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 or him.

1 Origins
2 Also see
3 Uses in popular culture
- 3.1 Big Brother
- 3.2 Other uses
4 References
5 External links

[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] Also see

[edit] Uses in popular culture

[edit] Big Brother

The term has been used regularly in both mainstream media and everyday discourse ^[1] to describe particular contestants in recent series of the UK version of Big Brother.

The first was Michelle Bass, from the fifth series, who was labelled a 'bunny boiler' for the way she acted towards fellow contestant Stuart. ^[2]

In the sixth series, Craig Coates attracted the label for the way he was perceived to act towards Anthony Hutton.^[3]^[4] In the seventh series, Lisa Huo was labelled a 'bunny boiler' in response to her relationship with Pete Bennett.^[5]

Germaine Greer was even given the title.^[6]

[edit] Other uses

'Bunny Boiler' is also the name of one of the characters on the UK Television show Balls Of Steel, played by Thaila Zucchi.
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.
In the Smallville season four episode "Pariah," Lois Lane says the police are interested in Alicia in a "bunny-boiler" sort of way.