In a deleted scene with Rory and Lane, we learn that Lane's boyfriend, Dave, has gone to college in California. This is a play off of the fact that Adam Brody, the actor who plays Dave, left Gilmore Girls for The O.C., which takes place in California.
At Friday night dinner, Richard asks Rory about their visit with the Gundersons in Zurich and the Egleholms in Denmark during their European trip. It's surprising that he didn't inquire about Hopie, Emily's sister in Paris.
So far, only Luke has shown feelings for Lorelai. This is the first time Lorelai's reaction to Luke's wedding/divorce shows that she's not indifferent to him. It will be confirmed later in the season (episode 11) when she's very upset about him moving in with Nicole and she tells Luke that she doesn't want him to move out.
Jackson says he wants to pace in the waiting room of the hospital, not be in the delivery room, when Sookie goes into labor. Sookie ends up having a home birth, so Jackson is there.
When the girls got home all they had were their backpacks. How could they have fit all the gifts they brought back plus all of their own stuff in their backpacks? Especially if they had to carry their backpacks around town to deliver their gifts because they had so many.
Why did Taylor postpone the opening of the Soda Shoppe three months? It was originally supposed to open on the day of Fran's Funeral in the last season.
When Lorelai and Rory want to distribute the souvenirs that they brought from Europe, Lorelai is surprised to find out that they don't have tote bags to carry the souvenirs around in. In the Autumn Festival episode of the first season, there is a shot into Rory's room and there are two tote bags hanging on the walls.
Lorelai and Rory start this year off on good terms. This is the last time they begin the season on a good note with each other until Season 7's "The Long Morrow."
Taylor mentions many charity events that Rory has been involved with over the years. It makes her freak-out, in season 3's "Application Anxiety", over not having taken part in enough out-of-school activities surprising.
Taylor: You don't have to yell, Luke! Luke: You put a giant window in my wall! Taylor: So what? Luke: A giant window! Right here! You can see my entire diner. And when I'm in my diner, I can see your whole stupid store. Taylor: I don't understand how yours is a diner and mine is a stupid store. Luke: Look at this place! Look at you. All you need is six dancing penguins and Mary Poppins floating in the corner to bring back the two worst hours of my childhood! Taylor: I don't believe you had a childhood. I believe you came out a bitter, surly killjoy! Luke: You can't change the basic structure of this place without my okay! (Taylor's staring at Luke's arms) What? Taylor: Your hand's near the wax lips. Luke: So? Taylor: If you could move it just so you don't accidentally touch the candy. (Luke raises his hand dramatically) Taylor: (Threateningly) Lucas. (Luke puts his hands in all the candy bins) What do you think you're doing? Stop that right now! Luke: (Throwing candy in the air) Look at the all pretty candy!
Lorelei: Now if Sophia could just die during a fox trot that would be perfect.
Lorelai: Oh man. Smell this. Rory: What? Lorelai: I forgot that pillows don't have to smell like feet.
Lorelai: My parents will outlive us Rory, the damned can do that.
Luke: I mean, you're on this boat in the middle of nowhere and everything's moving and you feel weird all the time. There's this endless supply of food and drink. Uh, midnight buffets, by the way, are the reason the rest of the world hates us.
Taylor: Oh, don't be. It's my own fault. I should have figured that once you got into Yale everything would be different. Rory: That's not fair. Taylor: No, I understand. You're no longer our little Stars Hollow Rory Gilmore. You belong to the Ivy Leagues right now. It's time to cut those small town ties and go off and do something important like go to drama school or have one of those high-class naked parties with that Bush girl.
Lorelai: The trip was incredible, we had the best time. We were supposed to come back on Saturday. Luke: I know. Lorelai: Keeping tabs on me? Luke: Always safer to know which direction the tornado's coming from.
Lorelai: (about Sookie's baby) So, are you gonna name him Lorelai? Sookie: Absolutely. That wouldn't be confusing at all.
Rory: Hey, who are the rosary beads for? Lorelai: They're mine. Rory: What do you need rosary beads for? Lorelai: They're cute. Rory: They're for prayer. Lorelai: Well, pray they match my blue suit? Rory: They have just upgraded you to a queen-size bed, Jacuzzi tub, junior suite in hell.
Rory: Mom touched the Pope. Babette: You're kidding! Lorelai: Actually, I just touched his car. Then one of the Swiss guards in the fruity cool clothing busted me. Rory: Luckily, Mom's fluent in flirting. Lorelai: And flirting with a guy in a pompom hat and a skirt is quite an accomplishment.
Lorelai: Oh, you gave her an itinerary and she called every consulate in the world. Rory: If we were caught smuggling hash over the border and we were thrown in some Turkish prison, wouldn't you want someone to know that we were in Turkey? Lorelai: Where'd we get this hash we were smuggling? Rory: You were at a café, you met a guy, he was sweet-talking you, he put the stuff in your purse when you weren't looking. Lorelai: At least tell me he was cute. Rory: He was not bad for a hash dealer. Lorelai: Hmm. (They walk into the house) Babette: (calling from the kitchen) I'm making cocoa! Lorelai: She's making cocoa 'cause you gave her an itinerary. Rory: I may have given her the itinerary, but you're the one who got us busted for drug smuggling. Lorelai: Reality has absolutely no place in our world.
Lorelai: Every sad story needs nuns.
Rory: (to clothes) I had a dream while I was in Copenhagen and you were there! And you, and you, and you! Lorelai: I'll leave you alone to makeout with your sock drawer now. Rory: Close the door on you way out. (Lorelai closes door) Rory: (opens drawer) Hello boys.
Lorelai: Oh my God, you proposed? Luke: Yes, I proposed. Lorelai: This is big. This is huge. Luke: There's more. Lorelai: There's more? Okay, well, what? Did she say yes? Luke: Yes. Lorelai: She said yes. You proposed and she said yes. Wow, I - Luke: There's more. Lorelai: And there's more after you proposed and she said yes? What, you - Luke: We got married. Lorelai: You got married? How could you get married? Luke: We asked the captain and he married us. Lorelai: And that's legal? Luke: Apparently. Lorelai: So you're married? You're legally married? This is just - Luke: Actually, there's a little more. Lorelai: And she's pregnant. Oh my God, you finally reproduced. Luke: We're getting divorced.
Jackson: Ricky Ricardo didn't know, Dick Van Dyke didn't know, and, by gum, if it's good enough for Rick and Dick, it's good enough for me!
Music "When You Tell Me That You Love Me" by Diana Ross "The Girl From Ipanema" by Fantastic Strings "That's a Plenty" by Hisao Sudou & New Downbeats Orchestra "Tell Her What She Wants To Know" by Sam Phillips
German episode title: "Überraschung!", meaning "Surprise!". French episode title: "Retour Au Bercail", meaning "Back Home".
Keiko Agena (Lane), Yanic Truesdale (Michel), and Liza Weil (Paris) do not appear in this episode.
When this episode aired on ABC family, they beep out the word "pissed" when Lorelai's talking to Rory ("Paris was pissed!").
Lorelai: I'm so wiped. I shouldn't have taken that third Excedrin PM last night.
Rory: Third? Why'd you take three?
Lorelai: Oh, well, uh, originally I took two, then somewhere around four in the morning, I woke up and had a major Marilyn moment.
A 'major Marilyn moment' refers Marilyn Monroe whose death was ruled an accidental overdose.
Sookie: Oh, was it warm? I read it was warm.
Sookie is referring to the heat wave that hit Europe in 2003. The temperature reached an average of 45 degrees for several weeks that summer, causing the death of thousands of people, especially the elderly.
Rory: If we were caught smuggling hash over the border and we were thrown in some Turkish prison, wouldn't you want someone to know that we were in Turkey? Lorelai: Where'd we get this hash we were smuggling? Rory: You were at a café, you met a guy, he was sweet-talking you, he put the stuff in your purse when you weren't looking. I believe this quote actually references the movie Midnight Express which is a 1978 film in which Brad Davis plays Billy Hayes who was caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Since the appeals procedures looked bleak, his family and his American lawyers encouraged him to escape. After a violent exchange with a guard, he fled and made his way back to the U.S. It was inspired by a true story.
Rory: If we were caught smuggling hash over the border and we were thrown in some Turkish prison, wouldn't you want someone to know that we were in Turkey? Lorelai: Where'd we get this hash we were smuggling? Rory: You were at a café, you met a guy, he was sweet-talking you, he put the stuff in your purse when you weren't looking. This sounds strangely familiar to the Movie Brokedown Palace starring Claire Danes. Two friends, arrested for smuggling drugs, planted by a charming man.
Rory: (rejoicing in her reunion with her wardrobe) I had a dream about you in Copenhagen. You were there and you, and you and you! This dialogue alludes to the scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy awakens and greets her old friends and is glad to be home.
Rory: (to Jackson as they pretend it's the 1950s) Hear about that whole Sputnik thing? In 1957 the Russian launched Sputnik, the first man made satellite to orbit the earth.
Lorelai: Mom, she's been here for hours. Patty Hearst had a shorter incarceration Reference to Patricia Hearst, heir to the Hearst fortune, who was kidnapped in the '70s by the SLA and aided them in a bank robbery
Babette: I thought you'd been kidnapped by some crazy Sandinistas or something. The Sandinistas were a leftist political organization that ruled Nicaragua for 12 years.
Rory: This is Iran in '79 and you are Jimmy Carter. Reference to when 100 people were held hostage in Iran during Jimmy Carter's presidency and he was unsuccessful in his attempt to negotiate the hostages' release.
Rory: I don't wanna change. I don't wanna be the anti-town girl. I'm not Daria. Daria is a highly intelligent and cynical teenage girl character in the animated TV show Daria who is known for her deadpan and monotone one-liners.
Taylor: Or have one of those high class naked parties with that Bush girl. Taylor is making reference to President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara, a student at Yale, and famous for her partying and wild antics.
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