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Rabbids Short Stories (Web Animation)
"In this multifaceted kaleidoscope, they address very human problems in a humorous & irreverent way."

Rabbids Short Stories is an Animated Anthology of 10 short films based on the Raving Rabbids series, each done by a different studio, that was released on the official Ubisoft North America YouTube channel on November 13, 2019.

The full collection can be viewed here.


List of Shorts:

  1. "Follow the White Rabbid" by Meat Dept
  2. "How I Left Your Father" by Explosm
  3. "Bromance" by Kanaban Graphics
  4. "Schizoophrenia" by Souviens Ten-Zan
  5. "Shut the Butt Up" by Stoopid Buddy Studios
  6. "Rabbids Royale" by Mostapes
  7. "Bizarre Love Rabbids" by Machinima
  8. "Augment Your Life" by Hierro Animación
  9. "Love at First Bite" by Fanworks
  10. "Artificial Stupidity" by Rabbids Invasion Team

Rabbids Short Stories provides examples of:

  • Automated Automobiles: Kiku from "Artificial Stupidity" is a “smart car” that tells Barranco’s assistant to say “start the car” to get her to drive.
  • Ax-Crazy: Professor Barranco 3 in "Artificial Stupidity" is portrayed as being far more actively violent than in the games, with his immediate response to realizing the police are around being to shoot at them with various destructive weapons, Laughing Mad all the while.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The human mother in "How I Left Your Father" at first seems reluctant about going through with the divorce and makes the effort to explain the situation to her son delicately. Any pretenses that she actually cares about her ex-husband and son are immediately disproven at the end of the short, where she leaves with a more attractive Rabbid and callously gloats that her ex-husband and son aren't her problem anymore.
  • *Bleep*-dammit!: "Schizoophrenia" applies mosaic censoring to the naked humans' genitals initially, but later on doesn't bother and leaves their private parts in plain view.
  • Bumbling Dad: The Rabbid father in "How I Left Your Father" is an extremely dense guy who has to be taught what divorce is along with his kid, and takes his wife’s definition of their property being split in half a little too literally.
  • Brick Joke: In "Bromance", a Rabbid enters a box-covered man's home by hiding in a pizza box. At the end of the short, when the man feels unsure about going to the fighting tournament due to his insecurities regarding his face, the Rabbid decides to wear the pizza box as a mask to comfort him.
  • Cop Killer: Barranco in "Artificial Stupidity" halts from his petty heist of a vending machine to shoot at the police with various, highly destructive weapons, with the heavy implication by the end that a majority of the police force had died from the destruction he caused.
  • Darker and Edgier: several shorts in the collection contain much more mature subject matter and imagery than the rest of the normally lighthearted Rabbids franchise.
  • Delivery Guy Infiltration: The Rabbid in "Bromance" breaks into the Boxed Man’s home by hiding in a pizza box.
  • Determinator: The Rabbid we follow in "Rabbids Royale" is determined to buy the last plunger on Black Friday, no matter how hard the other shoppers try to stop him.
  • Disproportionate Retribution:
    • The fourth Nested Story in "Follow The White Rabbid" see one of the Rabbids laughing at his friend for failing to get past a certain level in a helicopter flying game. In response, he pulls out a portal gun to crush him with a safe.
    • In "Love At First Bite", The pink Rabbid doll’s response to the green Rabbid doll ignoring her advances to eat some peaches is to crush him with the wooden board he used to get across to the other table.
  • Extreme Omnivore: The main Rabbid in "Augment Your Life", after growing to a massive size, eats the moon.
  • Fan Disservice: The humans in "Schizoophrenia" are all shown to be completely naked. They're also devolved into a highly primitive and ugly state.
  • Gold Digger: The human mother in "How I Left Your Father" divorces her Rabbid husband, seemingly because they don’t belong together, only for the ending to reveal her getting ready to drive away with a more attractive Rabbid with a fancy car.
  • Growing Muscles Sequence: In "Bromance", the Boxed-Man has a Training Montage that results in him having a much bulkier figure to fight the Rabbid invading his place, who promptly flexes to immediately make himself more muscular as well.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: The protagonist of "How I Left Your Father" is a child born from a human mother and a Rabbid father.
  • Interspecies Romance: "How I Left Your Father" features a recently divorced couple of a human mother, and a Rabbid father. The short ends with the human woman hooking up with another Rabbid.
  • Lecherous Licking: At the end of "Artificial Stupidity", Barranco 3, while reveling in the destruction he's caused, notices his accomplice and Kiku flirting, prompting him to lustfully lick at the latter's front window, to which she immediately sends him flying far away.
  • Literal-Minded: The Rabbid father in "How I Left Your Father" responds to his soon-to-be-ex wife's definition of divorce (AKA them each keeping half of their belongings), by splitting apart his stuff with a hand saw, including the house.
  • Logo Joke: The Ubisoft logo unravels to reveal a a Rabbid, who morphs between some of the different animation styles represented, before turning into the “R” of the Rabbids logo.
  • Mask of Confidence: In "Bromance", when the Rabbid encourages the Boxed Man to come to the fighting tournament with him, he sadly shakes his head, seemingly due to feeling insecure about his face. The Rabbid decides to comfort the man by wearing a pizza box as a mask so he doesn't feel alone.
  • Metaphysical App:
    • "Shut The Butt Up" sees a Rabbid changing his friend's profile picture on his phone, causing him to instantly change appearance.
    • The titular app in "Augment Your Life" is used by the protagonist Rabbid to turn his crummy fast food order into a more pleasing meal, which he quickly realizes the potential of, and uses it to grow many random objects around him to cause chaos.
  • Mid-Battle Tea Break: In "Bromance", the Rabbid and the Boxed Man repeatedly pause their dramatic fight with each other to lift weights and do jumping jacks.
  • Mundane Made Awesome:
    • The ending of "Rabbids Royale" features a slow motion shot of the protagonist Rabbid trying to check out the last plunger on Black Friday.
    • "Artificial Stupidity" ends with Barranco’s assistant, who’s been struggling to get Kiku to start driving due to his gibberish, dramatically saying “Start the car,” which successfully allows him and his boss to make their getaway.
  • Mythology Gag:
    • In "Shut The Butt Up", when the beret-wearing Rabbid steals the other Rabbid’s phone and changes his profile, it causes the basic Rabbid to swap between multiple other official Rabbids figures.
    • In "Bizarre Love Rabbids", a Rabbid uses the time washing machine from Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time to bring a lonely man back in time to help him find a girlfriend.
  • Nested Story Reveal: "Follow the White Rabbid" first sees us following a Rabbid in an 8-bit world, who is forced to eat a poop emoji by a group of cyborg foxes, after which it’s revealed to be a game being played another Rabbid in a Sims-like world. The rest of the short follows the same pattern of the protagonist Rabbid suffering misfortune and their world being revealed as another game being played by another Rabbid, eventually wrapping back around to the 8-bit Rabbid.
  • Not Distracted by the Sexy: The green Rabbid doll in "Love At First Bite" seemingly goes out of his way to across to the table that the pink Rabbid doll is on, only to instead run past her to eat from a bowl of peaches.
  • Parental Abandonment: The human mother in "How I Left Your Father" leaves her Rabbid-human child alone with his Rabbid father, so she can get together with a richer Rabbid.
  • People Zoo: In "Schizoophrenia", after the Rabbids took over society, humanity regressed back to their primitive state, with the short taking place during the recent inauguration of a zoo for for the devolved humans called Humanoparc. When Jean Lapin breaks down during an interview, he is subsequently placed in the zoo amongst the primitive humans.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: The Rabbid in "Bromance" manages to effortlessly dodge the Boxed Man’s attacks before deflecting a missile back at him, and after seeing that the man trained himself to get stronger, the Rabbid eagerly flexes to reveal his own muscles to prepare for their fight.
  • Retail Riot: "Rabbids Royale" centers around a Rabbid trying to get his hands on a plunger during Black Friday, only for them to quickly sell out. When he finally gets his hands on one, he has to go through great lengths to buy it, as the other customers are all too willing to take it from him by force.
  • Retraux: The first Nested Story in "Follow The White Rabbid" is an 8-bit landscape based on old school platformers such as Super Mario Bros. 1.
  • Sanity Slippage: Over the course of "Schizoophrenia", Jean Lapin becomes more and more anxious over his obsession with the devolved humans’ behavior, eventually reaching his breaking point when he sees the audience laughing at a human being that was brought onset, and begins acting like one of them.
  • Shout-Out: "Follow the White Rabbid" contains several video game references in its Nested Stories.
  • Time Travel: "Bizarre Love Rabbids" sees a Rabbid using the time washing machine to send a lonely man back in time to 1984 in a disco room, where many other Rabbids from different time periods are dancing, along with a girl the man immediately falls in love with. When the man accidentally sends himself back to the present, the Rabbids bring his new girlfriend back to the present so they can get together.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The Rabbid in the second Nested Story of "Follow The White Rabbid", after losing in the game he was playing destroys his computer with a hammer, which promptly sets himself and the rest of the office on fire.
  • Training Montage: The Boxed Man in "Bromance" trains himself to get into better shape to fight the Rabbid in his house.
  • The Unintelligible: True to the Rabbids series, all but one of the shorts feature the Rabbids speaking their iconic gibberish. This is used as a plot point in "Artficial Stupidity", where Barranco’s accomplice attempts to drive away from the police, but is unable to due to Kiku’s voice activation failing to understand him.
  • Visual Pun: The man in "Bromance" is figuratively boxed into his messy room by himself, and wears a cardboard box covering his head and torso.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: "Schizoophrenia" takes place in a world in which the Rabbids have taken over society while humanity regressed into an ugly, primitive state and became held in zoos. The short’s protagonist, Jean Lapin is utterly fascinated by the devolved humans, to the point where he loses his sanity when he notices his audience laughing at one's misfortune.

 
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Follow The White Rabbid

An 8-bit Rabbid gets a game over, after which it's revealed that he's in a game being played by another Rabbid. What follows is a pattern where the Rabbid we follow suffers some form of misfortune before being revealed as part of another game.

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