Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas.

 

                   Have Yourself a Goofy Little Christmas.

Goofy has been part of my life since I was 2 years old, he has been my 

favorite character, well besides Ludwig Von Drake, Goofy is one of those 

you will never get tired of, so this special makes it all more fitting, 

animation, Christmas and a great story. So, with that, lets get to the 

story shall we:

The special's opening sequence finds Goofy and Max setting up their 

outdoor Christmas decorations, and Goofy is naturally having a hard time 

doing so. He ends up getting his head stuck in a giant plastic Santa, trips 

over some of the reindeer decorations, and winds up catapulting the 

thing across the sky. Pistol comes outside and, seeing Goofy flying 

through the air, thinks that Santa Claus has come early. Later, Pete is 

decorating an ugly-looking artificial tree, explaining to Pistol that the 

reason they don't have a real Christmas tree is because he does not want 

to be anything like Goofy, who does have a real Christmas tree. Goofy 

and Max then show up on Pete's front door, with Goofy offering to 

donate one of his many light-up snowmen to Pete. Goofy plugs the light-

up snowman in, but after he leaves, Pete tries to yank the cord out, 

which results in both Pete getting electrocuted and his house's power 

being shorted out. Fed up with Goofy's decorations shorting out his 

electricity and wrecking his house every year, Pete announces to his 

family that they're spending Christmas in Asprin, Colorado. The next 

morning, right before Pete's family leave on their vacation, P.J. suggests 

bringing Max on their vacation with them, since Max is not thrilled about 

having to help Goofy put up their decorations, but Pete cruelly refuses. 

Max goes up to his dad and asks if, instead of their usual Christmas 

traditions, they could do something different this year, like taking a 

vacation in Asprin. Goofy is not sure he wants to break from their 

standard traditions, but he decides that if it means that much to Max, 

then they'll go to Asprin.

That night, Goofy and Max arrive at their cabin in Asprin, unaware that 

there is a hungry bear in the area. The bear hides in the cabin, disguising 

himself as a bearskin rug, only to have Goofy sit on him. The bear gets 

up and starts chasing Goofy around the cabin. In an attempt to grab a 

rifle, Goofy ends up grabbing a mop instead, but when the bear chews on 

that, it somehow blows up inside his head, and the bear runs out of the 

cabin, coughing up smoke. After that, Goofy goes and gets his Christmas 

decorations out of his car, and then starts setting them up while singing 

loudly. This awakens Pete, who is resting in another cabin up on the hill 

nearby, who goes to his window and yells for the singer to shut up. But 

he ends up slipping out of the window and rolls down the hill until he 

crash-lands in front of Goofy's cabin. Goofy is surprised to see that he 

and Pete are neighbors up here like back home, while Max is annoyed 

that Goofy dragged all his Christmas decorations on their vacation.

The next morning, Pete has caught the chills from his accident last 

night. Peg goes to answer the door, and Goofy and Max come in. Goofy 

wants to take Pete's family out for sledding, but Pete declines, so Peg, 

P.J., and Pistol go without him (but not before Goofy accidentally knocks 

Pete out with his toboggan). Goofy, Max, Peg, P.J., and Pistol all go 

sledding down a nearby hill, during which they end up encountering the 

bear again. The bear chases after them in an attempt to eat them, only 

to end up involuntarily on the ski slopes. Goofy and the others, on his 

toboggan, end up going right through the roof of Pete's cabin right when 

Pete was finishing a jigsaw puzzle.

That night, Goofy brings Pete's family to the front of his cabin, where he 

has decorated a 100-foot fir tree with 693 strings of Christmas lights. 

Goofy allows Pete to turn the lights on, but the lights quickly short out, 

and the tree then catches fire and then falls on Goofy's cabin. The fire 

spreads to Goofy's car, and Goofy is just able to save Max's Christmas 

present before the car is reduced to ashes. Pete laughs at Goofy and 

Max's expense, but Peg invites them to spend Christmas in their cabin, to 

Pete's dismay.

At Pete's cabin, Goofy gets to work making dinner for everyone. But 

when he goes outside to get some ingredients out of Pete's car, the bear 

follows him back inside. When Pete comes in and sees the bear, he and 

Goofy immediately rush out of the kitchen, taking only the pressure 

cooker with them, while the angry bear is left to eat the remaining food 

in the kitchen. While putting the pressure cooker in the fireplace, Goofy 

decides they should sing Christmas carols, but nobody else wants to. 

Despite that, Goofy then starts performing "The Reindeer Dance", 

making a reluctant Max join in. During the song, the pressure cooker 

eventually explodes and blows up the cabin. Pete furiously screams at 

Goofy that he has ruined Christmas for everyone, even Max. Goofy sadly 

goes out "to get some fresh air", after which Pete and his family start 

opening their presents. Max then opens his present that Goofy saved 

from their burning car earlier and sees that it is a framed photo of him 

and Goofy together. This convinces Max to go out into the blizzard 

outside and find his father, and Pete's family eventually joins him. Out in 

the blizzard, the group finds Goofy after falling off a cliff. They dig him 

out, drag themselves to a nearby cave, and warm up by a makeshift fire. 

Goofy admits that it's always getting harder to make Christmas special 

for his son, but Max admits that he still loves his father. Just then, the 

bear shows up again, as it turns out they are in his cave. Fortunately, 

Max starts singing and dancing the Reindeer Dance, and everyone, even 

the bear join in on the song. After the dance, the families and the bear 

sit around the fire singing "Silent Night", during which Goofy and Max 

wish each other Merry Christmas and Pete says that next year he and his 

family should just go to the Bahamas instead.