When Roger bursts into the hospital room to grieve for Baby Herman, Mickey Mouse appears as a mouse skull anatomical wall chart. Mickey's pants and shoes can be seen next to the changing screen, and a bag of money sits on the weighing scale, indicating that Mickey himself once occupied the room. Later, the mouse skull chart is replaced by a chart showing a rabbit's brain, which is a peanut.
Was released theatrically with Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and the 3D Re-Release, Meet the Robinsons (2007). internationally. It was later re-released in Uruguay theatres in front of Divergent (2014).
The first of three Roger Rabbit cartoons produced for theatrical release, and the only one with a complete ending. (The others, like the opening cartoon in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), were "interrupted" midway.)
Originally the surgeons were going to attempt to perform surgery on Roger with a kitchen knife. It was animator Jacques Muller's idea to have it be a chainsaw.
When Roger is being wheeled into the operating room one of the doors is marked Burbank.