I promised BUNNIES, ladies and gentlemen… and now I deliver a whole lot of bunny for one blog post.
Allow me to introduce Herman, a giant rabbit:
The picture above isn’t photoshopped — Snopes.com confirms that. I suspect it was shot from an angle that makes Herman look his biggest, but the picture itself was not altered. That’s a huge bunny.
And for the bunniphobic amongst us, fear not — the Night of the Lepus has not finally commenced. General Woundwort has not returned to enslave you. Herman is apparently a very gentle guy, more docile then a lot of his smaller cohorts.
So it seems you can breed giant rabbits if you have the gumption, plus several thousand pounds of lettuce and carrots to spare at all times.
Some more gargantuan bunnies can be found by clicking the thumbnails below. The information about their actual size is inconsistent, but they seem to weigh well over twenty pounds, stand around three feet tall, and are generally the size of a large cocker spaniel. (So… about what Bugs Buggy would be if he was a real lapin. Trippy, eh?)
There’s also a weird side story about one of the giant rabbit breeders below, a retired German truck driver (the fellow in the baseball hat, pictured with his prize bunny “Robert”), who might be selling his uber-bunnies to North Korea for food. I didn’t pursue that tangent, because I had all I could handle just believing these pictures were real.
In any case, I pity the fox * that tries to mess with these guys:
(* or tiny North Korean dictator)
46 responses so far ↓
1 Doug on Mar 14, 2008 at 8:08 pm
sweet and merciful zeus….and now I see the future masters of our planet.
We can only hope their rise to power will be a swift and painless transition and that they might dane to let us live amongst them.
In other words…that’s a big friggin’ rabbit.
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2 Daniel on Mar 14, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Hey Bill:
How appropriate! Night of the Lepus will be on tonight on Turner Classic Movies at 2:15 a.m. EST! No, I won’t be up that late watching it… I’m gonna program my VCR to tape it!
I’m not sure if that made me sound better or worse then before!
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3 Rob on Mar 14, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I have two rabbits of my own, and if I taped them together they wouldn’t be that big. They would, however, be much funnier than a single large rabbit.
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Reply from MonkeyCheezPants on March 14, 2008:
That sounds like a wager to me.
4 karen on Mar 14, 2008 at 8:46 pm
interesting that it is all elder men. big bunnies, elderly men. they need protection.
reminds me of monty python…..(psycho rabbit!)
mebbe feed him some bacon and he will be allll better.
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5 Nelly McDairy on Mar 14, 2008 at 9:13 pm
My late husband, George–oh boy, how he would have drooled over the legs on this monster rabbit. Forget yer’all’s bacon this, and bacon that. Them durn fool things wrapped in bacon. Lord have mercy. Rabbits-n-kraut. There’s some good eating fer ya!
Bunny recipes on the web:
http://www.showbunny.com/recipes_using_rabbit.html
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6 Courtney on Mar 14, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I fear a giant DeForest Kelly attacking me and my town. Don’t think they made a horror flick for that one just yet.
My best friend in high school had a rabbit named Cadbury. When Cadbury stood up next to you, on his hinds, he stood up to my hip. That scared the ever-living shit out of me. This is far worse. I fear animals. I am scared that one day my cat Mona will one day learn that she could have me destroyed. All animals are the same. *shiver*
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7 mathey on Mar 14, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I question the logic of breeding a gigantic rabbit and then naming him ‘Robert’. Why not Megalothumper or Thunderbunny?
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8 Take5 on Mar 14, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Big McLargeHuge.
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9 Dallas on Mar 14, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Here comes Peter Cottontail
Hopping down the bunny trail
Destroying everything in his path
God help us all
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10 Mr. Slick on Mar 14, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Steroids… not just for humans anymore.
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11 Teaser on Mar 15, 2008 at 2:56 am
Rabbits shit like machine guns….just imagine cleaning up after those monsters,you would need a shovel….or a shop-vac
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12 Doug on Mar 15, 2008 at 3:38 am
The North Koreans had a bunch of giant rabbits shipped over for non-gustatory reasons, but the original owner has big suspicions that the NK’s might be eating his rabbits.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9307889
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Reply from MonkeyCheezPants on March 15, 2008:
More detail on the story, for bizarre people like me that are endlessly entertained by anything North Korean:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,475218,00.html
What does it mean that Der Spiegel has a section called Zeitgeist? Isn’t that redundant?
13 Onil on Mar 15, 2008 at 4:57 am
Nice! Put some armor on them and we have BATTLE BUNNIES! The Persians totally would have beaten those 300 way easier if they had battle bunnies instead of a lame battle rhino.
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14 Yanni on Mar 15, 2008 at 5:26 am
I’m not sure about the guy on the end, but the others in the Zok hats breed these rabbits for human consumption. I think they’re based in Australia…
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Reply from Beautiful Houndstooth on March 15, 2008:
Yeah that’s what I read too. I just wonder why we haven’t seen any vacuum packed giant mutant bunny tenderloin in our grocer’s freezer.
Reply from Bill Corbett on March 15, 2008:
“I think they’re based in Australia…”
Germany, actually. Land of Hassenpfeffer.
Reply from Yanni on March 15, 2008:
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standsit corrected.15 Ninjew on Mar 15, 2008 at 6:41 am
This only proves that Billy Barty is NOT dead.
He just can’t get the zipper unstuck on that Sid and Marty Kroftt costume.
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16 JackTheRiffer on Mar 15, 2008 at 6:49 am
OH MY GOD!!! EVERYONE RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THE END IS NEIGH!!!
Please tell me I am REALLY high and I am just imagining all this… Please God, tell me.
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17 Junker on Mar 15, 2008 at 7:11 am
There’s little doubt that rabbits are evil. Just look at their unholy alliance with the Teletubbies.
These big ones are something else though. Obviously El-ahrairah did something to please Frith to allow these gargantuan bunnies to roam the earth. Lets just thank our lucky stars that they aren’t free roaming yet. Imagine the carnage a good sized herd of these things could cause?
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Reply from Take5 on March 15, 2008:
Well Thlayli was rather large. Who’s to say he hasn’t just bred with other big rabbits and produced one of these things? And if he can make one, why not 3000 (hardly a big step, considering that rabbits breed like…themselves)? That could mean lots o’ giant rabbits tearing up the English countryside.
18 LemSlaw on Mar 15, 2008 at 9:10 am
Lapins are real!
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19 karen on Mar 15, 2008 at 9:55 am
who needs a women when you’ve got a BIG GIANT FLUGFFY RABBIT!!! LOL!
oh yes. they shoot out pellets. I’ve seen it. I’ve heard ‘em. and i’ve petted ‘em…..soft…fuzzy……but a bit too much maintennce for me. but i suppose feeding them my veggies wouldnt be a problem for them.
cats are better!
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20 warwilf on Mar 15, 2008 at 10:24 am
So did anybody else catch “Night of the Lepus” last night on TCM? It wasn’t scary, but it was weird to see Bones out of uniform.
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Reply from Bill Corbett on March 15, 2008:
“It wasn’t scary, but it was weird to see Bones out of uniform.”
Not completely out of uniform, I hope? And pray?
Reply from warwilf on March 16, 2008:
No, it’s okay, his little McCoy was hidden inside a pair of Wranglers.
21 R.A. Roth on Mar 15, 2008 at 11:49 am
They’re so cute, in a satanic, mutant, twisted-on-acid sort of way.
Randy
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22 wakachiwaka on Mar 15, 2008 at 11:58 am
Mitch better have my bunny…
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23 R.A. Roth on Mar 15, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Here is a poem inspired by an offhand remark from a MySpace friend. Enjoy!
Robot-Eating Bunnies
Half a foot! Half a foot!
A lucky foot still!
Press forward on, in for the kill!
March of the Hares, Bunny-troop pairs,
Rally forth, sally forth,
Clash upon, crash upon charging Robot hordes
Swinging their singing mechanical swords!
Wave after wave the Robots did send,
Rabbits of Righteousness set to defend
Bunny teeth gnash, Bunny teeth rend,
Bash ’em all, smash ’em all,
Their gears shall not mend!
Shear anodized steel with Bunny tooth zeal,
Gobble their wires and vulcanized tires,
Hell’s fiery furnace the Robots shall feel!
Down, down went the Robot Armada,
The mechanical tyrannical intifada,
Chomped, stomped, chewed screw by screw,
No match for unstoppable Bunny can-do!
Randy
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24 Dave-o on Mar 15, 2008 at 2:07 pm
so would these gigantor-esque bunnies be a prequel to the news of a very special easter rifftrax for night of the lepus? cuz i’d be ok with that…it’d be pretty awesome actually…rory calhoun and janet leigh with monterous rabbits? pretty high on the richter (riffter?) scale of laughs
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Reply from Beautiful Houndstooth on March 15, 2008:
I have not heard a cooler idea all month!
Reply from SEISMIC on March 19, 2008:
I have not either! This even tops the breakfast baconator!
25 Red Tape on Mar 15, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Wow. I didn’t know the movie Night of the Lepus existed, but after looking over the plot summary on IMDB, it looks like it would make a great Rifftrax. I don’t suppose its in the works, is it?
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Reply from Dave-o on March 16, 2008:
oh night of the lepus is great! from the packs of bunnies on miniature sets that must be on a cardtable because it shakes whenever they move to the “deadly rabbit paw” that is clearly a glove. oh, and lets not forget the overacting! …it is beautiful in its badness…
26 Natureboy (Ken) on Mar 16, 2008 at 11:46 pm
What if that not a real bunny, but just a horny furry?
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27 Minnesota on Mar 17, 2008 at 5:55 am
Thanks for the nightmare fuel.
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28 John H. on Mar 17, 2008 at 6:14 am
At long last, Jimmy Stewart has been vindicated.
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29 Rob T Firefly on Mar 17, 2008 at 7:08 am
He was brilliant in “Donnie Darko.”
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30 Riff-Martian on Mar 17, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Did you know this rabbit has it’s own MySpace page?
http://www.myspace.com/hermanbigbunny
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31 Bill Corbett on May 2, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Congratulations, you smart person! You found it.
Be the first to copy and post this entire message in the comments of the “?” blog post for Friday, May 2, and you’ll get a free Rifftrax.
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Reply from ShutterBun on May 2, 2008:
Darn, second one to find it. Sigh.
Reply from MikeP on May 2, 2008:
Third. Dang.
Reply from Tork_110 on May 5, 2008:
NUVEENA!!!!
32 Miah on May 22, 2009 at 4:33 pm
That is a big tale rabbit never seen one that big in my whole entire life!
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