Gilmore Girls

Lorelai: (to Emily) I swear, one of these days, Alice. Pow! Right to the moon! Lorelai quoted one of the lines often used by Ralph Kramden on the The Honeymooners, which ran from 1952 to 1978.

Lorelai: You will say nothing, you will do nothing, you will sit in the corner and offer no opinions and pull a full-on Clarence Thomas. Clarence Thomas is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and considered to be the conservative wing of the current court. During his conformation hearings, he refused to respond to accusations of impropriety alleged by Anita Hill.

Rory: I liked it. Very John Waters. John Waters is a filmmaker whose films often combine outrageous subject matter with a sense of humor.

Rory: Yeah, well pinning it to the Mallomars is always a safe bet. Mallomars are a type of cookie consisting of a graham cracker like base, topped by a marshmallow and covered in chocolate.

Lorelai: Cause I'm Tony Soprano? In The Sopranos, a TV show on HBO, Tony Soprano is the patriarch of the Soprano mob family.

Lorelai: Hi Mr. Regalsky, it's Lorelai Gilmore. Again, yes, just like the pink bunny with the drum. Uh, anyway, I was wondering if, um, you have had a chance to reconsider my loan? ....Uh, no, I think it's Energizer. The Energizer bunny was the mascot for Energizer batteries whose commercial parodies had a pink bunny beating on a drum. The bunny kept on going and going to illustrate that the batteries lasted a long time.

Lorelai: Oh, you think I don't know that? You think I sit around all day swapping witticisms with Robert Benchley at the Algonquin? Robert Benchley was a humorist, drama critic and film actor. He was a contemporary of Dorothy Parker. The Algonquin is the hotel where Dorothy Parker and her contemporaries would meet for lunch between 1919 and 1929. They became known as the Algonquin Round table.

Emily: What are you taking? Lorelai: Roofies. Roofies is short for rohypnol which is a prescription sedative/tranquilizer.

Lorelai: It's okay. I won't think about it tonight. I'll think about it tomorrow - at Tara. You ready? Tara was the plantation in Gone with the Wind. And Scarlett, the main character in the movie/book was always saying that she wouldn't think of ____today. She would think of it tomorrow.

Lorelai: Aw honey, it's not the amount of places that turns you down that matters, it's the quality of the place that turns you down that matters. And when you've got Jacko's Loans and Stuff not wanting your business, you know it's time to hang out with the Coreys. Corey Haim and Corey Feldman starred in seven movies together. They were two of the highest paid teen stars in the 80s but their popularity declined and Corey Haim had to declare bankruptcy and Corey Feldman was arrested in the early 90s for drug possession.

Lorelai: See, we have to stop talking to people. We have to stay at home with the curtains drawn collecting stacks of old newspapers, muttering to each other, eating nothing but Cup of Soup and Slim Jims. Slim Jims are desiccated meat sticks.

Rory: And then she chased me halfway down the street with the hose. It was like a scene from Silkwood. Silkwood is a movie about Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, who was supposed to meet a reporter about worker safety violations at the plant. In one scene, she needs to be decontaminated and they hose her down.

Lorelai: I was thinking about opening a Coyote Ugly lemonade stand. Coyote Ugly is a bar in which women tend bar, wear sexy clothing and occasionally dance on the bar. It has become a nation-wide chain in the U.S. and was the basis for a movie.

Lorelai: Yeah, well, here. But somewhere in the world it's still Miller time. Miller is a brand of American beer. For a while they used the slogan 'It's Miller time' in their commercials.

Madeleine: Boys, a Nancy Drew mystery. Originally a series of mystery books in which the main protagonist is a teenage girl. She was the female equivalent of the Hardy Boys. The books were made into several movies and a couple of TV series.