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| | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Reverse Shot |
 | | With his overly soft features, willowy body, and vaudeville-hell costuming, Roger Rabbit was a discreet, loving parody of character design from the golden-age of Hollywood animation; his obnoxious catchphrase (“P-b-b-b-b-blease!”) and manic, Jerry Lewis-like destructiveness were expressions of his inability to function in human society. |
 | | And I had all the Roger Rabbit merchandise I could find—a talking doll, a towel, an NES cartridge of such low quality that it makes me angry to this day, and my prized possession, a videocassette of the original Robert Zemeckis film, which I probably watched as a young kid at least two dozen times. |
 | | That talking doll—which broke within a month and only spoke at a normal speed if you manually slowed the pull-string—and the ill-advised video game speak to the cavalier manner in which films of the post-Ewok era were treated by their studios as first steps toward extensive tie-in licensing. |
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