LUKE: I'm going to be like Michael Corleone dealing with that slimy brother-in-law of his.

TimK — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:05:19 -0800

In the episode “Fight Face,” in reference to The Godfather.

LORELAI: Why would TJ come over to my house and sledgehammer my bedroom?

LUKE: Damn it, Liz!

LORELAI: What did Liz do?

LUKE: Oh, she worked me over! She begged me to hire TJ as the contractor on the remodel.

LORELAI: TJ’s a contractor?

LUKE: No, and I said no! But she made me promise to think about it, and then she sat in the diner, staring at me. And then she started to cry. So I kicked her out! And then she went outside and cried, so I could see her through the window. And I couldn’t take it anymore! So I said “Okay!” knowing we had weeks to figure out how to get out of it and no work could be done, because George hadn’t made up the plans. And in the meantime, TJ could have changed occupations or injured himself bouncing up and down on his trampoline and backed out of the job.

LORELAI: But how could you risk saying “okay” to anything with TJ?

LUKE: Did I mention the crying? Liz is a walking tear duct. Oh, TJ’s good. You never see what’s coming, like a big dumb tsunami. He’s that good!

LORELAI: So what do we do?

LUKE: I’m going to talk to TJ. But I’m going to be smart about it. I’m not going to spook him. I’m going to be like Michael Corleone dealing with that slimy brother-in-law of his. Get a couple of tickets to a ballgame. Invite him along and we’ll talk about the beer and the hot dogs we’re going to eat. And then I’m going to get him to admit that he did this. And then when we get in the car on the way to the ball park I’m going to put a rope around his neck and pull it ’till he’s dead!

After TJ takes a sledgehammer to Lorelai’s bedroom wall and puts a big hole in the side of her house.

Luke of course was just blowing off steam. He wasn’t really going to strangle his brother-in-law with a rope.

But Michael Corleone did have his slimy brother-in-law Carlo garroted from the back seat of a car. Carlo sold out Michael’s brother Sonny. And so Michael sat down on the day he settled the family business, and he told Carlo that all the people who had come against the family were now dead, and he convinced Carlo that he was going to excommunicate him for betraying the family, and he got Carlo to admit what he’d done, and then he gave Carlo a ticket to Vegas and told him never to come back. And Carlo got in a car to the airport, and he never got out.

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