While Stitch and the other experiments are technically siblings, cousins is a Hawaiian term, like ohana, for extended family and close friends, although Stitch only uses it in regard to the experiments.
Serves as a pilot to Lilo & Stitch: La serie (2003), and is one of only two pilots to an Animated Disney Show to be done in the form of a film altogether, the other being Buzz Lightyear Comando Estelar: La aventura comienza (2000).
*Pleakley asks Cobra "What do we do?", to which Cobra responds "Hope for another miracle." This mirrors Jumba's response when Nani asked the same question in the first movie. *During the space battle, Gantu uses the same method to escape Stitch and Lilo that Stitch did to escape him in the first movie: using his hyperdrive right under the nose of Stitch's much larger ship so close that the shockwave sends the vessel reeling. Gantu takes note of this, mocking Stitch with a smug "my turn this time" just before he does it. , *Stitch still has "lost" issues; Lilo lampshades this. *"Meega nala kweesta!" is once again used as an incredibly offensive insult-- this time to Stitch, who seems just about as shocked as the Grand Councilwoman was when she heard it.
*Similar to the scene from the first movie where in a beat, Lilo runs away screaming as Nani chases her, Lilo and Stitch do the same thing when Nani catches them in the middle of the night when they should be in bed. *Lilo's strange interest in taking pictures of overweight tourists is shown again for a brief moment when she takes a picture of Stitch posing in front of one. *When Stitch first bonds with 221, he picks his nose with his tongue. 221 does the same. *While trying to catch Sparky, Lilo and Stitch end up in the same hotel where Nani interviewed for a concierge position. *Lilo and Stitch chasing Gantu's ship when he kidnaps Jumba. This is the second time Jumba and Pleakley's spaceship ends up in a chase with Gantu's to try to rescue someone from kidnapping. It's also the second time Stitch is at the controls of a red spaceship in a chase - but this time, he's the pursuer. And finally, Gantu turns the tables on Stitch by performing a hyperspace jump in close proximity to his ship. Gantu even lampshades this. *Lilo draws a "badness level" for 221 like she did for Stitch. His badness level isn't as high as Stitch's initially was, however.
While Nani is out looking for Lilo, David stays at the house and watches a movie, which is the 1955 sci-fi movie, "This Island Earth."