10 Lines That Made No Sense Because Of A Deleted Scene

3. "I'm Out There Risking My Neck For You!" - Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Roger Rabbit

In the brilliant cult classic, noire pastiche, after the titular animated rabbit dances on the bar and almost blows his cover, Bob Hoskins' detective Eddie Valiant scolds him by saying, "I'm out there risking my neck for you!" seemingly ignoring the fact that he hasn't done anything like that. Up to this point in the movie, all Valiant did was leave Roger in the hidden room at the bar so he could go back to his office, where he met Roger's "just-drawn-that-way" wife Jessica, and then he returned to find Roger dancing. Not exactly daredevil actions. This is because there originally was a smartly deleted scene in this section of the film. In said scene, after dropping Roger off, Valiant is caught snooping in Jessica's dressing room by Christopher Lloyd's Judge Doom and is sent to Toontown, where his head is, for some reason, transformed into a cartoon pig. Valiant returns to his office to wash it off in an unexpectedly gruesome scene, as we see the cartoon pig guts splash against the bottom of his tub like blood going down the drain in the infamous shower scene in Psycho. Again, it's a good thing this bit was omitted from the final film: not only is the idea of Valiant having a cartoon pig head just stupid, but it would ruin the semi-dramatic ending when Valiant is forced to return to Toontown, something he swore he would never do again, to face Judge Doom once and for all, having not been there since his brother's untimely demise. It wouldn't be that big a deal if we already saw Valiant head to Toontown only a few scenes earlier.
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Michael Perone has written for The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, The Island Ear (now titled Long Island Press), and The Long Island Voice, a short-lived spinoff of The Village Voice. He currently works as an Editor in Manhattan. And he still thinks Michael Keaton was the best Batman.