Due to a controversy over its subject matter, this episode, a Jewish Hanukkah special, was originally produced for season 2 (as production episode 2.5) to be broadcast in December 2000, but wasn't broadcast until November 2003, almost 2 years after the show's cancellation. (Since the show wasn't picked up again until early 2005, this episode (commonly listed as 3.22), should ideally be in a season by itself as episode 4.1, and season 4 and on should really be season 5 and on.) Similarly, a Christmas special, also considered controversial, was made for around the same time (production episode 2.3), to be broadcast in season 2 around Xmas 2000, but was not actually broadcast until season 3 just before Xmas 2001 (as episode 3.16).
The episode eventually did air on Fox, but with the following change: in the song "I Need a Jew," Peter says, referring to Jews, "I don't think they killed my Lord," instead of the original line, "Even though they killed my Lord."
Mark Hamill voices both Luke Skywalker, who he played in the original Star Wars movies and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke's Jedi mentor, who was originally played by Alec Guinness.
The scenes where Lois is pounding on the glass doors to break up the ceremony, and then all 3 escape in the back of a bus, is a nod to the ending of the film The Graduate.
When they meet with the Rabbi at Temple, the rabbi points to a boy studying. The boy turns the pages right to left, that's the opposite on all Hebrew text, it's read right to left, not left to right.