Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Continuity mistake: Eddie's arms change position between shots after Roger drinks the bourbon and collapses face-first onto R.K. Maroon's desk. (00:24:15)

ryguy_1983

Continuity mistake: After Roger has a violent reaction to R.K's drink, a decanter bursts open and leaves bourbon all over the blinds. But moments later when Roger crashes through the window and leaves an outline of himself, the blinds are completely dry. (00:24:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Roger jumps out of the chair and through the window in Maroon's office, you can see the glass shatter with jagged edges at the bottom and no clean outline of Roger. The next shot shows the glass cleanly cut in Roger's shape. (00:25:00)

Continuity mistake: When Eddie starts browsing through his Catalina pictures, a white cup on the desktop changes its location between shots. (00:26:15)

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Continuity mistake: As Eddie sits at his desk and starts looking at the second Catalina vacation photo, his hands grip the stack of photos in different locations between shots. (00:26:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Mr. Acme is killed with a piano, there's a cop next to a briefcase taking pictures of the crime scene. A frame later the cop is 1 meter away from the briefcase. (00:29:05)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: In Acme's factory where a crime scene investigator finds the toon boxing glove mallet, his left hand releases itself from the handle between shots and several paintbrushes on the desk keep changing direction throughout the scene. (00:29:40)

ryguy_1983

Continuity mistake: When the officers are carrying Marvin Acme's gurney away, one of them bumps into a crate of squeaking shoes. As the crate topples over, its lid flips upside down between cuts. (00:30:25)

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Continuity mistake: When the weasels make their appearance at Mr. Acme's crime scene their car knocks some boxes off. From one angle they are all scattered next to the front bumper, but when the angle changes they're gone and have moved several feet to the right. (00:31:55)

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Judge Doom is about to dunk the squeaky shoe into the Dip, it seems to stick itself in for him, even though it looks rather scared. (00:33:35)

Continuity mistake: When Eddie and Baby Herman are in the hallway discussing the late Marvin Acme's will, Eddie repositions the baby carriage and starts unlocking his apartment door. He then turns around to face Baby Herman, but between shots his body rotates back to its original position. (00:35:20)

ryguy_1983

Continuity mistake: When Baby Herman's cigar falls to the floor its position changes between the first and the second angle in half a second. (00:35:35)

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Eddie Valiant is in his office, and he examines the newspaper photo of Jessica Rabbit and Marvin Acme, the picture doesn't match the photos shown to RK Maroon earlier in the film, and neither does the original of the photo he looks at next. The photo shows an earlier, less sultry version of Jessica, in a halter-neck dress. (Jessica wears a strapless dress throughout the film). The DVD's Toontown Confidential special feature mentions that Jessica's look changed during filming, and the scene where Eddie takes down the Jessica photos and looks at the holiday photos of him and his brother was re-shot to show the new Jessica. Looks like they either missed the newspaper scene or felt that the view was so brief it wasn't necessary to change it. (00:35:49)

Continuity mistake: At Valiant' office notice the bottle of whiskey on the table, right before he examines the pictures of Jessica and Acme, the bottle is about almost full. But in the next scene after he finds out that Roger is there he sits down and you hear him pour himself a drink. In the next shot the bottle is almost empty and he is holding a glass that only holds about a mouthful of whiskey. How could he pour that little amount of whiskey and lose that much? (00:36:00)

Joe Campbell

Continuity mistake: When Eddie unfastens his suspenders, the glass he placed on the newspaper changes its position between shots. (00:36:05)

ryguy_1983

Continuity mistake: When Eddie breaks out the magnifying glass to get a better look at Marvin Acme's will, his left thumb jumps to a different position on the photo between frames. (00:36:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Roger is in Eddie's apartment hiding from the Toon Patrol, a picture on the nightstand by the pull down bed changes positions on its own. (00:37:20)

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Continuity mistake: Before Eddie grabs Roger to toss him out of the apartment, a blanket hung over the edge of the pull down bed rearranges itself between shots. (00:37:25)

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Continuity mistake: In the scene at Valiant' office, Roger starts reading the letter but when he jumps off the bed in front of Valiant, the letter disappears. (00:38:35)

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Continuity mistake: In Valiant' office notice the whiskey bottle to the right of Valiant. Then Roger is about to sit in his brother's chair. While Valiant is yelling at him, look right in front of him the whiskey bottle is there, but then when he sits down the bottle is back at its original spot. (00:39:15)

Joe Campbell

Factual error: The picture of Eddie and Teddy on the road with dad, supposedly taken in 1906, shows a Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus poster. In 1906, the Ringling Brothers circus and the Barnum & Bailey circus were two separate circuses playing in different parts of the country. They did not combine the two shows until 1919. (00:27:00)

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Roger Rabbit: No! Not my Jessica! Not pattycake! It can't be! It just can't be! Jessica's my wife! It's absolutely impossible! Jessica's the love of my life. The apple of my eye. The cream in my coffee.
Eddie Valiant: Well you better start drinking it black, Acme's taking the cream now.

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Question: When Eddie is fighting Doom at the end he spots a box with a singing sword in it. He whips it out and sure enough, the sword starts singing. My question is, why would there even be a singing sword? Is this a reference to something else?

Carl Missouri

Answer: Valiant also shares his name with Arthurian comic strip hero Prince Valiant, who wields a singing sword, Flamberge.

Chosen answer: One of the legends of Excalibur says that the sword sang when Arthur pulled it from the stone. Bugs Bunny went on a quest for the singing sword in a cartoon once, so there's historical AND cartoon precedence for singing swords.

Captain Defenestrator

Answer: It's likely just meant to be a nonsensical gag. Notice how Eddie and Doom both give the sword a questionable look, like they're also confused as to why such a thing even exists.

Answer: This is also a gag factory where such things like that would be made for cartoons.

Rob245

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