Greg Proops, who voices Tal Merrik, previously played the podrace announcer Fode in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
Anakin identifying Obi-Wan's anxiety over meeting with the duchess while traveling aboard a turbolift is a mirror of a similar scene in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), with the Jedi roles reversed.
This story was written and produced before the preceding one, "The Mandalore Plot", which is why Obi-Wan and Satine act as if they haven't seen each other in a long time.
The 'Jedi fortune cookie' message that opens the show reads "Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
The Season Two Blu-ray features the extended scene "Obi-Wan Destroys Assassin Droid".