Jessica's book is finally released and she looks forward to a bookstore reading. Louis is so excited to promote the book across the country that he buys an RV from Los Angeles Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who owns an RV dealership. However, both of their plans go awry when the book isn't successful. Meanwhile, Nicole's heading to college in New York, and Eddie may have been too casual with his farewell, so his brothers are worried that he's in denial.
- Call-Back: When Evan and Emery confront Eddie over him possibly being in denial, a series of clips of Eddie and Nicole from past episodes plays as a flashback.
- The Cameo: The actual Kareem Abdul-Jabbar appears in the opening, complaining that Shaq and his "Shaquille O'Neal Motors" copied him, and then again towards the end to help Louis track down the RV after Jessica goes on her fake book tour and then give Eddie a pep talk about how he should consider Nicole's emotions and how moving away will be tough for her too.
- Companion Cube: The episode begins with Louis trying to help Marvin say farewell to an old car that he's selling to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Motors, but Marvin's so emotional that he ends up crying and giving his car a hug.
- Expospeak Gag: After Emery and Evan first hear Eddie acting casual about Nicole going to New York, Emery (who's reading Hamlet) says "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". The literary reference completely flies over the head of Evan, who's currently studying psychology for his "Doctor-President" life plan (because Honey's baby's birth has dissuaded him from traditional medicine), and "corrects" his brother to say in clinical terms how Eddie is in denial.
- Imagine Spot: When considering buying the RV from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Motors, Louis imagines the whole Huang family enjoying it in the form of a sitcom's opening credit sequence while the Full House theme song plays.
- Implausible Deniability: After her book sells poorly, Jessica uses Eddie's Race for Your Love moment as an excuse to call the fake book tour off, justifying it to Louis as the one thing she should never be a failure at is helping her children. In The Tag, when Louis later asks if she'll ever admit the truth about her book sales, Jessica then claims she never wrote a book instead of admitting her failure.
- Metaphorically True: When Jessica tells her family about her book's "success", since the long lines for Harry Potter prevented them from entering the bookstore, she claims that the bookstore has never sold as many copies of someone's first book as she has on an opening day. And technically speaking, "zero copies" is hard to compete with.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Regardless of the quality of Jessica's book (which, given past episodes, isn't great), its release and her tour unfortunately coincided with the release of the first Harry Potter book.
- Plot Parallel:
- After the first scene at Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Motors, the episode then has two "births": Honey and Marvin's baby girl being born, and Jessica prepared to celebrate the official release of her book.
- When Jessica's book is overshadowed by Harry Potter, she would rather deny it and take her children on a fake book tour than admit her failure, similar to how Eddie's in denial over being emotional about Nicole's departure; in The Tag, a nearby Evan and Emery even say "Uh-oh" when they see her denying she even wrote a book.
- Race for Your Love: A platonic version, as Eddie regrets some things he said to Nicole before she started packing for college and Jessica's book tour started, so he asks to call off the book tour early so he can talk to her again before she goes. Jessica, who needs an excuse to not admit her book's failure, immediately agrees, and they end up arriving back home hours before Nicole leaves (though she did purposely give him the wrong departure time because she felt Eddie would do something like this).
- Secret-Keeper: Although Jessica doesn't want to admit her book's failure to her children, she does confide in Louis before taking the RV and going on the book tour without him or Grandma. At the end of the episode, due to the Race for Your Love scene, Louis is still the only one she willingly confides in, though Evan and Emery catch on by how much she's in denial.
