As actor Arthur Q. Bryan, who ordinarily provided the voice of Elmer Fudd, was ill during production of this cartoon, Dave Barry provided the character voice. This marks one of the few instances where the character is voiced by somebody other than Bryan during his lifetime.
Rather than having incidental music composed and arranged specifically for the cartoon, this is one of six Warner Brothers cartoons featuring a non-thematic stock soundtrack due to a musicians' strike. It was scored by John Seely of Capitol Records using stock music from the Hi-Q sound library.
As of 2020, it remains the only 1950s Bugs Bunny cartoon to not be released on home video in North America. However in 2023, it's included among the rotations on MeTV's Sunday morning cartoon, Bugs Bunny & Friends.
This episode shows a Stone Age Bugs Bunny (Sabertooth Rabbit) and Elmer Fudd (Elmer Fuddstone). This premise of naming characters and events in Stone Age terms was used well over a year before the premiere of the Flintstones cartoon, which debuted in 1960.
In 10,000 B.C. Sabertooth Bugs tells Elmer Fuddstone "someone" has to invent gunpowder. The first confirmed reference to gunpowder is in the 9th Century (800-899) A.D. in China during the Tang Dynasty.
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