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  Episode Information  
Title: The Lorelais' First Day at Yale
Also Known As: Der erste Tag ( Germany)
Episode Number: 67
Season: 4
Season Episode #.: 2
Production Number: 176152
Original Airdate: Tuesday September 30th, 2003
10/10 (2 Votes cast)
Other Release Dates: (Edit)
Country: Aired On:
Germany Oct 11, 2004
Episode Crew
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Daniel Palladino
  Episode Summary  
A certain, special student from Chilton is now one of Rory suitemates at Yale. Plus, there is one more surprise; Rory finds she is not quite ready to part from Lorelai.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Guest Stars
Aasha DavisplayedSusanRecurring (first appearance)
Aris AlvaradoplayedCaesarRecurring (third appearance)
Mitch SilpaplayedTerrenceRecurring (first appearance)
Nicole MansourplayedDianeRecurring (first appearance)
Olivia HackplayedTana SchrickRecurring (first appearance)
Alan OppenheimerplayedMr. Blodgett 
Allan WassermanplayedMr. Stein #2 
Garret EdlingtonplayedPizza Delivery Guy 
Howard S. MillerplayedMr. Stein #1 
Jake BernplayedIce Cream Guy 
John H. TobinplayedWaiter 
Joy DarashplayedTess 
Robert CicchiniplayedRussell Bynes 
  Main Cast  
Lauren GrahamplayedLorelai Gilmore
Alexis BledelplayedRory Gilmore
Melissa McCarthyplayedSookie St. James
Scott PattersonplayedLuke Danes
Edward HerrmannplayedRichard Gilmore
Kelly BishopplayedEmily Gilmore
Yanic TruesdaleplayedMichel Gerard
Keiko AgenaplayedLane Kim
Liza WeilplayedParis Gellar
Sean GunnplayedKirk Gleason
  Episode Notes  
Every scene at Yale is filmed on the set which specifically built to replicate actual locations at Yale University in Connecticut.
 
Rory's dorm suite is actually twice as big as any dorm at Yale in order for the cameras to be able to get the shots necessary.
 
It took $650,000 to build the set Gilmore Girls uses for shots at Yale.
 
  Featured Songs  
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
Fountains of WayneBright Future In Sales 
Sam PhillipsTell Her What She Wants To Know 
  Episode Quotes  
Paris: So do you like your adoptive parents?
Tanna: Yeah.
Paris: I think it's good to be adopted. If you get sick of them, you can just dump this set and go find the originals.
 
Lorelai: This parent orientation I went to is a non-stop litany of the horrors of meeting college freshmen. You're supposed to carry a whistle, a flashlight, a crucifix, and a loaded Glock with you at all times.
 
(in French accents)
Lorelai: That'll get the girls talking. We'll be those dirty, filthy, almost-French Stars Hollow girls. Oh, we spit on you, you repressed puritanical ninnies.
Rory: We smirk in your general direction.
Lorelai: We cast sidelong glances that are vague but slightly threatening.
Rory: We eschew your quaint double entendre for the appealing lasciviousness of the entendre singular.
Lorelai: We ... eh ... I'm out.
 
Rory: Everything's so foreign. I have to share a bathroom. I've never shared a bathroom with anyone but you. So I'm gonna be running into people in the bathroom, we're gonna have to make small talk. I don't know any bathroom small talk.
Lorelai: Um ... gee, your hair smells terrific?
 
Luke: A shift diagram for the truck, nice and simple. "D" is for drive, "R" is for --
Lorelai: The "R" in drive!
Luke: "R" is for reverse.
Lorelai: Right, reverse.
Luke: And "1" is --
Lorelai: The loneliest number that you'll ever know!
 
Rory: Say something to make me hate you.
Lorelai: Go Hitler?
 
Lorelai: I can't take the mattress.
Luke: Then you can't have the truck.
Lorelai: And that sticks you with the mattress.
Luke: We've been here before.
Lorelai: I recognize that tree.
 
  Episode Goofs  
When Lorelai is taking pictures of Rory, the lens cap is on.
 
  Cultural References  
(to Tanna after learning she's sixteen)
Lorelai: Happy birthday, Doogie.

Lorelai is referring to Doogie Howser, the main character of the television show Doogie Howser, M.D., a child prodigy who gets his medical license from Princeton when he is sixteen.
 
Rory: I look like Keith Richards at Altamont.

Altamont is a speedway in Northern California that hosted a music festival in December 1969 where the Rolling Stones played and several poor quality drugs were present.
 
Rory: Of all the gin joints...

Rory is quoting part of a line from the movie Casablanca spoken by Rick: "Of all the gin joins in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."
 
Luke: His name is Don Dewey. He is from the firm Dewey, Chetem, and Howe.

Dewey, Chetem, Howe is the name of the fake lawfirm set up by Curly, Lary and Moe on The Three Stooges Show.
 
Rory: My nose, it feels like clay.

While speaking this line, Rory pushes her nose off to the side of her face, similar to a scene from an episode of I Love Lucy in which Lucy makes a fake nose out of clay for a disguise.
 
Lorelai: That's the Yale-supplied mattress that has microbes in it that date back to Henry Box Brown.

Henry Box Brown was a slave from Virginia who was sent in a 3 foot by 2 foot box to a member of the Underground Railroad to escape slavery.
 
Rory: You're having serious Annie Leibovitz delusions here.

Annie Leibovitz is a famous photographer most noted for her portraits of rock and roll personalities for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.
 
  Episode References  
The Lorelai's First Day at Yale

Both the title and the storyline parallel the episode "The Lorelai's First Day at Chilton".
 
  Analysis  
 
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