Writer:	John Swartzwelder
Director:	Jeffrey Lynch
Star:	Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson),  Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others),  Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others),  Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others),  Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others),  Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier)
Recurring Role:	Phil Hartman (Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure and Additional Voices),  Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others),  Maggie Roswell (Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and others),  Russi Taylor (Martin Prince, Sherri, Terri and others),  Marcia Wallace (Edna Krabappel)

Blackboard Joke: There's plenty of businesses like show business.
Couch Gag: The living room is the set of The Late Show With David Letterman. (edit)

Bart: See Lisa, they don't need my help proving Freddy innocent.
Lisa: That's because Mayor Quimby is buying his nephew's freedom.
Bart: The system works. (edit) Homer: Marge, it was horrible. Everyone was against me in that jury room. But I stood by the courage of my convictions and I prevailed. And that's why we had Chinese food for lunch. (edit) Principal Skinner: You're stealing a table?
Homer: I'm not stealing it. Hotels expect you to take a few things. It's a souvenir!
Principal Skinner: Ah. Is that my necktie you're wearing?
Homer: Souvenir. (edit) Homer: I'm only doing what I think is right. I believe Freddy Quimby should walk out of here a free hotel. (edit) Homer: What does "sequestered" mean?
Principal Skinner: If the jury is deadlocked they're put up in a hotel together so they can't communicate with the outside world.
Homer: What does "deadlocked" mean?
Principal Skinner: It's when the jury can't agree on a verdict.
Homer: Uh huh. And "if"?
Principal Skinner: A conjunction meaning "in the event that" or "on condition that".
Homer: So if we don't all vote the same way, we'll be deadlocked and have to be sequestered in the Springfield Palace Hotel--
Patty: That's not going to happen.
Jasper: Let's vote. My liver is failing.
Homer: --where we'll get a free room, free food, free swimming pool, free HBO… ooh! Free Willy! (edit)

Matt Groening is the court-appointed artist. (edit) Other purely coincidental parallels between German-accented and occasionally miscast action film star Rainier Wolfcastle and Arnold Schwarzenegger, revealed in this episode:
- Both have wives named Maria.
- Both drive a Humvee. (edit) When Bart is running away from Principal Skinner, one of the scenes is of Bart running down a hill, which was cut directly from episode 4-1, "Kamp Krusty." (edit) This is the first episode to feature Bart's "Lil Bastard" prank kit. (edit) The episode plot is similar to that of "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (edit)

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Principal Skinner goes through extensive measures to prove Bart is skipping school much like Rooney in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. (edit) Kent Brockman: This reporter suggested "Waitergate," but was shouted down in the press conference.
This is a pun on Watergate, a scandal with Richard Nixon that led to his resignation from the presidency of the United States. (edit) Arnold Schwarzenegger
Reiner Wolfcastle (a parody of Schwarzenegger) drives a Humvee and his wife's name is Maria, just like Arnold Schwarzenegger. (edit) French Waiter: I am not some clumsy, Clouseau-esque waiter!
This is a reference to Inspector Clouseau of the 1963 film The Pink Panther. Clouseau is a bumbler, and the waiter uses this comparison when Bart says that the waiter tumbled through various objects in a clumsy, Clouseau-type manner. (edit) Westworld
The chase scene between Skinner and Bart parodies the 1973 film Westworld. (edit)