Gilmore Girls Season 7 Episode 15

Mitchum: You know what you should read? Philip Meyer's latest book…
Rory: "The Vanishing Newspaper." I read it. I loved it.

In The Vanishing Newspaper, Philip Meyer offers the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. This "influence model," as it is termed by Meyer, is based on the premise that a newspaper's main product is not news or information, but influence: societal influence, which is not for sale, and commercial influence, which is. Meyer's model explores how the former enhances the value of the latter.

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 is an Australian global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York City in the United States. Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded into British and American media, and in recent years has become a powerful force in satellite television, the film industry, the Internet, and other forms of media.

Babette: Yeah, but you know the rooster. It's like looking at Stonehenge. I don't know what he thinks.

Stonehenge is a Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monument located near Amesbury in the English county of Wiltshire, about 8 miles north of Salisbury. It is composed of earthworks surrounding a circular setting of large standing stones and is one of the most famous prehistoric sites in the world

Lorelai: It is ridiculous. Golf is more like "Richard III." You know they're all hunched over.

Richard III was King of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses and the end of the Plantagenet dynasty. William Shakespeare's play "Richard III" has made his name particularly infamous. Richard III is often portrayed with a hunchback.

Richard: Well, that never stopped people going to see "Hamlet."

"Hamlet" is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and is one of his best-known and most-quoted plays. Evidence suggests that it was complete and being performed by 1600, but had some topical references added (which still survive) the following year.

Richard: Please. I know I've missed Jacklin's bogey on the 16th. I'm not missing his putt on the 17th. That's a famous putt, Emily.

Tony Jacklin is an English golfer, who was arguably the most successful UK player of his generation. Jacklin won two majors. In 1969, he became the first British player to win The Open Championship for 18 years.

Lorelai: This house is a giant Skinner box with Chippendale chairs.

An operant conditioning chamber (usually Skinner box) is a laboratory apparatus used in experimental psychology to study animal behavior.

Episode Title: I'm A Kayak, Hear Me Roar

This is a play on the line "I'm Catwoman, Hear Me Roar." from the movie Batman Returns.
Both are a reference to "I'm a woman, hear me roar", the first line of the feminist anthem I Am Woman by pop singer Helen Reddy's.