The Goddess Bunny

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The Goddess Bunny
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Directed by Nick Bougas
Starring Sandie Crisp
John Aes-Nihil
Glen Meadmore
Distributed byWavelength Video [1]
Release date
  • 1994 (1994)
Running time
85 minutes [1] [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Goddess Bunny is a 1994 American documentary film directed by Nick Bougas, which is about the life of a transgender woman named Sandie Crisp, also known as the Goddess Bunny. [3] [4]

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Overview

The film depicts a tour of the Los Angeles, California underground transgender, lesbian, and gay nightclub scene, as hosted by the Goddess Bunny. The film also explores the life of Crisp, mainly focusing on her transition, as well as her battle with polio as a child.

"Obey the Walrus"

Crisp became more widely known when a video, which featured the Star Fox character Andross singing a Spanish version of "Itsy-Bitsy-Spider" before cutting to a scene from the movie of Crisp tap dancing, was first released in 2005 in the form of an online video on eBaum's World [5] [ unreliable source? ] and then reuploaded on YouTube. [6] The video, with the Spanish title "Obedece a la morsa" [5] [ unreliable source? ] or, in English, "Obey the Walrus", subsequently went viral, [5] [ unreliable source? ] [7] reaching more than 5 million views on YouTube as of 2020. [6]

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