Gilmore Girls Quotes with Descriptions

RORY: Miss Gilmore and the Vicious Circle

Bah Humbug — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:42:55 -0800

In the episode “Back in the Saddle Again,” in reference to Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.

RORY: Would you really have felt guilty?

LORELAI: No. But I would have felt guilty about not feeling guilty, and you can see how that could just go on forever.

RORY: Miss Gilmore and the Vicious Circle.

A play on Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, a 1994 movie on the life of Dorothy Parker.

Read more about Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

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LORELAI: Godot was just here. He said, "I ain't waiting for Richard," grabbed a roll and left.

Bah Humbug — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:55:48 -0800

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!

Waiting for Godot is a famous play by Samuel Beckett. The title of the play is very self-explanatory, the characters in the play wait for Godot the entire play. The catch is, he never arrives.

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LORELAI: She's Patricia Hearst and my mother is the SLA.

Bah Humbug — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:29:03 -0800

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.

Sookie has been caught up in all the extravagant wedding plans that Emily has been proposing. Jackson is worried and asks Lorelai to talk to her. Lorelai compares Sookie to Patricia Hearst.

Patricia Hearst was a California heiress who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in 1974. A few months later, Hearst announced she had joined the SLA and taken on the pseudonym “Tania.” On April 15, 1974, she helped rob a Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco. She was arrested in 1975 and the main argument of her defense was that she was brainwashed by her kidnappers.

Patricia Hearst, robbing the Hibernia Bank.

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LORELAI: This whole morning has been a little Twilight Zone-y.

TimK — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:31:23 -0800

In the episode “It Should've Been Lorelai,” in reference to The Twilight Zone.

LORELAI: This whole morning has been a little Twilight Zoney.

LUKE: Or Outer Limits-y.

LORELAI: What?

LUKE: Great show, just as eerie, same era, but no one ever references it.

LORELAI: Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t speak geek.

LUKE: Yup, stepped right in it.

In the same era as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits was a similar science-fiction anthology series, which lived a shorter life, coming on the scene just as The Twilight Zone was on its way out. But it still managed to be one of the top 5 science-fiction TV shows of the 1960’s. The series died when ABC moved it to a different time-slot and subsequently killed it.

It’s not true, however, that “no one ever references it.” For example, “Weird Al” Yankovic in his 1989 cult-favorite, comedy film UHF, in the “UHF” theme song, he sings, “We control the horizontal. We control the vertical, too.” This is a reference to The Outer Limits introduction:

There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We can reduce the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to… The Outer Limits.

Both of these classic series were remade as modern “next generation” shows: The Twilight Zone in 1985, continuing for 3 seasons, and The Outer Limits in 1995, for 7 seasons.

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CHRISTOPHER: I’ll have one of my patented White Castle bachelor dinners.

TimK — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:44:00 -0800

In the episode “It Should've Been Lorelai,” in reference to White Castle.

SHERRY: Great. Oh, of course this does leave you a sad little orphan.

CHRISTOPHER: Oh, that’s okay. I’ll have one of my patented White Castle bachelor dinners.

White Castle is the oldest fast-food restaurant in the U.S. They also have a line of frozen hamburgers, which are available in Connecticut. This is probably what Christopher was referring to, that he was going to heat up a frozen White Castle hamburger for dinner.

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RORY: Well, having company is about making sacrifices.

TimK — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:30:20 -0800

In the episode “It Should've Been Lorelai,” in reference to Marcel Proust.

RORY: We have leftover Halloween candy.

LORELAI: Aw, waste that on company?

RORY: Well, having company is about making sacrifices.

LORELAI: Martha Stewart?

RORY: I paraphrased Proust.

This is possibly based on a line from Proust’s The Sweet Cheat Gone:

“One must be prepared to make sacrifices, however painful they may be, for the thing to which one attaches most importance, which is, in spite of everything that I decided this morning, on the strength of my scrupulous and absurd arguments, that Albertine shall continue to live here.”

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LORELAI: I’ll body block the fool who tries to go upstairs.

TimK — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:18:11 -0800

In the episode “It Should've Been Lorelai,” in reference to Mr. T.

LORELAI: You get the living room, I’ll get the kitchen!

RORY: What about the upstairs?

LORELAI: I’ll body block the fool who tries to go upstairs.

RORY: Company is stressful.

This is a variation on 1980’s icon Mr. T’s catch-phrase, “I pity the fool who…” whatever.

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LORELAI: Schmitty’s over the hill, he's washed up, put him in Cooperstown.

TimK — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:59:46 -0800

In the episode “It Should've Been Lorelai,” in reference to Mike Schmidt.

[Rory tosses the phone to Luke, who catches it easily.]

LORELAI: Whoa, impressive. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

RORY: What?

LORELAI: Goalie for the bagel hockey team?

RORY: And bump Schmitty?

LORELAI: Schmitty’s over the hill, he’s washed up, put him in Cooperstown. Suit up kid!

This is a reference to Mike Schmidt, former player for the Philadelphia Phillies. Cooperstown is where the Baseball Hall of Fame is located.

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LORELAI: Suddenly everyone in the world was saying "music has charms to soothe the savage beast" when it was written breast?

TimK — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:05:10 -0800

In the episode “It Should've Been Lorelai,” in reference to The Mourning Bride.

LORELAI: But my question is, how did that happen? How was it that suddenly everyone in the world was saying “music has charms to soothe the savage beast” when it was written breast?

RORY: I don’t know. At some point someone misspoke and it just caught on.

LORELAI: How do things like that catch on?

RORY: Mom, please, you’re driving me crazy.

LORELAI: I mean, did some guy like say it at a big rally of some sort and everyone went home and started saying it that way and then it just spread from there?

RORY: Yes, exactly.

Yes, the original quote is from William Congreve’s play The Mourning Bride: “Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, / To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” There are several times as many search-engine hits for the incorrect variation than for the correct quote.

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LORELAI: Enjoy Wisteria Lane, you major drama queen!

tzon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:21:00 -0800

In the episode “The Prodigal Daughter Returns,” in reference to Desperate Housewives.

LUKE: Well, thank you very much for your honesty about my grandmother’s furniture! Too bad you’re not a little more forthcoming about the other men in your life!

LORELAI: Oh my God! Enjoy Wisteria Lane, you major drama queen!

LUKE: I’m done. [He throws down his napkin and storms out.]

LORELAI: Wrap yourself in a towel and trip over a hedge on your way out!

[The front door slams. Lorelai sniffs]

Lorelai and Luke fighting over Luke’s Grandmother’s bedroom furniture as well as Christopher Calling. Takes place durring dinner with Sookie and Jackson.

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