The tires are pressed into shape on what resembles the very latest kitchen gadget: a waffle iron.
Flat Foot Flookey bears a passing resemblance to a pair of famous Disney canines: Pluto and Goofy.
The opening credits show an auto tire rendered in perfect detail, a credit to the hard working animation teams of the era.
When Flat Foot Flooky emerges from the rubberizing solution he molds his face into caricatures of Edward G. Robinson, Edna May Oliver, Clark Gable, and Hugh Herbert.
The humorous depiction of rubber extraction has basis in fact at the time. Rubber plantations, which were located in more tropical areas around the globe, grew scores of trees whose sap was tapped to produce natural rubber.