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Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at the hands of a Toon (cartoon character). Rogers' boss hires Eddy to see if his sexy wife has other male interests, but things get out of hand as Roger is framed for murder with no one but the Toon hating Eddy to go to for help. Written by John Vogel

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Continuity[]

  1. When Judge Doom is melting, he is standing upright, with his body and clothing melting in a pile on top of itself, but when everyone is examining the 'crazy toon', his clothing is laid out, like he was laying down when he melted. It could have easily landed that way.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs[]

  1. Set in 1947, the movie features the Singing Sword bearing thelikeness of Frank Sinatra that croons several bars of the Cy Coleman & Carolyn Leigh song "Witchcraft", which wasn't written, and which Sinatra didn't record, until 1957. (IMDB) That's in our universe; perhaps it was already a big hit in Toon Town, whose residents used Coleman and Leigh as a front to raise some much-needed simoleons by selling the song to Sinatra).
  2. After Roger blows his nose on the handkerchief, it's obvious R. K. Maroon didn't grab the handkerchief out of his hand. It appears he was reaching down to get the handkerchief. (IMDB) Maroon's handkerchief would have presumably been dirtied by Roger's tears and nose blowing. A person would normally try to retrieve such a handkerchief by taking it gingerly by a place presumed to be unspoiled. This reaction is further verified by the fact that Maroon immediately places the handkerchief in the wastebasket.
  3. It is supposed to be impossible to kill toons any way other than the Dip, yet the weasels die laughing. However, it is stated that the characters *thought* it was impossible to kill a toon. Humans may have been unaware that toons could die from laughter. The Judge does say that the toon weasels' "idiot hyena cousins" died. Alternatively, humans may hire a number of phantom toons, such as Casper the Friendly Ghost, and not consider them quite dead enough. When Smart-Ass falls into the Dip, he is not seen turning into an angel like the other weasels, suggesting his fate to be much more serious.

Revealing mistakes[]

  1. Near the end of the film when Benny the Cab crashes into the lamp post, and he gets up to drive Roger to the ACME warehouse, the lamp post tilts to the side, revealing it to be a fake. The impact could have shifted the lamppost.

Movie Mistakes[]

Corrections[]

  1. In the scene where Eddie Valiant follows Jessica into Toontown, he crashes the 1939 Plymouth Coupe he is driving into the back of her parked Packard at 1:10:40. The hood (including the top of the grill shell and hood ornament) on the Plymouth is forced opened from the front by the crash (like the hood opens on a modern car). A 1939 Plymouth has a butterfly style hood that opens from the sides and the grill shell and ornament do not raise with the hood. Example: http://willoughbycoach.com/1939%20Plymouth%20Coupe.jpg Later, there is also no damage to the grill shell and ornament when Roger is leaving Toontown 1:17:42. For the hood to open like it did in the crash, those pieces would have to have been torn from the grill. The laws of physics work differently in Toontown (note Eddie getting "squashed" on the elevator floor). Corrected by JC Fernandez
  2. In the scene right before Valiant gets off the trolley they show a shot of men lifting a sign with Clover Leaf on it. Then when Valiant throws his mail out and runs over to the station they show the same sign in a different spot even lower than before. No they don't. The sign is actually higher than before. Even if it was lower, it's not like the sign was fixed, it was in the midst of being raised on pulleys. They could have adjusted the height. Corrected by JC Fernandez
  3. All cartoons have shadows during the film, but when Eddie Valiant is in Maroon's office and looks at Dumbo right outside the window, the camera turns back to Eddie and there's no shadow over him. When Maroon throws the peanuts out the window, the film cuts to an exterior shot of Dumbo where we see his shadow is cast on the side of the building. So no shadow would be cast over Valiant's face at the window. Corrected by JC Fernandez
  4. When the weasels break through the wall into Toontown, one of them pulls out a brick and says "Toontown is on the other side of the wall, boss." When he says this, he lets the brick go, and it continues to float in mid-air above the hole. This is by design and plays upon the long history of cartoon characters breaking the laws of physics for comical effect.
  5. In the Ink and Paint club, you can tell the hand Jessica uses to grab Eddie's tie is a real one, since it's lighting is so much different to the cartoon body beside it. While true that an actor was used for much of Jessica's dance routine, the actor was painted over so there would be no lighting difference. Corrected by JC Fernandez
  6. In various shots throughout the movie, you can actually see lighted backgrounds right through the toons. So? They may be alive, but they are still are painted on transparent celluloid film (that's why 'dip' kills them). It's only natural they would be slightly transparent.
  7. When Roger bursts through Maroon's window blind, he leaves behind a clean outline of his body shape in it, However look at the section of blind between his legs in the outline. They are magically floating in mid-air as they are not attached to the blind's drawstrings either side. This is an extremely common cartoon gag, and being a cartoon, Roger has the ability to effect his environment (animated or not) in such a way. Just like he can slip out of real handcuffs, but only when it's funny. Otherwise he and they are bound to the laws of physics. Corrected by Phixius
  8. When Valiant grabs Roger after he is singing, dancing and smashing plates on his head, if you look carefully you can see that Roger is a frozen-stiff cardboard cut-out. This was to hide the machinery that was smashing the plates. They made it pretty clear in the "Making of" documentary that each individual film cell was hand-painted. Corrected by Rlvlk
  9. When Eddie defeats the judge by hitting the dip valve with the extended boxing glove, the judge is shown being pushed forward by the spray, however when the camera cuts it shows Eddie sitting there with the spray going past him but the judge mysteriously vanishes. Actually, as the spray hits the Judge sending him backwards, he falls to the ground. He lands at a point on the ground before reaching Eddie. Since the spray continued after the Judge had fallen, and he fell before reaching Eddie, what you are seeing from this angle is the rest of the now unobstructed spray from the machine going past Eddie. Corrected by Jazetopher
  10. In the scene where Roger is looking at the photos of Jessica and Acme playing patty cake, Roger flips through the pictures fast enough that it looks as though Valiant had just kept clicking the button on the camera. This isn't possible because when Valiant was taking the pictures, he had to wind the camera after every shot. But since the very basic motions of "Patty-cake" repeat over and over as you play it, and he only flips through 4 or 5 pictures, it creates a "motion effect" when they are flipped in the correct order of the game. Corrected by Jazetopher
  11. The drunk guy in the pub introduces Judge Doom to his imaginary friend - a bunny named Harvey. The film is set in 1947 - The film "Harvey" Featuring this rabbit didn't get released until 1950. But the play "Harvey", on which the film is based, debuted in 1945. The guy in the bar might as easily have gotten the idea from watching the play. Corrected by Twotall
  12. We are repeatedly told that toons don't feel pain, yet in one scene, Yosemite Sam emerges from a bar with his butt on fire, yelling in pain. He isn't feeling pain - he is just doing what 'toons do - yelling and screaming and carrying on when his backside is on fire.
  13. In the secret room when Eddie throws Dolores the picture it's folded, but when she looks at it she unrolls it. The picture is loosely folded in three, so Dolores has to 'unroll' it. From a distance it looks as if it is folded.
  14. In the scene where Eddioe and Roger pull up to Maroon's office in the car look at Eddie's pants, they're a much lighter color. But when he gets out and talks to Roger they're now much darker. Eddie's light khaki-coloured trenchcoat covers his dark trouser legs while he is seated in the car. You can see how long the trenchcoat is when he climbs the stairs.
  15. In the scene where Eddie Valiant is in R.K. Maroon's office not far from the beginning of the film and Maroon writes him out a cheque to take pictures of Jessica, Maroon mentions Dumbo working for peanuts and Valiant says, "well I don't work for peanuts, where's the other $50?", however you don't see Valiant actually look at the cheque to see that he's only been paid $50. There is a quick shot from outside of the office which shows Dumbo picking up the peanuts that Maroon threw at him. In that shot we can't see Valiant properly. He could have looked at the cheque then.
  16. The movie takes place in 1947. The Christopher Lloyd character has a plan to take out Toon Town in order for him to acquire the land, which happens to be in the path of a planned freeway to Pasadena. Construction on the Arroyo Seco Parkway (US Route 66) between downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena began in 1939 and was opened to traffic December 30, 1940. It was renamed the Pasadena Freeway in 1955 and, aside from some cosmetic changes, remains basically the same to this day. It is possible that he wanted to create another freeway to Pasadena. It is common to have more than one road going in between two cities. Also the freeway Lloyd's character is planning may take a slightly different route than Route 66.
  17. In the scene where Roger and Eddie get away in the cab watch the weasels get into their van. As they pull away quickly look at the side of the van to see a reflection of a boom mic. What we actually see is a reflection of a lamp post. Corrected by Mortug
  18. At the very end of the film, the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote appear in the "roll call" with all the other characters. While the film takes place in 1947, the first Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon actually appeared in 1949. The filmmakers were aware of this, but Steven Speilberg, a huge fan of the characters, insisted on it anyway. Keeping with the general feel of the movie, just because the original cartoon was shown in 1949, it doesn't mean the two character didn't exist. Perhaps they were waiting around in toon town, before they were "Discovered." Roger was working for a company making cartoons, but it doesn't mean he wasn't born before his first one.
  19. Toons can only be killed by 'Dip', but the weasel operating the 'Dip' cannon is killed when he falls into the machinery. They can be killed by other means as well. Remember the other weasels laughing themselves to death? Corrected by Xofer
  20. The weasels (bearing in mind they were working for an evil murderer) had angels/ghosts when they died, but the 'innocent' shoe toon killed earlier in the film didn't. A toon death is different from a dip death. Corrected by Piemanmoo
  21. Eddie Valiant borrows Deloris' camera to photograph Jessica playing "Patty Cake". There were at least 13 photos from a roll of film that could make only 6 or 8 shots. There are only 5 photographs; Roger simply rotates them one over the other to create a flip-book effect.
  22. The film takes place in the year 1947. Near the end, when Benny is examining the remains of Doom, he says that he's been a cab for thirty-seven years. American Taxi cabs didn't look anything like that back in 1910. Then again, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, and Mickey Mouse looked very different in their early years as well. It's very conceivable that Benny the cab has (in the film universe) undergone the same type of cosmetic changes over the years.

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