The word "doodle", in its modern specific sense of drawing on paper rather than in its older more general sense of 'fooling around', may also owe its origin - or at least its entry into common usage - to the final courtroom scene in this film. The Longfellow Deeds character, addressing the judge, explains the concept of a "doodler" - which the judge has not heard before - as being "a word we made up back home to describe someone who makes foolish designs on paper while they're thinking."