Matt Berry asked Adam Savage of MythBusters and Tested fame to create Rabbit's truncheon. Adam did this whilst the show was under its working title 'Rabbit Run' as one of his 'One Day Builds' on his Tested Youtube channel.
On Tuesday, 11th February 2020, Channel 4 Television announced that it has commissioned a 6-episode second series of the Victorian-era-set comedy to be filmed and broadcast in 2020.
Matt Berry, Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement all appeared in this television series, just months after having all worked together on the television series "What We Do in the Shadows".
At one point Rabbit says "I was toast". Matt Berry starred as Steven Toast in Toast of London (2012).
The first season of Year of the Rabbit is set in the year of 1887