Pluto (Disney) was originally created as Dippy Dawg" and "was created as a human character, as opposed to Pluto who was a pet, so [Goofy] walked upright and had a speaking voice". This problem was humorously illustrated in the film "Stand By Me" in which one of the boys ponders, "Mickey's a mouse, Donald's a duck, and Pluto's a dog. What's Goofy?" Also in the series "Funniest Pets & People" a dog "mentions" why couldn't he have pants because Goofy was a dog and had pants. There is also an episode of the Disney Channel series "Even Stevens" called "Scrub Day" wherein
Drip Dippy Donald — but is continually thwarted by the inexorable drip. The cartoon concludes with Donald sitting with a sponge collecting the drips at the end of a long bizarre Rube Goldberg machine he has created. The telephone rings, and it is the Water Board informing Donald that his water has been cut off — effective immediately — for non payment of his water bill. As a result, the drip stops, and Donald, unhinged by the ordeal, begins laughing insanely. Drip Dippy Donald Drip Dippy Donald is a one-reel, seven-minute cartoon made by the Walt Disney Company in 1948. The Technicolor cartoon