Piker's Peak

Piker's Peak
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	May 25, 1957
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling Milt Franklyn
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil RossArt Davis
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Piker's Peak is the three hundred and seventy-sixth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on May 25, 1957. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

A race to the Schmatterhorn peak is settled when piker Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny compete for five thousand Kronkheits.

Memorable quotes

Bugs: As long as he's happy, why tell him?

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Yosemite Sam	Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Swiss Mayor	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • Switzerland
    • Swiss Alps
      • Schmatterhorn
  • France
    • Paris
      • Eiffel Tower

Music

The music was composed by both Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: May 25, 1957 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the mountain Pike's Peak, and the word "piker," meaning cheapskate.
• This is one of the rare classic Warner Bros. shorts to have music from the cartoon playing past the iris-out or fade out through the outro sequence; it was never used after 1937 for both the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series.

Everlasting influence

• Stock footage of the St. Bernard scene was re-used as a one-off gag in the 1958 Robert McKimson-directed cartoon, Dog Tales.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection