The Roger Rabbit shorts are a series of three live-action/animated short films produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation from 1989 to 1993. They feature Roger Rabbit, the animated protagonist from Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), being enlisted to care for Baby Herman while his mother is absent, resulting in a plot defined by slapstick humor and visual gags. Each short concludes with a sequence involving live-action and animation, in which the characters interact with live-action human beings, akin to the 1988 film. Droopy Dog from MGM makes a cameo in all of the shorts.

Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Lou Hirsch, and April Winchell returned to reprise their voice roles from the film, alongside producers Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, and Don Hahn. Marshall also directed the live-action segments in the first two shorts, while Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) was responsible for the live-action visual effects. Produced in association with Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the three shorts (Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit and Trail Mix-Up) were originally attached to the theatrical releases of several Disney and Amblin films. A fourth short, Hare in My Soup, was cancelled during pre-production, with three more (Clean and Oppressed, Beach Blanket Bay and Bronco Bustin' Bunny) in the planning stages also cancelled.

Despite being produced by Walt Disney Animation, these shorts heavily contained a similar slapstick style to Warner Bros. Looney Tunes or Tex Avery cartoons, and MGM character Droopy made cameos in every one.

Roger is placed in charge of watching Baby Herman when his mother needs to step out for an hour; as soon as she leaves, Herman breaks into a heavy crying fit, which Roger doesn't seem to be able to break until he pulls out a bright shiny rattle, which immediately garners Herman's attention. After a brief second of shaking it, Herman swallows the rattle, prompting Roger to panic, call 911, and rush the baby to the emergency room. Roger is overcome with guilt when he visits, but quickly realizes Herman wants to drink from a milk bottle in the room; after Roger burps Herman, he hiccups the rattle, but finds that in Roger's joyous celebration, he accidentally swallows it, causing Baby Herman to become upset that he lost his toy. Roger begins to dance, his hips rattling to the toy, giving Baby Herman some amusement, but is stunned when a doctor bursts in, mistakes him for Baby Herman, and preps him for emergency surgery.

While Roger is gone, Herman spies Jessica (who is clad in a nurse's outfit) pushing a cart of milk bottles and gives chase, eventually following a runaway milk bottle into the emergency room, where Roger is strapped to the table while the surgeons have disappeared for a lunch break. Herman mistakes a large surgical laser for a bottle and climbs up onto it, nearly dissecting Roger in the process. The laser detaches itself from the ceiling and flings a table of scalpels and hypodermic needles at Roger, who avoids them but is electrocuted in the process. The laser flies around the room and lodges itself under Roger's stretcher and sends him and Herman both ejecting from the emergency room and causing Roger to gag up the rattle, and when Baby Herman to again swallow it before crashing into a wheelchair, they then fly down the hall and into an open elevator shaft due to wet floors causing the wheelchair they landed on to skid out of control. Baby Herman's diaper parachutes him safely to the floor, while Roger gets crushed by an elevator where Droopy is, while trying to catch Herman. Eventually, they end up in a room with piles of gas pumps, which ignite and send them, the pair, launching miles into the air. As they fall, Herman coughs up the rattle, and Roger swallows it again. As they crash back into the hospital, Roger crashes through several floors before landing smack down on the receptionist floor in the hospital. As he recovers, Baby Herman lands on Roger, causing him to cough up the rattle again, finally ending their adventure. But when Roger's celebration is short-lived, he sees the bill for their rampant destruction and faints, realizing he didn't win again. Herman then crawls over to the rattle, and as the screen fades to black, there is a gulping sound as he again swallows the rattle.

During the end credits, however, Herman spits the rattle out and angrily threatens more trouble if he has to swallow the rattle again. After attempting to cool Baby Herman down, Roger is greeted by Jessica, who seductively suggests they go home and play a little patty cake, in which a love-stricken Roger coos as they walk off.

Tummy Trouble was produced over the course of nine months by a staff of 70 Disney animators. It was the first animated short Disney had produced in 16 years to accompany the original release of a feature film, since Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too in 1974.

Droopy's line, "Gruesome, isn't it?" was an outtake from the original film.