Funny Bunny Game Rules

[Nguyet Edmondson]

The ground beneath the bunnies can vanish causing the bunny to fall in and disappear. The draw bridge and gate may fling the bunnies off the hill or a mischievous mole may pop out and push the bunnies back down the hill.

On your turn, if the draw bridge is up, you cannot cross it with your bunny.

You have to either move your bunny up to the last space before the draw bridge and any unused spaces from your turn are forfeited, or you have to move another one of your bunnies. The draw bridge does not count as a space!

The gate opens at random. If a bunny is near the gate when it opens, it is pushed off to the side and down the hill to a different space.

This bunny will then have to continue its journey from here.

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This is the comedy equivalent of the Rule of Cool, and is accordingly weighted more in comedy shows. Especially easy to invoke in humor-based American animation and Webcomics, where people expect the lack of realism in the art to translate to other areas.

Rule of Funny is not a superpower. One of the characteristics of the rule of funny is that it can give some abilities to a character to the sole purpose of a gag, which means the character just CAN'T do that when it's not funny. For instance, Wile E. Coyote frequently walks on thin air because he hasn't noticed that he's at the edge of a cliff, and he falls when he notices it. It is Rule of Funny: Wile E. can't walk on thin air as a previewed part of a scheme.

Anime & Manga

• A running sight gag in Azumanga Daioh is Sakaki, after winning a race, running with the ribbon held up by her (for a Japanese teenager) extremely large breasts. Of course, this means that the ribbon was chest-level on the tallest girl, putting it high enough that some of the contestants would have run right under it... but it's still funny.
• Sakaki generally bends down a little and kind of "scoops" the ribbon when she runs through.
• Lucky Star deliberately invoked this trope as well, as noted by Genre Savvy Konata.
• One Piece uses this for a number of things (some of which later get a Cerebus Retcon), but one to note is Franky building a nice-looking wooden bridge out of scraps and rubble in less than a minute. It would be a Deus ex Machina if Franky's insistence on the level of detail and craftsmanship didn't make it hilarious.
• For those who haven't seen the above scene, the bridge has carved, ornate handrails and was varnished.
• Luffy eating a cage he was trapped in certainly qualifies, especially because he's captured again before he achieves anything. The whole scene serves no purpose but Rule of Funny.
• One Piece has some pretty outlandish character designs, but some manage to go the extra mile (like Wanze and Jango's telescopic and heart-shaped eyes) just for the sake of a gag.
• Enforced by Eiichiro Oda when Luffy unlocks Gear 5: As he felt the series had gotten uncomfortably close to hitting Cerebus Syndrome, with both the plot and Luffy's power-ups getting more and more serious as the series went on, he did the ultimate swerve by having Luffy's final power-up be to go from Rubber Man to Rubberhose Man, drawing inspiration from cartoons like Tom and Jerry to make the most ridiculous yet most powerful power-up ever seen in the series.
• This is the only thing that keeps the shower scene with Baron Ashura in episode 5 of Mazinkaiser from being Nightmare Fuel.
• Code Geass has a lot of jokes and slapstick during its comedic episodes which would already be enough to qualify, but it is also a curious case where the staff has explicitly acknowledged that sometimes they made the characters do something crazy, absurd or plainly hilarious for no good reason other than the Rule of Funny, regardless of the context appearing to be more serious on the surface.
• My Bride is a Mermaid. The only thing that the show ever plays seriously is the relationship between San and Nagasumi, and even then, tongue is lodged firmly in cheek.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann plays have equal shares of this and Rule of Cool as the laws of the universe, instead of the regular, boring laws of physics.
• In Doctor Slump how strong Arale is at a given time seems to depend only on what would be the funniest (or more rarely the more dramatic). Sometimes she is strong enough to defeat anything in one hit, destroy the moon by throwing a little rock at it, or travel around the world in a matter of seconds. But other times she takes a few chapters running a race through the village (because obviously there would be no race otherwise), or have trouble against an opponent that she should be able to destroy easily.
• Dragon Ball will occasionally chuck all sense of power scaling out the window for the sake of Slapstick - notable examples include Mr. Satan surviving getting slapped head-first into a mountain by Cell, Krillin throwing a rock at Super Saiyan Goku and causing him serious pain, Monaka tanking a full-force punch from Goku, and Goku accidentally throwing Chi-Chi through a wall, tree, and having her hit her head against a rock only to be totally fine afterward.
• In one scene in Hoshin Engi, Taikobo and Supushan are struck by a lightning bolt, Taikobo's hair ends up in a carbonized Funny Afro, Supushan's ends up with perfectly styled Regal Ringlets, for no reason.
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is a Gag Series where the primary source of comedy comes from the hilarious miscommunication and misunderstandings between characters who almost always immediately jumps to the weirdest conclusions that no reasonable people would even consider when they are presented with a unusual situation.
• Full Metal Panic! has a similar case to Dragon Ball, where the series is a combination of deadly serious Humongous Mecha action and zany Rom Com with the realism level zig-zagging as the plot demands. Comedy episodes use Amusing Injuries even for things like explosives, but serious episodes feature realistic life-or-death battles between soldiers and terrorists. For example, the protagonist Sosuke gets hit in the head by second base in a gag episode and is just knocked out for a few minutes, but in a more serious battle later on in the story he gets shot in the gut, losing a portion of his liver and almost bleeding to death.
• Uninvited Wife, With Child!: Why does Kako only put up a token resistance to Mirai's story about being from the future and then let a complete stranger and her baby move in? Because manga. Why doesn't the story dwell on the implications of letting random strangers have test tube babies with your genes? Because kawaii. Why doesn't Kako ask sensible questions about what the future is like and how and why Nozomi was conceived? Because the author hasn't worked out the details yet.
• While many rules are changed in Yu-Gi-Oh! for dramatic or story/advantage purposes, sometimes, they're there for comedic purposes. A notable example is in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light when a man attacks Joey with Fairy Lily Injection on the first turn. Normally, attacking on the first turn is illegal, but then we wouldn't get to see Fairy Lily stabbing Joey in the butt.

Art

• Laser Kiwi flag: Why would anyone put a laser-shooting Kiwi on New Zealand's flag? Because it's so nonsensical on something that ought to be Serious Business that ends up being funny.

Comic Strips

• In one Brother Juniper strip Juniper is carrying a pipe organ in his cupped hands while a fellow monk on the floor above him yells "Put it here!"
• The Far Side lived and breathed off this trope. For instance, the strip frequently depicted cavemen and dinosaurs living together, which creator Gary Larson acknowledged as being horribly inaccurate but necessary for the sake of making the jokes work. Nonetheless, the strip is popular with scientists, and paleontologists even named the tail spikes of a Stegosaurus "thagomizers" in reference to a Far Side cartoon featuring cavemen and dinosaurs together.

Fan Works

• Abridged Series, generally speaking, live and breathe this trope. Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, the first of this particular genre, is a defining example; if there is something that can be made funny, it will happen regardless of how completely nonsensical or out-of-character it may be.
• Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: Pinkie's evolved Fullbring weaponizes this. Whenever she strikes something with the hammer, it reacts in a hilarious way, like forming a springboard under someone's feet or absorbing an energy blast with a loud belching sound. It pretty much lets her warp reality on a limited scale as long as the result can be considered a gag...such as forcing the fight between her and Cheese Sandwich to literally function by 2D fighting game mechanics. Cheese notes that it's only half of her power and sure enough with time she begins combining Funny with Horror...
• Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfic Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unit: Hammerspace was Played for Laughs and Parodied several times. From clothes to books to Death Notes to flowers, the characters' backs can store them all.

"It's alright Italia-kun. I always bring spare cosplays with me." He reached into some sort of secret compartment behind his back, pulling out an identical outfit to the one the brunet was currently wearing. Seriously, how do anime characters have such an ability?

Game Shows

• This drives a lot of the "rules" of Taskmaster. The tasks are always meant to evoke the funniest performances from the contestants, and often Greg will bend or outright break his own rules for a contestant with a funny enough performance or statement during the on-stage segment. Unless it would be funnier to enforce the rules, of course. A notable example is when constestants in the Series 12 finale were tasked with making noises for two full seconds, where Greg had to guess who was who: Alan just yelling "WOW" at the absolute top of his lungs, and Guz purring in an almost sensual way, as their "monster noises" was so funny it sent Greg, Alex, the other four comedians, and the audience into absolute hysterics. It's so funny Greg and Alex either didn't notice, or deliberately let it slide, that neither of them didn't meet the "make the sound for 2 full seconds" criteria.