Editing Who Framed Roger Rabbit (section)

===Writing===
[[File:PELogoBW.svg|thumb|alt=Pacific Electric Logo|The plot incorporated the actual closing of [[Pacific Electric]].]]
Price and Seaman were brought aboard to continue writing the script once Spielberg and Zemeckis were hired. For inspiration, the two writers studied the work of [[Walt Disney]] and [[Warner Bros. Cartoons]] from the Golden Age of American animation, especially Tex Avery and [[Bob Clampett]] cartoons. The Cloverleaf streetcar subplot was inspired by ''[[Chinatown (1974 film)|Chinatown]]''.<ref name="Norman" /> Price and Seaman said that "the [[Red Car]] plot, [[suburb]] expansion, [[urban culture|urban]] and [[political corruption]] really did happen," Price stated. "In Los Angeles, during the 1940s, car and tire companies [[Great American streetcar scandal|teamed up]] against the [[Pacific Electric Railway]] system and bought them out of business. Where the [[freeway]] runs in Los Angeles is where the Red Car used to be."<ref name="comment"/> In Wolf's novel ''Who Censored Roger Rabbit?'', the toons were [[comic-strip]] characters rather than movie stars.<ref name="Norman"/>

During the writing process, Price and Seaman were unsure of whom to include as the villain in the plot. They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Baby Herman as the villain, but they made their final decision with the newly created character Judge Doom. Doom was supposed to have an animated vulture sit on his shoulder, but this was deleted due to the technical challenges this posed.<ref name="comment"/> Doom would also have a suitcase of 12 small, animated kangaroos that act as a jury (a play on "[[kangaroo court]]"), by having their [[Joey (marsupial)#Early development|joeys]] pop out of their pouches, each with letters, when put together would spell YOU ARE GUILTY. This was also cut for budget and technical reasons.<ref name="script">Who Shot Roger Rabbit, 1986 script by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman</ref>

The Toon Patrol (Stupid, Smart Ass, Greasy, Wheezy, and Psycho) satirizes the Seven Dwarfs (Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey), who appeared in ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' (1937). Originally seven weasels were to mimic the dwarfs complement, but eventually two of them, Slimey and Sleazy, were written out of the script.<ref name="comment"/> Further references included The Ink and Paint Club resembling the [[Cotton Club (New York City)|Harlem Cotton Club]], while Zemeckis compared Judge Doom's invention of the Dip to eliminate all the toons to [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]]'s [[Final Solution]].<ref name="Norman" /> Doom was originally the hunter who killed [[Bambi]]'s mother.<ref name="script"/> Benny the Cab was first conceived to be a [[Volkswagen Beetle]] before being changed to a taxi cab. Ideas originally conceived for the story also included a sequence set at Marvin Acme's funeral, whose attendees included Eddie, [[Foghorn Leghorn]], [[Mickey Mouse]], [[Minnie Mouse]], [[Tom Cat|Tom]] and [[Jerry Mouse|Jerry]], [[Heckle and Jeckle]], [[Chip n' Dale]], [[Felix the Cat]], [[Herman and Katnip]], [[Yakky Doodle]], [[Mighty Mouse]], [[Superman (1940s animated film series)|Superman]], [[Popeye]], [[Olive Oyl]], [[Bluto]], [[Clarabelle Cow]], [[Horace Horsecollar]], the Seven Dwarfs, [[Baby Huey]], and [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]] in [[cameo appearance]]s. This scene was cut for pacing reasons at the storyboard stage.<ref name="script"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/roger-rabbit.html|title = Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman}}</ref> Before finally agreeing on ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'' as the film's title, [[working title]]s included ''Murder in Toontown'', ''Toons'', ''Dead Toons Don't Pay Bills'', ''The Toontown Trial'', ''Trouble in Toontown'', and ''Eddie Goes to Toontown''.<ref>DVD production notes</ref>