This webseries contains examples of:
- Addiction Displacement: "Job Du Jour" explores that Rabbit's odd jobs may just be his fill-in for prior substance abuse.
- Agonizing Stomach Wound: Toad stabs Rabbit post-reveal, crumpling him immediately. Rabbit spends the rest of the scene writhing in pain until it seems like he falls mercifully unconscious. In reality, he's just playing dead until Toad leaves so that he can call dispatch for help.
- All There in the Manual: The first client we watch Rabbit meet does not say her name throughout her episode, but is credited as "Valerie" in the credits.
- Animal Theme Naming: Rabbit spends his time hopping from task to task, doing things "a Taskrabbit wouldn’t do." The only other person doing the same job as Rabbit who appears onscreen goes by "Toad."
- Armor-Piercing Question:Liz: My only question then is... are you really sober if you're just trading the highs and lows of drug addiction for the highs and lows of whatever the job of the day is?
Rabbit's Sponsor: What are you staying clean for then? - Bathtub Scene: The opener for episode 4 features a beat-up looking Rabbit taking a bath when dispatch calls.
- Black Comedy: Rabbit addresses such issues as impossible beauty standards, self-image, animal cruelty, addiction, codependency, custody struggles, etc. in a satirical, characteristically detached manner.
- Blatant Lies:
- Bobby and "Jeff"'s story of how they met is clearly fumbled through, but Maxine buys it. Sort of.
- "He froze to death."
- Call-Back:
- In his first conversation with Dispatch, Rabbit tries to make small talk by asking him how his children are doing, only to told not to ask personal questions. A couple episodes later:
Dispatch: Hey, what's your sexual orientation?
Rabbit: Uh... hi, Dispatch... I thought we weren't allowed to do personal questions.- In an episode following one in which Rabbit is established to not be keeping track of rules:
Rabbit: Fuck man, I don't know the law!- In the finale, in circumstances that leave Rabbit craving a moment of human connection:
Rabbit: Can I ask you a personal question? - Catchphrase: "I'm Rabbit, I'm a go-getter."
- Establishing Character Moment: The first time we officially meet Toad, he immediately cuts a man's brakes to make him miss his flight, which Rabbit chastises him for.
- Comically Missing the Point: Upon realizing that Rabbit has been sent as a surrogate from her fiancé to break off their engagement, Liz asks Rabbit if he really intends to do so dressed like he's in a mormon biker gang.
- Creator Cameo: The "brutalized man" in the pilot episode is actually one of the shows executive producers, Max Michalsky.
- Dark Secret: Liz projects that Rabbit is a recovering addict. His discomfort seems to confirm and is out-right stated in episode 3.
- Dead Pan Snarker: With an actor like Kyle Prue playing the titular character, it was inevitable.
- Double Agent: Toad is working for the Bianco family.
- Ear Ache: See Gory Discretion Shot below...
- Even Evil Has Standards: Rabbit is uncomfortable with the idea of breaking a woman’s nose so that her insurance will pay for a nose job. He tries to talk her out of it to no avail. In a later episode, he quarrels with a co-worker from the same agency over cutting someone's brakes.
- Faux Yay: The entire plot of Be My Boyfriend revolves around Rabbit having to pretend to be his client’s boyfriend so that the girl he’s in love with doesn’t catch on to the fact that he’s been faking his homosexuality for the past 10 years to be close to her. She already knows.
- Feel No Pain: The large Bianco member that Rabbit fights in episode 5 is temporarily rendered this by the drugs Rabbit slipped into his drink.
- Foil: Toad acts as this to Rabbit. They give each other the opportunity to put their views on full display through their debates every time they're onscreen. Rabbit believes that people and their lives have intrinsic value and that redemption is always possible; Toad believes that living is just a condition and that people like them can't change.Toad: I know I'm a degenerate, why don't you?
- Functional Addict: The woman Rabbit is hired to dump in Job Du Jour guesses correctly that Rabbit is this just from what she gleans in a brief conversation. Rabbit later confesses to Maxine in Be My Boyfriend that he is one.
- Funny Background Event: In the opening of episode 5, the dog Rabbit rescued in episode 2 can be seen running around in the desert background.
- Gory Discretion Shot: The last time we see Valerie, she's backed Rabbit into a corner and is ordering him to rip her ears off, which he is very uncomfortable doing... until he negotiates a higher price. The next shot is of Rabbit standing in an elevator, tucking away his blood-stained sleeve.
- Hit Me, Dammit!: A gorier example, Valerie forcefully demands Rabbit rip her ears off after a poorly thought-out comment about them.
- Innocently Insensitive:Valerie: You think I'm beautiful?
Rabbit: Well... not right now. I-I mean when I got here for sure, but right now you just look... so gross.
Valerie: I see.
Rabbit: Just like... mangled- - Kissing Cousins: One of the bad guys in the episode 5, Get Over There, vents about meeting his cousin on Hinge and not realizing they were related until after he fell for her. Doubles as Villanous Incest.
- Manipulative Bastard: Liz brings Rabbit (a complete stranger) to the brink of tears over the course of a 5-minute conversation. Creator Kyle Prue commented of the actress who plays Liz’s performance:
“Sara plays Liz like a horror movie villain and it's so delicious.”
- Mini Series: Rabbit is a YouTube series of short episodes ranging from 7-15 minutes apiece.
- Mirror Character: Toad and Rabbit work for the same organization, both have a criminal background, and match each others' energy flawlessly.
- Mooks: How Toad sees himself and Rabbit, describing their job as demeaning. It is the reason he acts as The Mole to the Bianco organization.
- Money Fetish:Rabbit: What's your sexual orientation?
Dispatch: MONEY. (click) - No Love for the Wicked: Averted. Rabbit is confirmed as asexual, but if anything, it's one of his more humanizing traits.
- Oh, Crap!: When the ace falls out of Toad's sleeve, right before he jams a knife into Rabbit's stomach.
- Pet the Dog: In the cold open of episode 2, Job Du Jour, Rabbit is seen smuggling a dog to safety. When asked if he killed the dog, he lies about having killed it with a hammer while looking guiltily into its literal Puppy-Dog Eyes. Dispatch congratulates him on his sociopathy.
- Punch-Clock Villain: “It’s either this or grubhub.”
- Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: In episode 5, Rabbit realizes very quickly that the drugs he put in his opponent's drink are taking longer to incapacitate him than he was planning, and to make matters even worse, seem to have merely dulled his opponent's pain receptors.
- Precision F-Strike: “You’re not gay motherfucker.”
- Protagonist Title: Rabbit.
- Recovered Addict: Rabbit insists he is this. Liz asks if he can say he’s truly recovered if he’s merely translating his addiction to something more acceptable. As
Kyle Prue pointed out: “She also talks about Rabbit's addiction in the present tense while he uses the past tense. Just another way that she pushes him into a weaker position.” - Rhetorical Request Blunder: “Alright… Well… This was traumatizing. Let me know if you want me to come back and cut your ears off or something.”
- Shout-Out:
- Rabbit comments of Valerie shifting the tip of her nose upward to demonstrate her desired reconstruction that it's "sort of Whoville, right?"
- Rabbit sarcastically offers Grubhub as a job alternative.
- Smarter Than You Look: Maxine. She's the pretty popular girl from high school that Bobby has been obsessed with (and lying to) for 10 years. She admits herself that she's more perceptive than she seems.
- Straight Gay: Lampshaded in episode 3, Be My Boyfriend. The client says that he doesn’t really act gay and wants to be the masculine one of the couple, and even says that he doesn’t want Rabbit to be physically affectionate with him lest the girl he’s faking homosexuality for see him as a less viable romantic candidate.
- The Mole: Toad.
- The Reveal: Toad has been working for the Bianco family for years.
- The Rival: Rabbit and Toad are established as rivals before Toad even appears onscreen.
- One-Steve Limit: While Dispatch stays on the phone with Rabbit in the final scene, Rabbit pleads for him to tell him his name. When Dispatch admits his name is Tommy, Rabbit incredulously tells him that's his name as well.
- Web Video Series: All episodes are released on and accessible through Kyle Prue’s YouTube channel.
- Wham Line: "He didn't freeze. It's LA, man."
- World of Snark: Damn near every single character with spoken lines gets at least one dry zinger.
- Would Hit a Girl: Episode 1. She did pay him to…
