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{{quote|'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.
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Rabbits are popular for this trick over other small animals (like, say, a cat) because they're better at sitting still for long periods of time. However, it should be noted that despite how it's commonly depicted, lifting a rabbit by its ears is very painful and could permanently injure them. It's also likely to ruin the act if they freak out. Normally they put the hand under the rabbit's belly.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Post-Crisis]] version of [[Animal Superheroes|Hoppy The Marvel Bunny]] came from a dimension of [[Funny Animal
* 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.
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== 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
{{quote|''"What could Todhunter get out of this one old hat?"
"Rabbits," replied Father Brown promptly.
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