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[[Image:Trojan-rabbit.jpg|left|px400|Trojan Rabbit from movie on downward trajectory]]

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In Scene 8 of [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]], King Arthur and his knights are confronted by a group of Frenchmen who refuse to give them shelter for the night in their castle. The Frenchmen hurl ridiculous insults at the knights, which they attempt to rebuke until Bedevere devises a plan. The knights build a giant wooden wheeled rabbit, and promptly deliver it to the castle gate. As the Frenchmen wheel the rabbit inside, King Arthur asks Bedevere to restate the plan, to which he responds, " Well, now, uh, Launcelot, Galahad, and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rabbit, taking the French, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally unarmed!" Only then does Bedevere recall that he and his fellow knights were to hide *inside* the rabbit. As he is rebuked for his foiled plan, the Frenchmen launch the rabbit out of the castle by means of a catapult. The knights only have time to scream "Run away!" before Galahad's coconut-wielding servant is crushed by the aforementioned wooden animal.

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This scene is a deliberate parody of part of Virgil's epic tale [[The Aeneid]], in which a group of Greek soldiers hide inside of a giant wooden horse until nightfall, in an attack against the heavily fortified city of Troy. The wooden horse built by the Greeks is later called the "Trojan Horse" for the city in which it was so cleverly built and employed, thus the parody is furthered by calling the rabbit a "Trojan Rabbit."

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==Other Trojan Rabbits==

* [http://www.thetrojanrabbit.com/] Band

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