History Main / PullARabbitOutOfMyHat

!!Examples:

'''Rocky:''' [[RunningGag Again]]?\\

* In a 1990s DorkAge version of ''ComicBook/{{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.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat2'': This is Kung Lao's friendship move. It's later done in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatShaolinMonks'' as two of Kung Lao's fatalities, the rabbit [[KillerRabbit horribly mauling]] the opponent in one of them, while the other one just involves him [[RefugeInAudacity beating them to death with the said rabbit]]. Lampshaded in ''11''.

* In ''[[Fanfic/TheCadanceverse Busting Boasts]]'', Trixie turns this trick UpToEleven. First she considers pulling a rabbit out of a hat, then a dragon out of her hat. She settles on pulling a rabbit out of a dragon.

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

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. During the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce Frost Fair of 1814]], the Twelfth Doctor (who's been compared to a magician InUniverse) produces pies from his hat to give to a gang of street urchins.

** Another episode of the Amazon Prime reboot has Bullwinkle try the trick, only to be interrupted by a ferocious monster that chases him and Rocky around the stage. Then a regular rabbit sticks its head out of the hat and waves to the audience.

'''Rocky:''' Again?\\

* In his youth, ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' villain Dr. Doofenshmirtz dabbled with [[StageMagician stage magic]], but when he went to pull a rabbit out of his hat, he got a skunk instead. All his other tricks also ended with him getting sprayed by a skunk, so he gave it up. In a BrickJoke, after Perry comes out of Doofenshmirtz hat, he produces the rabbit that Heinz tried to get when he was younger...[[ExplosiveBreeder along with the rabbit's many, many offspring]].

* The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}} book, ''Literature/BadHareDay'', revolves around the protagonist, a wannabe magician, trying to perfect his skills in pulling a bunny out of a hat, up to blackmailing a local magician to show him the trick. Being ''Goosebumps'', this ends up backfiring big time, namely with [[spoiler: the protagonist being turned into a rabbit himself]].

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' quotes the Rocky and Bullwinkle version mainly word for word, with D.W. as Rocky, Arthur as Bullwinkle, and Buster as the rabbit.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'', Mr. Whiskers talks about pulling himself out of a hat, then [[InvertedTrope pulling a hat out of himself]] before deciding the latter might not be appropriate for children.
* 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.
* One of the [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle pet tips]] on ''WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats'' has Heathcliff demonstrating how to perform the trick without hurting the rabbit (scooping the rabbit up from underneath and ''not'' grabbing it by the ears).

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* The icon for ''VideoGame/{{Audiosurf}}'''s "Bizarro" achievement features a ''rabbit'' pulling a ''man'' out of a hat.

* In the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version of ''VideoGame/{{Ghostbusters 1990}}'', you encounter the Silk Hatton (?), who can pull a deranged, chihuahua-looking ghost rabbit out of his hat.
* Referenced in ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}'', by one of the EasterEgg voice clips that can be heard by selecting a unit or buyilding and pressing Shift + 2. (In other words, the quotation mark key.) Try it on the Wizards Guild building: [[spoiler: "Hey, Randolph! Watch me pull a [[BossInMookClothing rock golem]] outta my hat!"]]
* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': The Prestihatitator, a machine that is basically a magic top hat, has a chance of spawning a rabbit each time it is used.
* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'': When Luigi first encounters Nikki, Lindsey, and Ginny, the magician sisters of the Twisted Suites level, they show off their magic skills by pulling a stuffed rabbit, some billiard balls, and Luigi's hat out of their hats.

* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSummertimeShorts'': In "Good Vibes", Fluttershy is looking for her pet rabbit Angel. Trixie casually pulls Angel out of her hat and hands him over.

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* ''[[http://jackmagic.smackjeeves.com/ Jack Magic]]'' is about a rabbit who was pulled out of a hat.
* Kavonn from ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' frequently has {{jackalope}}s appear into his hat.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/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.

* ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' uses the phrase to mean magic-like things not understood by mundanes [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/neithergodnordemon/ here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'':
** A famous RunningGag on had Bullwinkle try to do this trick for Rocky, but instead, ends up pulling out either a bear, a lion, a rhinoceros, a tiger and finally (after the camera went into a dramatic close-up on the hat) Rocky himself!
--->'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, Rocky! Watch me [[TropeNamer pull a rabbit out of my hat]]!\\
'''Rocky:''' [[LampshadeHanging But that trick never works!]]
** It was even added to a Mr. Know-It-All sketch about magic which resulted in Bullwinkle [[BeyondTheImpossible somehow pulling]] ''[[BeyondTheImpossible himself]]'' [[BeyondTheImpossible out of the hat!]]
--->'''Bullwinkle:''' You know, the more I try this, the further away I get!
** It was reprised in the 2018 Amazon Prime reboot where Bullwinkle ends up pulling a double of his own head out of the hat and gets scared away by it. It becomes the show's Creator/DreamWorks logo, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBqC8PMEYJk here]].
** Another episode of the Amazon Prime reboot has Bullwinkle try the trick, only to be interrupted by a ferocious monster that chases him and Rocky around the stage. Then a regular rabbit sticks its head out of the hat and waves to the audience.

* The magician ''WesternAnimation/{{Presto}}'' from the [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts Pixar short]] of the same name 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. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity (and a lot of slapstick) ensues]] when Presto forgets to feed Alec before one performance.
* One WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} had WesternAnimation/{{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 Disney 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. Oh, and a tall flower from which a ''frog'' emerged to further sabotage the performance.
* This was the basis for one of many "counting to 20" cartoon inserts on ''Series/SesameStreet''.

* There's a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon, "Haunted Mouse", involving a magician relative of Jerry's who has [[MouseWorld mouse sized]] rabbits in his hat.
* The Creator/TexAvery cartoon "WesternAnimation/MagicalMaestro" has a magician and his rabbits taking revenge on an opera singer.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' features Raven being turned into a bunny for this trick by the Amazing Mumbo.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther''
** Pink encountered a mischievous rabbit in "The Hand Is Pinker than the Eye".
** As well as a rabbit who didn't appreciate his sleep being disrupted while in the magic cape Pink was using in a bullfight in "Bully For Pink."
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', when Angelica is training to be a proper magician, the RunningGag in the episode is Lil constantly asking her to pull a rabbit out of the hat.

* In his youth, ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' villain Dr. Doofenshmirtz dabbled with [[StageMagician stage magic]], but when he went to pull a rabbit out of his hat, he got a skunk instead. All his other tricks also ended with him getting sprayed by a skunk, so he gave it up. In a BrickJoke, after Perry comes out of Doofenshmirtz hat, he produces the rabbit that Heinz tried to get when he was younger...[[ExplosiveBreeder along with the rabbit's many, many offspring]].

* One ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode involved a magician pulling Buster out of his hat at Montana Max's birthday party.
-->'''Buster:''' Nothing up my sleeve...\\
'''Montana Max:''' [[NoIndoorVoice AND NOTHING IN YOUR HEAD!]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Hocus Dopus" involved Bumpy trying to perform this trick in order to cheer up a sick Squishy.

* The Creator/{{Rankin Bass|Productions}} version of ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'' had the evil magician trying to pull Hocus Pocus the rabbit out of his hat. At first, he isn't there, then he jumps off and runs off with the hat, leading to it being found and put on Frosty. The rest of the show is the magician trying to chase down Frosty, the kids and Hocus to get his hat back.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CatDog,'' it's inverted (and lampshaded) when Rancid Rabbit pulls a ''magician'' out of a hat.
* ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'': Timon teams up with a large fat rabbit, and they both become ridiculously famous with this trick. However the rabbit tries to get get rid of Pumbaa.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' episode "Superfriends Rest In Peace", The Riddler pauses in the middle of a battle to pull a rabbit out of a hat. When Batman asks what the point of that was, [[KillerRabbit the rabbit turns monstrous and grabs him]]. Batman quickly steals Riddler's magic wand, dispels the rabbit, and traps Riddler in the hat.
* This was the source of many headaches for Tracy the Gorilla on ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''. He would reach in, intending to grab a rabbit, but would get a babbling ghost instead, which he would then irritably shove back into the hat.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy's Dad is such a horrible magician that he can't even get this trick right until Timmy wishes for his father to be a true magician. His acts then become bigger and fancier incarnations of pulling rabbits out of hats.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': The episode "Tween Wolf" opens with a parody of the ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' gag in which Grim tries to pull a werewolf out of a hat, and instead producing...a rabbit. Annoyed, Mandy throws the hat outside, at which the werewolf ''does'' come out and attacks Irwin, kicking off the episode's plot.
-->'''Grim:''' I guess I should have waited for a full moon.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the episode "Let's Play Magicians", [[TheDitz Stumpy]] tries to do this. He fails because he didn't have a trick and he thought magic was real.

* ''Anime/{{Aikatsu}}'''s second opening includes a scene where Kaede pulls Ichigo out of her hat.

* The ComicBook/PostCrisis version of [[AnimalSuperheroes Hoppy The Marvel Bunny]] came from a WorldOfFunnyAnimals linked to Franchise/TheDCU via a magician's top hat. The magician would then pull terrified bunny citizens out of their world by their ears. Hoppy gained his powers when a suspicious [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Billy Batson]] investigated the hat, and said his magic word just as the magician pushed him in.
* In a 1990s DorkAge version of ''ComicBook/{{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.

* One ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' story involving Monica getting a giant bunny (actually Jimmy Five and Smudge in disguise) for her birthday had her father attempt this with her plush bunny Samson.

* In ''[[Fanfic/TheCadanceverse Busting Boasts]]'', Trixie turns this trick UpToEleven. First she considers pulling a rabbit out of a hat, then a dragon out of her hat. She settles on pulling a rabbit out of a dragon.
* Discussed in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' when [[TheArchmage Doctor Strange]] pulls out a top hat, and [[DeadpanSnarker Harry]] wonders if a rabbit will be coming next. [[SubvertedTrope Instead]], it turns out to be a [[{{Teleportation}} Portkey]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', when Wolf and Twitchy are trying to figure out how to get to Granny's house to intercept Red Puckett, 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 forcefully scratches his right ear against his head with a very pained look on his face.

* ''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.

* ''Literature/ThePiloFamilyCircus'' naturally has a magician perform this trick on show day. Unfortunately, Mugabo is a ''real'' magician with ''real'' magical powers, and feels more than a little degraded by having to perform it. Naturally, he lets the audience know this by [[LudicrousGibs detonating the rabbit all over them.]]

* The children's book ''Pretty Good Magic'' is about a magician named Presto 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 bigger magic spell that ends up producing dozens of rabbits from his hat. Unfortunately, there's no reverse spell to make all the rabbits go ''back'' into the hat. HilarityEnsues.

* 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.)

* Dr. Cox in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' actually reveals this trick to Turk and a bunch of children to "rob their innocence."

* The VanityPlate for the production company Hat Trick depicts a rabbit pulling a man out of a hat.
* The ArtisticTitle sequence for ''The Frank Sinatra Show'' (ABC), designed by Creator/SaulBass, is based around different symbols coming out of a hat. Inevitably, a rabbit appears at one point.
* In a 2015 appearance by Creator/PennAndTeller on ''Series/TheTonightShow'', Penn talked about realizing that although it's a cliché, neither he nor Teller had ever seen an actual rabbit produced out of an actual top hat during a live magic performance, only watered down versions like a fake rabbit being produced from a handkerchief with a top hat printed on it. While Penn spoke, Teller produced a fake rabbit from a handkerchief with a top hat printed on it, then a real live rabbit from a real top hat.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. During the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce Frost Fair of 1814]], the Twelfth Doctor (who's been compared to a magician InUniverse) produces pies from his hat to give to a gang of street urchins.
* ''Series/TheMunsters''; in one episode, Herman is signed up as a magician in Eddie's school talent show. For practice he tries to pull a live chicken from a hat he just cracked an egg into, only to get a fistful of yolk instead. To make Herman feel like he's really a magician, the rest of the family has Grandpa stand off to the side and use his real magic to improve Herman's tricks, so he does end up pulling a live chicken from the hat during practice.
* ''Series/WhammyTheAllNewPressYourLuck'': In one of the animations, the Whammy is a magician who pulls all the player's money out of his hat.

* The cover of Music/{{Helloween}}'s album ''Rabbit Don't Come Easy'' depicts a magician trying to do this trick, but the rabbit is fighting back.
* ''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:
-->There's no more rabbits in my hat to set things right.

* Inverted in Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/PinballMagic''; the SkillShot requires the player to shoot the pinball ''into'' the hat.
* In ''Pinball/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkleAndFriends'', Bullwinkle tries to do this trick on the backglass. He ends up producing either a rhino, a lion, or Rocky the Flying Squirrel.

* On the Doug Henning episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Fozzie Bear attempts to perform his own magic by pulling the old rabbit hat trick. However, being Fozzie, he has some trouble with it; he pulls out a rabbi, followed by a robot. Fozzie then hits the hat too hard, and suddenly dozens of rabbits come bouncing out of the hat.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In a Muppet sketch, 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.
** In a more recent episode, Professor D. Rabbit agrees to be pulled out of Mumford's hat if Mumford allows the roles to be reversed afterward.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2125 the magician promises to produce a rabbit -- though not out of a hat. One hops up. Given that God's the puppeteer -- did he do it?]]
* In ''Webcomic/FauxPas'', [[http://www.ozfoxes.net/cgi/pl-fp1.cgi?535 the little rabbits all hide in a hat.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Garfield}}'':

* ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} plays with this in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' 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.

In animation, the hat is often depicted as having some kind of {{Hammerspace}} portal in it, allowing the magician to stick his arm in up to the shoulder, and can contain much larger and stranger things than a mere rabbit.

** In another Chuck Jones short, ''Case of the Missing Hare'', Bugs has a run-in with a stage magician, and this trick features.

* The ComicBook/PostCrisis version of [[AnimalSuperheroes Hoppy The Marvel Bunny]] came from a dimension of {{Funny Animal}}s linked to Franchise/TheDCU via a magician's top hat. The magician would then pull terrified bunny citizens out of their world by their ears. Hoppy gained his powers when a suspicious [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Billy Batson]] investigated the hat, and said his magic word just as the magician pushed him in.

* In ''FanFic/NightOfRime'', the main character uses this trope to solve the problem of an old nemesis and a Phyrexian infestation simultaneously by intentionally pulling something less pleasant than a rabbit.

* In ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'', when Trixie pulls the obligatory ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' [[VillainousBreakdown prosecutor breakdown]], she {{headdesk}}s and her wizard hat falls off her head. Cue a rabbit coming out of her hat on its own before jumping its way offscreen.

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* On the Doug Henning episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Fozzie Bear attempts to perform his own magic by pulling the old rabbit hat trick. However, being Fozzie, he has some trouble with it; he pulls out a rabbi, followed by a robot. Fozzie then hits the hat too hard, and suddenly dozens of rabbits come bouncing out of the hat.
* In a Muppet sketch on ''Series/SesameStreet'', 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.
** In a more recent episode, Professor D. Rabbit agrees to be pulled out of Mumford's hat if Mumford allows the roles to be reversed afterward.

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* A ''ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}}'' comic shows a magician in a hospital in traction after inadvertantly pulling a rhinoceros out of his hat.
* In one ''ComicStrip/MandrakeTheMagician'' story, Mandrake did a magic show for a group of school children in which he appeared to pull an ''elephant'' out of his hat (it started out tiny, grew to normal size, and then shrank again as he put it back). When the school bully suggested that he'd merely used an elephant-shaped balloon, Mandrake stuck ''him'' into the hat, and invited the rest of the children to look into the hat and watch him being chased around by the tiny elephant.
* A ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'' strip about live action role-playing talked about how magicians get the short end of the stick. The strip showed a stage magician telling one of his teammates how his 'useless' magic tricks had just saved their lives. The teammate then asked what he was going to do when he ran out of rabbits and pulled back to show the magician pulling rabbits out of his hat to feed to the monster that was attacking them.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 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.
* ''TabletopGame/RedDragonInn'' has Pooky, the psychotic rabbit familiar of Zot the Wizard, whose 'impress the others' move is "[[InvertedTrope Pooky pulls Zot out of a hat!]]"

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* One ''Webcomic/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 fetus]] much to everybody's (including his) horror.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE198MagicTrick "magic trick"]], one of the many types of magic trick Strong Bad riffs on is "the ubiquitous live woodland creature cleverly smooshed into the lining of one's jacket or pants."
* A Season 2 skit of ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' has Jaune do a magic show, and of course he tries this. He ends up pulling out [[LittleBitBeastly rabbit faunus]] Velvet Scarlatina by the ears, and since she [[BerserkButton isn't fond of having her ears pulled]], she starts yanking on ''his'' ears in retaliation.
* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSummertimeShorts'': In "Good Vibes", Fluttershy is looking for her pet rabbit Angel. Trixie casually pulls Angel out of her hat and hands him over.
* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': The best games of 2019 are pulled out of a magician's hat, while the blandest games are pulled out of a cardboard box and the worst games are pulled out of a rusty soup can.
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* A famous RunningGag on ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' had Bullwinkle try to do this trick for Rocky, but instead, ends up pulling out either a bear, a lion, a rhinoceros, a tiger and finally (after the camera went into a dramatic close-up on the hat) Rocky himself!
-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, Rocky! Watch me [[TropeNamer pull a rabbit out of my hat]]!\\

* 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.

** 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.

* [[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.
** On a sidenote: One way to perform the trick is by [[spoiler:hiding the rabbit under a false lining, so that you can show the audience there's nothing in the hat before pulling the rabbit out. Why rabbits? Because they sit still enough to keep the lining from shifting and giving it away.]]

-->'''Rocky:''' Now here's something we hope you'll really like!