America's cookie crisis/Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Director's Cut

For years the U.S. government has propped up the domestic cookie industry with large subsidies. Now Congress has taken away those subsidies and the cookie market is collapsing. Cookies are expensive and hard to obtain. While discussing the issue with my mother and sister, I joke that we should join the evil corporate ConAgra/Globo-Chem cookie collective so that we may continue to receive cookies. The very suggestion makes my sister angry.

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I'm watching tonight's FEATURE PRESENTATION on the local TV station: Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In a scene early in the film Eddie Valiant is standing on a street corner in 1930s Los Angeles. He witnesses a murder and calls the police, using the designated police code for murder. I'm incredulous that Valiant would actually know this code, until I remember that it was previously established that the Valiant brothers used to be police officers before they became private detectives.

A commercial break or two later, the film has flashed forward ten years, to 1947, when Eddie is talking to Roger in his office. Roger uses some coarse language in reference to women. There is no mention of his wife Jessica.