Here Comes Peter Cottontail is the Holiday Inn (hey, I got to reference that film twice today!) of Rankin/Bass outings, managing to fit several special occasions into one hour thanks to a time travel story that sends its titular bunny on a quest to save Easter. To do this, he must win a contest to deliver the most eggs, but alas, he sleeps through the big day, and now he’s desperately attempting to do the job on other holidays to make up for it.

Following his failed attempt to deliver eggs on Mother’s Day because the family he tried to gift just sucked, Peter is sent crashing into the 4th of July. Time travel, you see, can be bumpy. Initially feeling hopeless, he perks up when he gets the idea to paint his eggs red, white, and blue and rebrand them for the holiday. Unfortunately, the kids he runs into are these horrible little fuckers.

Meet Homer and…well, I don’t think the other kid has a name. They’re both brats who love explosives and under no circumstances on earth should ever be allowed to have them. Neither of these boys would hesitate to blow up public property for shits and giggles. Anyway, Peter takes advantage of the violence-loving psychos and tries to sell his eggs to them as torpedoes. And by “sells” I mean “he gives them away for free,” so really, is it even a scam then?

These horrible children forcefully wrestle a rabbit down once he promises them potential weapons, but alas, once they find out they’ve been “cheated” with hard-boiled eggs, they lose their minds and start hurling them back at him. Peter manages to save the eggs, but not his dignity.

Have a great night, y’all!