This episode provides another backstory of how Felix and Oscar met that is inconsistent with previous backstories.
The title refers to the quote "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" spoken by Priscilla Mullins to John Alden when he proposed marriage to her for the widowed Myles Standish. The Pilgrim story was most famously told in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic narrative poem, "The Courtship of Myles Standish".