In the book "Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation" (1998), animation historian Michael Frierson suggests that the cartoon may have been inspired by contemporary political events. In particular, the cartoon begins with a publicized nonaggression pact between two enemy factions. While members play at being friends, most continue the feud in covert ways. Frierson suggests this was a reference to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (August 1939), the nonaggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Contemporaries were already suspecting it would not last.
The cartoon features several unnamed black ducks and at least one of them seems to resemble Daffy Duck in design. He acts as a bugler calling the troops to action.
The cartoon features a brief scene featuring a white rabbit, wearing a gas mask, shaking hands with a skunk. The design of the rabbit resembles the early design of Bugs Bunny, as seen in Porky's Hare Hunt (1938), Prest-O Change-O (1939), and Patient Porky (1940).
The film is set in "old Kaintucky" (Kentucky). But the newspaper covering the supposed end of the family feud is called the "Ozark Bazooka", named after the Ozark Mountains. This mountain range range covers areas of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma but not Kentucky.
The newspaper that covers the supposed end of the feud is dated June 18, 1942. It also reports that "Titanic hits Ice-berg" which happened in 1912.