Synopsis

A man in a rabbit costume tries to go about his day in Chicago, but his unusual appearance turns ordinary errands into a string of humiliating encounters. Businesses and passersby refuse to serve him, leaving the costumed figure isolated and increasingly frustrated. The video's deadpan treatment makes the absurd situation feel like a pointed social parable, contrasting the song's mournful tone with an uncomfortable comic portrait of exclusion, public suspicion, and the difficulty of simply being allowed to exist.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video premiered through Noisey on April 10, 2014.

• "Crying With Bob" appears on Bare Mutants' 2013 debut album, The Affliction, released by In the Red Records.

• The song has a personal Chicago connection. Jered Gummere wrote it about Bob, a doorman at the Empty Bottle, where Gummere worked. Both men were dealing with the deaths of their fathers, while Gummere was also grieving the loss of both parents within a three-year period.

• The video's urban setting is not incidental: the action was filmed around Chicago, and the bunny's repeated rejection turns a familiar city environment into a hostile one.

• An online collection of outtakes features Mike Lust playing the drunken, bunny-harassing redneck character, showing that the production used deliberately confrontational comic performances alongside the song's somber mood.

• The contrast between the track's grief-stricken subject and the video's ridiculous central image gives the song a broader reading: personal despair is presented through an outsider who is treated as unacceptable before he has done anything wrong.