Co-directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera won seven Best Short of the Year Oscars. In order: The Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943), Mouse Trouble (1944), Quiet Please! (1945), The Cat Concerto (1947), The Little Orphan (1948), The Two Mouseketeers (1952), and Johann Mouse (1953).
Nibbles' second appearance after The Milky Waif (1946) and the first Tom and Jerry cartoon in which Nibbles and Jerry work as a team against Tom.
Later versions of this cartoon have had a scene cut. The scene: Nibbles fires a candle that lands on Tom's tail, which consequently turns him black, followed by Nibbles sending a champagne bottle careering towards a still-black Tom and sending him hurtling toward a cupboard. Both scenes were cut from these expurgated versions.
As this short starts, Jerry is reading "Good Mousekeeping," a spoof of Good Housekeeping magazine and a similar title of another Tom and Jerry cartoon, Mouse Cleaning (1948). The note on Nibbles' shirt reads: This is Nibbles, the little Orphan you agreed to have as your guest for dinner on Thanksgiving Day / Thank you, "Bide A Wee Mouse Home" / [underlined and in red letters] PS: He's Always Hungry.
As was typical of the time, the attention given to background artistry by the animators was exceptional. Even a carved wood chair leg is rendered in perfect detail.