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March 31, 2018 8:08 PM

Easter bunnies are terrifying. Vintage bunnies, creepy bunnies, disturbing bunnies, scary bunnies. Even creepier in motion.
posted by Johnny Wallflower (27 comments total)

It must be bunnies.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:09 PM on March 31, 2018 [3 favorites]

With posts like this and elsewhere on social media, in particular - I'm wondering if there's any "hey that's me" sort of blog or something similar.
posted by blaneyphoto at 8:10 PM on March 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

Whoops, forgot one.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:11 PM on March 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

This must be too new to be included but I thought it was the reason for the post. oh my gosh.. (twitter post: warning screaming toddler)
posted by anti social order at 8:21 PM on March 31, 2018 [9 favorites]

Bunnies never scared me. In my long-ago youth, Crusader Rabbit was a hero. On another channel, one of Captain Kangaroo's best friends (and the one who didn't talk back to him) was Bunny Rabbit. And the only rabbit who could cause real trouble was Bugs Bunny, but he only 'bugged' the bad guys. It was a good era for bunnies... now chipmunks were another thing...
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:12 PM on March 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

You want a scary little fuzzy animal? AGGRETSUKO!!
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:22 PM on March 31, 2018 [3 favorites]

The nice old woman downstairs once gave me a ceramic pair of bunnies tied together with a link of thick chain.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 9:27 PM on March 31, 2018 [3 favorites]

OMG anti social order that is fantastic.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 9:59 PM on March 31, 2018

Maybe a little long in the tooth now, but lets not forget about Robbie The Rabbit of Silent Hill 3.
posted by rodlymight at 10:36 PM on March 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

I stopped at a restaurant yesterday on my way to the in-laws for Easter. They had someone in bunny costume, not talking, but doing activities and taking pictures with kids (those who didn't immediately burst into tears on seeing it, that is). The resting position for this costume was 'creepy stare'. And now this is what I'm thinking of every time someone says 'easter bunny'.
posted by frimble at 10:45 PM on March 31, 2018 [3 favorites]

They’re not bunnies, they’re lagomorphs.
posted by Segundus at 11:41 PM on March 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

I want to take the ears off, but I can't. I hop, and when I hop, I never get off the ground. It's my curse, my eternal curse! I want to take the ears off but I can't! It's my curse! It's my fucking curse! I want to take the ears off! Please! Take them off! Please!

posted by glonous keming at 11:53 PM on March 31, 2018

As a kid, I had the craziest, most vivid imagination—just ask my family about my screaming night terrors concerning the headless horseman— but for whatever reason, when it came to figures in costumes, they never fazed me in the slightest. That's not the Easter bunny (or Mickey, or Tigger, or Pooh…), because it was way out of scale to the characters from the television and my childhood imagination, and therefore just a person in a fuzzy costume. I basically shrugged at them, disappointed because it just drove home it was all make-believe anyway.

I may have had a vivid imagination, but when it came to costumed characters, unlike these kids screaming in terror, I must have seemed the most boring child on the planet. At least it lets my inner five year old smugly laugh at their obvious terror without too much guilt.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 12:09 AM on April 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

They’re not bunnies, they’re lagomorphs.

Is this gonna be a stand up fight, sir, or another Bugs hunt?
posted by condour75 at 4:44 AM on April 1, 2018 [4 favorites]

Watership Down: Parents 'horrified' as Channel 5 airs 'traumatising' film on Easter Sunday
posted by 1970s Antihero at 5:45 AM on April 1, 2018 [4 favorites]

They are all good bunnies.

Forgot one.
posted by lagomorphius at 6:04 AM on April 1, 2018

It's not about the bunny.
posted by elsietheeel at 7:13 AM on April 1, 2018

You’re nobunny until somebunny loves you tries to kill you with an axe, as my gran used to say.
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:18 AM on April 1, 2018 [3 favorites]

From Mr Fish:


Maybe it's the 8 years of catholic grade school that make this so funny!
posted by Mesaverdian at 10:41 AM on April 1, 2018

But do they have sharp pointy teeth?
posted by nat at 10:42 AM on April 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

The saddles. I never understand the saddles.
posted by allthinky at 10:43 AM on April 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

J.C.Duffy's recurring blog feature "Smart Women Stupid Choices" has a few for Easter, mostly models posing with creepy bunnies, but also Doris Day in a bunny costume and Elvira in an Easter basket.
posted by oneswellfoop at 10:58 AM on April 1, 2018

Some medieval examples.
posted by doctornemo at 12:30 PM on April 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

Not bunnies, but for Easter, Don Hertzfeldt (the cartoon evil genius behind "My Spoon Is Too Big/I Am A Ba-na-na" and "Sampsans Epasode Numbar 164,775.7") brings us The Easter Eel.
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:36 PM on April 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

Easter Bunny, or Mondasian Cyberman?
posted by Hal Mumkin at 3:55 PM on April 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

Ice cream bunny song.
posted by vrakatar at 5:53 PM on April 1, 2018 [1 favorite]

The fact that a search for "scary bunnies" turns up this page, which for no particular reason includes an animated gif from a horror movie of a screaming man tearing off his melting face, has done wonders for getting my kid to agree that yes maybe it's best if we keep strict internet filters on honey.
posted by xthlc at 6:10 AM on April 2, 2018 [1 favorite]