The manipulative Gungan Rish Loo is named after the character of Cardinal Richelieu from the novel "The Three Musketeers" (1844) by Alexandre Dumas.
The 'Jedi fortune cookie' message that opens the show reads "Who a person truly is cannot be seen with the eye."
Jar Jar Binks escorts Senator Amidala and General Skywalker to the Gungan capital in a tribubble bongo, the same aquatic ship with which Jar Jar accompanies Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi through the core of Naboo in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
The music that plays when Padme, Anakin, and Jar Jar arrive to the Gungan city is a slight variation of the music that played when Obi-Wan, Qui-Gonn, and Jar Jar arrived in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).