Both targeted a stuffed owl hanging on the wall with identical shots, and they were forced to propose together: "Ain""t nothin"" to do now - - but pop it together!" They both retreated to a back room to prepare to look their best.Hahn).The film, shot in Los Angeles, was significant for being one of the first to receive an Oscar nomination for Special Effects - a category recognized for the first time.A few of the loosely-connected scenes that were woven ogether have become classics:the funny sight-gag of repeatedly pickpocketing a Sheriff of a $5 dollar bill, to make it look like a $15 bill was paidthe famous "Tootsie-Frootsie" Ice Cream/Code Book scene at the racetrackthe Phone Call Impersonation sequencethe two Medical Examination scenesa clever Pantomime (Game of Charades) o indicate a frame-upthe Dinner-Date seduction and Wallpapering to the Wall scenethe destruction of a piano and its transformation into a harpthe climactic Steeplechase race sequenceThis was theonlyMarx Brothers film to receive a competitive Oscar nomination -- Dave Gould""s Best Dance Direction for the song/dance number "All God""s Children Got Rhythm" in he last part of the film.When seen by American audiences in the early 1940s during the progress of World War II, the implication was obvious hat Hitler""s evils in Europe could also inhabit the ethos of the sacred American/western frontier.