To spoof the title which no longer matches the content of the series, in the second season the producers started adding self-deprecating jokes to the show's title card. The one for this episode read: Hey, would you and your friends watch a show called "Pig Trials"? Watch the episode, get back to us #pigtrials "Cougar Town".
When Laurie is talking about hilary swank and that movie. She's talking about the movie freedom writers
Frank Rogers (Barry Bostwick) reveals that he is the mayor Barry Bostwick played the mayor of New York in Spin City 1996 Bill Lawrence's first big tv show