# Is the Easter Bunny a Bunny?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 17, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949 "2022-04-17T15:48:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/21 "2022-04-17T21:26:28Z")
And he ran over Gretchen.
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### Author:  [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/22 "2022-04-18T04:26:20Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> It’s hard to remember that far back, but I think that, when I was a child, I pictured the Easter Bunny as an actual, normal-sized rabbit who came around and hid Easter candy on Easter morning.
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> But some pictures of the Easter Bunny show him (is the Easter Bunny a him?) as a cartoony, human-sized anthropomorphic figure. And occasionally there are opportunities to take your kids to see the Easter Bunny, and maybe get their picture taken with him (like with a mall Santa Claus). Of course, what you get if you visit “the Easter Bunny” is a person in a bunny suit, who could never be mistaken for an actual rabbit.
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> So, in your mind, do you imagine the Easter Bunny as a real rabbit, or as something more humanoid?
This documentary should answer all your questions.
> **[Hop (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop_(film))**
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> Hop is a 2011 American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film produced by Illumination Entertainment and Relativity Media, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was directed by Tim Hill and produced by Chris Meledandri and Michele Imperato Stabile, from a screenplay written by Brian Lynch and the writing team of Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, who also conceived the film's story. It stars James Marsden, Russell Brand, Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria, Gary Cole, Elizabeth Perkins, David Hasselh...
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### Author:  [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/23 "2022-04-18T06:28:29Z")
Perhaps I’m a bit biased (given my “name”) but I’m more partial to Easter ducks. 🤭
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/24 "2022-04-18T14:38:07Z")
You’re David McCallum, aren’t you? ADMIT IT!
😄
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### Author:  [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/25 "2022-04-18T14:39:07Z")
We had a black, Cadbury bunny plushie, from about 2006, that clucked like a chicken. Very small and bunnylike. We let our cats play with it, and dragged it out annually for my kid’s easter basket. I don’t know where it is now. But I found a video of a similar model:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnZIRQsb7V4)
Oh, and FWIW, today is my kid’s 17th birthday! And it snowed heavily last night, after weeks of sun, green grass and daffodils. What a surprise.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/26 "2022-04-18T14:45:03Z")
In case anyone missed it the first time around (May, 1987), here’s [The Master’s take on the EB.](https://www.straightdope.com/21341695/what-s-the-connection-between-easter-and-rabbits)
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### Author:  [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/27 "2022-04-18T15:08:39Z")
When he appeared in a Bugs Bunny short he was about the same size as Bugs, which would make him much bigger than your standard rabbit. IIRC, Bugs tired of his antics and blew him up (this being a cartoon, EB didn’t perish but was hopefully taught a lesson).
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### Author:  [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/28 "2022-04-18T15:31:10Z")
> [@Mallard](#):
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> Perhaps I’m a bit biased (given my “name”) but I’m more partial to Easter ducks. 🤭
How “ducky” of you. ☺
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### Author:  [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-easter-bunny-a-bunny/962949/29 "2022-04-19T17:25:14Z")
As a kid, I pictured him as a real bunny, maybe just a little bigger.
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