Talk:Mr. Toad's Wild Ride/@comment-17971101-20140924171528/@comment-1450971-20160526095450

Maybe the ride was suppose to be what happens after Mr. Toad got the Car, and before he was sent to court (Which is also what happened in the book). It was a bit of a copout that we don't get to see the comedic ideas of Mr. Toad driving the Motorcar WITHIN the cartoon (Show, Don't Tell). Now, try to imagine if they did have that in the film:

We see in the morning that Ratty and Mole are going to check and see if Mr. Toad has calmed down, but when they opened... he's gone. Suddenly, from the Library, as McBadger was setting up some books, Mr. Toad has got the Motorcar, but now, he's going crazy with the idea of driving it... the problem: he doesn't have a driver's license. In any case, he went past McBadger, and he dropped the books.

Then the rest of it is like the ride (including the part where he passes by a trial that didn't even involve him), except when Mr. Toad crashed into a train, the pain made him pass out, making him think that he's dead, and that they scare him so much, that he woke up to see that he's alive... only to find himself arrested.

The ride feels like a deleted scene that never saw the light of day.