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JESSICA RABBIT

Long before Holly, Bridget and Kendra moved in to the Playboy Mansion, this patty-cake playing sexy cartoon bunny voiced by Kathleen Turner not only had Roger Rabbit falling at her paws, but humans, too.

LESSON: Men will drool over almost anything, including cartoon rabbits.

HARVEY

Okay, fine. His best friend is an invisible six-foot-three-and-a-half-inch rabbit, but is that any reason to try to put Jimmy Stewart's beloved Elwood P. Dodd character away? In this 1950 crowd-pleasing film, Harvey the Rabbit may be invisible, but he's also thoughtful and giving. Together, this lovable pair teach us that it's better to be pleasant than smart.

LESSON: Hallucinations are good.

EDDIE RABBIT

Step by step, this fuzzy-faced soft rocker hopped up the charts in the early '80s. Oh, he loved a rainy night, oh, yes he do. He loved a rainy night, and loved us, too. And we loved him because — showers washed all our cares away...we woke up to a sunny day!

LESSON: Rainy nights can make you high. Ooh. Ooh.

WHITE RABBIT

Before Flavor Flav lifted the idea, it was White Rabbit who wore an oversized clock and led women astray. Whether it's Lewis Carroll or Grace Slick telling the story, it seems that it's best not to follow in the footsteps of a tardy, waist-coated rabbit down the rabbit hole. It can get pretty trippy. Go ask Alice. I think she'll know.

LESSON: Just say no.

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT

This rabbit may have been stuffed, but the love he felt for the boy was real. Still, that didn't stop the boy from abandoning him. The rabbit cried real tears and the magical Nursery Fairy (!) turned it into a real, live bunny. One day the boy spots the former Velveteen Rabbit in the forest and, with longing, remembers his old friend. The rabbit, still harboring resentment, decides that it's too little, too late, snubs the boy and hops off into the forest.

LESSON: Rabbits are vindictive

THE HOUSE BUNNY

Ousted from the Playboy Mansion, Anna Faris' Miss November wannabe finds herself in a college sorority with a bunch of girls (including Rumer Willis) who are desperately in need of slutty makeovers, only to find out that she actually needs a smarty makeover to win the heart of Colin Hanks.

LESSON: Hot isn't enough. Smart isn't enough. Now you have to be both.

THE ENERGIZER BUNNY

This rabbit has been annoying us since 1989.

LESSON: Rabbits are not always cute. Sometimes they're just annoying.

RABBIT FROM WINNIE THE POOH

The Tao of Pooh uses A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh characters to explain the principles of Taoism using Rabbit as an example. Rabbit's overly practical ways illustrate that busy and unnecessary exertion can interfere with the flow of happiness.

LESSON: You're not lazy, you're a Taoist.

BUGS BUNNY

The best-loved and most recognizable rabbit of them all, Bugs Bunny continuously outwits his opponents — Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck — with the greatest of ease. How does he do it? Good, old-fashioned trickery and deceit, topped off with a dollop of sarcasm.

LESSON: Being a smart aleck is more rewarding than being smart.

1 posted on 04/11/2009 2:27:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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2 posted on 04/11/2009 2:29:59 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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No meme? Geez! What a list!


4 posted on 04/11/2009 2:41:44 PM PDT by Daffynition (Have you noticed Obama voters are having buyer's remorse?)
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Here’s the chicken clucking Cadbury Bunny, but I liked the lion roar bunny best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw_gEyg7Nt8&feature=related


5 posted on 04/11/2009 2:44:13 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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9 posted on 04/11/2009 2:56:26 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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10 posted on 04/11/2009 2:56:42 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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Can’t forget The Killer Rabbit from Monty Python and The Holy Grail


12 posted on 04/11/2009 3:00:20 PM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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15 posted on 04/11/2009 3:16:03 PM PDT by mcar
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Better list than the one I saw on Digg yesterday. That one was lame, missing some good cultural rabbits (like Jessica) — but it included the VW Rabbit. (No, seriously!)


18 posted on 04/11/2009 3:28:42 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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Happy Easter

26 posted on 04/11/2009 3:48:47 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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Badass Texas Rabbit.
36 posted on 04/11/2009 4:55:45 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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Psst - not a rabbit - just married to one.

39 posted on 04/11/2009 4:59:06 PM PDT by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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Photobucket Arwen, Rabbit Princess
53 posted on 04/11/2009 6:05:39 PM PDT by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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