History Main / PullARabbitOutOfMyHat

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat2'': This is Kung Lao's friendship move. It's later done in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks'' as both of Kung Lao's fatalities, the rabbit [[KillerRabbit horribly mauling]] the opponent.

* The wizard in '' WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' had a genuinely magic hat from which he could pull things; I don't know whether that ever included a rabbit, though.

* One ''TinyToonAdventures'' episode involved a magician pulling Buster out of his hat at Montana's birthday party.

* In the ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' 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.

* The wizard in ''Series/DungeonsAndDragons'' had a genuinely magic hat from which he could pull things; I don't know whether that ever included a rabbit, though.

* In CountDuckula's first appearance on ''DangerMouse'', he puts on a brief magic show where instead of pulling rabbits out of hats, he pulls hats out of rabbits.
* In his youth, [[PhineasAndFerb Dr. Doofenshmirtz]] dabbled with [[StageMagician stage magic]], but when he went to pull a rabbit out of his hat, he got a skunk instead. Most of his other tricks ended up with him getting sprayed by a skunk, so he gave it up.
* Inverted in an episode of ''{{Defenders of the Earth}}'': a magician does this to upstage Mandrake the Magician. Mandrake then tops his competitor with a big rabbit appearing on the table. When the big bunny opens its mouth, out flies a top hat!

See also: [=~Everything's Better With Bunnies~=], WhatHaveWeEar

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* In the ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' manga Ranma as part of a disguise does many magic tricks to insult Mousses [[HyperspaceArsenal fighting style]] and pulls many things like bunnies and doves from [[GenderBender her]] sleeves and later has a top hat with a bunny come out of it.

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* ''MortalKombat2'': This is Kung Lao's friendship move. It's later done in ''MortalKombatShaolinMonks'' as both of Kung Lao's fatalities, the rabbit [[KillerRabbit horribly mauling]] the opponent.

* There's a children's book (whose title this troper unfortunately cannot remember) about a magician who has this as part of his act, but he only gets called "pretty good" because while his tricks do work, they're not overly impressive or he fumbles some part of it. He gets upset about this and tries out a more impressive magic spell that ends up producing dozens of rabbits from his hat. Unfortunately, there's no spell to make all the rabbits go ''back'' into the hat. HilarityEnsues.

* An episode of ''TeenTitans'' features Raven being turned into a bunny for this trick by the Amazing Mumbo.

* ''MortalKombat2'': This is Kung Lao's friendship move.

* {{Dungeons&Dragons}} has the ''bag of tricks'', from which you can pull all manner of fauna (roll percentile dice). Apparently, they come out as little furballs that expand to full size. Of course, one could always put the bag in a hat.

* [[http://jackmagic.smackjeeves.com/ Jack Magic]] is about a rabbit who was pulled out of a hat.

* Subverted in DaisyOwl. A wizard is asked to do some magic, and then he pulls a rabbit out of his hat... then it turns out that the rabbit was in there because he was using the hat for carrot storage, and he hadn't intended for it to be there at all.

* Invoked in WapsiSquare [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/neithergodnordemon/ here]].

* Inverted in an episode of ''{[Defenders of the Earth}}'': a magician does this to upstage Mandrake the Magician. Mandrake then tops his competitor with a big rabbit appearing on the table. When the big bunny opens its mouth, out flies a top hat!

* Inverted in an episode of ''Defenders of the Earth'': a magician does this to upstage Mandrake the Magician. Mandrake then tops his competitor with a big rabbit appearing on the table. When the big bunny opens its mouth, out flies a top hat!

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->''"Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"''
-->--'''Bullwinkle,''' ''RockyAndBullwinkle''

It should be noted that despite how it's commonly depicted, lifting a rabbit by its ears is very painful and could permanently injure them. It's also likely to ruin the act if they freak out. Normally they put the hand under the rabbit's belly.

It should be noted that despite how it's commonly depicted, lifting a rabbit by its ears is very painful and could permanently injure them. It's also likely to ruin the act if they freak out.

* An episode of the {{Garfield}} cartoon had Jon attempting to perform this trick, with Garfield (in a rabbit suit) as the rabbit.
** The real rabbit in question ditched Jon because he couldn't stand being pulled by the ears.

* An episode of the {{Garfield}} cartoon had Jon attempting to perform this trick, with Garfield (in a rabbit suit) as the rabbit.