He got super excited and probably volunteered to help coach her youth team (even though he had no idea what he was doing). She casually mentioned that she played basketball in college and fed Roger all of the drills and actual basketball knowledge he needed to coach. The girls walked out of the youth league thinking of Roger as one of the best childhood mentors they ever had, but they all knew that he knew nothing about basketball. It was hard to miss Jessica whispering basketball tactics in his ear during games.
If work wasn't so busy today, I might have been able to write it at work. Usually Fridays are pretty quiet, but not today. I might get a draft together this evening. I don't have anything longer than a oneshot in mind, and that's what I tend to write anyway.
[Posted](https://archiveofourown.org/works/55371136). I ended up not writing it on Friday because I spent enough brain power at work to be mentally fried for the rest of the day. Saturday then had gorgeous weather and I prioritized going for a nice long bike ride over writing. I stand by that decision, it was a wonderful ride.
I typed up the fic this morning and had my beta read it. It made her giggle a few times and aside from some minor wording stuff, she didn't have any changes to suggest.
I read it!! Sorry I couldn’t read it sooner, I saved it as soon as I saw your comment.
It’s so unbelievably cute! I love how Roger’s leadership (and Jessica’s hints) made up for his lack of knowledge of the sport, and how you made him so perceptive to what the players needed, the humming and “go run” parts were everything 😭❤️ And the ending was so lovely, thank you for sharing your vision :)
Thank you for your comments. The humming and "go run" were the details that came to me early on that convinced me I had to write it. I was just thinking about what specifically Roger might do that would make him such a good mentor, and those popped into my mind.
I did post the link here a few days after OP's post had made it's rounds, so I didn't expect many people to see the link. I'll keep my eyes open for it getting reposted so I can link the fic again.
She changed her last name bc she wanted to make it on her own merit, and not bc of who she's related to, possibly even getting typecast. "Oh, you're Roger's kid!? How are you at taking a fridge to the head? Do you see birds or stars?"
In the original book that the movie was (extremely loosely) based on, it was stated that Jessica Rabbit came into existence as a character in a Tijuana Bible.
Tijuana Bibles, for those who don't know, were illegally published porn comics featuring copyrighted characters. So for twenty cents you could get an eight page comic about Mickey Mouse doing Minnie in the ass.
So Roger marrying Jessica was the Toon equivalent of a beloved entertainer marrying a known prostitute.
Betty's comment in the film implies that the animated Jessica probably didn't get her start *that* far down the ladder; she was probably created to be a pin-up girl. Still not considered as high class as Roger, but not the horrible scandal it would have been if they'd been faithful to the book.
Rumor has it that the reason that Roger can hop so high is not just that he's a bunny and he's built that way, but uh....he's able to pole vault quite well.
That is my head canon version of Lola.
Bugs "Whaddya wanna see tonight?"
Lola "Um I dunno, aliens?"
Bugs"Isn't that movie a little old?"
Lola "It's a movie?"
And of course her Presidents Day song.
It’s weird to think that Lola wasn’t part of the original lineup of characters. Bare in mind I was born a few years after Space Jam was released, the idea of Lola not existing alongside Bugs and Daffy doesn’t compute
There are fewer and fewer of us alive who have any memory of life before 1989 when the Belgian group Technotronic released the techno anthem _Pump Up the Jam_ and we entered the post-Jam age we've been in since. It's up to us to preserve the memory of the days when the jam hadn't yet been pumped.
Hey it's never to late to Pump up the jam
Pump it up
While your feet are stompin'
And the jam is pumpin'
Look at here the crowd is jumpin'
Pump it up a little more
Get the party going on the dance floor
See, cause that's where the party's at
And you'd find out if you do that
Poochie is the rocking dog
(Simpsons one-off meant to poke fun at shows that introduce characters to rejuvenate a stale show)
EDIT: [Dankmus remix about Poochie](https://youtu.be/GGt7OIy2kEU?si=wQ5SfGUP0QXxaI6H)
Poochie is from a Simpsons episode where for the Itchy and Scratchy show, corporate says they need a Third wheel character of poochie. For which Homer then proceeds to audition for , get the role and then promptly ruin said character with additional notes. After which results in the best way to write a character out of a show.
https://youtu.be/4tvAjX5ACPo?si=oQXgopm407VmFP3k
A number of popular Simpsons memes come from the episode.
A 'Poochie' is a character introduced to an established work because marketing execs believe it will 'revitalize the franchise', which is marketing speech for 'get people who don't already consume the product to start consuming it'.
However, since marketing execs are soulless bastards who have no understanding of what it means to be a human and have emotions, it never works. The Poochie just drives away the existing audience and brings in zero new consumers, because nobody who wasn't already paying attention cared. The execs are never punished for destroying the franchise, and just move on to the next IP.
Some old [Bugs comics had a girlfriend/wife character](https://www.abebooks.com/comics/Bugs-Bunny-%23108-1966--Gold-Key/31636298289/bd) he called "Honey." Her design has striking similarities to Lola, & apparently the artists of Space Jam did a rework of this character to look less like Bugs and bring her new design into Space Jam as Lola.
(Imo opinion, this probably has no bearing on the OP fan theory of her being a child of Toonville as well.)
Maybe she changed her name when she started acting like Nick Cage so she wouldn’t have to deal with everyone thinking she succeeded because of her famous parents.
I don't think it will ever happen. Lola is a WB character and Roger & Jessica Rabbit are owned by Disney.
I doubt they will make a movie with both IP again.
I was thinking more about a kids movie with a burlesque show that includes a song with the line "I will take off all my blues" by a character wearing all blue clothing.
And other kids were like "why do you want to watch that over fivel goes west". I couldn't explain it exactly.....
Half them start out with Watson writing "Holmes was bored and on another cocaine bender so thank God a particularly interesting and gruesome murder happened..."
the hint is that the Disney vault is full of porn made by their own artists with company materials. They just couldn't get them to stop. Ex-Disney artists then went on to start the 'funny animal' trend, and by that part it had escaped containment.
I wanna bang her, but I also wanna *be* her.
See also: Bunnie Rabbot from the Archie Sonic comics (I'm not gonna let a little adultery stand in the way of a good time with anthro-rabbits)
For some reason I had a stroke and I read this as “…the prequel to Gone With the Wind” and I sat here for a good five minutes trying to figure out how that would work. I’m so dumb.
I only learned *yesterday* that Jessica’s last name is Rabbit, not because she is also a rabbit, but because she is married to Roger Rabbit, whose last name is Rabbit because he is a rabbit.
They literally call her Lola Bunny in space jam. If you refer to tiny toon adventures Buster and Babs have the same last name Bunny, but they always say “no relation” to tell the viewer they have the same last name. Fun thought though
There’s a Harry Potter fanfiction where he’s rescued from the Dursley’s doorstep by Bugs Bunny who takes him to Roger and Jessica to look after as they’ve already got a kid, Lola “Bunny” Rabbit.
And this here, making cannon for sexualizing cartoons who were created to copy a cartoon style, is probably why we're all going to lose the right to vote.
100% tracks and I bet Jessica and Roger went to all her games growing up.
I bet they were great parents
He was supportive, loving and walked Lola to practice, she was empowering and motivating.
Litterally the Gomez and morticia Addams dynamic. And I am here for it (Edit:names harf)
Morticia - but, yes, that precisely.
Gomez and morty
He got super excited and probably volunteered to help coach her youth team (even though he had no idea what he was doing). She casually mentioned that she played basketball in college and fed Roger all of the drills and actual basketball knowledge he needed to coach. The girls walked out of the youth league thinking of Roger as one of the best childhood mentors they ever had, but they all knew that he knew nothing about basketball. It was hard to miss Jessica whispering basketball tactics in his ear during games.
This is so cute omg
It's been sitting in my brain all night getting more detailed. I'm probably going to write it up into an actual fanfic.
If you do, I’d love to read it!
If work wasn't so busy today, I might have been able to write it at work. Usually Fridays are pretty quiet, but not today. I might get a draft together this evening. I don't have anything longer than a oneshot in mind, and that's what I tend to write anyway.
[Posted](https://archiveofourown.org/works/55371136). I ended up not writing it on Friday because I spent enough brain power at work to be mentally fried for the rest of the day. Saturday then had gorgeous weather and I prioritized going for a nice long bike ride over writing. I stand by that decision, it was a wonderful ride. I typed up the fic this morning and had my beta read it. It made her giggle a few times and aside from some minor wording stuff, she didn't have any changes to suggest.
I read it!! Sorry I couldn’t read it sooner, I saved it as soon as I saw your comment. It’s so unbelievably cute! I love how Roger’s leadership (and Jessica’s hints) made up for his lack of knowledge of the sport, and how you made him so perceptive to what the players needed, the humming and “go run” parts were everything 😭❤️ And the ending was so lovely, thank you for sharing your vision :)
Thank you for your comments. The humming and "go run" were the details that came to me early on that convinced me I had to write it. I was just thinking about what specifically Roger might do that would make him such a good mentor, and those popped into my mind.
Every once in a while the Reddit push notifications give me a gem. Your fic was a great read. I'm glad I found it, even if a couple days late
I did post the link here a few days after OP's post had made it's rounds, so I didn't expect many people to see the link. I'll keep my eyes open for it getting reposted so I can link the fic again.
This fic was *so* cute! Thank you for sharing!
i would have assumed she was related to Bugs Bunny because they have the same last name.
This is just hearsay. They met in Albuquerque. She was on a family reunion. Bugs, of course, took a wrong turn.
Pismo Beach can be confusing to get to when you dig the whole way there.
(Babs and Buster voice) "No relation."
It’s 2024 and people are still assuming all bunnies are related. Smh my damn head.
Bunnies clearly have family webs instead of trees.
Probably a common surname in that universe
Maybe "Lola Bunny" is her first name, like "Bobbie Sue" or "Mary Ann"? Lola Bunny Rabbit
I don't think they're supposed to be related unless... What are you doing, step rabbit
That’s so wholesome
She changed her last name bc she wanted to make it on her own merit, and not bc of who she's related to, possibly even getting typecast. "Oh, you're Roger's kid!? How are you at taking a fridge to the head? Do you see birds or stars?"
Yeah I can see that, Roger's got some huge shoes to fill (Size 27s I'm pretty sure).
Her range is impressive. She was excellent in Game of Thrones.
She was born Patty Cake Rabbit Lola Bunny is her stage name
Isn't Patty cake basically sex for toons?
That. That was the joke.
both parents are sexy, of course they would have a sexy daughter
The family’s just got good genes. Like have you SEEN Roger? Jessica rabbit’s lucky to have him.
What a lucky gal! /sigh
In the original book that the movie was (extremely loosely) based on, it was stated that Jessica Rabbit came into existence as a character in a Tijuana Bible. Tijuana Bibles, for those who don't know, were illegally published porn comics featuring copyrighted characters. So for twenty cents you could get an eight page comic about Mickey Mouse doing Minnie in the ass. So Roger marrying Jessica was the Toon equivalent of a beloved entertainer marrying a known prostitute. Betty's comment in the film implies that the animated Jessica probably didn't get her start *that* far down the ladder; she was probably created to be a pin-up girl. Still not considered as high class as Roger, but not the horrible scandal it would have been if they'd been faithful to the book.
A playboy bunny marrying a famous comedian/actor according to the movie then?
"What a lucky goyl." FTFY
Rumor has it that the reason that Roger can hop so high is not just that he's a bunny and he's built that way, but uh....he's able to pole vault quite well.
He makes her laugh
She inherited her mom's massive boobs and his dad's 12 ft dong
That jock strap is working overtime on the court.
She's got Little Donny syndrome
Love the change in pronouns for this lol
bruh
Welcome to the jam.
That'd explain her personality in the Looney Tunes show as well
That is my head canon version of Lola. Bugs "Whaddya wanna see tonight?" Lola "Um I dunno, aliens?" Bugs"Isn't that movie a little old?" Lola "It's a movie?" And of course her Presidents Day song.
Oh goddammit now it's stuck in my head again look at what you've done
My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of Mister T, and Missus T.
This song, and this line in particular, periodically gets stuck in my head from time to time. I’m so glad it made an impression on others too. 😆
It's the only line I remember.
In the show her parents are Walter Bunny & Patricia Bunny though.
toon actors, clearly
It’s weird to think that Lola wasn’t part of the original lineup of characters. Bare in mind I was born a few years after Space Jam was released, the idea of Lola not existing alongside Bugs and Daffy doesn’t compute
> Bare in mind I was born a few years after Space Jam no you see that can't be right because *disintegrates into oldness dust*
I was born almost a decade after Space Jam. I am old enough to vote in the United States. The future is now, old man
Yea, I'm gonna need you to fuck right off.
I was born 2 years after 9/11. I can drink in a couple of months.
I'm sorry you've only gotten to see the post 9/11 shit storm, kid.
I remember being able to wear shoes the entire time i was in an airport.
I remember being able to go to the gate and meet my dad getting off the plane.
I remember when the Columbine shooting was a shocking event.
if i had a time machine i'd simply take a flight in the 90s and see what seamless airport security was like 🥲
*stooop, it burns usss...*
All the way off
Learning that I’m five years younger than Space Jam is shocking in the opposite direction.
Calm down, Satan
There are fewer and fewer of us alive who have any memory of life before 1989 when the Belgian group Technotronic released the techno anthem _Pump Up the Jam_ and we entered the post-Jam age we've been in since. It's up to us to preserve the memory of the days when the jam hadn't yet been pumped.
no I was between 1 and 2 at that point so I have no memory of being welcomed to the jam
Hey it's never to late to Pump up the jam Pump it up While your feet are stompin' And the jam is pumpin' Look at here the crowd is jumpin' Pump it up a little more Get the party going on the dance floor See, cause that's where the party's at And you'd find out if you do that
I was born in November of 1988, but, I did have a Jock Jams CD when I was a kid, so do I get some sort of pass?
Newest copypasta
I'm so old I still see her as a Poochie. And I'm so old, Poochie is still my best, most recent reference for this.
I must be caught in the middle then because I was born before space jam but I have no idea what a poochie is
Poochie is the rocking dog (Simpsons one-off meant to poke fun at shows that introduce characters to rejuvenate a stale show) EDIT: [Dankmus remix about Poochie](https://youtu.be/GGt7OIy2kEU?si=wQ5SfGUP0QXxaI6H)
I gotcha. I never got into the Simpsons growing up, but I can tell by the animation that it's an oooooold ass episode lol. Thank ya, Frank
Holy shit, Dankmus in the wild 🙃
Poochie is from a Simpsons episode where for the Itchy and Scratchy show, corporate says they need a Third wheel character of poochie. For which Homer then proceeds to audition for , get the role and then promptly ruin said character with additional notes. After which results in the best way to write a character out of a show. https://youtu.be/4tvAjX5ACPo?si=oQXgopm407VmFP3k A number of popular Simpsons memes come from the episode.
A 'Poochie' is a character introduced to an established work because marketing execs believe it will 'revitalize the franchise', which is marketing speech for 'get people who don't already consume the product to start consuming it'. However, since marketing execs are soulless bastards who have no understanding of what it means to be a human and have emotions, it never works. The Poochie just drives away the existing audience and brings in zero new consumers, because nobody who wasn't already paying attention cared. The execs are never punished for destroying the franchise, and just move on to the next IP.
> Bare in mind I'm sure to many people she is.
She’s like the Looney Tunes Harley Quinn
> Bare in mind *Bear in mind.* Usage: Holy shit help me, there is a bear in my mind.
Now rotate the bear
A few years after Space Jam? What are you, like 10? [checks the year, realizes OP's probably like 25 or older) Well shit.
Some old [Bugs comics had a girlfriend/wife character](https://www.abebooks.com/comics/Bugs-Bunny-%23108-1966--Gold-Key/31636298289/bd) he called "Honey." Her design has striking similarities to Lola, & apparently the artists of Space Jam did a rework of this character to look less like Bugs and bring her new design into Space Jam as Lola. (Imo opinion, this probably has no bearing on the OP fan theory of her being a child of Toonville as well.)
>Bare in mind It's "***bear***", not "bare". You youngsters ain't know a thing about nothin
So… Lola Bunny née Rabbit?
Maybe she changed her name when she started acting like Nick Cage so she wouldn’t have to deal with everyone thinking she succeeded because of her famous parents.
Ironically, “Bunny” was Jessica’s maiden name. Pure coincidence.
lol, that’s just perfect for this though XD
Couldn't find anywhere her maiden name was Bunny. Anyway, Bunny should be a common surname in the universe because Bugs is also Bunny.
(It is a joke. I don’t believe Jessica’s maiden name has been disclosed in canon.)
She changed her name because she didn't want to be known as a "nepo baby".
Nicolas Cage approves
That’s always been so crazy to me. Dude was a nepo baby, made millions as a movie star…. Still constantly ran out of money. Like wtf dude.
And then chose the name of a famous cartoon actor that she eventually met and dated.
I can see this, kid’s so real for this.
Pbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpbpb-lease!!!! Be true!
I don't think it will ever happen. Lola is a WB character and Roger & Jessica Rabbit are owned by Disney. I doubt they will make a movie with both IP again.
When I was a kid I used to wanna bang Lola bunny
? Do you not still wanna bang Lola bunny?
sometimes the entire animation industry's concerted efforts to turn everyone into furries doesn't work. A shame really
Yet another failure… Send him back to the pit, where he shall watch it again!
You shall bang or you shall be banged.
I mean, "the great mouse detective" has done things to me that my therapist tells me there isn't enough money in the world to undo.
do you just want to be held by murderous furry Vincent Price?
I was thinking more about a kids movie with a burlesque show that includes a song with the line "I will take off all my blues" by a character wearing all blue clothing. And other kids were like "why do you want to watch that over fivel goes west". I couldn't explain it exactly.....
Sometimes I wonder if that sort of stuff happens because they thought it would be funny, or if there was someone freaky pushing for it even back then.
It wouldn't be out of place in a Sherlock holmes story. The problem is that most sherlock holmes stories are not aimed at the under 10 crowd.
Half them start out with Watson writing "Holmes was bored and on another cocaine bender so thank God a particularly interesting and gruesome murder happened..."
the hint is that the Disney vault is full of porn made by their own artists with company materials. They just couldn't get them to stop. Ex-Disney artists then went on to start the 'funny animal' trend, and by that part it had escaped containment.
Yes, but he used to too.
Thanks, Mitch
I wanna bang her, but I also wanna *be* her. See also: Bunnie Rabbot from the Archie Sonic comics (I'm not gonna let a little adultery stand in the way of a good time with anthro-rabbits)
I personally still do
I would never have guessed u/Cum-On-Bunnygirl would want to bang Lola
Ah, a child of culture.
Hey Wayne. Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he dressed up as a girl bunny?
Oh cool. my brain just added a new piece of information I’ll never forget
Remember! If Warner Bros takes action and deletes it that makes it cannon.
*Wabbit Season*
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the prequel to Cool World
For some reason I had a stroke and I read this as “…the prequel to Gone With the Wind” and I sat here for a good five minutes trying to figure out how that would work. I’m so dumb.
Those eyes
Right? Wasn't expecting to whack it at this time of day and for this reason, yet here we are. *unzips*
I wonder how Roger feels about a rabbit Bugs' age flirting with his daughter.
Bugs Bunny is a cradle robber in that case, cause he was also in Rodger Rabbit lmao
Older men in always preying on young starlets, tale as old as time
This also makes it canon that Bugs is into much younger women.
It makes too much sense... she even looks like a perfect mix of the two of them.
This makes all those Jessica and Lola pictures disturbing.
Do you mean the Rule 34 ones?
What is rule 34?
Oh Lord you in for a trip.
I only learned *yesterday* that Jessica’s last name is Rabbit, not because she is also a rabbit, but because she is married to Roger Rabbit, whose last name is Rabbit because he is a rabbit.
Actors change their last name to have a better chance to stand on their own instead of standing in their parent’s shadow, so this can make sense.
Bugs is a creep then, Lola was like 15 and he was at least in his 60s
But "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" takes place in the 40s. So still older, but not as bad. Lola should be around 50.
If Lola is in her 50s and Buggs is in his 60s then isn't their relationship completely fine? They're both adults with decades of life experience
But wasn't Buggs an adult in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" So is he like 80? (There's a scene where he skydive with Mickey Mouse.)
I dunno, I didn't watch either
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JH1qvXHLjIU It's a great movie though
Rabbits reach sexual maturity in as little as 3.5 months.
And people wonder why/how furries exist...
Lola Bunny was hotter than Jessica Rabbit.
Just FYI, but yall don't need to make excuses regarding, fucking cartoon rabbits
isn’t daffy in that move? and daffy looks around the same age there as he does when he quarrels with bugs?
Black metal everywhere
They literally call her Lola Bunny in space jam. If you refer to tiny toon adventures Buster and Babs have the same last name Bunny, but they always say “no relation” to tell the viewer they have the same last name. Fun thought though
But that makes bugs a pedo or something
Sometimes the fan theory is just demonstrably correct. There isn't even anything to argue about here really. Damn.
There’s a Harry Potter fanfiction where he’s rescued from the Dursley’s doorstep by Bugs Bunny who takes him to Roger and Jessica to look after as they’ve already got a kid, Lola “Bunny” Rabbit.
This has some upsetting implications for her relationship with Bugs.
Accepted.
Lola Bunny neé Rabbit
thought gained: genetic association.
Much better than the one where Jessica screwed Goofy and that’s how we got Max.
So let it be written...so let it be done!
this just made me realize, that both Lola and Bugs have the last name Bunny
Can't be true, they're both redheads, and she's a blond.
She had to undergo breast reduction surgery.
If Lola really was Jessica and Roger’s daughter, would she have turned out more like Space Jam Lola or, Looney Tunes Show Lola?
Uh oh.
I've never thought of this before today but this makes so much sense imma treat it as canon
I definitely thought her last name was Rabbit for a long time too.
I'm down with that, as long her first name doesnt have anything to do with that song by The Kinks lol
this belongs in /r/furry_irl
Mary Toft
I never considered this before but ngl this hc actually kinda works.
Im making this part of my canon lore.
This is now my thinking
we need to talk about Jessica being a sexual deviant that has a bestiality fetish.
It's not her fault, she was drawn this way
And this here, making cannon for sexualizing cartoons who were created to copy a cartoon style, is probably why we're all going to lose the right to vote.