"Rockets Redglare!" affectionately documents the life and death of character actor and stand-up comedian Rockets Redglare, born Michael Morra. In one scene, Redglare recounts how one morning when he was four and a half years old his mother dressed him in his favorite shirt and for the first time made him French toast. Just as he started to enjoy his special breakfast, his gangster father and his Uncle Eddie shot another man to death in the next room. He adds that he never was able to enjoy French toast again.