Season 6 Gilmore-isms
6-01 New and Improved Lorelai
Funkytown - 1980 disco song by Lipps Inc.
LORELAI: No, we need something sparkly. Come on. [She grabs his hand and pulls him toward the door.]
LUKE: Huh? Where are we going?
LORELAI: To Funkytown.
Zima - A lightly-carbonated clear beverage made by Coors, introduced in 1993, and marketed as an alternative to beer.
LORELAI: Oh, Taylor, you have to have something!
TAYLOR: Lorelai, I'm sorry, but - oh, wait a minute! I think I have a case of Zima in the back.
Tim Burton - Film director and producer, famous for such movies as "The Nightmare Before Christmas."
COLIN: Oh, look how she mocks. The girl stayed home for a month after she had a tragic haircut.
ROSEMARY: It wasn't a tragic haircut. It was apocalyptic highlights. I looked like a Tim Burton character.
6-02 Fight Face
March of the Penguins - documentary about the life of Emperor penguins,
LORELAI: Okay, you're really kind of bringing down the pet fair, here, Patty.
PATTY [pats her shoulder]: Honey, go see March of the Penguins. That's really as close to the animals as you should get.
Ann Coulter - A conservative political commentator.
EMILY: So the fourteenth works?
RICHARD: Yeah, works for me. My God, we're busier than that Ann Coulter.
EMILY: Who?
RICHARD: That blond beanpole on TV? If she walked over a subway grate she'd fall right through.
Who's On First? - a comedy routine made famous by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
LORELAI: What's a joist?
LUKE: The things that support the load.
LORELAI: What load?
LUKE: The load from the extension.
LORELAI: Okay, this has officially become the worst first draft of "Who's on First" in history.
Garrison Kellor - an American author, storyteller, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality. He is known as host of the Minnesota Public Radio show "A Prairie Home Companion."
LORELAI: It's not my Frisbee.
LUKE: So it just walked up here on its own.
LORELAI: Luke! There is a lost Frisbee on the roof of every suburban home in America! No less a luminary than Garrison Kellor said that. It's not that big a deal.
6-03 The UnGraduate
Valerie Plame - a covert CIA operative in the 1990s.
RORY: Good, because I've got some gossip.
EMILY: My own little Valerie Plame. What's the news?
BTK - Blind, Torture, Kill. Serial killer Dennis Rader's method of murdering 10 people.
PARIS: There was no sense of finality in our last conversation.
RORY: There was a total sense of finality.
PARIS: Well, you can believe that if you want to, but if I end up on the front page of the Hartford Courier BTK'd to death, you'll know why.
Arthur Murray - owner of a chain of dance instruction studios
RORY: Okay. Oh, wait. Hold on. [She turns the music off.] Okay, everyone, it is time for cake and punch! [A server brings in a cart of food. The residents all sigh sadly.] It's only a fifteen minute break and then it's back to the dance floor.
LOGAN: So you're Arthur Murray now?
6-04 Always A Godmother, Never A God
Deuce Bigalow - fictional gigolo character played by Rob Schneider.
LORELAI: Hey, uh, help! Fire! Fire! We're on fire down here, help! Flames crackling, marshmallows toasting, save us!
LUKE [coming down the stairs]: What are you doing yelling 'Fire'? You can't do that.
LORELAI: No, that only pertains to movie theaters. Crowded ones. You're watching a Wednesday matinee of Deuce Bigalow, you can yell 'Fire' all you want. Hell, you can start a fire a no one will complain.
Spuds MacKenzie - a fictional dog created for use in an advertising campaign marketing Bud Light beer in the late 1980s.
Clara Peller - 81 year old actress who starred in the 1984 "Where's the beef?" advertising campaign for Wendy's.
Calvins - highly over-priced jeans made by designer Calvin Klein.
LUKE: So, buy the DVDs. It'll save you a ton of space.
LORELAI: No, the DVDs won't have the commercials on them. The original commercials, which is half the fun. Spuds Mackenzie, Clara Peller? "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins"? I mean, they don't make them like that anymore.
Flatt and Scruggs - Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Bluegrass band that sang the theme song of "The Beverly Hillbillies."
JACKSON: We'll just have to make room.
SOOKIE: How? The house is barely big enough for us and the kids, and we'll end up sleeping on a leaky air mattress in the kids' room getting horrible cricks in our necks while your mother blasts her Flatt and Scruggs CD, and your cousins are going to be picking their teeth with my Rata paring knives!
Nicholas Nickleby - main character from the Charles Dickens comic novel "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby."
JACKSON: Oh, like your family is so easy! What about the time we had to see your stuttering cousin Odell in the worst production of Nicholas Nickleby known to man! That was like nine hours of pure hell! And did I get to fake a heart attack during intermission? No!
Carrot Top - stage name of comedian Scott Thompson, known by his bright red hair.
SOOKIE: I can't relax, it's Jackson's family! I try to say nice things to them, but they alwaysmisinterpret and they think I'm insulting them, so I - I've tried being really quiet, and then they're all like, you know, why are you so quiet? So I overcompensate and start cracking jokes like I'm Carrot Top and I start doing funny things with props, and, ugh, I hate prop comedy!
LORELAI [solemnly]: We all do, honey.
Marianne Faithfull - British pop singer from the 60s and Mick Jagger's girlfriend.
RORY: So, you look great! Did you get a haircut?
LANE: Yeah! Well, maybe a month ago.
RORY: I like it.
LANE: You look good, too. I like the bangs. Very Marianne Faithfull.
6-05 We've Got Magic To Do
Gunga Din - character from the poem by Rudyard Kipling, later made into adventure films.
[Luke and Lorelai enter the diner with a large amount of shopping bags.]
LORELAI: Oh! Winded! Too many steps!
LUKE: I said I'd carry them.
LORELAI: Need water! Gunga Din!
Mummenschanz - a Swiss pantomime troupe who perform a surreal mask and prop oriented style.
SOOKIE: I saw my whole life pass before my eyes. That's how traumatic it was! My whole life. Flash! I mean, that's upsetting! You know, not that it's been a bad life, although I could have skipped seeing Mummenschanz.
Samuel Beckett - an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work offers a bleak outlook on human culture.
EMILY: Richard, listen when I talk to you!
RICHARD: I'm sorry, Emily. It takes a second to emerge from Samuel Beckett. He's a strange man. [He closes his book and looks at her.] Go on
Schopenhauer - a German philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism.
Nietzsche - a nineteenth-century German philosopher who wrote texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science.
RICHARD: Emily, please. It's Rory. What she tackles, she conquers. This girl could name the state capitals at three. Recite the periodic table at four. Discuss Schopenhauer's influence on Nietzsche when she was ten.
Hollywood Canteen - operated i Hollywood, California between October 3, 1942 and November 22, 1945 (Thanksgiving Day) as a club offering food, dancing and entertainment for servicemen, usually on their way overseas.
RORY: Now, there must be a color photo of the Hollywood Canteen. We've checked the internet. The library?
Mortimer Adler - an American educator, philosopher, and popular author.
Euclid - a Greek mathematician and is often referred to as the Father of Geometry.
RICHARD: I don't know why I bother. The great books take a lifetime to read as it is, but if you heed the word of Mortimer Adler one needs to read a classic three times to fully comprehend its meaning.
RORY: Yeah.
RICHARD: I wonder if Mortimer ever read Euclid’s Geometry three times. That's a fun read. Have you read Euclid’s Geometry?
RORY: Me? No.
Wendie Malick - accomplished stage, screen and TV actress.
PARIS: And I'm prepared, too. I was a little nervous last night about making small talk with my co-workers, so I went to the video store and rented Working Girl and the first season of Just Shoot Me. Got a couple of Wendie Malick bon mots that have already come in handy.
Romanov - House of Romanov was the last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country from 1613 to 1917 until they were deposed and executed.
RORY: How can she expect a table? The tables are for the people who are polite enough to respond to an invitation in the proper manner!
PARIS: I bet the Romanov's never RSVP'd either. They got theirs, capitalist scum.
Diazepam - early version of Valium, a sedative
Fluoxetine - an antidepressant
Protryptyline - an antidepressant
RORY: No, no, I don't want any diazepam.
PARIS: Well, what do you want? Fluoxetine? Protryptyline? I have others floating around in the bottom of my purse, I have no idea what they are but just popping a few can't hurt. Pretty hot grab bag.
6-06 Welcome to the Dollhouse
Arthur Godfrey - an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer in the 1950s.
RORY: Grandma, did you find someone to fix the intercom yet? It's stuck at this one volume. Loud.
EMILY: I've been looking and looking, but the company that made it went out of business in 1973. The Binsor Corp. Arthur Godfrey was their spokesman.
Alfredo Garcia - "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" A low budget movie directed by Sam Peckinpah and made in Mexico.
RORY: Wow, what's the occasion?
LOGAN: Where is it written you need an occasion?
RORY [pulling a large box out of the bag]: Wow, you did it. You brought me the head of Alfredo Garcia.
Birkin bag - a handbag manufactured by leather goods and ready-to-wear manufacturer Hermès. It is named after British-born actress and singer Jane Birkin.The price of a Birkin starts at approximately $7500.
LOGAN: You like it?
RORY: Hello, I'm a girl. It's a purse.
LOGAN: Not just a purse, it's a Birkin bag.
6-07 Twenty-one Is The Loneliest Number
Madeline Albright - the first woman to become United States Secretary of State, appointed by President Bill Clinton in December, 1996.
[A pink fuzzy clock reads "4:03". Rory is asleep in the bed. Madeleine Albright comes in and kisses Rory's head.]
Waltons - an American television series based on the book Spencer's Mountain, and centered on the family growing up in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
RORY: - You compare it to something more akin to doing the splits on a crate of dynamite.
Madeline Albright: Right.
RORY: I wonder if the Waltons ever did this.
Santorini - a small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about 125 miles southeast from Greece's mainland.
EMILY: Oh, good. Because I would love to throw her a party here. A twenty-first birthday is so special. But I didn't want to order twelve pounds of crab legs if you had plans to whisk her off to Santorini.
Forty-Year-Old Virgin - movie starring Steve Carell as a 40 year old man who is still a virgin and seeks to lose it with various women.
RORY: So, have you seen the Forty-Year-Old Virgin? 'Cause you might like it.
Sleeping With The Editor -
PARIS: I mean, it's so incredible. Last year I was sleeping with the editor -
DOYLE: And this year, I am!
John O'Hurley - since 2006, the host of the game show Family Feud.
LORELAI: Yeah, we're making the bedroom bigger.
RORY: You and Luke?
LORELAI: No, me and John O’Hurley. Luke doesn't know yet, I hope he takes it okay.
6-08 Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out
Balalaika - a stringed instrument of Russian origin, with a characteristic triangular body and 3 strings (or sometimes 6 strings in 3 courses).
Oliver Twist - Novel by Charles Dickens about the boy, Oliver Twist, born into poverty. Oliver toils with very little food in a workhouse, He and the other desperately hungry boys decide to draw lots; the loser must ask for another portion of gruel. The task falls to Oliver, who at the next meal tremblingly comes forward, bowl in hand, and makes his famous request: "Please, sir, I want some more."
LORELAI [To Luke]: Wow. Oliver Twist just kindly asked for a little more gruel and you kicked him right in the junk.
Daddy Warbucks - Very rich newspaper cartoon tycoon who adopted Little Orphan Annie.
LUKE [back on the phone]: But I want really nice stitching even if it costs extra. I don't care that it's double, just do it, I want my girls to look good.
LORELAI: Listen to Daddy Warbucks!
Geritol - iron rich tonic taken for anemia
LORELAI: [Talking about her dog PaulAnka.] I don't know. He's been doing that a lot lately. [She snaps her fingers.] Hey, hey buddy. There's nothing for you there. Do you need Geritol? [To Luke] He's been lethargic lately. He's depressed or something. Who are you calling?
INXS - (pronounced "in excess") an Australian rock and New Wave band in the 80s and 90s.
FOLK SINGER [singing]: ...Stabbed her with a knife.
COLIN: How INXS missed her, I don't know.
LOGAN [drunk]: Raise a glass to INXS.
Doogie - Doogie Houser, M.D. A television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a genuis who became a doctor at fourteen and also faces the problems of being a teenager.
JESS: Why aren't you living on campus?
RORY: Because I'm - not going.
JESS: You graduate already, Doogie?
Scarface - Al 'Scarface' Capone - 1930s gangster in Chicago.
LORELAI: It was - it was -
LUKE: Violent!
LORELAI: Scarface on a soccer field!
Kafka - one of the major fiction writers of the 20th century, born in Germany in 1883.
Dos Passos - Considered one of the Lost Generation writers, John Dos Passos' first novel was published in 1920.
Tolstoy - Count Lev Nikolaevich (1828-1910), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy is acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.
Robert Musil - an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel "The Man Without Qualities" is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.
Proust - a French novelist, essayist and critic in the eraly 1900s.
LOGAN: Oh. You penned the great American novel, Jess?
JESS: Wasn't quite that ambitious.
LOGAN: So what are we talking here? Short novel? Kafka length, or longer. Dos Pasos? Tolstoy? Or longer? Robert Musil? Proust? I'm not throwing you with these names, am I?
6-09 The Prodigal Daughter Returns
Prodigal - characterized by reckless, profuse or wasteful spending
Yao Ming - is a professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets. He is currently the tallest player in the NBA, at 7 ft 6 in.
SOOKIE: I know! But that's all I could come up with. And the only reason I thought of that was because Davey just learned duck, duck, goose and the ducks looked puny. So there you go.
LORELAI: Well, say hi to Yao Ming for me.
Valerie Cherish - main character in the television series, "The Comeback," starring Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles, California. It was cancelled after thirteen weeks.
LORELAI: Oh. Something wrong?
LANE: Wrong?
LORELAI: Yeah, you're giving me a Valerie Cherish, you know, and, "I don't want to see that". [She laughs awkwardly.] It's a great show, you should watch it.
6-10 He's Slippin' 'Em Bread, Dig?
Pull An Elvis - Elvis Presley leaves the arena or coliseum after a concert before his fans know he's gone.
LORELAI: Hey.
RORY [from the bathroom]: What?
LORELAI: Make an occasional noise so I know you didn't pull an Elvis.
Rolos - a brand of cylinder-shaped chocolates with a caramel centre.
RORY: Got to Gypsy's shop before it opened. There was only one other annoying early bird ahead of me, but I bribed Gypsy with a pack of Rolo's and she took me first.
LORELAI: She is such a Rolo whore.
Louis Prima - an Italian-American entertainer, singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter from the 1920s to the 1950s.
RORY: He has emerged. I'm assuming that's Paul Anka.
LORELAI: Well, it ain't Louis Prima.
Lenny Kravitz - a popular American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and arranger whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads.
LORELAI: While we walk to Luke's. Come on. Some of these are pretty cryptic. [Reading]: Um, Lenny Kravitz - where did Lenny Kravitz -
RORY and LORELAI [in unison]: Get all his money?
Seamus Heaney - an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.
LORELAI: Oh, I started reading Beowulf, that new translation you recommended.
RORY: The Seamus Heaney? Good for you.
Tai Chi - Tai chi chuan is an internal Chinese martial art often practiced for health reasons
LORELAI: Oh, this is a new one! Kirk's got a new hobby. He's doing -
RORY [in unison]: Doing Tai Chi?
Waiting for Guffman - a musical mockumentary released in 1997. The title, but not the plot, is a play on the title of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."
RORY: Wow! Lane, I'm absolutely there. This is big!
LANE: Very big. Unless it's a 'Waiting for Guffman' thing and the label guys don't show up. Did I just jinx it?
D.A. Pennebaker - Donn Alan "D. A." Pennebaker is an American documentary filmmaker. Performing arts (especially pop music) and politics are his primary subjects.
LANE [to Rory]: Hey. Do you want to be our D.A. Pennebaker? We're borrowing a video camera, and we need someone sober to do the photography.
Sephora - a chain of beauty products stores founded in France in 1969
LORELAI [to Sookie]: Quick! Wish for a Sephora to be built within walking distance.
Flugle Horn - a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore.
LORELAI: Maybe it's about Gigi. Maybe he's discovered she's a prodigy. Maybe he's calling to invite us to her premiere at Carnegie Hall.
RORY: Playing what instrument?
LORELAI: The flugle horn.
RORY: She's three. We would have read about it in the paper by now. 'Freakishly talented three-year-old flugle horn prodigy discovered'.
Yakov - Yakov Smirnoff, a famous Russian comedian
LIZ [laughing]: You're funny. Really, Luke, I'm calling you Yakov from now on!
Gwen Stefani - Lead singer for group No Doubt
ZACH [sees the headset microphones]: Oh! Cool! We should all get these.
LANE: Wireless mikes?
BRIAN: Isn't that too Gwen Stefani?
Bentley - Expensive luxury car equvialent to the Rolls-Royce.
CHRIS: What do you want? A car? How about a Bentley? They're pretty sweet. Or a new house? Or a tract of land to build a new house? I can do that. I can buy you a tract.
6-11 The Perfect Dress
Trump Taj Mahal - New Jersy casino owned by Donald Trump (Trump Entertainment Resorts)
LORELAI: Okay, well, first of all, video poker is my calling. I think I'm totally going to dedicate my life to it, especially the third machine in the second row of machines as you hit the entrance of Trump Taj Mahal.
Doo-Wop - a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s characterized by its smooth vocal harmonies.
PARIS: It's just precaution. It isn't really necessary. This neighborhood is only as scary as you make it. Those guys downstairs, they just look deadly. Believe me. They don't bother you if you don't bother them. When you have guests over, just tell them they're a doo-wop group.
Nigella Lawson - an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster and host of various cooking shows. She has her own line of cookware.
MRS. KIM: Look. Woman come in here and tell me this is full set of 1950's milk glass. Does she think my mother drop me on my head when I'm a baby? I know Nigella Lawson when I see it.
Gulag - the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. Usage of "Gulag" began generally denoting the entire penal labor system in the USSR, then any such penal system.
Solzhenitsyn - a Russian novelist, dramatist and historian. Through his writings he made the world aware of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system.
'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' - The story is set in a Soviet labor camp in the 1950s, and describes a single day of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov.
PARIS: Journalism is an art form, and the best art is created under repression, like Stalin's Gulag. You think Solzhenitsyn could've written 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' on a yoga retreat?
Angela's Ashes - a memoir by Irish author Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
RORY: Come on. It's not so bad.
LORELAI: It's Angela's Ashes!
Francis Farmer - an American actress of stage and screen known for sensationalized and fictional accounts of her life, and especially her involuntary commitment to a mental hospital.
RORY: Guess who's crazy?
LORELAI: Who?
RORY: Me.
LORELAI: You? Since when?
RORY: Since I went all Francis Farmer in my psychologist's evaluation today.
'Deenie' - book written by Judy Blume and chronicles the life of thirteen-year-old Wilmadeene "Deenie" Fenner, whose mother is determined to have her become a model but she is diagnosed with scoliosis (curvature of the spine).
LUKE: I saw her pictures. The one in the lab, and the one with the Christmas tree, and you never told me she wore a back brace! Why was she wearing a back brace?
ANNA: Oh, she had just read 'Deenie'. It was a phase.
Judy Blume - a popular American author who has written many novels for children and young adults.
LUKE: What the heck is 'Deenie'?
ANNA: The gospel according to Judy Blume.
LUKE: What?
ANNA: It's a book, Luke. And now would probably be a good time for you to read it. Bye.
6-12 Just Like Gwen and Gavin
Gwen and Gavin - Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. He had a daughter he didn't know about when he and Gwen got together.
Monte Cristo (sandwich) - a sandwich made with ham and turkey or chicken then dipped in egg and fried like French toast.
LUKE: What diner? My diner?
APRIL: Yeah!
LUKE: Won't it be boring?
APRIL: No way. Diners fascinate me. The hustle, the bustle, the Monte Cristos.
Augusto Pinochet - a Chilean army general and dictator from the 1970s to the 1990s.
SHEILA: She used to be good, right? Wasn’t Paris good at one point?
A.K.: Before she was editor.
BILL: Now she’s Augusto Pinochet in a pantsuit.
Howell Raines (-ing) - he was Executive Editor of The New York Times from 2001 until he was forced to resign in 2003 in the wake of the plagarizing scandal by Jayson Blair.
JONI: We’re seriously considering Howell Raines-ing her.
RORY: You want to force her out?
Huckleberry Finn opportunity - Huck faked his death then sneaked into the church to watch his own funeral.
TAYLOR: I'm incognito! Don't you see? With the Carnival coming up, this is my Huckleberry Finn opportunity to observe things invisibly. You know, I'm not going to be around forever, Lorelai.
Goose Gossage - a basebal pitcher who played 22 seasons with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres.
[Zach throws his second ball, just as hard as the first. He knocks the last two bottles off.]
BABETTE: Jeez, Zach, what's with being all Goose Gossage? [He quickly and fiercely throws the restof his balls at Joe's bottles.] Zach! Those aren't your bottles!
6-13 Friday Night's All Right For Fighting
Xanax - a drug used to treat moderate to severe anxiety disorders and panic attacks
LORELAI: He's [Luke] completely in shock. And he's trying to handle it the best way he can.
SOOKIE: Drinking?
LORELAI: No.
SOOKIE: Xanax?
Nora Ephron - an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and is best known for her romantic comedies
RORY: You're too slick for your own good, Huntzberger.
LOGAN: Excuse me, but this is not slick. This is a Nora Ephron movie. Louis Armstrong should be warbling as we talk. So come on. Please. Put me out of my misery. You promised you'd let me take you to dinner.
'An Affair to Remember' - a 1957 film starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. The film is considered one of the most romantic of all time, according to the American Film Institute, and was the inspiration for the movie "Sleepless in Seattle."
Rita Wilson - Tom Hanks' wife who was in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle."
LOGAN: Okay, great. Thursday it is, seven thirty. Do not think of backing out, because I will cry and eat a pint of Rocky Road while watching 'An Affair to Remember' with Rita Wilson.
Black and Tans - a drink make by mixing dark and light beers, typically stout and ale.
PARIS: The research is sloppy, the sources are unreliable, the font is wrong, the paper feels thin, and the by-line should read 'Story by a petulant two-year-old who had one too many Black and Tans last night and so this is what you people get to read'! Fix it!
Christopher Isherwood - an Anglo-American novelist. He wrote a series of short stories collected under the title "Goodbye to Berlin." These provided the inspiration for the musical "Cabaret" and the film of the same name.
LORELAI: Christopher Isherwood. That Cabaret money was burning a hole in his pocket and you know one Christopher, Mom! [After a pause] His grandfather passed away recently and left him some money and he just wanted to do something for Rory! He was trying to be a dad for once. I thought it seemed like a good idea.
Mildred Pierce - A novel set in the 1930s, it is the story of a middle-class, single mother's attempt to maintain her and her family's social position during the Great Depression. Veda, her oldest daughter, enjoys Mildred's newfound financial success but increasingly turns ungrateful, demanding more and more from her hard-working mother and letting her contempt for people who must work for a living be known.
LORELAI: So typical. Kid grows up, goes to a fancy school, becomes a snob and is suddenly ashamed of her mother. You totally Mildred Pierce-d me.
RORY: I did not Mildred Pierce you.
Kabbalah - a discipline and school of thought discussing the mystical aspects of Judaism.
Matzah - a cracker-like flatbread made of white plain flour and water substituted for bread during the Jewish holiday of Passover.
RORY: Okay, fine. I get it. Everyone quit.
BILL: Not everyone, but close. It was quite an exodus. Very biblical. All that was missing were the Kabbalah bracelets and the matzah.
Heelers (or Healers) - story/fact gatherers, but not necessarily
staff writers.
RORY: Okay! Everyone, listen up! We have work to do! You, T-shirt, you're doing layout. And you, saggy pants, get all the heeler's numbers, call them and tell them to get in here. They've just been promoted.
6-14 You've Beem Gilmored
Bullets Over Broadway - a 1994 American crime-comedy film written by Woody Allen
Don't Speak - song by group No Doubt.
LORELAI: Huh. Maybe he is just doing what we agreed to. So un-Christopher of him.
RORY: People change. And then they get a nice sweatshirt as a treat.
LORELAI: Good for him.
RORY: Yep. Hey, Bullets Over Broadway!
LORELAI: "Don't Speak"
Perp Walk - an American slang term which refers to the police practice of intentionally parading an arrested suspect (or "perp", short for "alleged perpetrator") through a public place so that the media may observe and record the event. The suspect is typically handcuffed or otherwise restrained, and is often dressed in prison garb.
RORY: It has been pretty tense around here.
PARIS: So are they all out there excitedly awaiting my perp walk?
RORY: Oh, who cares? Who cares about them? You don't perp walk. You're Paris Gellar. You walk tall. You're better than all of them.
Judith Miller - an American journalist based in Washington D.C., was a prominent New York Times reporter with access to top U.S. government officials.
PARIS: Everyone, I have a little announcement! So if you could gather round please. We have an issue. You see it has become increasingly apparent that I have become the story here at the Yale Daily News, and that I have overshadowed our journalistic efforts. Well, I don't want to be the story at my own newspaper, because then I'd be Judith Miller. I'd have to wear my bangs too long and overdo my lipstick.
Putsch - a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, esp. one that depends upon suddenness and speed.
K Street - an effort by the Republican Party to pressure Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials.
PARIS: That secret meeting, weeks ago at the pub, where you set the putsch in motion! What happened, there wasn't a beer hall available?
RORY: I did not set the putsch in motion - I can't even spell putsch.
PARIS: Nice spin. Take it to K Street.
Hester Prynne - main character in the novel "The Scarlet Letter." Ther woman was was convicetd of adultry and a rag of scarlet cloth in the shape of the letter "A" was fastened to the front of her gown.
RORY: Dad told you, didn't he?
LORELAI: Oh, come on, I was doing so well!
RORY: Please.
LORELAI: How did you know?
RORY: Are you kidding me? "How's the view?" "Is his place nice? You didn't call me Hester Prynne once.
6-15 A Vineyard Valentine
Zydeco - a form of American folk music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 20th century from forms of Louisiana Creole music with a fast tempo and dominated by the button or piano accordion and a form of a washboard
STAFF MEMBER: Lorelai, excuse me, there's a zydeco band here to see you.
Thucydides - a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.
LOGAN: She shouldn't be. You're making me dizzy!
RORY: I forgot my Thucydides.
LOGAN: I don't see how you could function without your Thucydides!
Betty Friedan - the primary founder of the National Organization for Women in 1966.
RORY: I need every proof sheet on my desk by five o'clock and not a second later. Make that very clear to them, okay?
JONI: Okay.
RORY: I know the boys in the lab can be jerks to women. But don't let that stop you. Girl power, baby. Betty Friedan's dead and we've all got to fill the vacuum.
Mario Batali - an American chef, writer, restaurateur and media personality.
Ina Garten - an American author and host of the Food Network program "Barefoot Contessa"
RORY: Well, be very careful, please. [She hands her the large knife.]
LORELAI: I am Mario Batali and Ina Garten’s love child.
6-16 Bridesmaids Revisited
Perspicacious - having keen mental perception and understanding;
CHRIS: So what does perspicacious mean?
LORELAI: I don't know. Persp - to perspire. Am I close?
CHRIS: Close enough for me.
Minotaur - in classic mythology, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull. It had the head of a bull on the body of a man and washoused in the Cretan Labyrinth.
RORY: This place is like a labyrinth. [the country club where Honor is getting married]
LOGAN: Well, if you get lost, just keep your hand on one side of the wall and keep walking. Eventually you'll find your way out or get eaten by a Minotaur.
Bhagavad-Gita - an important Sanskrit Hindu scripture, it is revered as a sacred scripture of Hinduism, and considered as one of the most important religious classics of the world.
MEGAN [one of Honor's bridesmaids]: No, the one you have to watch out for is that poet, what's his name?
WALKER: The dude with the red face?
MEGAN: He just did a translation of the Bhagavad-Gita. Anyway, he acts like he's gay, but it's such a ruse. Total perv.
6-17 I'm Okay, You're Okay
Sheila E - Sheila Escovedo is an American musician, perhaps best known for her work with Prince and Ringo Starr.
PARIS: You could have hooked up with a hot chick?
DOYLE: Yes.
PARIS: In rhinestone buttons? Who was it, Sheila E?
Little Man Tate - a 1991 motion picture which tells the story of Fred Tate, a 7-year-old child prodigy who struggles to live a normal childhood that fails to accommodate his intelligence.
LORELAI: You should go.
LUKE: You think?
LORELAI: Yeah, she asked you. She called you. And I know that traveling across country in a bus full of Little Man Tates has been a lifelong dream of yours.
Mata Hari - the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida, a Dutch-Frisian exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for espionage for the Germans during World War I.
RORY: What about her [April's] mom? What do you know about her?
LORELAI: Not much. Apparently she's incredibly beautiful, she grew up here, she owns a store in Woodbridge, and Miss Patty thinks she was Mata Hari in a former life.
Bill Blass - an American fashion designer known for his tailoring and his innovative combinations of textures and patterns.
LORELAI: Why? Because Luke and I are getting married and I guess they figure we'll be having kids and they want to be near me when that happens. Really near. Like in the room wearing Bill Blass scrubs.
Syd Field - an American writer who has written several books on the subject of screenwriting, and occasionally holds workshops that help aspiring that will sell in Hollywood.
RORY: Ah, Caesar! Thank God. We desperately need something to put in her [Lorelai's] mouth.
LORELAI: Hi. Two cheeseburgers and a copy of Syd Field's book, please. We are missing the boat.
6-18 The Real Paul Anka
Hamiltons - Ten dollar bills. Have Alexander Hamilton's face on them, the first Secretary of the Treasury.
LANE [waves some bills at her]: It's all about the Hamiltons, baby.
LORELAI: You can't pay me to ruin your dress!
This Is Your Life - a television documentary seriesthat aired in the United States from 1952 to 1961.The format of the show consisted of the host, who would surprise someone (usually a celebrity or public figure, occasionally an ordinary citizen) and, consulting his "red book", conduct a biography of the subject in a television studio. The subject would be presented with family members and old friends, reunited with old acquaintances, and often shed a tear when a personal tragedy was recounted.
JESS: Yeah, there's a definite "Jess Mariano, this is your life" vibe here today.
6-19 I Get A Sidekick Out Of You
Sidekick - A T-Mobile cell phone and texting device. Also, a stock character, a close companion who assists a partner in a superior position.
Kimchee - a traditional Korean pickled dish made of vegetables, usually cabbage with varied seasonings.
LANE: Boy, there's a lot of activity going on down here.
MRS. KIM: It's going very well. Your Aunt June is a wizard with the kimchee.
Deney Terrio - host of the television musical variety series Dance Fever from 1979 to 1985. He was the dance coach and choreographer for John Travolta in the movie "Dance Fever."
MICHEL: Now let's discuss dancing. As you know, I am a fabulous dancer. Deney Terrio level, and I intend to dance a lot. It's what I do at parties to compensate for the elevated calorie intake. I just shake it all off.
American Gigolo - A 1980 film starring Richard Gere as a male prostitute.
ZACH: I didn’t expect to see you guys here!
LANE: Well, we were going to see American Gigolo, but we missed it.
SOOKIE: I swear, I checked the time twice!
Jenna Jameson - a pornographic actress who has been called the world's most famous porn star.
CHRIS: Why'd you have to bring a man?
LORELAI: Because an unmarried woman, alone, of a certain age, dressed the way I dress, apparently is Korean for Jenna Jameson.
Chico and the Man - 70s sitcom with Eddie Albert and Freddie Prinze
LORELAI: You know, I remember the day I met Lane. It was Rory's first day of kindergarten, and she insisted on wearing my Chico and the Man T-shirt, which I thought would either elicit confused shrugs or label her as the weird seventies sitcom kid.
Calamity Jane - Martha Jane Cannary-Burke, a frontierswoman and professional scout best known for her claim of being a friend of Wild Bill Hickok
CHRIS: Yes, go, I can take care of your mom!
RORY: Leave her a note that I'll call her from the hospital.
CHRIS: I will. Go!
RORY: I'm going.
CHRIS: All right, Calamity Jane, let's get you to bed.
6-20 Supercool Party People
Amish - the Amish Mennonite church fellowships are Christian religious denominations, and they form a very traditional subgrouping of Mennonite living, plain dress and their resistance to the adoption of many modern conveniences.
LUKE: Oh, I brought you something! [He pulls a gift bag out from under the counter.]
LORELAI: Aw, did you steal me the Constitution? That could be the start of a really dumb movie.
LUKE: It's from Amish country. These little Amish girls hand-make them.
LORELAI [pulls out a doll]: Oh, it's adorable! Look, Patty, an Amish voodoo doll.
Bonne Bell Lip Smackers - Bonne Bell is a cosmetics company which focuses on products targeted for young women. In 1973, Bonne Bell introduced a flavored lip gloss named "Lip Smackers".
LORELAI: Well, who doesn't love a lip gloss that doubles as a necklace? And they smelled so great.
6-21 Driving Miss Gilmore
Driving Miss Gilmore - Play on the movie "Driving Miss Daisy" with Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman as her driver.
Donner Party - a group of California-bound American emigrants caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846-1847, some of them resorted to cannibalism.
EMILY: Can we please talk about something besides food?
LORELAI: Starvation, scurvy, the Donner party.
Lasik - laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis is a type of refractive laser eye surgery performed by ophthalmologists for correcting myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.
EMILY: I'm having Lasik surgery on my eyes.
LORELAI: Lasik surgery? Why?
EMILY: I hate wearing glasses.
Marcus Welby M.D. - a medical drama that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969 to July 29, 1976 starring Robert Young as the title character, a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner
RICHARD: Everyone knows ugly men make the best doctors.
EMILY: Marcus Welby was handsome, and George Clooney.
LORELAI: Fake doctors, Mom.
Dina and Moshe Abramowicz - Dina Abramowicz joined the Jewish resisance in Germany during WW2 as a nurse's helper. {No definitive info about Moshe A.}
DOYLE: You shouldn't talk loudly. You'll strain something.
LOGAN: I've got Dina and Moshe Abramowicz on top of me.
Dr. Mengele - known as the Angel of Death, he was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He gained notoriety for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners, determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer, and for performing human experiments on camp inmates.
EMILY: And then Dr. Mengele told me to rest and is having me put eye drops in every hour, further impeding my vision. And to top it off, the man looked nothing like Marcus Welby.
Dollywood - theme Park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., owned by Dolly Parton. In addition to standard amusement park thrill rides, Dollywood features traditional crafts and music of the Smoky Mountains area.
WOMAN: I tell him to clear the plates, and he's like, "I'm tired. I've been on my feet all day." And I'm like, "I don't care if you've been on your feet all day "at that crappy job that doesn't pay enough that we can even go to Dollywood once in a while."
LIZ: Yeah, that's not good, not going to Dollywood. It's rude.
6-22 Partings
Alfred Stieglitz - an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form.
Cartier-Bresson - a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography.
RORY: Hold it.
LOGAN: Yo, Alfred Stieglitz, stop with the pictures.
RORY: I prefer Cartier-Bresson.
Pat Boone - an American singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. His old-fashioned values contributed to his popularity in the pre-rock and roll era of the mid 50s.
TAYLOR: It won't take long. Please, people, your attention! I would just like to say that there is no bigger fan of music than the man standing before you. No memory is more precious to me than the one of my father taking me to the Hartford civic auditorium to see the great Pat Boone. But you, my friends, do not have the talent of Pat Boone. And if you insist on loitering and playing your hippie doo-wop music to the obvious detriment of the mercantile interests of this town, our authorities will forcibly remove you… with water hoses and canine units if necessary! Thank you for your time, and, uh... goodbye.
Baryshnikov - a Soviet-born Russian American dancer, choreographer, and actor, often cited as one of the greatest ballet dancers of the 20th century.
MISS PATTY: Well, uh, I-I don't know. You know, half the time people speak to me, I'm thinking about Baryshnikov. Did you see "Turning Point"?
Tiramisu - one of the most popular Italian cakes. It is made of lady finger biscuits dipped in espresso or strong coffee and layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks, mascarpone, and sugar, and topped with cocoa.
TAYLOR: I suddenly feel very tired.
MISS PATTY: Would you like a tiramisu?
Clarence Thomas - He has served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. His career on the Supreme Court has seen him take a judicially conservative approach.
LUKE: I didn’t know you talked to Anna, you weren't supposed to talk to Anna.
LORELAI: I know. I'm sor… God, no! I'm not gonna defend myself! For months now, I've been skulking around not saying anything, not having an opinion, like I'm Clarence Thomas or something. And I - I'm done with that. I-I've been waiting for a long time, and I don't want to wait anymore.
Guy Fawkes Day - Guy Fawkes Night is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November. It celebrates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of the 5 November, 1605, in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, were alleged to be attempting to blow-up the Houses of Parliament, in London, England.
RORY: Yes. You are leaving for London. Who knows when we'll see each other again?
LOGAN: I thought that was all set.
RORY: What was all set?
LOGAN: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Guy Fawkes Day.