The shot of Jerry running out the door and Tom storming out breaking a hole through it, was also used in Love That Pup (1949).
This is one of only three Tom & Jerry cartoons (the others being The Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943) and Safety Second (1950)) that use the blackface flower gag.
The mid century era saw huge movements of urban American dwellers to the newly developed suburban communities that were springing up. Everyone had their idea of a dream home, furnished with the latest must haves, much as Spike does here.
Blueprints showed up in many mid-century cartoon plots, a nod to the modern building and planning happening almost everywhere.
As was usual in this era, the attention to background detail was wonderfully detailed. The neighbor's distant home is shown with a gabled roof and brick fireplace, for example. And Tom glides by on the very latest model of roller skate, an extremely popular activity at the time.