Piker's Peak
| Piker's Peak | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series | |
| Directed by | Friz Freleng |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
| 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 |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| 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.
Plot summary
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. 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.
A running gag in the cartoon is that every time Sam falls off the mountain and starts over, the band starts playing the send-off tune and the crowd beings cheering again, as if he never started. The band also appears on the Eiffel Tower after Sam and Bugs find themselves there, and they play the song one last time, continuously into the "That's all Folks!" end titles.
Soundtrack
- "Bad Swiss Band" (sendoff music). Written by Carl Stalling
- "When I'd Yoo-Hoo in the Valley (to My Lulu in the Hills)", uncredited. Written by Henry Russell and Murray Martin
- "Little Brown Jug", uncredited. Written by Joseph Winner
- "The Bartered Bride, Opening Chorus", uncredited. Written by Bedřich Smetana
Edited versions
- 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 removed.[1]
See also
Notes
- ↑ a pun on the Matterhorn
- ↑ 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
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
| Preceded by | Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1957 |
Succeeded by What's Opera, Doc? |
| Preceded by | Yosemite Sam Cartoons 1957 |
Succeeded by Knighty Knight Bugs |
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