Yanic Truesdale (Michel) and Keiko Agena (Lane) do not appear in this episode.

This episode marks Matt Czuchry's (Logan) and Liza Weil's (Paris) final appearance on the series.

This episode marks Rory Gilmore's graduation from Yale University.

This is David Sutcliffe's (Christopher) first appearance since "Farewell, My Pet" and is also his final appearance on the series.

Original Episode Title: "The Beginning of the End of the Beginning"

Lorelai: (to Christopher) Honey, tell me what time it is. I told everyone I'd notice the exact time so when we do the reenactment they have the exact...
Richard: Lorelai, I will note the time, I will take the photo. You just sit there and enjoy your daughter's graduation from Yale. This is as much your moment as Rory's. Enjoy it.

Emily: Just so you know, I read in The New York Times that people are getting married younger and younger these days.
Lorelai: Well, the good news is if it was in The New York Times, Rory saw it and filed it away.

Lorelai: What do you mean peanuts don't grow on trees?
Rory: Mom, trust me. I'm a college graduate.

Luke: Some people need time.
Lorelai: Or they're never ready.
Luke: Well, I wouldn't say never. They want to be careful. They're a little slower to make sure it's right.
Lorelai: You can't always be 100 percent sure. Sometimes you take a leap of faith.
Luke: You have to know what you're leaping into.
Lorelai: After all this time, how can you not know?
Luke: Who not know?
Lorelai: Rory.
Luke: Right. Rory.

Rory: Alright, listen, I’m gonna go. Logan and I have this romantic afternoon planned.
Lorelai: Oh, really?
Rory: We’re spackling.
Lorelai: Oh, well, uh, spackle well, or, whatever one says to encourage a successful spackle.
Rory: Have a good spackle?
Lorelai: Spackle on?
Rory: Break a spackle?
Lorelai: Knock on spackle, things work out?

Lorelai: All right, we can check the cake off our list. What else do I need to remember?
Sookie: Don't worry cause I prefer footballs basically.
Lorelai: What?!
Sookie: Don't worry cause I prefer footballs basically.
Lorelai: Huh?
Sookie: It's a pneumatic device. Dress, wedges, champagne, ice, plastic flutes, beaded clutch. Beaded clutch is one word.
Lorelai: And pantyhose.
Sookie: Don't worry cause I prefer footballs basically, Polly.
Lorelai: And tissues and my camera.
Sookie: Don't worry cause I prefer footballs basically, Polly ... teased ... Chad.
Lorelai: Why would Polly tease Chad about footballs?
Sookie: I don't know. Maybe Polly prefers soccer balls.
Lorelai: That doesn't make any sense!
Sookie: (laughing) Well, then stop adding stuff to the list!

(to Rory, singing)
Richard: You’re the top. You have graduated.
Emily: You’re the top. Your grandparents are elated.
Richard: Newspaper editor. Phi Beta Cappa, wow!
Emily: You’re a revelation. A huge sensation.
Richard: You should take a bow.
Emily: You are done. No more school for you.
Richard: There is nothing now that you can’t do.
Emily: You make us proud. We’ll sing it loud.
Richard: It’s true!
Emily and Richard: 'Cause our Rory, you’re a Bulldog through and through!

Logan: You amaze me, Rory Gilmore. Every day. Everything that you do. Everything that you are. This past year I realized that I don’t know a lot more than I thought I knew. If that makes sense. Sorry, I’m a little bit nervous! I didn’t think I would be. What I’m trying to say is that I don’t know a lot. But I know that I love you. And I want to be with you. Forever. Rory Gilmore, will you marry me?

Rory: Logan, I'm sorry. I can't. I love you. You know how much I love you. I love the idea of being married to you. But there are just a lot of things in my life right now that are undecided, which used to scare me, but now I kind of like that it's all wide open. And if I married you, it just wouldn't be.
Logan: So, what? I move to San Francisco, you stay back east, and we see each other occasionally?
Rory: Well, we can try long distance. We've done it before.
Logan: You really think that would work?
Rory: I think it would be hard, but--
Logan: I don't want to do that, Rory. I don't want to move backwards. If we can't take the next step --
Rory: What?
Logan: It's just --
Rory: Does it have to be all or nothing?
Logan: Yeah, it does.
Rory: We could try.
Logan: What's the point?
Rory: So ...
Logan: So... (Rory gives Logan back the ring box; Logan reluctantly takes it back) Good bye, Rory. (walks away)

Lorelai: How you doing, honey?
Rory: Oh, okay.
Lorelai: Yeah?
Rory: Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not okay, I feel awful. I feel sick. I miss him already.
Lorelai: I know.
Rory: And it just sucks, you know, because I graduated today. This was supposed to be a happy day in my life, and now every time I look back on it, I'm going to think of this horrible thing that happened.
Lorelai: I'm sorry. But I think you made the right decision.
Rory: You do?
Lorelai: I do. One day, you'll meet someone, and you'll just know that it's right. You won't want to hesitate.
Rory: I hope so.
Lorelai: I really do believe it.

When Rory and Lorelai are outside Luke's, the same blue car drives behind them twice.

Lorelai goes to Weston's in the beginning of the episode to pick up Rory's cake, yet when she and Sookie leave the bakery, they don't take the cake.

Episode Title: Unto The Breach

Unto The Breach is the title of a novel by John Ringo. "Unto the breach" is also a part of a line from Shakespeare's Henry V: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more."

Rory: Milan Kundera is speaking at our graduation.
Lorelai: Oh.
Rory: What you're not a bit Kundera fan?
Lorelai: No, I'm unbearably light on him.

Milan Kundera is a writer best-known for his 1984 novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Lorelai: Oh, like David Blaine.

David Blaine is an illusionist who, like Kirk in this episode, spent 44 days in a plexiglass box suspended in the air.

Emily: This woman keeps rocking back and forth. It’s like sitting behind Ray Charles.

Pianist and singer Ray Charles often rocked back and forth while performing.

Emily: Apparently Lorelai has invoked the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” rule.
Richard: Bill Clinton. That's a speaker I would have enjoyed.

During the Clinton administration, Clinton passed a military policy known as the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", which prohibits the military from discriminating based on sexual orientation.