Goofy performing another song and dance show. Mickey and his gang's animated shorts by this point routinely featured song and dance numbers. It begins as a typical Mickey cartoon of the time, but what would set this short apart from all that had come before was the appearance of a new character, whose behavior served as a running gag. Dippy Dawg, as he was named by Disney artists (Frank Webb), was a member of the audience. He constantly irritated his fellow spectators by noisily crunching peanuts and laughing loudly, till two of those fellow spectators knocked him out with their mallets
Dippy (London) was unveiled for public display. Dippy started a tour of British museums in February 2018, mounted on a new more mobile armature. Over the following three years, Dippy will be exhibited at locations around the UK: Dorset County Museum (10 February - 7 May 2018), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (26 May - 9 September 2018), Ulster Museum (17 September 2018 - 6 January 2019), Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Great North Museum, the National Assembly for Wales, Number One Riverside in Rochdale, and Norwich Cathedral. Dippy (London) Dippy is a plaster cast replica of the fossilised bones of