In the scene where Laurie (Busy Phillips) shows the little girl the butterfly cake, the little girl is played by her eldest daughter, Birdie Silverstein.
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" Now with pirates.
The whole episode mimics the events of Jaws (1975)