Episode Quotes
Paris: If the hurricanes don't kill you, the bird flu will.
Luke: Your parents aren't warm people.
Lorelai: They were extras in March of the Penguins.
Lorelai: He's perfectly fine with having all his personal freedoms taken away, as long as he doesn't see it while it's happening -- like a true American.
Logan: You are here half the time anyway you've already got two dresser drawers you call your own and right now for a limited time, I'll throw in three extra drawers and a set of ginsu knives.
Rory: Really?
Logan: No, I have no idea where to get ginsu knives.
Lorelai: What are you doing in there?
Rory: Facial exercises, the younger I look the younger you look.
Lorelai: Good point.
Rory: I don't believe it.
Christopher: What?
Rory: Did you not see those two girls?
Christopher: No, why?
Rory: They totally checked you out.
Christopher: They did? Hehe, cool!
Rory: It's the same way with Mom, I swear. I hate having hot parents!
Cultural References
Episode Title: You've Been Gilmored
The episode title is a reference to the catch phrase from the MTV show
Punk'd, "You've been Punk'd". Rory: You didn't call me Hester Prynne once.
Hester Prynne is the one of the main characters from the book The Scarlet Letter who committed adultry.
Paris: I don't want to be the story at my own newspaper, because then I'd be Judith Miller, and I'd have to wear my bangs too long, and overdo my lipstick.
Judith Miller was a New York Times journalist who refused to reveal a leak that named a covert CIA agent. She began working for the Times in 1977 and retired in 2005.
Luke: My motto is "Everything in moderation".
Richard: Smart. Very Walden-esque.
Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, is an essay about life at Walden Pond while Thoreau lived alone in the forest.
Paris: That secret meeting weeks ago at the pub where you set the putsch in motion. What happened? There wasn't a beer hall available?
Adolf Hitler's original plan to come into power was a putsch that he planned in a beer hall.