Benny the Cab

Benny the Cab is a supporting character in Touchstone's 1988 hybrid film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
==Background==
===Physical appearance===
Benny is a slender, anthropomorphic yellow taxicab with black fenders, a black spare tire on his back, Taxi patterns on the doors, Red patches on the tires, a red meter flag, Brown cushions and white tires. When he is standing up, he's approximately 7 feet tall.
===Personality===
Benny is portrayed as a gruff, sarcastic, and super observant middle-aged character who doesn't take kindly to slow drivers. While Benny may have a short-temper and a bad attitude at times, He’s still a loyal and a good friend to have when things are tough.
==Appearances==
===Who Framed Roger Rabbit===
Benny first appears when Eddie Valiant and Roger Rabbit escape from Judge Doom and the Toon Patrol in the Bar Terminal, and then encounter him locked up in their paddy wagon for driving on a sidewalk, despite going for a few miles as claimed by him. They free him and he helps them get away, taking them to a movie theater to hide.
He later appears when Eddie and Jessica Rabbit are trying to flee from the Toon Patrol and again tries to help them out, but this time, the dark and cruel Judge Doom spills Dip across the road he drives along, injuring him and making him blow out his tires as he skids off the road and crashes into a pole. After Eddie and Jessica are taken hostage, he lies still recovering and joins up with Roger when he happens to pass by in Eddie's car, taking over the job of driving and explaining to Roger what has just happened. He drops him off at the Acme Factory and drives off to find help.
He is last shown at the end of the film in the Acme Factory, listening with Dolores, Lt. Santino, and some human policemen about what Eddie found out about Judge Doom and rejoicing over the discovery of Marvin Acme's will.
===Comics===
Benny also made frequent appearances in the Roger Rabbit comics.
===House of Mouse===
Benny is notably the only character from the film to have made any appearances on House of Mouse. In "Max's New Car", Goofy offers Benny oil; later, he drives O'Malley and the Alley Cats away after Max crashes Mickey's car.
In "Mickey vs. Shelby", Benny comments back while flashing his headlights in front of Bambi after he commented on how Baby Shelby looked like a "deer in the headlights", before turning off his headlights and apologizing to Bambi.
==Disney Parks==
===Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin===
The ride vehicle cab is not Benny, but rather his cousin, Lenny, who was specifically created for this attraction. That being said, he and Roger can be seen in the attraction's first show scene, where they spiral out of control due to a puddle of Dip dumped onto the road by the Toon Patrol.
===Disney's Hollywood Studios===
For a short while, one of two vehicles that were used to film the Benny the Cab sequences of Who Framed Roger Rabbit were displayed in the Echo Lake restaurant Backlot Express along with the Toon Patrol's Dodge Humpback paddy wagon that he was briefly locked up in. How it was filmed was Bob Hoskins would sit in the front of a custom buggy vehicle, pretending to drive the vehicle and holding a prop wheel, while the real driver (stuntman Charles Cromwell) did all the maneuvering in the back end. The same Benny vehicle was used for filming another Robert Zemeckis production, , during the scene where Marty's character is dragged by a horse. In 2019, both the paddy wagon and Benny buggy were removed from the restaurant to make room for more "table space". A similar Benny vehicle was showcased in Episode 7 of the Disney+ series Prop Culture.
==Trivia==
*According to the film, Benny has been a cab for 37 years. Since the movie takes place in 1947, one can assume that he has done so since 1910.
*Benny is the only toon to be exposed to the Dip and survive. This could be because while other toons, like Judge Doom and Smarty, were fully exposed from head to toe, Benny was only hit at the bottom of his tires. This exposure did, however, leave him weak and limping.
**It is also likely because Benny came in contact with the Dip for a short period (since he was driving), while the other toons stayed fully immersed in it.
*In the novel , Benny (spelled Bennie) was a beetle (the , not the car).
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
Rogerrabbit-disneyscreencaps com-6577.jpg|"I can't believe that they locked me up for drivin' on the sidewalk!"
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Rogerrabbit-disneyscreencaps com-6725.jpg|"Pull the lever!"
Who-framed-roger-rabbit-disneyscreencaps.com-7023.jpg|This lever, stupid!
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Rogerrabbit-disneyscreencaps com-6775.jpg|"Hey, Roger, what do you call the middle of a song?"
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Who-framed-roger-rabbit-disneyscreencaps.com-9068.jpg|Ouch!
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Rogerrabbit-disneyscreencaps com-8871.jpg|"No, it's Shirley Temple!"
Rogerrabbit-disneyscreencaps com-8884.jpg|"Doom grabbed your wife and Valiant and took them to the Acme Factory!"
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Rogerrabbit-disneyscreencaps com-10712.jpg|"Sister Mary Francis! What the hell happened in here? I've been a cab for 37 years, I've never seen this mess like this!"
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Rogerrabbit-disneyscreencaps com-11022.jpg|Benny on the left side
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===Miscellaneous===
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit Tsum Tsum Set.jpg|Benny, Roger, and Jessica's Tsum Tsum
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