Cute Dean:I figured I'd just stay out of everyone's way. That that would be easiest. But now, I'm lookin' atchoo and I'm thinkin', 'I'm gonna run from him? The Glad Man?
Sigh...this was the episode in which Cute Dean had the most lines he's ever had. As I think about this, on the one hand I am happy that Cute Dean had so many lines, on the other hand I'm mortified that the lines written for him were so bad.
Then again, what more could I expect from an episode with not one but four Thanksgiving dinners and not a whole else going on, not even eating. Sure there were highlights and there were setups for what I'm guessing will be conflict in future episodes, but overall not as satisfying as one would expect from four turkey dinners...only the intense drowsiness that occurs after the consumption of large amounts of turkey.
This week on the Gilmore Girls: Lorelai and Rory accept invitations to four separate dinners, MamaLane's, Luke's, Sookie's and Emily & Richard's. Before attending the dinners they stop to buy flowers and chocolate for each of their hosts. Rory asks to get the flowers so that she won't have to go into the grocery store to get the chocolate and more importantly run into Cute Dean. I, on the other hand, would love to run into Cute Dean...but I digress.
Lorelai goes to the supermarket and runs into Cute Dean. Cute Dean is nervous but Lorelai assures him that just because he and Rory are broke up does not mean that he and Lorelai have to break up. Cute Dean seems relieved to hear this and Lorelai gives him a big smile.
The Gilmores head to MamaLane's house where "Tofurkey" is being served and Dave Rygalski is playing guitar. As the Gilmores marvel at this development Lane quickly explains how she fabricated an advertisement and posted in the church, then pretended to find it and showed it to her mother. MamaLane agreed to hire the "pious" Dave to play guitar during the meal. Lane is happy that Dave is there but also frightened that her mother will scare off Dave. She hopes that her mother will like Dave and then when Lane starts dating him, her mother won't be as opposed. Sounds pretty good in theory. Rory and Lorelai help themselves to some tofurkey and lots of napkins. Sampling of the tofurkey is not shown – but Lorelai confirms that MamaLane watched her like a hawk until every bit of tofurkey was ingested.
The next dinner takes place at Luke's diner. The girls sit at a table with Luke and Jess. Rory and Jess have an awkward kiss. Some eating occurs, Lorelai has some yams and then Lorelai asks for more marshmallows. Luke and Jess then leave the table to get coffee and marshmellows. Lorelai comments on the lame kiss and Rory says that she doesn't know how this "second boyfriend thing" is supposed to work. Lorelai counsels her on the situation and tells her not to worry because she will have hundreds of boyfriends. Rory says she feels like everyone is watching her, Lorelai assures her they are not and then Sally Struthers shatters Rory's brief sense of security by telling her that the kiss was lame.
On to the next dinner, Sookie's place where Jackson has decided to deep-fry the turkey. Sookie is pretty upset and Lorelai and Rory suggest she drink more beer to help ease the pain of the frying fiasco. Rory and Lorelai don't seem to eat anything, but perhaps this happens offscreen during the commercial. If not then the girls are cheating with that whole "we had to eat four thanksgiving dinners" thing...cause I'm only counting two out of three.
Finally, the greatest indigestion for Lorelai is saved for last - dinner at Mama and Papa Gilmores...as I type this I cannot ever imagine anyone calling Emily or Richard, "Mama" and "Papa", but anyway. The Gilmores have other guests, it is a pretty formal affair and you know that Lorelai is going to have an outburst sooner or later. She counts down the minutes as they sit down to eat. There is some small talk and unfunny jokes and finally the catalyst for the outburst. Someone asks Rory if she's applied to any other colleges as back-ups. Rory says that she has, this is news to Lorelai and even bigger news when Rory admits that she has also applied to Yale. Signal outburst. Lorelai is hysterical and runs out of the dining room, her mother follows to try and calm her down. Outside, Lorelai complains about the controlling ways of her parents while her mother laments the hatred Lorelai seems to hold for her parents. At this point, it seems that earlier there may have been some consumption of lettuce at the dining table.
With the dinners over, the girls are on their way home. There is some talking about the whole Yale thing, but not much. The girls drop in at Luke's for something to eat, Luke marvels at how it is possible that the girls can still eat after four turkey dinners. The girls brag about their bottomless pit stomachs, I tally total consumption: one chunk of tofurkey, a few bites of yam, moderate inhaling of the fumes from the fried turkey and a few pieces of lettuce. I'd be hungry too! The girls grab some rolls. Rory steps outside to surprise Jess, who is taking out the trash, with another awkward kiss. More awkward and emotionless kissing, then finally, thankfully Rory leaves. This is about the time Cute Dean is shown in the background, he has witnessed the whole "kissing" thing and he looks mad. If I were Dean, I wouldn't be mad after witnessing that, I'd be laughing, I'd laugh and then I'd feel good knowing that there is no passion between Rory and Jess.
Instead, Cute Dean marches over to Jess and delivers what could probably rate as the lamest lines in history. "The Glad Man"…sigh, need I say more? I wince with pain during the entire delivery, I want to swoop in and rescue Cute Dean from this scene but I can't. The point of the scene – Dean is not going to hide from Jess and Rory, the entity.
Ok…so let's get to some highlights before I fall asleep all over again:
- Lane and David, the winners, hands down, for best scene AND best kiss.
- Paris trying to volunteer at a soup kitchen. Not spectacular, but I really enjoy watching Paris scenes. She's so Paris.
- CatKirk vs. HumanKirk, guess who loses? Sort of funny, sort of mortifying – I wondered if I should be calling the SPCA at some points.
Rating: One large helping of tryptophan.
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It's Thanksgiving, and Lorelai and Rory have dinner at four different places: the Kim's, where Lane has managed to get Dave invited and Lorelai is forced to eat tofurkey; Luke's, where Luke and Jess make it a foursome with Lorelai and Rory; Sookie's, where Jackson and his family have deep-fried the turkey, the lawn and just about everything else; and Emily and Richard's, where, to Lorelai's horror, Rory reveals that she has applied to Yale. Kirk gets a cat, with disastrous results; Dave asks Lane out, and then kisses her; Paris is afraid her difficulty getting into a shelter will impact her acceptance to Harvard; and Dean faces off with Jess and lets him know that it's no more "Mr. Nice Guy" for Mr. Forester.moreless
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Kirk Gleason (Episodes 44 - , recurring previously) |
 Keiko Agena |
Lane Kim |
 Kelly Bishop |
Emily Gilmore |
 Alexis Bledel |
Rory Gilmore |
 Lauren Graham |
Lorelai Gilmore |
 Edward Herrmann |
Richard Gilmore |
 Michael Des Barres |
Claude Clemenceau |
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April Moon |
Young Korean Relative |
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John D. Kim |
Korean Relative #9 |
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Morey Dell |
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In this episode, Lorelai compares Emily to Joseph Stalin.
It will happen again in season 5 when Lorelai gives an interview to promote the Dragonfly. She was mad at Emily then for the break up with Luke and she gets carried away when the interviewer questions her about her mother. -
When Dean confronts Jess on the street, he tells him that he has decided not to just stay quiet and hide from the Jess/Rory relationship. The reason behind his decision is that 'Stars Hollow is his town'. That is a rather bold statement, since although it is true that Dean has lived in the town longer, he only moved there with his family two years earlier. While Jess may have only lived in Stars Hollow for a year, his mother, his uncle and his grandfather were born and raised in Stars Hollow. Clearly Jess and his family have a much stronger tie to the town.
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Dave, in an attempt to impress Mrs Kim, spends the entire day (at least eight hours based on Rory and Lorelai's schedule alone) playing guitar at the Kim's family dinner. It seems a little strange that Dave, who is only seventeen, would be able to spend the entire day away from home on Thanksgiving. Wouldn't his family want him to be there to spend at least some of the holiday with them?
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In this episode, Emily insists that Lorelai and Rory alter their plans and join them for Thanksgiving dinner. She tells them that it will be the last time they are together as a family for the year because she and Richard are going away for till after Christmas. Why would they be going away? As we learned during the first season Emily and Richard have a annual Christmas party (albeit two weeks early every year) What happened to the party? It was a Gilmore family tradition!
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The program Lorelai and Rory are watching at the beginning of the episode is the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens. This documentary chronicles the eccentric lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, who are the aunt and the first cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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Why does Lorelai think it's so confusing that Kirk named his cat after himself? Lorelai named her own daughter after herself! Even though Rory isn't often called Lorelai, it could still get confusing on occasion. Additionally, Lorelai was named after her paternal grandmother and both women went by the name.
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In this episdoe, Kirk sleeps (somewhat worry-free) in the town gazebo. We find out later that he has terrors and has never been able to spend a full night with Lulu because he didn't want her to know. Why would he then be afraid of sleeping in the town gazebo where the whole town could find out about the terrors.
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Rory tells Jess that this is the first time that she and Dean broke up. This is debatable, but apparently she considers their short separation during the first season (despite the following episode's title, The Breakup, and the fact that it actually lasted for several episodes) to have been more of a "spat" than an actual, real breakup. Which also brings up the fact that if that was in fact not a breakup,then her kissing Jess at the wedding was not the first time she "cheated" on Dean. That would mean that her kiss with Tristian was also an indiscretion on her part!
Possible Explanation: Rory meant this was the first time she and Dean broke up and one of them started openly dating someone else in Stars Hollow.
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When Lorelai and Rory return to Sookie's, the cup Sookie has suddenly changes spots while she's talking to them.
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Lane: Oh Mama look Dave left his bible here, I better go take it to him.
Mrs. Kim: Wait!
Lane: But Mama I might miss him!
Mrs. Kim: Give it to me.
(Lane Hands her the Bible, she opens to the front page and reads.)
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Emily: I've called several times the past few weeks and you've skillfully avoided every call.
Lorelai: No, that's not true. I've left messages on your machine.
Emily: Yes, messages. And then if I happened to pick up, you'd hang up. Or if the maid picked up, you'd ask for me, then claim you were driving through a tunnel so you might get cut off, and then you'd make garbling noises and hang up. -
Lorelai: Hey, Sookie.
Sookie: Ah, hi there.
Lorelai: Are you okay?
Sookie:This tastes good.[Pointing to margarita]
Lorelai: Yeah, it looks like they're deep-frying –
Sookie: Everything.
Lorelai: Huh.
Sookie:Vegetables, mashed potatoes, butter, pickles, salt, a napkin.
Rory:And yet, you're very serene.
Lorelai:Uh, you're practically floating.
Sookie:Well, you caught me at a good time, ladies. I've already gone through the five stages of grieving. Denial, anger. . .I don't remember these two, but they were served on the rocks with salt! Now, I'm just happily enscotched in acceptance. Enscotched. . .
Rory: Ensconced?
Sookie: Ensconced – that's it! I do believe I heard Phil suggest throwing Junior in.
Lorelai: Junior?
Sookie: His nephew.
Lorelai: Whoa.
Sookie:I chimed in on that one.
Lorelai: What happened over there?
Sookie: Mm, about a half-hour ago they set the lawn on fire.
Lorelai: Ah.
Sookie: But Phil says it's okay and everything 'cause it'll grow back twice as lush. Though that's what he said when he broke my salad bowl that I brought back from Belgium. That'll maybe grow back, too, huh? [laughs] Phil is a riot. Am I crying or laughing?
Lorelai:Laughing.
Sookie: Good. -
Dean: What's the matter, Jess? Why you walking away?
Jess: It's getting a little West Side Story here, Dean, and I gotta warn you, my dancing skills are not up to snuff. -
(Rory's pager goes off)
Lorelai: Who's that?
Rory: It's Lane. It just says 'bible kiss bible'.
Lorelai: What does that mean?
Rory: I have no idea. Good band name, though. -
Rory: Salad's great, Grandma.
Emily: I'm surprised you can eat at this point, even salad.
Rory: There's still room.
Lorelai: And if there isn't room, we'll add on. I know a good contractor. -
Lorelai: Douglas, Richard, leave us, won't you?
Richard: What?
Emily: Just another joke.
Claude: Oh, I missed another joke?
Natalie: You have your mother's wit.
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Rory: You're taking tofurkey?
Lorelai: Uh huh, and some extra napkins to slip the tofurkey into when no one is looking and then toss them away.
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Lane: That is not Dave Rygalski.
Lorelai: Oh, intrigue.
Rory: Who is it?
Lane: I mean, not the one that I'm in a band with. That is Dave Rygalski, local Christian guitar player that my mom and I met very briefly and innocently at the dance marathon, and that I coincidentally ran across again when I found his ad seeking Christian guitar accompaniment gigs up on our church bulletin board.
Lorelai: Complicated. -
Lorelai: My arms are too short to box with Mrs. Kim.
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Rory: Please, let's not flaunt it, please?
Jess: For how long?
Rory: Until it's comfortable.
Jess: Before we're on Social Security?
Rory: I promise, we can kiss secretly.
Jess: Yeah, or we can wear Three Stooges masks all the time, that way no one will know who we are.
Rory: I can be Curly.
Jess: I'll be Moe.
Rory: Probably too silly.
Jess: Yeah, probably.
Rory: This will get better over time, I promise. But until then, let's just play it cool.
Jess: Hey, I'm Frank at the Sands.
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Luke: Don't bother, saw you coming, already ordered your Wednesday usual, the French dip, extra fries, the every Wednesday cherry pie.
Rory: Such service.
Lorelai: Oh, and such a food rut we're in.
Rory: Thank you, Luke.
Luke: I gotta get back to stuffing my turkey.
Lorelai: Oh, honey, do you have time to do that and prep your Thanksgiving food?
Luke: Stop it. -
Rory: But how are we going to go to four Thanksgiving dinners?
Lorelai: It's not four, is it?
Rory: Lane's house, Sookie's, and we always stop by Luke's. . .that's three, and Grandma and Grandpa is four.
Lorelai: Ah, we're mad, Edie.
Rory: We're us, Edie.
Lorelai: Well, we've gotta go to my parents' or we'll be brought up on war crimes. -
(Luke and Jess walk out of the diner; Jess is carrying a garbage bag)
Jess: Get more trash cans.
Luke: I don't need more.
Jess: You make me run around town for a place to dump this.
Luke: Just dump it in one of Taylor's bins. It gets it out of here and it'll drive Taylor crazy. It's a win-win. -
Claude: Merci. So, Rory, you speak French at all?
Rory: Just a tiny little bit.
Claude: Un tout petit peu?
Rory: Oui, un tout petit peu.
Claude: And you, my dear?
Lorelai: Even less. Uh, voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir? That's about it.
Richard: Lorelai.
Emily: Oh my God. -
Rory: Hey. (hands Luke a bouquet of flowers)
Luke: What's this?
Rory: Flowers.
Luke: What do I do with them?
Lorelai: Ugh, not this again.
Rory: Put them in a vase with water.
Luke: I don't have a vase.
Lorelai: You do this every year.
Luke: I don't have vases.
Lorelai: Buy a vase.
Luke: But I don't need a vase 'cause I never have flowers.
Lorelai: Except when we bring you flowers every year on Thanksgiving. Buy a vase.
Luke: Stop bringing me flowers.
Lorelai: Stop bringing me flowers. I knew you were gonna say that because you say the same thing. We have this same exact conversation every year.
Luke: And every year you point that out.
Lorelai: And every year you point that out.
Luke: And every year you point that out.
Rory: And then every year we put the flowers on the counter and forget the ugliness ever happened.
Lorelai: Well, at least we have a tradition.
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Lorelai: Hi hon!
Rory: Happy Thanksgiving.
Sookie: Ah, thank you. Thank God, civilization has arrived. -
Lorelai: So, let's go eat.
Rory: And eat and eat.
Lorelai: And eat and eat and eat.
Rory: And eat and eat and eat and eat. . .
Lorelai: And eat and eat and eat and eat. . .
Rory: And eat some more.
Lorelai: And eat and eat. -
(Emily walks in and stands behind Lorelail)
Sookie: Emily, hi.
Lorelai: Oh, that's nice. That's very high school. Stick with me here.
Sookie: Good to see you.
Lorelai: Yeah, ah, that's funny. You know who's behind you? It's Joseph Stalin, my good friend. What are you doing back from the dead, Joe?
Emily: Lorelai.
Lorelai: Oh, Mom! Ah, geez, you scared me.
Emily: You heard Sookie greet me.
Lorelai: Oh, I thought it was a joke.
Emily: Like comparing me to Joseph Stalin? -
Lorelai: Hey Kirk. Oh, my God!
Rory: What happened?
Kirk: I'm scratched over 60% of my body.
Lorelai: Cat Kirk again?
(Lorelai reaches for Kirk's bandaged face)
Kirk: Ow!
Lorelai: Sorry.
Babette: I'm so mad at that cat.
Morey: Very uncool cat.
Babette:I love cats, but I love Kirk, too. It's pretty much 50-50 and that's a high compliment, my friend.
Lorelai: How did this happen?
Kirk: Well, the tension of our standoff was unbearable so I got on the floor and tried to play with him.
Lorelai: Him?
Kirk: I caught a peek.
Lorelai: Go on
Kirk: I rolled this cute little ball of yarn over to him, all nice and gentle. He tried to garrote me with it.
Lorelai: Oh, my God.
Morey: Very uncool.
Kirk: Just grabbed two ends with his paws and came at me.
Rory: He doesn't have opposable thumbs.
Kirk: He's beyond them. He's smart. He knows things. Sometimes before they happen.
Lorelai: Get a hold of yourself.
Kirk: You haven't heard the worst.
Rory: There's worse?
Kirk: When the attacks got brutal, I had no choice but to strip naked and hide underwater in the bathtub. I read that cats are afraid of water.
Babette: They are!
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Luke: Shouldn't we say thanks first?
Jess: For what?
Luke: Well, that we're not Native Americans who got their land stolen in exchange for small pox infested blankets.
Lorelai: Amen. -
Rory: I don't know how this second-boyfriend thing is supposed to go.
Lorelai: Well, he's your first second boyfriend. Give it time. -
Lorelai: So no offense but whats with that lame-o kiss?
Rory: What?
Lorelai: You and Jess, you look like a couple of chickens pecking each other.
Rory: Mind your own business.
Lorelai: Well it was right in front of me.
Rory: So, I don't need a review.
Lorelai: Sorry.
Rory: I'm just not good with the whole public display thing.
Lorelai: You didn't seem to have any problem with it with Dean.
Rory: I just feel like everyone's watching me.
Lorelai: No one was watching you.
Rory: You were watching me.
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Rory: How do you feel?
Lorelai: I ate tofurkey! How do you think I feel?
Rory: Tofurkier?
Lorelai: Drat that Mrs. Kim for not taking her eyes off me the whole time. It's like she was anticipating my napkin maneuver. -
Lorelai: So Mrs Kim, we brought you some gifts.
Rory: Flowers.
Lorelai: And cranberry sauce, our little Thanksgiving tradition.
Mrs. Kim: Thank you, you can never have too much.
Rory: That's what we say.
Lorelai: Plus a chocolate turkey.
Mrs. Kim: What should I do with this?
Lorelai: Oh I don't know, let the kids share it?
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Lorelai: Kirk! He got your neck.
Kirk: That was another mistake of mine. I put his food bowl down in front of him. He doesn't like that or she doesn't.
Lorelai: She? I thought it was a boy.
Kirk: That was just a guess. He actually hasn't exposed his underside to me yet. Or hers.
Lorelai: Wow, here's hoping your cat exposes itself to you soon.
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Lorelai: So how did it happen? You were playing or something?
Kirk: We haven't actually played yet. This happened when I accidentally walked into the room without announcing myself.
Lorelai: Excuse me?
Kirk: I discovered Kirk likes my presence announced before I enter any room that he's in.
Lorelai: You have to announce yourself?
Kirk: Yeah, just a quick, "Is it okay?" if I come in from an adjacent room. Otherwise, he gets a little testy.
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Lorelai: Rory what are we if not the world's champion eaters?
Rory: It's too much food.
Lorelai: It's not too much food. This is what we've been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.
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Lorelai: We disappointed Luke.
Rory: I didn't think it was possible.
Lorelai: Our powers are greater then we thought.
Rory: He actually likes it when we come for Thanksgiving. All these years and we never knew.
Lorelai: Hmm. He's the grinch and we're Cindy Lou Who.
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Lorelai: Kirk.
Kirk: yes.
Lorelai: No I mean the cat's name is Kirk?
Kirk: Yup.
Lorelai: Weird coincidence or....
Kirk: I named him Kirk.
Lorelai: Isn't that confusing?
Kirk: Not when you think about it.
Lorelai: (Pauses to think) No, It's still confusing.
Kirk: I like the name. Whenever I call Kirk's name I obviously won't be calling myself.
Lorelai: True.
Kirk: Although when my mom calls for Kirk that may be confusing. Maybe I can get her to say 'Cat Kirk' when she's calling Kirk and 'Human Kirk' when she calls me.
Rory: That would keep it straight.
Kirk: I'm glad I ran into you. See you.
Lorelai: See you 'Human Kirk'.
Rory: Bye 'Human Kirk'. -
Paris: My Thanksgiving is turning into a Wes Craven movie.
Rory: How so?
Paris: I called shelters to volunteer to serve food. It's Thanksgiving. You'd think they'd have needs. Nope, every stupid soup kitchen in town turned me down because they have enough volunteers.
Madeline: Bummer
Paris: I'm on a couple of waiting lists but it doesn't look good.
Rory: I've never heard of too many volunteers.
Paris: Who are all these jackasses who volunteered anyway? They can't all be students like me. They're not all putting it on a college application. I get something out of it and these other people don't get a thing. Talk about selfish! -
Lorelai: Oh, please, we're not eating for a year.
Rory: Or 'til tomorrow morning.
Lorelai: Whichever comes first. -
Emily: It's freezing out here.
Lorelai: It's Jamaica compared to in there. -
Emily: Please, start on the salads everyone.
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Lorelai: (to Rory about dinner with Emily and Richard) Oh no, I'm fine, you know why? Because in two hours – and I do plan on extricating us from here in exactly two hours – the night will be over and I won't have to see them again until next year. Oh, start your stopwatch.
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Rory: What is the oil for?
Lorelai: For pouring on Visigoths.
Sookie: Lorelai!
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Lorelai: Hey. Anywhere?
Luke: Anywhere.
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Sookie: Just a sec, hon. How's your love life, Pete? A little frustrated, I bet. Wondering how I know that? 'Cause you're taking it out on my egg whites. Gently, fold them gently. Cheryl – you're slicing not dicing, I can hear it in the chop. Adjust, my friend.
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Mrs. Kim: Watch it. You break it, you buy it. Ten percent off for cousins, twenty percent off for nephews and nieces.
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German episode title: "Stress hoch vier", meaning "Stress to the Fourth Power".
French episode title: "Y'a De La Friture", meaning "Frying Is In The Air".
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Michael Des Barres, who played the Gilmores' dinner guest Claude Clemenceau, made his debut in the 1967 film To Sir, With Love, in which fellow dinner guest Judy Geeson (playing Natalie Swope) also appeared.
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John Aniston (Jennifer Aniston's father) has a guest spot in this episode.
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Music:
"Man Who Sold the World" by David Bowie
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Lorelai: Even less. Uh, voulez vous couchez avec moi ce soir? That's about it.
The phrase was popularized in the '70's in a song by the group LaBelle, featuring Patti LaBelle, et al. It was once again brought to popularity in the 2001 with the remake of Lady Marmalade by Lil Kim, Christina Aguilera and company. This is French for "Would you like to lay with me tonight?". Given the context,as well as the environment she was in, it's so out of place as to be hilarious.
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Lorelai: Free Bird!
"Free Bird" is a song by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd, and is shouted as a request by audience members at nearly all concerts.
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Lorelai: Hmm. He's the grinch and we're Cindy Lou Who.
Rory: So, Cindy Lou, what do we do?Reference to Cindy Lou and the Grinch in Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
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Paris: (about Madeline and Louise) My life with The Banger Sisters.
Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon portrayed former rock groupies in the movie The Banger Sisters.
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Louise: We have it for about two hours, then one of the Manson girls gets it.
Reference to the followers of Charlie Manson, who committed the high profile Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, putting fear into the hearts of the hoi-polloi everywhere.
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Paris: My Thanksgiving is turning into a Wes Craven movie.
Wes Craven is a director of horror movies such as A Nightmare on Elm Street.
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Lorelai: Wow, it's like Thunderdome in here.
Reference to the Mel Gibson movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
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Lorelai: We're not Michelle Kwan-ing this!
Michelle Kwan is an American figure skater who is said to be one of the most decorated female athletes in the sport. She was expected to win the gold in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics, but she failed both times, winning the silver in 1998 and the bronze in 2002. Furthermore, 3 years after this episode aired, Kwan was chosen to attend the 2006 Olympics (her final chance at gold), but she had to withdraw at the very last minute due to an injury.
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Lorelai: My arm's too short to box with Mrs. Kim.
A play on words. Refers to the gospel musical play Your Arm's Too Short To Box With God.
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Jess: I'm Frank at the Sands.
Refers to Frank Sinatra at the Sands Casino in Las Vegas. Frank Sinatra and the rest of the Rat Pack - Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop were the epitome of cool.
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Dave: But I've got these Kurt Cobain calluses, now how cool is that.
Dave is referring to the lead singer of Nirvana, who committed suicide in 1994.
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Lorelai: Big Edie and Little Edie.
In the opening sequence, Lorelai and Rory are watching Grey Gardens, the classic 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles about Edie Bouvier Beale and her daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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11/14/1226
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Logan's Proposal
10/25/1216
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favorite couple
10/22/12123
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Bon Voyage
S 7 : Ep 22
Aired 5/15/07 (43:27)
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Unto The Breach
S 7 : Ep 21
Aired 5/8/07 (39:52)
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Lorelai? Lorelai?
S 7 : Ep 20
Aired 5/1/07 (40:50)
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It's Just Like Riding a Bike
S 7 : Ep 19
Aired 4/24/07 (40:26)
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Those Are Strings, Pino...
Ep 21
Here Comes the Son
Ep 20
Say Goodnight, Gracie
Ep 19
Keg! Max!
Ep 18
Happy Birthday, Baby
Ep 17
A Tale of Poes and Fire
Ep 16
The Big One
Ep 15
Face-Off
Ep 14
Swan Song
Ep 13
Dear Emily and Richard
Ep 12
Lorelai Out of Water
Ep 11
I Solemnly Swear
Ep 10
That'll Do, Pig
Ep 9
A Deep-Fried Korean Tha...
Ep 8
Let the Games Begin
Ep 7
They Shoot Gilmores, Do...
Ep 6
Take the Deviled Eggs...
Ep 5
Eight O'Clock at the Oasis
Ep 4
One's Got Class and the...
Ep 3
Application Anxiety
Ep 2
Haunted Leg
Ep 1
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days
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