Gilmore Girls Season 2 Episode 9

Lorelai: The Actor's Studio will go nuts. You'll have James Lipton asking you what your favorite swear word is.

The Actor's Studio is a show that provides in-depth interviews with actors, directors, writers, and other artists that is hosted by James Lipton.

Lorelai: Okay, he was not that much younger than I am. I met him a business school, not his Bar Mitzvah. Business school has to indicate some kind of maturity, right?

A Bar Mitzvah is a Jewish religious ceremony for men when they reach the age of 13. It signifies that they have reached manhood. The female equivalent is a Bat Mitzvah.

Lorelai: Okay, you know what Vanna? I'm gonna need a few more vowels here.

Vanna White lights up the letters on the gameshow Wheel of Fortune.

Sookie: Swear. Raise your right hand and say "May Destiny's Child break up if I count these blueberries".

Female R&B group that was very popular in the 90s. The members include: Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The trio took a break in 2001 and tried solo careers, Beyonce having the most success of the three. They reunited in 2004 to release a new album and tour. In June 2005 they announced that they were going to split after their 2005 tour.

Lorelai: So, um, judging by your Billy Graham impression, I am guessing that you didn't send me an ice cream maker.

Billy Graham is a popular evangelist from the southern United States.

Madeline: It's very On the Town.

Musical starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Jules Mushin about three sailors on a 24 hour leave in New York.

Paris: Hey, anyone stupid enough to hang out with Butch Cassidy and the Sun-dunce Kid deserves whatever they get.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were an outlaw bank robbing team in the late 19th and early 20th century. Their antics were made into the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 staring Robert Redford and Paul Newman.

Paris: Why don't they just sew our sides together and rename us Chang and Eng?

Chang and Eng were the original Siamese twins joined at the sternum.

Sookie: A Musso Lussino 480!
Lorelai: Somebody sent me a fascist ice cream maker?

The ice cream maker sounds a lot like Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1922-1943. Lorelai later calls the ice cream maker Il Duce which was Mussolini's nickname.

Lorelai: Okay, once again, I bring up the fact that this is a wedding present, and as I am not getting married, neither God's law nor Emily Post allows me to keep this.

Emily Post came out with the definitive book on etiquette in 1922.

Sookie: It's true. I saw it on Martha Stewart.

Martha Stewart is the guru on homemaking.

Lorelai: Okay, clearly this is shaping up to be one of those moments that St. Peter's gonna show on the big video screen when I die.

St. Peter is believed by some to guard the gates to Heaven and won't let the undeserving in.

Paul: The Twilight Zone marathon was on all week.

The Twilight Zone was a TV series about stories that ranged from comic to tragic but often had an unexpected twist at the end. The first series was hosted and created by Rod Serling and since then there have been at least two subsequent series and a movie.

Rory: Hey.
Madeline: Hey.
Louise: We're the Monkees.

The Monkees was a 70s television show about a group of struggling musicians. The opening theme song included the line "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees."

Paris: Okay. Now I want everyone to read the chapters on acting. I photocopied out of Houseman's memoirs tonight. Everyone will be off book by Friday,and if you plan on missing rehearsal, you better bring a coroner's note.

John Houseman was an actor who worked in theatre, films and television and was a co-founder with Orson Welles of the Famous Mercury Theatre. Possibly best known for his role in the movie The Paperchase and subsequent television series.

Louise: What's with the cast from Cocoon?

Cocoon was a movie about senior citizens who find themselves with renewed vigour after trespassing and swimming in a pool containing alien cocoons.

Lorelai: Have you seen my bag with the beads and the fur, kind of looks like Stalin's head?

Joseph Stalin was a Bolshevik revolutionary and became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1922 after Lenin's death. He had won a power struggle with Leon Trotsky and afterwards he began The Great Purge in which he consolidated his power. He introduced an economic and political system based on Marxist-Leninist ideology, which became known as Stalinism. He remained the Soviet leader until his death in 1953.

Paris: Look, I understand the whole Mystic Pizza, small town, 'we don't let a clock run our lives' thing, but I come from the big city where money talks and I'm paying good money for this place and I have a schedule to keep.

Mystic Pizza was a movie about three young women who work at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.

Lorelai: He's never seen Ab Fab.

Ab Fab is short for Absolutely Fabulous, a scathing British comedy series about a daughter and her immature mother and the mother's equally immature friend.

Lorelai: Plus, he's outdoorsy. Remember that Meryl Streep movie where she and her family take a rafting trip and then psycho Kevin Bacon forces them to take 'em down the river?

This is a reference to the movie The River Wild.

Tristan: Yeah, I think somehow I'll recover from the great romance between you and the Beave.

Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver was the main character on the 50s show Leave it to Beaver. The Beave was a goody goody kid who always tried to do the right thing.

Lorelai: I mean it. Today is the day we finally spring for The Powerpuff Girls shotglasses.

The Powerpuff Girls is a cartoon show where three super-powered little girls constantly save the world.

Lorelai: This is incredible. I go on one stupid date and suddenly I'm the female Jerry Lee Lewis.

Jerry Lee Lewis is a singer who was popular in the 50s. He married his 14 year old second cousin in 1957.

Lorelai: I wasn't running, he's not a kid. We had dinner. You say Chuck E. Cheese, I'll break your nose.

Chain of North American restaurants with entertainment designed for kids.