Writer:	John Swartzwelder
Director:	Mark Kirkland
Star:	Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier),  Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others),  Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson),  Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others),  Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others),  Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others)
Recurring Role:	Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others),  Tress MacNeille (Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others),  Marcia Wallace (Edna Krabappel),  Karl Wiedergott (Additional Voices)
Guest Star:	Patrick McGoohan (Number 6)

Blackboard Joke: I will only provide a urine sample when asked.
Couch Gag: Santa's Little Helper dances like Snoopy from A Charlie Brown Christmas, but stops when the family comes in. (edit) Mr. X's website is an actual website, which you can visit at http://www.mrxswebpage.com/. (edit) Fans of the 1960's series "The Prisoner" will truly appreciate this episode where Patrick McGoohan recreates his role of Number 6. Only in this episode, "The Village" has been replaced by "The Island". (edit)

Homer: No one can silence me but me!
Fake Homer: That arranged can be. (edit) Homer: Who are you, and why are you holding me here? I want answers now, or I want them eventually! (edit) Lisa: Well, you can't post news if you don't have any.
Homer: That's a great idea! I'll just make up some news!
Lisa: Ugh, at least take off your Pulitzer Prize when you say that! (edit) (Mr. X reports that Apu's bagels are really old donuts)
Chief Wiggum: In the interests of public safety, we have confiscated every donut, bagel, cruller and bear claw in the city. And some coffee. (edit) Leader: As far as your family knows, Homer Simpson is walking in the front door right about now.
Homer: (Taking his face out of ice cream with needles sticking out) I'm sorry, what?
(Next scene at the Simpson house)
Marge: Homie!
Fake Homer: (Speaking with a German accent) Marge, honey, Fraulein, I'm home!
Marge: You're not my husband!
Fake Homer: Jah, please forgive my unexplained two week absence. To make it up to you we will go out to dinner at a sensibly-priced restaurant, then have a night of efficient German sex.
Marge: Well, I sure don't feel like cooking. (edit)

The computer salesman says one of his computers is the kind astronauts use to do their taxes and Homer says, "I was an astronaut!" The salesman doesn't believe him, but Homer was actually an astronaut during the episode "Deep Space Homer." (edit) The woman presenting the Pulitzer never mentioned the category in which Homer won the prize. (edit) Mrs. Krabappel's voice was way, WAY off when she says that Homer is Mr. X. (edit) Burns and Smithers use the employees' bathroom in this episode, as opposed to Burns' executive washroom. (edit) Near the new pool, there is a guy with the words "City Worker" on the back of his blue shirt putting finishing touches on a statue. He is using cement from a bag labeled POTHOLE CEMENT. Later, when we see people repairing the pothole, they are wearing orange jump suits, and the stuff they are filling the hole with is most definitely tar. (edit)

Springfield Forest: Witch-free since 1998.
Mock on the movie The Blair Witch Project. (edit) Homer saying, "I am not a number! I am a man!" has also been interpreted by some people as a reference to the novel and musical Les Miserables, in which Jean Valjean protests being addressed as "Number 24601." (edit) Homer asks Number Six: "Did YOU bring us here?" which plays on two in-jokes. One: Number Six was revealed to be Number One, the leader of the Village, in the metaphysical series finale of the Prisoner. And two: McGoohan (aka Number Six) created the series itself; hence, he brought EVERYONE to the Village. (edit) The Island-Koala always seems to turn up wearing Dame Edna Everage glasses, in its little moments of unexplained idiocy. (edit) When Homer is on his raft escaping, and the two people are watching him on the huge screen, it parodies Jim Carrey escaping on his boat while Ed Harris was watching him on a huge monitor in the 1998 film The Truman Show. (edit)