right|300px
* Although it was not advertised as a special themed episode, this mom-centric episode originally aired on Mother's Day.
* Lester, Tim and Holt do not appear.
* This episode has no cutaway gags.
* When Donna sees Shakespeare in the Park, she hopes they perform Shakespeare in Love, a 1998 romantic comedy-drama film.
* Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" plays during Cleveland walk through Cookie's house as well as Cleveland's run home to Donna.
* A photograph shows young Cleveland smoking with his mother, as well as an ashtray he made her.
* After previously joking with his mother about how Romantic-Comedies always feature a run to the airport, the episode ends on just such an device.
* The Shakespeare in the Park dialogue is from Romeo and Juliet, Act II scene ii.