The song consists almost in its entirety of an unofficial soundalike sampled loop from "Whistle Stop" by Roger Miller which was featured in the Disney movie Robin Hood, played at high speed in a manner similar to the classic "Chipmunks" records.

They were given £25,000 to record a video[2] for the song which ended up featuring a giant fibreglass melon covered in trifle and a live-action hamster singing along.

The song's closing lines are of an announcer of a children's radio show: And this is your Uncle Dan saying good night.

The "B-side" tracks on the single exhibit similar traits, with e.g. Fluorescent Dream Beams featuring several samples from 1974's Phantom of the Paradise, alongside an original vocal.

Somewhat ironically, whilst the movie quotes are original, the core sample had to be re-recorded as a close but imperfect soundalike owing to copyright clearance issues - a problem that also plagued several other Cuban Boys singles and many tracks on the Eastwood album (e.g. Kenny, I Like Everybody), though it is unclear whether the holders refused permission (heavily suggested in the case of Inertia Kicks) or EMI simply declined to pay the licensing fees.

It is known that in the case of later single "The Hampsterdance Song", which was recorded by the group The Boomtang Boys under the name Hampton the Hampster, Disney did not want the sample to be used.

[4] Unlike the later single "The Hampsterdance Song", "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" was released without the involvement of the owner of the original website, Deidre LaCarte.