The Easter Bunny is a character associated with the holiday of Easter, depicted as an anthropomorphic rabbit who brings baskets filled with colored Easter eggs, candy, and sometimes toys to the homes of children.
Role in The Fairly OddParents[]
On Nickelodeon, the Easter Bunny was most prominently seen in The Fairly OddParents, in which he was depicted as having pink fur and talking in a raspy voice (like a mob boss) provided by Robert Constanzo. He has a pet Dachshund that he dressed up with cheap bat wings and a pumpkin mask that he calls the "Spirit of Hallo-weenie". Whenever he sees an object lying on the ground, no matter how large, he tries to lift it up and place an Easter egg underneath.
In the series' first Christmas episode, "Christmas Every Day!", the Easter Bunny led the other holiday mascots in an attack against Santa Claus, who he saw as attention-hogging even before Timmy's wish for it to be Christmas every day. He used Cosmo and Wanda's magic to transform into a giant. He is stopped when children from across the world appear at the North Pol to defend Santa and when he and the Holidays realize they can't harm children. To make amends to Santa and his wife, Timmy, his godparents and the other holidays do Santa's job for next year while Santa and his wife take a vacation in Hawaii.
The Easter Bunny reappears in "Abra-Catastrophe!" during Timmy's Fairy-versary party, where he explains that a Fairy-versary is a big deal for magical beings because most godchildren typically would have already had their fairy godparents taken away within a year. He gives Timmy explosive eggs as a gift, although they turn out to be useless when Timmy attempts to use them against the Great Sphinx that was reanimated by a magic-wielding Mr. Crocker.
In A Fairly Odd Christmas, when Santa gets amnesia, he first thinks that he is the Easter Bunny.
Mentions in other Nickelodeon shows[]
The Rugrats' dads all dressed as the Easter Bunny.
Joe Tabootie in his Easter Bunny costume.
- In the Rugrats episode "The Santa Experience", Angelica Pickles goes over the "history of presents", saying that "even the Easter Bunny started giving them, until Santa slapped him with a lawsuit."
- In the CatDog episode "A Very CatDog Christmas", when Cornelius Sunshine learns that the mall Santa he's been assisting is actually the real Santa, he asks "Does this mean there's an Easter Bunny?", to which Santa replies, "There'd better be; he owes me sixty bucks."
- In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Christmas Who?", Squidward pretends to be Santa in order to cheer up SpongeBob. When SpongeBob asks him where his sleigh and reindeer are, Squidward answers, "I loaned them to the Easter Bunny."
- In the Rugrats episode "Bow Wow Wedding Vows", Chas, Stu, Drew, and Howard all wear Easter Bunny costumes at the Finsters' brunch party. They ultimately decide to have Howard play the Easter Bunny for the occasion.
- In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Holly Jolly Jimmy", Jimmy says that if he can pull off delivering all of Santa's gifts himself, it will prove that Santa isn't real. Sheen responds, "Okay, but the Easter Bunny is real, right?"
- In the ChalkZone episode "When Santas Collide", Joe Tabootie finds that the Holidaze costume company sent him an Easter Bunny costume by mistake.
- In the T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "A Doomed Christmas", when the villains are brought to jail, Bird Brain gloats, "You may have saved this holiday, but we'll be back to stop the Easter Bunny!", to Snaptrap's confusion.