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
Melissa Disney a distant relative of American film producer and businessman Walt Disney, though how she is connected to the Disney family has never been made clear. Disney is one of a small number of women who do voice-over work for movie trailers. The trailer for "Gone in 60 Seconds", which she voiced in 2000, was one of the first by a major film studio to use a female voice. She voices the title character Ginger Foutley in the animated cartoon "As Told by Ginger". She is also known for her role as Elora the Faun in "" and as Courtney Gears