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Basic Trope: A female character wears a rabbit-inspired revealing outfit, typically for Fanservice purposes.

  • Straight: After landing a job at the Bouncing Bunny Club, Alice wears a uniform consisting of a low-cut leotard, a bunny-eared headband, fishnet stockings, high heels, and a cotton-ball tail.
  • Exaggerated:
  • Downplayed: Alice's uniform has the bunny-ears headband, but the rest of it is relatively modest.
  • Justified:
  • Inverted: At the Bouncing Bunny Club, Alice's uniform is enveloping robes with bunny motifs and a mask, so none of her body can be seen.
  • Gender-Inverted: Bob wears a skimpy, bunny-inspired outfit while working at the Rabbit Ring.
  • Subverted: The club doesn't make anyone dress up in the outfit, it's completely optional.
  • Double Subverted: It becomes abundantly clear that waitresses who wear the outfits get promotions and better hours, so Alice eventually goes along with it.
  • Parodied: The restaurant owner asks Alice if she's really okay with wearing the bunny outfit for an event, and Alice insists that it's fine. The owner reminds her that she's going to get a lot of attention, so if it ever feels like too much, she can always change her mind. She finally gets changed, and comes back to the dining area clad in an enormous rabbit mascot suit.
  • Zig-Zagged: Alice wears the outfit on some nights, and other nights she doesn't. It depends on whether or not she spots any customers who look like they'd tip well for a revealing costume.
  • Averted: Alice gets a job at a normal restaurant, with no bunny theming.
  • Enforced: "We need Fanservice, but don't want to make Alice look like a slut. Let's make it so her work uniform is sexy!"
  • Lampshaded: "Wow, Alice's bunny outfit feels like it's just aiming for sex appeal. Not the worst thing in the world."
  • Invoked: Bob wants to see Alice in a sexy bunny outfit, so he edits her resume for her and helps her get the job at the club.
  • Exploited:
    • Several characters who have always wanted to see Alice in a revealing outfit come visit the club while she's working.
    • Bob holds meetings with prospective buyers of his product at the club, knowing that seeing Alice in a bunny outfit will put them at ease.
    • Alice gets pulled over for a speeding ticket on the way home from work while she's still in the outfit, and notices the police officer can't keep his eyes off of her neckline. With a sigh, she tells him that if he lets her go, she'll give him a "Bunny Snuggle," and the officer asks her what that is. Next, we see Alice exiting the officer's police car while readjusting her top, and the officer tells her to have a nice day with a huge grin.
  • Defied: Alice's friend says she should get a job at the Bouncing Bunny Club. Alice says the uniform looks too revealing, and the topic is dropped.
  • Discussed: "Wow, Alice looks good in a bunny suit. Two Bunny Snuggles, please."
  • Conversed: "So now Alice is like a cocktail waitress, in a bunny outfit." "Are bunny outfits even culturally relevant, anymore?"
  • Implied: Alice gets lunch with a friend, and the friend notices bunny ears and a tail poking out of Alice's bag. The friend asks Alice if she has a costume party later, and Alice responds that it's a work... thing.
  • Deconstructed: Alice finds the club to be too cold, while wearing the outfit. She brings this up to management as justification for making the outfit less revealing.
  • Reconstructed: Management, it turns out, is fine with turning up the heat.
  • Played for Laughs:
    • The club has a Bounciest Bunny Contest every year, where the waitress that can bounce the most times under a minute wins a gift card and a plaque on the wall. Alice never participates, because she feels like it's a bit much. As the contest is happening, a moth lands in Alice's cleavage, and she frantically paws and swats at herself to try to get it out. Her frenzied dancing accidentally takes her to the contest stage, and just as a buzzer sounds, the moth flies away, Alice breathes a sigh of relief, she is declared the winner of the contest, and her top falls off in view of the whole club. The next day, there is a plaque on the wall with a photo commemorating Alice's victory. A waitress stands on either side of her, holding her hands up like a boxing champion, and bunny graphics have been placed over Alice's bare breasts while she smiles awkwardly.
    • Alice tells her boyfriend Bob that she finally quit that degrading bunny club job, as she changes in her bathroom. Bob congratulates her and asks her what she'll do now, and she replies that she's already gotten a new job at the dairy down the street. She exits her bathroom, now wearing a skimpy cowhide bikini with a cow-ears-and-horns headband. Bob can't help but stare, and he jokes how all she needs now is a cowbell. Alice says she's actually already wearing two, as she fiddles with the catch at the front of her bikini top. The camera switches to behind her as she opens her top for Bob to look, accompanied by some metallic jangling noises, and she explains they're only supposed to show them to customers on Tuesday. Bob spits out his drink.
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