When Jules (Courtney Cox) falls off the car onto the pavement, the painful sound she does, is making fun of a true incident. A real-life reporter made the same sound when she fell out of a grape-crushing barrel during a live interview at a winery.
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: Titles we liked better than "Cougar Town" Sunshine State
The drinking age
Cougar City
Mid-life.