The meal prices from the menu hanging on the diner's wall - Ham & Eggs 30¢, Plain Steak 25¢, Liberty Sandwich 15¢, cheese, egg, ham - 10¢, hot dog 10¢, Pie 10¢, Coffee with "cream" 5¢.
When the beat cop asks Stymie what Cotton looks like, he answers "He used to look like me; now looks like Ingagi." Ingagi was the title of an exploitation film made in 1930 which purported to show African women mating with apes. It naturally caused a huge uproar and was soon revealed to be hoax. Audiences, as well as Stymie, would have known the reference.
Stoltz Cheese is represented in 4 Our Gang shorts. It is a made up brand. The block of limburger has a drawing on the left of a badger, revealing that actual the actual cheese used was Badger Brand Limburger Cheese of Wisconsin. The drawing matches the company logo and the name, though a little obscured can be seen at the bottom of the block of cheese.
Although it was 1932 and sound pictures were in full swing, several Our Gang shorts had segments filmed silently, with sound added later. It was usually done when the kids needed verbal cues or the sound effect was too much for the early equipment. In this short, the scene of the lunch counter man running from Cotton was shot silent, with the effect of his crashing into furniture added post production.
The part Stymie's infant brother Cotton was played by Matthew Beard's real brother, Bobbie. Stymie's mother, Johnnie Mae, also appear in several shorts.