Web Animation / Action Bunnies

Action Bunnies is a webseries created by Jamie "RageNineteen" Spicer-Lewis. It bears many similarities with asdfmovie. The first episode was uploaded in July 2011 and the sixth one released on May 26, 2017.

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Action Bunnies provides examples of:

• A God Am I:
  Bunny: (after building a snowman) I am your god now.
• Achievements in Ignorance: A scene from the first one starts normal, until it zooms out to show that both bunnies are on the moon, only one of them wearing a spacesuit.
  Dave: "How are you alive?!"

• Animate Inanimate Object: The plug and the pancakes, both from the fourth one.

• Big "NO!": The customer at the lobster restaurant lets one out before the pinching commences.

• Body Horror: The bunny doing a handstand in 6, whose feet are hands.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: "Do you ever wonder why we're only seen from one angle?"
  • The fifth movie's Running Gag is actually a live stream uploaded by a bunny, and at the end a view counter is shown. See also Literal Metaphor below.

• Carnivore Confusion: The lobster restaurant is owned by an actual lobster. It serves its own kind, but only as part of some larger plan.
• Characterization Marches On: The giraffe helped the bunnies in the first one, was a bumbling idiot in the second and third, and became mysterious in the fourth and fifth.
• Character Title: The Show Within a Show is called "Boss Wizard".
• Did Not Think This Through: During a snake attack, one of the bunnies calls to release the raptors.
• Disney Death: The first one had more cartoon-like deaths.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: A scene in the second movie.
• Eldritch Abomination: The true form of the hamsters.
  • The fifth one reveals why the bunnies are only seen from one angle.
• Evil Laugh: Parodied in the fifth one. A bunny walks into a building thinking it's a spa, but after he enters a border covering the rest of the sign falls off, revealing that it is in fact "NOT A SPA".
• Exact Words: A sniper is told to shoot his target "right between the eyes" - unfortunately, his target is a cyclops.
• Flipping the Bird: A scene in the fifth one.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: During the fifth's movie's stinger, the message "The Action Bunnies will return" can be faintly seen.
  • The sixth has a gangster with a tattoo reading "RIP Giraffe".
• Funny Animals
• Gory Discretion Shot: "Quick! Gimme your eyes!"
  • Inverted starting with the second one.
  • The fourth one has a bunny witness another bunny start turning in two-dimensional space. While we don't see exactly what happens, we do see blood and viscera splatter on the other bunny's face, apparently having been compressed by the rotation tool.
• Jerkass:
  Bunny #1: Man, the sunrise looks incredible today. Just seeing it makes you grateful for everything you have and just... it fills you with hope, you know?
  Bunny #2: (sniff) I'm blind, dude.
  Bunny #1: Ha... I know.
• Just Friends: The sixth episode parodies the "Friend Zone" by portraying it as the Phantom Zone.
  Woman: And so I banish you forever to the FRIEND ZONE!
  Brad: Nooooo!
  Woman: (Cutting out of the Imagine Spot) Brad? Brad?
  Brad: I'm a serial killer now.

• Literal Metaphor: The fifth movie's Running Gag involves a bunny beating a dead horse.
• Logic Bomb: The fourth one has this exchange.
  Bunny 1: Do you know where my eyes are? I can't see them.
  Bunny 2: Yeah, they're right... wait...
• Nightmare Face: A bunny's reaction to the fact that pancakes can talk.
  • It's time to fix the world with my opinions!"
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: "So a blind man and a racist walk into a bar-" "NOPE."
• Non-Indicative Title: Sexy Doctors.
  • The doctor has actually been given a large pair of implants, so the title is more applicable than one would think at first glance. However, they make surgery rather difficult.
  Doctor: (performing stomach surgery) This is highly impractical!

• Running Gag: The giraffe.
  • One skit that goes along the lines of this:
  Criminal: Back off, Action Bunnies! Or I'll kill (insert person here)!
  One of the bunnies presses a button, causing an explosion that kills the criminal and his hostage
  Action Bunny #1: You told me you'd stop putting bombs in (the hostage)!"
  The other Action Bunny states that he lied
  • (hiccup)
  • The bunny beating a dead horse in order to get views.
  • The sixth has a bunny spot another bunny romancing a dolphin three times.
• Scenery Censor: The boss wizard's sign says "WIZARD, BITCH" but his nice hat covers up the "IT".
• Screams Like a Little Girl: The hunter bunnies, after discovering the hamsters' true form.
• Shout-Out: One of the last scenes in the gourth one has a shoutout to asdfmovie.
• Show Within a Show: Boss Wizard.
  • "The wild refrigerator effortlessly stalks its prey..."
• Splash of Color: Blood is the only thing given color
• Tempting Fate: The "Keep Off Grass" sign.
  Bunny: You're not the boss of me!
• The Stinger: After the credits to the fifth movie, the giraffe appears and hits a light switch that makes the screen go black.
• Too Dumb to Live: Bob.
  Bob: You know, it ain't easy living without legs.
  Bob's friend: Bob, look down.
  Bob: I'm cured!
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: A Running Gag with the giraffe from the fourth movie.
• We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: This screen appears after this line of dialogue:
  News reporter: You've just taken home the gold in the 100 meters! What's your secret?
  Athlete: Drugs.