Piker's Peak

Piker's Peak
Directed by	Friz Freleng
Produced by	Edward Selzer (uncredited)
Animation by	Gerry Chiniquy Arthur Davis Virgil Ross
Layouts by	Hawley Pratt
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Running time	7 minutes

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

This cartoon features Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny competing to see who can climb the Schmatterhorn first and win 50,000 kronkites. 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

See also

• List of American films of 1957
• List of Bugs Bunny cartoons
• List of Yosemite Sam cartoons

Notes

• 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

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