The Perishers his bathtime struggles with Wellington usually turn into epic battles. Boot's favourite food appears to be links of sausages, and his attempts to consume these in advance of Wellington provide the basis of many episodes. Boot was originally drawn with a short tail (on one occasion he met a bob-tailed sheepdog, and on hearing the name decided to call his own tail Fred), but Maurice Dodd later discovered that real Old English Sheepdogs' tails are docked, and so over the course of several years Collins drew his tail shorter and shorter until it vanished altogether – Boot still appears completely
The Cartoon New Yorker" paid tribute to the episode. Contest #342 was a drawing of a pig at a complaint window. The winning caption was printed in the next August 27, 2012 issue of the magazine and read "Stop sending me spam!" It was submitted by Sean Lynch of Brooklyn, NY. Vance Durgin of "The Orange County Register" wrote that the episode was "funny all the way, because of writing mostly true to the characters." Barbara Vancheri of the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" gave the episode a "7.5" on a ten-point scale. The Cartoon "The Cartoon" is the 169th episode of the NBC sitcom