The list of "Cast Off Characters" for the movie "The Petrified Florist," which goes by too fast to see, reads as so: The Hero... Lester Coward; The Shero... Bettie Savis; Rich Man... John P. Sockefeller; Poor Man... John Dough; Begger Man... Kismet; Thief... Oph Bagdad; Doctor... Jekyll; Lawyer... Ima Shyster (the last five names then repeat endlessly).
The feature film in the cartoon, "Petrified Florist", is a satire on Warner Bros.' own The Petrified Forest (1936) and shows a barroom scene with caricatures of stars Bette Davis and Leslie Howard.
The start of the feature film shown has a lion crowing like a rooster, a send up of MGM's mascot Leo
The organist, Stickoutski, is a spoof on Leopold Stokowski, a famous musician of the era, and he plays a Wurlitzer organ, spoofed here as a Fertilizer.
Rejected Shorts is a spoof of the term selected shorts, which were shown with a feature film: newsreels, cartoons, travelogues and the like. The Goofy-tone News shorts are a spoof on Movietone News, while the Vita-tone short is a play on Vitaphone, both of which distributed feature shorts to cinemas. The newscaster shown is a pun on Lowell Thomas, a famous broadcast personality of the era.