The desert backgrounds, fancifully rendered in mid century style, include elements of both the Mojave (yucca, Beavertail cactus) and Sonoran (saguaros) as well as the color country rock formations of northern Arizona and Utah.
Coyote bakes his clay hen in a traditional Native American style oven, which is still used by the peoples of the Southwest.
The first of the so-called "yellow sky" Road Runner cartoons; this color choice would continue until Hopalong Casualty (1960), when the sky color changed to blue. The exception was Whoa, Be-Gone! (1958), when the sky color was gray.
The world was enthralled with all things outer space at the time, as shown by Coyote's rocket ship. Sputnik would launch the following year.