History WesternAnimation / Bunnicula

* AlluringAnglerfish: When the pets tried to fulfill Mina's wish for a supernatural experience, they invited a floating orb of light with a face as a safe option. It turns out that that's only the lure and when the rest of its body appeared, it was as large as a car, walks on four short legs, has [[ExtraEyes four orange eyes]], and has [[GettingEatenIsHarmless eaten Mina's three friends]]! Thankfully, it was forced to regurgitate them with a ScreamerPrank video that shocked the kids and pets [[ChekhovsGun earlier that episode]].

* TheEchoer: Zigzagged with a MonsterOfTheWeek when the titular character and his fellow pets accidentally released a bird that can steal sounds. Among other kinds of sounds, it can steal people's voices and repeat the last words they said in a StupidStatementDanceMix of all the sounds it acquired until that point.

** Cacti turn him into a cactus-bunny.

** Garlic [[StrippedToTheBone turns him into a skeleton]], [[HealingFactor but he can restore himself in the manner of zipping up clothing]].

** Burnt vegetables give him metallic skin.

** Sunflowers make him sick

** Broccoli [[GrowingMusclesSequence makes him muscular]].

** Prehistoric plants preserved in amber [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs turn him into a prehistoric creature]].

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: "Jurassicnula" shows that Bunnicula can take the shape of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals by draining ancient plants trapped in amber.

** Averted with Chester. While he may be a GrumpyBear and a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, he does care about his family and Mina.

* StockDinosaurs: In "Jurassicnula", Bunnicula transforms into (in order) a ''Franchise/JurassicPark''-style raptor, a ''Ludodactylus''-esque PteroSoarer, a ''Brontosaurus'', a ''Stegosaurus'', a ''Triceratops'', an ''Archaeopteryx'', a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' after consuming ancient plants preserved in amber. Subverted as after his ''Archaeopteryx'' transformation, he becomes a ''Livyatan'' (a prehistoric predatory whale), [[spoiler:and his final transformation is a ''Marasuchus'' (a basal dinosauriform)]].

* SeldomSeenSpecies:
** Randill from "Collar Me Crazy" is a mandrill monster.
** Besides the [[StockDinosaurs well-known dinosaurs (and pterosaur)]] Bunnicula transforms into in "Jurassicnula", he also transforms into the prehistoric sperm whale ''Livyatan'' [[spoiler:and the dinosaur ancestor ''Marasuchus'']].

* AbsenteeActor: Mina doesn't appear in "Catula".

* AdultFear: In "Evil Cat Videos" a brainwashed Chester is ordered to scratch Mina while she's sleeping, but thankfully can't bring himself to do it and breaks free from the haunted video tape's control.

Loosely based on the [[Literature/{{Bunnicula}} children's book series]] by James Howe and the late Deborah Howe with some influences from the previous Creator/RubySpears special, the show is a dark comedy about a vampire rabbit who [[VegetarianVampire likes carrot juice instead of blood]], a Siamese cat who tries to [[AgentScully rationalize everything]], and a dog who just goes with the flow.

'''Bunnicula''' is an American animated television series from Warner Bros. Animation developed by Jessica Borutski, produced by Borutski herself and [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Maxwell Atoms]], and distributed by Warner Bros. Television.

* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Adaptational ''Breed'' Change, to be more precise. In the original books, he was a tabby cat. Here, he's a Siamese, despite only his tail and half of his legs being brown, and his tail being slightly bushy.

* YankTheDogsChain: In "Puzzle Madness", Chester manages to solve Bunnicula's puzzle box [[spoiler: only for it to turn out it was all in his head. Bunnicula just gave him an ordinary paperweight and he was driven mad trying to solve it]].

* OddOrganUpTop: Harold's tail becomes sentient in the episode "Wag the Dog" when the StaticElectricity charged from rubbing his paws on objects passed through a magical [[UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla Tesla Coil]]. The tail plans to switch with the head by exposing Harold and the Tesla Coil to {{lightning|CanDoAnything}} and succeeds for a while, but a thrown tennis ball interrupts the process before it becomes permanent and the tail's consciousness transfers to it instead.

* BeeAfraid: In "Scaraoke," a malicious ghost drops a beehive in front of Mina. Ever cheerful, her initial reaction is "Cool, bees!" before being stung repeatedly.

* StockDinosaurs: In "Jurassicnula", Bunnicula transforms into (in order) a ''Franchise/JurassicPark''-style raptor, a ''Ludodactylus''-esque PteroSoarer, a ''Brontosaurus'', a ''Stegosaurus'', a ''Triceratops'', an ''Archaeopteryx'', a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' after consuming ancient plants preserved in amber. Subverted as after his ''Archaeopteryx'' transformation, he becomes a ''Livyatan'' (a prehistoric predatory whale), [[spoiler:and his final transformation is a ''Marasuchus'' (a basal dinosauriform)]].

* WhamEpisode: In the series finale, "Oh, Brother," Mina finally finds out that Bunnicula is a vampire. And she thinks it's awesome.