History Main / PullARabbitOutOfMyHat

One of the stock stage magic tricks, along with SawAWomanInHalf. The essence is very simple: the [[StageMagician magician]] takes off his hat, reaches in, and pulls out a rabbit. Ta-da!

* In WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', while the Wolf and Twitchy are trying to figure out how to find a way to Granny's house before Red gets there, Boingo shows up, asking if they are going there to throw a surprise birthday party for Red because he's great at parties. He says, "Watch me pull myself out of a hat!" and scratches his right ear against his head with a very pained look on his face.

* In ''TheLongestJourney'' the protagonist must at one point beat an evil sorcerer in some contest. When she considers a conjurer's contest and says that she can pull a rabbit out of a hat, the sorcerer responds that he can pull a hat out of a rabbit. She promptly switches to other options.

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* In ''Film/NightOfTheDemon'', an investigating psychologist visits devil-cult leader Karswell at his palatial estate, and finds him playing a magician to a party of children, pulling ''puppies'' out of his top hat. How could he ''possibly'' be evil?

* One ''CyanideAndHappiness'' video had a magician offer to pull out whatever a group of children wanted from his hat. He hands out a balloon and a toy race car. Then a kid asks for a little brother, and he pulls out [[BlackComedy a foetus]] much to everybody's (including his) horror.

* In a 1990s DorkAge version of ''Challengers of the Unknown'', this was the first thing Ace attempted when he was reinvented as a mystic. Since one of his teammates was actually named Rocky, he even used the Bullwinkle quote.
* Played with in a {{Cattivik}} story: two rabbits (a male one and a female one) jumps out of a magician top hat, and proceed to make out. Cattivik looks inside the hat and after getting out three panels later he find out that the rabbit had a lot of babies meanwhile.

* 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.

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* In ''Film/NightOfTheDemon'', an investigating psychologist visits devil-cult leader Karswell at his palatial estate, and finds him playing a magician to a party of children, pulling ''puppies'' out of his top hat. How could he ''possibly'' be evil?

* Inverted as a gag in the {{Nightside}} series, where one of the bar patrons at Strangefellows had evidently pissed off the rabbit he'd used in this act. His top hat now sits atop the bar, from which a human hand occasionally extends to receive a consoling drink.

* In a Muppet sketch on ''Sesame Street'', Grover watches as the Amazing Mumford tries to produce a rabbit from his hat. Neither of them is aware that Grover is gradually taking on the features of a rabbit.

* [[DungeonsAndDragons 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.

* The BumpInTheNight episode "Hocus Dopus" involved Bumpy trying to perform this trick in order to cheer up a sick Squishy.
* Zatanna plays with this in an episode of ''JusticeLeague 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.

* TimonAndPumbaa: Timon teams up with a large fat rabbit, and they both become ridiculously famous with this trick. However the rabbit tries to get rid of Pumba from Timon.

* Inverted in ''Pinball/PinballMagic''; the SkillShot requires the player to shoot the pinball ''into'' the hat.

* Characters/BugsBunny once had a run-in with a stage magician, as seen in the ChuckJones short ''Case of the Missing Hare'', in which this trick inevitably featured.
** One of his earliest appearances (before he became Bugs Bunny proper) was as a magician's rabbit in another Jones short, from 1939, ''Prest-O Change-O''.

* Characters/BugsBunny once had a run-in with a stage magician, in which this trick inevitably featured.
** One of his earliest appearances (before he became Bugs Bunny proper) was as a magician's rabbit in the Chuck Jones 1938 short ''Prest-O Change-O''.

* One ClassicDisneyShort had Goofy as a train baggage handler who is trying to load a magician's trunk. Inside is a hat, and inside the hat were several rabbits, as well as some doves. There was also a magical cape that produced a bull, a boxing kangaroo, a fishbowl, and several other animals which Goofy then had to wrangle into the trunk when the train arrived.
* Another WaltDisney cartoon, ''Mickey's Grand Opera'', featured a sentient magic hat which Pluto chased onstage. The hat fell in a tuba, and from there came an unending stream of rabbits and doves to mess up the performance.

* In Creator/GKChesterton's ''Literature/FatherBrown'' story "The Absence of Mr Glass", when explaining Mr. Todhunter, FatherBrown observes that a hat which does not fit him is none the less his hat -- because he is a StageMagician.

* In Creator/GKChesterton's FatherBrown story "The Absence of Mr Glass", when explaining Mr. Todhunter, FatherBrown observes that a hat which does not fit him is none the less his hat -- because he is a StageMagician.

* In the first ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book, when Harry sees the Sorting Hat for the first time, he wonders if they're supposed to get a rabbit out of it.

* In ''NightOfTheDemon'', an investigating psychologist visits devil-cult leader Karswell at his palatial estate, and finds him playing a magician to a party of children, pulling ''puppies'' out of his top hat. How could he ''possibly'' be evil?

* A commercial for Magic Gushers had a pretty nightmare fuelish version of it by having a kid's head transform into a top hat. One pull inside the hat and out pops the head of a rabbit!

-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.\\

* A commercial for Magic Gushers had a pretty [[NightmareFuel nightmare fuelish]] version of it by having a kid's head transform into a top hat. One pull inside the hat and out pops the head of a rabbit!

* In the first ''HarryPotter'' book, when Harry sees the Sorting Hat for the first time, he wonders if they're supposed to get a rabbit out of it.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackstone,_Sr. Harry Blackstone Sr.]] is credited to be the first magician to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

* Dr. Cox in ''{{Scrubs}}'' actually reveals this trick to Turk and a bunch of children to "rob their innocence."
* Hilda teaches Sabrina a version of this with real magic in ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. Zelda is not impressed:

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackstone Harry Blackstone Sr.]] is credited to be the first magician to pull a rabbit out of a hat.