This movie stands as a testament to the rapid rise in popularity of Bugs Bunny. Only a year and a half earlier, Bugs had been introduced to the public in A Wild Hare (1940), and already the Treasury Department had commissioned a special Bugs film to sell war bonds.
Due to pressure from Warner Bros., this cartoon was one of 12 pulled from rotation by the Cartoon Network for its 2001 "June Bugs" marathon, which was to show the complete chronology of Bugs Bunny cartoons. This is in addition to the "Censored 11" that have been withheld from distribution since 1968. The reason given was that the scene in which Bugs does a black-face Al Jolson imitation would offend African-Americans.
This film, which started production in late November 1941, was completed eight days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
This short is one of five cartoons featuring Elmer Fudd modeled after his voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan, which is fatter than the popular incarnation.