Goofy Home Theater
Hooking up your new home theater system can be one of the most painstaking tasks you’ll ever attempt. The boxes all claim that their contents are simple to install and can be done in just a short period of time. Don’t listen! If you are not a trained professional and are not technically sound, this could be one of the hardest and most confusing endeavors you’ve ever attempted to partake in, and you may very well feel like giving up at some point in the near (very near) future. Just ask Walt Disney character Goofy in Goofy Home Theater!
In 2007, Disney put out the film National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets. In theaters, before the film started, there was a six minute short film titled “How to Hook Up Your Home Theater” and starred Goofy, as well as the voice of Corey Burton as the narrator. In the animated short, Goofy is sitting in front of his very meager 13” black and white TV with rabbit ears, in anticipation for “the big game” he becomes frustrated about his TV going on the fritz until he sees that his neighbor is having a home theater system installed. Egged on by the narrator, Goofy goes out and purchases a new system (including a big screen TV that looks to be no smaller than 12 feet tall). Throughout the film, Goofy is attempting to install the system himself as the narrator makes it sound to be far simpler than it actually is. Goofy is confronted with many of the same problems that actually occur when installing your home theater system such as the huge number of cords, the excessive amount of speakers for the sake of surround sound, having a TV that’s probably too big for his room (or even house in this case), and of course the daunting issue of having a plethora of remote controls VS a single universal remote that has hundreds of buttons!
Despite Goofy’s many hysterical short comings and hilarious ways of dealing with each very real problem that occurs, in the end he is able to get what he want when his mind blowing home theater system is at last installed (although those sparking plugs in the corner don’t look so safe). Proof to consumers everywhere that despite the irritatingly hard instructions and a nonsensical amount of chords, that eventually it is doable on your own. After all, if Goofy can do it, surely you can too, right? Just…don’t go cutting our a chunk of your wall with the chainsaw to make room to get to all the jacks on the back of the TV, ok?