Trivia

Based on the Broadway stage skit "An Episode at the Dentist" written by W.C. Fields for the "Earl Carroll Vanities" in 1928.

On the Criterion DVD edition, a musical background has been added to the soundtrack for the lost golf ball sequence.

One of four shorts W.C. Fieldsmade with Mack Sennett at Paramount.

Ethel La Blanche was originally cast as Miss Pepitone, but she was replaced by Dorothy Granger. Similarly, William Searby was originally cast as the Caddy, but he was replaced by Bobby Dunn.

This film is included on "W.C. Fields - Six Short Films", which is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #79.