History Main / LivingDustBunnies

* ''Series/TheBigComfyCouch'': Two dust bunnies live under the titular couch. They often play with objects that are found underneath, and can only be seen by Molly.

-> "Now, if you excuse me, it's dust bunny season and I'm hunting wabbits."

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In an "Abby's Flying Fairy School" segment, when it's time to put the toys away, Blogg tries to put the toys under the carpet. When he lifts up the carpet, he releases a colony of Fairy Dust Bunnies living under it. Mrs. Sparklenose is [[PlotAllergy allergic to Fairy Dust Bunnies]], and when she sneezes [[BalefulPolymorph she turns her students into frogs, chickens, and cheese]]. Abby, Gonnigan, and Blogg are able to turn themselves back to normal by saying "Gezundenshniffle", but to get Mrs. Sparklenose to stop sneezing, they have to trap the Fairy Dust Bunnies back under the carpet, and they do so by using a fairy dust carrot as bait.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In one episode, Numbuh Four gets sucked into a world under the couch while trying to retrieve a lost TV remote and has to participate in a chariot race where the chariots are pulled by monstrous dust bunnies.

In real life, "dust bunnies" are clumps consisting mostly of dust, loose carpet fibers and (if there's a pet in the house) shed fur that form over time when a piece of furniture has not been cleaned underneath. But in fiction, dust bunnies are often depicted as creatures that live underneath furniture. They will often be portrayed as rabbit-like, to fit in with their name.

* ''Literature/RhymingDustBunnies'' follows four dust bunnies playing a rhyming game. One always breaks the chain by saying the name of an object that is an enemy to dust bunnies, like brooms and vaccum cleaners.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In an "Abby's Flying Fairy School" segment, when it's time to put the toys away, Blogg tries to put the toys under the carpet. When he lifts up the carpet, he releases a colony of Fairy Dust Bunnies living under it. Mrs. Sparklenose is [[PlotAllergy allergic to Fairy Dust Bunnies]], and when she sneezes [[BalefulPolymorph she turns her students into frogs, chickens, and cheese]]. Abby, Gonnigan and Blogg are able to turn themselves back to normal by saying "Gezundenshniffle", but to get Mrs. Sparklenose to stop sneezing, they have to trap the Fairy Dust Bunnies back under the carpet, and they do so by using a fairy dust carrot as bait.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "[[Recap/DextersLaboratoryS2EP35 Pslightly Psycho]]", Mom has a mental breakdown when her family tells her to rest without doing any chores, during which she sees literal giant, angry dust bunnies she tries to get rid off.

* New Looney Tunes has Bugs dealing with Terry and the Dust Bunnies.

In real life, "dust bunnies" are clumps that form over time when a piece of furniture has not been cleaned underneath. But in fiction, dust bunnies are often depicted as creatures that live underneath furniture. They will often be portrayed as rabbit-like, to fit in with their name.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Magical Items 3'' the "Housekeeper's Nightmare" is a dangerous magical prank which ''appears'' to be a wand that does the dusting (with the legend "Vanquisher of Dust" or "Dust-B-Gone" depending on which would be more appropriate). However, instead of getting rid of the dust, it sends it to the darkest corners available, where it forms a swarm of "dust mice" that attack anyone they see.

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* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In an "Abby's Flying Fairy School" segment, when it's time to put the toys away, Blogg tries to put the toys under the carpet. When he lifts up the carpet, he releases a colony of Fairy Dust Bunnies living under it. Mrs. Sparklenose is [[PlotAllergy allergic to Fairy Dust Bunnies]], and when she sneezes [[BalefulPolymorph she turns her students into frogs, chickens, and cheese]]. Abby, Gonnigan and Blogg are able to turn themselves back to normal by saying "Gezundenshniffle", but to get Mrs. Sparklenose to stop sneezing, they have to trap the Fairy Dust Bunnies back under the carpet, and they do so by using a fairy dust carrot as bait.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In one episode Numbuh 4 gets sucked into a world under the couch while trying to retrieve a lost TV remote and has to participate in a chariot race where the chariots are pulled by monstrous dust bunnies.

** ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'': The live touring show ''Where's Animal?'' features a scene in which the babies stumble upon friendly dust bunnies when looking for Animal. They perform a musical number called "Dust Bunny Boogie".
** ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'': In "One Small Problem", a group of dust bunnies steal Kermit's toy car.

[[caption-width-right:350:Even your couch can be home to sentinent life.]]

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* ''Manga/NyoronChuruyaSan'' has "Hokori-chan", a tan WaddlingHead with pigtails who says her name as a VerbalTic (translated as "Dusty" in the dub). [[RunningGag She keeps on getting vacuumed up by Churuya]]. There's also a male version called "Hokori-kun" who ends up meeting the same fate.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': Creator/ScottAdams devised the Easter Dust Bunny as an occassional member of the cast.

* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' had a giant, angry dust bunny appear in the October 31st strip for 2013.

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* In ''Film/Deadpool2'', the titular character refers to them while cleaning, providing the page quote.

[[AC: Literature]]
* ''Literature/RhymingDustBunnies'' follows four dust bunnies playing a rhyming game. One would always break the chain by saying the name of an object that is an enemy to dust bunnies, like brooms and vaccum cleaners.

[[AC: Live Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheBigComfyCouch'', two dust bunnies live under the titular couch. They often play with objects that are found underneath, and can only be seen by Molly.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In an "Abby's Flying Fairy School" segment, when it is time to put the toys away, Blogg tries to put the toys under the carpet. When he lifts up the carpet, he releases a colony of Fairy Dust Bunnies living under it. Mrs. Sparklenose is [[PlotAllergy allergic to Fairy Dust Bunnies]], and when she sneezes, [[BalefulPolymorph she turns her students into frogs, chickens, and cheese]]. Abby, Gonnigan and Blogg are able to turn themselves back to normal by saying "Gezundenshniffle", but to get Mrs. Sparklenose to stop sneezing, they have to trap the Fairy Dust Bunnies back under the carpet, and they do so by using a fairy dust carrot as bait.

[[AC: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}'': Dust bunnies are the main enemies encountered throughout Chapter 3, which takes place in a hotel abandoned for decades.

[[AC: Webcomics]]
* In ''Webcomic/IrrationalFears'', the world under the bed is full of living dust bunnies, which live in fear of [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight the monsters under the bed]].
* ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'' has Dust Puppy, born in a server from a combination of dust, lint and quantum events, as its TeamPet. And then there is Dust Puppy's evil twin Crud Puppy (born of crud in Stef's keyboard).

[[AC: Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "Pslightly Psycho", Mom has a mental breakdown when her family tells her to rest without doing any chores, during which she sees literal giant, angry dust bunnies she tries to get rid off.

** [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 The 1984 series]]' live touring show ''Where's Animal?'' features a scene in which the babies stumble upon friendly dust bunnies when looking for Animal. They perform a musical number called "Dust Bunny Boogie".
** In [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018 the 2018 series]] episode "One Small Problem", a group of dust bunnies steal Kermit's toy car.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToopyAndBinoo'' had an episode called "Dusteroos" revolving around dust bunnies.

* ''ComicStrip/{{PearlsBeforeSwine}}'' had a giant, angry dust bunny appear in the October 31st strip for 2013.

In real life, dust bunnies are clumps that form over time when a piece of furniture has not been cleaned underneath. But in fiction, [[StealthPun dust bunnies are often depicted as creatures that live underneath furniture, to fit in with their name.]]

In real life, dust bunnies are clumps that form over time when a piece of furniture has not been cleaned underneath. But in fiction, dust bunnies are often depicted as creatures that live underneath furniture, to fit in with their name.

In most works featuring dust bunnies, the characters will often be depicted as being scary and mysterious because of where they are often found. On rare occasions, fictional dust bunnies can be friendly.

They also may be found living in the TrashOfTheTitans.

* Creator/ScottAdams devised the Easter Dust Bunny as an occassional member of the ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' cast.

[[AC: Film - Animated]]
* ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' features a dustbuny-like creature called susuwatari, or "soot sprites" (in the original Streamline English dub, they were refered to as "dust bunnies"), whom Satsuki and Mei call Makurokurosuke, living in their new home. At first, the girls act scared towards them, but are more willing to see them again after the first few encounters.
* The same soot sprites from ''My Neighbor Totoro'' serve as Kamaji's helpers in ''Anime/SpiritedAway''. Their favorite food is konpeitou.

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* ''Rhyming Dust Bunnies'' follows four dust bunnies playing a rhyming game. One would always break the chain by saying the name of an object that is an enemy to dust bunnies, like brooms and vaccum cleaners.

* In ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Zork Beyond Zork]]'', living dust bunnies are encountered at one point.

* Webcomic/UserFriendly has Dust Puppy, born in a server from a combination of dust, lint and quantum events, as its TeamPet. And then there is Dust Puppy's evil twin Crud Puppy (born of crud in Stef's keyboard).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Psylightly Psycho", Mom has a mental breakdown when her family tells her to rest without doing any chores, during which she sees literal giant, angry dust bunnies she tries to get rid off.
* ''Muppet Babies'' had instances of this in both incarnations of the franchise:

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "[[Recap/RugratsS4E9DustBunniesEducatingAngelica Dust Bunnies]]" has Tommy and Chuckie imagine the creatures as monsters whose ears grab children and take them away.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'' episode "Dust Bunnies" focuses on a group of mischief-making dust bunnies resulting from Demi the Ghost's magic.

[[quoteright:350:[[Series/TheBigComfyCouch https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dustbunniesbigcomfycouch.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Even your couch can be home to sentinent life.]]

* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Large amounts of [[spoiler:Metallia]]-type magical power, caused creatures to be BornOfMagic, where CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen, since that was Ami's first time trying that. With the large amounts of dust in the practice room, this happened.

* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' had instances of this in both incarnations of the franchise:
** The 1984 series' live touring show ''Where's Animal?'' features a scene in which the babies stumble upon friendly dust bunnies when looking for Animal. They perform a musical number called "Dust Bunny Boogie".
** In the 2018 series episode "One Small Problem", a group of dust bunnies steal Kermit's toy car.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Dust Bunnies" has Tommy and Chuckie imagine the creatures as monsters whose ears grab children and take them away.