The Flaming Carrot was in part inspired by the obscure Golden Age character Fin (comics)|The Fin]]. Burden recounted that "I took this particular idea and scratched it down one night when I came home about three o'clock in the morning. I'd been out on the town all night, and it was one of those nights when I came home tired, and fell asleep with my clothes on." Asked to explain the meaning of "Ut!", he stated, —