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* For those who have only seen the special editions of ''[[Star Wars]]'', it's weird seeing English writing on things like the tractor beam instead of the Aurebesh that later replaced it. It's also a little weird hearing Han Solo say things like "I'll see you in hell" in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' without the "nine Corellian hells" backstory. Of course, you can file such things under [[Translation Convention]]. Justified in [[Canon]] according to the Hyperspace Article "The Written Word" this is the High Galactic Alphabet. As for use of the Greek Alphabet that is also justified as the Tionese writing system.
** Even in the remastered versions, ''A New Hope'' still contains standard numerals on screen as the Death Star nears Yavin IV. Although they don't match up with the numbers the characters are saying.
** The original Marvel ''[[Star Wars]]'' tie-in comic run had many of these, with mentions of "Sunday school" by Han Solo (made even more curious since, for as detailed as the ''Expanded Universe'' got, it never actually named its months ''or'' days of the week), Jaxxon talking about "space carrots" (implying that there were places not considered to be from space—which would be assumed to be Earth), and so on.
** The Ewok Adventure live-action TV movies had real-world horses and animals.
** ''The [[Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' (which, thankfully, didn't directly reference Christmas, unlike the [thankfully non-canon] album pictured) had many examples of [[Schizo-Tech|20th-century Earth technology]] (rather than merely the [[Schizo-Tech]] '70s ''styling'' later works would employ) , ranging from eyeglasses, which are usually a rarity in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]], to what appears to be a commercially available personal computer from the late 1970s.
** [[The Thrawn Trilogy]] starts off by mentioning ''hot chocolate'', of all things, referring to it as "exotic" and something Lando found in his travels.
*** A canceled novel trilogy was to explain how humans ended up in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' galaxy. Some characters who were descendants of the characters from ''[[American Graffiti]]'' and ''[[THX 1138]]'' [[Canon Welding|somehow travel to another galaxy and back in time to become the first humans in the galaxy]].
** ''American football'' is shown in the officer's club in one of the ''Rogue Squadron'' books. Corran Horn notes it as a strange sport he'd never seen before.
 
 
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