Trivia / Lifted

• Real-Life Relative: Stu's angry growls and snarls are recordings of Gary Rydstrom's dog.
• Write What You Know: Gary Rydstrom based the obscenely large console on the one he regularly works at as a sound engineer. The student alien angrily whacking all of the buttons was Rydstrom's way of working out some issues with his own line of work.
• Write Who You Know: The instructor alien, Mr. B, is based on a teacher Gary Rydstrom had who would always give his students b-grades, regardless of how much or how little work they put into their assignments.