The short film originally included a scene in which the character of the Big Bad Wolf disguises himself as a Jewish Peddler. In the scene, the actor's voice switches to a yiddish accent and the music incorporates a fiddle. This scene became more controversial after World War II and was eventually edited in 1948 with a redesign of the Wolf's disguise as a Fuller Brush man and the dialogue changed from "I'm the Fuller Brush Man...I'm giving a free sample!" to "I'm the Fuller Brush Man - I'm working my way through college."