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Character.billybunny
PERFORMER Kevin Clash
DEBUT 1993
Press

Billy making music with his friends from the forest.

BillySingAlong

Billy with Kermit in Muppet Sing Alongs: It's Not Easy Being Green.

MuppetTime-BillyFrogs

Billy with the Frog Scouts in a Muppet Time short.

Billy Bunny was the star of Billy Bunny's Animal Songs, a direct to video production from 1993. He was also seen in original footage created for the sing-along video, It's Not Easy Being Green, and in a Muppet Time segment.

A 1993 press release for Billy Bunny's Animal Songs described Billy as follows:

Billy is a happy, playful, energetic bunny who loves to laugh, sing and play. He comes from a family of three brothers and sisters, 14 aunts and uncles, and 36 cousins (at last count -- they are still multiplying). He lives in a house in the forest beneath a hollow tree with his parents, brothers and sisters, who display a natural passion for carrots. Unfortunately, Billy only knows one song which he sings day and night, driving his family crazy. Billy's eagerness to learn and his natural curiosity will help him learn more songs.

In the video, Billy sings his way through the forest as he runs across a swamp full of frogs, a cave full of rapping bears and a singing porcupine. In It's Not Easy Being Green, Billy appeared in new material alongside Kermit the Frog and was also inserted into the song "Barbeque" from Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. Billy also joined the Frog Scouts in a 1994 Muppet Time segment.

The Billy Bunny puppet was later recycled as a generic rabbit for several Sesame Street appearances. He appeared as The Hare in the Elmo's World episode "Fast and Slow." He also appeared along with Jennifer Hudson in the "Carol of the Bells" segment of Elmo's Christmas Countdown (performed again by Kevin Clash, but with a different voice), and in the song "The Addition Expedition" (with an altered Benny Rabbit).

Filmography[]

as a generic rabbit

See also[]

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