W.C. Fields comes to the studio gate in a top hat, overcoat and checkered pants. He uses his cane as a pool cue in an allusion to one of his famous vaudeville routines, which he performed in many films including
Pool Sharks (1915) (1915).
Charles Chaplin is driving the car that "walks."
Beans disguises himself as
Oliver Hardy to get past the studio guard.
The robotic monster is modeled on
Boris Karloff's Frankenstein monster.