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1	* Has anybody found any information on just ''who or what the hell'' this "Ice Cream Bunny" character is? The movie seems to imply that, at the very least, ''someone'' in the audience would recognize him, but they never say just why. Was he a character at Pirates World? Was he meant to be in other movies? '''''Why isn't Google giving me any answers?!'''''
2	** I don't know, but I assume he was a mascot for Pirates' World (perhaps he sold ice cream there?), and they put him in the film to try to promote the park. I can't find any evidence to support the idea, though.
3	** Maybe it was originally the EasterBunny but they couldn't because of copyrights?
4	** E. B. is another PublicDomainCharacter. You could shoot a movie about him if you felt like it.
5	*** Eh, this film is so cheap, they probably couldn't afford more than one free character.
6	** So in other words, this Ice Cream Bunny might very well be the same kind of entity as [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos Slenderman]]?
7	*** ... Sure. Why not.
8	** They probably wanted something they ''could'' copyright. The logic [[WildMassGuessing has to have been]] on the lines of "Kids like ice cream, kids like bunnies, so we'll make our mascot the Ice Cream Bunny". Hey, better that than bunny ice cream.
9	** Probably, the directors saw one bunny selling Ice Cream and thought "that must be well known by Americans". They were quite wrong.
10	** He shows up briefly in one of the "Santa's Village of Madness" shorts included in "Christmas with Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}" (along with some of Santa's supporting cast from the Mexican ''Film/SantaClaus'' movie plus Literature/PussInBoots for some reason). His presence is never explained there either.
11	* Why does the Ice Cream Bunny have a firetruck anyway? Indeed, given how cheap the movie is, how did they afford to rent a firetruck for the movie in the first place?
12	** It may have been the actual fire truck for the theme park in case there was an actual fire.
13	* Wouldn't Mrs. Claus or the elves have known Santa was in trouble when the reindeer showed up without him and sent out some sort of rescue mission? Or at least sent word to the local authorities?
14	** I think the implication is they [[TheMasquerade don't want it to become common knowledge Santa is real]], which is a pretty big VoodooShark considering the Ice Cream Bunny drives around in a firetruck with Santa in public at the end, but I'm pretty sure that's the answer nevertheless.
15	* Tom and Huck making a cameo is weird enough, but what's with their racoon? It seems to be a pet (possibly the actors' real life pet) as it doesn't bite them, but it just shows up in one shot, and the two kids [[RememberTheNewGuy act like it's always been there,]] and once they get off the raft it just runs away and [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is never seen again.]]
16	* Where did the kids get the various animals to help pull Santa's sleigh out of the sand? A horse is understandable, but a gorilla is too unusual for a kid to find wandering around.
17	* If Santa already is friends with the Ice Cream Bunny (as is strongly implied) why didn't he just summon him with a psychic message (like he did with the "kids") as plan A?
18	* Why does Santa just address the girls playing jump rope as [[NoNameGiven "girls"]]? In all the other cases where there's more than one kid at one of the locations shown, he calls them individually by their names, so it seems weird he wouldn't in this one case.
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