In the episode “Unto The Breach,” in reference to Robin Williams.
RICHARD: I’m just saying he’s a superb writer.
EMILY: I’m just saying that a superb writer does not a superb speaker make. I could barely stay awake.
RICHARD: I told you to start with coffee. It’s a two-ceremony day.
LORELAI: Maybe it’s just a cultural thing. Maybe Milan Kundera is the Robin Williams of the Czech republic.
EMILY: With that voice? So soporific it was as if he were trying to perform a mass hypnosis.
LORELAI: We should hurry up if we want to get good seats to watch Rory get her diploma.
EMILY: My point is, with all the potential speakers out there, why choose someone so dull?
LORELAI: You know for a while, Rory said they were considering Henry Winkler. That would have been neat.
EMILY: Who?
RICHARD: You mean Henry Kissinger?
LORELAI: Not unless he played the Fonz…
RICHARD: Actually, Kissinger would be duller than Kundera with that foghorn voice and that accent. Of the two, I’d vote for the Fonz.
EMILY: Do you even know who the Fonz is?
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