The narrator says, "...just as we closed up shop last time, the object of our attention (and it wasn't Pinky Tomlin) rode into town..." Pinky Tomlin was a singer, songwriter, and bandleader in the 1930s, who had a chart-topping hit in 1934 with the song "The Object of My Affection".
The masked outlaw Zero is a spoof of the fictional masked vigilante, Zorro (first appearing in Johnston McCulley's 1919 novel, "The Curse of Capistrano", and popularized in the films The Mark of Zorro (1920) and The Mark of Zorro (1940), and the television series Zorro (1957)). Zorro and Zero both dress in black and wear masks over their eyes. Each leaves a trademark: Zorro's three-slash "Z", and Zero's "O" mark, left by a branding iron. While Zero terrorizes the Mexican town of Mucha Loma, Zorro was a hero to the people of Spanish California.
In the "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties" segment ("Mountie Without a Horse"), the silent film-style on-screen "credits" include:
- Secluded Valley played by Cahuenga Pass
- Dudley Do Right played by Acne Pitz
- Snidely Whiplash played by Clot Ballew.