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'''Bullwinkle:''' (tears off a shirt sleeve) Nothing up my sleeve. Presto!
(reaches hand into hat and pulls out the head of a lion)
'''Bullwinkle:''' No doubt about it, I gotta get another hat.
|[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]}}
One of the archetypal [[Stage Magic]] tricks, along with [[Saw a Woman In Half]]. The essence is very simple: the [[Stage Magician|magician]] takes off his hat, reaches in, and pulls out a rabbit. Ta-da!
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* A commercial for Magic Gushers had a pretty [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare fuelish]] version of it by having a kid's head transform into a top hat. One pull inside the hat and out pops the head of a rabbit!
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', Ranma uses magic tricks to insult Mousse's [[Hyperspace Arsenal|fighting style]]. Ranma pulls many things like bunnies and doves from [[Gender Bender|"her"]] sleeves and later has a bunny come out of a top hat.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Post-Crisis]] version of [[Animal Superheroes|Hoppy The Marvel Bunny]] came from a dimension of [[Funny Animal]]s linked to [[The DCU]] via a magician's top hat. The magician would then pull terrified bunny citizens out of their world by their ears. Hoppy gained his powers when a suspicious [[Shazam|Billy Batson]] investigated the hat, and said his magic word just as the magician pushed him in.
* In a 1990s [[Dork Age]] version of ''Challengers of the Unknown'', this was the first thing Ace attempted when he was reinvented as a mystic. Since one of his teammates was actually named Rocky, he even used the Bullwinkle quote.
* Played with in a ''[[Cattivik]]'' story: two rabbits (a male one and a female one) jumps out of a magician top hat, and proceed to make out. Cattivik looks inside the hat and after getting out three panels later he find out that the rabbit had a lot of babies meanwhile.
* One ''[[Monica's Gang]]'' story involving Monica getting a giant bunny (actually Jimmy Five and Smudge in disguise) for her birthday had her father attempt this with her plush bunny Samson.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* This is part of Tatischeff's stage act in ''[[The Illusionist (animation)|The Illusionist]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* In [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s ''[[Father Brown]]'' story "The Absence of Mr Glass", when explaining Mr. Todhunter,
▲== Literature ==
▲* In [[G. K. Chesterton]]'s [[Father Brown]] story "The Absence of Mr Glass", when explaining Mr. Todhunter, [[Father Brown]] observes that a hat which does not fit him is none the less his hat—because he is a [[Stage Magician]].
{{quote|''"What could Todhunter get out of this one old hat?"
''"Rabbits," replied Father Brown promptly.
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* Inverted as a gag in the [[Nightside]] series, where one of the bar patrons at Strangefellows had evidently pissed off the rabbit he'd used in this act. His top hat now sits atop the bar, from which a human hand occasionally extends to receive a consoling drink.
== [[Live
* On the [[Doug Henning]] episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Fozzie attempts to perform his own magic by pulling the old rabbit hat trick. However, being Fozzie, he has some trouble with it; he pulls out a rabbi, followed by a robot. Fozzie then hits the hat too hard, and suddenly dozens of rabbits come bouncing out of the hat.
* In a Muppet sketch on ''[[Sesame Street]]'', Grover watches as the Amazing Mumford tries to produce a rabbit from his hat. Neither of them is aware that Grover is gradually taking on the features of a rabbit.
** In a more recent episode, Professor D. Rabbit agrees to be pulled out of Mumford's hat if Mumford allows the roles to be reversed afterward.
* An unfortunate rabbit who had faithfully served for years being pulled out of a hat didn't survive in the "Oh Oh It's Magic" episode of ''[[Pushing Daisies]].''
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* Hilda teaches Sabrina a version of this with real magic in ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]''. Zelda is not impressed:
{{quote|That's the oldest trick in the book. That's so old, ''[[Muggles|mortals]]'' are doing it!}}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In one ''[[Mandrake the Magician]]'' story, Mandrake did a magic show for a group of school children in which he appeared to pull an ''elephant'' out of his hat (it started out tiny, grew to normal size, and then shrank again as he put it back). When the school bully suggested that he'd merely used an elephant-shaped balloon, Mandrake stuck ''him'' into the hat, and invited the rest of the children to look into the hat and watch him being chased around by the tiny elephant.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* In ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' the protagonist must at one point beat an evil sorcerer in some contest. When she considers a conjurer's contest and says that she can pull a rabbit out of a hat, the sorcerer responds that he can pull a hat out of a rabbit. She promptly switches to other options.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat 2]]'': This is Kung Lao's friendship move. It's later done in ''[[Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks]]'' as two of Kung Lao's fatalities, the rabbit [[Killer Rabbit|horribly mauling]] the opponent in one of them, while the other one just involves him [[Refuge in Audacity|beating them to death with the said rabbit]].
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* One ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' video had a magician offer to pull out whatever a group of children wanted from his hat. He hands out a balloon and a toy race car. Then a kid asks for a little brother, and he pulls out [[Dead Baby Comedy|a foetus]] much to everybody's (including his) horror.▼
* In the third episode of season 2 of ''[[RWBY Chibi]]'', Jaune puts on a magic show, and ends it by pulling rabbit [[Beast Folk|Faunus]] Velvet Scarlatina from a hat.▼
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209173716/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2125 the magician promises to produce a rabbit -- though not out of a hat. One hops up. Given that God's the puppeteer -- did he do it?]
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* One ''[[Cyanide & Happiness]]'' video had a magician offer to pull out whatever a group of children wanted from his hat. He hands out a balloon and a toy race car. Then a kid asks for a little brother, and he pulls out [[Dead Baby Comedy|a foetus]] much to everybody's (including his) horror.
▲* In the third episode of season 2 of ''[[RWBY Chibi]]'', Jaune puts on a magic show, and ends it by pulling rabbit [[Beast Folk|Faunus]] Velvet Scarlatina from a hat.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* One ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode involved a magician pulling Buster out of his hat at Montana's birthday party.
* An episode of the ''[[Garfield]]'' cartoon had Jon attempting to perform this trick, with Garfield (in a rabbit suit) as the rabbit. The real rabbit had ditched Jon because he couldn't stand being pulled by the ears.
* The ''[[Bump in the Night]]'' episode "Hocus Dopus" involved Bumpy trying to perform this trick in order to cheer up a sick Squishy.
* Zatanna plays with this in an episode of ''[[Justice League]] Unlimited'' during her show. She reaches into the hat, wondering aloud where "[[Looney Tunes|Bugs]]" is, then suddenly, a giant hand descends from the ceiling and grabs a member of the audience. Zatanna pulls the man (now tiny, of course) out of her hat, then turns him back to normal.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony:
* The [[Rankin Bass]] version of ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]'' had the evil magician trying to pull rabbit Hocus Pocus out of his hat. At first, he isn't there, then he jumps off and runs off with the hat, leading to it being found and put on Frosty. The rest of the show is the magician trying to chase down Frosty, the kids and Hocus and get the hat back from Frosty.
* In one episode of ''[[CatDog]],'' it's inverted (and lampshaded) when Rancid Rabbit pulls a ''magician'' out of a hat.
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