Tummy Trouble
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Line 29: Line 29:*[[April Winchell]] as Young Baby Herman/Mrs. Herman
*[[April Winchell]] as Young Baby Herman/Mrs. Herman
*Lou Hirsch as Adult [[Baby Herman]]
*Lou Hirsch as Adult [[Baby Herman]]
−*[[Corey Burton]] as Orderly
*[[Corey Burton]] as the Surgeons
*[[Richard Williams]] as Droopy Dog
*[[Richard Williams]] as Droopy Dog
*[[Kathleen Turner]] as [[Jessica Rabbit]]
*[[Kathleen Turner]] as [[Jessica Rabbit]]
- Not to be confused with "Tummi Trouble", a Gummi Bears episode.
Tummy Trouble is a 1989 short, starring Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman, that was shown before the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in the United States and before the animated film The Little Mermaid in the United Kingdom.
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.
The cartoon begins with Baby Herman about to cry as his mother is about to leave for an hour. Mrs. Herman leaves her infant son under the care Roger Rabbit, who gives a stern warning to make sure everything is just fine unlike the last time. Once Mrs. Herman leaves the house, Baby Herman starts breaking into a crying fit, so Roger decides to cheer the baby up with a rattle. Unfortunately for Roger, as soon as Baby Herman starts playing with the rattle, he swallows it on a whim and is rushed to the hospital for surgery.
At the hospital, as Baby Herman lies on his bed, Roger arrives and expresses how much he feels bad about Herman's situation. Suddenly, while drinking some milk, Herman burps out the rattle, but the bubble carrying it pops, causing Roger to eat it, making Herman cry once more. However, the baby becomes happy when Roger starts dancing, as it would allow him to hear the rattle. Unfortunately, the doctor arrives at that moment and mistakes Roger for Herman, where he's promptly strapped to a table and taken to the emergency room. Meanwhile, Herman spots milk bottles on a cart being pushed by Jessica Rabbit and begins chasing after one stray bottle.
Back in the surgery room, before the doctors can cut open Roger, they leave for their lunch break, and Herman immediately arrives. Herman grabs the bottle, but mistakes a radioactive container for a bigger bottle, and begins crawling toward it. As Roger, still strapped to the table, tries to stop Herman, Herman lands on top of a laser cutter on the ceiling, and activates it, causing the laser to cut itself from its mount and rocket towards Roger and Herman. What follows is a prolonged chase throughout the hospital, where Roger manages to spit out the rattle, only for Herman to eat it again, and vice versa. By the end of the chase (which involved flying the laser into a pile of explosives and crashing through every floor in the hospital), Roger is happy that they got the rattle back. Unfortunately, Roger's victory is short-lived, as a man presents Roger with the hospital bill, causing him to faint from its high price. The cartoon ends with Herman climbing onto Roger to get his rattle back... and once again swallow it.
After flashing the "The End" card, Herman, who is revealed to have hated the gag of swallowing the rattle, threatens trouble to the crew, warning the directors that he'll spit his guts out if he should have to do it again, and Roger, meeting up with his wife, decide to head home to play patty-cake.
The cartoon characters that make cameo appearances in this short include:
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