. . . Football Fortunes with THE HASTY HARE. Infringing upon Michigan State University's "Sparty" mascot trademark in the more lax days of copyright enforcement back in the 1900s, "Marvin Martian" is indistinguishable from the East Lansing Elf trolling the sidelines during most of the Spartan Home Game Defeats. Bugs Bunny tricks Marvin into leaving Earth empty-handed during the first part of HASTY HARE, foreshadowing how the Spartans would raise the hopes of Michigan Taxpayers by making the second-ever National Football Final Four. After their 128 - 0 defeat in January, 2016, the Spartan Gridders were forced to hitch-hike back to their Wolverine State, as some of their tax subsidies were withdrawn. When Marvin and his K - 9 sidekick suit up for a second go at Bugs, they wind up tangled in their own Acme Corp. rocket-propelled strait jackets. They cannot even evade the Moon, Saturn, Jupiter, and a few of the more sluggish stars, as the Looney Tuners predict a string of five straight Spartan losses in the Fall of 2016 to such teams as the Universities of Indiana and Maryland.

"The Hasty Hare" is a 7.5-minute cartoon from 1952, so this one will have its 65th anniversary next year. The star here is Bugs Bunny this time and he is not against Daffy, Elmer or Sam in here, but against the Martian, a fairly popular cartoon from the Warner Bros. franchise, who was not as frequent as some of the others though. I personally like the way he looks, but this character is one of the very few cases where I am not too big on Mel Blanc's voice acting. In my opinion, his approach does not fit the character. The Martian is a pretty simple guy carrying out orders for his boss in this little movie and despite his lack of intelligence and mostly thanks to his weaponry, he manages to get Bugs on board of the space ship, but of course in the end the bunny has the last laugh. Not the audience though. There were some fine moments with Bugs getting quickly on board when he sees the armed power of the Martian and the straight jacket scene was fun too, but as a whole it wasn't really entertaining. i give it a thumbs-down.

This amusing Bugs Bunny cartoon sees the return of the still unnamed Marvin the Martian and his sidekick K-9 the green dog.This time instead of trying to destroy the Earth Marvin is on a mission to land, capture an Earth creature and take it back to Mars. Of course the creature he picks is Bugs Bunny. At first Bugs thinks Marvin and K-9 are trick or treating but realises this can't be right when Marvin drastically enlarges Bug's rabbit hole with a ray-gun. Bugs tries to trick his way out of the situation in a couple of ways, including persuading Marvin that K-9 is planning a mutiny. Eventually he is captured using an Acme strait-jacket ejecting bazooka. Amazingly, for an Acme product, it works as advertised and Bug's is forced to use his wits to get K-9 to release him, the tables are soon turned and the two disgruntled Martians are trussed up and Bugs is trying to fly their saucer back to Earth.I really enjoyed this although the ending is a little weak compared to the rest of the story. Marvin's voice has changed slightly here and he gets visible emotional when he is angry but this didn't make me like him or the cartoon any less.

Did you ever notice Bugs is the only Loony Tunes star big enough to have his name above the title? Maybe that's why he always gets the best villains to outsmart. Marvin, commanding Flying Saucer X-2 is ordered by Martian HDQS to bring back one live Earth creature. But since even Martians buy supplies at Acme (like the Acme disintegrating pistol and the Strait-Jacket Ejecting Bazooka) there is little chance of succeeding. Even stranger, a Martian Trumpet sounds almost exactly like Bugs Bunny singing.Soon the pointy eared Earth creature (Bugs, as if you would not have guessed) turns the tables by planting rumours of mutiny. Martian K-9 Anxious utters the one phrase that should appear in every good film: `What have I done?' (though he does so via a note). The best sequence is saved for last, as Bugs takes the control of the Flying Saucer and rearranges the entire known solar system. This has to be seen to be believed. 7 out of 10