John McGrew was the layout artist, and the background scenery was painted by Gene Fleury and Bernyce Polifka—all uncredited.

[3] The cartoon opens with two castaways adrift on a small raft in the middle of the ocean, underscored with "Asleep in the Deep".

The men join in until the tall, skinny man, seeing Bugs stop and walk away, gives his pal a slap (off-camera, following the Hays Office rules) to make him quit.

While Bugs takes a bath in the hot water, the men set up a dining table; the short, fat one bastes the rabbit.

The strings eventually tangle and, as Bugs struggles with it, the chicken is actually manipulated to point up, tipping off the men.

Once the men leap for joy at the prospect of being saved and trot toward the gangplank, Bugs kisses them goodbye and presents them with leis, then pulls his time-honored switcheroo trick and boards the ship himself.

On TV airings, the part where Bugs speaks to the Hawaiian castaways contains a blue border appearing on both United States and Europe Turner 1995 prints such as Cartoon Network.