The character of Quinlan Vos is known to many Star Wars fans from his appearances in comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. The design of Vos stems from a background extra barely glimpsed in Mos Espa in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace. Dark Horse applied this design to a new character featured in the Star Wars: Republic comics, Quinlan Vos. George Lucas took such an interest in the look and personality of Quinlan that he included him in the script to Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Obi-Wan Kenobi mentions a "Master Vos", and there was a plan to include Vos on Kashyyyk during the Order 66 sequence, though that was never photographed. This is Vos' first appearance in The Clone Wars.

In this episode, Quinlan Vos uses his unique Force talent of psychometry to detect Ziro's presence from a discarded drinking vessel. In the script, he was to use it again while tracking down Ziro in the swamps of Nal Hutta.

The five Hutt family leaders are are Oruba, Marlo, Arok, Gorga and Jabba. As Jabba is not present on Nal Hutta, Gardulla serves as his representative. This was a change made relatively late in production. Jabba's protocol droid, TC-30, was changed to Gardulla's, MF-80.

Among the sources of inspiration for the enormous Mama the Hutt was Pearl, the obese vampire in Blade (1998).

The small hovering droids in Mama's house -- the Ran-D housekeeper droids -- are an homage to to the tiny robots built by ILM in *batteries not included (1987).

The dance number in the episode was inspired by the opening scene of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), where Willie Scott and a troupe of chorus girls entertain gangster Lao Che and his henchmen.

For those who like to inventory such things: the creatures on Nal Hutta included a slightly redesigned peko peko bird, different in appearance from those found on Naboo; a dragonsnake; and a type of fish first spotted in Duchess Satine's aquarium earlier this season. The DJ at the Hutt gathering is named Rang Thang.

If you listen closely when Ziro dies, he mutters "What a World, what a world!", a nod to the death of the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Marlo the Hutt wears a Sha'rellian toop, a small creature that lives on his head giving him the appearance of having hair. Mama the Hutt has a stack of these as well.