This episode is a sendup of the Breakfast Club, especially by using narration as a plot device. The music playing at the end of the the episode is a cover of "Don't You Forget About Me," the song used at the end of the Breakfast Club.
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 reads: welcome to "Cougar Town" John Hughes is a God.