Hare-Way to the Stars

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Hare-Way to the Stars
Directed by
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • March 29, 1958 (1958-03-29) (United States)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Hare-Way to the Stars is a 1958 American animated science fiction comedy short film directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.[1] The short was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 29, 1958 as part of the Looney Tunes series, and stars Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian.[2] The title is a play on the song "Stairway to the Stars."

Plot

The cartoon starts when Bugs Bunny,

Sputnik and lands on what appears to be a space station. While there, Bugs meets Marvin the Martian who is trying to blow up the Earth with his Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator (which resembles a simple stick of dynamite) because "Earth obstructs his view of Venus
".

Marvin lights the fuse, just before an alarmed Bugs quietly extinguishes it and steals the explosive, as Marvin quickly discovers what has happened - giving rise to one of his most famous lines ("where's the kaboom....there was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!!!") He creates a trio of "Instant Martians" (who somewhat resemble the Martians of

UFO
and when Marvin attempts to make more Martians, Bugs swaps the lit Space Modulator for the Instant Martian dispenser.

The Modulator explodes in Marvin's hand just after he finishes saying its name, destroying his space station (and indirectly proving the modulator would never have accomplished its intended purpose). Standing amid the shattered remains, Marvin concedes defeat and that it is "back to the old drawing board" for his plans to destroy the Earth. Bugs arrives on Earth in the UFO, but crashes into a construction site warning sign and finds himself and the bottle of "Instant Martians" falling into the sewer and splashing all the pills. The ground shakes as Bugs climbs out of the sewer, frantically replaces the manhole cover and warns the audience "Run for the hills, folks, or you'll be up to your armpits in Martians!", before proceeding to take his own advice as Martian antennas poke out of the cracks appearing in the ground.

Crew

Home media

The cartoon was featured on the

Blu-ray box set (released November 15, 2011) with the cartoon restored and in high definition. This cartoon was also made part of the feature film The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
(sometimes known as The Great American Chase).

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Preceded by Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1958
Succeeded by