In the episode “The Lorelais' First Day at Yale.”
Lorelai: “It’s us. We’re not here. We have a life. Get over it”
(Answering Machine Message)
In the episode “A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving,” in reference to Michelle Kwan and the winter Olympics.
LORELAI: How? Rory, what are we if not world champion eaters?
RORY: It’s too much food.
LORELAI: It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny. This is our finest hour.
RORY: Or final hour.
LORELAI: No, no. Get inspired and tomorrow I guarantee you, we will be standing on the Olympic platform receiving our gold medals for eating. We are not Michelle Kwan-ing this.
In the episode “I Get A Sidekick Out of You,” in reference to Battlestar Galactica.
“Fracking Celine Dion!” Click to continue »
In the episode “The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles,” in reference to Love Boat.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
[A woman, Helen, walks two boys over to Lorelai]
HELEN: Here we go. I’d like you to meet Redmond and Riley James.
LORELAI: Redmond, Riley, nice to meet you. I’m Julie, your cruise director. I’m here to help you with your costumes…
BOY (running up to Lorelai): Lorelai, my hood is loose!
REDMOND: Her name is Julie, stupid.
BOY: No, it’s not, retard!
LORELAI: Hey, hey, hey.
RILEY: She just told us her name was Julie. She’s our cruise director.
BOY: What’s a cruise director?
In the episode “Kill Me Now,” in reference to Doublemint gum.
(Two men, twins, walk in the front door of the Independence Inn.)
MICHEL: Are those? …
LORELAI: No, it would be too…
(The twin brides rush into the grooms’ arms.)
LORELAI: … weird.
MICHEL: You kept this from me on purpose.
LORELAI: It’s like a really snooty Doublemint commercial.
In the episode “Those Are Strings, Pinocchio,” in reference to Love Boat.
LUKE: We’re driving through Western Canada and then taking a cruise up to Alaska.
RORY: A cruise?
LORELAI: Intimate.
LUKE: I guess. Is it?
LORELAI (singing): The Love Boat!
LUKE: What?
LORELAI: A cruise is a good spot to get down on one knee.
LUKE: And do my ventriloquist act?
LORELAI: And propose.
LUKE: I have no plans to propose.
LORELAI: You don’t now, but after you’ve had dinner at Captain Stubing’s table and Isaac’s served you up a couple of mojitos… Click to continue »
In the episode “That Damn Donna Reed,” in reference to A Streetcar Named Desire.
“STELLA!” Click to continue »
In the episode “Pulp Friction,” in reference to The Godfather.
Luca Brasi’s stunted greeting “…honored that you have invited me to your daughter’s wedding…on the day of your daughter’s wedding”; Click to continue »
In the episode “Back in the Saddle Again,” in reference to Waiting for Godot.
EMILY: We’re waiting for your father.
LORELAI: It’s gonna get cold.
EMILY: We are waiting for your father.
LORELAI: We’ve been waiting forever.
EMILY: We have not been waiting forever!
LORELAI: Forever. Godot was just here. He said, “I ain’t waiting for Richard,” grabbed a roll and left. It’s been forever!
In the episode “Dead Uncles and Vegetables,” in reference to Patricia Hearst.
JACKSON: She’s so excited.
LORELAI: She’s brainwashed. She’s Patricia Hearst and my mother is the SLA. Click to continue »