Goopy Geer Goopy Geer Goopy Geer is an animated cartoon character in the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons from Warner Bros. The character is a tall, lanky anthropomorphic dog with scruffy whiskers and long, expressive ears. In all of his animated appearances, Goopy is depicted as light colored, but in an early promotional drawing for his first cartoon, he had black fur. A month after Goopy Geer's first cartoon had been released, Walt Disney released a cartoon called "Mickey's Revue with a character named Dippy Dawg, whose overall appearance was very similar to that of Goopy Geer; due to
Pete (Disney) consistently appearing supporting character to Oswald, and the character continued to appear in that role in the Oswald films directed and produced by Walter Lantz until 1937, making him essentially the only cartoon character at the time to frequently appear in shorts produced by two rival animation studios. His most notable non-Disney appearance was arguably as a captain in "Permanent Wave" (September 29, 1929). Animation historian David Gerstein speculates that when Disney stopped working on the Oswald cartoons for Universal he separated from the character and his cast including Pete. Disney and his team created a cat villain for their