Like other early talkies, this film was reshot in other languages, with casts who spoke the language and Stan & Ollie learning their lines phonetically. In one of the foreign-language versions, the butler is played by Boris Karloff.
This is the first short film in which Oliver Hardy says to Stan Laurel, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!"
The elaborate interior sets built for this short were kept and used for future productions, including Oliver the Eighth (1934), up through some of Hal Roach's television productions in the 1950s.
When Oliver is looking at the newspaper ad, the initials of the person who placed the ad are L.A.H., representing Laurel and Hardy.
The opening title cards states, "Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy decided that they needed a rest - - They had been looking for work since 1921". 1921 was the year of the release of the first film that Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were in together.