Episode Quotes
Rory: Okay, so I've got an idea.
Lorelai: Finally, this Yale thing's kicking in.
Paris: People came to America to escape religious persecution.
Marty: Well, what religion is anti-leftovers?
Emily: You see a man. You walk up to him, and you say -
Lorelai: Hello.
Emily: Is that too forward?
Lorelai: Hi, T.J.
T.J.: Three feet, Lorelai, because I haven't showered in as many days.
Lorelai: Uh, bye, T.J.
(about Emily wanting to start to date)
Rory: What? Why?
Lorelai: He wouldn't butter her roll.
Sookie: When I worry too much about how I'm treating Jackson, I just remember Brandy.
Lorelai: Brandy?
Sookie: Christopher's Brandy.
Lorelai: Christopher's Sherry?
Sookie: Oh, I knew it was something like that.
Emily: I think it's time for me to date.
Lorelai: (chokes on her drink) Oh my God!
Emily: I want to go on a date.
Lorelai: With a man?
Emily: No, a weasel. Of course with a man!
Lorelai: I'm not hearing this!
Emily: Well, why shouldn't I date? I'm still a viable commodity.
Lorelai: I need a paper towel and a valium, please.
Episode Goofs
When Lorelai and Rory leave Friday Night Dinner, part of the camera can be seen in the top left corner of the screen.
While at lunch at the Dragonfly, a lady with a denim jacket walks by in the same direction twice.
Cultural References
Emily: The facts are he's moved on, and therefore I should move on also.
Lorelai: Absolutely. Move on dot org.
MoveOn.org is a liberal political action group website.
Rory: Apparently that wasn't enough Peyton Place for me.
Peyton Place is a 1960s TV series based on a movie and a book that told the scandalous stories of the residents in a small New England town.
Lorelai: I thought you'd turned Amish and couldn't make any calls until Rumspringa.
Runspringa is a coming of age time in which Amish teenagers are allowed to experience modern technology before they either committ to the Amish lifestyle or remain in the modern world.
Lorelai: Good thing we ditched that Audi in Marseilles, now we just have to find that tracking device.
Lorelai is referring to a scene from The Bourne Supremacy.
Lorelai: I'm confused, I was going to hit the Orpheum Circuit with that bit.
The Orpheum Circuit refers to a chain of film houses in the 1920s featuring vaudeville and silent movies.
Lorelai: (to Emily, who is wearing a slip and bed jacket) Just tell him you're obsessed with Butterfield 8 and go like that.
Butterfield 8 is a 1960 movie starring Elizabeth Taylor as a promiscuous model. In some ads and posters for the movie, Taylor is dressed similarly to what Emily is wearing in this scene.