[3] The script was written by Warren Foster, the main animator was Izzy Ellis, and the music director was Carl Stalling.
By the 1930s, depictions of hillbilly culture in mass media typically involved two families engaged in an armed conflict over mountains and hills.
[3] Michael Frierson points that the image of the hillbilly so popular in media during the Great Depression, could have different meanings for the American audience of the time.
Otherwise, the characterization of the stereotypical hillbillies remained the same and humor was derived from their feuds, their violence, their stupidity, their odd speech, their music, and their laziness.
The overall image was related with other contemporary stereotypes concerning Southerners, such as their supposed strange way of speaking, laziness, and that they were quick to anger and resort to violence.
[3] In the hands of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Friz Freleng, the cartoon hillbillies emerged as figures who foiled the power of local sheriffs, drove away those who attempted to preach peace to them, rejected urbanization, and lacked work ethic.
[4][5] The short properly opens by featuring the front page of a newspaper, the "Ozark bazooka", which reports that the leaders of the two rival clans have signed a non-aggression pact.
[5] Also parts of the newspaper shows the Brooklyn Dodgers defeating the New York Yankees 6–2, and the weather which is fair and warmer, mentioning "warmer bros" (the beginning scenes such as the brief view of the battle, the "Kaintucky" introduction, and the newspaper clips were removed on some syndicated airings, including WKBD-TV Channel 50 in Detroit, Michigan in the 1980s).
[3] The plot might involve a feud, but several scenes invoke images of war: a gas mask, a grenade, and a bugle calling troops to battle.
[3] Frierson finds their singing and overall behavior to give this film a rather "saccharine tone", which may be too cute from the perspective of a "modern" (1990s) audience to actually enjoy.
[3] The main source of humor in the film is the contrast between their pacifism and the way that the rest of their clans embrace the conflict as part of their way of life.