Episode Quotes
Luke: (Bringing the food over to Lorelai and Rory) Hot plates.
Lorelai: See? He called me "Hot Plates." He so likes me.
Lorelai: This has been a great first date.
Luke: It only took us eight years to get here.
Lorelai: You gestured?
Luke: Those jeans are really working for you.
Lorelai: Yeah?
Luke: They're working for me too.
Lorelai: You're flirting with me...
Luke: Something like that.
Lorelai: Finally! Do it some more.
Luke: Your shoes work great with that shirt.
Lorelai: Gee, Carson, thanks.
Rory: Heart attack? Umm.. it wasn't during... umm... was it?
Paris: No Rory! This great man was not brought down by my vagina!
(about the horoscope)
Luke: She asked me my birthday. I wouldn't tell her, she wouldn't stop talking, finally I gave in. I told her my birthday. She went and got the newspaper, opened it up to the horoscopes page, wrote something down, tore it out, handed it to me. So I was looking at this piece of paper in my hand, and under Scorpio, she had written: 'You will meet an annoying woman. Give her coffee, and she'll go away.' So I gave her coffee.
Lorelai: But she didn't go away!
Luke: She told me to hold onto that horoscope, put it in my wallet, and one day it would bring me luck.
(Luke takes his wallet out and shows Lorelai the horoscope)
Lorelai: Boy, I will say anything for a cup of coffee! (long pause) I can't believe you kept this. You kept this in your wallet? You kept this in your wallet...
Luke: Eight years.
Lorelai: Eight years.
Rory: Asher Fleming died.
Marty: In bed?
Rory: No.
Marty: Damn. I lost the pool.
Luke: Lorelai, this thing we're doing here -- me, you -- I just want you to know I'm in. I am all in. (watches her reaction) Does that, uh -- are you, uh, scared?
(Lorelai blushes and smiles at Luke)
Lorelai: All right, but no taking me to an art museum after hours and then to an empty Hollywood Bowl where you'll give me a pair of diamond earrings that you bought with your college money, when all the time you're really in love with your best friend, the drummer, who's posing as our driver for the evening.
Luke: (Pause) Okay, I'll think of something else.
Cultural References
Episode Title: Written in the Stars
"Written in the Stars" is the title of a song by Elton John and Tim Rice that was used in the musical Aida.
Character: Logan Huntzberger
Logan's last name is a reference to the Sulzbergers, the family that owns the New York Times.
Paris: He's my Mike Todd.
Mike Todd is a film producer who was married to Elizabeth Taylor at the time of his death.
Babette: The times, they are a-changin'.
Babette is referring to the Bob Dylan song of the same name.
Gypsy: You got in, you turned on your car, and then you whipped out of that space like you were Lizzie Grubman.
Publicist Lizzie Grubman backed her SUV into a crowd of people outside a nightclub in the Hamptons and injured 16 people in the process.
Lorelai: All right, but no taking me to an art museum after hours and then to an empty Hollywood Bowl where you'll give me a pair of diamond earrings that you bought with your college money, when all the time you're really in love with your best friend, the drummer, who's posing as our driver for the evening.
Lorelai is describing a scene from the movie Some Kind of Wonderful.
Rory: Crazy.
Lorelai: You said it, Patsy Cline.
"Crazy", a song written by Willie Nelson was one of Patsy Cline's most well-known and successful hits.
Paris: It'll be the Mountain Girl trial all over again.
Greatful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's estate was sued by his ex-wife who was known as "Mountain Girl" during her hippie days in the 1960s.
Lorelai: Did Paul Thomas Anderson write this?
Paul Thomas Anderson is the writer and director of Magnolia, a movie that is over 3 hours long.