Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat: Difference between revisions

* 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?"

* ''[[The Pilo Family Circus]]'' naturally has a magician perform this trick on show day. Unfortunately, Mugabo is a ''real'' magician with ''real'' magical powers, and feels more than a little degraded by having to perform it. Naturally, he lets the audience know this by [[Ludicrous Gibs|detonating the rabbit all over them.]]

* In the first ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book, when Harry sees the Sorting Hat for the first time, he wonders if they're supposed to get a rabbit out of it.

* The children's book ''Pretty Good Magic'' is about a magician named Presto who has this as part of his act, but he only gets called "pretty good" because while his tricks do work, they're not overly impressive or he fumbles some part of it. He gets upset about this and tries out a bigger magic spell that ends up producing dozens of rabbits from his hat. Unfortunately, there's no reverse spell to make all the rabbits go ''back'' into the hat. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* 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.

 

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