Rupert Crosse (Thursday) later became the first African American Best Supporting Actor nominee for the Academy Awards, in The Reivers (1969).
This plot is a spoof of the 1924 novella The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, where a mad nobleman lives on an island and hunts shipwrecked people as if they were big game.
Musical numbers featured in this episode: 1. "Daydream Believer" 2. "Hangin' Round".
Thursday is named for the character Friday from the 18th-century adventure novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
The baby picture that Peter is shown is from Baby Picture (1959), where it was presented as the baby picture of Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver.