i think grandpa's huffing and wheezing to be dramatic, he's taken aback by the expensive room they're staying in, that's how i see it anyway, i think he's exagerating as a lot of elderly men do... or maybe he does have asthma, and was overtaken by the expensive room they got booked into, i dunno... as for the Kait Sith Doll i guess anyone visiting Golden Saucer could pick one up from the gift shop, as the Mooglesauros was kinda the Saucers Mascot, as for the music true it is the music you hear when you see Kait Sith, but you also hear it at other points without him usualy during scenes that should be humorus, Square tends to use accepted character themes (themes aften associated with a character, even when not an actual titled character theme) seemingly out of context often i noticed, especialy on the older games...

marketing orgy? put yourself in S-Es position, you have a cash cow sitting there waiting to be milked, the majority of fans want it milked, what are you gonna do? milk it? or let it dry up and die? i dunno about you but i'd milk it for all it's worth... now on the other hand if they had fact checkers as good as the ones in George Lucas' employ, then i doubt there'd be all the compilation hate from the nitpickers out there, but also even after having good fact checkers we have to also realize this series was made in Japan, using different cultural referances and figures of speach which would not make sense here in the US, so the translators are set with the job of localizing the media and finding cultural referances and figures of speech that fit the US mode of thinking, it's not an easy job and i give them credit for what they have done with it so far, sure it isn't perfect, but it's close enough to still be good entertainment as long as you don't disect it too much...