One of the best parts of the human experience is having a big ol’ crush — the pitter-patter of your heartbeat, the swell of euphoria when you see the object of your affections, the desire to just squeal with joy! At Polygon, though, we’re very flexible about how we interpret “crush.” Brief-yet-intense infatuations don’t necessarily have to be on real people (or even on people!), or even romantic. Since I have many many (many) crushes, I’ve decided to share the energy of writing their names over and over again in sparkly gel pen in a journal.

The 2000 animated Disney direct-to-video comedy An Extremely Goofy Movie is back in the zeitgeist at the moment. There’s been a sudden wave of fan-created animatics of Goofy’s son Max and his rival, the skateboarding frat boy Bradley Uppercrust III, flooding TikTok. Their relationship even clocked in at No. 6 on last week’s........

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