Tummy Trouble
Tummy Trouble is a 1989 short, starring Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman, that was shown before the feature Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
This is the first of three animated Roger Rabbit shorts, produced after the 1988 Touchstone Pictures film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was made by Walt Disney Pictures and Amblin Entertainment.
Plot
Baby Herman swallows a rattle and is rushed to the hospital for surgery. Roger is shocked and sad about this. The rattle comes falling down into Roger's mouth after the baby burps it out after his milk break, and Roger swallows it. When the surgeon comes in to get Baby Herman ready for surgery, he thinks Roger is the patient that swallowed the rattle and much zany madness breaks loose. Roger and the baby both fall in the elevator, and Baby Herman uses a diaper as a parachute. Roger finally spits out the rattle and is soon relived that such trouble was over... until he is given the bill for the hospital services, which we can assume is extremely expensive. Roger, as a result, freaks out and faints, and Baby Herman swallows the rattle again.
Cameos
The cartoon characters that make cameo appearances in this short include:
- Mickey Mouse
- Donald Duck
- The Mad Doctor
- The Three Little Wolves
- Raggedy Andy
Trivia
- The title card at the start of the film states that this film was made in 1947, the year Who Framed Roger Rabbit was set in.
- Mickey Mouse’s trademark shoes and shorts can be seen adorning the changing screen in Baby Herman hospital room. Nearby is a diagram of a mouse’s skull, in Mickey’s design, on the weights there is a moneybag. When the scene cuts back the clothes are gone and the diagram has been replaced with a Rabbit’s Brain, which is represented by a peanut.
The hospital doors that Roger passes as he is moved through the hospital are: Pathology, Urology, Proctology, Gynecology, Biology, Radiology, Geology, Theology, Archeology, Zoology, Egyptology, Astrology, Musicology, Physiology, Pharmacology, Phraseology and finally Burbank.
- Droopy's one line ("Gruesome, isn't it?") was actually an outtake from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The voice is that of Richard Williams, animation director on that film.
- This was the only Roger Rabbit/Baby Herman cartoon that ended successfully (even having a ending card after the iris out). In 'Something's Cooking' (from the movie), Roger kept fouling up his line where he was suppose to see stars after the refrigerator fell on his head, 'Roller Coaster Rabbit' was messed up when Roger and Herman crashed into the camera, and 'Trail Mix-Up' resulted in Roger, Herman, a beaver, and a bear being launched off the set by a geyser into Mount Rushmore, resulting in it being destroyed.