From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT)
Subject: Re: Energizer Bunny's resume
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:04:38 GMT
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Chicago, Illinois  60657

jcoates@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Jim D Coates) wrote in
<2018@ncrsmg.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>:

| In article <1992Dec2.232614.6713@gw.wmich.edu> x92ochs1@gw.wmich.edu writes:
| >In article <ByH48r.2Kz@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>,
| kgscharf@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Kevin Scharf) writes:

| >>> >Has rec.arts.tv ever had a canonical list of the Bunny's appearances?
| >>> >I've started one from memory in no particular order:
| >>> >
| >>> >The Lone Ranger (leaves a battery instead of a silver bullet)
| >>> >Really White laundry additive (bunny gets bleached)
| >>>  ... rest of list deleted ...
| >>> >Rottenbrau yuppie beer (bunny knocks mug over and head of foam turns out
| >>> >                        to be plastic prop)
| >>> >
| >>> >Which have I missed?

Kevin Scharf didn't start the list, nor did he claim to have started it.  I
started it, and I've posted two versions already.

| >> Two more that I haven't seen mentioned are "Beauty and the Beast: the
| Ultimate Adventure"  Where the bunny appears in a really cheap looking video
| game and one with a grocery store chain that I can't remember the name of.  It
| shows people going gaga over the deli counter and getting excited by the
| produce aisle.

I can scarcely add "a grocery store chain that somebody can't remember the
name of" to the list.  I never saw the article Coates is posting, so I don't
even know who (perhaps Scharf?) can't remember the name of the grocery store
chain.  I haven't seen that commercial myself.

As for the video game, I'd like to add it, and I will, but I don't know to
whom to credit it.  Coates had no citation character after the first line of
that paragraph.  I'll take a guess and credit Scharf.

| >Has anyone mentioned the "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" bunny commercial?
| >This the one that plays the AHP theme and shows Hitchcock's trademark 
| >outline and a silouhette(sp?) of the bunny comes out.
| >
| >  Jeff
| >  Western Michigan University

It was on my original list.  Since you asked, Jeff, the spelling is
"silhouette".

I will assume that the rest of the text I quote here was Coates's own:

| The long distance service parody, with a split screen implying that the
| two parites talking are in different parts of the world, and the Bunny
| comes across and knocks down the separator between them.

Optiphone; I had it on the original list.

| The "Zest" soap parody, with a guy in the shower and the Bunny comes across
| the floor of the shower (with a shower cap on, I believe).

alarm!: I had it on the original list.

| The parachuting Bunny.

Firmatene: again, it was on the original list.

| The (fairly new) Bermuda Triangle two-parter. The first shows a beach with
| the caption "The Bermuda Triangle". The Bunny comes in from the left and
| disppears in the middle of the screen. Part two shows the caption "The
| Bermuda Triangle - three days later". The Bunny appears from the middle of
| the screen and goes on off of the right side.

After I sent out the first draft Lance Smith told me about it; shortly
thereafter I saw it for myself.  It was in the second edition.

| There's another one with an actor saying "I'm not a real doctor, but if I
| were..." when the Bunny interrupts by knocking over pieces of the set.

Ligamint: it was on the original list.  The bunny doesn't knock anything over
but shows bones as it passes behind the fluoroscope.

| There's one where a man is sitting with his feet up on the coffee table in
| front of him. His wife complains of his foot odor, and a phony announcement
| for a foot odor product starts with the Bunny crashes the commercial (with a
| clothespin on his nose).

Airedale: it was on the original list.

| There's an irregularity commercial spoof that the Bunny crashes.

I've never seen that one, though Firmatene was just the opposite: an
anti-diarrheal.  If you can remember the name of the product, email me
or post again.

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