When Dill (Stuart Erwin) is contemplating the cheese in a mousetrap because he is so hungry, he reaches for it and the trap springs. The trap flies into the mouse hole but in the next scene it is laying upside down on the floor.
Supposedly taking place circa 1931, the film makes no attempt at period style or decor and sinks into a sea of anachronisms. All the women's clothes and hair styles as well as musical arrangements are contemporary 1947; the automobiles, though pre-war, are also of a much later vintage, mostly late 1930s and early 1940s.