Gilmore Girls

Paris: I'd love a performance review. Come on, be my Dave Navarro. Paris is referring to Dave Navarro being a judge on the show Rock Star: INXS where he gives the contestants reviews on their performances.

Paris: ...I went to the bank and used a few choice expletives and a bunch of guys in suits started closing in on me. So, I started pacing, yelling 'Attica! Attica!' Paris's action in the bank is a reference to the 1975 movie Dog Day Afternoon. In the movie Al Pacino yells the same thing when he is cornered while robbing a bank. He is referencing the prison massacre at Attica in 1971 to express his angst.

Rory: Any incoming choppers, Radar? Reference to Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly from the movie and subsequent TV show M*A*S*H. Radar received his nickname because he was able to sense things coming, most notably medical choppers, before anyone else could.

Richard: Emily, please. It's Rory. What she tackles, she conquers. This girl could name the state capitals at 3, recite the periodic table at 4, discuss Schopenhauer's influence on Nietzsche when she was 10. Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche were 19th century philosophers. Schopenhauer was among the first to contend that at its core, the universe is not a rational place. Friedrich Nietzsche challenged the foundations of traditional morality and Christianity. In Nietzsche's writings, there are more references to Schopenhauer than to any other philosopher.

Paris: (about Rory's anger towards Shira Huntzberger) Wow, you're always so Desmond Tutu-ey. This is refreshing. Desmond Tutu is a South-African cleric and peace activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa.

Paris: I bet you the Romanovs never RSVP-ed either. They got theirs. The Russian royal family was collectively shot by bolsheviks in 1918.

Lorelai: You haven't been camping in forever. Be Grizzly Adams. The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams was a 1970's TV show based on the life of a man named John Adams, who lived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the 1850's with his grizzly friend.

Richard: Sorry, Emily, it takes a second to emerge from Samuel Beckett, he's a very strange man. Samuel Beckett is an Irish playwright, whose plays are known for their minimalistic and pessimistic style. He is the writer of the famous play Waiting for Godot.

Rory: In any business endeavor, sometimes it makes sense to run a deficit in order to achieve a bigger pay-off later. DAR Lady: Oooh, we're lunching with Grover Norquist! Grover Norquist is a well-connected Republican activist with close ties to business and the media.