List of Who Framed Roger Rabbit Media - Animated Shorts - Trail Mix-Up

Trail Mix-Up
Roger Rabbit series
Directed by Barry Cook
Produced by Steven Spielberg
Kathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Rob Minkoff
Music by Bruce Broughton
Studio Walt Disney Feature Animation, Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)
  • March 12, 1993 (1993-03-12)
Preceded by Roller Coaster Rabbit

Trail Mix-Up, the third and last of the Roger Rabbit shorts, was attached to the theatrical release of Disney/Amblin's A Far Off Place on March 12, 1993. It was also released in theaters in the UK with Tarzan in 1999, This is also the first and only short not to be directed by Rob Minkoff, but by Barry Cook instead (although Minkoff remained involved in the short, serving as a co-executive producer). The short features Roger Rabbit, Baby Herman and Mrs. Herman at the park setting up camp. Mrs. Herman plans to go hunting and leaves Roger in charge of watching Baby Herman. Trouble begins when Baby wanders off in the dangers of the forest and Roger has to go and save him, leading to multiple calamities such as Roger panicking at the sight of a bug and spraying so much insecticide (named Mink-Off) that many trees die. Later, Baby Herman follows a bee up to a beehive, and Roger tries to save him. The beehive falls on Roger's head, causing him to get stung multiple times. The bees proceed to chase him, so Roger runs into a lake, where he panics at the sight of a shark's dorsal fin (which is actually controlled by Droopy).

Later, Baby Herman follows a beaver (mistaking him for a dog), and Roger chases after them. Baby Herman follows the beaver up a pile of logs, and Roger follows, only to have the log that Baby and the beaver are on taken to the sawmill. This ends up with Roger being shredded by a sawmill (and the result is 13 tiny Rogers, which then join again into a regular-sized Roger, who follows Baby Herman (still following the beaver) onto a conveyor belt with logs.) It ends up with the logs being thrown down a log flume, eventually landing in a river. The log Roger, Baby and the beaver are on crashes into a bear, who ends up on the log. Then the four fall off a waterfall. Roger's head gets stuck in a twig sticking out of the waterfall, and he catches Baby Herman (holding on to the beaver), and the bear grabs onto Roger's legs. The combined weight rebounds, sending all four flying, landing on a large boulder.

The boulder proceeds to roll down a hill, knocking over a tree trunk (with the same sound effects as a bowling pin), and then flying off a cliff. Eventually, Roger, the bear, the log, the beaver, the boulder, and Baby Herman all land on top of Old Predictable Geyser in that order. Then, Old Predictable Geyser erupts, sending Roger, the bear, the log, the beaver, the boulder, and Baby Herman flying out of the studio, above Hollywood, before landing on Mount Rushmore, destroying it. Everyone is battered and beaten, and Baby Herman yells at Roger for destroying Mount Rushmore. Roger sticks a flag (made of his pants) in the ground and salutes, but then the Earth deflates.

The cartoon characters that make cameo appearances in this short include: Mickey Mouse (as Roger's tail, a bee and Baby Herman's eye pupils), Tinker Bell from Peter Pan (as a bee), Evinrude from The Rescuers (as a bee), The Genie from Aladdin (as a bee), Mr Magoo (as a bee), the boy from Off His Rockers (on a wanted poster), Bullwinkle J. Moose (as the moose on the chocolate moose box), Ariel from The Little Mermaid (on a poster attached to a tree) and Droopy (as a scuba diver).

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