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Goofy Sports is an animated series which was produced by Brad Caslor and Christopher Hinton's Caslor-Hinton Productions in 1988. The series featured various sports played by anthropomorphic animals, including foxes, mice, rhinos, and elephants. Some of these sports included ice hockey, shot put, soccer, American football, and table tennis.
The episodes were short in length, ranging from 40 seconds to two minutes. Roughly 45 episodes were created, many of which were played during commercial breaks on Disney Channel in the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. Visually speaking, Goofy Sports bear resemblance to other series' animated in the National Film Board of Canada style. The series was issued on video cassette by Kids Home Video.
Goofy Sports typically featured several of the same four characters in each episode. However, in episodes involving teams, the team was usually made up of numerous identical versions of the same character (for example, a football team of foxes, or a hockey team of elephants).
The elephant is calm and usually emerges as the victor. The elephant is the most frequent opponent of the fox. The elephant remains peaceful and collected, unless a smaller helpless creature (such as a butterfly or a flower) is threatened, in which case he becomes highly protective.
The fox is the antagonist who, for the most part, does not play fair. He frequently faces off against the elephant, wherein he tries to interrupt, distract, or otherwise throw off the elephant efforts. Usually the backfires, as the elephant always wins. Another variation of the fox is the Giant Fox, which is a larger, burlier rendition of the small fox.
The rhino appears less frequently, and along with the elephant, competes against the fox (or foxes). Like the elephant, the rhino always comes out on top, though usually through dumb luck.
The mouse is rarely seen, and usually portrays the referee/judge.