Pete Junior

Pete Junior

DisneyChar
name = Peter Pete, Jr


first appearance = "Bellboy Donald", 1942
created by =Walt Disney
voiced by =Clarence Nash
Rob Paulsen
aliases = PJ, Peej, Junior
relatives = Black Pete (father)
Peg Pete (mother)
Pistol Pete (younger sister)
friends = Max Goof (best friend)
Robert Zimmeruski
Rose Dekenbloom
Beret Girl
rivals = Marty
Tooth
Nails
Bradley Uppercrust III
Tank|

Peter Pete, Junior, (Known mostly by the abbreviation PJ), is a fictional character created by The Walt Disney Company. As his full name suggests, he is the son of the company's oldest recurring character, Pete. He is an anthropomorphic cat.

Overview

Like Goofy Jr. in the cartoons where Goofy played the role of George Geef, PJ went through an immense change in physical appearance for "Goof Troop", as well as personality. PJ became chubby, shy, and a loyal friend to Max (as Goofy Jr. had been renamed). This version of PJ would later show up alongside Max in "Goof Troop"'s two movie spin-offs, "A Goofy Movie" and "An Extremely Goofy Movie". P.J. was basically the mirror opposite of his father personality wise, as Pete would attempt to constantly force him to do "manly" type activities, of which PJ was no fan of. During the show, PJ's personality is more like Goofy, while Max seems more like Pete, in his get-rich-quick schemes.

Throughout Goof Troop and its follow-up movies, PJ ages in real-time. In Goof Troop (1992-93) he is 11. Then, in A Goofy Movie (1995) he is 14, and in An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) he is 18.

Bellboy Donald

The character was first seen in the 1942 cartoon short "Bellboy Donald". Here, he is the bratty offspring of Pete, who portrays a surprisingly well-mannered senator who is staying at the hotel where Donald Duck works as a bellhop. Throughout the short, P.J. continually harasses Donald, who cannot fight back because of the hotel's policy that "the guest is always right". Donald exacts his revenge in the end, though, as he is able to spank the kid shortly following being fired. PJ is dressed in attire reminiscent of Little Lord Fauntleroy. In this cartoon, P.J. was voiced by Donald's voice actor at the time, Clarence Nash.

Goof Troop

In Goof Troop, his casual outfit consists of a purple turtleneck, a medium blue jacket, light blue jeans, white gloves and orange shoes with a thick yellow line running down the middle. Even though these are the clothes he is most seen in, he wears many others throughout the series, and wears more outfits than any other character in the show. He is also the only one to occasionally not wear gloves (without it being an animation error). His voice actor throughout the series was Rob Paulsen.

PJ makes his most prominent appearance in the series Goof Troop. PJ was seen as being polite and helpful, but not very intelligent. In the episode 'Axed by Addition' he almost failed Math, but got an A with Max's help and in 'All The Goof That's Fit To Print', he says that he is getting an F in English. He is often shown as being a better friend than Max is. He is often seen abused by his father in different ways, Whether being manipulated, threatened or even sometimes hauled about. In 'An Extremely Goofy Movie, his father can't wait for him to leave, so that he can turn his room into a bowling ally. He is primarily shown as cowardly, but has been shown to be quite tough, as he beat up Tooth and Nail multiple times in 'Lethal Goofin', and being able to walk in concrete boots. In the series, he has been a member of the school's safety patrol, a member of a biker gang, a reporter for his dad's newspaper, temporary manager of 'Honest Pete's Used Cars', an 'army' recruit for his great-uncle Bob Sparrowhawk's 'team' and a rocker.

He, like his father, has a phobia of heights. He is often unappreciated by Pete, even though PJ tries his best to impress and help him. PJ is shown as being treated almost as a slave, often doing his dad's grunt work. Pete even states in one episode that he is king of the house, and that PJ is a peasant. When PJ once asked for payment for the work he did, Pete gave him a nickel (5¢).

Some of the chores he has had to do include pulling weeds, raking leaves, mowing the lawn, crushing cans, collecting trash to recycle, scrubbing the driveway with small toothbruses, unclog the houses' gutters, brushing his dog's teeth, picking hairs out of the carpet with tweezers, scrubbing the swimming pool and even play with little sister, Pistol. Pete has even gone to the extremes of manipulated PJ into doing his job for him, by pretending that he was dying, and that PJ would have to take over his job, of the family would fall into poverty.

In one episode, he shows that he is counting the days until he finally can leave home. 7 Years, which is 366 weeks, which again is 2,556 days (This re-enforces the fact that PJ ages in real-time, as seven years later, In 2000, he left for college).

Still, PJ is loyal to Pete, and does almost anything he asks of him (though this is mostly out of fear). PJ is shown as having no friends other than Max, and even says that Max is the only friend he's ever had. He is constantly forced to play with his sister, in her very demeaning and humiliating games. In the first episode, he explains to Max that he isn't allowed to play with anything in his room, and in the second, he is prohibited from playing with Max. The only way that they were eventually allowed to be together is when they start tearing apart both Goofy and Pete's houses, pretending that they agreed with their parents (during this, he impersonates Pete in his linguistic stylings. E.G. imitating his ramblings and saying words like 'interfearinatin' instead of 'interfering'). This caused Pete and Goofy to unite to stop them, saying that they should learn to get along. For some reason, he possesses a switchblade, as shown in 'Tub Be, Or Not Tub Be'.

Throughout the show, PJ is shown primarily to be scared of most things, but when needed, he has shown great bravery. In 'Big City Blues' PJ risked his life to push a petrified Max out of the way of a speeding truck. During the episode 'O, R-V, I-N-V-U' after thieves stole Pete's RV and kidnapped Max, PJ jumped onto the back of the RV whilst it was in motion. He then proceeded to rescue Max, and defeat the thieves single handedly, using the RV's malfunctions against them. In 'Lethal Goofin', he had the courage to stand up to Tooth, when he stole Max's money.

He has also been shown to be honest and loyal, even when treated poorly and unfairly. In 'Talent To The Max', PJ warned Max not to use the evil magical hat for the talent show, but Max said he would rather stop being PJ's friend than lose the contest. Still, PJ tried to save Max, when the hat turned against him during the show. In 'Tub Be, Or Not Tub Be', PJ was tricked into spying on Max and Goofy's tactics for the race. He was also tricked into helping Pete create traps throughout the race course. When he found out what Pete had done, he then proceeded to help Max and Goofy get passed the traps. When Max found him out, PJ tried to explain that he was only trying to help, but Max wouldn't listen, and hit him, telling him that he never wanted to see him again. Even after this, he caught up with Pete, and distracted him long enough for Goofy to catch up.

Although PJ says he is no good at sports, he is quite good at skateboarding and bike riding (as shown in An Extremely Goofy Movie), and in the episode 'Meanwhile, Back At The Ramp', he is able to skate even while max is standing on top of him, and his eyes are covered by Goofy's sweater. He does, however, fail at baseball and most other sports.

A Goofy Movie

In A Goofy Movie, PJ helps Max to try and impress Roxanne, by videotaping him dance along to Powerline's new song, something that PJ was terrified of doing in case his dad found out (which he did). He later appears, briefly, when Max and Goofy are in the woods, cleaning up Pete's RV. Pete & PJ meet up with Goofy & Max again when they stop off at a hotel. During this time, Max confided in PJ about changing the map to go to L.A. He makes a final, very brief appearance when Max is on stage, cleaning the R.V while watching Max on TV. Even though the series Goof Troop gave all characters equal importance throughout the show, PJ and Pete's roles where overshadowed by Goofy and Max's. PJ is about half Pete's size. Rob Paulsen reprises his role.

An Extremely Goofy Movie

In An Extremely Goofy Movie, PJ appears a lot more, and is voice one last time by Rob Paulsen. He gains a lot more weight, and is about as big as Pete. He is almost as tall as Goofy. PJ is seen prominently throughout the movie as sharing a dorm with Max and Bobby, as well as being on their team for the College X Games. He, Max and Bobby travell to college in Bobby's van. When they arrive, they are followed by Bradley Uppercrust III, college X Games 'king' to a cafe called the Bean Scene, with an offer for Max to join, but not PJ and Bobby. Max declines. When Tank, Bradley's right-hand-man, threatens Bobby, PJ defends him with a biscotti, and later remarks 'Moo, Moo?! Who'd want to join a heard of cows?!' when he hears the name of Bradley's fraternity (Gammau Mu Mu), which is punished by Tank giving him a wedgie. His personality doesn't really change until he meets the Beret Girl at the disco. After speaking poetically to her (which surprises Max & Bobby) she asks him to dance. After this, he becomes a sort of beatnik, and his casual clothes change from blue T-shirt and green shorts to black turtle neck, black trousers and a beret. He and his team make it to the finals, but PJ doesn't participate in th final race, after Bradley straps rockets to his boots, and blasts him out of the arena. His best event is shown as bike riding. PJ is seen at the very end of the film reading Beret Girl poetry.

Other Possible Appearances

PJ also might have appeared in two George Geef cartoons.

The second possible appearance of PJ might have been in the cartoon 'Fathers Are People' when George Jr argues with a kid who looks a bit like PJ from Bellboy Donald.

His third possible cartoon appearance could have been in 'Father's Weekend', when George Geef sees his fat boss get out of the car with the same kid from Fathers Are People.

References To Pop Culture & Real People

Throughout Goof Troop, PJ enjoys watching 'The Mutilator On Main Street' movies, with the main figure a parody of horror icon Jason Voorhees, from the Friday the 13th series, and the film's title a play on A Nightmare On Elm Street. The 'Mutilator', as the film's title character is called, wields a chainsaw, which is most likely a reference to Leatherface, of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre fame. In the episode 'Midnight Movie Madness', PJ is reluctant to watch the movie at first, but is dragged along by Max. When he gets to the cinema, he isn't scared of the film at all, whilst Max is terrified. In 'Axed By Addition' he puts 'watch all 12 Mutilator movies' on his list of things to on his last day of freedom, and he makes another reference in the episode 'From Air To Eternity'. When he finds out his dad's trophies are fake, he compares them to the blood in the Mutilator movies.

In 'Wrecks, Lies And Videotape', as part of Max's plan to get his vacation tickets back from Pete, Max, PJ, Goofy, Peg and Pistol trick him into thinking he is seeing into the future, à la A Christmas Carol. PJ pretends to be a gangster, and goes by the alias 'Scarlips', a reference to real life gangster Al Capone (who's alias was Scarface)

In 'Great Egg-Spectations', PJ makes references to both E.T. and Mad Max. When Max's egg first hatches, he and PJ think the creature might be an alien, PJ asks if he wants to 'phone home'. Later, PJ calls Max 'Mad Max', a reference to Max Rockatansky, protagonist of the Mad Max film series.

PJ also makes references to Star Wars and Star Trek. In 'Close Encounters Of The Weird Mime', PJ gives his fake alien name as C3-PJ, an obvious pun on C-3PO's name. In 'You Camp Take It With You', when Max & PJ are playing with a water balloon cannon, PJ impersonates Montgomery Scott's Scottish accent while firing it at Pistol.

In An Extremely Goofy Movie, PJ remarks, after trying (and failing) to figure out the right directions to their new college, that he isn't Magellan.

Appearances In Other Media

Videogames

He appeared in the Goof Troop videogame for the SNES gaming system. In the game, PJ and Pete are captured by pirates, and Goofy and Max must save them. PJ has a minor, NPC role.

Comic Books

PJ's first comic book appearance was in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #21 (June, 1942), which was an adaptation of the cartoon Bellboy Donald.

He also appeared in several of the comic strips based upon the series Goof Troop, as well as the 1996 comic book adaption of A Goofy Movie.

Merchandise

In 1991, Kellogs had a PJ figure as part of a set of Goof Troop 2.5" figures that could be found in packs of their cereal. Kellogs also released Goof Troop 'squirters', that squirted water when squeezed, as part of a set that could be obtained by buying their cereal, and sending them the proof of purchase and money for shipping.

In 1992, Burger King released a figure of PJ, as part of their 'Goof Troop Bowlers' set, that when pulled back, would race forward.

Other merchandise made of PJ include a 'bendem', which was part of a set that also included Max and Pistol. This figure represented PJ in his 'A Goofy Movie' incarnation.

Name Translations

Chinese - 皮杰, 小庀 特

Danish - Per junior

German - KJ (Karlo Junior)

Finnish - PP

French - Péji

Norwegian - Pelle

Polish - Pajda

Swedish - PJ

Voice Actors

Clarence Charles Nash

Bellboy Donald (18 December, 1942)

Robert Fredrick Paulsen, III

Goof Troop (5 September, 1992 - 5 December, 1993)

A Goofy Movie (7 April, 1995)

An Extremely Goofy Movie (29 February, 2000)

External links

* [http://users.cwnet.com/xephyr/rich/dzone/hoozoo/pj.html PJ's profile in the Disney HooZoo]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/pete-junior?cat=entertainment PJ's profile at answers.com]
* [http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0052648/ PJ's filmography at imdb]


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