It all comes down to a couple of jokes. First, it’s mentioned that Judy Hopps, the rabbit heroine, has 275 brothers and sisters. It’s supposed to be a quick gag about how fast rabbits reproduce, and if you’re like me, you just assumed that Judy’s parents are unstoppable fuck machines.
But if you pause the charming Disney movie to do math, you reach horrifying conclusions. Judy’s parents represent everyday bunnies who live mundane lives, so it’s safe to assume that having 275 children is considered average. If all 275 of Judy’s siblings have an average of 275 kids of their own, Judy’s going to have 75,625 nieces and nephews. The third generation of Hopps would be 20,796,875 strong – a Sri Lanka’s worth of offspring. The fourth generation would see 5,719,140,625 bunnies born, while the fifth would see 1,572,763,671,875. There would be over one and a half trillion Hopps. To put that in perspective, that’s 212.5 times the current human population, and there would be about 14.6 times more members of the Hopps family than there have been estimated people in all of human history.
I think we can all agree that Judy is adorable, and there’s a significant subsection of the internet that finds her much more than that. But she’d be a lot less fuzzy-wuzzy if there were a trillion and a half of her blotting out the very surface of the Earth as they strip it bare in their all-consuming quest for carrots. And that’s just one family.