In 2018, on the official Ralph Bakshi Twitter, it was confirmed by Bakshi's social media team that this is the cartoon that's playing on TV in Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), when Tom Atkins is in the bar, and asks the bartender to change the channel because he finds the cartoon too weird.
When John Kricfalusi first met Ralph Bakshi, Bakshi showed Kricfalusi this short. Kricfalusi told Bakshi that he hated the cartoon, calling it one of the worst things he'd ever seen. Impressed by the young up-and-coming cartoonist's tenacity, Bakshi hired Kricfalusi on the spot.