Roger Rabbit

Roger Rabbit is the titular deuteragonist of the 1988 hybrid feature film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the protagonist of his short cartoons and comics spun off from it. He is an anthropomorphic rabbit portrayed as frantic, over-anxious, and accident-prone. Roger is married to nightclub singer Jessica Rabbit, and works as an actor for Maroon Cartoons during the Golden Age of Animation. When Roger is framed for the murder of ACME owner Marvin Acme, he joins forces with toon-hating detective Eddie Valiant to clear his name and escape the clutches of Judge Doom and the Toon Patrol.

Background[]

Development[]

Before Richard Williams came aboard on the project, early animation tests for Roger gave him a simple and stylized look of a skinny white bunny with a purple nose. In these test animations, he was voiced by Paul Reubens, who would later go on to voice RX-24 in Star Tours.

When the film went into full production, Roger was redesigned in a fashion to take elements from all the major cartoon studios of the period, the philosophy behind the new characters, in general, is a combination of Disney's elaborate animation style, similar characterization to Warner Bros. characters and capable of performing Tex Avery-inspired gags. Charles Fleischer was also chosen to provide the voice for the character.

In the film, the voice of Roger is performed by Charles Fleischer (who also voices Benny, Greasy and Psycho), who was known for electing to wear an actual rabbit costume on the set to get into the role. One of his famous traits is his voice, "P-b-b-b-b-blease!" He is a white, clownish rabbit with a gap between his front teeth, a voice that resonates of Huntz Hall in The Bowery Boys, a Porky Pig-blue bow tie with yellow polka dots, a Droopy-like tuft of hair, a Bugs Bunny-like head with blue eyes, a pink nose, round-tipped ears, red Oswald-like pants with a green patch behind, and Mickey Mouse-like gloves (yellow ones).

Personality[]

Roger is hyperactive, friendly, talkative, funny, a bit childlike, and not very bright at times. He loves to make others laugh and is good friends with the other Toons, especially Baby Herman (his Maroon Cartoons costar) and Benny the Cab. He is also cowardly and greatly fears Judge Doom, the Dip, and the Toon Patrol as well as many other hazards.

Despite his traditionally cartoonish behavior, Roger is aware of what most people think of cartoons, facts he's voiced to Eddie Valiant, in that making people laugh and smile is often what makes toons' lives worthwhile, but also notes that there are times when making people laugh and smile is the only weapon toons have. He believes that if someone doesn't have a good sense of humor, they're better off dead, and gets upset over having to sit through things such as newsreels that he perceives as boring.

He truly loves his wife Jessica and always makes her laugh. To him as he tells Eddie and his boss R.K. Maroon, Jessica is "the light of his life", "the apple of his eye" and "the cream in his coffee."

Roger does not take well to human alcoholic beverages. It is shown twice in the film that when he has consumed one, he changes color rapidly, at least one of his eyes pops open, his bow tie spins, and he mumbles incoherently at a fast pace, before stretching up into the air and whistling like a steam whistle at a loud enough tone to shatter glass, all the while flailing about. Afterward, his mood swings violently, especially in an aggressive manner. However, it is unknown how he would fare against toon-made drinks.

Physical appearance[]

Roger is a slender, white rabbit with large blue eyes, a pink nose, a tuft of red hair who wears red overalls, yellow gloves, and a blue bow tie with yellow polka dots. He is an amalgamation of various classic cartoon characters from the Golden Age of American Animation of the 1930s-1960s; taking Bugs Bunny's cartoon rabbit form, Droopy's tuft of red hair, Porky Pig's bowtie, Mickey Mouse's gloves, and Goofy's baggy pants.

Richard Williams described the process of treating him like an "American flag" with the red overalls, white fur, and blue bow tie, and American audiences would enjoy him subliminally.

Appearances[]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit[]

In the film, he is re-envisioned as a character in 1940s animated cartoons and a resident of the fictional Los Angeles enclave Toontown. He is framed for the murder of Acme Corporation C.E.O. Marvin Acme and seeks out Eddie Valiant to help clear his name.

Things begin as Roger is in the middle of working on his latest Toon short for Maroon Cartoons titled "Somethin's Cookin'" with his fellow Toon costar, Baby Herman, but when the door of the refrigerator dropped on him opens, he has tweeting birds circling him, not stars as stated in the script, forcing director Raoul to cut, frustrating him and Baby Herman at how he botched up the take for the twenty-third time in a row.

Unable to cope with Roger's repeated failures with one single scene after repeated takes, Raoul calls a lunch break and retreats to his trailer to calm down as Roger runs after him, pleading that he can get the scene right, even resorting to whacking himself with a frying pan retrieved from a nearby prop cart to try and generate the stars Raoul wants, to little success as they never are produced.

R.K. Maroon is also frustrated with Roger as every failed take has put him over-budget on the short as well by at least $25,000. Requesting Eddie Valiant of the Valiant & Valiant Private Investigators, who is also a former member of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), Maroon asks Eddie to investigate a rumor that Roger's wife, Jessica, is having an affair behind Roger's back, agreeing to pay Eddie $100 for the job to acquire photographs of Jessica cheating on Roger, paying him $50 now, and the other $50 after the job is completed.

Eddie returns with proof of Jessica cheating on Roger by literally playing pattycake with Acme Corporation and Toontown owner Marvin Acme, in her dressing room at the Ink and Paint Club. Roger is devastated when he sees the photographs, unable to comprehend that she is cheating on him, and breaks down crying. He fears someone made her do it to try and break his heart. Maroon tries to console him, even offering him some human liquor to drink, but once he downs it to drown his sorrows, his body suffers an allergic reaction to it, causing him to change colors and gag before he turns bright red and his cheeks inflate, then suddenly shoot his head towards the ceiling, where his screams change into a high-pitched steam whistle that seems to get so loud and high in the pitch and volume that it makes many of the glass objects in Maroon's office shatter from the stress, such as awards, lamps, and even the liquor bottles, before Roger finally stops and crashes back down into Maroon's desk chair, totally dazed and exhausted.

As Roger comes to afterward, gasping and panting from his little uncontrollable frenzy, Eddie and Maroon try to console him, but when Eddie suggests all the girls who would be breaking down Roger's door just to be with him, he suddenly recovers and becomes enraged, grabbing Eddie and swearing that, despite this little bit of evidence of Jessica cheating on him, he and Jessica will be happy again, before shooting out through the blinds and window of Maroon's office, leaving his imprint-shaped hole in both, and leaving Maroon and Eddie in shock. Roger then arrives outside the Acme Factory, now weeping as he gets up on a crate and pulls out his wallet, looking at pictures of him and Jessica at their wedding, honeymoon, and in a nightclub, asking her to tell him it's not true that she is seeing Acme now.

The next morning, Roger is wanted by the LAPD as they've discovered that Marvin was murdered in the Acme Factory overnight, his head crushed by a safe dropped on him. Jessica is being interviewed in the factory office before confronting Eddie and slapping him on the face in fury for indicting Roger and storming out in a huff.

Sometime later, Eddie finds Baby Herman outside his office, swearing that Roger is innocent due to him and Roger being long-time friends and coworkers, and reveals that Marvin left a will that was supposed to entrust Toontown to the Toons should anything happen to him. Eddie discovers that Marvin had the will on him when with Jessica back in her dressing room at the Ink and Paint Club, but brushes it aside as he decides to lay down and take a nap, only to find Roger sleeping in the bed already, startling both of them.

Eddie demands to know how he got in and Roger explains he got in through the mail slot, not knowing where else to hide with him a wanted criminal now. However, once he explains how he asked several people if they could direct him to Eddie's office, Eddie is quick to show him the door, not wanting him there if "the whole damn town knows", but Roger confesses that, while he was angry at first when he saw the pictures of his wife and Acme, he went to the club to see Jessica, but she wasn't there, so he wrote her a love letter instead, finding a nice, clean piece of paper to write it on. However, when he went home to wait for her, the Toon Patrol was staking out his house, so he ran, figuring he could turn to Eddie for help because of all the Toon cases he solved before and how every Toon knows that when a Toon's in trouble, there's only one place to go: Valiant & Valiant.

Roger quickly gains Eddie's ire when he's about to sit in Teddy's old chair, then pushes Eddie too far when he looks at a picture of Eddie and Teddy and mentions Teddy looks like "a sensible and sober fellow", forcing Eddie to grab his phone and notify the LAPD and Toon Patrol of Roger's whereabouts. Roger goes to leave but ends up in the closet by mistake, resulting in where when Eddie comes to look, Roger handcuffs him while imitating Dick Tracy. Before Eddie can do who knows what to Roger for cuffing them together, Roger hears the all-too-familiar siren of the Toon Patrol's paddy wagon and spots it pull up on the curb outside. Trapped, Roger begins to panic, pleading with Eddie to help him as there's no justice for Toons anymore and he's as good as dead if the Toon Patrol get their hands on him. Eddie reluctantly hides him in his sink by pretending to be doing his laundry, and after shoving a bar of soap in Smarty's mouth, manages to convince them that Roger isn't there, though not without being warned by Smarty that if he steps out of line again, they will deal with him as well. Roger gives Eddie a big kiss in thanks, much to his annoyance.

That night, Eddie sneaks Roger into the Terminal Bar, where he is shown a hidden room by Eddie's girlfriend, Dolores, where Roger can hang out until the heat's off, as the room used to be used during the Prohibition. Finding some tools, Eddie attempts to saw the handcuffs off, but when Roger reveals he could remove his own hand from his cuff at will, Eddie is furious to discover that. However, Roger tries to convince him to get his sense of humor back, before explaining his philosophy. Eddie thinks he might get his wish if he can't find out what happened to Marvin's will, believing Jessica and Maroon were in it together. Roger denies it, but when Dolores asks what the plan is, Eddie asks her to check the probate downtown, while he sticks to his hunch that Maroon is involved in the conspiracy of Marvin's murder, much to Roger's shock when he pieces everything together.

As Eddie finally saws the handcuffs off, he asks Dolores if Roger can stay in the hidden room for a few days. She agrees, with some hesitation, before Eddie departs to return to his office.

A day or two later, Eddie and Dolores enter the Terminal Bar to find Roger outside the hidden room and entertaining the patrons while singing "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", but when he begins smashing Dolores' plates over his head when the record skips, Eddie angrily intervenes and throws him back into the hidden room to confront him over his actions, fearing that he was going to get himself turned in by the patrons because of his stunt. Roger argues that they would never do that since he made them laugh, explaining that for Toons, "A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have." Eddie shushes him from saying anything further when Dolores warns them from the counter outside that Judge Doom and the Toon Patrol have arrived at the bar. Eddie and Roger watch through the spy-hole with concern as Doom intimidates the patrons into giving up Roger, while Dolores tells him to stop harassing them. After rewriting the special on the chalkboard to reveal how much he's willing to pay anyone who turns Roger in, Angelo is the first to step up. Roger is stunned that his earlier entertaining of the patrons has failed and swallows in fear, but when Angelo instead turns to an empty barstool and tells his imaginary friend, Harvey, to say hello, Roger is relieved that his entertaining still worked and the patrons won't rat him out. However, his relief is short-lived, as Doom begins tapping out the beginning of "Shave-and-a-haircut" around the bar, causing Roger to find himself struggling to resist delivering the punchline, with Eddie unable to help due to snagging his sleeve on the latch of the spy-hole. Roger finally can't hold himself back any further and blasts through the wall to finish with "two bits", only to then be grabbed by Doom so he can administer his justice to him with the Dip.

In desperation, Eddie asks Dolores for a double bourbon, which she doesn't take seriously at first until he tells her to pour it, as he has a plan to save Roger. Calling out to Doom, Eddie asks if Roger would like a final drink before his execution. Doom concedes, but when Eddie offers it, Roger refuses, leading to where Eddie uses the old "Duck Season, Rabbit Season" trick on him to get him to drink it. As a result, he undergoes another allergic reaction, and as his head shoots into the air to perform the steam whistle, knocking Doom backward into the patrons, Eddie uses the opportunity to fight off the Toon Patrol, taking out Smarty last before saving Roger from falling into the Dip as the effects wear off. Before Doom has a chance to retaliate as he recovers, Eddie tips the barrel over to send the contents towards him and the bar patrons, while he and Roger escape, attempting to commandeer the Toon Patrol's paddy wagon, but instead finding Benny the Cab, who was locked in the back. After a harrowing escape from the Toon Patrol and two LAPD motorcycle cops, Benny takes Roger and Eddie to hide out in a movie theater.

While at the theater, Roger finally asks Eddie what made him so hostile to Toons and lose his sense of humor. He explains that a Toon killed Teddy. They were investigating a robbery from the First National Bank of Toontown and pursued the suspect to another building, only for the suspect to get the literal drop on them by dropping a piano on them from 15 stories up. Eddie survived with a broken arm, but Teddy did not make it. Roger is left in tears after hearing that, and he and Eddie manage to make amends and forge a new friendship out of it. They leave the theater shortly afterward with Dolores, who had been fired from the Terminal Bar for the damage incurred earlier with Doom and the Toon Patrol, only for Eddie to return in time to catch a newsreel revealing Maroon having just recently sold Maroon Cartoons to Cloverleaf Industries.

Returning to Maroon Cartoons, Eddie heads up to confront Maroon while Roger remains behind to watch his back, only to be knocked out by Jessica and thrown in the trunk of her car. She soon flees with him in there as Eddie pursues her into Toontown, but at some point, while they are looking for each other, Roger recovers, escapes from the trunk, and takes Eddie's car on a joyride through Toontown's streets. He emerges from the tunnel leading to Toontown sometime later to find Benny wrecked on the side of the road, his wheels blown out from coming in contact with the Dip. After he tells Roger that Doom grabbed Jessica and Eddie and took them to the Acme Factory, Roger lets him drive them there.

Once there, Roger takes the pistol Eddie left behind in his car and prepares to go save Jessica, asking Benny to go and fetch the L.A.P.D. while he does so. Before he departs, Benny warns Roger to be careful with the gun, as this was real life, not a cartoon.

Roger attempts to enter via a lower window, but as he leans against it from being unable to open it, thinking it's locked, it tips inward and dumps him into a toilet in one of the stalls of the restroom inside. He is quickly flushed down the drain, only to burst out of one in the factory proper, sending Greasy flying into the air and grabbing hold of a net of bricks, before Roger touches down and orders the Toon Patrol to drop their weapons or he'll shoot Doom. Jessica is relieved to see him, but while he is happy to see her, he needs to quell his anger first. Doom angrily orders him to put the gun down, but that only provokes him further, taunting Doom into saying something else that would force Roger to shoot him, but as Roger goes into a tirade, he does not see Greasy preparing to cut the net of bricks down on top of him, dropping it right after he literally says, "why the real meaning would hit you like a ton of bricks!" As Jessica rushes to his aid, he emerges, dazed, and finally producing the stars that were needed for the earlier cartoon he kept screwing up. Doom has them tied up with escape-proof Toon rope before having the Toon Patrol activate the Dip Machine in preparation to destroy Toontown.

There's little Roger and Jessica can do at that point except for watch as Eddie attempts to have the Toon Patrol literally die laughing, Roger cheering Eddie on, and panicking whenever he and Jessica are about to be killed by the Dip Machine until Eddie finally manages to turn it off after defeating the Toon Patrol and Doom by turning the keys in the ignition to turn off the engine.

As Doom is flattened by the Acme steamroller he was going to use on Eddie, Roger tells Eddie to look, as it is revealed that Doom survived, exposing himself as a Toon as well. Worse for Eddie, he is the very same Toon that murdered Teddy, and now he has his eyes set on Eddie as well. Roger can only helplessly watch as Doom overpowers Eddie and restarts the Dip Machine with turning the engine back on with the keys. As the high-powered stream of Dip inches closer to them, Roger bravely holds Jessica in his arms to protect her from certain death a little longer, even if it means he goes first, before the stream dies out as the Dip Machine is drained of its Dip due to Eddie opening the Main Drain Valve on the back, leaving Doom to be melted by his own concoction, avenging Teddy's death. However, with the Dip Machine still moving towards them, Roger calls out to Eddie to get them out of the way, and he manages to find the crane controls to move them to safety before the Dip Machine crashes through the wall and is broadsided by a Toon train.

Roger then takes notice of the Dip flooding the factory floor, but Eddie neutralizes it by washing it down the drain with the emergency fire hydrant system, before lowering the crane and helping Roger and Jessica off. As they reunite, Benny arrives with the L.A.P.D. and Dolores, allowing Eddie to prove that Roger was innocent all along and Doom was Marvin's real murderer. Shortly thereafter, as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Pinocchio, Snow White, and many other Toons emerge from Toontown to look over Doom's remains, Dolores notices an ink stain on Eddie's shirt, which Roger reveals to be Acme Disappearing/Reappearing Ink. This gives Eddie an idea and asks Roger to read his love letter to Jessica at that moment. As he does, it is soon revealed that it is Marvin's will, and as he continues to read it, as Baby Herman said earlier, Marvin is entrusting Toontown to the Toons from here on out. As they celebrate, Roger wonders if Eddie's days of being hostile to Toons are over, before catching him by surprise by shocking him with Marvin's Hand Buzzer. As the other Toons brace themselves for the worst as Eddie glares angrily at Roger, Roger asks him worriedly if he lost his sense of humor already. His only response is to lift Roger up by the neck and give him a big kiss, showing that his days of hating Toons are over now that Teddy's death had been avenged.

With the thought of a freshly-baked carrot cake from Jessica on his mind, Roger joins her who, along with Eddie and Dolores, head into Toontown as the other Toons follow after them singing "Smile Darn Ya Smile".

Mickey's 60th Birthday[]

Roger notably played a significant role in the 1988 NBC special Mickey's 60th Birthday. At the beginning, during the taping of Mickey's birthday show, he is told to bring Mickey's cake to him, but in the process, he mistakes a stick of dynamite for a candle and puts it on the cake. Upon noticing his mistake, he attempts to blow it out but fails miserably and brings down the set in the process. Due to the resulting explosion, Mickey uses Yen Sid's magic to fix the place up and then shows off some more magic to his audience, only to disappear and have Yen Sid cast a spell on him.

At the end, after the curse is lifted, Roger finds Mickey right outside Disneyland and is hailed as a hero for doing so.

Shorts[]

Roger was featured in a series of cartoon shorts following the popularity of the film. They were presented in front of various Touchstone/Disney features in an attempt to revive short subject animation as a part of the moviegoing experience. They include Tummy Trouble, shown before Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (this was also included on the original video release of the film); Roller Coaster Rabbit, shown before Dick Tracy; and Trail Mix-Up, shown before A Far Off Place. A fourth short, Hare in My Soup, was canceled midway through pre-production after the falling out between Disney and Amblin Entertainment.

Each of his shorts utilize the same formula of Roger being given stern orders from Mrs. Herman to take care of Baby Herman while she's away, only for Baby Herman to get up to mischief which gets Roger into heaps of bad luck and misfortunes in a comical fashion.

Tummy Trouble[]

In the first short, Baby Herman swallows a rattle, forcing Roger to take him to the hospital, where a series of mishaps caused the rabbit to accidentally swallow the rattle and even get mistaken for Baby Herman who swallowed a rattle by the doctors, which led him to be taken into surgery as the result.

Roller Coaster Rabbit[]

In the second short, Roger watches over Baby Herman at a State Fair while Mrs. Herman goes to get her palm read, but Baby Herman sneaks out onto various rides, causing the two to even end up on a rollercoaster.

Trail Mix-Up[]

In the third and final short, on a camping trip Roger watches over Baby Herman while Mrs. Herman goes hunting, but Baby Herman sneaks out into the wilderness, which causes the two to end up in a sawmill and a chaotic log flume ride around the wilderness, which even causes disaster even outside of filming.

Other appearances[]

In Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Roger Rabbit makes a cameo appearance at Chip and Dale's anniversary party.

Printed media[]

Roger Rabbit comics[]

Roger also starred in a comic book series from April 1990 to September 1991 and a spin-off series called "Roger Rabbit's Toontown", published from June to October 1991, which featured him in the first story and supporting characters like Jessica, Baby Herman, Benny, and the Toon Patrol.

Disney Parks[]

Roger made frequent appearances in the parks as a walk-around character in the years that followed the film's release.

Roger appeared prominently in the Disney Sing-Along Songs videos, DVDs, and specials, including Disneyland Fun, Let's Go to Disneyland Paris, 'The Magic of Christmas at Disneyland", the Walt Disney World - Happy Easter Parades from 1989 to 1995 and Christmas Parades from 1989 to 1996, and "Disney's Young People's Guide to Music".

Roger also appeared at Walt Disney World from his debut year up to 2000 and was part of SpectroMagic until 1999. In the second run, he was replaced with Genie.

A giant statue of Roger can be seen at Disney's Pop Century Resort as the main icon for the buildings themed to the 1980s.

Since 2012, Roger has started to resurface at most of the Disney parks around the world after being absent for quite a few years. He reappeared at Disneyland in 2012 for the special 20th-anniversary performances of Fantasmic! and again for the 2013 Easter Bunny Hop pre-parade. Also in 2013, he resurfaced at both Disneyland and Disneyland Paris during their respective portions of the Disney Dreamers Everywhere event.

Most recently, Roger appeared at Disneyland for the Springtime Roundup in 2014 and 2015 and made a rare appearance in 2016. Also in April 2016, he joined Disney's Easter Wonderland with the other rabbit characters leading the Cheshire Cat-designed train at Disneyland Paris.

Roger made rare meet-and-greet appearances at Disneyland and during events such as FanDaze at Disneyland Paris in 2018 in Toon Studio at Walt Disney Studios Park.

However, he has not been seen in the parks to date and is considered retired.

Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin[]

Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland both contain identical versions of this dark ride attraction. The Disneyland version opened in 1994, while the Tokyo Disneyland version opened in 1996. As part of its queue area, passengers walk through the dark alleys of Toontown and see the shadows of Jessica and the Toon Patrol walk by windows and hear their plot to kidnap her. On this entirely dark-light ride, guests board Lenny the Cab (Benny’s twin cousin) and race through streets, back alleys, and buildings.

Fantasmic![]

Roger could be seen onboard the Mark Twain Riverboat at the end of the Disneyland version of the show during the early years of its run. He returned for the special 20th-anniversary performances in May 2012.

Disney on Ice[]

Roger made guest appearances in two of the Disney on Ice shows in the early 1990s.

Roger's first appearance was in the 10th Anniversary show in 1990. After Gyro Gearloose's musical time machine explodes and separates Mickey and friends, Scrooge McDuck and Chip and Dale find Roger as a mummy emerging from a tomb in ancient Egypt. After doing an Egyptian dance, he joins Scrooge, Chip, and Dale on their quest to reunite the rest of the gang, finding Mickey and Minnie in the jungle from The Jungle Book and Donald and Daisy on a tropical island from The Little Mermaid. When they return to Duckburg, Roger notices Scrooge is still upset about having not found Huey, Dewey, and Louie (who disappeared at the beginning of the show) and, feeling sorry for him, brings him to Eddie's office. Roger and Eddie try to cheer him up by telling him jokes, but it doesn't quite work until Jessica joins in the act.

Roger's second appearance was in Double Feature...Live! in 1991, in which he hosts the second act with his "Super-Duper-Never-a-Blooper" Video Variety machine. With it, he presents a pair of vignettes—one starring Chip and Dale as the Lone Chipmunks and another in which Darkwing Duck rescues a dancer named Dazzles (played by Daisy Duck).

Legacy[]

Roger made his footprints and handprints with his signature phrase "P-b-b-b-blease" in front of The Great Movie Ride at Disney-MGM Studios on its opening day along with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy.

Roger is also the inspiration for a popular dance move in the early 1990s, called "the Roger Rabbit" due to the floppy movements of the character.

Disney and Amblin Entertainment attempted to resurrect Roger for a sequel, one of the storylines being a prequel set in World War II that would also feature his search for his parents, with his father being revealed to be Bugs Bunny. However, a preliminary budget was deemed too large and the film never got past the script stage. Several 3D CGI tests and a 3D CGI rendering of Roger were completed, however, despite the fact that no actual footage was actually shot or completed. However, Frank Marshall, the producer of the first film, told MTV in late 2007 that he would be open to any plans to bring it back in the works.

In February 2013, Roger's creator, Gary K. Wolf, said that he as well as Erik Von Wodtke were working on a development proposal for an animated Disney buddy comedy starring Roger and Mickey Mouse called The Stooge, based on the 1952 film of the same name. It is said to be a prequel taking place 5 years before the events of Who Framed Roger Rabbit and part of the story is about how Roger met Jessica. Gary K. Wolf has stated that it is currently wending its way through Disney.^[2]

The Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers movie was developed as a spiritual Roger Rabbit sequel and features a cameo by the character. Additionally, Robert Zemeckis's Pinocchio remake would feature Roger and Jessica as one of Geppetto's cuckoo clocks. Roger was set to make a cameo in Once Upon a Studio in the final shot but was removed at some point in development. ^[3]

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

• Roger first appeared in the book, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf, which was adapted into the 1988 Academy Award-winning film. Mixing both live-action and animation to create a believable "Tooniverse," Disney studios set up an animation studio in Camden Town, London, whilst the live-action was shot at Elstree film studios. Both the animation and live-action were then composited by ILM fx studios in Los Angeles. In the book, Roger is a sidekick in a popular comic strip called Baby Herman. His murder is being investigated by a detective named Eddie Valiant and a slowly evaporating stunt doppelganger of himself that he created hours before being shot.
• In the film, Roger briefly mentions at one point that he has an uncle named Thumper.
• In another book called Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf released in 1991, Roger is said to of had an evil cousin named Dodger who is murdered along with Baby Herman by a mysterious assassin.^[4]
• Roger was listed #35 in Empire Magazine's 50 Best Animated Characters. Stating his stroke of genius as his heartbroken reaction to the news that Jessica is cheating on him.
• Charles Fleischer performed Roger's lines on set, off-camera, while wearing a full costume including rabbit ears, overalls, and gloves.
• An early version of Roger appears briefly as a spectator in Sport Goofy in Soccermania; in the film, Roger enjoys a Goofy cartoon.
• Roger made cameo appearances in the Tiny Toon Adventures episodes "New Character Day" and "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian" (voiced by Frank Welker and Joe Alaskey). Babs Bunny also did an impression of him in the episode "Pledge Week".
• Roger appeared in an initial storyboard for the ending photo shot of Once Upon A Studio, but was seemingly cut at some point in development for unknown reasons.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• Roger Rabbit on Wikipedia
• Disney's HooZoo - Roger Rabbit
• Roger Rabbit at Disney Character Central
• Roger Rabbit on Heroes Wiki

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Media Films and Television: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (video/soundtrack) • Mickey's 60th Birthday • Tummy Trouble • Roller Coaster Rabbit • Trail Mix-Up Video Games: 1988 video game • NES game • Game Boy game Cancelled projects: Roger Rabbit II: The Toon Platoon • Hare In My Soup Disney Parks Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin Entertainment: Once Upon a Mouse Parades: Disney's Fantillusion • Disney's Party Express • Disney Carnivale Parade • Disney on Parade: 100 Years of Magic • Disney Classics Parade • Spectromagic • Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade: DreamLights Fireworks: Remember... Dreams Come True Halloween: Treat Trails Christmas: A Christmas Fantasy Parade Cancelled projects: Roger Rabbit's Hollywood Characters Film: Roger Rabbit • Jessica Rabbit • Eddie Valiant • Dolores • Baby Herman • Benny the Cab • Judge Doom • Toon Patrol • R.K. Maroon • Marvin Acme • Lt. Santino • Angelo • Baby Herman's Mother • Bongo the Gorilla • Toon Bullets • Lena Hyena Comics: Sunshine • Nightwing • C.B. Maroon • Rick Flint Deleted: Captain Cleaver • Voltaire Other: Lenny the Cab • List of cameos in Who Framed Roger Rabbit Songs Film: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 • Why Don't You Do Right? • The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down • Smile Darn Ya Smile • Witchcraft Deleted: This Only Happens in the Movies Locations Toontown • Cloverleaf Industries • Maroon Cartoons • Los Angeles • Valiant & Valiant • Acme Corporation • The Ink and Paint Club • Hollywood Objects Dip • Dip Machine • Marvin Acme's Will • Toon Revolver • Pacific Electric Railway See also Bonkers