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
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio although both men eventually became employees of the studio. After a slow start, the studio began to take off in 1940 after its short "The Milky Way" became the first non-Disney cartoon to win the Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons. The studio's roster of talent benefited from an exodus of animators from the Schlesinger and Disney studios, which were facing issues with union workers. Originally established and run by executive Fred Quimby, in 1955 William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the writer-directors of the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, became the heads of the studio. The cartoon studio was closed