The final Warner Bros. cartoon with Treg Brown as film/sound editor, and the only Warner Bros. short produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises where Treg Brown is editor. Brown was the film/sound effect editor on the majority of Warner Bros. cartoons produced between 1933 and 1965.
This is the second Speedy Gonzales cartoon to feature Daffy Duck as the villain of the series without Sylvester, who was againist Speedy after chasing him in Cats and Bruises (1965).
First Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales cartoon directed by Robert McKimson in the DePatie-Freleng era. He would also direct 16 out of 18 shorts from this era after the Termite Terrace studio shut down in 1963. He later returned in 1968 to work with the shorts by Warner Bros./Seven Arts animation until 1969, when Warner Bros. was brought by The Kinney National Company in 1970.
The title refers to the 1851 Herman Melville novel "Moby Dick" about the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaler "Pequod", commanded by Captain Ahab who had an obsession with the great white whale named Moby Dick.
A kind of retelling of the 1951 WB short Canned Feud, featuring a trapped Sylvester, cans of food, and a can opener holding mouse.