Historical and Cultural References
- One of the Goofies in this short is smoking a cigarette that's from "Phyllis Morrison", which is a parody of Phillip Morris. A subsequent Goofy skywrites an ad telling to "Smoke LOOKYs", which parodies the advertising message, "Smoke LUCKYs" (Lucky Strike brand).
- When Goofy pleads to the elderly stranger for something to smoke, he quotes various slang terms for various tobacco products, in the following order: cig, fag, pipe, nail, weed, rope, chaw, cigar, and snuff. (It is interesting for some modern audiences to find the British/Irish/Australian slang word for cigarette, "fag", used in this 1950's American cartoon instead of its current meaning, and also to find "weed" being used to mean tobacco, instead of the term's current meaning. It is uninteresting, however, for them to hear the terms "rope", "nail" and "pipe".)
Read more about this topic: No Smoking (1951 Film)
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