. . . decked out in a green leotard complemented by white sneakers, the school uniform of the early 1960s on Michigan State University's East Lansing campus. (Just as Wisconsin Badger fans sport cheese wedge hats, Warner Bros.' animators--always sticklers for Real Life accuracy--draw in broom bristles atop Sparty, I mean Marvin's head, another common sight around Ingham County, denoting MSU's annual sweeps versus their beleaguered intra-state rival, the U-M teams). Inexplicably, Marvin's antagonist here (an Orange-garbed Bugs Bunny) seems to represent Syracuse U., rather than the Spartans' primary traditional rival, our University of Maryland. Marvin inhabits a Florida island nine seconds away from Cape Canaveral by rocket. Surgeons from MSU's Large Animal Department have replaced his brain with that of a Wolverine, so he thinks that he's on STAR TREK. (You can tell this because Marvin says one crazy thing after another.) The East Lansing pranksters who've paired Bugs with Marvin trick Bugs into eating an aluminum carrot early on. The Syracuse bunny muses, "Why do I like carrots, anyway? There's not much meat on them, and they're kind of dry." Obviously, the MAD AS A HARE writer slipped this Double Entendre in to further disparage the U of M carrot-helmeted Woverines.

Being a fan of Marvin the Martian I enjoyed this short. For once he isn't trying to destroy the Earth with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, in fact in this short it is Mars being invaded by Earth.The short opens with Marvin observing the people of Earth, which he thinks are insects, through a large telescope. As he zooms in on Florida he observes what he thinks is a creature hatching, in fact it is a rocket heading straight for him. This rocket contains astro-rabbit Bugs Bunny who has been sent to claim Mars in the name of Earth. Understandably Marvin isn't too happy about this alien intruder and goes out to confront Bugs with his disintegration gun... of course it isn't Bugs that ends up getting disintegrated.Some people have said that this is too talky but I didn't mind that in fact any time Marvin talks is great as he is such a funny character, his comments about the people of Earth were hilarious.

I personally find this very funny: Bugs Bunny has a very good character in this episode and Marvin is very entertaining and sweet (except of course when he wants to disintegrate Bugs Bunny). Also, I think the animation is very well done. However, I found this episode perhaps a wee bit too short, but that is probably my only major dislike for this episode. Lee Eisenberg and bob the moo did not like this episode all that much, although they do present good arguments for the reason they dislike this. Reasons I like this more than Lee Eisenberg and bob the moo: 1. This is the first episode with Bugs and Marvin in I ever watched, so I do not have the same opinion as them. 2. I prefer a great deal of good quotes in a Looney Tunes episode rather than a great deal of slapstick gags.In this episode, Bugs Bunny has been sent into space because he is "expendable". He meets Marvin the Martian and that is when the plot really turns...I recommend this to people who like Looney Tunes characters talking a large amount and to anyone who loves anything about Looney Tunes. Enjoy! :-)

Sent to Mars in place of a human, the expendable Bugs Bunny arrives to find Marvin the alien on Mars and not to happy to have the company and immediately greets him armed to the teeth with space age ray guns.It's been a while since I have seen a Bugs Bunny cartoon with Marvin and this film was welcome to me for that reason. However this film is not very good. The first half of the film seems to be mostly talk - Marvin explaining himself and then Bugs filling in the audience as to why he was put on a rocket by NASA. The problem is that this isn't very funny and it takes up half the time of the film!The rest of the film really only consists of two gags around the use of the ray gun, and these aren't that funny either. Bugs is also not himself - he isn't given the chance to do any real trickery and the punchline betrays his character totally. Marvin is OK and does his `that makes me very angry' line a few times, but he can't carry the short.Overall this cartoon is a shame because it is a missed opportunity - both Bugs and Marvin are funny and have made some good cartoons together; sadly this isn't one of them.