On the wall of the woodpecker's home is a framed 4-cent stamp commemorating famed bird artist John James Audubon.
The first appearance of Hector the Bulldog in the cartoon.
One of the few times Sylvester actually is heard meowing like a cat, if only for a moment.
The avian critter resembles the actual North American red-headed woodpecker.
The woodpecker might have been a sidelong glance acknowledgment of Walter Lantz's character Woody Woodpecker, who debuted in 1940.
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