Dalton "Sandy' Sandifer's first writing credit has Woody's vacation in the dessert interrupted by a German-accented scientist who thinks he has landed on Mars and wants to take Woody back as a specimen. The script is certainly livelier than many Woody Woodpecker scripts of the era as Woody takes an active hand in tormenting his would-be oppressor, but while the gags are well thought out and timed, the continuing decline in animation technique is beginning to tell here. The ink and paint had been simplified to the point of minimalism for a couple of years, but the in-betweening that makes animation a pleasure was starting to go at this stage, Strill, the script is usually good enough to sustain the short, if not to make it a classic.