Around the time of the episode's creation, former head of the FCC, Reed Hundt released an TV mandate to include over three hours of educational children's programing on networks, which ultimately impacted the kind of cartoons that channels could put on the air. This move upset the staff at Warner Animation so much that they inserted a parody/architecture of Hundt as "Reef Blunt", to interact with Slappy (the most violent character on the show), specifically just to have her "teach Reed a lesson".
The first episode StarToons animated since Scare Happy Slappy/Witch One/MacBeth (1994). It is also the first episode the studio animated entirely themselves since Guardin' in the Garden/Plane Pals (1993).
"Dot: The Macadamia Nut" contains the only digital animation in the entire series; it occurs during the slot machine sequences. They would've been too difficult to achieve using traditional cel animation.