Tom is perusing a magazine (Saturday Evening Puss) whose title spoofs the popular weekly, "The Saturday Evening Post."
As with most cartoons of this era, the background design is perfectly and sumptuously rendered. Even Jerry's thimble and spool table lamp is carefully drawn, with careful attention to the smallest detail.
Rival animator Walter Lantz has launched his own animated woodpecker character, Woody, nine years prior to this short so comic woodpeckers were a common sight in cartoons of the era.