REACTING to *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* INCREDIBLE ANIMEATION!! (First Time Watching) Animator Reacts 

Tell us what animation fun facts you know about this movie or any one for that matter!!

Fun fact: animators used to mix acetone, benzine and turpentine (aka: the dip) to remove ink from animation cells... therefore only the dip can kill toons

Betty Boop was voiced by her original voice actress, Mae Questel, age 80 at the time. She passed away in 1998, not quite reaching her 90th birthday. A talented and long-working voice actress. (Olive Oil, Betty, many others...)

The overly White teeth, The Wind always blowing his clothes, The paleness of his skin, The fact he actively avoids the DIP He Never blinks Great attention to detail

“How is this a kids’ movie?!” It’s really not. It was made so everyone could enjoy it. Plenty of adult jokes in it. Especially the patty cake bit😂 Also, most kids’ movies in the 80s were dark as hell.

Some Fun Facts about this movie: The character of Judge Doom doesn't blink a single time throughout the movie, indicating his true identity. Tim Curry was also originally considered to play the part but the producers thought his potrayal would be too scary. Bob Hoskins who plays Eddie Valiant recalled that after he was done shooting the movie his son was mad at him for several weeks because his father didn't bring any of the cartoon characters home with him. This is shows how amazing the special effects were at the time. Animation director Richard Williams insisted that he'd do all the animation on the character Baby Herman himself because it was his favourite character. At the first test Screening which consisted enterirely of teenagers, all of them walked out after the first few minutes because they didn't want to watch a cartoon. Steven Spielberg still didn't change a single thing and the movie was a massive success.

I was so devastated as a kid when the squeaky shoe was murdered. I cried.

I adore this movie, especially the way it seamlessly blended animation with live action. Rest in peace, Bob Hoskins, he was the perfect choice to bring grouchy but with a soft centre Eddie to life.

Eddie being athletic and funny is actually foreshadowed in the slow pan of his office: he and his brother were raised in a circus, so they had training as clowns. They even wore clown noses in their police academy graduation photo.

It's set in 1947, they showed it when Eddie entered Maroon's office at the beginning of the movie. Also, Eddie's acrobatics were set up earlier in the film. On his desk, there's a picture of him, his brother and his dad as clowns in the circus.

Jessica Rabbit is an icon, a legend and she is the moment. A very misunderstood character.

Love the fact that The Dip is essentially paint thinner/remover ingredients, it’s a great extra layer to the story

Fun Facts: Even though this movie was directed by Robert Zemeckis, the Animation director was Richard Williams. He was known to pay obsessively amounts of attention to detail in his animations. His magnum opus was an animation he was working on called The Thief and the Cobbler for...30 years. A production time of 30 years meant that people got tired with him and he was removed from the production of his own movie, and it was subsequently ruined (in an attempt to rush it to completion. His masterclass "The animators survival kit" is the means I used to learn to animate by. Also, Touchstone was created as a more Adult oriented sub-studio for Disney at the time. Finally, Disney and Warner Bros said the only way they would allow their characters to be in the movie was under the condition that their characters had equal 50/50 screen time. So glad you guys finally watched this.

I dunno if it was mentioned yet, but Jessica’s dress was actually a plastic bag with holes in it to allow the light to glint through! And most of the acting done by the cast was done WITHOUT props or someone playing cartoons, it’s even been mentioned the man who played Eddie got so into pretending he saw cartoons alone on set that he did have to take a break for mental exhaustion. Also in cartoon terms, Jessica is considered “ugly” because she’s too human-looking to make humans laugh, so she technically is a black sheep. It also explains why people get confused as to why she’s with him, from a human perspective she’s gorgeous, but from a toon perspective she isn’t doing her “basic job” and can’t offer much to a partner. But Rodger’s such a great character he loves her for her and not how “useful” she is. Also the movie is based off a book where Rodger is actually dead and trying to help Eddie solve his murder, and there’s about 4 or 5 sequel books, and while some of the crew have been trying to push for movie sequels over the years, the higher ups have been denying it.

Winner of 4 Oscars: Best Visual Effects Best Sound Editing Best Film Editing Best Achievement Award for Animation It made $330 million dollars against a $50 million dollar budget. Before Bob Hoskins was cast as Eddie Valiant, Harrison Ford, Kevin Costner, Michael Douglas, Tom Hanks, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Eddie Murphy, Richard Gere, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Tom Selleck, Jeff Bridges, Nick Nolte, Kurt Russell, Sylvester Stallone, Matthew Broderick, Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, William Hurt, Michael J. Fox, Alec Baldwin, Ray Liotta, Steve Martin, and Robin Williams were considered for the role. Before Christopher Lloyd was cast as Judge Doom, Tim Curry, Eddie Deezan, Peter O'Toole, and Christopher Lee were considered.

This movie takes place in the 40s just after prohibition was repealed. That’s why Jessica performs in a speakeasy and the bar had a rotgut room. Also regarding Eddy’s literal acrobatics at the end, during the pan in his private eye office, it passed by a picture of him and Teddy in the Ringling Bros. Circus. It guess despite getting out of shape, he still has the moves.

Thousands of hours of hands-on animation is how they made it so dang seamless. Each cel was given its due respect.

I went through a “I’m too old for cartoons” phase, so watching this movie years later resonates with me a lot. Eddie Valiant is like a great metaphor for how I felt about cartoons a lot, hated them but had a soft spot for them, finally reconciled my feelings and embraced them again… love this movie.

6:56 I love the foreshadowing of the "Cloverleaf" sign logo and what it represents. I never noticed that before. Clever logo design. Other notes: 7:27 Chilly Willy (the mention of his character is a little anachronistic) and Screwy Squirrel (of the MGM cartoon days) are both real animation characters created or revised by legendary animator Tex Avery. 10:01 Actually, nobody is playing the piano. It is playing itself. They are player pianos, pianos that play a prerecorded song while depressing the keys automatically. 10:18 Betty Boop here is voiced by her original voice actress, Mae Questel. You might know her as Aunt Bethany from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. 12:38 While sitting in the chair, Roger is able to so seamlessly interact with the environment around him because there is a puppeteered machine with arms on it that can grab inanimate objects and do things with them and can even swivel the chair around. The animators then animated the cartoon Roger over it, on every frame of animation with ink and color. They did this on thousands of frames of animation throughout the movie 16:41 Notice the very slight breeze flowing around Doom's cape, but it is happening to nobody else??? 21:43 Yep, those are real prop guns that the weasels are using. They are being puppeteered on wires from above and then animated over, just like the swivel chair. 23:17 Notice how the lamp light from above was bumped when Eddie walks under it. This was never intended to be bumped. Upon being bumped, the shadows from the light keep going all over the room. For some reason, they couldn't reshoot the scene, so the animators had to excruciatingly animate shadows on Roger in order to match the lighting of the room and keep the movie from looking "fake." This is what is now called "bumping the lamp," whose definition is "To go above and beyond expectations when completing a given task/project." 26:30 Again, a robot holding and breaking plates which was later animated over. Such clever and ingenious work. 27:58 Context: "Harvey" is the title of a Jimmy Stewart movie where Stewart plays a man who goes around "interacting" with an imaginary (or is it invisible?) seven foot tall rabbit. 30:33 The ultimate sequence of animating over something. There was a go-kart that was being piloted by a man in the back who was dressed all in black from head to toe. Eddie was riding just in front of him. All of the kart and the real driver were totally animated over. Fact within a fact: There were a couple of shots of Benny, Roger and Eddie in this sequence that were totally animated since it was logistically impossible to use the go-kart. 35:00 Recognize the tunnel here? It is the very same tunnel that they used at the end of Back to the Future 2 where Marty on a hoverboard faces down Biff and his car. 35:23 All of these cartoon bullets are all voiced by veteran actors from old westerns. Some of them were the barflys and the Colt Peacemaker salesman in Back to the Future 3. 36:50 Droopy here (who was owned by MGM animation and also a creation of cartoon legend Tex Avery) was voiced by the film's director, Robert Zemeckis. 37:32 This crossover is the only time this will ever happen in the history of ever (as well as the Donald and Daffy scene). Too many legal facts here, but the only man who could have ever brokered this crossover is Steven Spielberg, who was executive producer on this film. 43:20 I don't know if you missed it, but Eddie and his brother used to work as performers in the circus. This is why he can pull off these stunts. 47:27 If you pause the movie every time a window of the train is in frame, you'll notice an attempted Toon murder in progress. 48:54 As Porky Pig, this is Mel Blanc's final line he ever uttered in any medium. He sadly passed away soon afterwards. These are the only things I can think of, so I hope I haven't overindulged too much.

As animator: Do yourselves a favor and research the industry phrase "Bumping the lamp" as a standard for animators. In short, it refers to the scene at the diner hideout and the overhead lamp gets bumped... the animators painstakingly went above and beyond and made sure the lighting on the animation was correct in relation to the swinging lamp. It's a great story in the efforts and love the entire team poured into this film

The lighting on Roger during the "swinging light" scene from 23:18 to 24:00 is a fairly famous example of being just an incredible, if not over-the-top piece of animation.

Oh! My god. I’ve lived in LA for a decade and I finally got how true all that public transportation stuff is! If you look up the history of Public Transportation in LA (crazy story) and think about when this movie takes place (the year it’s set, not year made) that’s not just a joke! 😯

Something that isn't pointed out as often is that this is actually also an excellent noir film. The tone is a bit lighter, because of the toons ( especially Roger ), but it is very much a period noir overall.

This was a ground breaking movie. It solidified my passion to be an animator and filmmaker. The scene where they show the history of Eddie and his brother tracking around the desk was simple but very effective non verbal exposition.

The filmmakers constantly had a fan blowing on Lloyd to make his cape blow. Glad you noticed that! So much detail in this film

Judge Doom always scared the bejesus out of me as a child. Christopher Lloyd was the best villain, and don't get me started on his death scene!

The actor who provided the voice of roger rabbit actually walked around on set dressed like roger, bunny ears aswel! So when they were on break and he was chilling around the movie studios other people filming other movies where thinking ‘man that roger rabbit film there making looks absolutely trash!’ Haha how wrong they were!

Saw this in the theater at eight years old and was completely blown away. Even then, the Donald and Daffy scene was incredible to behold. The level of corporate cooperation involved is truly amazing for its time.

Many of the characters seen when Eddie Valiant leaves the Maroon office are from Fantasia. You have the Ostrich, Hippo, brooms from the Sorcerer's Apprentice and bits from other cartoons, both shirts and full length. Might be time to give Fantasia a watch to see the peak of animation at the time

You don't know how lucky you are to have skill in animation and NOT have seen this a million times already. You are watching this FRESH from the perspective of an animator. That's a precious thing.

This was actually the last movie I've seen in a theater, back in August of 1988. Jessica's speaking voice was done by Kathleen Turner, and her singing voice was actress Amy Irving, who was married to Steven Spielberg at the time.

What I love the movie aside from the animation and the characters, it's a world that actually feels real. The cartoons act like cartoons, but they also follow human rules and whatnot. Like Roger acts silly, but he's not off the wall looney like in the opening cartoon all the time. He mellows out and acts pretty normal a lot of the time. The cartoons blend in well with the human world is what I'm getting at.

Notice how the toons in the night club are ether performing on stage, or serving the human guests but none are in the crowd watching or enjoying the performances/being served themselves... this is because the toons were an allegory for POC in Hollywood at the time good enough to work there on stage or as staff and servers but never as clientele

One big thing about animation director Richard Williams: He animates on 1's. Most of the Loony Tunes (and even many of the Disney animated content) is on 2's: one drawing for every 2 frames of film. Even modern 2d cartoons, which use Flash and Harmony with automatic tweening capabilities, are often broken up into 12 drawings per second to emulate that same classic cartoon feel. This lends itself towards sharper, snappier motions. But Richard Williams works 1 drawing per frame of film. It's part of the reason the opening cartoon looks so fluid. More than that, it's essential to animate the characters at 24 drawings/second to match the live action. There are downsides though: not only is it twice as much work to animate on 1's, but it can lead to softer, "floatier" looking animation. (That came to bite back on his life's work, "The Thief and the Cobbler", which was ALSO all animated on 1's.)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was based on a book that was definitely NOT for children. I was a kid when this came out and I distinctly remember watching this on VHS. I think it's funny now, as an adult, how anyone thought this should be for kids. I was probably way to young to be watching this at the time I did lol.

RIP squeaky shoe 😭 The attention to detail in this movie keeps it standing the test of time for me. Still so impressive!

Also the “say hello… Harvey” Is reference to a movie called Harvey where a man sees an invisible rabbit

I suggest "Bedknobs and Broomsticks" from 1971.

So happy to see more people appreciating the wonderful production in this movie. Someone else in the comments has probably already mentioned it, but this movie is where the animation term “bumping the lamp” came from!

When the man in the bar introduces his friend Harvey that's a reference to a Jimmy Stewart movie called Harvey about an alcoholic who has an imaginary friend, that's a 6 ft tall rabbit. The play Harvey was originally released in the early 40s and then the movie was made in 1950, it's a good movie you should do a reaction to it.

The story of the public transportation is based on fact. In the 1940s, all of the automobile companies bought out the public transport in Los Angeles to force people to buy cars. This wasn't discovered until decades later and there was no one to punish as the people responsible had died. Since then, the city and county brought back the red car trolleys and the subway system.

While this started as a Disney project, it was in development hell til Spielberg and Zemekis came along. Disney animation was just emerging from its "dark age" and wasnt fully up to the task that Spielberg wanted.. so they hired an indie animation genius Richaed Williams to direct the animation.. specifically because they wanted a blend of animation styles.. the quality of classic Disney, the comedy of Warner Bros, and the violent mayhem of Tex Avery (MGM). Richard could do all 3, AND was master of combining live action with animation even with a moving camera (rather than a locked down camera as was the custom since it meant the animators didnt have to change perspectives). But to Richard, it's the animators job to figure out the perspectives so he told them to just shoot the film like a regular movie and hed figure out the rest. This is one of the last 100% Analog / Zero CGI blockbusters.

If you notice, in the secret room, Roger speaks on a literal soapbox. The films of the late '80s were the pinnacle of optical effects, before _Jurassic Park_ and _Terminator 2_ would usher in the era of digital.

The movie takes place in 1947. Almost every single cartoon character except for the main cartoon characters in the movie are from actual different cartoon shows from the 20's, 30's and 40's. Classic movie. One of my favorites from when I was a kid when this movie was released. 🙂

Jessica Rabbit is modeled after Tex Avery's "Red Hot Riding Hood" character, with her hairdo taken from 40s film star Veronica Lake.

Fun fact: Doom's freeway plot is loosely based on the Great American Streetcar Scandal in which General Motors, Firestone Tire, and other automotive-type companies were found to be buying several cities' trolley and interurban networks for the express purpose of dismantling and "bustituting" them in the immediate post-WWII era, thereby promoting highway growth and car culture. This most infamously included the once-extensive systems of LA (the Pacific Electric's Red Cars as seen in the movie) and San Francisco/Oakland (the Key System). The shortsightedness of this is widely lamented today as by the time congestion and smog became serious enough issues to revive interest in public rail transit (in the form of LA's Metro Rail and SF's BART and MUNI), these cities had to start over essentially from scratch.

17:53 is great! It's a fakeout, because you think he put it on to protect himself as a human, but in actuality it was hinting that he was a toon and he was using extra protection. Also, the behind-the-scenes for this movie is a must watch! One of the coolest scenes is how they did the penguins carrying trays and stuff at the club. Set was built off the ground by 6 feet and they were walking around underneath with trays on sticks stopping at tables so people could pick up drinks, then it was all animation after that making everything seamless. Floating objects like guns and things had strings going up to puppeteers moving them around and animators filled in everything else later. It's amazing what they did with this movie! Even the shaking benches at the piano were being bounced around from above with wires while the toons were playing and they animated it later 08:55. They had stand-in placeholder models for actors on some scenes to help visualize and a lot of the actors actually went to mime school to make it more realistic!

I truly adore this movie! Everything about it is something that I hold dear to my heart. Rest in peace Bob Hoskins

Kathleen Turner voices Jessica Rabbit. She was great in the role. Roger Rabbit was voiced by the man that got the manure out of Biff’s car.

Great reaction! Disney and Warner Bros. had an agreement to give their respective characters equal amounts of screen time. Which is why they are often paired up in scenes. Donald and Daffy, Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse, Porky Pig and Tinkerbell, etc.

They production team truly revolutionized blending animation and live action. It’s so brilliantly done. There are some great behind the scenes videos for the film.

As a couple of guys claiming to be animators, I'm really surprised you were unfamiliar with this film. Not only is it very popular, but it's also a great technical achievement, obviously.

If anyone was gonna turn out to be secretly a toon it'd be Christopher Lloyd. Dooms Freeway plan is based on an actual conspiracy, where tire companies were buying out the roads and trolleys so people would have to use regular cars and buy more tires, but part of it was that they weren't expecting families to have more than one vehicle. I like how Eddies song and dance doesn't come out of nowhere, during the pan over of his desk we see a picture of him and his brother with their dad as clowns for the Ringling Bros circus.(which if you think about it is the closest a human can get to being a toon)

The bar patron that says he had seen the rabbit and says "Say Hello, Harvey" is a reference to an old movie where only one person can see an invisible talking human sized rabbit named Harvey.

I'm so excited! This was one of my favorites growing up. The mix of real and animation blew mind. Thanks for the reaction!

The animation was added after the filming of the movie. There were puppets and robots on set to create some props movements and they added the animation on top of the footage with celluloid, kind of like how they used to do in general. Fun fact, Jessica's dress was supposed to sparkle during the whole mkvie but the FX needed for this was really hard to achieve and took a lot of time to make as well (it was on a seperate celluloid layer as were the lights and shaddows) that they kept it only for when she first appears on screen. I'm glad because this adds a real WOW factor when you first see her. Also, the first time I watched this movie the toon judge gave me nightmares for days , he's so scary !

This still hasn't been topped in general when it comes to live action and real life. This is genuinely brilliant from script to casting to direction and the superb animators

I love this movie! I just find it sad that I've seen some other reactors instantly assume Jessica is evil or sus because of the way she looks :/ Like she says '' I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.'' She adores Roger. She's flirty, but so what? She's faithful. She struggles through the whole movie for Roger's sake. Just- I love her, okay?😅

This was so incredible on the big screen. Not just the animation but the references landed differently. I took my grandparents who had lived in Los Angeles in the 40.

Interesting to note that this movie recasted the original voices of Betty Boop (Mae Questel) and all of the Looney Tunes (Mel Blanc). Both famous voice actors died the year after the film’s release, making this film one of the few last ones they ever worked on.

I saw this movie when it first came out and to this day, Psycho Weasels small line, “Time to kill the rabbit, hehe,” will still slip out of my mouth from time to time

Police mistery story from the 40’s with a cartoon twist! 😂 Love this movie since the theatrical release!!!! Note the use of shadows in the photography, reproducing the “film noir” mood from the 40’s too. Simply amazing!!!! 😊

This is one of my favorite movies of all time I absolutely adore it. Fun fact! The phrase "bumping the lamp", a phrase used to describe when filmmakers go above and beyond on a project, originated from the scene with Eddie and Roger in the old rotgut room. Roger bumps the lamp (and you'll notice the toon characters are constantly interacting with the physical set and props throughout the movie) and it swings back and forth for the rest of the scene, meaning the crew had to animate unique shadows on Roger from a constantly changing light source for the entire sequence. Every time you watch this movie you notice new little touches that made this world so believable, it's wonderful!

Harvey is the inivisble rabbit in the 1950 film starring Jimmy Stewart.

Classic Voice overs in Disney and TV were in this movie-A reunion of the best from 1930-present when this movie was made.

The Movie is set in 1947, and all the vintage cartoons are from that time. The Red Car really was shut down to encourage people to buy and drive cars instead. Check out Chinatown to get another movie where the origan of modern LA is part of the plot.

I think anyone will attest that this movie had one of the most insane productions ever. So groundbreaking, with heights of creative ingenuity we hadn't seen before, or may ever see again. Bittersweet fun fact is that this was one of the last times Mel Blanc lent his voice to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweedy Bird, and Sylvester the Cat before his death the following year. Its three Academy Awards were well-deserved: Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Visual Effects.

It blows my mind that an animator has never seen this movie. Your education failed you.....but now you've seen the greatest movie ever made! What a day! :)

I've seen this movie so many times i sometimes forget how amazing the practical effects are. Thanks for reminding me

One of the greatest films ever made in my opinion, so ahead of its time and the noir aspect is amazing, the acting and animation is mind blowing

I recently saw The Corridor Crew guys doing an episode of CGI reacts about this movie, how they did the effects and the stand-in work for the animation. This was something unique for the 80’s. I’ve watched this movie back in the days with my dad and really enjoyed it as a kid.

One of the conditions for having Disney and Warner Brothers characters was that they had to have the exact same amount of screen time

To look up how this was done, I always recommend a few videos: First off, here on RU-vid, Corridor Crew reacts to the effects of this film and talk about how some of the stuff works out in their video "VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 12". I highly recommend watching the video (they do also have a series where they react to animation in general if you haven't seen them before). Second, on Disney+, there's a series called "Prop Culture" which talks about different props used for certain films and how they got things to work and there is an episode solely based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I also highly recommend watching that as well as the whole Prop Culture series.

I’m honestly surprised you never watched s this before! Even as a kid. This is one of my favorite movies ever.

Did you notice that Eddie has a Maltese falcon statuette in his office? It's not in a conspicuously featured place (blink and you'll miss it), but it's there. I guess every private eye of that period must have one of those as a memento of a previous case.

Fun Fact: Who Framed Roger Rabbit is set in 1947, and any cartoon character that existed before '47 is here. Any cartoon character made in '48 or after isn't here because they didn't exist yet. Example - Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Betty Boop, Mickey Mouse, Disney movies from 37-47, etc. existed before 1947, but characters like Cinderella and the mice aren't here because they're from 1950.

Harvey the 6 foot invisible rabbit/pookah reference from the the James Stewart movie at 28:00

This has never been a kids movie. That is just a misunderstanding by people who didn't grow up with film noir.

Fun fact: in the 1930s and 1940s, Los Angeles actually DID have a world-class public transportation system. It declined in the 50s onwards as personal cars took over until ... well, we get to today.

It is absolutely true that in the 1940's, you didn't need a car in L.A., mainly because it wasn't a very big place. And it's also true that it had the best public transportation system in the world _at the time._ But shenanigans very like what go on in this film put an end to that, and started the obsession with cars that still plagues this country.

No one ever notices Rogers finger prints in the dust on the chair, it's such a great touch

loved this movie as a child found it creepy when the main villains eyes popped out also back when WB and Disney could coexist lol

Reference that I don't think anyone has pointed out yet: when the guy in the bar tells the judge that he's seen the rabbit and then says "Harvey" to the empty set next to him, he's referring to the 1950s movie with James Stewart about a man who claims to see an invisible rabbit named Harvey. No one reacts to black and white movies, but if you ever wanted to try one, I would definitely recommend Harvey as a fun classic.

My favorite part about the world building is how toons see attraction. We see Jessica rabbit as attractive because of her physical appearance, but for toons physical appearance doesn't matter, sense of humor is their version of attractive. For toons, Jessica is the ugly one in the marriage because she's not very funny, while roger is hilarious and is seen as a hunk, that's why Betty boop says Jessica is a "lucky gal" for being married to roger

SOme fun facts, when they were interacting with the toons, there was nothing standing in for the character. That's entirely the actor's actions according to script so they could edit in the toons later. The guy who did the voice of Roger Rabbit was on set behind camera saying his lines to make the conversations more seamless. And the Toon Bar was kinda their world building flex, as the drinks were carried by animatronic skeletons that were replaced by the penguins. A crap load of practical effects went into this movie to make the toons seem more real.

The voice actor for Roger Rabbit also voiced the Taxi. If you ever watch the Movie Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight he played the mailman.

Writing as I watch for some explanations. 1) The entire movie was done with levitating props to give actors clues and ques. It was extremely difficult and a labour of love. 2) Roger's reaction to alcohol is likely a reference to ethanol being used to for cleaning and being able to dissolve ink. 3) The scene of his brother's desk at circa 15:00 is one continual shot with the props department and Bill Hoskins changing everything including from night to day without it being noticed on film.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a excellent movie. It came out when I was 8 and a half and I saw it in the theater with my parents. It's one of the last movies Mel Blanc worked on before his death in 1989. One of the last times he voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, and Sylvester the Cat. I found out about his death from watching the VHS of Who Framed Roger Rabbit that I got from my uncle for my 10th birthday. Still have that VHS. Edit: Before the movie came out there was a special that showed how some of the things were done in the movie. I think clips from that special are still on RU-vid.

"It's like they're just showing off." As a matter of fact, they were! Richard Williams, the animation director, was infamously ambitious and a perfectionist and insisted that the cameras keep moving to help sell the idea that the toons were part of the world (as opposed to keeping the cameras as static as possible to make it easier to animate over them). They even included completely unnecessary environmental interactions (notably the scene where Roger hits the lamp, which not only forced the physical interaction but also forced the dynamic lighting on Roger) in order to fully sell the integration. This film is an absolute masterpiece.

Disney Plus has a pretty cool show called "Prop Culture." One of the episodes dives into this film, and the props they used to make it happen. The taxi cab they drove, the on-set Roger double for eye-line, etc.

“This is so cool!” Adults who were kids when this movie released: We agree 😏

I am so happy happy that you guys watched this movie. The animation is awesome. Also Jessica Rabbit was my first girl crush. Lol I still live that line, I'm not bad, i'm just drawn that way. I think they drew the animation frame by frame. So impressive.

Everything is hand draw in this movie as CGI was not yet a thing. They added lots of mechanical puppets to interact with surroundings, water splash, smoke, dragging things... they even draw few drawn objects which toons give to actors. Actors were good mimes, and used reference to look at correct places. Still one of my favorite over all these years.

Tim Curry originally auditioned for Judge Doom, bit his performance was so terrifying the producers didn't think it would be appropriate for younger audiences so they went with Christopher Lloyd, who still manages to be frightening

I'm so happy you guys watched this movie! It's one of the ultimate animation classics.

Something that is really suitable is that although Eddie hates toons, he is appalled and deeply hurt by the thought of Betty having to wait tables at the club... The only none detective thing he has in his office is a small statue of her

I. Love. This. MOVIE. It was one of the first movies I ever saw as a little kid and it blew my mind. It is one of my favorites, holds up in my opinion, and is absolutely iconic. I am SO glad y'all did this one :)

Bob Hoskins put in so much fucking work acting against nothing, he sells that roger exists more than anything else

In case you missed it, Valiants ending dance scene was foreshadowed by a picture of his childhood in the circus in the reminiscing scene.

Love this review on a all time classic, did you know Jessica Rabbit was voiced by Kathleen Turner, however Kathleen was uncredited for her part due to fact she didn’t want equal pay as what the main actors got as she only did 2 weeks in the studio on voice acting, which I thought was nice of her. She told me when I met her back in 2018 at a convention