The gag with The Three Stooges dressed up in Santa Claus outfits in order to get into the palace would be used again, eleven years later (with Shemp Howard replacing Curly Howard), in their short Malice in the Palace (1949), which uses the same footage of the Stooges riding up to the gate.
When the stooges attempt to enter the castle the guard asks, who are you. They answer Santa Claus. He responds, "There ain't no Santa Claus." A possible nod to the contract scene with nearly the same dialogue in the Marx Brothers film Night at the Opera from 1935.
The name of the Middle East country, "Simmits," is a pun on "tsimmis," a Yiddish slang term for "a big fuss."
Production number 404.