The Tale of the Bunny Picnic

<p>Hello, sunshine! We hop back to Easter 1986 to revisit the Jim Henson special “The Tale of the Bunny Picnic,” which is about neither Easter, nor a bunny picnic, but it did introduce Bean Bunny, the Muppets’ Nermal.</p><hr /><h4>On This Episode</h4><ol><li><strong>Mike Westfall</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), giant mutant farmer who apparently knows a great recipe for a hypoallergenic stew.</li><li><strong>Emily Rowley</strong> (<a href="https://twitter.com/mlerowley">@mlerowley</a>), who answered the Who I’d Like to Meet field of her old MySpace profile with “Bean Bunny.”</li></ol><hr /><h4>Topics and Tangents</h4><ol><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-WEpyMRLRM">Jim Henson’s original introduction to “The Tale of the Bunny Picnic.”</a>.</li><li>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3FD-n3M80M&t=18m15s">The Jim Henson Hour</a>.”</li><li>Bean Bunny is still around at <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Muppet*Vision_3D">Muppet*Vision 3D</a> in Disney’s Hollywood Studios.</li><li>Bean Bunny was also a late-series addition to “<a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Baby_Bean_Bunny">Muppet Babies</a>.” His picture is on the playroom wall in Disney’s new “Muppet Babies” show.</li><li>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRM20R_2rE">The Muppet Musicians of Bremen</a>” and its <a href="https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Muppet_Musicians_of_Bremen?file=BremenBaddies.JPG">grotesque, full-size Muppet bad guys</a>.</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRImKNAlqA">Sweetums in “Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince,”</a> in example.</li><li>Bean trying to tell the other bunnies to quiet down or the dog will hear them is also the plot of the first act of “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolls_(film)">Trolls</a>.”</li><li>Every Easter Bunny costume is terrifying.</li><li>Y’all remember <a href="http://www.thisoldtoy.com/fisher-price/dept-2-dolls-stuffed-animals/d-puffalump-purrtender/A-puff-index.html">Puffalumps</a>? You do no