History Film / WhoFramedRogerRabbit

-->'''Eddie:''' ''You mean you could've taken your hand out of that cuff at any time?''
-->'''Roger:''' No, not at any time, only when it was ''funny''.

** A powerful one when he's about to swig some whiskey before going into Toontown for the first time since his brother's died. Instead, ''he stops himself'' and dumps the bottle out demonstrating self-restraint and his overcoming of alcoholism.

* ShoutOut: There are ''dozens'' of these: Golden Age cartoons, live-action films (''Film/{{The Maltese Falcon|1941}}'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', ''Film/SunsetBoulevard'', ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', and ''Film/BackToTheFuture''), and the play ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}''.

* AccidentalTruth: Eddie falsely claims to have Acme's will. [[spoiler: Turns out he really did: Roger's love letter to Jessica (which was in one of his pockets) was actually written on the same piece of paper as the will, which turns out to have been written using disappearing-reappearing ink.]]

* HangingByTheFingers: Tweety makes a cameo in the Toontown scene, playing "widdle piddies" with Eddie Valiant's fingers, which are precariously holding onto a flagpole (this is a reference to the ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon "WesternAnimation/{{A Tale of Two Kitties}}").

Blend ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', and ''[[ComicStrip/DickTracy Dick Tracy]]'', then throw it in a pressure cooker with healthy portions of Creator/WarnerBros' ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]]'' and Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''[[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies Silly Symphonies]]''. Voila! ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. Enjoy your dish of madcap, murderous, and very ''animated'' mayhem.

* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Eddie smashes a chair over one of the weasels when he and Roger make their escape from the bar.

* RunningGag: Most (though not all) of Eddie's attempts to drink on screen are scuppered in various ways

** Delores covers his drink with her hand, preventing him from drinking it.
** His order of "Scotch on the rocks" at the Ink & Paint club has [[LiteralMinded actual rocks]] in it
** He notices Marvin Acme's Will in a photograph [[ChekhovsGag through the bottom of his whiskey glass]]

* {{Sexophone}}: Jessica's {{Leitmotif}} makes heavy use of this, in keeping with her FemmeFatale characterisation.

* {{Sexophone}}: Just about any time Jessica is on screen, natch.

''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' is a 1988 combination live-action/animated film, with Creator/RobertZemeckis directing the live-action and Creator/RichardWilliams directing the animation. Its success is largely responsible for setting off UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, having had a huge influence on executives' attitudes toward seeing animation as more than what it had been in the [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation Dark Age]] -- Creator/{{Disney}}'s animated films from the [[TheNineties '90s]] and onward, the Creator/{{Pixar}} films, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Franchise/{{Nicktoons}}, Creator/{{MTV}} cartoons, and any other influential animated series or film from 1989 and onward, would probably ''never'' have existed if it weren't for this film.

* PeekABangs: Jessica Rabbit.

On October 30, 2009, director Robert Zemeckis [[http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1625215/story.jhtml had confirmed]] that a second Roger Rabbit movie was on the way, with Zemeckis himself returning to direct the film and the original screenwriters, Seaman and Price, returning as well, but with the dismantling of Zemeckis's studio, the sequel's fate is now uncertain.

In February 2013, Wolf himself proposed [[http://www.slashfilm.com/mickey-mouseroger-rabbit-film-called-the-stooge-has-been-proposed-to-disney/ a Roger/Mickey Mouse vehicle to Disney]] called ''The Stooge''. Apparently, this will be an all-animated movie that could, in theory, co-exist with the Zemeckis sequel. However, it too has lapsed into DevelopmentHell. Following Bob Hoskins's death of pneumonia in April 2014, the sequel remains in Development Hell. Despite this, Roger appeared in the 2022 ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' live-action film, which essentially presents a modern look at Toontown in the age of CGI dominance.

Blend ''[[Film/LAConfidential L.A. Confidential]]'', ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', and ''[[ComicStrip/DickTracy Dick Tracy]]'', then throw it in a pressure cooker with healthy portions of Creator/WarnerBros' ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]]'' and Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''[[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies Silly Symphonies]]''. Voila! ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit''. Enjoy your dish of madcap, murderous, and very ''animated'' mayhem.

* OperaGloves: [[TheChanteuse Jessica]] wears them.

** When Angelo (played by BadassBaritone Richard Ridings) is teasing Eddie about working for a toon, the latter doesn't blow his top until Angelo's laugh hits a particularly high pitch--[[spoiler: reminding Eddie of the laugh of the toon that killed his brother.]]

* LibationForTheDead: In combination with a serious take on NoMoreForMe, Eddie, whose been defined by his [[TheAlcoholic alcholism]] through the film, decides to pour out his last bottle of whiskey rather than drink it before heading into Toontown.