Bad Hare Day

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Bad Hare Day
First edition cover
Author	R.L. Stine
Cover artist	tim jacobus
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Goosebumps series
Genre(s)	Children Novel
Publisher	Scholastic Apple
Publication date	March 1996
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	117
ISBN	0-439-66216-8
Preceded by	Night Of The Living Dummy III
Followed by	Egg Monsters from Mars

Bad Hare Day is a 1996 Goosebumps novella by children's writer R.L. Stine. In this book, the main character, named Tim Swanson, loves magic tricks.

[edit] Plot summary

None of his friends seem to take magic as seriously as Tim does. His sister Ginny loves to annoy him and spoil his magic shows. He receives tickets to attend a magic show being put on by his hero, Amaz-O. After the show, however, Amaz-O is rude towards Tim when he tries to introduce himself. That's when Tim steals Amaz-O's magic kit. When he begins to experiment with the tricks inside the kit, strange things begin to happen, culminating with Ginny being turned into a rabbit. When Tim and his friend Foz take Ginny and the magic bag to Amaz-O they discover that Amaz-O is actually a wooden puppet. The real Amaz-O is actually the rabbit that was part of Amaz-O's magic shows. He was turned into a rabbit by a jealous sorcerer named Frank. He built the puppet to continue his magic acts. He tells Tim that Ginny will turn back into a girl in half an hour. Amaz-O wants Tim to be part of his magic show. Tim agrees but was mistaken...he becomes the new rabbit, not the new replacement for the puppet.

[edit] Tagline

He's no Easter Bunny

[edit] TV Version

• In the TV adaptation of this episode:

• The rabbit used in Amaz-O's act is an insane sorcerer with a bad Spanish accent (Frank) who tricks Tim into turning him human so he can get his revenge on Amaz-O for stealing his magic.
• The scene where Tim attempts a rabbit magic trick with Foz's sister's rabbit escaping is not shown or mentioned.
• There is no mention of Amaz-O being a wooden puppet.
• Amaz-O and Tim are both turned into rabbits in the end.
• When Tim opens Amaz-O's magic case, instead of an explosion sound effect, it makes a stereotypical cartoon sound effect (which still manages to startle Tim and Ginny nonetheless). And Amaz-O's jacket also contains a single phony rubber snake that isn't mechanical, which Tim knows from the start, unlike the many mechanical snakes that appear in the book version. There is also no mention of the ball-under-the-cup trick.
• Ginny does not eat a magic carrot and become a rabbit, but disappears from behind a magic curtain (and is actually shown turning back to normal).
• Amaz-O and Tim (as rabbits) are shown under a guillotine as part of Frank's magic trick at the end; when Amaz-O tells Tim that he'll get them out of this predicament, Tim replies with the classic line: "WHAT?! And give up show business?" The episode ends with an ambiguous ending with it being unknown as to whether Amaz-O & Tim not only escape but are turned back into humans or not.