Piker's Peak

Piker’s Peak
Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series
Directed by Friz Freleng
Produced by Edward Selzer
Story by Warren Foster
Voices by Mel Blanc
Music by Carl Stalling
Milt Franklyn
Animation by Gerry Chiniquy
Arthur Davis
Virgil Ross
Layouts by Hawley Pratt
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s) May 25, 1957
Color process Technicolor
Running time 7 minutes
Language English

Piker’s Peak is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Friz Freleng. It was originally released on May 25, 1957. The title is a pun on Pike's Peak.

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Plot summary

This cartoon features Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny competing to see who can climb the Schmatterhorn[nb 1] first and win 50,000 kronkites.[nb 2] Instead, Yosemite ends up climbing the Eiffel Tower after a series of mountain climbing gags, to the sound of band music.

Soundtrack

Notes

  1. ^ a pun on the Matterhorn
  2. ^ a pun on Walter Cronkite, and a reference to famed vaudeville comedians Smith & Dale's famous Dr. Kronkheit sketch. Krankheit, pronounced cronk-hite, means "sickness" in German.
  • This is one of the rare post-1937 Warner Bros. cartoons to have music from the cartoon playing past the iris-out or fade out through to the end card; this was common in MGM cartoons, but rare in Warner
  • When this cartoon aired on ABC, the part where the St. Bernard makes a martini for himself after rescuing Yosemite Sam from the avalanche was cut.[1]

References

  1. ^ "A Guide To Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies". http://web.archive.org/web/20080509170821/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/ltcutsp.html. 
Preceded by
Bedeviled Rabbit		 Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1957		 Succeeded by
What's Opera, Doc?