(Gilmore Girls fan site)In the episode “Chicken or Beef?,” in reference to The Godfather.
LORELAI: I’m going to talk to him.
RORY: Cool!
LORELAI: Don’t say cool like that. It’s gonna be very pleasant.
RORY: I thought you said you were gonna go talk to Taylor.
LORELAI: I own my own business now, Rory. I’m gonna have to deal with tiny men like Taylor all the time. You can’t go around yelling at people, no matter how historical they might be.
RORY: Bummer.
LORELAI: You have to learn to separate the personal from the business.
RORY: Okay.
LORELAI: Remember in The Godfather, Michael telling Sonny how he was gonna kill Tattaglia and Captain McCluskey in that Italian restaurant? He lays out the whole thing very calmly, very unemotionally, ’cause that’s what you do in business.
RORY: Yeah, but then he went and shot two guys in the head.
Taylor is giving Lorelai no end of trouble. That’s Taylor. This time, he’s threatening to prevent her from renovating the Dragonfly Inn. But she’s taking it all too calmly.
Okay, it wasn’t Tattaglia. It was Sollozzo. But besides that… You get the point, right?
This is the same scene in The Godfather: Part I referenced by Rory’s comment in another episode: “Bada-bing all over his nice ivy-league suit.”
Back to the current reference: I actually remember watching this episode the first time and thinking, She knows Luke. Luke is Taylor’s landlord. She should go all Godfather on Taylor’s ass!.
This is not Lorelai, though. And it’s not what she ended up doing, even though it was how she ended up solving her problem.
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