The two guests were selected to appear together due to the fact that they are both smugglers.
George revealed that in an earlier version of the Star Wars script Chewbacca had a bird friend named Swallowbacca.
Watto started the episode over it.
Watto replaced Jar-Jar Binks as Co-Host of the George Lucas Talk show after he got a staff writing job on the TV show 'Wrecked'