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Thus begins ''[[https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/ RABBITS]]'', a podcast docudrama in which Carly's search for her childhood friend places her on the path toward a mysterious AlternateRealityGame known by its players as "Rabbits" and predates the term "Alternate Reality Game" by decades, possibly centuries, and maybe even millennia. The nature of the game is unknown, but Carly has reason to believe Yumiko became involved with Rabbits prior to her disappearance. Alongside a mysterious ally who refers to himself as Concernicus Jones, Carly intends to find out what Rabbits is and what happened to her friend.

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Thus begins ''[[https://www.rabbitspodcast.com/ RABBITS]]'', a podcast {{podcast}} docudrama in which Carly's search for her childhood friend places her on the path toward a mysterious AlternateRealityGame known by its players as "Rabbits" and predates the term "Alternate Reality Game" by decades, possibly centuries, and maybe even millennia. The nature of the game is unknown, but Carly has reason to believe Yumiko became involved with Rabbits prior to her disappearance. Alongside a mysterious ally who refers to himself as Concernicus Jones, Carly intends to find out what Rabbits is and what happened to her friend.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Carly manages to find Yumiko and return her home, but nobody except her seems to remember anything about the game. Her attempts to relocate Jones reveal that he is a drug-addicted schizophrenic who has been working for a game company constructing an ARG and had been drugging both her and Yumiko to pull them into his insane fantasy world. However, the ending reveals that RABBITS is real afterall, and implies that the game [[CosmicRetcon retconned]] Jones into a druggie wreck and Gatewick into a game company to conceal its existence in the new timeline.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Carly manages to find Yumiko and return her home, but nobody except her seems to remember anything about the game. Her attempts to relocate Jones reveal that he is a drug-addicted schizophrenic who has been working for a game company constructing an ARG and had been drugging both her and Yumiko to pull them into his insane fantasy world. However, the ending reveals that RABBITS is real afterall, after all, and implies that the game [[CosmicRetcon retconned]] Jones into a druggie wreck and Gatewick into a game company to conceal its existence in the new timeline.]]

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* RevealingCoverUp: Mentioned when Concernicus Jones asks Carly why she uses a podcast to document her search for Yumiko. Carly has a few reasons, one of which is that it was her former boss' idea to use a public forum as a form of insurance. Jones concludes that anyone who might want to silence Carly would think twice in order to avoid exposure in the process. He then dodges Carly's follow-up when she says Jones makes it sound like there's some sinister organization in the background.

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* RevealingCoverUp: Mentioned when Concernicus Jones asks Carly why she uses a podcast to document her search for Yumiko. Carly has a few reasons, one of which is that it was her former boss' idea to use a public forum as a form of insurance. Jones concludes that anyone who might want to silence Carly would think twice in order to avoid exposure in the process. He then dodges Carly's follow-up when she Carly says Jones makes it sound like there's some sinister organization in the background.background. He dodges the question.



* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Carly at one point asks Nic if he can ask his "hacker friend from ''Podcast/{{Tanis}}''" (i.e. meerkatnip) for help. Nic replies that MK insists that she's a "one podcast operation".

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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Carly at one point asks Nic if he can ask his "hacker friend from ''Podcast/{{Tanis}}''" (i.e. meerkatnip) for help. Nic replies that MK insists that she's a "one podcast operation". Which became rather ironic when MK became a sort of co-lead on ''The Last Movie''.

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* BittersweetEnding: Carly manages to find Yumiko and return her home, but nobody except her seems to remember [[spoiler:anything about the game]]. Her attempts to relocate Jones reveal that he is [[spoiler:a drug-addicted schizophrenic who has been working for a game company constructing an ARG and has been drugging both her and Yumiko to pull them into his insane fantasy world]]. However, the ending reveals that [[spoiler:RABBITS is real afterall]], and implies that the game [[CosmicRetcon retconned]] [[spoiler:Jones into a druggie wreck and Gatewick into a game company to conceal its existence in the new timeline.]]
* CosmicRetcon: Implied to be why RABBITS seems to be a combination of a mundane ARG and [[spoiler:Jones' schizophrenic fantasy]] in the game's aftermath - the game may be "cloaking" itself by [[spoiler:retconning itself to seem mundane in the new, restabilized timeline]].

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* BittersweetEnding: Carly [[spoiler:Carly manages to find Yumiko and return her home, but nobody except her seems to remember [[spoiler:anything anything about the game]]. game. Her attempts to relocate Jones reveal that he is [[spoiler:a a drug-addicted schizophrenic who has been working for a game company constructing an ARG and has had been drugging both her and Yumiko to pull them into his insane fantasy world]]. world. However, the ending reveals that [[spoiler:RABBITS RABBITS is real afterall]], afterall, and implies that the game [[CosmicRetcon retconned]] [[spoiler:Jones Jones into a druggie wreck and Gatewick into a game company to conceal its existence in the new timeline.]]
* CosmicRetcon: Implied [[spoiler:Implied to be why RABBITS seems to be a combination of a mundane ARG and [[spoiler:Jones' Jones' schizophrenic fantasy]] fantasy in the game's aftermath - the game may be "cloaking" itself by [[spoiler:retconning retconning itself to seem mundane in the new, restabilized timeline]].
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In preparation for making TANIS into Tanis


* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Carly at one point asks Nic if he can ask his "hacker friend from ''Podcast/{{TANIS}}''" (i.e. meerkatnip) for help. Nic replies that MK insists that she's a "one podcast operation".

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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Carly at one point asks Nic if he can ask his "hacker friend from ''Podcast/{{TANIS}}''" ''Podcast/{{Tanis}}''" (i.e. meerkatnip) for help. Nic replies that MK insists that she's a "one podcast operation".
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** Not to mention the fact that the name of the character who owns the shop where the final scene takes place is [[spoiler:Theodore Spiros, an anagram for THE DOOR IS OPEN.]]

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** Not to mention the fact that the name of the character who owns the shop where the final scene takes place is [[spoiler:Theodore Spiros, Spino, an anagram for THE DOOR IS OPEN.]]
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* OffTheRails: Through the story, it's heavily implied that [[spoiler: IX in particular, but RABBITS in general]] is seriously off the rails, evidenced by higher mortality rates, more disappearances and the appearance of [[spoiler: the Men in Grey, who may or may not be Wardens]]. Jones theorizes that it's [[spoiler: Hazel]]'s fault, who [[spoiler: refused to complete VIII for some reason]].

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** "We want the future we were promised, not the future we deserve."



* RetGone: The reason that [[spoiler: Carly's and Jones' RepressedMemories seem to have no basis in reality]] is that [[spoiler: they slipped into a universe where the traunatic events they remember never hapoened]].

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* RetGone: The reason that [[spoiler: Carly's and Jones' RepressedMemories seem to have no basis in reality]] is that [[spoiler: they slipped into a universe where the traunatic traumatic events they remember never hapoened]].
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Dealing with a few All White Entries


* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Carly manages to find Yumiko and return her home, but nobody except her seems to remember anything about the game. Her attempts to relocate Jones reveal that he is a drug-addicted schizophrenic who has been working for a game company constructing an ARG and has been drugging both her and Yumiko to pull them into his insane fantasy world. However, the ending reveals that RABBITS is real afterall, and implies that the game [[CosmicRetcon retconned]] Jones into a druggie wreck and Gatewick into a game company to conceal its existence in the new timeline.]]
* CosmicRetcon: Implied to be why [[spoiler: RABBITS seems to be a combination of a mundane ARG and Jones' schizophrenic fantasy in the game's aftermath - the game may be "cloaking" itself by retconning itself to seem mundane in the new, restabilized timeline]].
* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:Turns out both Carly and Jones have seemingly had the ability to jump to alternate timelines since birth due to their parents' involvement in Gatewick Industries' experiments.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Carly manages to find Yumiko and return her home, but nobody except her seems to remember anything [[spoiler:anything about the game. game]]. Her attempts to relocate Jones reveal that he is a [[spoiler:a drug-addicted schizophrenic who has been working for a game company constructing an ARG and has been drugging both her and Yumiko to pull them into his insane fantasy world. world]]. However, the ending reveals that RABBITS [[spoiler:RABBITS is real afterall, afterall]], and implies that the game [[CosmicRetcon retconned]] Jones [[spoiler:Jones into a druggie wreck and Gatewick into a game company to conceal its existence in the new timeline.]]
* CosmicRetcon: Implied to be why [[spoiler: RABBITS seems to be a combination of a mundane ARG and Jones' [[spoiler:Jones' schizophrenic fantasy fantasy]] in the game's aftermath - the game may be "cloaking" itself by retconning [[spoiler:retconning itself to seem mundane in the new, restabilized timeline]].
* DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:Turns Turns out both Carly [[spoiler:Carly and Jones Jones]] have seemingly had the ability to jump to alternate timelines since birth due to their [[spoiler:their parents' involvement in Gatewick Industries' experiments.]]
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* ArcNumber: The number 6878 pops up near-constantly throughout Carly's investigation.
* ArcSymbol: Aside from the titular rabbits, there is also the "Moonrise", an image of a circle above a pyramid, and "Doglover in Hell", a painting of a Nazi officer with a lapdog standing among flames.
* ArcWords: Several.
** "How many steps to the lighthouse?"
** "The door is open."
** "Something terrible, and final."
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Carly manages to find Yumiko and return her home, but nobody except her seems to remember anything about the game. Her attempts to relocate Jones reveal that he is a drug-addicted schizophrenic who has been working for a game company constructing an ARG and has been drugging both her and Yumiko to pull them into his insane fantasy world. However, the ending reveals that RABBITS is real afterall, and implies that the game [[CosmicRetcon retconned]] Jones into a druggie wreck and Gatewick into a game company to conceal its existence in the new timeline.]]
* CosmicRetcon: Implied to be why [[spoiler: RABBITS seems to be a combination of a mundane ARG and Jones' schizophrenic fantasy in the game's aftermath - the game may be "cloaking" itself by retconning itself to seem mundane in the new, restabilized timeline]].


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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Amy X, an escort who helps Carly two times with her investigation, and during their second conversation, asks if Yumiko is okay.


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* RetGone: The reason that [[spoiler: Carly's and Jones' RepressedMemories seem to have no basis in reality]] is that [[spoiler: they slipped into a universe where the traunatic events they remember never hapoened]].
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* HumanoidAbomination: The Wardens seem to be some variety of this.

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* HumanoidAbomination: The Wardens seem to be some variety of this.this, being mysterious humanoids who only seem to appear when Rabbits is going off the rails. The end of the first season suggests the more mundane possibility [[spoiler:of their being proctors in the ARG Jones was allegedly running on his own]].
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*HumanoidAbomination: The Wardens seem to be some variety of this.
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** Not to mention that name of the character who owns the shop where the final scene takes place is [[spoiler:Theodore Spiros, an anagram for THE DOOR IS OPEN.]]

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** Not to mention the fact that the name of the character who owns the shop where the final scene takes place is [[spoiler:Theodore Spiros, an anagram for THE DOOR IS OPEN.]]
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* [[spoiler:DimensionalTraveler]]: [[spoiler:Turns out both Carly and Jones have seemingly had the ability to jump to alternate timelines since birth due to their parents' involvement in Gatewick Industries' experiments.]]

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* [[spoiler:DimensionalTraveler]]: DimensionalTraveler: [[spoiler:Turns out both Carly and Jones have seemingly had the ability to jump to alternate timelines since birth due to their parents' involvement in Gatewick Industries' experiments.]]
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** Not to mention that name of the character who owns the shop where the final scene takes place is [[spoiler:Theodore Spiros, an anagram for THE DOOR IS OPEN.]]
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* RepressedMemories: Carly has a traumatic memory of a lifeguard setting a swimming pool on fire whilst people were still swimming in it. For some reason, this was never reported on in any news outlet and, when she tried explaining it to her parents, they never believed her, and they had her institutionalized when she broke down. Jones had something similar happen to him, except he snapped from mental stress caused by his parents' divorce, burned down the gas station restaurant he worked at, and ran home, only to find that the gas station restaurant was perfectly fine and that his parents never divorced to begin with. [[spoiler:[[CassandraTruth Their traumatic memories were real]], but the trauma-induced stress triggered their [[DimensionalTraveler dimension-jumping abilities]], putting them in respective alternate timelines where the events in their memories never occurred.]]

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* RepressedMemories: Carly has a traumatic memory of a lifeguard setting a swimming pool on fire whilst people were still swimming in it. For some reason, this was never reported on in any news outlet and, when she tried explaining it to her parents, they never believed her, and they had her institutionalized when she broke down. Jones had something similar happen to him, except he snapped from mental stress caused by his parents' divorce, burned down the gas station restaurant he worked at, and ran home, only to find that the gas station restaurant was perfectly fine and that his parents never divorced to begin with. [[spoiler:[[CassandraTruth Their traumatic memories were real]], but the trauma-induced stress triggered their [[DimensionalTraveler dimension-jumping abilities]], putting them in respective an alternate timelines timeline where the events in their memories never occurred.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The season 1 finale's denouement seems to leave it open to interpretation whether the RABBITS game was really [[spoiler:some transdimensional repairing program to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] or just [[spoiler:all a part of Jones's/Hazel's manipulation to validate his schizophrenic fantasies.]] [[spoiler:Subverted in the final scene when Carly boots up the Defender arcade machine and triggers the easter egg, [[WhamShot revealing the circle once more but with numbers 8 and 9 listing "Hazel" and "Carly" respectively and an additional number 10 blinking below]].]]

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The season 1 finale's denouement seems to leave it open to interpretation whether the RABBITS game was really [[spoiler:some transdimensional repairing program to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] or just [[spoiler:all a part of Jones's/Hazel's manipulation to validate his schizophrenic fantasies.]] [[spoiler:Subverted in [[spoiler:That is, until the final scene when Carly boots up WhamShot at the Defender arcade machine and triggers the easter egg, [[WhamShot revealing the circle once more but with numbers 8 and 9 listing "Hazel" and "Carly" respectively and an additional number 10 blinking below]].end.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The season 1 finale's denouement seems to leave it open to interpretation whether the RABBITS game was really [[spoiler:some transdimensional repairing program to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] or just [[spoiler:all a part of Jones's/Hazel's manipulation to validate his schizophrenic fantasies.]] [[spoiler:Subverted in the final scene when Carly boots up the Defender arcade machine and triggers the easter egg, [[RealAfterAll revealing the circle once more but with numbers 8 and 9 listing "Hazel" and "Carly" respectively and an additional number 10 blinking below]].]]

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The season 1 finale's denouement seems to leave it open to interpretation whether the RABBITS game was really [[spoiler:some transdimensional repairing program to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] or just [[spoiler:all a part of Jones's/Hazel's manipulation to validate his schizophrenic fantasies.]] [[spoiler:Subverted in the final scene when Carly boots up the Defender arcade machine and triggers the easter egg, [[RealAfterAll [[WhamShot revealing the circle once more but with numbers 8 and 9 listing "Hazel" and "Carly" respectively and an additional number 10 blinking below]].]]
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* RepressedMemories: Carly has a traumatic memory of a lifeguard setting a swimming pool on fire whilst people were still swimming in it. For some reason, everything was fine the next day and, when she tried explaining it to her parents, they never believed her, and they had her institutionalized when she broke down. Jones had something similar happen to him, except he snapped from mental stress caused by his parents' divorce, burned down the gas station restaurant he worked at, and ran home, only to find that the gas station restaurant was perfectly fine and that his parents never divorced to begin with. [[spoiler:[[CassandraTruth Their traumatic memories were real]], but the trauma-induced stress triggered their [[DimensionalTraveler dimension-jumping abilities]], putting them in respective alternate timelines where the events in their memories never occurred.]]

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* RepressedMemories: Carly has a traumatic memory of a lifeguard setting a swimming pool on fire whilst people were still swimming in it. For some reason, everything this was fine the next day never reported on in any news outlet and, when she tried explaining it to her parents, they never believed her, and they had her institutionalized when she broke down. Jones had something similar happen to him, except he snapped from mental stress caused by his parents' divorce, burned down the gas station restaurant he worked at, and ran home, only to find that the gas station restaurant was perfectly fine and that his parents never divorced to begin with. [[spoiler:[[CassandraTruth Their traumatic memories were real]], but the trauma-induced stress triggered their [[DimensionalTraveler dimension-jumping abilities]], putting them in respective alternate timelines where the events in their memories never occurred.]]
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* RepressedMemories: Carly has a traumatic memory of a lifeguard setting a swimming pool on fire whilst people were still swimming in it. For some reason, everything was fine the next day and, when she tried explaining it to her parents, they never believed her, and they had her institutionalized when she broke down. Jones had something similar happen to him, except he snapped from mental stress caused by his parents' divorce, burned down the gas station restaurant he worked at, and ran home, only to find that the gas station restaurant was perfectly fine and that his parents never divorced to begin with. [[spoiler:[[CassandraTruth Turns out their traumatic memories were real]], but the trauma-induced stress triggered their [[DimensionalTraveler dimension-jumping abilities]], putting them in respective alternate timelines where the events in their memories never occurred.]]

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* RepressedMemories: Carly has a traumatic memory of a lifeguard setting a swimming pool on fire whilst people were still swimming in it. For some reason, everything was fine the next day and, when she tried explaining it to her parents, they never believed her, and they had her institutionalized when she broke down. Jones had something similar happen to him, except he snapped from mental stress caused by his parents' divorce, burned down the gas station restaurant he worked at, and ran home, only to find that the gas station restaurant was perfectly fine and that his parents never divorced to begin with. [[spoiler:[[CassandraTruth Turns out their Their traumatic memories were real]], but the trauma-induced stress triggered their [[DimensionalTraveler dimension-jumping abilities]], putting them in respective alternate timelines where the events in their memories never occurred.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The season 1 finale's denouement seems to leave it open to interpretation whether the RABBITS game was really [[spoiler:some transdimensional repairing program to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] or just [[spoiler:all a part of Jones's/Hazel's manipulation to validate his schizophrenic fantasies.]] [[spoiler:Subverted in the final scene when Carly boots up the Defender arcade machine and triggers the easter egg, [[RealAfterAll revealing the circle once more]].]]

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The season 1 finale's denouement seems to leave it open to interpretation whether the RABBITS game was really [[spoiler:some transdimensional repairing program to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] or just [[spoiler:all a part of Jones's/Hazel's manipulation to validate his schizophrenic fantasies.]] [[spoiler:Subverted in the final scene when Carly boots up the Defender arcade machine and triggers the easter egg, [[RealAfterAll revealing the circle once more]].more but with numbers 8 and 9 listing "Hazel" and "Carly" respectively and an additional number 10 blinking below]].]]

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