I loved this episode, it was really fun, exactly why I watch the show. I really enjoyed both storylines, it did show how the Gilmore Girls are very alike, in different ways. It was funny to see them both analyse Luke in the opening scene, what they said was true, you don't see him acting that friendly very often.
The guidance counsellor approaching Rory made me curious, when she said about the social skills, my first thought was of Lane and Dean back in Stars Hollow. Anyway, liked how Lorelai acted like the parent she is and went to see the principal, it was very amusing when the conversation was turned around on her, brilliant when she asked if she could leave.
Emily's disgust that Lorelai wasn't getting involved was funny, then the boosters are mentioned, quite humourlessly by Lorelai. Enjoyed the comments made to each other by Rory and her mother. I really enjoyed seeing Rory go for it and sit at another table, was just very interesting. It was amusing to see them so fascinated by her. The comment about the nickname 'Lem' for Lemon' was also funny.
Paris really needed to get over herself, I mean she has her own group of friends, she overreacted, big style. Anyway, Rory being Rory decides to try and get Paris into the group, I couldn't help but enjoy Paris being grateful to Rory, not that it lasted very long. I found the whole kidnapping scenario extremely funny. 'Mom, my kidnappers are here' hilarious.
I couldn't stop smiling when she was pretending to have just woken up. Then the whole going to Chilton was like a scene from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Paris annoyed me when she lectured Rory about 'The Puffs' but it was fairly amusing. They end up getting caught, I loved Rory standing up for herself, it got through to the principal too.
Liked how Lorelai didn't care because she knows Rory is a good kid. So the fashion show, I liked how Lorelai was liked by the boosters group. Mary Alice from Desperate Housewives was interesting to see, funny when that woman forgot her step something's name. Funny that Lorelai told Emily that she had to model to, go Lorelai.
Michel and Lorelai's panic was funny. We again see how much Lorelai likes Luke when she is put out by another boosters member liking him. How funny was it to see Emily acting so .... happy go lucky on the runway. Lorelai and Luke's little tiff at the end was yet another hint at them getting together.
I wonder if Lorelai will remain with the boosters? I also liked how that girl sat with Rory at the end, very satisfying. Brilliant episode! Can't wait for more!moreless
Headmaster Charleston decrees that both Gilmore girls need to improve their socialization skills at Chilton if they want him to write a glowing recommendation for Rory's Harvard application. Rory's first attempt to socialize leads her to ask a group of girls at lunch if she could join them. Little does she know that they are Chilton's most powerful secret sorority. After being chided by Emily for her lack of participation, Lorelai joins the Booster Club and offers to host a fundraising fashion show at the Inn. To her dismay, she discovers that the Booster Club mothers are the models; not wanting to be mortified by herself, and to exact a little payback for being chided, she signs Emily up to model as well.moreless
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Emily Gilmore |
 Alexis Bledel |
Rory Gilmore |
 Lauren Graham |
Lorelai Gilmore |
 Yanic Truesdale |
Michel Gerard |
 Melissa McCarthy |
Sookie St. James |
 Scott Patterson |
Luke Danes |
 Nicole Eggert |
Aubrey |
Guest Star |
 Brenda Strong |
Eva |
Guest Star |
 Agatha Nishida Drake |
Ivy |
Guest Star |
 Dakin Matthews |
Hanlin Charleston |
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 Sean Gunn |
Kirk Gleason |
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TRIVIA (12)
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In the scene where Lorelai comes home from the Chilton benefit, watch very closely when Rory is sitting on the couch. In the shot where she says, "You have pictures in there!" the blue blanket behind her, and the pillow in front of her, are arranged very differently than in the shot taken of her a few seconds later, when she says "Yes I am!"
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When Emily gets up and leaves after saying to Lorelai, "It's funny how nicely you seem to be fitting into the world you ran away from," notice that Lorelai kind of just smiles to herself and completely shrugs it off. This is certainly not the first or only time that Emily makes such a comment to her daughter, but it's one of the very rare moments where Lorelai reacts so nonchalantly, like she's not the least bit angry or affected by it.
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When the maid answers the door, she tells Rory and Lorelai to meet Emily and Richard outside, but when they get there, Emily is scolding them for being outside.
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Emily Bergl makes her first appearance in this episode as Chilton tough girl Francine Jarvis. Emily is good friends with Liza Weil (Paris Gellar) in real life.
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In this episode Rory comes into the lunch room with her lunch and instead of going to her usually table she goes over to the Puff table and she is only there for about no more then 5 minutes when the bell rings. Why would lunch be that short?
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When Rory comes home after school and sees Lorelai at the table, Lorelai asks Rory to get her a soda. Rory gets a soda and sets it down in front of her. You can see it at the beginning of their conversation, but it disappears throughout the middle and then reappears at the end.
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Rory said the deer was a he or she, but in the episode where she hit the deer, she said there were antler prints on her mother's car. If Rory is supposed to be so smart, she would know that female deer don't have antlers.
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Lorelai teases Rory for being busted by the headmaster for ringing a bell, and Rory said that's all she was doing. However, they don't seem to consider that maybe they got in trouble mostly because they broke into the school and then into the headmaster's office.
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When Luke fills the Gilmores' cups at the beginning of the episode, he picks up Rory's cup to fill it. When the camera changes angles to focus on Rory, her cup is back in front of her without any indication of Luke putting it back.
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When Rory takes her backpack off right before she sits to eat lunch, you can tell that it doesn't weigh very much, when a few minutes earlier she was trying to stuff it with all of her books.
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When the Puffs bring Rory to Headmaster Charleston's office, it's in the middle of a hallway, when it previously had always been at the end of a hallway.
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When Paris sits down at the table with Rory and the Puffs, the color of Rory's soda can changes from purple to green in between camera shots.
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QUOTES (13)
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(Luke's diner. Lorelai is sitting at the counter)
Lorelai: Hey Luke, ah, I feel a little weird even mentioning this to you.
Luke: What?
Lorelai: Well, yesterday I saw you talking to Eva, you know, she's in my Booster Club?
Luke: Yeah, I know who she is.
Lorelai: (slightly annoyed) Oh, good, well, good. So, anyhow, I saw you guys talking alone, and it seemed kind of private and she mentioned earlier that you didn't make her, you know, gag. So, I just figured you guys were making some sort of plans to hang out and, see, the thing is, I just think it would be a little weird if you started dating a Chilton mom. Look, I know I have no right to say anything to you, but it's just, ahm, if you did date her, I'm in the Booster Club with her, which means that I'll hear things and, I don't know, it's just I'd like to keep that Chilton life seperate from my Stars Hollow life. So, if there's any way that you could not date her, that would be really great.
Luke: Boy, I tell you you've got nerve!
Lorelai: Okay, well, I know this is your private business.
Luke: It is my private business.
Lorelai: You don't see any validity to my side at all?
Luke: I am a grown man. You cannot tell me who to date.
Lorelai: I'm not telling you who to date, I'm telling you who not to date.
Luke: You can't tell me that either.
Lorelai: Look-
Luke: I will date who I like and if that screws with your plans then sorry! And if you don't wanna hear things, don't listen!
Lorelai: But-
Luke: If you don't like it you can just deal with it.
Lorelai: Okay, I'll just deal with it.
Luke: Good!
Lorelai: I just thought that if something was going to affect our friendship in some way that you might care about that, because if the situation was reversed then I would care, but hey! That's me. So, go ahead! Date her. Marry her. Make her Mrs. Backwards Baseball Cap. Live happily ever after! See if I care! (upset, she turns around to leave)
Luke: And by the way, I wasn't asking her out. I was giving her directions for the quickest way back to Hartford. It was very romantic. I said you take a right at Deerfield, and you catch the I-5 and you take it south. Oh man, hot stuff.
Lorelai: (very embarrassed but stubbornly trying to hide it) That is so typical of you!
Luke: What?
Lorelai: That is not the quickest way back to Hartford. Everybody knows that you take Maine to Cherry to Lynwood and then grab the I-11. Everybody knows that Luke. Everybody, apparently, but you!
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(Luke walks into the inn with his toolbox)
Lorelai: Oh, thank god. You brought Bert.
Luke: Right here.
Lorelai: My men! Follow me.
Luke: By the way, you do tell people that you're the one who named my toolbox, right?
Lorelai: (chuckles) Toolbox. Dirty.
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(Paris looks terrible while Rory looks perfect)
Paris: That really how you look when you first get up?
Rory: Yes.
Paris: Nothing in my life is fair. -
Lorelai: That's what you got busted for, ringing a bell?
Rory: Yeah, mhm.
Lorelai: That's it, bell ringing?
Rory: Yes.
Lorelai: Were you at least smoking a Cuban cigar while you were doing it?
Rory: Mom!
Lorelai: No. I mean bad girl. How many times have I told you not to ring bells.
Rory: Let's go.
Lorelai: They can dent or scratch. And they make dogs crazy. Who do you think you are, the Hunchback of Notre Dame? Are you French, are you circular? I don't think so. -
Lorelai: Wow, busy today. Has Luke been advertising or something?
Rory: He gets good word-of-mouth.
Lorelai: Well, we have to start spreading bad word-of-mouth so we can always have a table.
Rory: Well, that would be wrong, but sure. Vermin?
Lorelai: Or no potable water.
Rory: Or no potable vermin.
Lorelai: That would scare them away.
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Rory: It's just so weird that the one table I sit down at is home to the secret society.
Lorelai: I know. It's like waking up one day and realizing that everyone else in your family can pull their face off.
Rory: Yes, it's exactly like that. -
Lorelai: Who the hell names their kid Lemon?
Rory: Someone really into citrus. -
Ivy: I hate nepotism.
Lem: But unfortunately it does make the world go round. -
Francie: Don't you have a nickname?
Rory: Well. Rory is a nickname. My real name is Lorelai.
Lem: Lorelai? That's a weird name!
Rory: Well Lem.. what can I say! -
Rory: (chuckling to herself) Barry Manilow.
Lorelai: Stop!
Rory: (singing) Looks like we made it.
Lorelai: Oh yeah? Spice Girls!
Rory: Duran Duran!
Lorelai: Dido!
Rory: Olivia Newton-John!
Lorelai: The Macarena! You and Lane for hours and hours for weeks on end!
Rory: Hey! We were mocking, you can't mock the mocking!
Lorelai: All right, it's getting ugly. Let's stop.
Rory: Let's be friends again.
Lorelai: All right. -
Rory: Maybe I am a loner. I mean, you were mocking my backpack today. I might just be one step away from carrying a mysterious duffel bag.
Lorelai: Oh no, no you don't. Don't you go doubting who you are or how you should be. How dare that woman do this to you!
Kirk: It's all fixed. I found a loose terminal. I reconnected the battery and jumped it, so it's set to go.
Lorelai: Oh, thanks Kirk.
Kirk: And I'm not gonna charge you for the time I spent stuck underneath the car.
Lorelai: That's great Kirk.
Kirk: And I just want you to know that I overheard, and you're absolutely right. I carried a duffel bag and ate lunch by myself my entire school career, and I turned out just fine. -
Francie: Are you a belle?
(bell rings)
Rory: Oh, no, but apparently I command them. -
Rory: (startled by Paris) God, you're like a pop-up book from hell!
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Brenda Strong (Eva) and Emily Bergl (Francie), are both actresses on Desperate Housewives. Strong plays Paul Young's deceased first wife, Mary Alice, and Bergl plays his current wife, Beth.
Both Desperate Housewives characters ultimately commit suicide by shooting themselves.
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German episode title: "Mutprobe", meaning "Test Of Courage".
French episode title: "Mère indigne, indignée", meaning "An Indignant Bad Mother".
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Keiko Agena (Lane), Edward Herrmann (Richard), Jared Padalecki (Dean), and Milo Ventimiglia (Jess) do not appear in this episode.
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Music:
-"Know Your Onion" by The Shins, On Rory's Discman in Cafeteria at beginning of the show.
-"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper played at the fashion show
-"It's Alright, Baby" by Komeda, On Rory's discman at the end of the show.
-"Looks Like We Made It" by Barry Manilow Rory sings this at Luke's to tease Lorelai
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Lorelai: I walked right in there and told him Rory is not a loner, she has plenty of friends and she doesn't even own a black Matrix coat!
The boys responsible for the Columbine shootings, were loners at their high school and at the start of the shootings whipped off their black Matrix coats to reveal their guns.
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Lorelai: Hey, I told you not to become a soc, but you didn't listen.
The term "soc" (short for social) is prominent in S.E. Hinton's novel (and the film of) The Outsiders. It refers to a wealthy, influential group of people. -
Lorelai: (referring to Luke's unknown romantic liasons) Maybe he has a secret life -- Maybe he's got a little chippie stowed away in Mount Pilot!
Mount Pilot was the nearest town "just over the mountain" from Mayberry on the Andy Griffith Show
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Rory: Suddenly I'm living with Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Zsa Zsa Gabor is an actress known for her lavish lifestyle.
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Rory: (to the Puffs) It's not exactly "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore", but it's still pretty darn uncomfortable.
"Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore" is a famous line from the movie The Wizard of Oz. Rory is talking about a draft she felt at her lunch table, meaning it wasn't as bad as the tornado in that movie.
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Rory: (to Francie about Paris) I tell ya, she's a regular Gary Mule Deer.
Gary Mule Deer is a comedian with off-beat humor.
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Rory: (about the Puffs' oath) Anne Sexton, right?
Anne Sexton is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who committed suicide in 1974.
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Rory: Great movie. Oh wait, that was Coming Home. Sorry.
Coming Home is a movie about a soldier returning back from Vietnam with emotional and physical wounds.
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Rory: Paris, it's not the Cosa Nostra.
Cosa Nostra is another way of saying Mafia.
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Rory: I end up here with the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was a novel by Rebecca Wells that was adapted for the big screen in 2002.
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Paris: Maybe someday I'll stumble into a Disney movie and suddenly be transported into your body, and after living there awhile, I'll finally realize the beauty of myself.
Describing the plot of Freaky Friday except it's a mother and daughter who switch bodies.
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Francine: So I drop a box of matches on the floor, she can tell me how many there are?
In Rainman, Dustin Hoffman's character could instantly tell at a glance the number of any objects laid out in front of him.
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Lorelai: Yeah, look Fat Albert. Get me a soda.
Fat Albert was a cartoon character created by Bill Cosby, known for his catchphrase "Hey, hey, hey".
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