History Fridge / WhoFramedRogerRabbit

** Some modern toon villains were pretty more evil and sadistic than the old, classic ones, and their evilness might cause much serious damage in the real world, and worse now that the Dip no longer hurts them now that they're CGI and Computer Animated. there's nothing you can do to stop them now!

* Doom says that it is impossible for a toon to resist the old "shave-and-a-haircut" bit, yet he shows no compulsion to finish it when tapping it out on the wall. He doesn't need to finish it, for 2 reasons:

*** For any Restaurant owner and their staff when [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarePants Plankton]] is on the loose in the real world. you may not let him know your secret ingredient or let him enslave the entire world through brainwashing humans with [[WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie mind controlling buckets]].

** We even see the Queen (in her witch form) from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' when Eddie visits Toontown, implies that Disney Villains actually exist. good luck imagining someone really dangerous Like [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]] or [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]] gaining political power and cause great harm whoever stands in their way.

* If we assume the backstory about Judge Doom's StartOfDarkness being caused by amnesia is canonically true, that means it could presumably happen to any toon. No denying that Doom was despicable and terrifying, but the full extent of his ambition was just to destroy Toontown and replace it with a freeway. Consider for a moment, however, that there are many cartoon villains out there ''even worse'' than Doom, all the way up to outright [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], malevolent [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]], and [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]] who would happily destroy everything in existence. Suppose one of ''them'' got conked on the head and forgot they were just playing a character...

* If we assume the backstory about Judge Doom's StartOfDarkness being caused by amnesia is canonically true, that means it could presumably happen to any toon. No denying that Doom was despicable and terrifying, but the full extent of his ambition was just to destroy Toontown and replace it with a freeway. Cosnider for a moment, however, that there are many cartoon villains out there ''even worse'' than Doom, all the way up to outright [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], malevolent [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]], and [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]] who would happily destroy everything in existence. Suppose one of ''them'' got conked on the head and forgot they were just playing a character...

* If we assume the backstory about Judge Doom's StartOfDarkness being caused by amnesia is canonically true, that means it could presumably happen to any toon. No denying Doom was despicable, but the full extent of his ambition was just to destroy Toontown and replace it with a freeway. Cosnider for a moment, however, that there are many cartoon villains out there ''even worse'' than Doom, all the way up to outright [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], malevolent [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]], and [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]] who would happily destroy everything in existence. Suppose one of ''them'' got conked on the head and forgot they were just playing a character...

* If we assume the backstory about Judge Doom's StartOfDarkness being caused by amnesia is canonically true, that means it could presumably happen to any toon. Now, consider for a moment that there are many cartoon villains out there ''even worse'' than Doom, all the way up to outright [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], malevolent [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]], and [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]] who would happily destroy everything in existence. Suppose one of ''them'' got conked on the head and forgot they were just playing a character...

* If we assume the backstory about Judge Doom's StartOfDarkness being caused by amnesia is canonically true, that means it could presumably happen to any toon. Now, consider for a moment that there are many cartoon villains out there ''even worse'' than Doom, all the way up to outright [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], malevolent [[RealityWarper Reality Warpers]], and [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]]. Suppose one of ''them'' got conked on the head and forgot they were just playing a character...

* If we assume the backstory about Judge Doom's StartOfDarkness being caused by amnesia is canonically true, that means it could presumably happen to any toon. Now, consider for a moment that there are many cartoon villains out there ''even worse'' than Doom, all the way up to outright [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], malevolent RealityWarpers, and OmnicidalManiacs. Suppose one of ''them'' got conked on the head and forgot they were just playing a character...

** The truck wasn't ''full'' of Dip anymore, most of it having been drained out onto the floor (hence why the spray aimed at the Rabbits petered out) and then washed down the drain, but there probably was enough residue left to erase streaks all along the track and the front end of the train, possibly including the engineer.

* What happened to the Dip Truck, still full of Dip, after it got hit by the Toon train? What prevented it from spilling it's contents everywhere from the impact, destroying not all but a significant part of Toontown and killing dozens if not hundreds of Toons?

* Cartoons are said to cause kids to commit more [[MurderSimulator heinous acts]] (a kid infamously burned down his home due to watching ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'') than what violent video games would do. So there could be Toons that can be as dangerous as Doom himself.

** Even better, even if he ''had'' actually lost his temper and unloaded the gun on Doom, ''Doom is a toon''. That's not a BlackComedy style reveal, that's a "horror movie monster takes off its mask" style reveal. Definitely not funny.

* When you first see the movie, Doom's line "I bought the Red Car so I could dismantle it!" seemed like the ridiculous toon villain scheming Doom is known for. But it sounds remarkably similar to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy General Motors streetcar conspiracy]]— they bought the Red Car (through a front company) so they could dismantle it. Which makes Valiant's line that the freeway idea could only have been thought up by a toon even more funny somehow.

* Cartoons are said to cause kids to commit such [[MurderSimulator heinous acts]] (A kid burned down his home due to watching ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'') than what violent video games would do. so there could be Toons that can be as dangerous as Doom himself.

* During Daffy and Donald's piano play-off, Eddie is the only person in the club not in hysterics, and then looks on in horror when Donald is about to blast Daffy apart with a cannon. Naturally, both toons survive the act, but Eddie watches in uncomfortable awkwardness. Why? Because he is reacting to his brother's death when a piano was dropped on them by a toon. A human wouldn't be able to get up and walk away from having a heavy piano dropped on their head, while a toon could. The violent slapstick is a lot less funny when you've directly witnessed someone dying in front of you, let alone a murder.

* The toons' ability to withstand injury and their obsession with humor is why toon/human race relations are relatively relaxed compared to the vicious racial divide of 1940's America. They may not interact as equals, but as far as anyone was aware, neither side could actually ''hurt'' each other; humans couldn't hurt or kill toons, and toons had no inclination to do the same to humans since it wouldn't be funny. Until Roger heard about the death of Eddie's brother, he didn't even think it was ''possible'' for a toon to inflict lasting damage on a human, let alone deliberately causing a human's death. It makes a weird kind of sense that Doom, the inventor of Dip, was also the first toon to realize he ''could'' kill a human -- via BlackComedy.

* When the Weasels die, they turn into toon angels and float away. Except for the one who fell into the vat of dip. Maybe the dip dissolved his soul. When Doom said that the Dip killed toons, [[CessationOfExistence he meant that in every meaning of the word.]]

** Sorry, but I think RuleOfFunny can't be ignored in this case, because no one can plan something like that beforehand except if you were a toon who would take every opportunity to be a 'stinka''! Bugs probably materialized that tire at that very second!

** Forgetting RuleOfFunny while in Toontown is like forgetting the Law of Gravity or the Laws of Thermodynamics in the real world; if you ignore them, then the place cannot function at all. If you try to ignore them, the Laws don't care and keep functioning regardless.

** Not ''that'' innocent. Even if he thought he really was a Toon villain playing out the role of a lifetime, he did murder ''non-Toon'' human beings, not just other Toons. So one can't excuse his crimes by claiming he thought it was just part of his role, because none of his villain roles would've involved killing humans, only battling Toon heroes.

** Oh, it's more than just a lame pun... it's comic genius. Not only does he speak of bricks, just before they get dumped over his head, Roger makes a BrickJoke out of the beginning of the movie. As a toon and comedian, how he could resist a multi-layered joke like that?

** It gets better than that: Jessica is drawn to design to what ''human men'' think is sexy, not what toons would find attractive in a woman. That's why Betty Boop flirts with Eddie and remarks on how lucky Jessica is. It's not just because Jessica married up to Roger, it's because Betty, as a fellow cartoon sex symbol designed to be attractive to human men, probably has the same trouble finding a toon love interest as Jessica did before she met Roger. And ''that'' is why they both work at the Ink & Paint Club.

* Roger seems to be the only one who doesn't know about the death of Eddie's brother, still believing that Eddie is a "friend to toons" and is shocked by the revelation. Not a minute after learning the truth, he gets distracted by the movie screen... and then immediately checks out when he realizes its "just the news". If he wasn't paying attention then, why would he pay attention to the news before?

* During Daffy and Donald's piano play-off, Eddie is the only person in the club not in hysterics, and then looks on in horror when Donald is about to blast Daffy apart with a cannon. Naturally, both toons survive the act, but Eddie watches in uncomfortable awkwardness. Why? Because he is reacting to his brother's death when a piano was dropped on them by a toon. A human wouldn't be able to get up and walk away from having a heavy piano dropped on their head, while a toon could.

* The toons' ability to withstand injury and their obsession with humor is why toon/human race relations are relatively relaxed compared to the vicious racial divide of 1940's America. They may not interact as equals, but as far as anyone was aware, neither side could actually ''hurt'' each other; humans couldn't hurt or kill toons, and toons had no inclination to do the same to humans since it wouldn't be funny. Until Roger heard about the death of Eddie's brother, he didn't even think it was ''possible'' for a toon to inflict lasting damage on a human, let alone death. It makes a weird kind of sense that Doom, the inventor of Dip, was also the first toon to realize he ''could'' kill a human -- via BlackComedy.

** Cartoon cars run on their own CartoonPhysics. For example, they're almost always rubbery, elastic, and ''very'' bouncy. It's not that they ''cant'' drive or anything, they just aren't used to real world physics!

** The film's audio commentary notes an even more genius bit tied to that; not once do you ever see Doom ''blink.'' While the movie itself pulled off the effect via makeup (and some very impressive focus on the part of Creator/ChristopherLloyd), in-universe, Doom's unnatural pallor and unblinking stare make sense as something more than just a dramatic aesthetic. Once it's revealed what you've been seeing was prosthetic eyes and a rubber mask. Christopher Lloyd came up with the idea on set and they loved it as it shows the eyes are just fake, a clue right in plain sight.

** It was actually the other way around; Betty was originally an anthropomorphic poodle, and was Bimbo's girlfriend. She, much like Popeye in his original comic strip, eventually ended up taking over the act, and the original character was largely forgotten... which would definitely could break up a relationship between performers.

* Roger and to an extent toons reacting violently to Alcohol seems strange on the surface. However Turpentine one of the main ingredients for Dip has alcohol in it. So the reason why Roger reacted to it the way he did was because his body was trying to reject the alcohol that was harming him.
** That theory may actually help explain another point: Doom's willingness to go along with Roger's "last request." He says it's because he doesn't mind "prolonging the execution." Maybe he realized that alcohol had an especially toxic (or at least painful) effect on toons, and he thought it was a way to torture Roger further. He just didn't calculate that it would be so disruptive it would enable Roger to escape.
** Granted, alcohol suitable for human consumption is not the same alcohol used in turpentine.
*** Explains when Roger picked up teetotaller habits, though. Back during Prohibition, the majority of illegal alcohol ''was'' cleaning solutions denatured with various forms of poison, which resulted in a "chemistry war" between the prohibitionists and bootleggers using various methods to remove the poison. A few years earlier, that shot of whiskey very likely could have dissolved Roger's face -- not because it was paint thinner, but because it was ''meant'' to [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/government-poison-10000-americans/ kill anyone who drank it.]]

** Not to mention, Roger constantly runs around at high speeds, makes loud noise and puts himself in danger. Really, he's his own worst enemy, and when the stakes are this high, locking him in a car trunk IS the best way of keeping him safe

* Why are the toon weasels working for Doom if he wants to wipe out Toontown and all the toons in it? Because toons make people laugh, and since too much laughter is fatal to the weasels of course they want to make the world as less funny place.

* Despite having a huge prejudice against toons, Eddie greets Betty Boop with genuine kindness. He's genuinely happy to see her. Why? [[FreezeFrameBonus There's a doll of Betty]] [[http://41.media.tumblr.com/aea215562062d54503f4a7369a795ea3/tumblr_n4uvz8LAPV1r01zmbo2_1280.jpg on Teddie's side of the desk]]. It's possible that Teddie and Betty were actually friends or even dating.
* The HumansAreFlawed trope is in full effect here, displaying that people are complex but not truly evil. Eddie Valiant doesn't like toons due to what happened to his brother, but he's willing to risk his neck for Roger. Acme wants to have an affair with Jessica, even though she's a married woman, but he also intends on turning his ownership of Toontown to the toons. Eddie is certain that Angelo the barfly would turn Roger over to Judge Doom in a heartbeat but, when exactly that scenario arises, he covers for Roger and mocks the Judge for good measure. R.K. Maroon is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who had sleazy pictures of said affair taken to sabotage Roger's relationship and blackmail Acme, but his love for toons overrides his greed when he finds out his actions could result in the destruction of Toontown. [[spoiler:It makes Judge Doom, who has no such redeeming qualities, stand out even more and is a hint that he isn't human at all.]]

* Jessica Rabbit's character design resembling a pin-up girl makes a lot of sense. She probably literally an animated pin-up girl.
* Anyone notice that Judge Doom's glasses didn't break in the bar after Roger took the shot of bourbon? [[spoiler:Seems like a sign that he's wearing fake glasses, which in turn is evidence of what he really is.]]
* The fact that [[spoiler:Acme wrote his will in invisible ink]] doesn't make much sense at first; after all, [[spoiler:if your property was in danger of falling into the wrong hands, you'd want to make an intended beneficiary known as soon as possible]]. But when you take into account the fact that [[spoiler:the will named Acme's beneficiary as the toons]], added onto the fact that [[spoiler:Judge Doom is a toon]], it makes sense that [[spoiler:Acme wrote his will with Disappearing Reappearing ink]]. It was all in the name of defying the trope of LoopholeAbuse; ensuring that [[spoiler:Judge Doom was disposed of before the will was revealed so he couldn't claim himself as a beneficiary by being a toon]].

* The Toontown scene contains at least two references to Disney's ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' (1951) with the doorknobs on Lena's floor resembling the Doorknob in the film and the "[[PunnyName Allyson Wonderland]] BathroomStallGraffiti". At first they seem rather random, however those references might be an allusion to how Eddie, like Alice, has also entered a fantastic world completely devoid of logic and reasoning after following a rabbit down a tunnel (though not an actual rabbit in this case, but a cartoon human with the last name ''Rabbit'').

* At the DarkestHour, Eddie is unarmed, outnumbered by many sociopaths with guns, and Roger and Jessica are strung in front of the Dipmobile with Toontown soon to follow -- and then Doom screams out the Toon Patrol that they're going to "laugh themselves to death just like your idiot hyena cousins!" Eddie has an EurekaMoment; just like Roger said the day before, "A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have." So he engages Doom and the Toon Patrol in an extended ''comedy skit''. Eddie's resulting demonstration of ToonPhysics awareness(and his rapid improv when [[spoiler:he discovers that Doom is a toon using BlackHumor instead of slapstick]]) demonstrates just how ''spectacular'' Eddie used to be as a detective operating in Toontown.
* Related to the above: [[spoiler:if Doom was the first toon to use Black Humor to kill a human being, then wiping out Toontown makes perfect sense; As far as he knew, if he was the last toon, then as they passed from living memory it would become increasingly unlikely that ''anyone'' would discover an unkillable monster walked among humanity, let alone the tropes necessary to counter him. He came very close to becoming an evil god, tormenting humanity for fun and profit ''forever.'' Of course, Doom failed to realize a ''human'' comedian could do the same thing; QED Eddie Valiant disposing him via the comedy that in fact ''preceded'' Toontown]].
* The toons' ability to withstand injury is why toon/human race relations are relatively relaxed compared to the vicious racial divide of 1940's America. They may not interact as equals, but as far as anyone was aware, neither side could actually ''hurt'' each other. Until Roger heard about the death of Eddie's brother, he didn't even think it was ''possible'' for a toon to inflict lasting damage on a human, let alone death. [[spoiler:It makes a weird kind of sense that Doom, the inventor of Dip, was also the first toon to realize he ''could'' kill a human -- via BlackComedy]].

** Or such characters ''are'' actors and are old enough to be of legal age. After all, Baby Herman is ''50'', so who says that Lisa Simpson can't be above 30 or more?
*** In fact, considering [[LongRunners how long]] ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[LongRunners has been running]], the AnimatedActors playing the Simpson kids are probably at least middle-aged.
** Also, it would appear that Acme is more than a friend to toons, if you follow my meaning. Especially since it was his idea to play pattycake. Raising the question if it is only Acme's kink, based on Roger's reaction to the photos.
*** It's possible that pattycake ''is'' only Acme's kink, but that Roger knew that it was, so seeing his wife playing along and satisfying Acme's kink was pretty disturbing.
** It could be a Morse code, telling Jessica that Acme learned of Doom's plan.
** This theory is actually very plausible. According to the scrapped prequel ''Toon Platoon'', Jessica (rather unwillingly) spent time in Germany during World War 2. She WOULD know something like Morse code
* What happened to the studio crew member that was launched high into the air after the bench he was on collapsed under Hyacinth Hippo (from ''{{WesternAnimation/Fantasia}}'')? We don't know if he came back down and a fall from that height is almost not worth the thought. The freezing high altitudes alone could've killed him.
** He may have ended up falling to Toontown.
* When the Weasels die, they turn into toon angels and float away. Except for the one who fell into the vat of dip. Maybe the dip dissolved his.
** As mentioned by someone in the headscratchers, this also implies that the shoe won't go to heaven either. Poor little bugger.
*** Even more tragically, shoes ''come in pairs''. The shoe that's left is effectively a widow(er) in a race of virtual immortals.
** But don't shoes have souls??
*** Worse, not only will the shoe not go to heaven, ''the weasels will!''
*** Or at least they will make it to the pearly gates before being kicked down to the other place.

** When Doom said that the Dip killed toons, [[CessationOfExistence he meant that in every meaning of the word.]]
** I think the film is making a distinction between real death and toon death. Some of the toons can “die” without being dipped, because they’re not really dead in the human sense, they’re just simulating some stereotypical toon version of the concept. I suspect that even after the weasels “died” and became angels, if you looked around enough you’d probably find them on some toon cloud or something.

** It's exactly the sort of thing [[JerkAss Bugs]] tends to do, anyway, well before CharacterDevelopment in later years turned him into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
** To be fair, Bugs ''did'' warn Eddie.
** Forgetting RuleOfFunny while in Toontown is like forgetting the Law of Gravity or the Laws of Thermodynamics in the real world; if you ignore them, then the place cannot function at all.

** There is worse fridge horror if you assume the toons were drawn, since that means that roger rabbit was created so we could laugh at her pain, and Jessica Rabbit exists for us to fap to, even though in universe they are fully sentient.
** Perhaps hand-animation in that universe is like CGI today; for example you could have a real toon dragon in your film, with the fire breath drawn in by an animator due to safety concerns or a need for a bigger fire.
*** There's some evidence for that in the movie itself; some of the props used in the opening scene are real objects that appear animated in the cartoon context, and Baby Herman's mother is played by a human actor on giant leg-shaped stilts. Animators might end up drawing over these things in post-production to make everything look consistent- presumably actual toon-world props aren't used because they might react in an unexpected manner during filming.

*** Remember Jessica saying : 'I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way'. Well, that has to mean she was drawn by ''someone'', doesn't it?
*** Could be a reference to God drawing her that way (which we have similar phrases for).

* How did Judge Doom know how the Dip worked [[spoiler: if he was just a toon robber before becoming a judge]] without prior tests? And by "test", I mean victims. Remember how Bambi's mother's corpse was never found and the pheasant was extremely terrified of the hunter, [[OutOfCharacterMoment going against the rationality of hiding and trying to fly the hell away from the hunter, only to be shot; meaning she saw something so scary that her first reaction was to flee]]. Read this scene while comparing Eddie's reaction to [[FridgeHorror when you have time to watch the scenes where the pheasant and Bambi's mother died]] [[FridgeLogic and why they've never shown up in any of Disney's current spin-offs]]. [[MindScrew Read this until you can understand the meaning behind this.]]
** In the logic of this universe, though, Bambi, the hunter, and the pheasant are all actors. It doesn't make much sense that they'd be filming Doom's attempts to get test subjects.
*** Unless Doom tricked them that the bullets (probably loaded with Dip) were harmless. Thus Doom is not framed, and Bambi's mom dies.
*** So... does that mean ''Bambi'' was a snuff film?!
*** An early draft of the script had Doom be the one that shot Bambi's mother.
*** It's just paint thinner. It breaks down the ink that the toons are made from until there's nothing recognizable left. The equivalent for humans would be... maybe... fire. Lots of fire.
*** I'd say acid rather than fire.
** Returning to the original premise, somewhere out there is Doom's Laboratory - I'm picturing a smelly basement with lots of Escape-Proof Rope and cauldrons. Gee, I sure hope nobody's still hanging from the walls.

** Going the other direction almost all toons are incapable of actually harming a human. Not that they don't feel the desire to, although that's likely also accurate, but outside of accidents it's widely believed a toon literally ''can't'' kill a human because it's so against their purpose. So that leaves us with an immortal invincible species that ''can'' be imprisoned but can't defend themselves. Gosh I hope nobody in that Universe ever thought over those implications.
* When Eddie attempted to duel Judge Doom he took out a singing sword by mistake and then tossed it aside, shortly after he flooded the whole room with dip which may lead you to thinking what happened to that that sword, (if it did or didn't end up like the shoe, Smarty and Doom.)
* One that hit me as a very young child first watching this movie: He had never heard of Toontown before, but had seen plenty of freeways.

** Except this is an in-universe short film, so the fact that it was completed implies that the world being destroyed was part of the performance. Also, in toontown, very little of anything has consequences.