R3-S6's gold and black color scheme is based on Dave Filoni's hometown favorites, the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The 'Jedi fortune cookie' message that opens the show reads "Trust in your friends, and they'll have reason to trust in you." In the original script it was "Friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, impossible to forget."
This was the second episode to be produced. The first episode became part of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Gha Nachkt, or at least his character model, first appeared sitting at a bar in Ziro the Hutt's palace in Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008).
Dave Filoni's first idea for Gha Nachkt's space scavenger, 'Vulture's Claw', was to make it look like field binoculars that could open and close. When this design did not work out, Kilian Plunkett found inspiration from a rusty, greasy dump truck he spotted while driving to work. He took the shape of the truck, duplicated it so there were three and stuck an axis down the middle to create the junk-prowling craft.