Anakin calls Dr. Vindi a "sleemo," which is Huttese for "slimeball."

The series debuts some fully realized Ithorian and Quarren models in this episode. Previously, the Clone Wars movie used cobbled together figures to represent these background aliens. In Jabba's palace, the Ithorians were made of a crudely modeled head stuck on Palpatine's body, and the Quarren was a simple head stuck on Obi-Wan's body.

The Angel went through a number of revisions, with some much more human than the end result.

Originally, the xandu was to have been devoured by the reeksa vines.

The city of Cliffhold is based on old Doug Chiang designs from The Phantom Menace. It is filled with aurebesh graffiti, including incidents of Jaybo Hood's name scrawled on the walls or simple illustrations depicting droids and clones. One building is marked with a large aurebesh marquee that reads "Kristal Skull."