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Dean was looming over Rory like the character in "Rosemary's Baby."
Lorelai: "On the way home, you can pull a Menendez"
Eric and Lyle Menendez were convicted of murdering their parents in a sensational trial.
Lorelai: "You're a regular Jack Kerouac."
Jack Kerouac, a famous writer known for going on long cross-country road trips, immortalized his travels in "On the Road".
Rory: "God, RuPaul doesn't use that much make-up."
RuPaul is a famous drag queen diva and former talk show host.
Lorelai: "Look, Officer Krupke, she's right at that table, right over there."
Officer Krupke was the beat cop in both the play and the movie versions of "West Side Story".
Lorelai: Lorelai: "You'll have to walk faster than that. You're gonna have to turn into frigging Flo Jo to get away from me."
Flo Jo, Florence Griffith Joyner, a world record setting track star, won a silver medal in the 200 meter dash at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and three gold medals and one silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Lorelai: Lorelai: "Aw, you're not gonna give me the Mommie Dearest treatment forever, are you?"
"Mommie Dearest" is the title of the book and the movie written by Christina Crawford, Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, about the horrific abuse the movie star inflicted on her children.
2. The Lorelais' First Day At Chilton-
Lorelai: "It'd be all work and no play. Have you not seen 'The Shining', Mom?"
Based on Stephen King's novel of the same name, "The Shining" is a horror movie by Stanley Kubrick about a family which takes a job to watch a hotel during the winter. The father goes crazy and ends up on a killing frenzy, repeatedly saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".
Rory: Rory: "I want to go to Harvard to study journalism and political science." Hanlin Charleston: "On your way to being?" Rory:"Christiane Amanpour."
Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent.
Lorelai: Lorelai: "Sweetie, you can't let those kids get you down. Do you want me to talk to anybody? A parent, a teacher, a big guy named Moose?"
Moose is an Archie Comics character who's big and strong and kind of dumb, but has a heart of gold.
3. Kill Me Now-
Michel: "To me, you are the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoon."
Charlie Brown is one of the characters in the "Peanuts" comic strip and television shows. The voices and faces of adults in those television shows are blurred and indistinct.
Lorelai: "It's like a really snooty Doublemint commercial."
Commercials for Wrigley's Doublemint gum were famous for using sets of twins to pitch the product.
Drella: "Hey, Pepe Le Pew, you want to give me a hand with this?"
Pepe Le Pew, a famous Warner Brothers' cartoon character, is a skunk who speaks with a heavy French accent.
Richard: "It's Peyton Place."
Peyton Place, Grace Metalious's 1956 best selling novel which was made into popular movies and television series, details the steamy secrets of sex and murder in a small New England town.
Babette: "Morey was playing some Thelonious on the Steinway."
Thelonious Monk was one of a small group of jazz musicians responsible for the creation of a new type of jazz bebop. Steinway is a famous piano brand.
4. The Deer Hunters-
Lorelai: "These erasers are on lithium. So, they seem cheerful, but we caught them trying to shove themselves in the pencil sharpener."
Lithium is a drug often used in the treatment of bipolar disorder (formerly known as manic depression).
Drella: "Back off, Chevalier."
Maurice Chevalier was a a famous French actor who was considered the protoype of the galant Frenchman.
Lorelai: "Wouldn't want you to get in trouble with Il Duce here."
"Il Duce" was the nickname of Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator who ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943.
Title: The Deerhunters
This is an homage to the movie "The Deerhunter" which tells the stories of Vietnam vets who have difficulty adjusting to civilian life, creating a parallel to Rory's difficulty adjusting to Chilton.
5. Cinnamon's Wake-
Rory: "They expect things to be homemade." Lorelai:"I know." Rory: "By someone other than Dolly Madison."
"Dolly Madison" is the brand name of a line of cake and pastry snack foods.
Lorelai: "It's like a scene from the kitty version of Valley of the Dolls."
"The Valley of the Dolls" is Jacqueline Susann's famous 1960's novel, later made into a movie, about drug use among a group of Hollywood starlets.
6. Rory's Birthday Parties-
Emily: "My daughter, Henny Youngman."
Henny Youngman was a comedian famous for his one liners, including the classic "Take my wife, please."
Lorelai: "I'm shopping for Rory. You're shopping for your imaginary granddaughter, Barbara Hutton."
Barbara Hutton was an heir to the Woolworth fortune known for her lavish lifestyle, love of shopping, and lavishing expensive gifts on strangers willing to pay her a little attention.
Lorelai: "You walk into Denny's before 5:00 p.m., you've got yourself a discount."
Denny's is a restaurant chain which offers discounts to senior citizens who dine before 5:00 p.m.
Lorelai: "I think Edith Wharton would have been proud, and busy taking notes."
Edith Wharton, the American novelist and short story writer, was born into a wealthy family, and her works such as "The House of Mirth", "Ethan Frome", and "The Age of Innocence" often examine the world of the privleged.
7. Kiss and Tell-
Luke: "Sorry, I guess my pod's defective."
"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" was a 1956 movie in which alien beings sent out pods that cloned humans while they slept.
Lorelai: "I'm not gonna talk about how good you'd look dressed like one of the guys from 'The Crucible'."
"The Crucible", a play written by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials, is a thinly veiled critique of the infamous McCarthy hearings in the 1950s.
Lorelai: "Yeah, by the time that gets to Miss Patty's it's a scene from 'Nine 1/2 Weeks'."
"Nine 1/2 Weeks" is a movie starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Bassinger about a couple who meet and have a torrid affair for nine 1/2 weeks.
Rory: "You're like a crazy Elsa Klensch."
Elsa Klensch is a fashion/style journalist for CNN.
8. Love and War and Snow-
Lorelai: Well, don't panic. I'll get the ark, you get the animals.
Lorelai is referencing the story from Genesis 6-8 in the Bible, in which Noah, in order to avoid an impending catastrophic flood, was commanded by God to build an ark and collect two of each animal in the world.
9. Rory's Dance-
Rory: "Call me pony-boy."
She is left out at Chilton as pony-boy was left out in the novel "The Outsiders".
Rory and Lane: Rory:"He's my gentleman caller." Lane:"Okay, Blanche."
Blanche Dubois, the central character in Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire", often refers her suitors as "gentleman callers".
Emily: "You're not using the curtains, are you?"
In a scene from "Gone with the Wind" later famously parodied by Carol Burnett, an improverished Scarlett O'Hara makes a dress from her velvet curtains when war time shortages leave her with no other available material.
Lorelai: "You could have gotten Fred MacMurray to off dad if you really wanted to."
In the movie "Double Indemnity", Barbara Stanwyck's character seduces Fred MacMurray's character into killing her husband.
10. Forgiveness and Stuff-
Luke: "How about Jimmy Hoffa? That'll take you a while."
Jimmy Hoffa, former head of the Teamsters Union, has been missing since 1975.
Rory: "Things are still very Miracle Worker at my home."
"The Miracle Worker" is a play, later made into a movie, about Annie Sullivan's struggle to teach Helen Keller.
Lorelai: "Where's the Scarecrow when you need him."
Lorelai references the scene in "The Wizard of Oz" where Dorothy is lost and the Scarecrow helps her with directions.
Lorelai: "I'll never be able to understand what Charo is saying."
Charo, a Spanish entertainer who had some success in the 60s and 70s, was renowned for shaking her hips while squealing "Cuchi-Cuchi!".
11. Paris is Burning -
Lorelai: "This was like a Damien hamster with little beady eyes, and a big forked tail and a cape with a hood."
Damien, the main character in the "Omen" movies, is the devil.
Rory and Lorelai: Rory: "Oscar." Lorelai:" Felix."
Oscar and Felix are the two roommates in Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple". Oscar Madison is a slob, and Felix Unger is a neat freak.
Lorelai: "Like a normal hello, not like a 'Here's Johnny' kind of hello."
In "The Shining", the main character terrorizes his family by chopping a hole in the door they've barricaded themselves behind and saying 'Here's Johnny' with a crazed look on his face.
12. Double Date -
Lorelai: "After three cheeseburgers, you're done unless you're expecting Elijah to stop by."
During the Passover seder, a cup of wine is set aside in the belief that the prophet Elijah will visit.
13. Concert Interruptus-
Rory: "This stuff is like tribbles."
This refers to the "Star Trek" episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" which featured small, furry, little creatures that reproduced at an alarming rate and took over the U.S.S. Enterprise.
Paris: "...and before it's dark, they'll have every picnic basket that's in Jellystone Park."
This a line from the theme song for "The Yogi Bear Show". Yogi and his pal Boo-Boo were always trying to filch picnic baskets at Jellystone Park. Paris thinks the boys will get phone numbers from all the girls during the concert.
Rory: "They've just moved off the plan to dump the pig's blood on me at prom."
Rory is referencing a pivotal scene from Stephen King's novel "Carrie".
14. That Damn Donna Reed-
Taylor and Lorelai: Taylor: "You've got trouble!" Lorelai: "Right here in River City."
These are lines from a song in "The Music Man", which was filmed on the set that "Gilmore Girls" now uses.
15. Christopher Returns-
Christopher: "And you were the girl in the Pinky Tuscadero T-shirt, sitting right next to me."
Pinky Tuscadero was a character on "Happy Days" who stole Fonzie's heart.
16. Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers-
Title: Star-Crossed Lovers
The title is a reference to William Shakespeare's description of "Romeo and Juliet" in the play's prologue as "a pair of star-cross'd lovers".
Rory: "Well, that special occasion better include my being relocated to a plastic bubble if my grandmother's going to let me out of dinner."
"The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" was a 1976 movie about a boy whose malfunctioning immune system forced him to live in a protective environment which looked like a large plastic bubble.
Paris: "Right behind Belle Watling."
Belle Watling was the madam who befriended Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind".
Lorelai: "We're having a great conversation, me and Morrie."
This reference's Mitch Abom's best seller "Tuesdays with Morrie" which detailed his weekly conversations with his former college professor and mentor Morrie Schwartz.
Chase Bradford: "That's right, Leopold and Loeb."
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were infamous thrill killers who were convicted of the 1924 kidnap and murder of a young boy in Chicago.
Chase Bradford: "I'm no Kreskin."
The Amazing Kreskin was a famous mentalist who was an entertainment fixture in the 1970s, and who probably served as the inspiration for Johnny Carson's hilarious "Karnak the Magnificent" sketches.
17. The Breakup, Part 2-
Lorelai: "Honey, why don't you just stay home and read ‘The Bell Jar'? Same effect."
"The Bell Jar" is a semi-autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath, who later commited suicide.
18. The Third Lorelai-
Rory and Louise: Rory: "Nietzsche?" Louise: "Dawson."
Nietzsche was a famous German philosopher; Dawson is the main character in the television show "Dawson's Creek".
Lorelai: "Stupid, naked Angel butts. What, did David Mamet just stop by?"
Davd Mamet is a poet, playwright, and author whose dialogue often consists of sentence fragments which juxtapose odd images.
Louise: "We'll turn you from a sweet Sandy into a slutty Sandy dancing at the school fair in high heels, black spandex and permed hair."
Louise is referencing a scene from "Grease".
Lorelai: "I don't care if she buys a house or a boat or the Elephant Man's bones."
John Merrick suffered from physical deformities which led to his being called "The Elephant Man".
19. Emily in Wonderland-
"Emily in Wonderland"
The title refers to Lewis J. Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland". Emily, metaphorically transported through the looking glass, sees Lorelai's and Rory's first home and experiences Stars Hollow's quaintness and idiocyncracies, which are a kind of wonderland to Emily.
Sookie: "The Lost Weekend"
Sookie compares Rune's stay at Jackson's to the movie about an alcoholic's four day drinking binge which seems to drag on forever.
Lorelai: "I don't want Boo Radley touching my rosebud wallpaper."
Boo Radley, a character in Harper Lee's novel "To Kill A Mockingbird", is shy and withdrawn and seldom comes out of his house, which causes the children in the neighborhood to beleive he's sort of a bogeyman.
Emily: "It's like 'The Grapes of Wrath'."
"The Grapes of Wrath" is a John Steinbeck novel which chronicles one family's struggle during the Depression.
Lane: "It's like watching the Williams sisters."
Serena and Venus Williams are two of the top female tennis players in the world.
Lorelai: "I talk, I think I'm being clear, and all she hears is:'Blah, blah, blah, Ginger."
A famous Gary Larson Farside cartoon has one panel with the caption: "What you say" and shows a man scolding his dog saying, "Oh Ginger, that was a bad thing! You're a bad, bad dog, Ginger." The next panel has the caption: "What a dog hears" and shows the dog hearing: "Blah Ginger, blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah, Ginger."
20. P.S. I Lo... -
Lorelai: "Okay, you've been in this mood for a week now, and while I love the unexpected ups and downs of motherhood, I've got to say I'm tired of Goofus and I'd like my Gallant back."
Gallant and Goofus are two characters from "Highlights" who illustrate life lessons. Goofus is the one who is selfish and inevitably does things wrong, while Gallant is the open-hearted one who does things right.
21. Love, Daisies, and Troubadours-
Lorelai and Luke: Luke: "That Stretch Cunningham guy?" Lorelai: "No, the Dick Tracy guy."
Stretch Cunningham was a character on "All in the Family"; Dick Tracy was a detective in the comics, radio, movies, and tv.
Lorelai: "And that starts with ceasing work on the Winchester Mystery House here."
The Winchester Mystery House was built by the widow of William Winchester. Told that her family had been cursed because of the deaths caused by the Winchester repeating rifle, she decided to build a house that was like a labryinth so that any vengeful spirits coming to visit her would get lost in the maze. Rumored to be haunted, the house has been designated a California historical landmark.
Rory and Louise: Rory: "Mary? Oh no, not the Virgin Mary thing again." Louise: "Not virgin, Typhoid."
Mary Mallon, a cook in late 19th and early 20th centuries, was a healthy carrier of the bacteria that caused typhoid fever. She earned the nickname "Typhoid Mary" after 33 people who came in contact with her became ill, and 3 of them died, from typhoid fever.
Kirk and Michel: Kirk: "I don't question the orders. I merely follow them." Michel: "A job well done, Mr Adolph Eichmann."
Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi officer who implemented orders resulting in the deaths of thousands in German concentration camps. His defense at his trial for war crimes was that he was just following orders.
