A MAROON CARTOON In color BABY HERMAN and ROGER RABBIT in SOMETHIN'S COOKIN'

Baby Herman: "Brrh Brrh brrh brrg-agh." He babbled in his cot crib playarea.

Lady: "Mommy's going to the beauty parlor darling. But I'm leaving you with your favorite friend Roger." She said as a red haired toon Rabbit was laying against a pillow. "He's going to take very very good care of you. Because if he doesn't, he's going back to the science lab!" She shouted out firmly poking his nose.

Roger: "Pl-pl-pllllease! Don't worry. What ever you say! Yes, ma'am. Aye aye, sir. Okey dokey. Why, I'll take care of him like he was my own brother. Or my own sister. Ow! Or my brother's sister. Or my second cousin who was twice removed." He said only to have his nose pinched by the door closing in front of him.

Baby Herman: "Brbrll bobl Cookie!" He babbled on looking at the cookie jar on top of the fridge while Roger droned on about his family.

Roger: "‐‐Or the ninth cousin who is nine times removed from his place off side. Or like a 16th cousin..."

Baby Herman: He escapes from cot and heading towards the kitchen. "Aaaaaaah!"

Roger: "...who was sixteen times removed from my mother's side. Or a 32nd cousin who was 37..." He droned on while Baby Herman lands in front of the fridge and looks up at the fridge where the cookie jar is.

Baby Herman: "Cookie!"

Roger: ...times removed from his father's side who was eleven...Or like my 17th cousin who was 156 times removed, from any side!" He said comically til he sees Baby Herman climbing up some open drawers. "Aaaaaaaaahhh!" He shouted out as Baby Herman is seen crawling across the hob turning on the burners as he goes narrowly avoiding them. "I'll save you, baby!" He shouted out as he ran towards the kitchen.

Baby Herman: Cookie!" He cooed as he knocks a rolling pin onto the floor.

Roger: "Don't burn yourself, baby Herman." He said as he rushes into kitchen and slips on rolling pin. "Wow! Wub wub wub wub wub woooooaaah! Waaaaaahhoooowow! Waaaaaaah!" He shouted out as he rolls past Baby Herman he kicks a Teapot onto Roger's head. "Who turned out the lights? Boy, it's dark in here. Don't they pay the electricity?" He asked while not seeing where he is going he rolls into the oven which Baby Herman turns up to "Volcano Heat" "What happened, I'll find, baby? Where are ya?"

Baby Herman: Crawls across some plates in the sink. "Cookie! Ahhhh! Brblblblbl. Aha!" He said til his face slips under the water but he lifts it up and accidentally turns on the tap and water starts spilling onto the floor. The soap also falls down to the floor. The oven sign turns to "Well Done" and Roger bursts out trailing smoke.

Roger: "Oooh! Ooh! Oh! Ow! Owwwwww! Owwwwwwwwww!" He shouted out then he slips on the soap and shoots into the air and the soap flies across the kitchen and ricochets of the door handle and hits the baby flinging him up to the clock pendulum. Roger falls back and slides across the kitchen and ends up with his fingers in the power supply and is zapped by electricity. In trying to escape he headbutts the wall with the teapot and dislodges a shelf and all the pots and pans fall on his head. As he lies there a bottle of chili sauce falls into the spout of the teapot.

Baby Herman: Now from the clock. "Cookie. Ooh." He cooed as Roger, with his head on fire, shoots across the kitchen and ends up with an ironing board in his mouth which folds up into the wall. Baby Herman swings from the clock to a shelf which falls down and a box on the shelf falls catapulting a box of knives through the air. Baby Herman lands on a plunger and bounces up to the fridge. The plunger flies through the air and lodges itself in a toaster which then falls over. Roger bursts out of the fold up ironing board. "Cookie." He said as he falls off the entire pickle jar and he climbs by the entire sandwich bread.

Roger: "I'm here Bab--AAAAAAAARRGGGHHH!" He shouted happily only for his eyes to bulge out as he sees the knives flying towards him which lodge themselves in the wall around him. One parts his hair and a meat cleaver hits the wall between his legs. The toaster then fires the plunger at Roger and sticks to his face.

As he struggles to get it off he ends up flying across the kitchen and removes it in mid air. His momentary pleasure is forgotten as he crashes into the suc-o-matic which then begins to pump him full of air. When he looks more like a balloon he starts to deflate, flying around the kitchen breaking crockery and eventually hitting the fridge, lodging his head underneath.

As Roger struggles to get free he dislodges Baby Herman who falls from the top of the fridge with his cookie. Roger lifts the fridge of his head and seeing that Baby Herman is safe holds him in his hands.

Baby Herman: "Cookie. Ah!" He giggled as Roger suddenly realizes there is an unsupported fridge above his head which crashes back to earth. The fridge door opens to reveal Roger with birds from Cinderella flying around his head.

Raoul: "Cut!" He shouted out angrily as the cartoon scene faded out to reveal a live action studio.

Background: "Alright. That's the shot."

Raoul: "Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut!" He shouted out again as he throws script on floor.

Baby Herman: "What the hell was wrong with that take?"

Raoul: "Nothing with you Baby Herman. You were great. You were perfect. You were better than perfect. It's Roger. He keeps blowing his lines. Roger..." Hesaid as he grabs bird from Cinderella. "...what's this?" He questioned the toon rabbit.

Roger: A tweeting bird?

Raoul: "A tweeting bird!" Throws bird from Cinderella to the floor before looking at Roger. "Roger read the script. Look what it says. It says "Rabbit takes clunk. Rabbit sees stars." Not birds- STARS! Can we lose the playback, please?"

Background: "Cut the playback!"

Raoul: "Roger, you're killing me! Killing me."

Baby Herman: Stomping off in a huff. "For crying out loud Roger! How the hell many times do we have to do this damn scene? Raoul! I'll be in my trailer! Taking a nap!" He shouted out while walking under a lady's dress between her legs.

Lady: "Oooh!" She shouted out

Baby Herman: "E'Scuse me toots." He said unashamed while still walking away.

Raoul: "My stomach can't take this. This set is a mess! Clean this set up! And get him out of there! Or seal him up in it! Loose the lights! And say lunch!"

Background: "LUNCH!"

Raoul: "That's lunch. We're on a half." He said as Roger climbs out of the refrigerator and follows Raoul off set whom grabbed his coat.

Roger: "Ppl-pllll-ease Raoul. I can give you stars. Just drop the refrigerator on my head one more time." He begged

Raoul: "Roger! I've dropped that on your head 23 times already." He said while looking at the toon rabbit.

Roger: "I can take it though. Don't worry about me." He said honestly with his ears down.

Raoul: "I'm not worried about you I'm worried about the refrigerator." He said seriously while yanking his jacket away to walk into his director's trailer with his secretary.

Roger: "I can give you stars." He said as he grabs frying pan off a passing trolley. "Look, Look! Loook!" He pleaded while giving himself three whacks on the head while walking into the trailer and wracking his head three more times. "Plplllease Raoul. I can do it I swear. Just give me another chance. Well, come on Raoul..." He begged while a man was standing watching all of this is Eddie Valiant.

Eddie: "Phhh. Toons." He said before he takes a swig from a bottle and puts it back in a holster on his belt. Then walked out of the studio hearing Roger in the background.

Roger: "...just give me another chance. Look. Watch Raoul. Watch Raoul. Plplplllease, you gotta give me another chance. Come on Raoul!" He pleaded as the sound of heels walked up towards the trailer before two fingers rapped against the door frame.

???: "Give Rog another chance tomorrow, Raoul. I'll take Mr. Rabbit off your hands and it's been a long day for the fella." A female voice spoke up as Roger's ears perked up to looked over at the voice.

The owner of the voice wore a classic private eye trench coat, a detective black fedora, a feminine power suit showed from her open coat alongside her holster vest which was currently holding her toon pistols.

Roger: "Y/n!" He shouted out happily and jumped over hugging the young woman as Raoul nodded while the young detective walked out of the studio with Roger in tow as Jasper picked him up. "Your not going to join us, Y/n, huh?" He asked while Y/n smiled down at him.

Y/n: "I'll catch you boys later, Mr. Maroon needs to see me." She said while kissing Jasper on the cheek before he drove off with his father.

Near R.K Maroon Office's Door

Y/n walked up towards the office door about to knock til she heard talking inside of the room from the door. She slowly cracked the door open to peek inside of the room and listen in.

Maroon: "Whoah fella! You don't want to go to Toontown, you don't have to go to Toontown. Nobody said you had to go to Toontown anyway." He said while forcing Valiant into a seat. "Have a seat Valiant. The rabbit's wife sings at a joint called the Ink and Paint Club. Toon review. Strictly humans only. O.K.? So what do you think Valiant?" He questioned as Eddie Valiant is more interested in the drinks cabinet. "...Well?"

Eddie: Getting up from his seat to make himself a drink. "The job's gonna cost you a hundred bucks, plus expenses." He said seriously as Maroon eyes widened at the amount of money needed.

Maroon: "A hundred bucks! That's ridiculous!" He shouted out only for Eddie to shout back.

Eddie: "So's the job!" He said as Maroon smirked knowingly and nodded.

Maroon: "Alright, alright. You've got your hundred bucks. Have a drink, Eddie." He said as outside Y/n fixed her fedora on her h/c hair.

Eddie: "I don't mind if I do." He said while pouring himself a drink then looks out of the window.

Background: "Look I've got it. Careful Dave. I've got it. Dave, you're gonna drop it. I'm not gonna drop it! You're dropping it!" He shouted out as some workmen drop some large wooden boxes releasing some toon instruments which begin to play. As Valiant watches, a pair of eyes suddenly appear at the window.

Eddie: "Aaah!" He shouted out in fear then hide underneath the drink cabinet behind Maroon's desk.

Maroon: "Kind of jumpy, aren't you, Valiant? It's just Dumbo." He said while laughing slightly as Eddie scoffed at him.

Eddie: Getting up from beneath the drinks cabinet and taking the check off of Maroon. "I know who it is." He said grimly

Maroon: "I got him on loan from Disney. Him and half the cast of Fantasia." He said while he opens the blinds. "Best part is... they work for peanuts!" He said while he throws a handful of peanuts out of the window and Dumbo flies off sucking them up with his trunk.

Eddie: "Well I don't work for peanuts. Where's the other fifty?" He questioned seeing the check in his hand was just a fifty dollar amount.

Maroon: "Let's call the other fifty a carrot to finish the job." He said as the door was suddenly opened up making him and Eddie look up at whim was walking into the office.

Y/n: "Mr. Maroon, I better get more carrots than that if you want me working beside my old man." She said seriously as Mr. Maroon walked up towards with a smile on his face.

Maroon: "Of course, Ms. Valiant. Anything for my favorite toon detective." He said as Eddie was looking at Y/n with a sad look in his eyes. "Eddie, your free to go while I fill in your daughter here about the case." He said while Y/n glanced over at her own father with buried anger, sadness and pain in her eyes from seeing her old man again before he left the office as Mr. Maroon filled her in on the case.

Y/n: "You think Mrs. Jessica Rabbit has a sugar daddy? Mr. Maroon with all due respect that's not funny. You know she loves her husband." She said seriously as Maroon hands her a check for a hundred bucks.

Maroon: "Look kid, I'm just asking you to watch out for Roger and his son. You know your toon fella?" He questioned as Y/n placed the check into her coat pocket. "You'll get another hundred carrot when the job is done, good luck tonight at your show." He said as Y/n stood up from her seat and walked towards the door.

Y/n: "Sure thing, Mr. Maroon and thanks." She said while exiting the office and studio grounds to hail Benny whom took her back to her office building to see her old man fixing his, her uncle's and her old detective sign under her new one. "How are you doing old fella?" She asked while her father looked over at her as the mailman gave her the mail as he did to Eddie.

Eddie: "Still kicking, how are you doing kiddo?" He asked of his daughter whom put her bills into her coat pocket inside of the trench coat Teddy gave her years ago.

Y/n: "I'm living not much else." She said honestly as she looked over at the railway joint while seeing her father throw the bills in the bin and crosses the road to the Terminal Station Bar.

Eddie: "Harry. You O.K.?" He said as he passes a tram driver unconscious at one of the tables. He puts his hat, which had fallen off, back on his head and makes his way to the bar. "What's with Earl?" He asked as the man he is asking is mute and writes his answer on a pad of paper.

Augie: 'LAID OFF.'

Eddie: "...Laid off!" He shouted out in disbelief

Y/n: "Damn, poor old Earl." She said while placing a fifty bill into the man's coat pocket.

Soldier: "A new outfit bought the red car. Some big company called Clover Leaf." He said looking at Eddie and smiling at Y/n's kind heart.

Eddiet: "No kidding! They bought the red car?" He questioned as the man spoke up.

Soldier: "Yeah. Put the poor guy on two weeks notice. Cut backs they said." He said then went back to sweeping the floor.

Valiant: "Oh well. Here's to the pencil pushers. May they all get lead poisoning, huh?" He said but before Eddie can put the glass to his lips a womans hand covers it. He looks up to see his wife and Y/n's stepmother.

Dolores: "Tomorrow's Friday Eddie. You know what happens here on Friday?" She questioned while the older Valiant thought before saying.

Eddie: "Fish Special?" He asked while Y/n rolled her eyes to sit the opposite of her old man.

Dolores: Taking the drink away from him. "No... My boss checks the books on Friday and if I don't have that money I gave you back in the till I'm gonna lose my job." She said seriously she gave Y/n a glass of water.

Y/n: "Thanks, Ma." She said with a smile while sipping on the ice cold glass of water.

Eddie: "Don't bust a button Dolores, you've only got one left." He said as he shows her the check with a big smile on his face.

Dolores: "Fifty bucks! ...Where's the rest?"

Eddie: He looks up at Dolores hurt by her words. "Well, it's only a snoop job away. Have you got that camera of yours? Mines in the shop." He said seriously as Y/n scoffed.

Y/n: "Wouldn't be the pawn shop by any chance would it?" She asked sarcastically drawing her old man's attention towards her as Dolores nodded.

Eddie: "Look. Come on, Y/n, Dolores. You need the other fifty, I need the camera." He said as Dolores gets the camera from behind the till and puts it in front of Eddie.

Eddie: "Any film in there?" He questioned as he looked over the camera while Y/n looks away sadly.

Dolores: "Should be. Haven't had that roll developed since our trip to Catalina. Sure was a long time ago." She said as fixing a stack of plates onto the back of the bar.

Eddie: "Yeah, it was a long time ago. We'll have to do that again sometime." He said unknowingly making Dolores and Y/n smile a bit.

Dolores: Holding down the crockery as a tram drives past, shaking the building. "Yeah, sure Eddie. Paper even good?"

Eddie: "Just check the scrawl." He said honestly as Dolores looked at the Ink signature.

Dolores: "R. K. Maroon? As in Maroon cartoons?"

Y/n: "The one and only, Ma. He even hired me as well." She said while a dirty from work Angelo set his lunch box in between her and Eddie then sat down in the middle on a bar stool.

Angelo: "Maroon cartoons? Hey! So who's your client Mr. And Ms.. Detective to the stars? Chilly Willy? Or Screwy Squirell? Heh, heh, heh."

Dolores: "What do you want to drink?" She asked Angelo as he looked up at her.

Angelo: "I'll take a beer Dol. So what happened, huh? Someone kidnap Dinky Doodle?" He joked as Eddie curled his hands into fists while Y/n glared harshly at Angelo.

Dolores: "Cut it out Angelo." She warned him seeing Eddie's and Y/n's reactions but the man kept joking inappropriately.

Angelo: He starts cracking boiled egg against the bar. "Hey. Wait a minute, wait a minute! I know. You're working for little Bo Peep. She's lost her sheep and your both gonna help her find him! Hey? Heh, heh, heh. Ha, ha, ha!" He said laughing until both Valiants soon had their patience run out to kick the stool from under Angelo who falls on his jaw on the edge of the bar. "...Ungh!"

Eddie: "Get this straight, meatball. I... Don't... Work... For toons." He said sternly before he stuffs the boiled egg into Angelo's mouth and stomps out of the bar.

Y/n: "You need to learn when to keep that trap of yours shut, Angie boy." She said seriously before dumping her glass of water onto Angelo and walks out of the bar to head back to her own office.

Angelo: Looking at the disappearing Eddie and Y/n Valiant. "So what's their problem?" He questioned as Dolores watched Eddie and Y/n leave the bar.

Dolores: "Toon killed his brother." She said honestly as everyone looked at her in disbelief.

Angelo: "What? Huh?" He asked not believing what he just here.

Dolores: "Dropped a piano on his head and right in front of Y/n. A girl shouldn't lose her uncle that way nor should a brother see his own die." She said sadly before sighing. "Eddie changed a lot after that and not for the better, always fighting with Y/n that she went out on her own. No, doubt this is the first time in years both Valiants were in the same room together without Y/n storming off." She said while looking over at a photo of Y/n hugging her uncle Teddy, Dad and of course Dolores after she had graduated from police academy.

At Y/n Valiant's Office

Y/n slammed her door shut before going over towards her desk to lock up the check in her safe then began reading the newspaper about Mrs. Jessica Rabbit's new 'sugar daddy' Mr. Acme himself the gag king.

Y/n: "Oh boy, this is gonna be a rough one..." She said with a sigh before getting up to look throughout her closet to change her detective outfit for tonight when she goes to the Ink & Paint club, her on the side job/hobby.

((I'm back and the Ink & Paint club is up next! So, we'll see our red haired rabbit stud!))