Creativity Quote by Todd Rundgren

Rundgren takes a swipe at childhood fantasy with the dry incredulity of a grown-up who can’t believe the adults are still running the same con. Calling the Easter Bunny a “totally gratuitous myth” isn’t just atheistic throat-clearing; it’s a musician’s eye-roll at how culture manufactures spectacle for its own sake. “Gratuitous” is the tell: the story doesn’t even bother to justify itself. It’s not a myth that explains thunder or mortality. It’s a delivery mechanism for candy, an excuse to stage a small domestic scavenger hunt and call it tradition.

The phrasing does the heavy lifting. “Giant rabbit” makes the premise suddenly grotesque when you say it out loud, the way a joke gets funnier the more literally you describe it. “Haphazard” punctures the cozy veneer: this isn’t sacred ritual, it’s a messy drop of sugar around the house, engineered chaos. Rundgren’s comedy isn’t cruel toward kids so much as suspicious of the adult choreography behind them - the way we smuggle consumer habits into innocence with a wink and a costume.

Then the kicker: “the cover shows the bunny caught in the act.” That’s meta, almost punk. If the myth is already flimsy, why not expose the stagehand? It’s a reminder that pop culture (including his own medium) thrives on artifice, but also that revealing the trick can be part of the fun. Rundgren isn’t banning wonder; he’s insisting we notice who benefits from it, and how effortlessly we dress up commerce as magic.