[2] The title is a play on the phrase “a call to arms” that references actress Lauren Bacall, whose acclaimed 1944 film debut was in To Have and Have Not, based on Hemingway's 1937 novel.

It includes images of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who are credited as "Bogey Gocart and Laurie Bee Cool".

Although the theater was initially full, it is eventually seen to be empty except for one patron: a literal lone wolf in a zoot suit who goes ga-ga over Bacall.

[3] The film uses caricatures of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, who attempt to act out the scene from To Have and Have Not (1944) in which they first kiss, and her character's advice on how to whistle.

The other was Slick Hare (1947), where restaurant customer Bogart demands "fried rabbit" from Elmer Fudd, setting up a plot where he chases after Bugs Bunny.

Christopher Lehman notes that it was typical for blackface gags in animated films to make references to well-known African American actors.

He notes, however, that the creators of Warner Bros. Cartoons found comedic use for Anderson's voice and ethnicity, but never for the intelligence or wit of his character, Rochester, which he finds rather telling.

[9] World War II ended in September 1945, but several animated shorts released later in that year and into 1946 still contained war-related references.

Common themes among them were the depiction of poetic justice as malum in se, of faked sentiment as a tool of deception, and sardonicism as the primary form of humor.