The Gambling Bug is a small character who infects others with the desire to gamble. Early to Bet is his only appearance.
The cartoon is a sequel to the 1950 short It's Hummer Time, which featured the same bulldog giving the same cat elaborate punishments.
The Gambling Bug makes a brief cameo at the basketball game in Space Jam.
The gambling bug's home includes dice and playing cards as furnishings.
The line from the James Whitcomb Riley poem, "Little Orphant Annie," "The goblins will get you if you don't watch out!" is spoofed here by the gambling bug.