"Goofus" is a 1930 popular song with music written by Wayne King and William Harold and lyrics by Gus Kahn.

The record first reached the Billboard charts on September 29, 1950, peaking at number 21.

became the hit but the matrix number of Harris' single shows Goofus as the A-side.

The Carpenters attempted to repopularize the song in 1976, when it was released as a single from their album A Kind of Hush.

However, as a sign of the duo's declining popularity at the time, it was the first Carpenters A-side single since "Ticket to Ride" in 1970 to fail to make the top 40 portion of the Billboard Hot 100, or to reach either #1 or #2 on the Easy Listening chart.