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Originally Posted by yumny
There is a very disturbing shoe scene in the movie. I'd YouTube link it, but it's rather easily found if you go there yourself.
Here's what happens: [Show spoiler]Judge Doom decides to demonstrate his newest invention, some kind of liquid that evaporates (is that the right word? Anyway, you dip it in and it melts away thus dies) any Toon. He then continues to pick up a very cute animated shoe with eyes and DIP IT INTO THAT STUFF. He MURDERS A CUTE LOOKING ANIMATED SHOE ON SCREEN. I almost cried watching it but to my credit, I was a lot younger. Nevertheless it still haunts me to this day that that innocent cute shoe was BURNED TO DEATH.  |
It's an in-joke. Cels were recycled by washing off the paint. Hence, in Roger Rabbit, the only way to kill an animated character was to "wash it" with chemicals. It also establishes the stakes of the Super Evil Chinatown-esque Land Grab Plot.