outside of mickey and donald.

[@MrRhoadsRules25]

That Shia clip made my day lol

[@Level_1_Frog]

Pluto is treated like a dog cuz that's his kink and Goofy is his dom. You can't prove me wrong.

[@corro202]

Great video.

[@the.lbd.diaries]

When I was younger I thought Goofy was a cow, like Clarabelle

[@kimeraclan3135]

I'm wondering how many dogs are Baxters! In the French movie "Baxter", our titular character, a medium sized muscular dog, speaks in his mind as if he were a murderer but ultimately he is a victim if human mistreatment. A movie such as Baxter makes us reconsider the treatment of dogs by placing a creature of instinct as the victim of the supposedly more intellectually gifted people.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

Human dog vs dog dog

[@emanuelrosenthal4271]

1:47 What a great line.

[@mastaw]

Is that Shia LaBeouf?

[@jackhenderson9380]

Kid Shia is such a good actor.

[@Omar_Little]

/r/banpitbulls nobody needs a monster that deadly as a pet.

[@joywolf83]

then no humans should be allowed to live by that logic. At least dogs have a reason for being aggressive, what's people???

[@jaspervanheycop9722]

​@@joywolf83 Lol what "reason" does a non-sentient dog have according to you? Stop projecting human traits on animals.

[@Kiwipai]

@@joywolf83 Could you elaborate on both points? We see humans as more worth than other animals, so comparing them 1:1 doesn't make sense. Also I'd love to hear what "reason" you think pitbulls have to justify eating babies.

[@lizhasasthma]

Easy: a human and a gorilla are both apes in the same way that goofy and pluto are both dogs.

[@fenixdown22]

Bingo is the best dog in movie history

[@BestOnThursdays]

For some reason I always got it as Pluto to Tom and Jerry to Goofy I thought it was an evolution thing... Tom and Jerry don't talk but they're definitely humanoid they walk on two feet they have human emotion but Tom is owned by a human to get rid of Jerry Mickey mouse has a dog to keep the cats away Thinking of it as symbolism kind of blew my mind nice essay video

[@timbonnarens]

Iconic indeed

[@thekidfromiowa]

Arthur has a pet dog and there are multiple characters who are dogs like Binky or Fern.

[@yazanhussam8182]

There's Feral and there's Anthro, Goofy is an Anthro, while Pluto is Feral, it's not that hard.

[@psychobilly42069]

Now talk about the parquet courts song Pluto vs goofy because I'm pretty sure that shits lost media can anyone find it LMFAO???

[@colten6465]

it's on youtube if you search "parquet courts goofy vs pluto"

[@psychobilly42069]

@@colten6465 it wasn't like two years ago damn thanks king 👑

[@oldcowbb]

damn, so much insight from a meme

[@mikeperry6382]

i swear i thought Goofy was supposed to be a cow

[@aaronharris1092]

And what about A Goofy Movie, then

[@Noone-of-your-Business]

From Disney characters to the real life murder of a young black man. _That_ escalated quickly...

[@PogieJoe]

Damn this went several levels deeper than I thought it would.

[@KMivaldi]

@Now You See It- Loved this video and this channel but . . . next time can we *please* get a trigger warning or at least a blurring-out if you’re going to show a graphic scene of animal abuse like the clip from Fruitvale Station? This is a sensitive issue for many people including myself and I certainly wasn’t expecting or prepared to see that kind of depiction in a video about Goofy and Pluto.

[@frog6712]

Wow, didn't expect this cool video to turn into pit bull apologist propaganda halfway through

[@paperrocks]

I always thought goofy was a homosexual mutant mouse

[@watcher8582]

I don't see how those views on dogs are separated? That's like saying being good at sports and being physically healthy are two "different traits" we see side by side. I'd say they go together.

[@z0bi_]

Top 10 Questions Sience can't answer.

[@StrawHatKirby]

You just had to add that Goodfellas clip, huh?

[@ThePsycoDolphin]

I've LITERALLY been asking this question for years. It's so fucked up its unreal.

[@adonaiyah2196]

This video doesn't really make a lotta sense to me. All the narrator does is beat around the bush, answering questions no one asked while avoiding the main one

[@brandonjustis]

this video is an interesting look at not only dog roles, but of our relationship with them and how it can translate to humans. i feel like sympathy can also be discussed here. the pitbull portion of this video reminded me of a stand-up comedy video where comedian Reggie Conquest tells the story of him and his rottweiler, where he sics the dog at a bully, but it goes too far. it ends up with him being arrested at 12 years old, a fact which he mentions several times, but right when he mentions that his dog had to be put down, the mainly-white audience went "awwwww." there was no such reaction to the fact that he was arrested at 12. i was guilty of that too when i first watched it, ngl.

[@Femaiden]

i was just thinking in the disney animated universe, all the anthro animal people evolved sonehow from lower lifeforms. so maybe Mickey evolved from common mice rodents, while goofy evolved from wild dogs. . just loke humans have an ape ancestor, but apes are still around, maybe that explains why mousepeople, dogpeople and duckpeople exist in thendisney universe but regular mice, dogs and ducks also exist as well. . so goofy have pluto as a pet, might be like a human having a chimpanzee as a pet . . and news flash, chimps are dangerous and savage, do not try to make a chimp into a pet. . but then again, disney characters also exist in a universe where humans also exist, if you want to take who framed roger rabbit as canon, where mickey and donald also exist alongside daffy duck and bugs bunny and humans, and then there was the cartoon "Bonkers" where disney animalpeople exist alongside humans. . then we also have the fact that plutois obviously smarter than a regular dog. so, like, what if pluto is actually a dog person like all the others, but he's differently abeled special needs?

[@Femaiden]

or maybe no evolution occurred because i dunno what disneys views on religion are. . . they might be full of creationists for all i know, or maybe the artists who draw them are the Gods

[@PaulB-kg4op]

Interesting, because when I saw "Roma", I thought the dog symbolized the husband because it was leaving its turds everywhere and the woman had to clean up after it.

[@clickbaitpolice9792]

1:18 where is this from?

[@spiderjerusalem2633]

Name film start video?

[@chuisii]

This video was clickbait but in a good way

[@KomodoDojo]

at 1:50 is that Shia LaBeouf?

[@normietwiceremoved]

Nah sorry, the african american comparison to pitbulls is just wrong. Unlike african americans, pitbulls were selectively bred to be efficient at blood sport and quick aggression and mood shifts, we already have proved that different human races don't seem to have different levels of aggression. I don't care if you've seen one study on the contrary, it doesn't change the countless other studies which have concluded that these are bred to be dangerous dogs, and especially anecdotally of a kind family with a pitbull suddenly eating a childs face off without warning. I understand that pitbulls can feel love and affection, like all dogs, and I understand the viewpoint from someone who's had a pitbull who hasn't attacked someone, but I just simply don't believe it. It should be our responsibility to stop the future breeding of these dangerous dogs. I hope we don't breed anymore and see them go fully extinct in my lifetime.

[@jaelie8398]

I've been around Pitbulls, Dobermans, Rottweilers, etc for 28 years and in 28 years the only dogs I have ever been bit by are chihuahuas and pomeranians. I legit know a guy who was hospitalized by a chihuahua

[@chitsb]

I saw a video that suggested that Goofy is a cow!