Gilmore Girls Season 2 Episode 10

Michel: Stop jumping like a Mexican bean.
Mexican jumping beans are novelty items sold in the US and Mexico. They are a type of seed in which the egg of a small moth has been laid. The larva inside makes them characteristically 'jump'.

Rory: Nice looking lady.
Lorelai: Hmm, like a young Tammy Faye Bakker.

Tammy Faye Bakker was the former wife of televangelist and convicted felon, Jim Bakker. She died in July 2007. She was known and often mocked for the heavy makeup she wore.

Lorelai: I'll send him a Def Jam Comedy tape.

Def Jam Comedy is a show on HBO that features stand-up comedians.

Rune: Hey Chuck Mangione, you wanna back up a step?

Chuck Mangione is a flugelhorn player who achieved international jazz-pop success.

Richard: I stood beside them and their boombox and I hummed Mozart's Prague Symphony as loud as I could.
Lorelai: A bizarro Battle of the Bands.

Battle of the Bands is a TV show with a concert setting where bands face off against each other and a winner is chosen based on who the audience likes more.

Bootsy: See ya, thanks. By the way, last night did I sing Hotel California?

Hotel California is one of The Eagles' most popular songs.

Lorelai: They're the Old England Abbot and Costello.

Abbot and Costello are a comedy team from the 40s and 50s probably best known for their 'Who's on First?' routine.

Jess: It definitely has the most personality. Kind of looks like Bjork.

Bjork is an Icelandic singer formerly part of the Sugarcubes who went on to have a successful solo career.

Richard: Didn't we ever go to Coney Island?

Coney Island in Brooklyn is a boardwalk that has amusement rides.

Lorelai: Giddy up. (the sleigh starts moving) Uh! The horses heard me, I speak horse language! I'm Dr. Dolittle!

Dr. Dolittle is a character who had the ability to converse with animals. Later made into several movies, the most recent of which starred Eddie Murphy.

Lorelai: Come on. We can pull a Ben Hur and take down Taylor's sleigh.

Refers to the famous chariot scene in Ben Hur.

Lorelai: The Joy-less Luck Club.

A take on Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club which was made into a movie starring Joan Chen.

Sookie: No! It tastes too 20th century guys. It's gotta shout Washington Irving, not Irving my accountant. It needs something, help me. What is it?

19th century author probably best known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.

Rory: Hello there. Hey Clara. Nice, is that a Stella McCartney?

Stella McCartney is the daughter of Paul McCartney and a fashion designer who is friends with Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Morey: Charlie Parker was late to everything.
Babette: Charlie Parker had more drugs in him than a Rite-Aid. Forget Charlie Parker.

Charlie Parker was a jazz musician who led a troubled life. Clint Eastwood would direct Bird, a movie about Charlie Parker's life.
Rite-Aid is a chain of pharmacies in the U.S.

Lorelai: Woody and Soon-Yi?

Woody Allen was seeing Mia Farrow when he fell in love with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi. Eventually he broke off his relationship with Mia and married Soon-Yi.

Lane: How's that Pixies reunion coming along?

The Pixies were an influential alternative rock band in the 80's. However, due to internal conflicts the band broke up in 1993 and there was much talk in 2001 (the time the episode aired) about a possible reunion tour. The tour didn't happen until 2004.

Lorelai: It would be like The Shining, except instead of Jack Nicholson, we have Rune.

The Shining is a novel by Stephen King about the caretaker of a motel who slowly goes crazy and terrorizes his wife and son. It was made into a movie in 1980 and starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. It was later made into a mini-series in 1997.

Lorelai: Yeah, like play Running Charades, and get out that Slip 'n Slide.

Slip 'n' Slide is basically a long piece of plastic stretched out and wide enough to accommodate the average person. Water is placed on the slide and people run towards the "slide", fall down on the plastic and glide along the sheath of water.

Lorelai: We're beyond crazy. We are 'Anne Heche speaking her secret language to God and looking for the spaceship in Fresno' crazy.

In August 2000, actress Anne Heche was found wandering in Fresno, knocking on strangers' door in a confused state. This strange behaviour was a result of the emotional problems Heche went through after she'd broken up with Ellen DeGeneres.

Rune: I thought an alarm would go off like in The Thomas Crown Affair.

Refers to the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair in which Pierce Brosnan plays an art thief who steals paintings.

Rory: We're competing against the Michelangelo of snow.
Lorelai: And we're Ernest Builds a Snowman.

Michelangelo was a famous renaissance artist and sculptor.
Ernest is a hapless but well meaning character played by Jim Varney. He was first seen in tv commercials but as the character's popularity grew, he was eventually featured in a series of Ernest movies.

Rory: Oh, we have to rent Godfather 3 on DVD.
Lorelai: You're kidding.
Rory: In the audio commentary, Coppola actually defends casting Sofia.

The Godfather III is the final movie in the Godfather trilogy and portrays Michael Corleone's decline and final days. Frances Ford Coppola directed all three installments and when Winona Ryder withdrew, he cast his daughter, Sofia, as Michael Corleone's daughter much to public and critical dismay.