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• Crew or equipment visible: Assistant director visible in reflection in trolley car window as Eddie leaves the studio lot after his first visit to Maroon's office.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Weasels pull up to Eddie's Apartment, the Weasel's Car completely hides the Fire Hydrant. The next time we see it, the Hydrant is visible (there was no one in the vehicle to move it).
  
  
• Continuity: When Roger crashes through the window, there are only two fragments left at the bottom of the frame. In the next shot (when the blind falls off), the pane is complete except for a Roger-shaped hole.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: When the weasels are cutting through the back wall of the ACME, a brick can be seen hovering in the air unsupported.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Set in 1947, the movie features the Singing Sword bearing the likeness of Frank Sinatra that croons several bars of the Coleman-Leigh song "Witchcraft", which wasn't written, and which Sinatra didn't record, until 1957 (at least in this universe - but who's to say it wasn't already a big hit in Toon Town, whose residents used Coleman and Leigh as a front to raise some much-needed simoleons by selling the song to Sinatra).
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Set in 1947, a bar patron introduces Judge Doom to his invisible rabbit friend, Harvey. While the movie Harvey (1950) was not produced yet, the play it was based on was first produced in 1944 and could be assumed to be well known.
  
  
• Continuity: Just before Eddy Valiant goes into the Terminal Bar, sunlight reappears on a wall behind him, even though the sun has already set.
  
  
• Anachronisms: California State Highway 110, the state's first freeway, was already carrying traffic in 1947.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner and Speedy Gonzalez, who appear in the toon crowd at the end of the film, did not appear in any theatrical shorts before 1949, even though Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg insisted that all of the cartoon characters be chronologically correct for the movie's setting of 1947. These two got into the film because they are in fact Zemeckis' favorite cartoon characters. On the other hand, they're not presented as known characters, but merely appear as Toon Town residents in the finale, which is not inconsistent - they live in Toon Town but haven't made it big in the movies yet.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Eddie Valient is first leaving R. K. Maroon's office, he looks to see the man playing the saxophone for the brooms from "Fantasia". Yet, the sax player is not moving his fingers, but merely holding the sax. He is not playing it at all, just moving around.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As 'toon director Raoul J. Raoul storms off the set carrying his coat, the coat sleeve rises under its own power to meet Roger Rabbit's hand.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Roger runs past a pinball machine in the bar. The machine is a 1966 Gottleib "Hurdy Gurdy".
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Eddie and Roger escape from the weasels in the bar, they run to the weasel's truck. Roger squeezes through the slot to find Benny and the love letter pops out. You can see a crew member's black gloved hand shove the letter through to Eddie.
  
  
• Continuity: The lid of the wooden crate tipped over by the cops in the ACME warehouse alternates between being upside down and right side up between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: When Eddy Valiant sits on the back of the trolley car, the overhead power grid is visible and connected to the car. When he gets off, the connector rods are sticking up into thin air with no grid anywhere.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Film takes place in 1947. The short that Roger and Eddie watch at the theater, Goofy Gymnastics (1949), was not released until two years later.
  
  
• Continuity: The first time we visit the ACME warehouse, the detective pushes the boxing glove mallet with two hands, but in the next shot he is using only one hand (though it is presented as though it's the same action).
  
  
• Continuity: After Eddie shows the guy the check at the bus, he folds it, in the next shot, he folds it again.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Roger was reading the love letter, Valient leaves the screen. When Roger said "obviously" his mouth didn't move at all.
  
  
• Continuity: There's a table right by the peeking holes. When Judge Doom knocks where the peeking holes are, there's no table.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Eddie says, "What? What do I look like? A stenographer?", his mouth doesn't match at all. He was saying something else.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Eddie and Jessica exit Toontown on Bennie the Cab, the shadow matte on Jessica's dress slips as they exit the frame.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The first time Roger pops out of Eddie's sink, the water Roger spits out is covered up by the weasel, who is supposed to be in the background.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Disney's version of Peter Pan's Tinker-Bell appears at the end of the film to "poof" away the picture. The Disney Peter Pan (1953), though in development in 1947, was not completed (and had not gone through character design) by 1947.
  
  
• Continuity: Eddie Valiant's collar as Dolores talks about Cloverleaf buying Toontown.
  
  
• Continuity: After Roger drinks the chili sauce he is propelled to the built-in ironing board. As he approaches the board, an iron can be seen inside, from his point of view. After that the iron disappears.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As the weasels cross the street to Valiant's office, they disappear behind the window frame in the foreground. Their shadows, however, do not.
  
  
• Factual errors: In one scene, a Pacific Electric Red Car is seen passing by with both of its trolley poles raised. The pole pointing forward would likely jump the wire and severely damage the overhead wire supports.
  
  
• Continuity: As the Toon Squad car bursts into the Acme warehouse, the weasels can be seen sticking their heads out the windows. In the close-up of the car stopping they are gone.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: As Eddie Valiant drags R.K. Maroon to the Movieola, Maroon says "I'm a cartoon maker, not a murderer." The close-up of Eddie and Maroon at the Movieola occurs just as Maroon is saying "murderer", but he is not speaking.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Roger is jumping on Eddie's bed while reading his love letter, just before the next shot the mattress can be seen sinking before Roger touches down.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: The trolley Eddie is lying on when Roger pulls him under the bed
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: To escape the toon woman chasing him, Eddie Valiant removes the lane divider on the road to send her crashing into a wall. As the camera pans to the wall, the divider does not move with the camera.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The matting process cuts off Roger's whiskers in most scenes. Sometimes you see the tips of the whiskers silhouetted against an arm or an ear, but the space in between is blank. NOTE: This was corrected for the 2004 Vista Series DVD, where the full whiskers are present throughout the movie.
  
  
• Continuity: Eddie's toon gun becomes a live-action prop after entering the alley at Toontown.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The Hollywood sign is visible through Eddie Valiant's office window. In 1947 the sign would read HOLLYWOODLAND.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Eddie Valiant gets out of his car in ToonTown and hits the bird flying over his head, the background can be seen through his body.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Roger Rabbit drinks the whiskey in the bar while being held at the neck by Judge Doom, the Judge briefly lets go of him, but Roger doesn't fall down.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Eddie and Jessica are driving out of toon town in the animated taxi cab, right before they crash into the post, one of the taxi's headlight's can be seen through the post.
  
  
• Continuity: The "Rabbit Dip" writing on the chalkboard in the bar changes slightly between shots.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening cartoon a number of kitchen implements and food items litter the floor. These disappear in later frames.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Note that, many items on this page say that certain Disney films had not been made at the time this film was taking place, but the toons that appear in movies after 1947 could still be living in toon town, but had not hit it big with movies yet.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Judge Doom is looking for Roger in the terminal bar, there is a spelling mistake on the menu behind him, it says 'Todays Special'. It's missing the apostrophe.
  
  
• Continuity: When Judge Doom is melting, he is standing upright, with his body and clothing melting in a pile on top of itself, but when everyone is examining the 'crazy toon', his clothing is laid out, like he was laying down when he melted.
  
  
• Factual errors: Throughout the movie the streetcar tracks are shown as merely railheads slightly higher than pavement level. All in-street rail requires a flangeway for the wheel flanges that keep the wheels on the track. Typically, grooved rail or girder rail would be used.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Many of the liquor and beer bottles were of an incorrect shape or had labels that were not used for another couple of decades. Examples being the Wild Turkey he shoots with the tomahawk bullet and the Budweiser behind the bar when Doom tries to apprehend Roger.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: After Roger blows his nose on the handkerchief, it's obvious R. K. Maroon didn't grab the handkerchief out of his hand. It appears he was reaching down to get the handkerchief. However, Maroon's handkerchief would have presumably been dirtied by Roger's tears and nose blowing. A person would normally try to retrieve such a handkerchief by taking it gingerly by a place presumed to be unspoiled. This reaction is further verified by the fact that Maroon immediately places the handkerchief in the wastebasket.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Near the end of the film when Benny the Cab crashes into the lamp post, and he gets up to drive Roger to the ACME warehouse, the lamp post tilts to the side, revealing it to be a fake.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: While Eddie is being questioned by the weasels in his office and Rodger is in the sink, you can clearly see the loop for the guide wire on the weasels pistol (just above his hand).
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the movie theater where Roger and Eddie hide, the cartoon playing is Goofy Gymnastics (1949), which was not actually released until two years after the film's set year of 1947.
  
  
• Continuity: In one of the last scenes of the movie, Eddie opens a firewater valve to flush away the dip. He turns the valve clockwise. To open a valve of this type, it must be turned counter-clockwise. Even if this was some special reverse-convention valve, note that Eddie turns it the SAME clockwise direction when closing it moments later.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Eddie Valliant smacks Roger Rabbit in the back of his head at the Movie Theatre, the sound of the smack starts before Eddie Valliant's hand hits Roger's head
  
  
• Continuity: When the weasels enters Eddie Valiants apartment to find Roger, the weasel known as Smart-Ass holds a real gun. When he walks up to Eddie, the gun has a shadow, but Smart-Ass doesn't. In the next shot, he has a shadow as well.
  
  
• Continuity: When Maroon is trying to coax Eddie to take the detective job during their first meeting, Eddie goes for the glass whiskey decanter on the right. He pours himself a few sips of whiskey, an amount so small that the bottle's still very full when he puts it down. However, after Dumbo scares him and makes him drop to the floor, you see the whiskey decanter again, now missing a significantly noticeable amount of whiskey.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: A live-action model was used in the scene in the Ink and Paint club during Jessica's song parts of her were rotoscoped in order to cover the model up. Jessica interacts with Marvin Acme by pinching his cheeks and then taking his handkerchief out of his coat pocket and polishing his head with it. If you look closely, you will see Jessica's hands briefly grow to human proportions as she interacts with Acme. This occurs again when she interacts with Eddie later in the same scene. In fact, there is a tiny glitch in the animation of her hands as they go from rotoscope to animation after she shoves Eddie's hat into his face. Finally, as the camera closes in on Jessica and Eddie in the final moments of the song if you slow down the film speed, you will see Jessica's dress move ahead of her for a few frames to cover the performance model. Again Jessica's hands are rotoscoped as they pull on Eddie's tie.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Eddie lowers the hook holding Roger and Jessica, the chain stays still as the hook lowers. It should be moving through the pulley.
  
  
• Factual errors: If the water from the fire hydrants could wash away the dip, then the dip itself (which is just as real as the water) would have already drained away.
  
  
• Continuity: As the Dipmobile crashes through the brick wall leading to ToonTown heavy smoke can still be seen rising out of the Dipmobile's supposedly empty storage tank.
  
  

• Continuity: SPOILER: When Roger arrives at the Acme warehouse to save Jessica, he is carrying the real gun that Eddie took from Maroon and subsequently discarded. It becomes a Toon gun during his confrontation with Doom, however.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Eddie buzzes Judge Doom with Acme's hand buzzer, he shakes Doom's hand with both hands but after he's done, he's holding it with his left hand.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Judge Doom stops Eddie from picking up the buzzer, he had his cane in his right hand. In the next shot, it was in his left.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Judge Doom fights Eddie, he takes the glue-encrusted glove off his right hand. After Doom is hit with dip and starts to melt, he is wearing clean gloves on both hands.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Judge Doom removes his glove, he reveals a toon anvil as a hand, which he then changes into a toon buzzsaw. Supposedly, his gloves were to used to hide his "toony" hands. When Doom gets hit by the stream of dip firing out of the machine, his hand is still bare, but this time it's Christopher Lloyd's real, unanimated hand. When he starts melting, the glove's back on.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: In the final fight sequence, when Judge Doom is being blown across the room by the canon spraying acid, the black wires pulling him are clearly visible. NOTE: This was corrected for the 2004 Vista Series DVD, where the wires are no longer visible.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: The shadows "cast" by the cartoon characters often do not match the shadows of the real actors in density and definition. This is especially noticeable when Roger confronts Judge Doom and the weasels at the Acme warehouse.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the movie Eddie just saves himself from being crushed by the steamroller. After he jumps over the steamroller and kicks Doom to the floor you can still see the steamroller driving away from him and Doom. Then Doom gets up and smacks Eddie to the ground and suddenly the steamroller is coming his way. Somehow it has turned 180 degrees.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Eddie is making the weasels laugh, he kicks the one known as Smart-Ass in his crotch, whereby Smart-Ass falls into the vat of dip, but the dip seems to have splashed before he even came into contact with it.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: It is supposed to be impossible to kill 'toons any way other than the Dip, yet the weasels die laughing. However, it is stated that the characters *thought* it was impossible to kill a toon. Humans may have been unaware that toons could die from laughter. The Judge does say that the toon weasels' "idiot hyena cousins" died.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): SPOILER: Many times throughout the film, the cartoon characters threaten to kill each other in many ways (guns, knives, hanging, etc.) when it's made clear that only Dip and extreme laughing can kill a toon. It doesn't make sense for the toons to be making empty threats to one another.
  
  

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