Anya has a fear of bunnies, first referenced in 4.04 Fear, Itself when she wore a bunny costume to a Halloween party, with the simple explanation: “bunnies frighten me”. This fear is shown in:
- 4.04 Fear, Itself: Anya’s bunny suit became so popular that model makers Clayburn Moore created a figure of the character.
- 5.08 Shadow:
Xander: “Just once I would like to run into a cult of bunny worshippers.”
Anya: “Great! Thank you very much for those nightmares!” - 5.22 The Gift: Anya finds a stuffed bunny in the Magic Box and says:
“God, who would put something like that there? Is this supposed to be some sort of sick joke?”
- 6.02 Bargaining (Part Two): Razor asks Willow what she’s going to do - “pull a rabbit out of a hat?” Anya turns to Tara to be reassured that she won’t.
- 6.07 Once More, With Feeling: Anya theorises through song that bunnies must be the cause of the musical:
“I’ve got a theory,
It could be bunnies…
Bunnies aren’t just cute Like everybody supposes!
They got them hoppy legs
And twitchy little noses!
And what’s with all the carrots?
What do they need Such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!” - 6.08 Tabula Rasa: Anya accidentally conjures up hundreds of bunnies in the Magic Box
- 6.09 Smashed: Willow describes Anya to Amy as a “thousand-year-old capitalist ex-demon with rabbit phobia”.
- 7.05 Selfless: Anya shows she wasn’t afraid of bunnies before she became a demon: “The rapid reproductive rate of our rabbits has given me an idea. I can give the excess out to the townspeople, exchanging them not for goods or services but for goodwill and the sense of accomplishment that stems from selflessly giving of yourself to others.”
- 7.22 Chosen: Anya’s final words on the show are about bunnies. She thinks of them whilst preparing for the huge battle:
“Bunnies. Floppy, hoppy, bunnies.”
Related episodes: 4.04 Fear, Itself, 5.08 Shadow, 5.22 The Gift, 6.02 Bargaining (Part Two), 6.07 Once More, With Feeling, 6.08 Tabula Rasa, 6.09 Smashed, 7.05 Selfless, 7.22 Chosen
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AnyaRocks on December 23rd, 2005 at 4:07 pm
Well, speculation on the net says that she got the phobia of bunnies because they reminded her of the pain she went through with Olaf. I guess it makes sense.
somethingblue on January 10th, 2006 at 6:38 am
In season five’s finale, the Gift, Anya finds a stuffed Bunny the basement of the Magic Shop and screams in horror. She is determined that it is a bad omen. Xander tries to comfort her and then proposes. I guess it really is a bad omen on many counts. Buffy dies later in that episode and in season 6, we find that her engagment to Xander is doomed as well.
MagicBone on January 10th, 2006 at 7:24 am
I wish they didn’t break up. I bet they would have been cute as a married couple and that would have added a whole new dynamic (or whatever) to the story too. But I never thought of that, the bunny omen thing, I mean.
tadpole on May 9th, 2006 at 2:59 am
Anya’s “bunnies” line in Once More, With Feeling is classic.
This fear of bunnies is my favorite character trait of all the Scoobies. It perfectly suits her absurdly skewed, yet somehow empathetic, humanity.
Does Selfless explain the source of her hare-raising (sorry, couldn’t resist) phobia?
Julie on July 10th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Selfless doesn’t explain her fear. It only shows that Aud (human Anya back then) and Olaf had bunnies. Anya is holding on when Olaf comes in before they have an argument.
ant4buffy on July 10th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
If you read above AnyaRocks put that the speculation was that the bunnies reminded her of Olaf leaving her. This would make sense because she was so angry and upset that she became a demon. Therefore I think Selfless does explain her bunny fear.
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Bells on April 16th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I love the part in Once more with feeling when she sings about the bunnies I thought I was going to vomit I laughed that hard, classic!