Gilmore Girls

Lorelai: It's very Joaquin Phoenix at the Oscars. Joaquin Phoenix is an Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe Award winning, American actor. As a child he was known as Leaf Phoenix. He is from a family of performers, most notably his brother, the late actor River Phoenix.

Paris: "Space Odyssey" -- that's a theme. People dress up like astronauts or apes. Space Odyssey is an influential 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay, written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, deals with themes of human evolution and technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life. The film is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering use of special effects, and reliance upon ambiguous yet provocative imagery and sound in place of traditional techniques of narrative cinema. The film received a wide spectrum of positive and negative reviews upon release, although it is widely recognized today among critics as one of history's greatest films.

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. A Brief History of Time is a popular science book written by Professor Stephen Hawking and first published in 1988. It rapidly became a best-seller, and had sold 9 million copies by 2002. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for a record breaking 237 weeks. In 1991, a film was made, that was an anecdotal biography of Stephen Hawking. Clips of his lectures, interviews with friends and family and a little physics are thrown together.

Lucy: What do you think, boyfriend? Marty: Very Clydesdale. The Clydesdale is a breed of draft horse derived from the very hard-working farm horses of Clydesdale (now Lanarkshire), Scotland and named for that region. At one time there were at least 140,000 Clydesdales known in Scotland; by 1949 just 80 animals were licensed in England and by 1975 the Rare Breed Survival Trust had listed the breed as "vulnerable".

Babette: Plus the dress. I mean, why would anyone want to buy a big, expensive wedding dress you could only wear once? Except for me. I got to wear mine twice. But once was for Halloween. I was the bride of chucky. Bride of Chucky is the fourth movie in the Child's Play series. This movie is the point where the series takes a decidedly more humorous turn, even venturing into self-referential parody. As opposed to the previous three films--controversial for their gruesome displays of violence--all of the violence in this film is punctuated by laughs to deflate the macabre visuals.

Christopher: So what's for breakfast, Martha Stewart? Martha Stewart is a business magnate, author, editor, former stock broker, convicted criminal, model, and homemaking advocate. Since her release from prison in March 2005, Stewart rapidly regained her former prominence as a homemaking expert.

Christopher: Well, good morning, Madame Defarge. Madame Thérèse Defarge is the wife of Ernest Defarge and a tireless worker for the French Revolution in the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. She is arguably the main villain of the book, and ruthlessly seeks revenge against the Evrèmondes. She is constantly knitting, and uses patterns in the knitting to register names and descriptions of the enemies of the Revolution.

Paris: Attaboy, Rockefeller. John Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist who played a pivotal role in the establishment of the oil industry, and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. Rockefeller strongly believed that his purpose in life was to make as much money as possible, and then use it wisely to improve the lot of mankind.

Logan: Two copies of "The Norton Anthology"? W. W. Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding. It is the oldest and largest employee-owned publisher in the United States and is well known for its "Norton Anthologies," texts which are frequently assigned in university literature courses.

Emily: It's an etching by Kiki Smith. Kiki Smith is an American artist classified as a feminist artist, a movement with beginnings in the twentieth century. 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.

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 was an American politician. O'Neill was an outspoken liberal Democrat and influential member of the U.S. Congress, serving in the House of Representatives for 34 years and representing two congressional districts of Massachusetts. He was the Speaker of the House from 1977 until his retirement in 1987, making him the second longest-serving Speaker in U.S. history after Sam Rayburn.