Half the show is cutaway gags that have nothing to do with anything, and honestly that's the appeal.
Fun fact: Seth MacFarlane missed American Airlines Flight 11 on September 11, 2001, after oversleeping from a hangover.
Basically a space dad who can't drop his kid off at daycare because the empire keeps turning up.
Fun fact: Werner Herzog called the crew "cowards" for considering replacing the animatronic Grogu puppet with CGI.