Anecdotes

Catstello tells the audience "If the Hays office would only let me, I'd give him the bird all right." This is a double entendre acknowledging that the Hays Code, which set the guidelines for content allowed in a motion picture, would never have allowed a movie character to "give the bird" (making an obscene gesture).

First appearance of Tweety Bird. Early model sheets for this short indicated that Tweety's original name was "Orson," but no name is given in the film. After censors complained that the pink bird looked naked because he had no feathers, Tweety's color was changed to yellow.

The cats Babbitt and Catstello are obvious caricatures of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The name Catstello is never spoken in the film.

Babbit and Catstello appear as different animals in each of their four cartoons shorts where they featured from 1942-1946. They first appeared as cats in this cartoon, then as mice in Tale of Two Mice (1945) and The Mouse-Merized Cat (1946), and finally as dogs in Hollywood Canine Canteen (1946).

Tedd Pierce, who provided the voice of "Babbitt", was one of the top writers in the Warner Bros. cartoon department, responsible for writing many of the studios' most fondly remembered cartoons, including Elmer's Candid Camera (1940), The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942) and Dough for the Do-Do (1949).