Curly briefly speaks in his normal voice in the line-up scene, when he says "Gee, it's warm in here. I hope the beer don't spoil".
This was the first short Curly did after he had suffered the latest of a series of small strokes. It affected both his speech and timing and is much thinner in this short as well. The volume of stock footage used here is to give Curly some rest.
The last short to feature supporting actor Eddie Laughton, who appears in archive footage as well as a new shot where he and the Stooges mistake a gate for the door of a prison transport truck.
Contains prison scenes from "So Long Mr. Chumps" (1941) and "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" (1941).
The original script reworked scenes from Laurel & Hardy's PARDON US (1931), including a virtual word-for-word copy of the prison classroom scene. For legal reasons, scenes that copied from PARDON US were deleted.