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'Roger Rabbit' Animation Tests: Roger with the Voice and Public Indecency of Paul Reubens

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See an early, overalls-free design of Roger (voiced here by Paul Reubens), and a human-cartoon interaction test with a Jessica Rabbit so crudely sketched you'll barely start masturbating to her, in these rarely-seen, decades-old preliminary pencil tests from the 1988 noir-comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The stuttering voice of Pee-wee emerging from Roger isn't so bad, but I don't know about this nascent, thinner design of Bob Hoskins:

Hard to believe it's been two dozen years since Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Where does the time go? Outside of all the time spent trying to freeze-frame the part on the laserdisc where you see Jessica Rabbit's V.

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