Season Seven
7-01 The Long Morrow
TAYLOR: You run a red light, it's time for your close-up, Mr. Demille. These little wonders are taking over the globe -- New York, Los Angeles, Paris,
Singapore.
Mr De Mille - Cecil De Mille, a movie producer.
RORY: Logan, where are you?
LORELAI: Heathrow. I just landed.
Heathrow- Located in London, busiest airport in Great Britain
RORY: Cormac McCarthy - good call. "In Cold Blood" - he would have loved that. Well, he'll never know now. You wanted him to read "Hammerhead Sharks - Demons of the Deep"?
LORELAI: He recommended that one for me.
Cormac McCarthy - American novelist who wrote "No Country for Old Men."
"In Cold Blood" - Book written by Truman Capote about the murder of a wealthy farmer from Kansas named Herbert Cutter.
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7-02 That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopee
LORELAI: Mm, well, couldn't sleep. And, initially, I was at a loss. How would I pass the time until my one and only offspring, the fruit of my loins....
RORY: Too early.
LORELAI: ...Loin fruit that she is, straggled out of bed to grace me with her presence? But then I asked myself, "W.W.T.B.F.C.D.?" And it came to me in a flash. "I'm gonna make waffles."
RORY: "What would the Barefoot Contessa do?"
The Barefoot Contessa - Ina Rosenberg Garten, hostess of the Food Network program of the same name. Known for fine cuisine foods with an
emphasis on fresh ingredients and timesaving tips,
LORELAI: Wow. Were you planning on visiting Asia or invading it?
RORY: Look at all this wasted effort. All this highlighter ink? Wasted. All of these sticky notes? Wasted. We were going to see the terra-cotta soldiers in Xian.
The Terra-cotta soldiers in Xian - horse and soldier figures, dating from 210 BCE, discovered in 1974 by some local farmers near Xi'an,
Shaanxi province, China near the Mausouleum of the First Qin Emperor. They vary in height from six feet to six feet five inches.
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7-03 Lorelai's First Cotillion
Cotillion - Training that children and young adults attend to learn manners and proper social behavior in the context of formal dance.
LORELAI: Hey, how was last night's conversation?
RORY: Eh.
LORELAI: Eh-eh?
RORY: It's just these transatlantic phone calls. I don't know if it's the "trans" or the "Atlantic" or the fact that it's 2:00 in the morning, but Helen Keller and Stephen Hawking could have a more connected conversation.
Stephen Hawking - Famed physicist who contracted amyltrol lateral scolosis and has to communticate with a voice generator using one finger.
[Both girls are sitting on the floor, Rory is reading “Henry Miller Sexus”, Lane, a book on pregnancy]
RORY: Yikes.
Henry Miller's "Sexus" - (1949) details his divorce from his first wife up until his early marriage to his second wife, June Miller. He uses
licentious sex scenes to set the stage for his philosophical discussions of self, love, marriage and happiness.
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7-04 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous
LORELAI: Did he [christopher] talk about my sparkling eyes and my glossy, raven hair?
RORY: Look I'm not gonna pass notes between you guys.
LORELAI: What if Emily Post says that's part of the appropriate protocol?
RORY: If you can get it in writing from the ghost of Emily Post, then I will pass as many notes as you want.
Emily Post - an American author on etiquette. Her name has become synonymous with proper etiquette and manners.
LUCY: But on the way out, as I'm making my dramatic exit, I walk right into the glass door.
RORY: No. Ouch!
LUCY: So the next semester, he keeps hounding me about how I'd be perfect for his production of "California Suite" because I have such a gift for physical comedy.
"California Suite" - a 1976 play by Neil Simon about five couples, all set in one hotel suite in California. Made into a film in 1978 starring Alan
Alda, Jane Fonda and others.
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7-05 The Great Stink
CHRISTOPHER: [To Paul Anka] This is not normal. I want you to know that. [To Lorelai] The dog wears Ferragamos?
LORELAI: Oh, please. Don't give him any ideas. These are mine. All right, let's go. You take this, this, and this. Come on. What are you waiting for?
Ferragamos - Salvatore Ferragamo was an Italian shoe designer. He worked with many Hollywood stars in the 1920s, before returning to Italy
to found the eponymous company making unique hand-made footwear. The company has expanded its operations to include luxury shoes, bags, eyewear, silk accessories, watches, perfumes and a ready-to-wear clothing line.
LOGAN: There's also gazpacho, that cheese-pie thing you love, plus flan.
RORY: Ooh, flan! You got me flan?
Flan - a rich custard dessert with a layer of soft caramel on top
CHRISTOPHER: Give me the remote.
LORELAI: Not until you explain your choices.
CHRISTOPHER: What?
LORELAI: "The View"? "Girlfriends"? "Sabado Gigante"? Who controls this thing, you or Pedro Almodóvar?
Pedro Almodóvar - a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
RORY: Wait, are you tired of London?
LOGAN: I'm tired of not being around you.
RORY: Yeah, but you can't be tired of London. Samuel Johnson said, "when you're tired of London, you're tired of life."
Samuel Johnson - an English poet, essayist, moralist, novelist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
RORY: But by invitation only. And it'll be like an online version of the Algonquin Group, like throwing a party in your head where everyone you've ever
wanted to talk to is there -- Ira Glass, Sofia Coppola, Flaubert, Danger Mouse.
Algonquin Group - a global venture development firm that delivers solutions and advice for businesses
Ira Glass - an American public radio personality, and host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.
Sofia Coppola - an American film director, actress, producer and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Flaubert - a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists.
Danger Mouse - a British animated television series about a British mouse who works as a secret agent.
SOOKIE: You want a sandwich? I'll make you a sandwich.
LORELAI: No, thanks.
SOOKIE: You sure? I've got pumpernickel. I've got rye. I've got this really nice mustard. I've even got Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda in the fridge.
Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray soda - a soft drink with a celery flavor.
CHRISTOPHER: How's this for an idea -- weekend away, the two of us?
LORELAI: [Gasps] That's great for an idea. Ooh! Ooh! I know the perfect place.
CHRISTOPHER: Don't say "Dollywood." Please don’t, don't say "Dollywood."
Dollywood - Theme park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn, and owned by Dolly Parton.
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7-06 Go Bulldogs!
CHRISTOPHER: There's a brunch at Branford with the provost.
LORELAI: I've always loved the word "provost." Although I have no idea what a provost is, it just sounds so...
CHRISTOPHER: Idyllic and collegiate?
LORELAI: Yes or something from a deli counter. "Extra provost on that, please."
Provost - a senior academic administrator
LORELAI: Grass is just not this green -- not outside of "Pleasantville," it isn't.
CHRISTOPHER: So, what exactly are you saying?
"Pleasantville" - 1998 film about fraternal twins, David and Jennifer, but they lead dramatically different high school social lives. Jennifer focuses
mainly on her appearance and popularity, while David spends much of his spare time on the couch watching reruns of Pleasantville, a black-and-white 1950s sitcom mirroring such "ideal family" shows such as Leave It To Beaver or Father Knows Best.
LORELAI: Hey, what is with all the a cappella? There's a cappella, a cappella, morning, noon, and night. I'm not sure I can take that much a cappella.
RORY: Then you should avoid arches. A-cappella groups tend to hang out under arches, arches and any other places with good acoustics.
A-capella - Singing with voices only, no insturments.
KIRK: You inspired me. I look at you, and I think, "this guy's doing it right. Slave to no master." You come home at 3:00 in the morning -- no one cares. You want to eat dessert for dinner -- no one cares. You walk around in tube socks and tighty whities -- no one cares. No one cares what you do or where you go. [Luke is not looking happy] So, what do you say, Luke? You want to be my wingman, Goose to my Maverick? [Singing into a ladle] You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips and there's no tenderness…
Goose to my Maverick - Characters in the movie "Top Gun"
RORY: Wow. Fancy.
CHRISTOPHER: Apparently, the Crème Brule is to die for.
Crème brûlée - is a dessert consisting of a rich custard base topped with a layer of hard caramel
CHRISTOPHER: Anyway, I really want to rent a place at a ski resort this winter, maybe Killington or Sugarloaf.
Killington - town in Rutland County, Vermont. Killington Ski Resort is locate there.
Sugarloaf - a ski resort located on Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley, northern Maine
JONI: I just got a text with a photo. Looks like they're wearing George Bush masks and...[turns the phone upside down] are those Condoleezza Rice masks?
PARIS: They make Condoleezza masks?
Condoleezza Rice - Pres George W. Bush's Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005.
APRIL: Are you sure you want to Fianchetto that bishop so early?
LANE: I don’t know it depends on what "Fianchetto" means.
Fianchetto - In chess the fianchetto is a pattern of development wherein a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file,
the knight pawn having been moved one or two squares forward.
SUSAN: [Laughs] Marlene Dietrich.
LUKE: Oh.
SUSAN: Right!
LUKE: I don't know who that is.
Marlene Dietrich - A German-born American actress and singer. Her glamour and exotic looks cemented her stardom and made her one of the highest paid actresses of the 1930s.
FRED: It is, a whole new level of flavor, like a vegetable symphony. What do you think, captain?
MICHEL: It's true. It even surpasses my mother's, and that woman made Ratatouille for a living. Well done, Sookie.
Ratatouille - a traditional French stewed vegetable dish,
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7-07 French Twist
OLIVIA: I keep forgetting -- you still haven't met boyfriend.
RORY: Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder if he really exists, or if he's just Lucy's Snuffleupagus.
Snuffleupagus - more commonly known as Mr. Snuffleupagus or Snuffy, is one of the Muppet characters on the long-running educational television program for young children, Sesame Street. He resembles a woolly mammoth, without tusks or (visible) ears, as well as a long thick pointed tail, similar in shape to that of a dinosaur or other reptile. He has long thick brown hair and a trunk that drags along the ground.
LORELAI: See, this is why French people are so skinny -- they have no late-night snacks.
CHRISTOPHER: How do you explain Gérard Depardieu?
LORELAI: Oh, that's obvious. Gérard Depardieu has hogged all the food.
Gérard Depardieu - Overweight French actor
LUCY: You can say things like, we're the hottest thing to come out of Norway since... what came out of Norway?
OLIVIA: We got the Vikings, Edvard Munch, and that's all I got.
Edvard Munch - a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionistic art.
LUCY: The other day, somebody used the phrase "negative amortization." What the hell is that?!
Negative amortization - In finance, negative amortization occurs whenever the loan payment for any period is less than the interest charged over that period so that the outstanding balance of the loan increases.
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7-08 Introducing Lorelai Planetarium
Hayden Planetarium - a public planetarium located on Central Park West, New York City, next to and part of the American Museum of Natural History.
BOBBI: Tripp's just back from Tortola. He's building an incredible house there.
Tortola - the largest and most populated of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands which form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.
LOGAN: Exactly, I mean where do you get off acting all morally superior?
RORY: That is not what I intended to say at all.
LOGAN: You clearly think you are. Why? Because you read "Ironweed"? 'Cause you saw "Norma Rae"?
"Ironweed" - a 1983 novel by William Kennedy. It is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of Francis Phelan, an alcoholic vagrant originally from Albany, New York, who left his family after accidentally killing his infant son while drunk.
"Norma Rae" - a 1979 film which tells the story of a factory worker from a small town in the Southern United States who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works.
RORY: It's mean?
OLIVIA: Sort of Lynn Hirshberg meets -- I don't know, someone really mean.
RORY: What? No! No, I'm Fran Lebowitz. It's supposed to be fun, frothy, lighthearted satire, social anthropology. I'm Tama Janowitz.
Lynn Hirshberg - editor at large for the New York Times magazine
Fran Lebowitz - Fran Lebowitz - an American author best known for her sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities.
Tama Janowitz - a short story writer who socialized who became well-known in New York's literary and social circles.
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7-09 Knit, People, Knit!
RICHARD: Lorelai couldn't have been more than, what, 8 or 10years old? But she was very definite about the whole thing. She looked me directly in the eye, and she said, "when I grow up, I'm going to marry Tip O'Neill."
Tip O'Neill - an outspoken Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years.
EMILY: Yes, you may open your present. For heavens sakes you're like a dolphin at feeding time.
LORELAI: [in shock at the gift which is a picture] Wow. I mean, d-- I -- it's -- it's like, "wow."
EMILY: It's an etching by Kiki Smith.
Kiki Smith - an American artist classified as a feminist artist. Her Body Art is imbued with political significance, undermining the traditional erotic representations of women by male artists, and often exposes the inner biological systems of females as a metaphor for hidden social issues.
LOGAN: My god, woman, is there a book you don't own?
RORY: I'm so sorry.
DOYLE: I think I may have re-activated my scoliosis.
Sciolisis - Curvature of the spine to the left or right
LOGAN: Two copies of "The Norton Anthology"?
RORY: They were gifts. I can't get rid of gifts.
"The Norton Anthonology" - anthology of English literature spread across six volumes and divided into two sets.
[Lorelai is knitting on the couch]
LORELAI: Good morning.
CHRISTOPHER: Well, good morning, Madame Defarge.
Madame Defarge - a fictional character in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is the main villain of the book, and ruthlessly seeks revenge against the Evrèmondes, including Charles Darnay, his wife Lucie Manette and their child for crimes a prior generation of the Evrèmonde family had committed. She knits, and her knitting secretly encodes the names of those people she will have killed. The Fates used yarn to measure out the life of a man, and cut it to end it.
RORY: I have boots.
LUCY: Oh, my god, so did we!
RORY: My feet were so much more comfortable in 2002.
LUCY: What do you think, Boyfriend?
MARTY: Very Clydesdale.
Clydesdale - The largest breed of horse with large hooves
LUKE: So, what are you up for tonight? I was thinking we could rent "A Brief History of Time" again. Maybe I'll understand something more than the credits.
APRIL: Sure.
"A Brief History of Time" - a popular science book written by Stephen Hawking. It attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang,black holes, light cones and superstring theory. There is also a documentary by the same name. Unlike the book, the documentary is primarily a biography of Stephen Hawking.
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7-10 Merry Fisticuffs
LIZ: Oh, sure. [They move to the counter] Oh she's really strong too, she takes after T.J., he’s really strong you know. We've been watching "Survivor"
sometimes, you know, and he does the challenges, you know like standing on one leg or dragging the sandbags around, and he lasts longer than the guys on the show.
"Survivor" - Reality show
RORY: Hi, Grandma.
EMILY: Hello, Rory. [to Randall] That's my granddaughter, Rory. Delightful girl. She's a senior at Yale.
RANDALL: Fantastic theater program -- Meryl, Jodie.
Meryl, Jodie - Meryl Streep and Jodi Foster are Yale graduates
LUCY: So congratulations on buying the Internet or something.
LOGAN: Thank you, although Al Gore and I are still negotiating so it‘s not a done deal yet.
Al Gore made claims to inventing/developing the Internet
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7-11 Santa's Secret Stuff
CHRISTOPHER: They driving on the other side of the road thing, that's my joke. If you just made it, you ripped me off.
LORELAI: I ripped you off?
RORY: Guys.
LORELAI: That's like saying Lenny Bruce rips off Carrot Top or Woody Allen gets his material from what's his name -- the guy with the watermelons.
Lenny Bruce - standup comedian from the 1950s
LORELAI: So genius we better be careful, or word will get out and everyone will start celebrating Christmas after Christmas, which will really drive up the
post-Christmas Christmas-tree prices.
RORY: Then we'll have to keep celebrating later and later.
LORELAI: Yeah before we know it, we'll be having Figgy pudding in July.
Figgy pudding - a European-style pudding containing figs. The pudding may be baked, steamed in the oven, boiled or fried.
SOOKIE: You're having to dig up all those feelings for him. That can't be fun. You must be feeling overwhelmed.
LORELAI: I really don't think it's about digging up my feelings for Luke.
SOOKIE: Okay.
LORELAI: I think it's really about writing an amazing letter. I mean the stakes are really high for him, and I want it to be something amazing and powerful, like Gettysburg address powerful or "I have a dream" powerful. So, I'm thinking I'll look a couple of those up online and just pop the name "Luke" in there and be I’ll done with it.
"I have a dream" - famous speech by Martin Luthor King
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7-12 - To Whom It May Concern
SOOKIE: Yeah, Jackson loves to ski, and I love to dress up in those cozy clothes, the furry boots, and curl up with a Sue Grafton mystery. I got 'R is for 'Ricochet' and 'S is for 'Silence.' If the ski conditions are good, I can get a good eight hours of Kinsey Millhone in. Yeah, we were so excited.
Sue Grafton - a contemporary American author of detective novels.
PARIS: Hannah Freeman is applying for a Fulbright to study space travel in Luneberg, Germany. Do you think she's ever traveled to space? Besides, the
writing sample is a poem -- takes 20 minutes to write, two if it's haiku.
Fulbright - a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars, educators, graduate students and professionals.
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7-13 I'd Rather Be In Philadelphia
LORELAI: Maybe it’s a chicken sandwich, oh no it’s Quiche.
EMILY: That a Quiche?
LORELAI: Quiche.
EMILY: That blobby white thing is suppose to be Quiche Lorraine.?
LORELAI: Doesn’t say it’s Quiche Lorraine, maybe it’s Quiche blobby white thing.
Quiche Lorraine - a quiche from the Lorraine region of France.
RORY: I have no idea. So then I grabbed a skirt, but then that opened up the whole stockings, pantyhose, "going through my grandma's underwear drawer" can of worms. And each outfit needs a different top and a pair of shoes. Do you want to know who rivals Imelda Marcos?
LOGAN: Emily Gilmore?
Imelda Marcos - widow of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines. She is probably best known around the world due to her massive shoe collection, which contained over 2,500 pairs of shoes
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7-14 Farewell, My Pet
RORY: Oh he's really good. They're gonna keep him for another night, then he should be able to go home.
PARIS: It was a myocardial infarction?
RORY: Yeah, a heart attack.
PARIS: Is he going on beta blockers?
Myocardial infarction - commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart is interrupted causing some heart cells to die.
Beta blockers - a class of drugs used for the management of cardiac arrhythmias, cardioprotection after myocardial infarction (heart attack), and hypertension.
LORELAI: Honey, look, don't be mad at your dad, okay? It's a complicated situation.
RORY: Mom, stop it. I'm not Switzerland.
I'm not Switzerland - Neutral country during WW2
RORY: So, talk to me. How are you feeling?
LORELAI: Oh, good. Fine. Medium. You know, rare -- medium rare. Rare. More like sashimi.
Sashimi - a Japanese delicacy primarily consisting of very fresh raw seafood.
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7-15 I'm A Kayak, Hear Me Roar
AURORA: [quietly] May I take your coats?
LORELAI: Oh. Okay. [Chuckles] Thank you.
AURORA: Um...I t-- I think she’s in the living room. I'm not sure. Uh...
LORELAI: What? Her mouth is moving. I can't hear anything. Is something wrong with my ears?
RORY: No, I don't think it’s your ears. Poor thing.
LORELAI: This house is a giant Skinner box with Chippendale chairs. Hello?
Skinner box - a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of behavior to study animal behavior. The chamber was created by B. F. Skinner.
Chippendale chairs - Furniture created by Thomas Chippendale in the mid 1700s.
LORELAI: There’s no such thing as a nonalcoholic cocktail.
EMILY: There most certainly is. It’s called a Mocktail.
LORELAI: You're serving Mocktails?
EMILY: Yes. I can offer you a Shirley Temple or Roy Rogers.
Shirley Temple - a non-alcoholic mixed drink made with ginger ale or Sprite/7 Up, grenadine syrup and orange juice, garnished with a maraschino cherry and a slice of lemon.
Roy Rogers - a non-alcoholic mixed drink made with cola (such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, or R.C. Cola) and grenadine syrup, garnished with a maraschino cherry.
RORY: It sounds like Grandma’s going full steam ahead with this whole party-planning thing.
LORELAI: I know!
RORY: She’s going to kill 400 Cornish game hens – probably with her own bare hands.
Cornish game hens - a young chicken sold whole. Despite the name, it is not a game bird, but actually a typical chicken that is slaughtered at a young age and therefore is smaller in size.
LOGAN: Are you sure, it will probably be lame, for all I know, he’s invited us to crash a meeting with Rupert Murdoch.
RORY: Well that’s cool. I can hang with mad dog Murdoch.
Rupert Murdoch - an Australian-born global media mogul.
MITCHUM: Exactly. So, Rory, tell me -- are you still planning to pursue journalism?
RORY: Yes I am, I have been writing some articles for an online magazine and I've just applied for the James Reston reporting fellowship.
James Reston - an American journalist whose career spanned the mid 1930s to the early 1990s. Associated for many years with The New York Times, he became perhaps the most powerful, influential, and widely-read journalist of his era.
LOGAN: It’s a giant, furry -- what the hell?
RORY: It’s a Russian Ushanka, which also doubles as a birthday crown.
Ushanka - a Russian fur cap with ear flaps that can be tied up to the crown of the cap, or tied at the chin to protect the ears from the cold.
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7-16 Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?
LORELAI: Why do you throw out the first pancake?
RORY: Well the griddle's too hot. It gets burned.
LORELAI: Oh, my god. Next year, no excuses. We are making you that audition tape for "Top Chef."
Top Chef - TV cooking show
LANE: I can't believe I'm on bed rest. This sucks.
LORELAI: Oh, come on, haven't you ever had one of those lazy Sundays where you stay in bed all day? Just think of this as one long lazy Sunday.
ZACH: Yeah, Baby, plus you get to eat all your meals on trays, that’s pretty cool. And I'm gonna hang out with you, just like John and Yoko.
John and Yoko - John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent their honeymoon at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel for a week between March 25 and 31, inviting the world's press into their hotel room every day while they were in bed—in John's words "like Angels"—talking about peace with signs over their bed reading "Hair Peace" and "Bed Peace".
LUKE: It’s not a turn of events Kirk. I just want to sell my boat.
KIRK: But you’ve always been really attached to this boat. Hell I thought you’d take it to your grave with you, maybe you’d row yourself across the River Styx.
River Styx - In Greek mythology, the River Styx was a river which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld (Hades).
LANE: You didn't hear about the fight? Me and my mom, classic Kim family grudge fest? If not for your mom, we might have gone the way of Pretty Girls Make Graves. They were so young and had so many killer albums left in them.
RORY: So my mom brokered peace?
Pretty Girls Make Graves - an art punk band formed in Seattle in 2001
LORELAI: Oh, you bought Luke's boat?
KIRK: Yeah, she needs a little more work before she's seaworthy, but as soon as she is, I'll take you out. You can be Ginger to Lulu's Mary Ann. Let's lock down dates now. When are you free?
Ginger and Mary Ann - two of the castaways on "GIlligan's Island"
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7-17 Gilmore Girls Only
RORY: Are you with Grandma?
LORELAI: Yes, it's our Thursday computer lesson. And it's no "Tuesdays with Morrie."
"Tuesdays with Morrie" - a 1997 biographical novel by American writer Mitch Albom. It tells the true story of sociologist Morrie Schwartz and his relationship with his students
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7-18 Hay Bale Maze
RORY: Okay, I need to pick out a coat. A trench coat would be too "All The President’s Men," but my blue coat would be too "His Girl Friday." What about this? Is it too "That Girl"?
LOGAN: You can never be too "That Girl."
"All the President's Men" - a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists investigating the firstWatergate break-in and ensuing scandal for The Washington Post. A film adaptation starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively, was released in 1976.
"His Girl Friday" - a 1940 screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and is noted for the rapid-fire pace of its dialogue
"That Girl" - an American television situation comedy that ran on ABC from 1966 to 1971. It starred Marlo Thomas as the title character, Ann Marie, an aspiring (but only sporadically employed) actress, who had moved from her hometown to make it big in New York City.
LUKE: Wow. What'd you do, raid the New Mexico state library?
APRIL: I know, I know I just couldn't anticipate what I'd be in the mood for. Would I feel like reading Melville or McInerney? Or would I be in more of a Native-American, interconnected short-narratives mood, in which case, I'd go for the Louise Erdrich and some "love medicine."
Melville - Herman Melville, an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His novel, Moby-Dick won recognition in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.
McInerney - John McInerney, an American writer. His novels include Bright Lights, Big City; Ransom; Story of My Life: Brightness Falls; and The Last of the Savages.
Louise Erdich - a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books. She is an enrolled member of the Anishinaabe nation (also known as Ojibwa and Chippewa)
RORY: Okay, here we are! This is the entryway, or the foyer, if you're feeling fancy or French.
LOGAN: Wow.
RORY: You can just leave that stuff here. What do you mean "wow"? When you walk into your parents' foyer, there is a genuine-article Magritte right there and a chandelier the size of a Volkswagen. Now, that is a foyer with a capital "F."
Magritte - René François Ghislain Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images.
LOGAN: We're making paella.
LORELAI: Paella? Who can even spell paella, let alone make it? That smells good.
Paella - A rice dish which can contain seafood, meat, vegetables, and sometimes beans.
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7-19 It's Just Like Riding A Bike
[Cell phone rings]
LORELAI: Oh. Excuse me.
LUKE: Yeah okay.
LORELAI: Be right back. [On the phone] Yeah, you know how Jack Bauer should torture terrorists? Make them go car shopping with their exes.
Jack Bauer - the protagonist and anti-hero of the American television series "24," in which he has trained and worked in various capacities as a government agent, including US Army Delta Force.
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7-20 Lorelai, Lorelai
RICHARD: Not only did he give me a clean bill of health, but Dr. Swinton said he actually thinks I'm in better shape than I was before the heart attack.
LORELAI: Well you do look great, Dad. Very Lance Armstrong. What do you think, Hon?
Lance Armstrong - an American professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record-breaking seven consecutive years, from 1999 to 2005.
LUKE: What's wrong with a boat trip?
LORELAI: Well I mean for starters, you're on a boat.
LUKE: So?
LORELAI: So! Anything could go wrong. You're on a boat in the water in the middle of nowhere. Haven't you seen "Dead Calm," "Open Water," "Das Boot"?
"Dead Calm" - movie about a honeymoon couple who rescues a young man from a sinking boat who claims to have lost his companions to food poisoning, but he ends up terrorizing them.
"Open Water" - 2004 movie about an American couple who were accidentally left behind because the dive-boat crew failed to take an accurate
headcount.
"Das Boot" - a 1981 movie about a German U-boat (submarine) during WW2.
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7-21 Unto The Breach
DOYLE: You've got skills, Baby.
PARIS: I know. Think of how useful I'll be when we're in India. Oh remind me -- we have to pack Advil. If I get a headache over there, I'm not about to get some Ayurvedic massage.
Ayurvedic massage - a natural health care system originating in India that incorporates massage, yoga, meditation and herbal remedies.
RORY: Hey. You are not gonna believe it!
LORELAI: Believe what?
RORY: Milan Kundera is speaking at our graduation.
Milan Kundera - a Czech and French writer best known as the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
MISS PATTY: And what exactly is "Kirk-in-a-box"?
KIRK: I will be suspended 20 feet above the street in a clear Lucite box with no food or water.
LORELAI: Like David Blaine.
David Blaine - an American magician and endurance artist. He is best known for his high-profile feats of endurance, and has made his name as
a performer of street and close-up magic
EMILY: Can I have my program back, then? As my friend Sylvia Rosenblat is saying, I'm "Shavitzing."
LORELAI: Shvitzing, Mom. Shvitzing. Never mind.
Shvitzing - Taking a steam bath.
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7-22 Bon Voyage
LORELAI: I'm telling you, it's her.
RORY: Trust me, it's not.
LORELAI: It is.
RORY: Why would Christiane Amanpour be hanging out at the Dragonfly?
Christiane Amanpour -- Multi-Emmy-winning reporter for CNN and Rory's idol
LORELAI: Remember last year when Miss Patty hurt her back during rehearsal for Spring Fling?
RORY: Oh yeah she should have never demonstrated the Jetés for the little daffodils.
Jetés - In ballet, a jump from one foot to the other (like a leap), in which one leg appears to be "thrown" in the direction of the movement (front, back or sideways).