The film was popular enough to inspire the only sequel in the history of the Laurel & Hardy short subject franchise: Dente por Dente (1935), which received an Oscar nomination.
Filming was moved from Santa Ynez Canyon to the Roach Studios lot when heavy fog put a stop to location filming.
Charlie Hall refused to do any full rehearsals or retakes for the scene where he gets covered in molasses and feathers. It all had to be shot in one take and all the subsequent scenes had to be shot in one take as well and on the same day. This meant that the whole scene had to planned and practiced in advance. Inevitabily the white suit he wears in this scene was ruined.
For a change, Billy Gilbert does not affect a foreign accent as the doctor.