As of January 17, 2018, this episode is tied with season 7, episode 8, as the highest rated episode of the show. ***** UPDATE ****** This episode is tied for second-highest rated. Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab, Squab is the highest rated episode as of July 17, 2023.
Berta mentions that her daughter, Cheryl Ann, is away "selling bootleg Metallica T-shirts at a monster truck rally." When Cheryl Ann later shows up with Berta to collect Berta's granddaughter, Prudence, she is seen wearing a T-shirt with the band name misspelled as "Mellatica".
Co-stars Megan Fox and Noel Fisher, who portray the teenage couple Prudence and Freddie, would reunite on-screen ten years later to portray April O'Neil and Michelangelo in Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
The song, "Dear Prudence," that the bass-playing boyfriend allegedly composed, is actually a song released by The Beatles in 1968 (on the "White Album") and co-written by Paul McCartney.