Episode Quotes
Lorelai: Hey, how would you feel about doing a little shopping tomorrow?
Rory: Hurt. Confused. A little dirty.
Finn: Who's as drunk as I am?
Colin: No one since Spencer Tracy died.
Luke: You're gonna make yourself sick.
Lorelai: Yes, but my sickness will remind me of you, so it'll be romantic.
Luke: Romantic nausea.
Kirk: I get that all the time.
Episode Goofs
When Luke and Lorelai eat ice cream in her kitchen, Luke opens the drawer to get two spoons, but doesn't shut the drawer. However, when the shot includes the drawer again, it's closed.
At the diner when Lorelai is eating a plate of fries, in one shot the plate is full of fries, the next it's empty, but when the shot returns to the plate, it's once again full.
At the Inn, Lorelai tells Michel and Sookie that she's going to run over to Luke's for a bit then come right back to finish the setup. During this scene it is clearly light outside, but when she arrives at Luke's, it is dark outside.
Cultural References
Episode Title: Pulp Friction
The episode title is a play on the film title Pulp Fiction.
Colin: No one since Spencer Tracy.
Spencer Tracy is an actor that was popular in the 1930s and 40s and had a drinking problem.
Colin: You have blonde hair and a tag that says Mira Sorvino.
Quentin Tarantino, the director of Pulp Fiction and actress Mira Sorvino dated in the late 1990s.
Michel: Block it with your body. Tiananmen Square, be a hero.
Student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China turned deadly when a student stood in front of tanks to keep them from going any further.