| Bunny Children | |
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Real Names |
Unknown |
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First Appearance |
Trolly Troubles (1927) |
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Original Publisher |
Universal Pictures |
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Created by |
Walt Disney |
Origin[]
In Poor Papa, Oswald paces nervously outside a room where his wife is giving birth. A succession of storks fly over the house and drop numerous babies down the chimney. The doctor exits the birthing room, congratulates Oswald and begins to count a large number on his fingers. Oswald stops him and rushes into the room to see his wife in bed with more than 30 babies.
On Saturday night, Oswald washes the children in a barrel and, tying them together, runs the string of them through a wringer and hangs them up to dry. A number of children are playing outside the house. Inside, many children are engaging in destructive activities such as jumping on a piano keyboard, sawing the legs off a table and boring holes in the furniture. Oswald is trying to churn butter but is annoyed by the children's antics. He grabs one and spanks him, but the child runs away and thumbs his nose at Oswald. Another child drops a bar of soap, upon which Oswald slips and falls.
Fed up, he grabs a rifle and climbs on the roof. He puts up a "NO VACANCIES" sign. Seeing more storks approaching carrying babies, he shoots at them and drives them away. One drops its load of babies and they falls through the chimney before Oswald can prevent it. He ties a knot in the chimney, then laughs as the storks are unable to use the chimney, not seeing them drop the babies into the house's open water tank. He turns on the tap to fill a pot and is taken aback when numerous babies pour out of the tap.
In Trolley Troubles, Oswald is preparing a trolley to transport his bunny kids and other animal characters, but there are some obstacles. The first is Clarabelle Cow who walks onto the tracks and refuses to move until Oswald drives the trolley underneath her. Oswald thinks that all is well until the hill gets steep. Oswald uses a goat to get the trolley up the hill, then down the hill.
The trolley unexpectedly goes onto a bumpy road, tossing the kids out of the trolley. Oswald prays that he will live, takes off his foot, and rubs it on his head (as per the saying that a rabbit's foot gives a good luck). Eventually, the trolley crashes into a river and becomes a raft. Oswald uses a big stick to row it downstream.
Public Domain Film Appearances[]
- Trolly Troubles (1927)
- Oh Teacher (1927)
- Poor Papa (1927)
3 of the Bunny Children also appear on the title card of each of Walt Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons.