History Main / PullARabbitOutOfMyHat

* ''ComicBook/{{Commando}}''. In ''Master of Mystery'', a German spy wins over some suspicious Brits in a pub with conjuring tricks, including pouring beer from his hat. However they're later questioned by a counter-intelligence officer, who realises the spy must be a professional stage magician and is able to track him down. The magician's introduction shows him producing a flock of pigeons from his hat--this trick gives him an excuse to own homing pigeons, which he sends across the Channel with the information he's gathered.

* In one ''Comicbook/DoctorStrange'' story, his lover/disciple Clea pulled a rabbit out of a hat (while making it sound like she was about to perform some impressive feat of sorcery) to get him to smile.

* For much of the music video for "The King Is Half Undressed" by Music/{{Jellyfish}}, Andy Sturmer is singing the song while sitting on a chair with a top hat on. Throughout the video, puppies, kittens, bunnies, and various flora and fauna escape the hat or climb/descend back into it while the rest of the band is singing harmonies and/or juggling, blowing bubbles, staring into pinwheels, and doing other random whimsical activities.

** In the episode "The Show Stoppers", Snips and Snails perform a variation on this trick by placing the hat on top of the rabbit and having it be replaced by a bunch of carrots. However, when the time comes, the carrots fail to appear, due to Snails getting the munchies.
** In the season 6 finale "To Where and Back Again, Part 2", Discord mocks Trixie by using his powers to pull another Trixie out of her magician hat.
** In the season 8 episode "A Matter of Principals", Discord does a variant of the above prank -- when Trixie tries to pull a rabbit out, Discord makes it so on three separate tries, she instead gets a winged pig, Derpy Hooves and an Ursa Major.

* ''ComicBook/{{Commando}}''. In ''Master of Mystery'', a German spy wins over some suspicious Brits in a pub with conjuring tricks, including pouring beer from his hat. However they're later questioned by a counter-intelligence officer, who realises the spy must be a professional stage magician and is able to track him down. The magician's introduction shows him producing a flock of pigeons from his hat--this trick gives him an excuse to own homing pigeons, which he sends across the Channel with the information he's gathered.

* This is part of Tatischeff's stage act in ''WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist2010''.

* ''Film/NowYouSeeIt2005'': When the contestants are given the name of a famous magician to emulate for one of their performances, Zoey gets Alexander Herrmann, and of course ends up emulating his famous rabbit trick for the audience- pulling out rabbits of wildly varying sizes, no less.

* While visiting Egypt in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', the Doctor is buttonholed by a conjurer who does a series of tricks with baby chickens, including making them appear and disappear. When he pauses in expectation of payment, the Doctor pulls a rabbit out of his own hat and hands it to him. (How he manages this when he presumably had no idea in advance that a rabbit would be called for is never explained.)

* In the ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'' book ''Mattimeo'', Basil the hare says it's perfectly fine for the circus troupe to come perform in the Abbey "as long as they don't pull rabbits out of hats." An odd joke for him to make, considering rabbits in this setting are sapient and among the largest creatures around.

* ''Lapins!'' by French singer Juliette is about a magician named André who pulled ''anything'' from his hat, from beasties to ''weather hazards'', but he won't do rabbits because he doesn't like them. His wife accuses him from having ComplexityAddiction.
* Mentioned as a universal stock magic in ''Fairytale Gone Bad'' by Sunrise Avenue:

* Mentioned in ''Don't Touch That'' by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. In [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Bullwinkle's]] voice:

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-->'''Kung Lao''': Stop reaching for my hat, Johnny.\\
'''Johnny Cage''': You hiding a rabbit in there or not?\\
'''Kung Lao''': Only my friends know for sure.

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* ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} plays with this in an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' during her show. She reaches into the hat, wondering aloud where "[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Bugs]]" is, then suddenly, a giant hand descends from the ceiling and grabs a member of the audience. Zatanna pulls the man (now tiny, of course) out of her hat, then turns him back to normal.

* ''WesternAnimation/Presto2008'': Presto performs this trick via a wizard hat and a top hat that are connected ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''-style. His rabbit assistant Alec Azam wears the wizard hat and is pulled out of the top hat. Hijinks (and a lot of slapstick) ensue when Presto forgets to feed Alec before one performance.
* A variant occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode “[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E15MyThreeSunsMagnetPI Magnet, PI]]"; Sean attempts to pull Sunspot out of a box as part of his magic show.