"Yes, it's the old classic! All I'll need is a rabbit and a hat! Here we go..." The magician reaches behind his back, and when his hands return they're holding a rubbery top hat in one hand and a regular old white bunny in the other. "And now... PRESTO!" Without a hint of irony, he drops the rabbit into the hat, bowing as though he'd just made the Statue of Liberty disappear. "Impressive, no?"
"Um... you're supposed to pull the rabbit out of the hat," you suggest. Mephistopheles' face goes blank and emotionless.
"What."
"The rabbit. It comes out of the hat, like magic, not into the hat."
"I see. Like magic, then, is it? Well, if that's the way it's done."
He looks like he's trying to hold back his rage at your criticisms of his show, but nevertheless he reaches into the hat. He doesn't pull out a rabbit, though. What he pulls out has long ears and a fluffy tail, but the rabid gaze and razor-sharp teeth and talons, combined with the vicious snarling, kills the whole rabbit idea. Then he puts both the hat and rabbit back behind his back, before declaring "Ta-daa" with the least enthusiasm imaginable. You're still freaked out by the thing he pulled out.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! THAT WASN'T A RABBIT! HOLY CRAP!"
He seems to be taking that about as well as the commentary on his tricks, dryly responding, "oh? So that's not a rabbit, is it? Want to see a RABBIT, is that right? Well, I wouldn't want to DISAPPOINT you." He pulls a small, uninflated white balloon from his pocket and dangles it at you. "Yeah, have to PLEASE YOU, don't I? Well, maybe I'll just use this to MAKE you a rabbit, huh? Yeah, sounds like a plan, DOESN'T IT."
Balloon animals sound par for the course after the first trick, but that thing he pulled out of his hat... this guy is no ordinary hack magician, and that sinister look in his eyes makes it seem pretty apparent that he plans on doing something more with that balloon than just bending it into shapes.