Bunny Boiler
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A Bunny Boiler is a pejorative term for an obsessive and dangerous individual, most commonly referring to a jilted lover who is stalking the person who has spurned her/him.
[edit] Origins
The phrase derives from a famous scene in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction where a scorned woman (played by Glenn Close), seeking revenge on her ex-lover (played by Michael Douglas), boils his daughter's pet rabbit in a pot.
[edit] Uses in Popular Culture
- Michelle Bass, from the fifth series of the UK's Big Brother, was labelled a bunny boiler for the way she acted towards Stuart [1].
- In the sixth series, Craig Coates attracted the label for the way he was perceived to act towards Anthony [2].
- In the seventh series, Lisa Huo was labelled a bunny boiler in response to her relationship with Pete Bennett. [3]
- Bunny Boiler is also the name of one of the characters on the UK Television show Balls Of Steel.
- The scene from the film Fatal Attraction where Glenn Close boils the bunny was parodied in the last episode of the second series of the UK television show Spaced.
- In the South Park episode Chef Aid Mr. Garrison finds Mr. Twig in a pot being boiled, in the same way as the bunny in Fatal Attraction. The act was done by the recently returned Mr. Hat.
