Sophie looks for her father and finds out that he owns a series of hot dog restaurants and likes baseball. In the movie A Cinderella Story with Hilary Duff her dad owned a sports diner before he died and passed his love of baseball.
One of Sophie's potential dads strips for Ellen using Pirates of the Caribbean music. While doing the TV show Who Do You Think You Are Hilary Duff found out that her ancestor was instrumental in the capture and death of the Pirate Black Beard who is the inspiration for Johnny Depps character Jack Sparrow in the movies.