The title is from the song "I Gotta Be Me", popular with many saloon singers like Frank Sinatra.
When Jennifer retorted, "It's a good thing E.T. didn't land here," she alluded to the movie E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial about a creature who lands on earth and is taken in by a young boy and his family. The film came out in 1982, the same year that this episode aired.