Videos of kids who are terrified by the Easter Bunny

Tara McGinley at Dangerous Minds presents us all with "an early Easter gift of some YouTube videos of children who are absolutely terrified of the Easter Bunny."

"You know what?," she adds, "He scared the crap out of me, too."

Link to videos. Not suitable for children or adults who are scared by the Easter Bunny.

• [Enormo]

  Terrified children… how… wonderful.

  LOL!!! Hysterical!

  Oh, wait… sarcasm.

  Um… *tsk tsk tsk*.

• [Boondocker]

  Another one for the ‘Parenting Don’ts’ column. That kind of freaked me out, too, and I knew what was coming (though not from where).

  • [Lucifer]

    I’ll have to agree. While the situation is funny and comedic in the context of a rehearsed staged scene, I don’t really enjoy seeing small children in a state of emotional distress like this. It’s harder for these little minds to recover from a state of upset like this compared to adults pranking one another.

    I am not earning my moniker today…

    • [Boondocker]

      Now, don’t get me wrong. Just ’cause I wouldn’t do that to my kids (unless there was a lot of prepping first) doesn’t mean I didn’t laugh at the video. I’m pretty sure we’re not seeing the seed of future therapy here.

• [TSE]

  The kids were just reacting as prompted. The girl notices the rabbit, mom GASPS IN HORROR, and then the girl loses it and the boy joins in.

• [Anonymous]

  Ol’ Dad didn’t do those kids any favors by giving the window a good solid belt before he stuck his horrifying mug in it.

  I’m a full-grown adult, and when something slams into my window, the first idea that comes to my mind isn’t, “Oh, GOODY! SOMETHING HUGE AND POWERFUL IS CLAWING AT MY FLIMSY GLASS PARTITION!”

• [Anonymous]

  That’s pretty mean.

  And so am I for laughing at it.

• [MarkM]

  That was supposed to be the easter bunny?
  It looked like some sort of “Jason” or “Pennywise” horror monster.
  And is that really what you want to train your children
  to do, to be acculturated to strangers at the window?
  All-around stupid parenting.

• [Godfree]

  From what I’ve seen most kids really don’t appreciate surprises. They like presents, that’s different. But being startled or thrust into an unusual situation is better appreciated by the old & jaded.

  I saw a YouTube video of some kids in a diner who thought they were going to Grandma’s house, only to be told on camera that they were going to Disneyworld! YAY! Not one of them was happy about it.

  • [yosemite]

    I disagree completely. Certainly children, like all humans, learn and enjoy predictable patterns. But they also love adventure, and, yes, even many originally scary experiences, since their revisiting of the frightening situation often results in feelings of empowerment, giddiness, curiosity, and joy.

    I’m not arguing that parents should be sadistically planning tricks on their children–only that we shouldn’t assume children’s brains are any less adept at responding to unpredictable and confusing events than adults’ brains. One may even argue that they are even more tolerant (and expecting, ironically) of such contingencies than are we adults.

    tl;dr Kids love freaky shit, provided they are given space and encouragement to explore, process, and reflect.

    And now… EASTER BUNNY GONNA GETCHYA!!!!!!!!

    • [Jesse M.]

      “Kids love freaky shit, provided they are given space and encouragement to explore, process, and reflect.”

      Hyperbole and a half has a good one about this.

• [InsertFingerHere]

  Grandparent’s cabin, 30 years ago, at night, we were inside playing board games, Grandpa sneaks out with a bear-skin rug, does the window thing… Grandma had to pop some nitro, I pissed my pants.. good times.

• [Nicky G]

  This made me laugh so hard I snorted. THREE TIMES.

• [victorvodka]

  anything alive outside a window at night is automatically terrifying — any fool should know that. when i was a kid i used to imagine pig-headed humans out there when i wanted to get my creepy crawlies on.

• [ackpht]

  I agreee with Godfree- as a child, I felt secure with the predictable and the routine. I avoided strange foods (I might have tried them on my own, but a table of people insisting you TRY THIS RIGHT NOW- stressful), and I hated being introduced to new people (still do, hide it better now). Surprises were generally unwelcome- even beneficial ones were unsettling.

  And any familiar thing that was abruptly taken away (and my attention drawn to the taking away) was a tragedy.

• [Art]

  It might just as well have been “Frank”-

  That moron creeping outside the window
  would have scared the shit out of me too.

• [anansi133]

  When I learn how to print onto foil, I am so going to do a Frank chocolate bunny design!

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  Needs more Shannen Doherty.

• [Brainspore]

  Oh, that’s just Frank.

• [kmoser]

  No wonder the kids were scared: that “bunny” was the size of a human being!

• [Anonymous]

  I wonder if this is damaging the screen memories of greysz?

• [Anonymous]

  My parents tried this exact scenario. And that was the exact response they got. (but they did it in the daylight at least, sheesh.)

• [Anonymous]

  bump…

  Donnie: Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?
  Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

• [Anonymous]

  wooah did no one notice the pure horror in its eyes, poor bunny will be traumatized for life

• [daev]

  Terrified children… how… wonderful.

• [Anonymous]

  And THJAT is why, when I was a friendly jolly Santa, I had to tell way too many parents “maybe next year would be a better time to sit this one on my knee.”

  WAAAAAAH!

• [Chevan]

  Looking at a window at night and seeing someone looking in is probably one of my biggest fears.

  I’d be scared shitless too.

  • [howaboutthisdangit]

    I’d be terrified to see someone looking in my window at night, too.

    Especially since I live on the second floor.

• [Stefan Jones]

  “I’d be scared shitless too.”

  “Pull-Ups Training Pants. Now in terrifying Easter Bunny strength!”