The caricatured celebrities are, in order of appearance: Zachary Scott, Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Leopold Stokowski, Gregory Peck, animators Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce, Ray Milland, Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Sydney Greenstreet, Carmen Miranda, and Lauren Bacall.
The song that the Carmen Miranda character sings to a excerpt from "Conga Del Fuego Nuevo" is nonsensical and includes three names that Miranda sung under when she was in the U.S.A., as well as the names of three popular varieties of Samba.
The name of the nightclub in the film, Mocrumbo is a reference to the real life nightclub, Mocambo which was located at 8588 Sunset Boulevard.