"All my friends are dead and they don't like me anymore.
They moved along, they've changed, and now they find me quite a bore.
Way back then, it was okay to be a little weird.
But all my friends are dead and some have even grown a beard."
They moved along, they've changed, and now they find me quite a bore.
Way back then, it was okay to be a little weird.
But all my friends are dead and some have even grown a beard."
— Phil Buni's theme song.
The Bunny Perspective
is a review show starring Phil Buni, a Jim Henson-inspired bunny puppet with a love for pot and a quick wit, played by Michael Bennett.
Phil usually focuses on good movies, although occasionally he will delve into terrible ones.
This show provides examples of:
- Accentuate the Negative: Inverted with most of his reviews, the exceptions being Gigli, Dreamcatcher, The Condemned (2007), Jeff Dunham's Christmas special, Repo Men, Allen Gregory, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and any of the Glee episodes.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Ben Affleck's Internet-related insult in Gigli was the one funny line in the movie.
- April Fools' Day: For 2012, what was advertised as a Bunny Perspective episode on the movie Time Crimes ended up being the first episode of the long delayed "Goregasm" show... which was about Sex and the City 2.
- Angrish: Pretty much anytime he reviews Glee, especially the Christmas episode.
- Berserk Button: In every negative review.
- Expy: A slightly less homicidally insane Max + Beer + Pot + A leather jacket.
- The Cameo:
- Oancitizen made a quick cameo in the Dreamcatcher review.
- The favour was returned when Phil popped up in Oancitizen's review of Alice. Although Oan was a bit too panicked to properly appreciate it.
- Todd in the Shadows, OanCitizen, Some Jerk with a Camera, Cin Wicked and more do cameos in the They Might Be Giants review.
- He offers Marc Mues a rhyme in his Worst 6 Pop Songs of 2011 video.
- Linkara has a cameo in the The Good, The Bad, The Weird review.
- The Nostalgia Chick makes a brief appearence to provide sarcastic airquotes (which Phil can't do because he's a puppet) during his Grave Encounters review.
- Oancitizen made a quick cameo in the Dreamcatcher review.
- Christmas Episode: His review of The Muppet Christmas Carol.
- Cluster F-Bomb: The Glee Christmas episode review.
- Crossover: With JewWario for the Sexy Famicom Moments video. In light of recent events, he’s completely disowned that video.
- Funny Background Event: In his review of "Michael", there is an ever-growing assortment of toys and figurines appearing behind him whenever he cuts back from a voiceover. He doesn't notice until the end of the video.Phil: What the - Where'd these toys come from? They weren't here before!
- Fun with Acronyms: Mike's Stoned V-Logs feature a character called Creepy Uncle Monkey.
- Misaimed Fandom: His main problem with The Rocky Horror Picture Show episode of Glee is that the show simply doesn't get the message of the movie or of the individual songs.
- Political Correctness Is Evil: Inverted: He criticizes Jeff Dunham for utilizing racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance and what he calls "drug fear" while pretending to take a stand against PC. An example is in Dunham's Christmas special where he is greeted with thunderous applause after letting one of his puppets defend saying "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays". Phil Buni says that "Happy Holidays" encompasses both Christmas and New Year, and has nothing to do with PC, but also that showing respect to other religions should be self-evident.
- Seasonal Rot: In-Universe. His opinion of Glee is that season 1 was decent and then everything went downhill from there.
- Shared Universe: Because of the cameos and such, he's part of the Reviewaverse.
- The Stoner: Michael Bennett has been a major proponent of recreational marijuana use and sometimes Phil is depicted as this trope. Though for the most part, Phil tends to be The Alcoholic with booze as his primary vice.
- Surreal Horror: His review of The Signal...
- Surreal Theme Tune: Mike's brother wrote his theme song, which seems to be emulating the style of They Might Be Giants.
- World of Weirdness: The Reviewaverse. Phil is a talking bunny puppet, it should be obvious this universe is weird.
