Season One
1-01 Pilot
Jack Kerouac -- American writer of the beat generation of the 1950s, famous for his novel 'On The Road' and other similar books.
[A stranger in the diner tries to come-on to Lorelai. When he tells her he's on his
way to Hartford, she says, "You're a regular Jack Kerouac."]
Macy Gray -- Female R&B singer.
[Rory tells Loreali she lost her Macy Gray CD. Lorelai has it in her purse.]
Officer Krupke -- Policeman in the movie "West Side Story"
[When Lorelai is getting coffee for Rory, he thinks it's for Loreali, her sixth cup that day, and she says to Luke, "Look, Officer Krupke. She's right at that table, right over there."]
Slam book -- Notebook school girls use for writing down their thoughts about other girls, and guys.
[While in class, Rory is busy taking notes, and several girls wonder what she's writing - a love letter or a diary? One speculates it's a slam book. The fourth girl looks over Rory's shoulder and say's it's the assignment.]
Stephen King novel -- A book in the horror genre.
[When Sookie suggests that Lorelai go to her parents for the money to pay for Chilton, Lorelai says, "Sookie, there are several chapters from a Stephen King novel I'd reenact before I'd resort to that option."
Zsa Zsa Gabor -- Hungarian actress and socialite who is best known for her beauty and wealthy lifestyle.
[Sookie is looking for something to cook at Lorelai's house while Lorelai is hemming Rory's plaid Chilton skirt. Sookie asks where her paté is and Lorelai answers "At Zsa Zsa Gabor's house."
'Ruth Gordon just standing there with a tannis root.' -- Ruth Gordon played Mrs. Castevet in the Movie 'Rosemary's Baby.' She gave Rosemary a smelly and noxious "good-luck charm" filled with tannis root, which is a common ingredient in occult ritual and talismanic wizardry. It is a fictional herb used in movies and books.
[Rory drops a book and some papers after cleaning out her locker at the Stars Hollow high school. Suddenly she sees Dean standing there and says, "God! You're like Ruth Gordon just standing there with a tannis root. Make a noise." Dean answers, "Rosemary's Baby."]
Madame Bovary -- Novel by Gustave Flaubert about a woman who has an affair with a local landowner. She eventually commits suicide.
Moby Dick -- Novel by Herman Melville about a white whale named Moby Dick, and the obsessed whaler, Captain Ahab, who seeks to kill it.
[Dean tells Rory he'd been watching her at school and says, "After school you come out and you sit under that tree there and you read. Last week it was Madame Bovary. This week it's Moby Dick."
Flo Jo -- Florence Griffith Joyner, a triple gold medallist at the 1988 Olympics for the 100- and 200-meter sprints.
[Rory and Loreali are arguing about Rory not wanting to go to Chilton since she met Dean. When Rory starts walking away from Lorelai, she says, "Oh, you're gonna have to walk faster than that. You're gonna have to turn into friggin' Flo Jo to get away from me."]
'Mommy Dearest' -- A memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford, about her childhood and the years of child abuse.
[Lorelai is trying to make up with Rory after the argument, but Rory isn't being co-operative, so Lorelai says, "Aw, you're not gonna give me the "Mommy Dearest" treatment forever, are ya?"]
The Little Match Girl -- Story by Hans Christian Andersen about a little girl who freezes to death trying to sell matches on the street in the middle of winter.
[Rory and Loreali are standing outside of Emily and Richard's front door, still not getting along. Rory says to Lorelia, "So, do we go in or do we just stand here reenacting The Little Match Girl?"]
Menendez -- The Menendez Brothers, Lyle and Erik, cold-bloodedly murdered their parents for
money.
[Loreali answers the above question, "Okay, look, I know you and me are having a thing here and I know you hate me but I need you to be civil, at least through dinner and then on the way home you can pull a Menendez. Deal?]
Nick at Night -- The home of classic TV featuring America's best-loved classic television programs.
[Lorelai and Rory have made up and Lorelai is trying to get Rory to tell her about Dean.
LORELAI: Is he dreamy?
RORY: Oh, that's so Nick at Night.
LORELAI: Well, I'm gonna find out anyway.
RORY: Really? How?
LORELAI: I'll spy.]
1-02 The Lorelai's First Day At Chilton
That chick from 'Duke's of Hazard' -- Daisy Duke always wore VERY short cut off denim shorts.
[Lorelia tells she can't go in to meet the headmaster at Chilton because all her clothes are dirty and all she has to wear are cut-off jeans, a tie-dyed T-shirt and cowboy boots. She says, "Well, look at me, Rory. I can't meet anybody who does anything in there . . . I look like that chick from the Dukes of
Hazard."]
Schindler's List -- The true story of Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.
[When Headmaster Charleston asks Rory why she had no outside interests at her old school in Stars Hollow, Rory says, "I work at my mother's inn after school sometimes. And I was in the German Club for a while, but there were only three of us, and then two left for the French Club after seeing Schindler's List , so...."]
Christiane Amanpour -- One of the senior foreign correspondents for CNN. She has gained the
attention of the media and the audience by delivering some of the best reporting in the war zones of the 1990s.
[Rory tells Headmaster Charleston she aspires to be like Christiane Amanpour]
Cokie Roberts -- A political commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.
[When Headmaster Charleston suggests to Rory Cokie Roberts she tells him no.]
'A Dixie Chick' -- One of a trio of country music singers, and a dig that Rory is not from a Big City, and therefore not very sophisticated.
[Paris is looking at Rory's personal school folder. Louise asks where Stars Hollow is. Paris answers, "Drive west make a left at the haystacks and follow the cows." Louise then says "Ooh, a Dixie Chick."]
"This is not Brazil." -- Liberal country when it comes to nudity during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
[What Miss Patty says to the little girls in her dance studio when they are removing their leotards.]
Dostoevski -- Fedor Dostoevski (1821–81). A Russian writer who is regarded as one of the world's great novelists.
[An author mentioned by one of Rory's teachers.]
George Sand -- Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin was a French novelist who wrote under the pen name of George Sand.
[One of Dostoevski's main authorial influences, answered in class by Paris.]
Balzac -- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) said to be the greatest of French novelists.
[One of Dostoevski's main authorial influences, answered in class by Paris.]
Mary -- Referring to Rory as looking like a goody two-shoes type of girl.
[What Tristin says to one of his friends about Rory. He calls her that often, making her dislike him.]
1-03 Kill Me Now
Bob Barker -- host of the TV game show 'The Price Is Right.'
[When Emily wants Rory to Go to their Golf Club on the weekend with Richard, Lorelia protests that the weekends are the only time she has with
Rory, saying to Emily, "OK, Bob Barker. Listen, Rory knocks herself out all week at Chilton. Weekends are the only time she has to unwind and have fun."]
Jordan Almonds -- Jordan Almonds (similar to peanut M&Ms) symbolize the sweet (sugar) and bitter (almond) sides of life.
[The Independence Inn is hosting a wedding, and Michel tells Lorelai, "Guests are checked in, baskets are given out, and 200,000 tons of Jordan almonds have been delivered."]
The teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoon -- All the adult voices are horns making noises so no one really knows what
they are saying.
[Lorelai complains to Michel about Rory going golfing with Richard. He doesn't care, saying, "To me you are the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoon."]
Doublemint commercial -- TV chewing gum ad featuring identical twins.
[When the two sets of twins who are getting married fall into each other's arms, Loreali notes, "It's like a really snooty Doublemint commercial.']
Tiger Woods -- Golfer who wins most of the tournaments he plays in.
[Emily gives Rory a brightly knitted golf cap, and tells her she now looks like Tiger Woods.]
Post-It -- small square of colored paper with an adhesive across the top of the back for posting notes.
[Sookie tells Lorelai that one of the identical twin grooms has Post-It on his back.]
Fez -- The capital of Morocco.
[While having lunch at the club, Richard is telling Rory about all the cities he has visited on business.
When he asks where she'd like to go --
RORY: Hundreds of places. Paris, Rome, London, Prague, Istanbul, Fez -- Have you ever been to Fez?
RICHARD: I can't say that I have.
RORY: I want to go to Fez.
Peyton Place -- a novel by Grace Metalious about scandal and sin in the small town of Peyton Place. Later made into a movie and a television series.
[Rory is telling Richard all the gossip she heard while taking a steam. He comments that the club is a Peyton Place.]
Mencken's "Chrestomathy" -- A book by H.L. Mencken with selections from his writings reflecting his interpretations of humanity, government, and a variety of other topics.
[A book Richard and Rory were talking about at the golf club. When he found it, he called
Rory at home to tell her he had it. Lorelai commented to Rory how weird it was since he never called
before, and especially calling to talk to Rory.]
Thelonious -- Thelonius Monk, a jazz pianist and composer.
[What Morey was playing when Babette discovered Cinnamon was stuck under the porch.
"He must've been meowin' for an hour but Morey was playing some Thelonious on the Steinway and when Morey plays I go into this trance where all I can see is blue and moon and stars --"]
1-04 The Deer Hunters
"Back off Chevalier" -- Maurice Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor during the 1950s.
[Drella, the harpist, to Michel, who speaks with a French accent.]
"Wonder if Versace makes a pacifier." -- Versace makes expensive, designer clothes and accessories.
[Drella and MIchel are bickering. When Michel complains that Drella scratched his $300 Italian loafers, she calls him a baby and says "Wonder if Versace makes a pacifier."
Risotto -- a traditional Italian dish made with rice.
[Lorelai is reading a review of Sookie's cooking by the food critic Lucent Mills (fictional):
LORELAI: "The entrees are as heavenly as the starters. Though the much lauded risotto was perfectly fine, it was the simple handkerchief pasta with brown sage in a butter sauce that sent me through the
roof." Sookie this is unbelievable! I’m going to have this framed for the dining room!]
"Marco" . . . "Polo" -- Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle, and is now remembered as the man who introduced Europeans to the Orient, and his name is synonymous with exotic travel. Also, a kid's game called Marco Polo generally played in a pool where the person who is "it" is blindfolded and calls out 'Marco' and everyone else has to reply 'Polo', then the person who is "it" tries to locate them from their voice and tag them.
[Rory's way of finding Lane in Mrs. Kim's Antique shop:
RORY: Lane?!
LANE: Rory?!
RORY: Right or left?!
LANE: Left!
[Rory goes left]
RORY: I thought you said left!
LANE: Sorry - my left, your right!
RORY: Ok. Marco...
LANE: Polo!
RORY: Marco...
LANE: Polo!
RORY: Hey Marco.
LANE: Hey Polo, you’re late. ]
"I am the Artie Shaw of harpists." -- Artie Shaw was leading jazz clarinetist and big band leader in the 1930s and 40s.
[Lorelai hears Drella playing a Black Sabbath song on her harp:
LORELAI: No Black Sabbath.
DRELLA: No one is listening.
LORELAI: No Black Sabbath, no Steely Dan, no Boston and no Queen.
DRELLA: What happened to make you so cold?
LORELAI: We like that Mozart [heads towards the kitchen.]
DRELLA: I am the Artie Shaw of harpists.
SAT -- The SATs are standardized tests frequently used by colleges and universities in the United States to aid in the selection of incoming freshmen.
[Lorelai is at a parent-teacher day at Chilton and has words with one of the other parents. Rory's teacher, Max, introduces himself:
MAX: What were you gonna do - hit her?
LORELAI: No, I just - I had some good verbal comebacks ready.
[sips coffee]
LORELAI: It - it just keeps getting worse.
MAX: Well you know not drinking it is always an option.
LORELAI: Not in my world.
MAX: I’m Max Medina.
LORELAI: Nice to meet you.
MAX: I apologize for the behaviors of some of our guests tonight. It’s a tense time for some people.
LORELAI: The SAT season?]
‘Saved by the Bell’ -- One of the most popular teen shows shown on NBC in the early 90s. The show focused on Zack Morris and his friends Samuel "Screech" Powers, Kelly Kapowski, Jessie Spano, A.C. Slater, and Lisa Turtle.
[Rory got a 'D' on a test and was too humiliated to tell Lorelai:
LORELAI: You should’ve told me.
RORY: I couldn’t.
LORELAI: You couldn’t tell me? You tell me everything.
RORY: It was too humiliating.
LORELAI: Oh, honey, you once told me that you loved ‘Saved by the Bell’. What could be more humiliating than that?
RORY: I couldn’t form the words. I couldn’t even say it. I couldn’t even comprehend it. It was…a ‘D’. I got a ‘D’, I’ve never gotten a ‘D’ - ever.]
Il Duce -- "The Leader" Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy 1922-1943
[Rory was late for a test and couldn't take it. Lorelai goes to see Headmaster Charleston to complain about it:
LORELAI: [to Max] And you! You say she’s smart and she’ll be fine and this rotting stodgy
rat hole could use somebody like her and then you completely shut her out of a test that she’s crammed for, that she’s ready for, that she completely deserves to take!
MAX: I didn’t call this place a ‘rat hole’
LORELAI: Oh no that’s true. I added that. Wouldn’t want you to get in trouble with ‘Il Duce’ here. I thought this place was going to be so great! And now I guess this goes on the ‘Boy was I wrong’ list, right above gauchos but just below the ‘Flashdance’ phase.]
1-05 Cinnamon's Wake
Dolly Madison -- Maker of snack cakes and cookies.
[Rory is expecting Lorelai to bake cookies for a Chilton bake sale:
RORY: Wait -- shouldn't you be baking?
LORELAI: I don't know. Shouldn't you be knitting?
RORY: Mom! The Chilton bake sale is today!
LORELAI: I know. I got it covered.
RORY: They expect the things to be homemade.
LORELAI: I know.
RORY: By someone other than Dolly Madison.
Passeggiata -- "passeggiata casuale" Italian for 'casual walk.'
[BABETTE: Yeah, Morey made it (a wagon). Cinnamon's not walking good these days but she still likes her passeggiatas. That's Italian for 'a nice walk.']
Henry the Eighth -- English king (1491-1547) divorced two wives, executed two more, and one died in childbirth.
[At the Chilton bake sale, Sookie accidently sets the tablecloth on fire. Lorelai fills a cup with lemonade from a nearby table and extinguishes the flames. The women at the lemonade table give her dirty looks.
LORELAI: Um -- hi. Oh, well, gee...what is that, a dollar? Let me find you a dollar. You know what? I'll take two -- I'll drink one. (drinks) Mmm...tasty and flame-retardant.
(Mr. Medina walks up to Lorelai.)
MR. MEDINA: Very Henry the Eighth.
LORELAI: Well we're not into subtle.
M. Night Shymalan -- Manoj Nelliyattu Shyamalan, born in India; writer, producer and director.
[RORY: Philadelphia? If you could live in any city in the world you'd pick Philadelphia?
LANE: M. Night Shymalan lives there.]
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'The Sixth Sense' -- Directed my M. Night Shymalan. A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
[RORY: Who?
LANE: The guy who directed 'The Sixth Sense.']
Bangles -- Girl group of the 1980s. One of their biggest hits was 'Walk Like an Egyptian.'
[Max is trying to talk Lorelai into dating him:
MR. MEDINA: I think we should date.
LORELAI: Why?
MR. MEDINA: Because I think we both want to.
LORELAI: Well I want to be in the Bangles but that doesn't mean I quit my job and get a guitar and ruin my life to be a Bangle, does it?
MR. MEDINA: The Bangles broke up.
Iran-Contra scandal -- (also known as "Irangate") a mid-1980s political scandal in the United States. President Ronald Reagan's administration sold arms to Iran, an avowed enemy.
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Oliver North -- was a member of the Marine Corps who achieved the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He rose to national prominence because of the Iran-Contra Affair, during which he was a key official in the clandestine and illegal selling of weapons to Iran in order to earn money for the Contras during U.S. President Ronald Reagan's administration.
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Fawn Hall -- Oliver North's very attractive secretary who smuggled confidential papers out of her employer's office on November 25, 1986, causing President Reagan to form a task force which eventually put both North and Hall on trial.
[Rory finds out Lorelai and Max are dating:
LORELAI: Are you mad?
RORY: Yes!
LORELAI: Alright. Because I'm dating him?
RORY: Because you lied to me.
LORELAI: I kept information from you.
RORY: Information that I should have had.
LORELAI: Information that would have come out eventually. Like the Iran-Contra scandal.
RORY: So you're Oliver North.
LORELAI: No, I'm Fawn Hall.
Angelina Jolie/Billy Bob Thornton -- Ugly, crazy actors who kept vials of each other's blood around their necks.
[Lorelai is trying to explain to Rory her attraction to Max Medina: "I really like him, Rory. I can't help it. And it's been a really long time since I've felt like this. You can't always control who you're attracted to, you know. I think the whole Angelina Jolie/Billy Bob Thornton thing really proves that."]
1-06 Rory's Birthday Parties
Henny Youngman -- Stand-up comedian famous for his one-line jokes
[At Friday night dinner, Emilly tires of Lorelai's clever quips:
EMILY: Tomorrow our lawyer, Joseph Stanford, is coming by.
LORELAI: Ugh. Crazy Sissy's dad.
EMILY: That's terrible. Sissy was a good friend of yours.
LORELAI: Mom, Sissy talked to her stuffed animals and they answered her.
RORY: Let's just start a new topic.
EMILY: Not possible!
LORELAI: She said a new topic, Mom.
EMILY: Everything's a joke. Everyone's a punch line.
LORELAI: OK, I'm sorry.
EMILY: My daughter -- Henny Youngman.
'It's a really fine Georgian piece.' -- Georgian architecture is the name given to the classic architectural styles produced between about 1720 and 1840.
[Emily and Richard want Rory and Lorelia to start selecting items they may want to be put in their wills:
EMILY: Yes. So, Rory, your grandfather and I thought it might be nice after dinner for you to go around the house and pick out what you'd like us to leave you in our wills.
RICHARD: Take a look at that desk in my office. It's a really fine Georgian piece.
LORELAI: Why don't I ever bring a tape recorder to these dinners?
RORY: Oh, well, anything you want to leave me is fine.
EMILY: Nonsense. You should have what you like. So look around and when you see something you like stick a post-it on it.
LORELAI: OK, you two have officially hit a new level of weird that even I marvel at.
EMILY: You can pick out things too, you know.
LORELAI: Oh, well now it's way less creepy.
A Mont Blanc pen -- a German maker of pens noted for their quality, beauty and high cost.
[A birthday gift Emily want to get Rory:
EMILY: What about pearls?
LORELAI: Pearls?
EMILY A double string of pearls with a cashmere sweater set.
LORELAI: Mom, she's a young girl. Think of something young.
EMILY: A Mont Blanc pen?
LORELAI: To put on her desk at the law firm?
EMILY: She needs to write.
LORELAI: Well not with a $200 pen, she doesn't. Oh, hey, look. These day planners are adorable. You could get her one of those funky erasers with a mermaid on it. She'll love that.
Barbara Hutton -- a wealthy American socialite who was the daughter of Frank W. Woolworth, the founder of the enormously successful Woolworth department store chain.
[Lorelai and Emily are shopping for a birthday present for Rory. Emily wants to buy her a Mont Blanc pen. Lorelai suggests a funky eraser with a mermaid on it:
EMILY: Please be serious, we're shopping for Rory.
LORELAI: No, Mom, I'm shopping for Rory. You're shopping for your imaginary granddaughter, Barbara Hutton.]
Filofax -- A leather bound personal organizer with a six-ring loose-leaf binder.
[More discussion about a gift for Rory:
EMILY: I want to get her something nice.
LORELAI: I know you do, but you're not listening to me.
EMILY: You wanted me to get her a Filofax and a mermaid eraser.
LORELAI: It's one suggestion.]
Pashmina -- A type of goat endemic to Kashmir. Its fleece has been used for thousands of years to make high-quality shawls that also bear the same name.
[Another expensive gift Emily wanted to buy Rory.]
Edith Wharton -- Born to a wealthy New York family, she combined her insights into the privileged classes with her natural wit to write novels and short fiction which are notable for their humor and incisiveness.
[EMILY: There she is -- the birthday girl.
RORY: Hi Grandma.
LORELAI: Wow, you really went all out, huh?
EMILY Well I wanted everything to be perfect. What do you think?
LORELAI: I think Edith Wharton would have been proud, and busy taking notes.
Shirley Temple -- a non-alcoholic cocktail made with lemon-lime soda and Grenadine syrup, garnished with a maraschino cherry and slice of lemon or orange.
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Shirley Temple Black -- Alcoholic version of a Shirley Temple.
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Good Ship Lollipop -- Trademark song of child actress Shirley Temple. The ship in the song is not, as popular belief has it, a boat; it is an airplane. In the song, the "Good Ship Lollipop" travels to a candy land.
[At Rory's birthday party at the Gilmore's:
(Rory is sitting alone until Lorelai joins her and hands her a drink.)
LORELAI: Here.
RORY: What is it?
LORELAI: Shirley Temple.
RORY: What are you drinking?
LORELAI: A Shirley Temple Black.
(Lorelai lets Rory smell her drink.)
RORY: Wow.
LORELAI: I got your Good Ship Lollipop right here, mister. So do you want something to eat?
RORY: Everything smells funny.]
'Freaky Friday' -- A children's novel by Mary Rodgers first published in 1972, in which a teenage girl and her mother switch bodies and learn to understand each other better. It is also the name of three different movies with similar plots based on the book.
[Rory yelled at Emily because she invited Rory's Chilton classmates to the party:
(Rory is lying on the bed in Lorelai's old bedroom.)
LORELAI: Hey. Can I come in?
RORY: It's your room.
LORELAI: How are you doing?
RORY: I'm sorry I snapped at Grandma.
LORELAI: Yeah, huge? That was a pretty 'Freaky Friday' moment we had back there.
RORY: She just went ahead and invited all these kids from Chilton.
LORELAI: You're kidding. I thought she checked on that with you.
RORY: She didn't ask me or tell me.
LORELAI: Oh, man, I'm so sorry.
RORY: It just -- I don't know but it really made me mad.]
Brandeis -- A private university in Waltham, Massachusetts.
[Paris is trying to talk Rory out of applying at Harvard:
RORY: You're applying to Harvard?
PARIS: Yes.
RORY: No!
PARIS: Ten generations of Gellers have gone to Harvard. I have to go to Harvard.
RORY: I can't believe this.
PARIS: You can go somewhere else. Go to Brandeis. Brandeis is nice.
RORY: I've only ever wanted to go to Harvard. That's it. Nowhere else. (pause) It's a big school.
'Stoli on the rocks with a twist' -- Stoli is a Russian vodka produced from winter wheat.
[Emily and Richard show up at Rory's birthday party at Lorelai's:
LORELAI: Mom, Dad, can I get you a drink?
EMILY: No, thank you.
LORELAI: Oh, no, Mom, you're going to need one and I have wine glasses that say "Holiday Inn" on them.
EMILY: Stoli on the rocks with a twist.
LORELAI: Right.
1-07 Kiss And Tell
The Horn of Plenty -- The cornucopia is a symbolic, hollow horn of food and plenty dating back to the 5th century BC.
[Taylor is trying to get Luke to decorate the diner for the Autumn Festival:
TAYLOR: This is the Autumn Festival. Your show is right across the street from the Horn of Plenty! You're right smack dab in the middle of everything. You have to decorate.
LUKE: I don't have to do anything but serve food.]
"Sorry, I guess my pod's defective." --" Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is a 1956 science fiction film in which an alien race departs their dying world and lands on Earth. They emerge from plantlike pods, and grow into perfect physical duplications of their human victims, who themselves die and are discarded.
[While Luke and Taylor are arguing, Lorelai is trying to get Luke's attention:
LORELAI: Yoo-hoo!
TAYLOR: You have lived in Stars Hollow for a long time, young man. It's time you became one of us.
(Lorelai waves money to get Luke's attention.)
LORELAI: Whoo!
LUKE: Sorry, I guess my pod's defective.]
"He likes Nick Drake and Liz Phair and the Sugarplastic." --
Nick Drake: Drake is known for his gentle, autumnal songs.
Liz Phair: An American singer/songwriter and guitarist with a penchant for exploring sexually explicit lyrics.
Sugarplastic: L.A. based band
[Lane is telling Rory what she has found out about Dean:
LANE: Well, let's see. Dean's from Chicago, which you know.
RORY: I do.
LANE: He likes Nick Drake and Liz Phair and the Sugarplastic and he's deathly allergic to walnuts.
RORY: Walnuts -- bad. Got it.]
'The Crucible' -- Arthur Miller play based on the witchcraft events that happened in Salem, Mass. in 1692.
[Lorelai is bothered that Rory hasn't told her about Dean kissing her. After Rory leaves the diner, Luke comes to Lorelai's
table:
LUKE: I'm not gonna say you look concerned.
LORELAI: I'm not gonna talk about how good you'd look dressed like one of the guys from 'The Crucible.'
LUKE: Fair enough.]
Lothario -- Lothario was a character in Nicholas Rowe's 1703 play The Fair Penitent, who seduces and betrays the female lead. The name has come to mean any lecherous individual, especially male.
[Luke finds Lorelai spying on Dean as he bags groceries:
LUKE: OK. We need to get you out of here.
LORELAI: No. That Lothario over there has wormed his way into my daughter's heart and mouth and for that he must die!
Gelato -- an Italian frozen dessert made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavorings.
[After leaving Doose's, Lorelai is ranting to Luke about Dean:
LUKE: Are you OK with the guy thing?
LORELAI: Yes.
LUKE: Really?
LORELAI: OK...ish.
LUKE: That's not OK.
LORELAI: Well it's OK with an -ish.
LUKE: Whatever you say.
LORELAI: She just -- she thinks I'll disapprove, right? Well I won't. I will show her that I think this is great. Once she sees that I think this is great, everything will be back to normal between us, right? Right -- Okay, good.
LUKE: So you passed the need for an actual person to talk to several minutes ago.
LORELAI: Oh, yeah. Before the gelato stand.
9 1/2 Weeks -- a 1986 film starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger. It is notable for its erotic content.
[Rory finds out that Mrs. Kim told Lorelia about the kiss:
LORELAI: So...kissed any good boys lately?
RORY: Who...?
LORELAI: Mrs. Kim.
RORY: (mumbling) Of course.
LORELAI: So, he's cute.
RORY: Yeah, he is.
LORELAI: Can he spell?
RORY: He can spell and read. How long have you known?
LORELAI: Since this morning. You didn't think you were gonna be able to keep it a secret did you? You were making out in the market.
RORY: We weren't making out. It was just one kiss.
LORELAI: Yeah, well by the time that gets to Miss Patty's it's a scene from 9 1/2 Weeks.
Willy Wonka -- The owner of a massive chocolate factory in Roald Dahl's children's books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. A musical film adaptation of Dahl's classic, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, directed by Mel Stuart and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, was released in 1971.
[Lorelai and Rory are about to go into Doose's to buy snacks for their movie night:
RORY: Hey, I think we have enough stuff to eat at home.
LORELAI: Really...where do you live? 'Cause the home I left this morning had nothing.
RORY: Well we're ordering pizza. That's enough.
LORELAI: Are you crazy? You can't watch Willy Wonka without massive amounts of junk food! It's not right. I won't allow it. We're going in.
Shaft -- A 1971 blaxploitation film which tells the story of a detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a black mobster.
[Rory is concerned that when they go into Doose's, Lorelai may embarrass her in front of Dean:
LORELAI: Rory, it's fine.
RORY: It's too weird.
LORELAI: I'm gonna have to meet him eventually.
RORY: OK. How about next year?
LORELAI: I'm going to be so cool in there you will mistake me for Shaft.
James Dean -- A charismatic American film actor who epitomized youthful angst. Dean's
mainstream status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most cited role in Rebel Without a Cause.
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Nancy Walker -- Played Ida Morgenstern, the mother of Rhoda in Mary Tyler Moore and its
spin-off, Rhoda.
[Rory sets the rules for Lorelai meeting Dean:
RORY: There will be no interrogation.
LORELAI: I swear.
RORY: No kissing noises. No stories from my childhood. No referring to Chicago as Chitown. No James Dean jokes. No father with a shotgun stares. No Nancy Walker impressions.]
Gene Hackman -- Actor who won the Best Actor award for his memorable performance as Popeye Doyle in The French Connection.
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Gene Wilder -- He is best known as the title character from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
[Lorelai is talking to the cashier at Doose's:
CASHIER: Oh, you girls having another movie night?
LORELAI: Yeah...It's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
CASHIER: Oh, that's nice. Isn't that the one with Gene Hackman?
DEAN: Uh, Gene Wilder.]
Red Vines -- A brand of candy, sometimes known generically as 'red licorice', that resembles American black licorice except that they are red and do not have flavor extracted from the roots of the liquorice plant.
[After they leave Doose's Dean runs after them:
RORY: Mom, the video store closes in ten minutes.
LORELAI: Well you run to the video store and I'll go get coffee.
RORY: Fine.
LORELAI: Go, go, go. I'll meet you at Luke's.
(Rory runs off. Dean comes out of the market.)
DEAN: Hey, you forgot your Red Vines.
LORELAI: Oh, wow! You totally saved the night. Thanks.
Amish -- A denomination of Anabaptists, found primarily in the northern United States and Canada, noted for their restrictions on the use of modern devices such as automobiles and electricity.
[Rory is angry when Lorelai invites Dean to their movie night:
LORELAI: Why are you mad?
RORY: Because we haven't even been out on a date by ourselves yet. My first date with Dean is going to be with my mother? Are -- What is wrong with you?
LORELAI: I'm sorry. I thought you would be happy about this.
RORY: In what universe would I be happy? This isn't Amish country. Girls and boys usually date alone.
Niagara Falls -- A set of waterfalls located on the Niagara River on the border between the United States and Canada. A favorite honeymoon destination.
[Lorelai answers Rory:
LORELAI: You're totally overreacting. I invited him to a movie and pizza, not to Niagara Falls.
Elsa Klensch -- CNN Style Editor who produces and anchors five daily segments on the world of fashion, beauty and decorating.
[Rory is worried she'll spaz out in front of Dean:
RORY: I'll never be able to do that. Trig, I can do. But boys and dating? Forget it. I'm a total spaz.
LORELAI: Listen, the talking part, you just get used to. The hair twirl I can teach you. And the leaving him amazed part -- with your brain and killer blue eyes I'm not worried. You'll do fine. Just give yourself a little time to get there.
RORY: Is half an hour enough?
LORELAI: Plenty. Come on. Dab on some lip gloss, clear but fruity. Maybe a little mascara. Wear your hair down and your attitude high.
RORY: You're like a crazy Elsa Klensch.
Chuck Heston -- Charleton Heston is an actor noted for heroic roles.
[Babette is talking to Lorelai about Dean:
BABETTE: Oh, he's so cute.
LORELAI: Yeah.
BABETTE: And that Chuck Heston chin of his. Is he Rory's boyfriend?
LORELAI: No, they're just friends.
BABETTE: That's not what I heard. Kissing at the market. Gives a whole new meaning to tasting day.
'Pink Moon' -- third and last album by British musician Nick Drake.
[Dean is looking around Rory's room:
DEAN: So what's in there?
RORY: Um, that's my room.
DEAN: Really? Can I see it?
(Rory hovers in the doorway while Dean looks around her room. He picks up a CD.)
DEAN: Wow. Very clean. How much does it suck that they use 'Pink Moon' in a Volkswagen commercial?
RORY: Oh, I know.
Oompa Loompas -- Dwarves in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. They come from Loompaland and are the only people Willy Wonka will allow to work in his factory due to the risk of industrial espionage. They are only knee-high, and are paid in their
favorite food, cacao beans.
[Lorelai, Rory and Dean are sitting on the floor watching the movie:
LORELAI: Who needs more?
RORY: I do.
DEAN: Wow. You can eat.
RORY: Yes I can. Oh that's bad isn't it?
DEAN: No, uh, most girls don't eat. It's good you eat.
LORELAI: I'm all for it.
RORY: Let's talk about something besides my eating habits, shall we?
LORELAI: Oooh -- Oompa Loompas!
Prince Charming -- The name has been given to the heroes of a number of traditional folk tales, including Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella.
[Rory is making fun of Lorelai's thing for the Oompa Loompas:
RORY: My mom has a thing for the Oompa Loompas.
LORELAI: I don't think finding them amusing constitutes a thing.
RORY: No, but having a recurring dream about marrying one does.
LORELAI: Don't even get me started on your Prince Charming crush, Okay? At least my obsessions are alive. You have a thing for a cartoon.
DEAN: Ooh, Prince Charming, huh?
RORY: It was a long time ago. And not the Cinderella one, the Sleeping Beauty one.
"Ice Castles" -- A movie about a young girl who is on top of the world until a tragic accident leaves her blind and dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. The theme song was written by Marvin Hamslish and sung by Melissa Manchester.
[Rory is trying to get Dean to tell her some of his most embarrassing moments.
RORY: I bet I know one.
DEAN: What?
RORY: The theme from 'Ice Castles' makes you cry.
LORELAI: Oh, that's a good one.
DEAN: That's not true.]
"The Way We Were" -- Tearjerker movie with Robert Redford and Barbara Streisand.
[LORELAI: Oh I've got one. At the end of 'The Way We Were' you wanted Robert Redford to dump his wife and kid for Barbra Streisand.
DEAN: I've never seen 'The Way We Were.']
"Boogie Nights" -- A movie about a young porn star as he enters the pornographic film industry in the late 1970s and deals with the highs and lows of success; it is loosely based on the life of John Holmes.
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Marky Mark -- Mark Walberg's name when he was recording music, and star of the movie 'Boogie Nights.'
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'Magnolia' -- Movie made in 1999. About nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California and revolves around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and
every time the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game.
[DEAN: So, uh, at what point does the outsider get to suggest a movie for movie night?
RORY: That depends. What movie are you thinking of?
DEAN: I don't know...'Boogie Nights,' maybe.
RORY: You'll never get that past Lorelai.
DEAN: Not a Marky Mark fan?
RORY: She had a bad reaction to 'Magnolia.' She sat there screaming for three hours 'I want my life back!' and then we got kicked out of the theater. It was actually a pretty entertaining day.]
Caramello bars -- Candy bar made of milk chocolate and creamy caramel
[Lorelai's excuse for freaking out when Rory didn't tell her about Dean kissing her.
LORELAI: I just really wanted you to tell me about that kiss.
RORY: I'm so sorry. I really wanted to, I swear. I just got scared and --
LORELAI: I know. I'm not mad. I just wanted to hear about it. That's all. It's no big deal. It's OK, I'm fine. It's one too many Caramello bars. I'm sorry. You have school, I have work, so time for bed.]
1-08 Love and War and Snow
Sergeant Pepper -- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is an album by British band The Beatles. It is often cited as the most influential rock album of all time by prominent critics and publications. It was released June 2, 1967.
[Lane is in her band uniform:
Rory and Lane, dressed in her band uniform, enter the inn.
LANE: I just can't believe it. I mean, I sat next to him at practice for months, and then one day I look over and it's Rich. Rich Bloomingfeld.
RORY: Where is my chemistry book? I had it at your house yesterday, didn't I?
LANE: Rory, focus, please.
RORY: I'm sorry. I just can't find my book.
LORELAI: Hey babe. Sergeant Pepper.]
Jane Austen -- (December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817) was a prominent English novelist whose work is considered part of the Western canon. Her insights into women's lives and her mastery of form and irony made her arguably the most noted and influential novelist of her era.
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Hunter Thompson -- an American journalist and author. He was known for his flamboyant writing style, most notably in his novel 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and nonfiction.
[Rory and Dean are trying to get each other to read their favorite authors:
DEAN: Nice hat. [Dean sits on the bench and hands Rory a book] Here.
RORY: Oh, how'd you like it?
DEAN: Well, I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
RORY: Aha! You liked it, you liked Jane Austin. I knew you would. Lane, Dean likes Jane
Austin.
LANE: Wow, who would've thought.
RORY: I told him he would, but he was all, 'Forget Jane Austin, you have to read Hunter Thompson.'
DEAN: You do have to read Hunter Thompson.]
Saddle shoes -- Black and white leather shoes popular in the mid 50s.
[Rory is talking to Lorelai on the phone from Emily's:
EMILY: [hands phone to Rory] Rory, it's your mother.
RORY: [on phone] Hey.
LORELAI: Hi. Things bad out there, huh?
RORY: It's crazy. There's snow coming down everywhere, and let me just tell you, saddle shoes are not the best all-weather footwear.
LORELAI: Aw, you fell.
RORY: Twice.]
The Junior League -- The Association of Junior Leagues International, Inc. (AJLI) is an organization of 294 Junior Leagues in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Junior Leagues are educational and charitable women's organizations aimed at helping their communities and improving their members through volunteerism.
[It's snowing too hard for Lorelai to make Friday night dinner:
RORY: So what's the deal? Are you coming over tonight?
LORELAI: No, I guess I'm pretty much stuck in the Hollow tonight.
RORY: Bummer. Well, we can take our snow walk tomorrow night?
LORELAI: Absolutely. All right, now, honey, tell Grandma that you arrived there not a member of the Junior League, I'd like you to leave there the same way.]
Hallmark Cards -- a privately owned company based in Kansas City, Missouri, is the largest manufacturer of greeting cards in the United States.
[Luke is berating the townsmen for standing in the show, re-enacting the Battle of Stars Hollow:
LUKE: Look at them, all relatively intelligent men, but there they are dressed up in costumes, standing out in a snowstorm, and for what?
LORELAI: Because it's tradition.
LUKE: Tradition is a trap, it allows people to stick their head in the sand. Everything in the past was so quaint, so charming. Times were simpler. Kids didn't have sex. Neighbors knew each other. It's a freaking fairy tale. Things sucked then, too. It just sucked without indoor plumbing.
LORELAI: I think some traditions are nice. Birthdays. Holidays. Taking a walk in the first snow of the season.
LUKE: I didn't get the Hallmark card for that one.]
Bellevue -- an informal expression for "psychiatric hospital", due to the fame of the psychiatric services of Bellevue Hospital located in New York City.
[Max is following Lorelai to some secret destination:
MAX: Where are we going?
LORELAI: You'll see.
MAX: Are we gonna get there before we freeze?
LORELAI: Now, what kind of fun would it be if I told you the answer?
MAX: You're crazy.
LORELAI: Very possible.
MAX: And I'm following you.
LORELAI: Yes, you are.
MAX: So possibly I'm crazier than you are.
LORELAI: Again, very possible.
MAX: A match made in heaven.
LORELAI: Or in Bellevue.]
Foie gras -- [fwä grä] (French for "fat liver") is the fattened liver of a duck or goose that has been overfed.
[Rory has cooked a frozen pizza at Emily's for their supper:
RORY: Try it again, Grandma. It's probably cooler now.
EMILY: No, thank you, I'm fine.
RORY: You know what? It's really good if you add some extra Parmesan to it. [Rory grates Parmesan cheese on Emily's pizza] This is Mom's special trick. Frozen pizza is a staple at our house. Mom's become a major doctoring genius. She'll put anything on it. One time Sookie came and brought us some foie gras, and Mom stuck it on a pizza.
EMILY: How was it?
RORY: Pretty good once we took the foie gras off. Okay, that's good. Try it. Please. If you wanna get really crazy, you can pick it up.]
Errol Flynn -- an Australian / American film actor, most famous for his romantic swashbuckler roles in the mid to late 1930s.
[Emily and Rory are talking about a photo of Emily in her wedding dress:
RORY: It's an amazing dress.
EMILY: It should've been. My mother had three seamstresses working around the clock making it.
RORY: Do you still have it?
EMILY: It's upstairs packed away somewhere. I'll save it for you if you like.
RICHARD: Oh, Emily, Rory's too young to be thinking about things like that.
EMILY: Oh, Richard, please. Every young girl thinks about her wedding. I know I did. I knew from the time I was twelve that I wanted lilies and orchids with a silver bow wrapped around them for my bouquet.
RICHARD: You also knew that you wanted to marry Errol Flynn.]
Kismet -- in Arabic and related languages it refers to "fate".
[Max is commenting on the night's events, so far:
MAX: What if I promised you that if you let me in, all I'm expecting is a cup of coffee, that's it. Nothing weird or funny. Unless, of course, you're into weird and funny. . .
LORELAI: Max!
MAX: 'Cause I can do weird and funny. Lorelai, I've been enjoying the hell out of myself tonight, and I think you are, too.
LORELAI: I am.
MAX: Well, so, it's, uh, snowing, cold, and your daughter is elsewhere.
LORELAI: I know. I know.
MAX: I mean, the whole night's been a weird kismet of events.
LORELAI: Oh, it's that fate guy again.
The Cure -- a British band widely seen as one of the leading pioneers of the British alternative rock and post-punk scenes of the 1980s whose frequently gloomy and introspective lyrics have led to the band being considered part of the gothic rock genre.
[Lane has come over to see Rory not knowing she is stuck in Hartford. Max and Lorelai are surprised to see her:
MAX: How many kids did you say you have?
LORELAI: One. Why? [turns around and gasps] Lane! Hi, hi. Wha. . .uh. . .we're just. . .what are. . .what are. . .what are you doing here?
LANE: I'm sorry, I was waiting for Rory. I'll just go back into her room and I won't come back out, I promise.
(Lane runs into Rory's room and puts on loud music.)
LORELAI: Oh, that's The Cure. I have to go back in there.]
Judy Blume -- A Jewish-American author who has written many extremely popular novels for children and young adults. Blume's novels for middle schoolers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as racism (Iggie's House), menstruation (Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret), divorce (It's Not the End of the World), masturbation (Deenie) and teenage sexuality (Forever).
[Lorelai explains to Max why Lane has to spend the night:
MAX: So where did we leave off?
LORELAI: Oh, Lane is gonna stay here tonight. She had a really bad teen day and she needs to crash someplace sympathetic.
MAX: Okay, I understand.
LORELAI: I swear to God, if this wasn't a major Judy Blume moment, I would kick her cute little butt right out of here.]
Legos -- A line of toys featuring colorful plastic bricks, gears and other pieces which can be assembled to create models of almost anything imaginable.
[Rory is telling Lane she (Rory) has been a bad friend since she met Dean:
RORY: Lane, I'm so sorry. I've been the worst friend lately.
LANE: No, I just wigged out a little. I get jealous sometimes. I mean, you seem to have this really great life going and I don't really fit in there.
RORY: That's not true, you totally fit in.
LANE: Yeah?
RORY: I'm talking Legos.
LANE: I hope so.]
1-09 Rory's Dance
Prague -- The capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
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Václav Havel -- a Czech writer and dramatist. His political activities cost him five years in prison. He was the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic.
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'Midnight Express' -- a 1978 biographical film, based on the story of Billy Hayes, a young American sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle hashish out of Turkey to the US.
[Emily, Rory and Lorelai are at Friday night dinner:
EMILY: Your grandfather called last night and told me to let you know he's bringing you back something very special from Prague.
RORY: Wow, Prague. How amazing is it that he's going to Prague?
EMILY: It's supposed to be lovely, very dramatic castles everywhere.
RORY: Did you know the cell that Václav Havel was held in is now a hostel? You can stay there for like $50 a night.
(Rory turns to Lorelai, who is playing with her food.)
RORY: Hey, maybe on our big trip to Europe we could go to Prague and stay in his cell.
LORELAI: Absolutely. And then we can go to Turkey and stay in that place from Midnight Express.]
98° -- An American boy band. It consists of four vocalists: brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, as well as Justin Jeffre and Jeff Timmons.
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Tom Waits -- (born December 7, 1949 in Pomona, California) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.
[Lorelai is trying to talk Rory into going to her first dance:
LORELAI: So you should have a decent reason for hating something before you really decide you hate it.
RORY: Trust me, I'll hate it. It'll be stuffy and boring, the music will suck and since none of the kids at school like me, I'll be stuck in the back listening to 98° watching Tristin and Paris argue over which one of them gets to make me miserable first.
LORELAI: Okay. Or it'll be all sparkly and exciting and you'll be standing on the dance floor listening to Tom Waits with some great-looking guy staring at you so hard that you don't even realize that Paris and Tristin have just been eaten by bears.]
Blanche -- Blanche DuBois is the principal character in Tennessee Williams' play (and movie) 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'
[Lane is asking if Dean is Rory's boyfriend:
RORY: He's gonna say no.
LANE: Why would he say no.
RORY: Why would he say yes?
LANE: Rory, listen to me. There's absolutely no point in having a boyfriend if you can't get him to go to the dance with you.
RORY: He's not my boyfriend.
LANE: Really?
RORY: No.
LANE: What is he then?
RORY: He's my...gentleman caller.
LANE: Okay, Blanche.
V.I.P. -- A television series that starred Pamela Anderson as Valerie Irons, a woman who accidentally saves a celebrity and then is hired by a real bodyguard agency as a famous figurehead while the rest of the agency's professionals work to solve cases. Ironically, her lack of investigation skills would end up defeating the antagonists in every episode.
[Rory is trying to get up enough courage to ask Dean to the dance:
(They look in the window of the market and see Dean with a customer.)
LANE: There he is.
RORY: I should do this later.
(Rory starts to leave. Lane stops her.)
LANE: No. No, you have to do this now.
RORY: Why?
LANE: Because I have to go home soon and my mom threw out our TV when she caught me watching 'V.I.P.' So I'm bored and I need some entertainment.
RORY: (takes a deep breath) Okay. Here I go.]
Percodan -- a potent opioid painkiller used to treat moderately severe to severe acute (short-term) pain.
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Vicodin -- an opioid pain reliever.
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Darvocet -- a brand name for mild narcotic analgesic drug.
[Lorelai has strained her back and Sookie is offering medicine:
SOOKIE: Here, sit, sit sit. Hey, you know what, I've got an Ace bandage in my bag. I'm not sure how we can wrap it but maybe we can do something kind of creative and --
LORELAI: Sookie. Ow.
SOOKIE: Let's see.
(Sookie pulls bottles of pills out of her purse.)
LORELAI: Wow!
SOOKIE: Okay, I've got Percodan, Vicodin, Darvocet, and, uh...Take this one. It's a muscle relaxer. Very mild, I promise.]
Oscar Levant -- (December 27, 1906 - August 14, 1972) an American pianist, composer, author, comedian, and an actor, better known for his mordant character and witticisms, on the radio and in movies and television, than his music.
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Regis -- Regis Philbin, an American talk show host whose career has included stints as a game show host and all-purpose television personality.
[Emily doesn't know Rory has decided to go to the dance:
EMILY: It may seem frivolous and silly to her now but believe me, these are the kind of experiences you regret missing later.
LORELAI: Okay.
EMILY: And regret can make you bitter. Do you want Rory to be bitter?
LORELAI: Well, sort of.
EMILY: Lorelai.
LORELAI: What, Mom? She can make some cash off of it. Become a crazy Oscar Levant kind of celebrity, go on talk shows, heckle Regis.
EMILY: I wish you would take this seriously.
LORELAI: Mom, Rory is going to the dance.]
Susan Faludi -- a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two well-known books: 'Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women' and 'Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man.'
[Tristin is bugging Rory because she is buying tickets to the dance:
(Tristin walks down the hall to where Rory is reading while waiting in line to buy tickets.)
TRISTIN: And she's reading again. How novel.
RORY: Good-bye, Tristin.
TRISTIN: Did you get the novel thing? Because...
RORY: I said good-bye.
TRISTIN: What are you doing here?
RORY: I like lines.
TRISTIN: The guy's supposed to buy the tickets.
RORY: Really. Does Susan Faludi know about this?
TRISTIN: Unless of course there is no guy.
RORY: There's a guy.
TRISTIN: A cheap guy.
RORY: Well, what can I say? I like 'em cheap. Sloppy too -- bald spot, beer gut, you know, and the pants that kind of slip down in the back, giving you that good plumber shot. That sends me through the roof.]
Squeaky Fromme -- A member of Charles Manson's "Family", she was convicted of attempting to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1975.
[More sarcastic banter between Rory and Tristin:
TRISTIN: So who is he?
RORY: How many languages can you say 'none of your business' in.
TRISTIN: Does he go to this school?
RORY: No, he doesn't.
TRISTIN: Uh-huh. Well, look, Okay, I'll confess something to you. I don't have a date.
RORY: Well I hear Squeaky Fromme is up for parole soon. You should keep a good thought.
Versateller -- An ATM machine
[Paris is angry at Rory for blowing off Tristin:
(Tristin walks down the hall. Rory is next in line.)
RORY: Two, please.
PARIS: Idiot.
RORY: Excuse me?
PARIS: He was totally nice to you and you couldn't be a bigger jerk.
RORY: You like Tristin so much, you go out with him.
PARIS: I don't have enough change.
RORY: Pay me later.
PARIS: What am I, your Versateller? Wait for change. (yells at the boy sitting next to her) I need change! Now! (to Rory) There's no way you're going with someone better than Tristin.
Lambada -- A dance which became internationally popular in the 1980s. The association of Lambada and Dirty Dancing/Forbidden Dance became quite extensive, mostly due to the 1990 movie Lambada, although the people who dance this rhythm in Brazil and everywhere else prefer to define it as a sensual and romantic dance rather than erotic.
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Moshing -- A type of dance characterized by jumping around and or pushing others to loud punk, hardcore, and heavy metal music. Moshing is typically done in a mosh pit
[Lorelia is fixing Rory's hair:
LORELAI: (to Rory) Shield the tacos. Okay, ready?
(Rory puts the tacos under the table and covers her eyes. Lorelai sprays her hair.)
RORY: God!
LORELAI: OKAY, that will be good for six slow dances, four medium ones, one lambada, but if you plan on doing any moshing I suggest another coat.
RORY: I think I'm good.
Anne Taylor -- A leading women's specialty retailer offering updated classic
clothing and accessories.
[Emily arrives at Lorelai's so she can see Rory before she goes to the dance:
(The doorbell rings.)
LORELAI: We're in here!
EMILY: We're in here? That's how you answer the door?
LORELAI: Well I was all out of Saran Wrap.
EMILY: I don't even want to figure that one out. I just want to see my granddaughter. Where is she?
LORELAI: Kitchen.
EMILY: Oh, perfect. I want to be all ready for the big entrance. How's the light in here? Never mind. I'll just take one with the flash and one without to make sure we got it right.
LORELAI: Wow, Mom, look at you. You'd think Anne Taylor was having a sale or something.]
'The Outsiders' -- A movie about the lives of a group of small town kids (greasers) who find themselves growing up outside of society and trying to make the best of what they have.
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Ponyboy -- When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
[Rory and Dean are on their way to the dance:
(Cut to Rory and Dean. They are in the car on the way to the dance.)
RORY: Maybe we should just forget about this
DEAN: OKAY.
RORY: I mean, it's just a dance. What's the big deal?
DEAN: Beats me.
RORY: And these kids at my school -- awful. Have you seen The Outsiders?
DEAN: Yeah, I have.
RORY: Just call me Ponyboy. I heard this place is beautiful though -- old and historic.
DEAN: Huh.
RORY: Maybe we could just go in for a minute.
Baccarat candlesticks -- Expensive crystal candle holders
[Emily is still at Lorelai's, snooping around:
LORELAI: What are you doing, Mom?
EMILY: I'm trying to find the candlesticks I bought you.
LORELAI: What candlesticks?
EMILY: The Baccarat candlesticks I bought you last year for Christmas. I assumed you stuffed them in the back of the closet somewhere.
(Lorelai sits up and looks worried.)
LORELAI: Uh, well, no, I did not stuff them in the back of the closet.
EMILY: Well then where are they? I don't see them out.
LORELAI: (hesitantly) Well, see, we didn't actually have a...big use for the crystal candlesticks so I kind of...exchanged them.
EMILY: For what?
LORELAI: A monkey lamp.
Barbara Stanwyck -- American movie actress in the 1930s and -40s.
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Fred MacMurray -- a Hollywood actor who appeared in over one hundred movies, during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Barbara and Fred starred together in the movie 'Double Indemnity'
(1944). They scheme to kill her husband for the insurance money and make it look
like an accident -- double payoff by the insurance company.
[Emily is staying with Lorelai for the night because of Lorelai's bad back:
(Cut to Lorelai and Emily watching TV.)
EMILY: Oh look -- Barbara Stanwyck. I just love Barbara Stanwyck.
LORELAI: Oh yeah, she's good.
EMILY: She had that wonderful voice -- that husky, deep voice. I just love that voice.
LORELAI: You know Mom, you have kind of a Barbara Stanwycky voice.
EMILY: Oh I do not.
LORELAI: I mean it. You could have gotten Fred McMurray to off Dad if you'd really wanted to.
EMILY: Oh you do enjoy teasing me, don't you?
LORELAI: You know, I really do.]
Dristan -- Decongestant tablets
[Dean and Tristan are facing off at the dance:
DEAN: What's your problem, man?
TRISTIN: Nothing. Just don't like your girlfriend, that's all.
DEAN: Really? Doesn't look that way to me.
TRISTIN: I don't really care how it looks to you.
DEAN: Hey. You got in my path, not the other way around.
(Dean starts to walk away. Tristin steps in his way.)
DEAN: You're kidding right?
TRISTIN: Why, are you going somewhere?
DEAN: Get out of my way Dristan.
TRISTIN: Oh, aren't you clever.
Portable Dorothy Parker -- A collection of her stories. She was an American short story writer, poet, and critic.
[Rory and Dean are at Miss Patty's studio after the dance:
(They're inside, looking at the pictures on the walls.)
DEAN: Are all these women really Miss Patty?
RORY: Yep. She said she's done everything there is to do in show business except set fire to the hoop the dog jumps through.
(Rory drops her purse.)
DEAN: I'll get it. God, this weighs a ton. What do you have in here?
RORY: I don't know. A lipstick, five dollar bill. Gum, hair spray, a book.
DEAN: A book?
RORY: Yeah.
DEAN: You brought a book to the dance?
RORY: Yeah.
DEAN: You thought there'd be a lot of downtime?
RORY: No. I just take a book with me everywhere. It's just habit.
DEAN: So, uh, what are you reading?
RORY: The Portable Dorothy Parker.
1-10 Forgiveness and Stuff
Miracle Worker -- TV show, play and movie about Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan
***
Narcolepsy -- A chronic neurological disorder caused by the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. Individuals will fall asleep for periods lasting from a few seconds to several minutes.
[Rory and Lane meet at the Gazebo:
LANE: Hey, I thought we were meeting at Luke's.
RORY: We were? Oh my God, I'm so sorry. I forgot.
LANE: Let me guess. You and Lorelai haven't made up yet?
RORY: Nope. Things are still Miracle Worker at my house. God, how did everything get so screwed up?
LANE: I think you staying out all night with Dean had something to do with it.
RORY: And my grandmother being there to witness it didn't help.
LANE: Never does.
RORY: It sucks. Things were good. School was good, Dean was good. Now my mother and I are barely speaking. Mom and Grandma are barely speaking. Dean's new name is 'Narcolepsy boy'.]
‘Metamorphosis’ -- A book by graphic artist Peter Kuper illustrating Kafta's short story 'The Metamorphosis.'
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Kafta -- Frantz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883. He only published a handful of stories, and 'The Metamorphosis' is considered to be his masterpiece.
[Rory and Lane are discussing Rory's Chrsitmas present for Dean:
LANE: You went shopping.
RORY: Yes I did. I got a moo-ing cow shaped timer for Sookie, some cardio-salsa tapes for Michel, a book for Dean -
LANE: You got Dean a book?
RORY: Yeah. 'Metamorphosis'.
LANE: 'Metamorphosis.'
RORY: It's Kafta.]
Tae-bo -- A martial arts/aerobics hybrid created by Billy Blanks in 1975.
[Rory is trying to get Lorelai to make up with Emily:
RORY: You just wanna hold a grudge.
LORELAI: Yes, it burns more calories.
RORY: That's not true.
LORELAI: Yes it is, how do you think your grandma got those legs of hers? She's not exactly a Stairmaster gal.
RORY: Mom.
LORELAI: Never saw her on the running track.
RORY: Ok.
LORELAI: I don't remember the country club organizing a Tae-bo class.]
Razor scooter -- A battery powered two-wheeled scooter similar to the
ones children use.
[Loreali is trying to order a pizza:
LORELAI: Yes Joe, I know it's Friday night, but I ordered my pizza an hour ago. Oh no I did not hear about the delivery van. Well I am very, very sorry to hear that. Now was it a fairly new van? Great, ok, well Joe, as with most tragedies in life there come a time when you just need to pick up and move one. So what's the next phase of the delivery saga? Mm-hmm. Well how long until your brother's back with the razor scooter? Ok, uh-huh, alright, just call me when it gets there. Bye Joe.]
Grey Poupon -- The largest selling Dijon mustard being sold in the United States.
[Loreali is in the diner wanting something to eat that's in the Christmas spirit:
LUKE: You need to see a menu?
LORELAI: Yes.
LUKE: You come here everyday.
LORELAI: I know, but I usually order the same thing, and tonight I'm in the mood for something a little different.
LUKE: Menu.
LORELAI: Piece of paper, list of food offered.
LUKE: Ok, here. [gives her a menu] It's not in Japanese.
LORELAI: Don't you have any kind of holiday special? Something festive?
LUKE: I just got some Grey Poupon. That's French.
The Wall Street Journal -- A daily newspaper covering U.S. and international business and financial news and issues.
***
Barron’s -- Barron's Magazine, a financial weekly published by Dow Jones & Company
[Emily wants Rory to buy Richard something to read:
EMILY: Rory, go get your Grandfather a paper -
RORY: But -
EMILY: The Wall Street Journal or Barron's. Whatever they have, he'll want something to read when he gets back to his room.]
Cosmo -- 'Cosmopolitan Magazine, a women's magazine with cover stories that are sexually explicit in tone.
[Emily is aggravated with the ER admitting nurse:
NURSE: Ms. Gilmore, uh, I need you to -
EMILY: It's not 'Ms. Gilmore', it's Mrs. Gilmore! Mrs. Gilmore, I'm not a Cosmo woman!]
Pez -- The shortened name of PEZ Candy Inc. and also the name of two of its products -- pressed, dry candies, straight-edged and shaped like 3/8-inch- (1-cm-) long bricks, and pocket mechanical dispensers for such candy.
[Loreali has sent Rory to get coffee, to keep her occupied:
LUKE: You know I could look for Rory.
LORELAI: No that's ok, I'll do it.
LUKE: I thought so. Hey look, it's Rory.
[Rory comes up to them]
RORY: The coffee machine was jammed so I got us some chicken soup and some Pez.]
Jimmy Hoffa -- an American labor leader who is also well-known in popular culture for the mysterious circumstances surrounding his still-unexplained disappearance and presumed death.
[Rather than go into see Richard's room to see him, Lorelai is making excuses not to:
LORELAI: They just brought Grandpa back up. He's in room 202.
RORY: Well come on.
LORELAI: You go ahead, I just - I have to make a call.
RORY: Well hurry up.
LORELAI: I'll meet you there.
LUKE: So who are you gonna go find now?
LORELAI: Stop.
LUKE: How about Jimmy Hoffa? That'll keep you busy for a while.]
Financial Times -- An international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink paper. It is regarded as a newspaper of high repute. It is also one of the most read periodicals by business leaders.
[One of the newspapers Rory found for Richard:
EMILY: [Comes into room] Well how are we doing?
RORY: We're done the front page of the Financial Times and all of The Wall Street Journal.]
Charo -- A singer, dancer, comedian, actress and classical guitar player whose Spanish accent is particularly hard to understand.
[Loreali is telling Rory that Dean came to see her:
RORY: Were you mean?
LORELAI: Excuse me, I am never mean.
RORY: You were mean.
LORELAI: He told me nothing happened.
RORY: Nothing did.
LORELAI: I know.
RORY: You do? Really?
LORELAI: Rory, there are only two things that I totally trust in this entire world. The fact that I will never be able to understand what Charo is saying no matter how long she lives in this country - and you.
Brooks Brothers -- The oldest men's clothier in the United States.
[Emily is sits down next to Luke in the hall outside of Richard's room holding his tie:
EMILY: If you don't mind, I think I need to just -
LUKE: Oh sure. Sit, please. How is he?
EMILY: Oh you know he's - I don't know. [playing with Richard's tie]
LUKE: It's a nice tie.
EMILY: It's Brooks Brothers.
1-11 Paris Is Burning
Osteoporosis -- A disease of bone in which bone mineral density is reduced and bones are susceptible to fracture.
[Lorelai and Rory are playing a name game:
RORY: L?
LORELAI: L-laryngitis. M?
RORY: Mumps. N?
LORELAI: Narcolepsy! O?
RORY: Are we going to have to go through this every time we decide who cleans out the refrigerator?
LORELAI: Do you want to go back to thumb wrestling?
RORY: Osteoporosis. P?]
Bouvier des flandres -- A dog breed originating in Flanders used for cattle droving, sheep herding, cart pulling, and as guard dogs, police dogs, and security dogs.
***
Gesundheit -- The Yiddish word for health. When a person sneezes, Jews typically say 'Gesundheit!' to wish them good health.
[Loreali and Rory are at a pet fair and they stop in front of one of cages:
LORELAI: (to all the puppies) Hi! Oh hi! Hi! Oohh! Rory look at the baby! (in front of one)
RORY: Mom.
LORELAI: Aw, 'Buttercup was found cold and wet hovering under a hydrangea bush along highway 26.' It's a sad highway.
RORY: As compare to all the other happy highways she could've been abandoned by.
LORELAI: Her lineage includes cocker spaniel, golden retriever, bouvier des flandres -
RORY: Gesundheit.]
Damien -- The child Antichrist in the movie 'The Omen.'
[Lorelai is explaning to Luke about her and Rory's pet hamster:
LUKE: You abandoned your hamster.
LORELAI: Look, I know it was bad, but this was a vicious hamster. This was like a Damien hamster with little beady eyes and a big forked tail and...a cape with a...hood...and bye bye Buttercup. Bye Luke.]
This Old House -- PBS home improvement show originally hosted by Bob Vila.
[Lorelai is explaining to Max how she can be so hungry right after dinner:
MAX: Twenty minutes ago we were sitting at the dinner table were we not?
LORELAI: Yes we were.
MAX: There were candles and flowers and plates and knifes and cloth napkins.
LORELAI: I love the little sombrero napkin holders, very olé.
MAX: And the whole time we were at said dinner table, you ate two maybe three bites of this amazing dinner I made for you.
LORELAI: Pass the bread.
MAX: And yet, as soon as that dinner's over and I start cleaning up, suddenly that's when you're starving.
LORELAI: What can I say - watching someone work makes me hungry. If I hadn't stopped watching "This Old House" I'd be 500 lbs right now.]
Osso bucco -- A regional dish from Piedmont in Italy. Osso buco translates literaly to "bone hole" a reference to the marrow which gives the dish its distinctive flavor and body. Traditionally a veal shank is used in this dish
[Loreali and Max are talking about the meal he cooked for her:
LORELAI: So where did you learn to make osso bucco anyway?
MAX: Um, from this very old Italian woman...who used to live upstairs...um, s-she had lost her husband a couple of years before and she kinda looked at me as like a son.
LORELAI: Sweet!
MAX: She was.
LORELAI: So an old girlfriend huh?
MAX: Yep.]
Marcel Proust -- (July 10, 1871 – November 18, 1922) a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic.
***
Michael Crichton -- An author, film producer and television producer. His best-known works are science fiction novels, films and television programs.
[Loreali is walking around Max's apartment and stops in front of his bookcase:
LORELAI: Wow these are beautiful!. Hm, I never read Proust, I always wanted to. Every now and then, I'm seized with an overwhelming urge to say something like "As Marcel Proust would say..." but of course I have no idea what Marcel Proust would say so I don't even go there. I could do, uh, "As Michael Crichton would say..." but it's not exactly the same you know.
'Swann's Way' -- A book by Marcel Proust which tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of himself. The second story is that of the love affair between Charles Swann and his future wife, Odette.
[Max has given Lorelai a book to read:
RORY: Did you have a nice time?
LORELAI: Not bad. (smiling)
RORY: That's a very big smile for a not bad night. (Lorelai sits on the couch)
LORELAI: Yeah well. Hey, he loaned me a book.
RORY: What book?
LORELAI: 'Swann's Way'
RORY: Aren't we ambitious.
LORELAI: Yes we are.
RORY: You know what it means when a man loans you a book don't you?
LORELAI: That he's already read it?
RORY: Yep.
Emily Dickinson -- A prolific (over 1100 poems) American poet living in the mid 1800s.
[Max is giving a class lecture:
MAX: "There's a certain slant of light, winter afternoons that oppresses like the heft of cathedral tunes." That, my friends is the first verse of a poem by Emily Dickinson. Now read some of those tonight, and as you do, consider the fact that Emily Dickinson writes convincingly about passion and about the world in spite of the fact that she lived as a virtual recluse. It'll help you appreciate her mind.]
Marilyn Monroe / Arthur Miller syndrome -- A 'dumb blonde' actress married to an intelligent and successful playwright.
[Louise and Madeline are discussing Max:
MADELINE: I could listen to him talk about passion all day. Do you think he's dating anyone?
LOUISE: Of course he is.
MADELINE: A teacher?
LOUISE: Please.
MADELINE: Why not?
LOUISE: Have you seen teachers?
MADELINE: He's a teacher.
LOUISE: Male teachers are different. They can still be mysterious.
MADELINE: I bet his girlfriend's pretty.
LOUISE: I bet she's dumb.
MADELINE: Why?
LOUISE: Dumb girls crave smart men. It's that whole Marilyn Monroe / Arthur Miller syndrome.]
Squab -- Another name for dove or pigeon.
[Friday night dinner:
EMILY: How's the squab?
RORY: It's good.
EMILY: Lorelai?
LORELAI: It's the best tiny, weird bird I have ever eaten.
'Psycho' -- A novel by Robert Bloch, which was later made into a movie by Alfred Hitchock and starring Anthony Perkins as Norman, that details the life and crimes of the profoundly disturbed Norman Bates.
[Max has come to take Lorelai out and Rory answers the door. He wants her to call him 'Max' away from school:
MAX: why don't you call me Max? Just when we're out of school.
RORY: (turning back) I don't think I can do that.
MAX: Why not?
RORY: It just sounds wrong - disrespectful. I mean, you're my teacher Mr. Medina, and if I start to think of you as a 'Max' - even as a part-time 'Max', it just seems like it would get too confusing.
MAX: How 'bout then, we'll come up with non-Chilton names for each other. When we're not in school, I'll call you Rebecca.
RORY: Rebecca.
MAX: And you'll call me...
RORY: Norman?
MAX: Norman?
RORY: Well...
MAX: I look like a Norman to you?
RORY: I'm sorry, 'Psycho' was on earlier and it was just the first name that came to mind. I'll think of something else. How about Alfred?
MAX: You know what...Norman's fine.
Nancy Kerrigan -- A two-time Olympic figure skating medalist. She captured national attention beyond the skating world on January 6, 1994, when she was clubbed in the knee by Shane Stant, who was hired to do harm to her by Tonya Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and friend Shawn Eckhardt.
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Tonya Harding -- She won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships twice and placed second in the 1991 World Championships. She was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple axel jump in competition. She became notorious for her part in the conspiracy to harm competitor Nancy Kerrigan at a practice session during the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
[Lorelai is talking to Sookie:
LORELAI: Rory and I have a skating date.
RORY: I'm Nancy Kerrigan.
LORELAI: And I'm Tonya Harding. I'm gonna do the whole shoe lace coming untie - nervous break - let me start again act and everything.
Pom poms -- Used in pairs in Cheerleading for attracting the attention of a crowd, accentuating movements and adding an element of sparkle to a cheer, chant or cheer/dance routine.
[Luke offers to sharpen the blades on Lorelai's ice skates;
LUKE: Hand them over.
LORELAI: Why?
LUKE: I'm gonna clean them and tighten the blades.
LORELAI: Really!?!
LUKE: Yes.
LORELAI: Can you make them really shiny?
LUKE: The skates please.
LORELAI: Maybe add a couple of pom poms.
LUKE: Just hand them over.
'Run a 10K' -- A 6.5 mile marathon race.
[After the skating date, Lorelai's feet killing her:
SOOKIE: Ok, tea is ready. How are the feet?
LORELAI: I don't know. They stopped talking to me.
SOOKIE: What on earth were you thinking?
LORELAI: That I could still skate.
SOOKIE: It's not like riding a bike you know.
LORELAI: Now you tell me.
SOOKIE: So, (sitting at table) what are you up to tonight.
LORELAI: Well, I'm going to do a little line dancing, then run a 10K, then just jump up and down really hard for about an hour.]
'Livin' la Vida Loca' -- (living the crazy life, in English) - a hit song by Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin.
[Sookie accuses Lorelai of doing her 'get-away dance' about Max:
SOOKIE: Aha. How long have you been dating?
LORELAI: Why?
SOOKIE: Two months you've been seeing him right?
LORELAI: Point, Sookie?
SOOKIE: Mmm. Just right on schedule that's all.
LORELAI: I have no idea what you're talking about.
SOOKIE: This is about the time you start doing you little get-away dance. Two months right on the nose - you're good.
LORELAI: I do not do a dance.
SOOKIE: You're cha-cha-cha-ing right now.
LORELAI: I'm not cha-cha-cha-ing. I'm being practical. Rory is starting to get attached to Max and that's not good.
SOOKIE: Oh Rory's getting attached to Max?
LORELAI: Yes and since I've decided that Max is probably not the guy for me, I think it's better that we break it off before she gets hurt.
SOOKIE: Practical
LORELAI: Yes.
SOOKIE: Uh, can I say something here?
LORELAI: Of course you can.
SOOKIE: Cha-cha-cha.
LORELAI: Stop that.
SOOKIE: (singing) Livin' la vida loca.
Ricky Martin -- A major star in the world of Latin Pop.
[Lorelai answers Sookie:
LORELAI: Hey, you will not stand there singing Ricky Martin songs to me. This is not a pattern ok? I'm not doing what I always do. This is not the same.
SOOKIE: Actually you're right. Usually you don't get so upset and defensive during the cha-cha talk.]
Rick James incident -- An American funk and soul musician, he was a recreational drug user, addicted mainly to cocaine. In 1993, James was convicted of assaulting two women, with the first assault during one of his cocaine binges.
***
Hugh Grant -- A British actor who, in 1995, was arrested near Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, having been caught receiving oral sex from a prostitute, Divine Brown, in a car.
[Rory is telling Lorelai about Paris:
RORY: So you remember Paris Geller.
LORELAI: Your very best friend in the whole world?
RORY: Her parents are getting a major divorce.
LORELAI: Really.
RORY: Her dad's like this big wig at a huge pharmaceutical company and they're printing all the sordid details about it in the paper.
LORELAI: Ooh, how sordid?
RORY: Well, it's not the Rick James incident, but Hugh Grant should be feeling pretty good about himself.]
'Here's Johnny' -- Ed McMahon's signature introduction of Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show.
***
Heather -- One of three girls named Heather in the movie 'Heathers' who were best friends.
[Rory is still talking about Paris:
RORY: Actually I kind of do feel bad for her.
LORELAI: That's because you are the nicest kid ever to walk the earth.
RORY: The whole school's talking about it. And the weird thing is that the whole dynamics there has changed for me.
LORELAI: Really? How so? (gets up to go towards fridge)
RORY: Well, Madeline and Louise, Paris' best friends, they said hello to me the other day.
LORELAI: Really? Like a normal hello? Not like a 'Here's Johnny' kind of hello?
RORY: Normal, friendly, no acts.
LORELAI: Wow, you're the new 'Heather'
RORY: I guess.
"Oscar!' -- Oscar Madison in the movie 'The Odd Couple', who was a slob.
***
'Felix! -- Felix Ungar in 'The Odd Couple' movie -- a neat freak.
[Lorelai and Rory are cleaning out the fridge:
LORELAI: Oh, hey, this is the pizza from mystery Tuesday. That one's completely fine (pointing to the one in the garbage bin.)
RORY: Don't.
LORELAI: It's in the box!
RORY: Oscar!
LORELAI: Felix!
Walt Whitman -- (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) An American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist.
***
Homer -- An early Greek poet and traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey .
***
Dante -- An Italian Florentine poet. His greatest work, La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), is considered the greatest literary statement produced in Europe in the medieval period.
***
Shakespeare -- An English poet and playwright. Shakespeare is considered by many to be the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
***
Edna O'Brien -- An Irish novelist and short story writer whose works often revolve around the inner feelings of women, and their problems in relating to men.
[Another Max lecture, during Parents' Day:
'On Monday we will start a two week of creative writing exercise, but that doesn't mean we stop reading. One of the greatest inspirations of working writers is the writing of others that they admire. Walt Whitman read Homer, Dante, Shakespeare. And the novelist Edna O'Brien has been quoted as saying 'that every writer should read some Proust every day' Now, at this point, normally I would impress the parents by pulling out a copy of Proust's 'Swann's Way' and reading a particularly difficult passage but alas, you're all saved. I have misplaced my copy. (bell rings) Oh that does is - parent's thanks for coming, students - papers on Whitman are due tomorrow and those of you who are just starting tonight - I'll be able to tell.']
100 clowns crammed into a Volkswagen -- Typical circus skit.
[Max suspects Lorelai is breaking up with him:
MAX: You're breaking up with me aren't you?
LORELAI: I don't know.
MAX: Not only are you breaking up with me, you're doing it really badly.
LORELAI: Am I being graded?
MAX: No, I'm a little disappointed. I would've expected a better dumping from you.
LORELAI: Nobody's dumping anyone.
MAX: Really? Then what is this?
LORELAI: I just need space.
MAX: Well I don't. In fact I want as little space as possible. 100 clowns crammed into a Volkswagen. That's the kind of non-space I'm talking about.
NC-17 -- Movie rating, no children under the age of 17 admitted without a parent or guardian.
[Lorelai and Max have met at some diner and are talking about the kiss Paris saw:
MAX: I was called into headmaster Charleston's office today.
LORELAI: Let me guess. He put his arm around you and said "I don't understand why you crazy kids can't work this out?"
MAX: He said that I was jeopardizing my career and future at Chilton.
LORELAI: Oh!
MAX: At first I was incensed, outraged and "How dare he?!". And then I realized that he was right. What happened the other day was completely unprofessional. I never in my life would've considered pulling off something like this. He should've fired me.
LORELAI: But he didn't.
MAX: Not yet, but the word 'probation' was tossed around quite a bit though.
LORELAI: I'm sorry.
MAX: I'm the one that started the kiss.
LORELAI: And I'm the one that knocked it up to NC-17.
1-12 Double Date
Blondie -- American rock band that first gained fame in the 1970s and early 1980s. They were pioneers in the early American punk rock and New Wave scene and fronted by singer Deborah Harry.
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Kraftwerk -- a German musical group who have made significant contributions to the development of electronic music.
***
Young Marble Giants -- a trio formed in 1978. Their style featured minimal, instrumentation provided by the art effects devices such as ring modulators and reverb units
***
Yoko Ono -- a Japanese musician and artist who achieved worldwide fame (or notoriety) through her relationship and eventual marriage with John Lennon. Often blamed for the Beatles breaking up.
***
Beatles -- a British rock music group from Liverpool, England held in very high regard for both their artistic achievements and their huge commercial success, becoming the biggest musical act of the twentieth century.
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Sean -- Sean Lennon, the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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Julian -- Julian Lennon, first son of John Lennon and Cynthia Powell.
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Clauding Longet -- was a popular singer and recording artist in the 1960s and 1970s. She was best known as the accused killer of ski star Spider Sabich. She was acquitted by a jury.
[Rory and Lane are discussing Lanes new CDs:
RORY: Wow, you went new-CD crazy! [dumping a bag full of CDs on the coffee table]
LANE: They just had an amazing selection today.
RORY: The best of Blondie...Kraftwerk...Young Marble Giants...Yoko Ono - really?
LANE: A very misunderstood artist and the Beatles would’ve broken up anyways.
RORY: Have you shared this theory with anyone?
LANE: I know it, Yoko knows it, Sean knows it. Julian’s still in denial but what can you do?
RORY: Ok, I must listen to anyone named Claudine Longet (puts CD in player)]
Renaissance -- an influential cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution, religious reform and artistic transformation.
[Lorelai hears Clauding Longet in Rory's CD player:
LORELAI: Who the hell is that anyways?
RORY: Claudine Longet.
LORELAI: The chick who shot the skier?
RORY: Uh, sure, why not.
LORELAI: Wow - Renaissance woman.]
Granddaddy -- DJ famous for progressive trance-techno music mixes
[Another CD of Lane's:
LANE: Hey Granddaddy new album used - I love a bargain.]
Taco Bell -- a fast-food restaurant chain which serves items based on Mexican cuisine, as adapted to the needs of the fast-food industry.
[Michel is talking to Lorelai:
LORELAI: Yes Michel?
MICHEL: I apologize for any inconvenience I might be causing your future employment but your current one is experiencing a problem.
LORELAI: And once again I say 'Yes Michel?'
MICHEL: Are you sure you wouldn’t like me to wait?
LORELAI: No Michel.
MICHEL: Because learning the eating patterns of the average Taco Bell consumer is a vital lesson that -
LORELAI: Michel. What do you want?
MICHEL: We are overbooked.
Baked Alaska -- a dessert made of ice cream placed in a pie dish lined with slices of sponge cake and topped with meringue. The entire dessert is then placed in an extremely hot oven just long enough to firm the meringue.
[Sookie and Lorelia are talking about deserts:
SOOKIE: Yeah, I thought I’d do a variation on a baked Alaska for dessert tonight.
LORELAI: What kind of variation?
SOOKIE: See I hadn’t thought of that yet.
LORELAI: Maybe you could do them in the actual shape of Alaska.
SOOKIE: Interesting.
LORELAI: Or you could do little baked Alaskas and Hawaiis
SOOKIE: Because they joined the union last.
LORELAI: Exactly.]
Pattypan -- a variety of yellow squash.
[Sookie and Jackson talking about vegetables:
SOOKIE: Uh, squash.
JACKSON: What?
SOOKIE: I need some.
JACKSON: Squash.
SOOKIE: Pattypan.]
Chez Fleur -- The fancy French restaurant Lorelai, Sookie, Jackson and Rune go to.
[SOOKIE: [rushing up to desk] He called! He called!
LORELAI: And?
SOOKIE: Well, I did what you said. I had it all worked out and I asked him if he'd like to go to dinner at Chez Fleur on Sunday.]
Mussels -- a bivalve mollusk similar to clams.
[Sookie, Jackson, Lorelia and Rune are at the restaurant:
All are sitting in silence looking at the menu. Rune is staring at Lorelai, she forces a smile]
RUNE: What size shoe do you wear?
LORELAI: Uh, size 9.
RUNE: 9? Wow.
SOOKIE: I wonder if the mussels are fresh?
LORELAI: Um, well, it does say 'fresh mussels' on the menu.
SOOKIE: Yes, but a lot of times they say 'fresh' and they're not, they're frozen but they're just called 'fresh' because they were fresh when they were frozen. [Jackson nodding and smiling at her] Plus if they're not stored with the correct drainage they just sit around in their own excretions, with is kind of like sitting around in your own -
LORELAI: Sookie, I beg of you, do not order the fresh mussels.]
Beck -- Beck Hanson, musician who plays pop-junk culture collage of musical styles, obtuse, ironic lyrics, and post-modern arrangments incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and heady sound effects.
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Foo Fighters -- a rock group formed by musician Dave Grohl in 1995. They are named after the World War II term "foo fighter", used to refer to mysterious aerial phenomena.
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Everlong -- the second release single from the Foo Fighters' second album The Colour and the Shape.
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Velvet Underground -- an American rock band which was first active from 1965 to 1973, who remain one of the most influential bands of their time.
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Nico -- Christa Päffgen (October 16, 1938 – July 18, 1988) was a singer-songwriter, fashion model, actress and Warhol superstar, best known by her pseudonym Nico. She is best remembered for a collaboration with The Velvet Underground, in 1967
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Fugazi -- a rock music group from Washington, D.C., formed in 1987. The band name alludes to a Vietnam-era GI slang acronym for a particularly bad combat situation, which stands for "Fucked Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In"
[Rory, Dean, Lane and Tod are standing in line for a movie. Lane is trying to make conversation:
LANE: And the amazing thing is, all these girls are screaming and none of them are getting the joke. He's playing the character of a rock star. I mean Beck is a genius and all these stupid girls are screaming at him just because they're buying into the rock star image. I love Beck. I understand Beck. [looks at Todd nervously who doesn't say anything] And the Foo Fighters - Gods. I mean, have you heard the acoustic version of 'Everlong'? I can't even talk about it you know? Hey, you know who I've really gotten into lately? The velvet underground. Oh and Nico - she's amazing - Depressing scary German chick. I have the CD if you wanna borrow it sometime. Wh-what kind of music do you like?
TODD: I don't know - whatever.
LANE: Fugazi?
TODD: What?
LANE: The band on your shirt.
TODD: Oh. Huh, pretty cool picture.
LANE: You don't know what's on your shirt?
TODD: It's my sister's.]
Ganache -- a French word for a mixture of chocolate and heavy cream, used as an icing or filling for pastries.
[Sookie is talking to Lorelai in the restaurant:
SOOKIE: [giggling] It was so funny. Oh God! Do you remember?
LORELAI: I remember.
SOOKIE: What was Rory, eight?
LORELAI: I believe she was.
SOOKIE: Oh god, that mud pie fiasco haunted me for a year! I mean, hers looked just like mine. Of course I used you know, homemade chocolate cookies, bittersweet ganache and she used well, mud. You know, but they did look damn similar.]
Richard Simmons -- an effeminate fitness guru and celebrity.
[Lorelai is at the counter in the diner, and Sookie, Jackson, and Rune are at a table:
LORELAI: [takes a sip of coffee] Mmm. Luke, that is an exceptionally good batch of coffee.
LUKE: Yeah?
LORELAI: Hello!
LUKE: I added a little nutmeg.
LORELAI: Really?
LUKE: Yes.
LORELAI: That's very Richard Simmons of you.
LUKE: Well what can I say. Chicks dig a man with a feminine side.]
Robert Duvall -- nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for 'The Great Santini'
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The Great Santini -- a 1979 movie that tells the story of a highly successful Marine officer whose success as a military aviator contrasts with his shortcomings as a husband and father.
{Mrs, Kim found out Lane was at a movie with Rory, Dean and Todd. Lorelai is explaining to Rory why she couldn't cover for them:
LORELAI: I have to know where you are at all times, especially when you have my shoes on.
RORY: I know.
LORELAI: This whole trust thing only works if it goes both ways kid.
RORY: I hated doing it.
LORELAI: Good.
RORY: Would you have?
LORELAI: What?
RORY: Lied for us?
LORELAI: To Mrs. Kim?
RORY: Yeah.
LORELAI: No.
RORY: Why?
LORELAI: Because that lady's scary.
RORY: Mom.
LORELAI: I can't lie to another mother. That's breaking the code.
RORY: So then what were we supposed to do tonight?
LORELAI: Look, I know that Mrs. Kim and Robert Duvall in 'The Great Santini' share a striking resemblance, but she is Lane's mom. She has the right to tell Lane she can't do something, you have to respect that and I really have to respect that.]
Rapunzel -- Young woman in a Brothers Grimm fairy tale who was locked in a tower.
[Lane is grounded and Rory has climbed a tree to get to her bedroom window:
LANE: Hey.
RORY: What's up Rapunzel?
LANE: Don't take this the wrong way, but in all my various fantasies about who might appear at this window, you never actually made the list.]
1-13 Concert Interruptus
Bangles -- An all-women band in the early 1980s.
[Sookie has scored tickets to a Bangles concert:
SOOKIE: Ok, you guys are gonna love me.
LORELAI: We already love you.
SOOKIE: No, I mean you’re really gonna love me.
LORELAI: We do.
SOOKIE: Trust me, you guys are gonna so love me.
LORELAI: Ok, the love is starting to fade now Sookie.
SOOKIE: I have here in my hand, as requested by Ms. Lorelai Gilmore, four fabulous tickets to the Bangles at the Pastorella theater on Saturday!]
Harvey Fierstein -- A stand-up comedian and drag queen.
[Paris is explaining why Rory, Louise and Madeline can't come to her house to study:
"My mother is having the entire place redone, she wants all evidence of my father out of there. So unless you want to sit on no furniture, while watching three Harvey Fierstein impersonators rip up the carpet and paint everything a ridiculous shade of white and call it ‘angel’s kiss’ then we’re going to have to find somebody else’s house to go to."]
Queen Anne -- a style of furniture or architecture Queen Anne of England, who reigned between 1702 and 1714.
[Mrs. Kim is trying to make a sale:
MAN: Are you sure it’s an original Queen Anne?
MRS. KIM: Yes - original.
MAN: The joints look wrong.
MRS. KIM: Joints are fine.
MAN: They look new.
MRS. KIM: Not new, nothing’s new - whole store is old.]
Hostess fruit pie -- Snack made with a sugary crust that surrounds the inner fruit filling.
[Mrs. Kim thinks Lane looks flushed:
LANE: [whispers to Rory] She just made a sale, now is a good time. [louder] Hi mama.
MRS. KIM: What’s wrong?
LANE: Nothing.
MRS. KIM: You look flushed.
LANE: I do?
MRS. KIM: You eat candy?
LANE: No.
MRS. KIM: Doughnut?
LANE: No.
MRS. KIM: Hostess fruit-pie?
LANE: No, nothing, I’m fine.]
Purgatory -- a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions.
[Lane is trying to figure out how to get Mrs. Kim to let her go to see the Bangles with Rory, Lorelai and Sookie:
RORY: Thanks. Ok so what’s the plan?
LANE: We’ll go in and ask her if I can go to a play tomorrow night with you and Lorelai.
RORY: A play?
LANE: I think that’s the safest word. Show or concert would be very bad.
RORY: What about saying it’s a movie?
LANE: Too far from the truth - almost a lie.
RORY: But a play is not a lie?
LANE: Well it’s far away from the truth that it might work but close enough to the truth that I think I can negotiate a purgatory stint if forced to.]
Annie Oakley -- Famed sharp shooter in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in the 1880s.
[Lorelai comes into the diner wearing a black and brown polka dot cowboy hat:
RORY: What are you wearing?
LORELAI: Hey, we have already argued about the sweatshirt.
RORY: Yes but we have not argued about the hat.
LORELAI: What hat?
RORY: The one on your head, Annie Oakley.
LORELAI: It’s great isn’t it?]
Tribbles -- small, soft, gentle animals in the Star Trek universe whose only two purposes in life appear to be to eat and to reproduce
[Rory is complaining about everything for the rummage sale piled everywhere in the house:
LORELAI: [sighs] Ok just a question. Did anyone in town keep anything?
SOOKIE: Doesn’t look like it.
LORELAI: I’m never being civic-minded again.
SOOKIE: Honey, you’re doing a good thing. [falls] Ow!
LORELAI: Sookie!
SOOKIE: I’m ok.
LORELAI: Wave an arm.
SOOKIE: [Waving her arm] Here.
LORELAI: I gotcha. [takes her hand and starts to pull her up]
SOOKIE: Hold on, something down here likes me.
LORELAI: Oh.
SOOKIE: Yeah, I’m good. Hold on. Up, please.
RORY: Jeez this stuff is like tribbles.]
Copacabana -- A famous New York City night club.
[Miss Patty has donated two large drums to the rummage sale:
LORELAI: Wow, huh. These are great. They’ll really come in handy when we finally organize that giant marching band we’ve been talking about.
MISS PATTY: I danced on these drums at the Copacabana in 1969.
LORELAI: Wow.
MISS PATTY: Yeah, it was a great act. I wore bananas.]
Archeologist -- the study of human culture through the examination of material remains.
[Miss Patty and Sookie are trying to remember what kind of job Rachel had:
SOOKIE: Rachel traveled all the time. She was a photographer.
MISS PATTY: Archeologist.
SOOKIE: Really?
MISS PATTY: Or a flight attendant.
Pucci -- Marchese di Basento Emilio Pucci ( November 20, 1914 - 1992) was an Italian fashion designer.
[Madeline, Louise and Rory are talking about the clothes for the rummage sale:
MADELINE: There’s this great store under my therapist office who has the best vintage clothes. I found an original Pucci top for practically nothing.
LOUISE: Oh Pucci is very big right now.
MADELINE: Is this a Pucci? [holding up a shirt]
RORY: No, that’s a patty.
LOUISE: A patty?
RORY: Miss Patty. She’s a dance teacher here. These are some of her old costumes.]
'Joanie Loves Chachi' -- a TV spin-off of the popular series Happy Days in the early 1980s starring Erin Moran and Scott Baio as Joanie Cunningham and Chachi Arcola.
[Louise and Madeline are asking Rory about Dean:
LOUISE: Ugh. I would love to have a boyfriend that looked like Tristin.
MADELINE: Your boyfriend’s no slouch either.
RORY: No he’s not.
LOUISE: Oh yes - 6’2... and fiesty. So how’s that going? Are you two still ‘Joanie Loves Chachi’?
RORY: God, I hope not.
MADELINE: You are still together aren’t you?]
Paul Bunyan -- A mythical lumberjack of of huge size and strength.
[Loiuse's refernce to Dean:
"So how good of a kisser is Paul Bunyan anyway? {Louise, Madeline and Rory giggle.)]
Everest -- documentary follows a climbing team comprised of Ed Viesturs (USA), Araceli Segarra (Spain), Sumiyo Tsuzuki (Japan) and Jamling Norgay (India), the last being the son of Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first summiteer of Everest back in 1953), narrated by Liam Neeson and shown only in Imax and Omnimax theaters.
[Lorelai and Sookie are climbing up to the cheap seat at the Bangles concert:
SOOKIE: Did you ever see Everest?
LORELAI: No.
SOOKIE: It’s a good movie.
LORELAI: We must be getting close, we’re running out of rows.]
Catherine Zeta-Jones -- A beautiful Oscar winning Welsh actress.
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Michelle Pfeiffer -- an Oscar nominated American actress.
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Elle MacPherson -- an Australian supermodel and actress whose nickname is “ The Body ”.
[Lorelai is trying to get Sookie to describe what Rachel looked like:
LORELAI: Hey, was Rachel pretty?
SOOKIE: What?
LORELAI: I’m just curious, was she pretty?
SOOKIE: She was pretty.
LORELAI: Like, what kind of pretty?
SOOKIE: What do you mean ‘what kind of pretty’?
LORELAI: I mean, like was she a Catherine Zeta-Jones kind of pretty or a Michelle Pfeiffer-y pretty or -
SOOKIE: She was an Elle MacPherson kind of pretty.
LORELAI: Really.
SOOKIE: Yup.
LORELAI: That’s an intense kind of pretty.
SOOKIE: You’re not kidding.
Kodak Moment -- Advertising gimmick in the 1980s to get people to buy their film and take that 'special' photograph.
[Rory and Lane talking about Lorelai going after Louise and Madeline after they left the concert to go to a party:
LANE: I cannot believe I missed it.
RORY: The concert was amazing.
LANE: Forget about the concert. I wanted to see Lorelai pull those idiots out of that guy’s apartment.
RORY: It definitely was a Kodak moment.
1-14 That Damn Donna Reed
The Donna Reed Show -- A situation comedy which aired on ABC from 1958 to 1966. It starred Donna Reed as Donna Stone, a housewife to pediatrician Alex Stone. The couple had two children together, Mary and Jeff. Donna was portrayed as the perfect mother, who always wore a pearl necklace.
[LORELAI: Sit -- you're missing it.
DEAN: What are we watching?
LORELAI: The incomparable "Donna Reed Show."]
Hypochondria -- a psychological disorder in which one has the unfounded belief that he or she is suffering from a serious illness.
[RORY: Can brains hurt?
LORELAI: Yes, it's hypochondria hour.
RORY: No, I'm serious. Last night when I was reading my biology chapters I distinctly heard a ping in the vicinity of my brain.]
River City -- A fictional city in the musical 'The Music Man.'
[TAYLOR: When standards slip, families flee and in comes the seedy crowd. You got trouble, my friends.
LORELAI: Right here in River City!
TAYLOR: This is not funny, Lorelai.]
Bordeaux -- A wine made in the region of Bordeaux, in southwestern France. Red Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes and may be made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec, and, less commonly in recent years, Carmenere. White Bordeaux is made from Sauvignon Blanc, Semillon, and Muscadelle.
[LORELAI Mmm. Kick-ass wine.
EMILY: How poetic.
LORELAI: It's got a nice smell: earthy, vibrant. I can taste the Italians' feet.
RICHARD: It's a Bordeaux. It's French.]
Martha's Vineyard -- a 100 square mile (259 square km) island off the southern coast of Cape Cod, the home of many high profile residents -- movie stars, politicians, writers and artists.
[RORY: So when do you guys leave for Martha's Vineyard?
RICHARD: Ah, we're not going to Martha's Vineyard this year.]
Impressionism -- 19th century art movement, characteristics include visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, and emphasis on light in its changing qualities.
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Creme broule -- Custard sprinkled with sugar and cooked under a broiler.
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Lewis Carroll -- Pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and its sequel 'Through the Looking-Glass.'
[LORELAI: Well, you know, you could break the chain, Dad. Go to Paris.
RORY: Yes, Paris!
LORELAI: Impressionism, poodles.
RORY: Creme broule.
LORELAI: Oh, that's great!
RICHARD: Impossible!
LORELAI: Porquoi? (to Rory) French.
EMILY: We only go to Europe in the fall.
LORELAI: You know, Mom, I heard a rumor Europe's still there in the spring.
RORY: I heard that too.
EMILY: We know that it's there in the spring but we never go in the spring because we always go in the fall.
LORELAI: It's getting a little too Lewis Carroll for me.]
Tuscan -- Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, and essentially the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
[LORELAI: Now, if you wanted to do more warm, golden Tuscan countryside --
LUKE: Then I'd go to Italy. (to customer) Here, I'll wrap this up.]
Bon Jovi -- A Rock and Roll band from New Jersey, fronted by Jon Bon Jovi
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Duran Duran -- 80s new wave and post-punk band.
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The Wallflowers -- 90s rock band from California.
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Bush -- British post-grunge band formed in 1992. The name Bush came about because they used to live in Shepherd's Bush, London.
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Punk -- A subculture, alternative culture, counterculture, a scene and youth culture based on a shared set of styles distinct from those of popular culture and other subcultures.
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New Wave -- A term applied indiscriminately to any punk band that did not embrace the loud-fast playing style.
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German metal bands -- German heavy metal rock bands
[RORY: I need to borrow a CD.
LANE: Which one?
RORY: The weird one.
LANE: I need more information.
RORY: I don't know which one it is but I'd know it if I saw it.
LANE: OK, well let's have a look.
(Lane pulls up various floorboards to reveal hidden CDs.)
LANE: We have classic rock, progressive rock, pretty boy rock --
RORY: Excuse me?
LANE: Bon Jovi, Duran Duran, The Wallflowers, Bush.
RORY: Got it. Next?
LANE: Punk, New Wave, German metal bands. Broadway soundtracks.]
Marcel Marceau -- A world renowned French mime.
[(Cut to Lorelai getting home. She looks in the chick's cage -- it's empty.)
LORELAI: (yelling) Stella!
(Lorelai starts looking all over the house for Stella.)
LORELAI: Oh, no. No, no. OK. Stella, do something. Show yourself. Molt or chirp or something. Oh this is so not funny. Not funny, not funny. Oh this is so unbelievable. All day long, just chirps like a maniac at the top of her lungs. Now, nothing. Silence. Marcel Marceau chicken.]
Wild Kingdom -- Wildlife program that aired in the 60s hosted by Marlin Perkins
[ LORELAI: Ah. Who wants to hear about my night?
SOOKIE: Oh, me!
LORELAI: Well, it started with Rory's baby chick getting loose in the house and ended with Rory and I up at one in the morning looking for Morey and Babette's new kitten, who we found asleep in the piano.
SOOKIE: Wow, that's very Wild Kingdom of you.
LORELAI: Yeah. I'm like the Marlin Perkins of Stars Hollow.]
Houdini -- Harry Houdini, the most famous escape artist of the early 1900s.
[RICHARD: Your bird?
RORY: Yeah, it's for school. Each of us have to follow a chick through its entire growth process. Everything has to be logged. Eating habits, sleeping habits.
LORELAI: Houdini habits.
RORY: She got out.
LORELAI: She ran far.]
Cervantes -- Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote de la Mancha.
[RORY: So, Grandpa, when's your next trip?
RICHARD: Ah, Madrid, the twelfth.
RORY: Wow.
RICHARD: I think there's a nice addition of Cervantes in it for you.
RORY: Gracias.]
Scurvy -- a disease that results from insufficient intake of vitamin C and leads to bleeding from almost all mucous membranes.
[LORELAI: So, dinner, thoughts?
RORY: Let's have some.
LORELAI: How about Chinese?
RORY: Sounds good.
LORELAI: OK. I need to stop at the market and get some fruit.
RORY: Why?
LORELAI: I think I'm getting scurvy.]
Harley -- Harley Davidson, an American motorcycle. They are heavy bikes designed for cruising and known for their distinctive exhaust noise.
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Indian -- America's oldest motorcycle brand, founded in 1901.
[LORELAI: Yeah. Well that or a cold, but either way, I need some fruit.
(As they get to the market, they hear a motorcycle and turn around to look.)
TAYLOR: Damn motorcycles, they're a scourge.
RORY: Yeah.
LORELAI: Yeah.
TAYLOR: They're loud, they're dangerous. We should ban them from town.
LORELAI: Maybe we should set up barricades and ban all unwelcome strangers from crossing the border.
TAYLOR: Well! Well, no we couldn't do that, that would be illegal.
LORELAI: Darn laws.
TAYLOR: Oh, got to get away from that noise.
Taylor goes inside the market.)
LORELAI: Kill me and bury me with that bike.
RORY: What is it? A Harley?
LORELAI: That is a 2000 Indian, 80 horsepower, 5 speed close ratio Andrews transmission and I want to get one.]
1-15 Christopher Returns
Pinky Tuscadero -- The older sister of Leather Tuscadero (British Singer Suzi Quatro)on the TV show 'Happy Days'who dated Fonzi until her character was dropped due to discord between Roz Kelly (Pinky) and the cast and producers.
[LORELAI: I've known you since I was six Chris. You're the guy that crashed his Porsche two hours after his parents gave it to him for his 16th birthday.
CHRISTOPHER: And you were the girl in the Pinky Tuscadero t-shirt sitting right next to me.
LORELAI: Horrified.
CHRISTOPHER: Think again.
LORELAI: Alright, having a blast then horrified.]
Alfalfa -- One of the 'Our Gang' ('Little Rascals') characters.
[KIRK: The truth of the matter is that you can't pitch [pointing to Luke] and you can't hit [point to Dean]. So this'll be a terrific match up.
LUKE: Knock it off Kirk.
KIRK: A historic lack of action.
LUKE: Don't you have anything better to do with your Saturdays?
KIRK: What can I say, I'm addicted to comedy. [to Rory and Chris] Half an hour they been playing and it's tied zero - zero. [louder] Hey if you ever take this show on the road I got a name for you, zero and zero. Dean Zero and Luke Zero - get it?
LUKE: Doesn't even resemble clever.
KIRK: I'm dumbing it down for you Alfalfa.]
Dickens' novel -- Charles Dickens wrote about characters living in poverty.
[SOOKIE: You - get in here and tell me the happenings at home.
LORELAI: I'm assuming you mean 'did we get our toaster fixed' and no, it's been cold pop-tarts for a week, it's like a damn Dickens' novel.]
Bonnie-Bell Lipsmackers -- Lip gloss with flavors like bubble gum, cotton candy, Dr. Pepper, strawberry, vanilla, and watermelon.
[LORELAI: [to Sookie] This man knows all my secrets. All of my bad girl moments happened with him - my worst fashion choices, my big hair days, the wearing of the Bonnie-Bell
Lipsmackers around my neck - it was all with Christopher.
Schnickelfritz -- (German) Originally, used as an endearing term meaning 'little chatterbox' or 'rascal'.
[EMILY: Well I had this wonderful idea. Christopher's parents are in town too. You remember Straub and Francine don't you?
LORELAI: Ah yes - the Schnickelfritzes.]
'My-Ding-a-Ling' -- A 1972 novelty hit record for Chuck Berry, and his only U.S. number one hit. Critics generally dislike the song and say that it is unworthy for someone who was so important in early rock 'n roll.
[RICHARD: I'm a....Chuck Berry man myself. [Lorelai laughs almost spitting out her drink] Something wrong?
LORELAI: I would never have guessed that that last sentence would ever come out of your mouth.
RICHARD: And why not?
LORELAI: Chuck Berry?
RICHARD: Yes, Chuck Berry. He was all the rage when I was in school.
LORELAI: So we're talking pre-'My-Ding-a-Ling'?
RICHARD: I believe I am.]
Underalls -- Combination of panty hose and underwear introduced in the 1970s.
[LORELAI: Sneaking dad's telescope, scanning the sky for alien ships.
CHRISTOPHER: Never found any.
LORELAI: Huh. And then when we were older, scanning the neighbors houses for naked people.
CHRISTOPHER: [laughing] Found a couple of those.
LORELAI: [laughing] Mrs. Dominski undulating in her big fat underalls is forever carved into my brain.
CHRISTOPHER: [laughing] And in mine. [takes out a tequila bottle] here's to Mrs. Dominski's underalls.]
Mazatlan -- Mexican resort town on the Pacific side of the country, south of the Gulf of California.
[LORELAI: Oh, I mean no regrets about you. There's a misspelled tattoo incident that I'm sure he'd like to erase from his bio - but you that's a no brainer.
RORY: Where does dad have a misspelled tattoo?
LORELAI: Ah, ah, another story for another time, possibly before your first trip to Mazatlan. Good night babe.
RORY: Good night mom.]
Whoville -- The perfect little town in the Dr. Seuss book 'How the Grinch Stole Chrsitmas.'
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Chernobyl -- City in northern Ukraine, and the site of a nuclear power plant explosion in April 1986.
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Hindenburg -- The German zeppelin that caught fire while docking at Lakehurst Naval Station, New Jersey in 1937. 37 out of 97 people on board were killed.
[CHRISTOPHER: You want some coffee?
LORELAI: No.
CHRISTOPHER: What?
LORELAI: What?
CHRISTOPHER: Well I know you well enough to know that when you say no to coffee, especially in the morning, all is not right in Whoville.
LORELAI: Very astute.
CHRISTOPHER: So....last night.
LORELAI: Ah, last night was Chernobyl and the Hindenburg combined.]
Charlie Manson -- The leader of a group known as "The Family", in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and responsible for several brutal murders, including movie actress Sharon Tate.
[CHRISTOPHER: Lor?
LORELAI: What?
CHRISTOPHER: I want to marry you.
LORELAI: And the hits just keep on coming.
CHRISTOPHER: Just think about it. Think about it before you make a rash -
LORELAI: You are out of your mind. You are completely insane. You have flipped your lid. Charlie Manson is freaked out by you right now!]
The Offspring -- American punk band from Orange County, California that formed in 1984.
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Metallica -- American heavy metal band formed in October 1981.
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Black Sabbath -- British heavy metal band with Ozzy Osbourne as lead singer.
[CHRISTOPHER: You know I don't deserve that, I'm as mature as you.
LORELAI: What? The Offspring is your favorite band.
CHRISTOPHER: So? You're into Metallica.
LORELAI: Well Metallica is way more substantial than The Offspring.
CHRISTOPHER: Here we go, it's the same Black Sabbath riff all over again.]
Jose Cuervo -- Popular brand of tequila.
[LORELAI: Ok. Now I need some coffee.
CHRISTOPHER: What about last night. What did our having sex mean to you?
LORELAI: [sighs] It meant that Jose Cuervo still has amazing magical powers.]
'Fiddler on the Roof' -- Play and movie about a Russian Jew and his family. In one scene he says that he met his wife, Golde, on their wedding day.
[LORELAI: We can't get married Christopher. We don't know each other as adults.
CHRISTOPHER: So let's get married and get to know each other as adults.
LORELAI: Well, that's very Fiddler on the Roof of you.]
1-16 Star-Crossed Lovers And Other Strangers
Tito Puente -- An influential Latin jazz and mambo musician. He is best known for dance-oriented mambo and latin jazz compositions.
[MISS PATTY: And that, my friends, is the story of how Stars Hollow came to be, and why we celebrate that fateful night every year at about this time. Now, we still have a little time left in our story hour. Who wants to hear about the time I danced in a cage for Tito Puente?]
Tolstoy -- Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest Russian novelists of 19th century.
[RORY: So?
DEAN: It's depressing.
RORY: It's beautiful.
DEAN: She throws herself under a train.
RORY: But I bet she looked great doing it.
DEAN: I don't know. I think maybe Tolstoy's just a little over my head.
RORY: No, that's not true. Tolstoy wrote for the masses, the common man. It's completely untrue that you have to be some kind of genius to read his stuff.]
BAM -- Emeril Lagasse is known for his light and jovial hosting style of 'Emeril Live' as well as several catchphrases, including "BAM!"
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Iron Chef -- Japanese game show featuring over-the-top culinary concoctions.
[(Lorelai is sitting at the kitchen table reading a box of Hamburger Helper. Rory walks in.)
RORY: No, put that away.
LORELAI: I wanna cook.
RORY: You can make soup.
LORELAI: No. I wanna really cook like on the Food Channel. I wanna sauté thing and chop things and do the BAM, and I wanna arrange things on a plate so they look like a pretty little hat. I wanna be the Iron Chef!]
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- One of the most respected poets of the Victorian era.
[SUMMER: So, meet me after biology?
TRISTIN: And if I don't?
SUMMER: You will.
TRISTIN: Oh, yes I will. Ah. To be young and in love.
PARIS: What a shame Elizabeth Barrett Browning wasn't here to witness this. She'd put her head through a wall.]
Kreskin -- Better known as The Amazing Kreskin, he is a mentalist, popular on North American television in the 1970s
[CHASE: Oh it is. In fact, if you were to answer a few simple questions for me, I could practically pinpoint the day you're going to die.
EMILY: Goodness.
LORELAI: Go ahead. Ask her the questions.
EMILY: I think I'll pass.
CHASE: No no, Lorelai! I'd have to feed the information into a computer to get the answer. I'm no Kreskin!]
'Christine' -- The title of a horror novel by Stephen King. It tells the story of an antique automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces.
[(Rory and Dean are standing in front of a fenced-in junkyard)
DEAN: We're here.
ORY: We're where?
DEAN: Come on.
RORY: Dean, what is this?
DEAN: Okay. Uh, did you ever see Christine?
RORY: Yes.
DEAN: Well, it's nothing like that. Come on.]
1-17 The Breakup Part 2
Nancy Drew -- The heroine detective of a popular mystery series for girls.
***
Amish country -- The largest concentrations of Amish in the United States are in Holmes County, Ohio, LaGrange County, Indiana, and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
[LORELAI: Honey, he did not plan an entire romantic evening complete with dinner and a junkyard, which we’ll get back to later, and then suddenly decide to dump you for no reason.
RORY: How do you know? [as she pulls out a box from her closet.]
LORELAI: Because I have read every Nancy Drew mystery ever written. The one about the Amish country, twice. I know there’s more to the story than what you’re telling me.]
‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ -- A play wherein Martha and George, a bitter erudite couple, invite a new professor and his wife to their house after a party and then continue drinking and engage in relentless, scathing verbal and sometimes physical abuse in front of them.
[LORELAI: Rory what’s the matter?
RORY: Nothing, I just want to get started. I made a list of all the things we say we’re going to do on the weekend but then when the weekend comes around you say they’re too boring to actually do on a weekend day, so then you say we’ll do them during the week, which of course we never do. So I think that we should get them all out of the way today once and for all. And to make it interesting, we should come up with like a reward system so once we’re done with everything on the list we could go get manicures or we could go to the Swiss place for fondue for dinner or we could stuff our purses full of sour patch kids and milk duds and go see the Stars Hollow elementary school production of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’]
‘Love Story’ -- A 1970 romance motion picture drama, well-known as a tear-jerking tragedy, and is considered one of the most romantic of all time.
***
‘The Champ’ -- A 1931 movie that tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son.
***
’An Affair to Remember’ -- A 1957 film about a couple who meet on an ocean liner, fall in love, and promise to reunite in six months at the top of the Empire State Building if they still feel the same.
***
‘Ishtar’ -- A 1987 motion picture comedy about a duo of incredibly untalented lounge singers who stumble into a political conflict in the fictional African nation of Ishtar. Also regarded as one of the biggest box office disasters in movie history.
[RORY: I don’t want to wallow.
LORELAI: Try it for one day.
RORY: No.
LORELAI: One day, one day of pizza and pajamas. I’ll rent ‘Love Story’ and ‘The Champ’, ’An Affair to Remember’, ‘Ishtar’.]
‘Old Yeller’ -- A 1957 film produced by Walt Disney about a family living out west after the Civil War whose dog who contracts rabies after defending them from a rabid wolf and has to be put down.
[LORELAI: So should we rent ‘Old Yeller’ too or is that just a guy’s crying movie?]
'Footloose' -- A 1984 movie that tells the story of a teenager who was raised in Chicago and moves to a small town where the town government has banned dancing and rock music.
[LORELAI: Ha! Jumpback!
RORY: Excuse me?
LORELAI: Kevin Bacon, 'Footloose,' reaction to the no dancing in town rule is revealed to him by Chris Penn, brother to Sean, sage to all.]
'G.I. Jane' -- A 1997 action movie that tells the story of the first woman to become a Special Forces Operator by surviving intense and grueling training in which 60 percent of all candidates wash out.
[Lorelai and Rory are going though an alley in order to avoid passing by Doose's Market where they might see Dean:
RORY: Sorry.
LORELAI: No, this is good. This is like ‘G.I. Jane’ but we get to keep our hair.]
‘The Bell Jar’ -- An autobiographical dramatization of Sylvia Plath's descent into madness with what is thought to have been bipolar disorder.
[LORELAI: Madeline’s having a party.
RORY: I’m going to go.
LORELAI: You’re going to a Chilton party?
RORY: Yes I am.
LORELAI: Honey, why don’t you just stay home and read ‘The Bell Jar’? Same effect]
Robin Leach -- Host to the TV show 'Lifestyle of the Rich and Famous' that ran from 1984 to 1995.
[RORY: This is Madeline’s house.
LANE: Is this what your grandparents house looks like?
RORY: No. I mean it’s big but it’s not this Hearst castle-ly.
LANE: I mean there should be a map or a tour guide or Robin Leach or something.]
Sodom and Gomorrah -- Two cities destroyed by God for their sins of the flesh.
[RORY: Hey Lane.
LANE: Yeah?
RORY: Thanks for coming with me.
LANE: Anytime. Oh my God, there’s a pool table.
RORY: And a deejay.
LANE: It’s like a teenage Sodom and Gomorrah.]
Madam Curie -- A Polish chemist who, along with her male co-researchers, Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, was the first woman to win a Noble Prize for their discoveries on radiation in 1903. She won a second in 1911 for her discoveries of polonium and radium.
***
Jennifer Lopez -- Also known as J-Lo, a well-known American actress, pop/Latin/R&B singer, fashion designer, and dancer.
[PARIS: My mom says I have to stay until 10:30.
RORY: Why would she care?
PARIS: She thinks I’m not enough of a people person. Shocking huh?
RORY: I’m floored.
PARIS: Yeah well, I doubt highly that Madam Curie was voted most likely to dress like Jennifer Lopez.]
1-18 The Third Lorelai
Elizabethan Era -- Elizabethan Era is the period associated with the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) and is often considered to be a golden age in English history.
***
Monarchy -- A form of government that has a monarch (king or queen) as Head of State. One of the distinguishing characteristics of monarchy is that the Head of State usually reigns for life
***
Privy Council -- A body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy.
***
Parliament -- A legislature modeled after that of the United Kingdom.
[Paris, Madeline, Louise, Tristin, Rory and two other guys are sitting in a circle working on a school project.
PARIS: I think that the basic structure of the Elizabethan government is relatively sound. The division of power between the monarchy, the privy council and the parliament all seem to work.]
Quarter Sessions Court -- Courts of Quarter Sessions were the courts for the British colonies in North America and existed until the creation of local court systems in Canada and the United States.
[LOUISE: I’ll be the lady-in-waiting. The one with the low-cut blue velvet renaissance dress.
PARIS: Lady-in-waiting is not a political office.
LOUISE: No but they get all the sex.
PARIS: What?
LOUISE: Watch a movie.
PARIS: We are talking about government class not the movies. God why can’t I get one person to care about this as much as I do?!
LOUISE: Ok fine. I’ll be the head of the Quarter Sessions court, but I’m still wearing the dress. Happy?]
Manifesto -- A public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature.
***
Cabin-in-the-woods -- Reference to Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unibomber, who sent mail bombs to various people for eighteen years. His 35,000-word paper Industrial Society and Its Future is commonly called the "Unabomber Manifesto". He was captured at his remote cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, in 1996.
[PARIS: I just think it's strange that you don't wanna be queen.
RORY: You know, not all girls want to be queen Paris. Even Barbie ended up being a stewardess.
PARIS: Ok, if you say so. Read my manifesto, I want your thoughts.
RORY: First thought - lose the word 'manifesto'.
PARIS: Too cabin-in-the-woods?]
Marx Brothers -- Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, and Zeppo. They starred in slapstick comedy movies in the 1930s and '40s.
[PARIS: Ok, see you tomorrow.
RORY: Bye. [realizes she left her notebook and heads back to the classroom. She runs into Tristin]
TRISTIN: Uh...you left this [handing her her notebook.]
RORY: Oh yeah I did. Thanks.
TRISTIN: Sure. [both try to go through the doorway together and backup]
RORY: Well, that could have been a potential Marx Brothers moment.]
Pink Ladies -- Girl gang in the movie 'Grease'
***
Sandy -- The 'good girl' in the movie 'Grease'
[PARIS: Louise tell me why you ‘hmm’ed.
LOUISE: He asked you out for tonight.
MADELINE: Less than 24 hours notice.
PARIS: So? What does that mean?
LOUISE: Usually that someone else cancelled.
RORY: Or maybe he just got up the nerve to ask her out.
MADELINE: Maybe.
LOUISE: This is so amazing. I mean you are so far from Tristin’s type.
MADELINE: So, so far.
LOUISE: Tristin usually likes his girls bad.
MADELINE: Looks like we’re going to have to do the Pink Ladies makeover on you.
LOUISE: We’ll turn you from a sweet Sandy to a slutty Sandy. Dancing at the school fair with high heels, black spandex and permed hair.]
Ricky Ricardo -- Lucy's husband in the 50s sitcom 'I Love Lucy'
[RORY: Yeah, she’s going out on a date with Tristin.
LORELAI: How’d that happen?
RORY: I did a little matchmaking.
LORELAI (in Ricky Ricardo voice): Lucy, how many times have I told you not to butt into other people’s business?]
Spanish Inquisition -- A legally constituted court founded under Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile in 1478 to suppress heresies within the Catholic Church.
[RORY: Uh, Paris. What are these cards that fell out of your jacket?
PARIS: Oh yeah. Those are notes for tonight.
RORY: Notes?
PARIS: Yeah. Just some reference points really - you know subjects to bring up in case the conversation lags.
RORY: Well can I suggest that you leave this one about the Spanish Inquisition out?
PARIS: It’s not very romantic?
RORY: Not really.]
'Cabaret' -- A 1972 film that is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic prior to the coming to power of the Nazis under Adolf Hitler in the early 1930s.
***
Liza -- Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli.
***
Joel -- Joel Grey, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the movie 'Cabaret.'
[LORELAI: Well she’s been working her butt off all week on this Chilton paper, so I let her sleep and I’ll tell her tonight.
SOOKIE: Call her now. Ooh, page her, or page her and have her call my cell phone and we can sing the money song from ‘Cabaret’. You be Liza, I’ll be Joel.]
Elephant man -- Joseph Merrick (1862-1890), sometimes called John Merrick, known as The Elephant Man because of his extreme facial deformity. It was reported that Michael Jackson wanted to buy the bones.
***
Cranberries -- An Irish alternative rock band that rose to mainstream popularity in the 1990s.
***
'Zombie' -- Song by the Cranberries which includes the lyrics "in your head, in your head".
[SOOKIE: Lorelai, this is Rory we’re talking about.
LORELAI: I know.
SOOKIE: She’s like the most un-materialistic kid in the world.
LORELAI: Not it’s not about what she would buy. I don’t care if she buys a house or a boat or the elephant man’s bones. It’s just that - you know, it’s about the freedom. I mean if I had access to all that money as a kid I would have left the house so fast.
SOOKIE: Faster than 17?
LORELAI: No I mean - God I know this is crazy. I have my mother’s voice stuck in my head. It’s like that annoying Cranberries song. I hate that I let her do this! I hate that I let her get to me!
SOOKIE: Well then don’t let her. Call Rory and tell her about the money and you’ll see that nothing will be any different.]
'Gaslight' -- The 1944 film starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.
[LORELAI: Hey - [looks at Sookie’s watch] Aw! No! I’ve got to go home.
SOOKIE: Why? What are you doing?
LORELAI: I have to change and go to tea with Gran and the cast of ‘Gaslight’.
SOOKIE: Wow, I’ll see you later.
LORELAI: Bye.]
Whore of Babylon -- One of several Christian and Rastafarian allegorical figures of supreme evil, who is mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. She is associated with the figures of the Antichrist and the Beast of Revelation.
[EMILY: Now you listen to me. I don’t care if she demeans me and looks down on me. I don’t care if she thinks I’ve tarnished the Gilmore name. I don’t care if she thinks I’m the Whore of Babylon. I’ve long ago given up any hope of getting into her psychotic good graces, but that woman is horrible and selfish. And she’s not going to get away with it. I won’t let her.
RICHARD: This is my mother you’re talking about.]
Fergi -- Sarah (Ferguson), Duchess of York. After her divorce from Prince Andrew, the press criticism was constant, focusing not only on her weight but also on her lifestyle and perceived extravagance.
[TRIX: So have you ordered the tea yet?
EMILY: No not yet.
TRIX: Well good because I’m afraid I’m going to have to take my leave of you a little earlier than I had anticipated.
LORELAI: What, why?
TRIX: My train leaves tonight and I have a little last minute packing to do.
EMILY: Well I can help you with the packing.
TRIX: Plus I really don’t wish to witness anymore of this ugly little fight you two seem to be having. Raising your voice during high tea, who ever heard of such a thing. It’s like Fergi all over again.
LORELAI: Oh Gran please, I’m so sorry. We’re done. Please don’t leave.]
1-19 Emily In Wonderland
Boo Radley -- In the book and movie 'To Kill a Mockingbird' he is a mysterious neighbor who lives quietly in his dark house and is feared by the
local children.
[Sookie wants Lorelai to give Jackson's cousin, Rune, a job at the inn:
SOOKIE: I bet he could be a handyman. You are always looking for a good handyman.
LORELAI: Well I couldn't pay him very much.
SOOKIE: Well, that's okay. Maybe he could just work for, uh, room and board.
LORELAI: You want him to live here?
SOOKIE: No! Well, what about the old potting shed?
LORELAI: The old potting shed? That's where Rory and I lived when she was a baby. It has memories and little rosebud wallpaper. I don't want Boo
Radley touching my rosebud wallpaper.]
Grapes of Wrath -- A novel set in the Great Depression of the early 1930s
about a family of poor sharecroppers.
[RORY: My mom found this great shoe cleaner. It's gets out pretty much anything. Do you want something to drink? There should be some iced tea in
the fridge.
EMILY: Iced tea would be nice. (opens fridge) Oh my god. There's nothing in here.
(Rory pours some cleaner on a cloth and starts wiping off Emily's shoes.)
RORY: I know, it's a little sparse.
EMILY: It's the Grapes of Wrath.]
Charlie's Angels -- A television series broadcast from 1976 to 1981, about
three women who work for a fictional private investigation agency, the Charles Townsend Agency.
[EMILY: No food, no drink. Do you at least have plates?
RORY: Yes, we have plates.
(Emily pulls a plate out the cabinet.)
EMILY: There are women in bikinis on them.
RORY: The original Charlie's Angels. It took us years to get a complete set. You can find the Kate Jackson's and the Shelly Hack's pretty easily.
Even the Cheryl Ladd's. But the Farrah Fawcett's and the Jacklyn Smith's are a little harder to come by, but still accessible. The real trick however is
to find the Tanya Roberts. We have three.
EMILY: You have three Tanya Roberts?
RORY: Yep.]
Clydesdale -- A breed of draft horse noted for its size - up to six feet
tall and weighing over 2000 pounds.
[Emily and Rory are walking through Stars Hollow and Emily is wearing a pair of Lorelai's jogging shoes:
EMILY: I feel ridiculous.
RORY: You look great.
EMILY: I feel like a Clydesdale.]
The Williams sisters -- Venus and Serena, sisters and professional rivals
who have won many tennis championships between the two of them.
[Emily and Mrs. Kim are haggling over the price of an antique cabinet while
Rory and Lane watch:
EMILY: Is it missing an inlay?
MRS. KIM: No.
EMILY: I thought it was missing an inlay.
MRS. KIM: Perfect condition!
EMILY: How much?
MRS. KIM: Thirty-five hundred for the pair.
EMILY: You must be joking!
MRS. KIM: No. No joke.
EMILY: Well, they're nice, but they're certainly not that nice.
MRS. KIM: Not a better pair on the East Coast.
EMILY: Two thousand.
MRS. KIM: You're from Hartford.
EMILY: Yes.
MRS. KIM: Ah.
EMILY: It hardly matters where I'm from. I know these pieces are overpriced.
MRS. KIM: Look on the bottom.
EMILY: They're not signed.
MRS. KIM: Look on the bottom.
EMILY: Are they signed?
MRS. KIM: Look on the bottom!
(Emily leans down and looks.)
MRS. KIM: They're signed.
EMILY: How do I know that's authentic?
MRS. KIM: You have my word.
EMILY: And a letter of authentication?
MRS. KIM: That too.
LANE (to Rory): It's like watching the Williams sisters.
RORY: I wish we had popcorn.]
Joy Division -- a rock band formed in 1977 in Manchester, England and labeled as a dark and depressive band due to the bleakness of their music.
***
Nick Cave -- an Australian rock musician and songwriter best known for his work in the rock and roll band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
***
Robert Smith -- Lead singer for the English post-punk band The Cure.
***
Johnny Cash -- American country music singer whose songs echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation and redemption.
***
San Quentin -- California's oldest correctional institution, and site of a concert by Johnny Cash in 1969.
***
Charlie Parker -- African-American jazz saxophonist considered one of the greatest jazz musicians.
[Lane and Rory are lying on Rory's bed talking -
RORY: I like this song. It makes me gloomy.
LANE: Gloom is good.
RORY: Really gloomy.
LANE: Like Joy Division Gloomy? Nick Cave gloomy? Robert Smith gloomy?
RORY: Johnny Cash gloomy.
LANE: So kind of like a San Quentin-y, it's a long road home and my horse just got shot but I've still got my girl by my side gloomy?
RORY: You read my mind.
LANE: I'm deep in a Charlie Parker gloomy.
RORY: Henry still hasn't called?
LANE: Oh no, he called.
RORY: He did? Why didn't you tell me?
LANE: Well I didn't talk to him. He left a message.]
N'sync -- five-part boy band, formed in Orlando, Florida. The group members
are Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and Justin Timberlake.
***
98 Degrees -- an American boy band formed in Los Angeles consisting of four vocalists: brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, as well as Justin Jeffre and Jeff
Timmons.
***
Backstreet Boys -- American boy band in the late 1990s consisting of Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean and Kevin Richardson.
***
Gallup Survey -- A statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.
[Emily has called Rory:
EMILY: Which would you say you like better, roses or lilies?
RORY: Hmm, sunflowers.
EMILY: Sunflowers it is. Now, what about music? N'sync or 98 degrees?
RORY: (to Lane): Uh, N'sync or 98 degrees?
LANE: What kind of sick joke is this?
RORY: I don't think I could choose.
EMILY: What about that other group? The Backside Boys?
RORY: You mean the Backstreet Boys?
EMILY: Yes that's it.
RORY: Um, I guess if I really had to choose, I'd say N'sync.
EMILY: Wonderful.
RORY: Are you writing this down?
EMILY: Maybe.
RORY: What for?
EMILY: You'll see. I'm looking forward to dinner on Friday.
RORY: Okay, yeah, me too.
(hangs up)
RORY: What was that?
LANE: Sounded like some sick take on the Gallup survey. I gotta go.]
Dinametichemphemital -- Made up cold remedy Lorelai suggests to Kirk.
[LORELAI: Oh hey Kirk. You getting a cold? You know you should try that
dinametichemphemital. Knocks it right out. Don't drive a forklift though, 'cause it'll make you drowsy.]
'Saving Private Ryan' -- 1998 movie notable for the intensity of the scenes
in its first thirty minutes or so, which depict the Omaha beachhead assault of June 6, 1944.
***
'Blah blah blah, Ginger' -- Gary Lawson cartoon ('The Far Side') depicting what people say to
their dogs, and what they really hear = What We Say to Dogs -- "Stay out of the garbage! Understand, Ginger? Stay out of the garbage!" What Dogs
Understand -- "Blah blah blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah . . . ."
[RORY: Do you think you and Grandma will ever be able to talk about all the
things you've gone through?
LORELAI: No.
RORY: You didn't even consider it.
LORELAI: I'm sorry. . . No.
RORY: Why?
LORELAI: Because it would just end badly.
RORY: It doesn't have to.
LORELAI: It would be like the first 15 minutes of Saving Private Ryan but at least those guys got to be in France.
RORY: You've never tried.
LORELAI: Oh no, that's not true. I have tried. I have tried my whole life. But my mother and I, we speak a different language. I talk, I think I'm being clear, and all she hears is 'Blah blah blah Ginger.']
1-20 P.S. I Lo....
Anna Nicole Smith -- Ex-stripper who married J. Howard Marshall, an oil tycoon 63 years older
than she was. His death resulted in a lengthy and ongoing legal battle over his estate.
***
Mary Kay LeTourneau -- A former schoolteacher who had a sexual relationship, and two children,
with Vili Fualaau, starting when he was thirteen and she was thirty-three.
[Lorelai and Rory are playing One, Two, Three, He's Yours:
LORELAI: I'll go first.
(They both stare out the window.)
RORY: And one.
(Older man walks by.)
LORELAI: Pass.
RORY: Why?
LORELAI: Because I'm not Anna Nicole Smith. Next.
RORY: Two.
(Teenage boy on a skateboard goes by.)
LORELAI: Hmm, pass.
RORY: Why?
LORELAI: Because I'm not Mary Kay LeTourneau.
RORY: Okay.]
Wild Kingdom -- Mutual of Omaha's television nature program that ran for over twenty-five years.
[Lorelai is talking to Max on the phone:
MAX: Is anybody there? Hello?
LORELAI: Yes, Hello, hi.
MAX: Lorelai?
LORELAI: Max!
MAX: Is this a bad time?
LORELAI: No such thing. Where are you?
MAX: I am in the teacher's lounge.
LORELAI: Hmm, what are you wearing?
MAX: Nothing.
LORELAI: You must be very popular.
MAX: And chilly.
LORELAI: I thought we had a chat date tonight.
MAX: We did, but I was thinking about something and I wanted to run it by you.
LORELAI: Okay.
MAX: So. . .
LORELAI: Ooh, hey, make a gorilla sound.
MAX: Why?
LORELAI: I want to play Wild Kingdom.]
'New Yorker' -- An American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons,
poetry, and fiction.
[Rory is sitting on the curb reading a book. Lane walks over to her and drops a small bag of
chips into her lap. Rory stands up and Lane hands her a small bag from the market:
LANE: Salt and vinegar.
RORY: Thank you.
LANE: Here's your gum, your soda, your New Yorker, and your dental floss.
RORY: Aw, they didn't have the minty kind?]
Emma Goldman -- A Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known for her anarchist writings and speeches.
[Lorelai is trying to talk Luke into going to the mall to buy Rachel a birthday present:
LORELAI: Luke, stop. You know you cannot give her these pot holders.
LUKE: Yeah I know.
LORELAI: Why don't you go to the mall and walk around a little?
LUKE: No, no malls.
LORELAI: Luke.
LUKE: I hate malls.
LORELAI: Ladies and gentlemen, rant number two.
LUKE: They underpay employees and overprice merchandise, they contribute to urban sprawl, they encourage materialism, and the parking's a horror. You drive in, you pay a buck, and even if you're only there for five. . . .
LORELAI: Okay, Emma Goldman, I'll tell you what. I'll go for you.]
Meryl Streep -- A two-time Academy Award-winning American actress.
***
'Out of Africa' -- A book, a later a movie starring Meryl Streep.
***
Isak Dinesen -- Author of 'Out of Africa', an autobiographical book that describes events during 1914-1931 between European settlers and the local tribesmen in the bush country of Kenya.
[Lorelai has returned from shopping for Luke:
LORELAI: Where's Rachel?
LUKE: She's out running some errands.
LORELAI: Good. Okay, last week we were talking about Meryl Streep and the whole accent thing and Rachel said that she loved "Out of Africa" but she'd never read the book, remember?
LUKE: Nope.
LORELAI: Okay, so I was like, "Are you crazy? Isak Dinesen is amazing, I love her." Which is kind of crap because I'd never read the book either, but Rory told me it was amazing, so I felt pretty confident in my recommendation of "Out of Africa". (Pulls the book out of a shopping bag and hands it to Luke.)
LUKE: You bought her a book?]
'The Art of Fiction' -- An essay in Henry James' book 'Partial Portraits' where he pleads for the widest freedom in content and technique in narrative fiction.
***
Henry James -- An American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He contributed significantly to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world.
[Max Medina is lecturing to the class. Rory is staring out the window, not paying attention:
MAX: If we read his works in order we can see his progression from a narrative of clear simplicity to one of one of rich complexity. Now this is not homework but I strongly urge you, if you have not already read "The Art of Fiction", read it. It's a remarkable manifesto that contains basic trues that still apply to fiction in any form. (Paris notices Rory not paying attention and points it out to Louise and Madeline.)
MAX: All right, so Henry James, the man of the moment. Pick your book. Read it carefully. A full report on my desk one week from today. Any questions? Ms. Gilmore, any questions?]
Fabio -- Fabio Lanzoni, an Italian male model.
[Luke is trying on clothes Lorelai bought for him:
LUKE: I feel ridiculous.
LORELAI: That's because you don't have the belt on. (Takes the belt out of the bag and walks
over to him.) Here.
LUKE: What are you doing?
LORELAI: Its called accessorizing.
LUKE: I can put a belt on by myself, thank you.
LORELAI: Okay, sorry. Hmm.
LUKE: What?
LORELAI: I just. . .
LUKE: What?
LORELAI: I just have exceptional taste is all. Turn around.
LUKE: What?
LORELAI: I just wanna make sure it all fits. Turn around. (Luke turns around.) Uh huh, uh huh.
MAN AT COUNTER: Hey Fabio, I need the ketchup.]
Regis -- Regis Philbin, an American talk show host. Had his own line of men's clothing that he
wore during his stint as host of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.'
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'GQ' -- 'Gentlemen's Quarterly,' a monthly men's magazine that focuses on men's fashion and
style.
[LORELAI: Here, try on the suit again.
LUKE: I already tried it on twice.
LORELAI: I know, but I want to see it with the black shirt.
LUKE: I'm not wearing a black suit with a black shirt.
LORELAI: Regis does.
LUKE: Okay, you've won me over now.
LORELAI: At least try on the jacket again. (helps Luke put the jacket on)
LUKE: This is how you like your guys, all GQ'ed up huh?
LORELAI: Its not GQ'ed up, its just a little less casual.]
Bloomingdale's -- A chain of upscale department stores. The most famous is located on 59th Street and Third Avenue in New York City.
[Rachel walks in the diner and stares at them. Luke looks up and sees her:
LUKE: Oh hi.
(Lorelai looks up and sees Rachel.)
LORELAI: Oh hi. Uh, this is not what it looks like.
RACHEL: It looks like you're dressing him.
LORELAI: Then this is exactly what it looks like.
LUKE: There was a sale at Bloomingdale's and she. . . .
LORELAI: Six trillion percent off.]
Mr. Cosell -- Howard, Cosell, An American sports journalist with an abrasive personality who
often spoke his mind, making him the most-liked and the most-hated television reporter in the
U.S.
[Lorelai walks up to Rory's room at Richard and Emily's. Emily follows her.)
EMILY: She got home from school but she just went right upstairs. Now she didn't want a snack
but I had Rosa make her one anyway. I haven't checked to see if she's eaten it. She had a decent
breakfast this morning but she did seem a little tired and when I went into her bathroom the
aspirin bottle was out so I assume she had a headache. Now I don't know if it was last night or.
. . .
LORELAI: Excuse me, Mr. Cosell. I appreciate the play by play but I just want to talk to my
daughter now.]
Taylor Hanson -- One of three brothers who founded the boy band Hanson in the 1990s.
[RORY: What are you talking about?
LORELAI: I'm talking about my own personal lack of commitment skills. I mean, look, I love that
you have my eyes and my coffee addiction and my taste in music and movies, but when it comes to
love and relationships, I don't necessarily want you to be like me. I would hate to think that I
raised a kid who couldn't say I love you.
RORY: Mom.
LORELAI: I'm not even talking specifically about Dean. I mean just generally in life. For
example, say you're dating Taylor Hanson.
RORY: Why am I dating Taylor Hanson?]
1-21 Love, Daisies, and Troubadours
Troubadour -- A composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in Europe.
Mr. Mirkle -- A fictitious name Lorelai yelled out when she was suddenly awakened by Luke's
hammering.
[Lorelai is asleep in bed. She is awakened suddenly by a loud banging noise.)
LORELAI: Dear God Almighty, Mr. Mirkle!]
Blue Man Group -- A creative organization centered on a trio of mute performers that present
themselves in blue paint, latex bald caps, and black clothing.
[Rory is asleep in bed. Lorelai opens the door and looks in:
LORELAI: Hey!
RORY: What?
LORELAI: You are not sleeping through this.
RORY: Through what?
(Lorelai walks over to the bed and leans over her.)
LORELAI: The freaking Blue Man Group is outside our house!
RORY: I was sleeping through it!]
Ennui -- Pronounced ahn-wee, it is a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction.
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Concierge -- In hotels and other similar facilities, a concierge assists guests with various tasks like finding taxicabs, restaurants, and interesting places to visit.
[LORELAI: Michel, we've been over this, we all cover the phone, that includes you.
MICHEL: Don't misunderstand. I want to answer it, I truly did, but today, today I am suffering from ennui.
LORELAI: Ennui?
MICHEL: Severe ennui. You know what ennui is, yes?
LORELAI: Yes. Um, Webster's defines ennui as a lazy soon to be out of work French concierge who won't answer the phone.]
Peter Frampton -- A British musician, best known today for his solo work in the mid-1970s as an "arena rocker". He originally became famous, however, as a member of The Herd. Frampton was involved in a serious car crash in the Bahamas. Upon his recovery, Frampton played a part in the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band film, which failed spectacularly. In the 1980s, Frampton returned to recording, though he has never been able to top the charts since.
[Rory tells Lane she's going into Doose's even though Dean is there:
LANE: I so encourage this. I love you, but you've been mopey, dopey, and about 12 other melancholy dwarves for the past 5 weeks and I miss the old Rory.
RORY: I miss the old me too.
LANE: And I've been feeling bad for the new Rory.
RORY: Well she's staging a comeback.
LANE: And may it be more successful than Peter Frampton's.
RORY: Wish me luck.
LANE: Luck!]
Blur -- English rock band formed in London in 1989. The lead singer was keyboardist Damon Albarn.
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Nico -- Christa Paffgen, a singer-songwriter best remembered for her collaboration with The Velvet Underground in 1967.
[RORY: Lane, I'm gonna ask you a question and I want you to be more honest with me than you've ever been before in your life. Have you ever seen him with another girl at school?
LANE: No.
RORY: Lane.
LANE: No.
RORY: You'd tell me, right?
LANE: Yes. No, I wouldn't because it would break your heart, but I haven't.
RORY: You swear? On the life of the lead singer of Blur?
LANE: On the soul of Nico, I swear to you that I have not seen Dean with another girl.
RORY: Okay.]
Siamese twins -- Twins whose bodies are joined together at birth. The term Siamese Twins comes
from what are probably the most famous pair, Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), Chinese brothers born in Siam.
[Tristin telling Rory she should dress up her locker:
TRISTIN: You should decorate this thing.
RORY: I did.
TRISTIN: Well I mean with something other than a bunch of dead black and white women.
RORY: What, like curtains?
TRISTIN: You know what I mean. I did mine up.
RORY: Yeah, I saw that. The naked picture of the Siamese twins is particularly classy.]
PJ Harvey -- Polly Jean Harvey (born October 9, 1969) is a British singer and songwriter.
[Tristin to Rory:
TRISTIN: You know what these are? (holds up two tickets)
RORY: They look like tickets.
TRISTIN: To PJ Harvey.
RORY: Wow, you have good taste. I'll give you that.]
Judy Garland -- an American film actress considered by many to be one of the greatest singing
stars of Hollywood's Golden Era of musical film (1940s). She struggled to overcome various
personal problems, including weight gain and serious drug addiction. She was found dead in her
bathroom by her last husband, Mickey Deans, on June 22, 1969. The stated exact cause of death was
accidental overdose of barbiturates.
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Courtney Love -- Best-known as lead singer for the now-defunct alternative rock band Hole. In
2003, she pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges related to possession of painkillers. Since
then she has been in rehab many times due to her drug dependence.
[MADELINE: So I've decided I'm now completely into Judy Garland. Did you see the TV movie? Pretty
intense.
LOUISE: I think they used my mother's medicine cabinet in that.
MADELINE: She was the Courtney Love of her day.]
Lee Harvey Oswald -- Accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
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John Muir -- A Scottish-American environmentalist, naturalist, explorer, writer, inventor, and
geologist.
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The Unabomber -- John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American
terrorist convicted of murder for sending mail bombs to various people over almost eighteen
years, killing three and wounding 29.
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Henry David Thoreau -- An American author, naturalist, pacifist, and philosopher who is famous
for his book 'Walden.'
[LUKE: Some guys are just naturally loners.
LORELAI: Yes, lonely guys.
LUKE: Independent guys.
LORELAI: Sad guys.
LUKE: Maverick guys.
LORELAI: Lee Harvey Oswald.
LUKE: John Muir.
LORELAI: The Unabomber.
LUKE: Henry David Thoreau
LORELAI: Every one of these sad and lonely guys.]
Winchester Mystery House -- A unique mansion located in San Jose, California. Its construction
began in 1884, and was financed and built by Sarah L. Winchester, the heiress of William
Winchester. Construction continued 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, until her
death 38 years later in 1922. This has been estimated to have cost about 5.5 million dollars. The
mansion is famous for its large size, and the fact that it followed no overall plan, except to be
continually rebuilt.
[Lorelai is talking to Luke about him being at her house when he's not working at the diner
rather than being with Rachel:
LORELAI: And she's crazy about you. And if her worst trait is she's a milk whore, you have it
pretty good.
LUKE: Yeah.
LORELAI: And you just need to give this situation a fair chance.
LUKE: I know.
LORELAI: And that starts with ceasing work on the Winchester Mystery House here.]
Hari Krishnas -- The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Hare Krishna devotees sing
and dance with drums and cymbals in streets of cities. The women wear colorful saris, the married
men and novices wear white dhotis; and the celibate wear saffron dhotis.
[Rory is talking to Clara, Dena's little sister:
CLARA: Are you here to see my brother?
RORY: Oh, no. No. Not at all. I'm, um, with . . . the Girl Scouts.
CLARA: I'm gonna be a Girl Scout someday. I'm a brownie now.
RORY: Oh, well good, that's an excellent stepping stone.
CLARA: Where's your uniform?
RORY: Oh we're not doing uniforms anymore. You know, we're trying to blend in, relate better to the average person. It was a very successful strategy for the Hari Krishnas, so. . . .]
Ring Pops -- A flavored lollipop shaped like a large gem and placed on a plastic ring.
[Lorelai, Max and Rory are walking to a town meeting:
MAX: You've been talking about these town meetings for months. I've got to see one for myself.
LORELAI: Well, they're never dull.
RORY: And if you're lucky, you'll see some crazy lady throwing French fries at the people she disagrees with like last time.
MAX: So were they cold?
LORELAI: No, I was just full.
Max: Ah. Oh, oh, I forgot. (Max pulls out two Ring Pops of the bag) One for you and one for you.
RORY: What are these?
MAX: Those are rings. And the diamond is actually candy so you can eat it.
LORELAI: Max, that's very sweet, but we're not eight.
(Lorelai and Rory excitedly switch rings behind Max's back)
LORELAI: What do you got?
RORY: Grape. Yours?
LORELAI: Red
RORY: Trade you!
LORELAI: Yes!]
Cucamonga -- A city located in San Bernardino County, California. In the past it was often
mentioned in jokes and skits because of the unusual name.
[At the town meeting Lorelai, Max and Rory walk in:
LORELAI: Oh rats. It started already.
TAYLOR: All those opposed. (Lorelai raises her hand) Lorelai, you don't even know what were voting on.
LORELAI (in a country accent): Yeah, but I'm a-gin it!
TAYLOR: All right, the nays have it. Let the record reflect it. Lorelai, I hope that's not food in those bags. Food is not allowed at town meetings.
LORELAI: No, Taylor it's not. It's, um, diapers for the little ones.
TAYLOR: What?
LORELAI: Dorsal fins and Cucamonga.
TAYLOR: What did she say?
LORELAI (whispers to Max): I confuse him till he loses his train of thought and then he moves on. Hot dog?]
Kinko's -- A chain of stores that provides professional printing, copying, and binding services.
[TAYLOR: I don't get this people. This man is practically a vagrant. I mean, where do you even live? What do you do for a living?
TROUBADOUR 1: I don't want people to know those things!
TAYLOR: Why not?
TROUBADOUR 1: Because that's part of being a troubadour.
TAYLOR: What is part of being a troubadour?
TROUBADOUR 1: The mystique!
TAYLOR: Oh, this is absolutely ridiculous. Do you subscribe to this troubadour mystique?
TROUBADOUR 2: I run a Kinko's in Groton.
TROUBADOUR 1: You see, that proves it. He doesn't respect the code. You're not supposed to talk. You're not supposed to run a Kinko's. You're supposed to speak through your music.
That's the whole point.]
Typhoid Mary -- Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), was an Irish immigrant who was the first known healthy carrier of typhoid in the United States. She contracted a mild case of typhoid fever but was never cured, so she spread the disease to others.
[Rory is walking to catch up with Madeline and Louise:
RORY: Hey Madeline. I've got the notes you wanted.
MADELINE: No thanks.
RORY: No these are the ones you asked for. The biology notes from Tuesday. The other day you said you. . . .
MADELINE: No thanks.
RORY: But. . What's wrong with her?
LOUISE: Nothing's wrong with her Mary.
RORY: Mary? Oh no, not this Virgin Mary thing again.
LOUISE: Not virgin. Typhoid.]
Adolph Eichmann -- A high-ranking official in Nazi Germany. He was largely responsible for the logistics of the extermination of millions of people during the Holocaust. When he was put on trial in 1961, he insisted he was only following orders.
[LORELAI: A thousand of them. A thousand yellow daisies.
(Pan around inn's lobby, which is filled with daisies. Lorelai walks into the middle and them and looks around.)
KIRK: That's right. There's exactly a thousand of them. The order states that there is to be exactly 1000. Not 1001, not 999, but 1000. You ask for 1000, I bring 1000. I don't question the orders. I merely fill them.
MICHEL: Job well done, Mr. Adolph Eichmann.]