22. Sadie, Sadie

Sookie: "Sadie, Sadie, married lady...meet a mortgagee!"

The title of this episode refers to the song "Sadie, Sadie" from "Funny Girl". Comparing herself to her married friend Sadie, Fanny sings the song right after she weds Nicky.

Lorelai: Sookie: "Who's catering?" Lorelai: "Bobby Flay."

Bobby Flay is a chef who hosts "Hot off the Grill with Bobby Flay", a popular cooking show on the Food Network.

Max: "Put Cujo on the phone please."

Cujo is rabid dog who is the title character in Stephen King's novel "Cujo".

Max: "Supposedly ripped off Zelda Fitzgerald's cold, dead hand."

Zelda Fitzgerald was married to the famous American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, and was renowed for her lavish lifestyle.

Lorelai and Rory: Lorelai: "Silly rabbit." Rory: "Timers are for kids."

This is a parody of the famous Trix cereal commercials in which the tag line is always: "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids."

Richard: "I'm going to give Rory that first edition of Mencken's Chrestomathy."

Mencken's Chrestomathy is a collection of writings by Baltimore journalist H.L. Mencken.

Bobby Flay- Celebrity chef made famous for the restaurant Mesa Grill but now perhaps better known for his Food Network show Hot Off The Grill With Bobby Flay.

Cher, Greg Allman- The singer Cher was married to Allman Brother Greg for nine days in 1975. They later reconciled, then divorced in 1977.

J. Edgar Hoover- Hoover was appointed head of the FBI in 1924 and hekd the position until his death in 1972. He was known for extensive files on politicions, celebrities and others.

Sally Field Movie- Refrence to the 1991 motion picture Not Without My Daughter.

Stephen Hawking- Famous scientist and author of the groundbreaking A Brief History of Time.

Zelda Fitzgerald- Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She eventually went crazy and was institutionalized.

23. Hammers and Veils

Lorelai: "Hmm, I wonder what that's all about. I guess we'll find out later, right? Hey, whatever happened to Xuxa?"

Xuxa was a Brazilian children's television host known for her revealing outfits (sort of a 1980s version of Charo). She briefly hosted an American version of her tv show in the 1990s.

Lorelai: "Yeah, well, by the time I could get my jaw off the ground, Speed Racer had taken my plate."

Speed Racer is a cartoon where the main character featuring an eighteen year old race car driver.

Lorelai: "I mean it Timmy, no falling down the well."

Timmy was the little boy in "Lassie".

Lane: "You'll read about it in my novel, A Connecticut Yankee in Pusan."

This is a play on words of Mark Twain's "A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".

Rory: "Why don't you go on inside and you and my mother can continue the 'Rory's building a house' routine and when that gets boring you can move on over to 'Who's on First?"

Who's on First was a famous comedy routine by Abbott and Costello.

Michel: "If I eat that, I cannot have my Boca Burger later."

The Boca Burger is a brand of meatless, soy based burgers found in the frozen food section of the grocery store.

A.J Benza- A fomer gossip columist for the New York Daily News, he hosted the now cancelled E! Mysteries & Scandals.

Boca Burger- Meatless soy-based hamburger substitute, found in your grocer's freezer aisle.

Castro- Feild Castro overthrew the Batista government in Cuba in 1959 and established a community state.

The Damned- English punk band formed in 1976. Their debut album Damned Damned Damned was released six months before The Sex Pistols' debut album Never Mind the Bollocks.

"The full on Diana"- Reference to Princess Diana and her famous fairy-tale wedding.

Mother Teresa- Famous Catholic nun who served the poor of Calcutta: she founded the Missionaries of Charity and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was also very short.

Princess Grace- Grace Kelly, thje American actress and star of Rear Window, retired from showbusiness when she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco. She died in 1982 in an automobile accident.

Thelma & Louise- Ridley Scott's 1991 film follows Thelma(Geena Davis) and Louise(Susan Sarandon) traveling cross-country, escaping the law, and driving off a cliff into the Grand Canyon.

"Who's on First"- Popular Abbot and Costello routine concerning a baseball team and the confusion over player names.

Xuxa- Bazillian children's television host who wore reveling outfits, she briefly hosted an American version of her show in the early nineties.

Bob Vila- Host of This Old House home improvement program.

24. Red Light On The Wedding Night

Lorelai: "Well, it ain't Guy Fawkes Day."

In 1605, a group in London attempted to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament. The explosives expert, Guy Fawkes, was captured and the plot was foiled. Every year in England the foiling of the plot is celebrated with fireworks and the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes.

Lorelai: "Byron and Lewis together again."

This is a reference to the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Lorelai: "Well, we are Electra Woman and Dyna Girl."

Saturday morning show about two superheroines played by Deidre Hall and Judy Strangis.

Billy Jack- 1971 film in which an ex-Green Beret karate expert fights to save a school from social injustice.

Jan- Jan Brady, often beleaguered middle child of The Brady Bunch.

Mensa- Mensa is an organization for people with high IQ's.

Mussolini- Benito Mussolini ruled Italy as a fascist dictator from 1922 to 1943.

N'sync- Formally popular boy band.

Richard Burton, Elizabeth taylor, Mike Todd- Actress Taylor was married to producer Todd in 1957 until his death a year later. She married actor Burton in 1964 and divorced him a decade later. They were remarried for a year in 1975.

Tony Manero- Character played by John travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

25. Road Trip To Harvard

Lorelai: "W.E.B. Du Bois, Yo-Yo Ma. Oh cool! Fred Gwynne."

William Edward Burghardt DuBois was a black activist; Yo-Yo Ma is a classical cellist; Fred Gwynne was an actor best known for his portrayal of Herman Munster.

Rory: "Okay, Rizzo."

Rizzo was the leader of the Pink Ladies in the play "Grease".

Harvard Professor: "By the time he was in his early forties, Seneca had earned enough money to acquire villas, farms, he ate well, he loved expensive furniture, but he didn't consider that a non-philosophical way to live."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman philosopher who championed stoicism.

Rory: "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown."

Rory repeats the last line from "Chinatown", a movie starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.

Lane: "Well, Mojo says. "

Mojo is a British music lover's guide to essential rock recordings.

David Lynch- Eerie filmmaker of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks fame.

"Forget it Jake it's Chinatown."- Famous falalistic last line from the film Chinatown.

Freud- Sigmund Freud was the Austrian inventor of psychoanalysis.

Liberace- Famous flamboyant pianist and entertainer.

Midnight Express- Drug-smuggling movie written by Oliver Stone.

Rizzo- Troblemaking character played by Stockard Channing in the movie Grease.

Space pen- Bullet-Shaped pen developed by NASA for use in space.

The Valley Girl Song- Novelty song that parodied San FernandoValley culture, or lack thereof, performed by Moon Unit Zappa.

26. Nick & Nora, Sid & Nancy

Lorelai: "Yes, I respect that, but what if he turns out to be Fredo? "

Fredo was a character in "The Godfather" who was murdered for betraying his family.

Rory: "Yeah, Riff, everything's fine."

Riff was the leader of the Jets in "West Side Story".

Lorelai: "Rory, this was a bad one, okay? This was not Nick and Nora, this was Sid and Nancy, and I'm not going in there."

Nick and Nora were the main characters in "The Thin Man" series. While they would often bicker, they were essentially a happily married couple. Sid and Nancy had a more volatile relationship. He was the heroin-addicted bassist for The Sex Pistols, and she was his girlfriend. He killed her in a drug induced haze, and later died from an overdose.

Luke: "The weekends are for chores and selected pre-approved outings, i.e. Kabbalah studies, freeway beautification projects, Color Me Mine pottery painting, all discussible options.

Kabbalah is a system of Jewish mysticism.

Rory: "Goodnight, Dodger."

The artful Dodger is a street urchin in "Oliver Twist" who befriends Oliver and helps him survive.

Breakfest Club- John Huughs film about ill-behaved kids and their saturday detention.

Dodger- the character of the Artful Dodger from the Dickens' novel Oliver Twist.

Dr.Laura- Dr.Lauran Schlesinger, television talk show host and self-help guru.

Fellini- Italian filmmaker renowned for his off-beat, sometimes surreal sequences.

Fredo- Ne're-do-well son of Don Coreone in The Godfather who- bemoaned his lack of power and respect.

Kabbalah- An aspect of Jewish mysticism that is an offshoot of traditional Judaism, Kabbalah is frequently misused by non-Jews and has been recently made famous by celebrities such as Madonna and Demi Moore

Mojo-British-music lover's guide to essential rock recordings.

Riff- Leader of Ney York City teenage gang The Jets in the musical West Side Story, Riff's death is the event that causes hero Tony to commit murder.

27. Presenting Lorelai Gilmore

Lorelai: "Okay, Liesl. I'm Brigitta, this is Gretl."

Upon hearing the maid's name is the same as the eldest von Trapp daughter, Lorelai calls herself and Rory two of the other von Trapp daughters from The Sound of Music.

Lorelai: "I think George and Martha are joining us for dinner."

Alcoholic, argumentative couple from 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'.

Lorelai: "Does Terence McNally know about you two."

Tony winning playwright.

Lorelai: "I am still convinced she had something to do with Lily Tomlin doing that movie with John Travolta."

Moment by Moment was a film starring John Travolta and Lily Tomlin about a May/December romance which was a critical and box-office bomb.

Lorelai: "You'll need shoes, hose, gloves, some mice, a dog, a pumpkin."

In the Disney version of Cinderella, the fairy godmother turns mice, a dog, and a pumpkin into horses, a footman, and a carriage.

Chris and Lorelai: Chris:"Well, did you tell her about Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Gloria Vanderbilt?" Lorelai:"Yes, and she's perfectly willing to marry Cary Grant, get offed by her crazy butler and start designing blue jeans as soon as the ball ends."

All three women were socialites. Barbara Hutton was heir to the Woolworth fortune and nicknamed Poor Little Rich Girl by the press. She married seven times, one of which to Cary Grant. Doris Duke was a recluse in her later years and some believe that her death was caused by overmedication administered by her butler. Gloria Vanderbilt was a spokesperson for the high end jeans line.

Christopher: "All your regular 976 numbers are busy."

In the U.S. 976 numbers are numbers that charge you for calling.

Lorelai: "Hey! Nobody puts Baby in the corner."

Quoting a line from the film Dirty Dancing in which Kelly Bishop played the mother.

Lorelai: "Look for the toxic cloud of Chanel and Final Net."

Chanel is a brand of expensive perfume and final net is a hairspray.

Rory: "Could be a real Cirque du Soleil kind of night."

Cirque du Soleil is a famous performing troop that does spectacular acrobatic feats.

Emily: "I wanted my granddaughter to be presented to society in a beautiful elegant ballroom, not a Shakey's."

Shakey's is a chain of pizza restaurants in the U.S.

Libby and Rory: Libby: "You know, they say four out of five debs marry their escorts." Rory:"Kind of like the dentists with Trident."

Trident gum used to advertise the fact that four out of five dentists recommended chewing the sugar free gum.

Lorelai: "Oh Shecky, you kill me.

Shecky Greene is a comedian and actor.

Battlebots- Television series on Comedy Central in which remote controlled robots attemped to destroy one another.

28. Like Mother Like Daughter

Lorelai:"Yeah, look Fat Albert. Get me a soda."

Fat Albert was a cartoon character created by Bill Cosby.

Francine: "So I drop a box of matches on the floor, she can tell me how many there are?"

In Rainman, Dustin Hoffman's character could instantly tell at a glance the number of any objects laid out in front of him.

Paris: Maybe someday I'll stumble into a Disney movie and suddenly be transported into your body, and after living there awhile, I'll finally realize the beauty of myself."

Describing the plot of Freaky Friday except it's a mother and daughter who switch bodies.

Rory: "I end up here with the Ya-Ya Sisterhood."

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was a novel by Rebecca Wells that becomae a movie.

Rory: "Paris, it's not the cosa nostra."

Another way of saying Mafia.

Rory: "Great movie. Oh wait, that was Coming Home. Sorry."

Coming Home is a movie about a soldier returning back from Vietnam with emotional and physical wounds.

Anne Sexton- American poet who won the Pukitzer Prize in 1967 and later lost a lifelong battle with mental illness and commited suicide

Gary Mule Deer- Comedian who frequently opens for Johnny Mathis

Sandra Day O'Connor- The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Snow White and Rose Red- Fairytale popularized by the Grimms that tell the story of sisters Snow White and Rose Red, named for two rose bushes in their mothers garden, one bearing white roses and the other red.

29. The Ins and Outs Of Inns

Rory: "I guess that's what you have to do when you're trying to be Holden Caulfield, but I think it stinks."

Holden Caulfield, the central character in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", so perfectly embodies cynical adolescence, it's almost an art form.

Lorelai: "Danger, Will Robinson, danger!"

This is the most famous catch-phrase from "Lost in Space", a science-fiction-adventure television show which aired in the mid-1960s.

Lorelai: "I was going for a Billy Idol thing."

Billy Idol was a bad boy of rock in the 80's. He had a perpetual sneer in almost all his videos.

Lorelai: "Hey, it didn't hurt Van Gogh, the guy should thank me."

Impressionist painter who was never appreciated during his lifetime. Some of his works include Starry Night and Sunflowers.

Lorelai: "Oh, how very John Birch Society of you."

Society whose goal is to preserve freedom in America.

Lorelai: "Ooh! Think hard, was he dressed like Sulu?"

Hiraku Sulu was the helmsman on the original Star Trek tv series.

Jess: "You actually went to that bizarro town meeting? Those things are so 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'"

Bizarro could refer to the comic strip written by Dan Piraro or it could be a reference to Bizarro from the Superman comics in which he is an exact opposite of Superman and in the Bizarro world everything is reversed. To Kill a Mocking Bird is a novel by Harper Lee, set in a small town.

Glitter- Mariah carey's 2001 box office disaster.

Monticello- The Virginia estate of founding father Thomas Jefferson.

"Phasers on stun"- Refers to the non-lethal setting of a standard issue phaser in Star Trek.

30. Run Away, Little Boy

Paris: Why don't they just sew our sides together and rename us Chang and Eng?

Chang and Eng were the original Siamese twins joined at the chest.

Sookie and Lorelai: Sookie:"A Musso Lussino 480!" Lorelai:"Somebody sent me a fascist ice cream maker?"

The ice cream maker sounds a lot like Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy from 1922-1943. Lorelai later calls the ice cream maker Il Duce which was Mussolini's nickname.

Lorelai: "Okay, once again, I bring up the fact that this is a wedding present, and as I am not getting married, neither God's law nor Emily Post allows me to keep this."

Emily Post came out with the definitive book on etiquette in 1922.

Sookie: "It's true. I saw it on Martha Stewart. She was doing one of those double programs, and the first half was on massaging your dog, and she had this chow and she was rubbing it… "

MArtha Stewart is the guru on homemaking.

Lorelai: "Okay, clearly this is shaping up to be one of those moments that St. Peter's gonna show on the big video screen when I die"

St. Peter is beleived by some to guard the gates to Heaven and won't let the undeserving in.

Paul: "The, uh, Twilight Zone marathon was on all week."

The Twilight Zone was a tv series about stories that ranged from comic to tragic but often had an unexpected twist at the end. The first series was hosted and created by Rod Serling and since then there have been at least two subsequent series and a movie.

Rory, Madeline, Louise: Rory:" Hey." Madeline:"Hey." Louise:"We're the Monkees."

^0's television show about struggling musicians. The group and the show was called The Monkees and the opening theme song included the line:" Hey, hey, we're the Monkees." The group also put out albums. However, the four Monkees (Davey Jones, Mickey Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith only sang vocals and did not play any of the instruments on their first two albums (except for Peter Tork who played guitar on one song from their first album). The show was cancelled in 1968 and the group disbanded two years later.

Paris: "Okay. Now I want everyone to read the chapters on acting I photocopied out of Houseman's Memoirs tonight. Everyone will be off book by Friday, and if you plan on missing rehearsal, you better bring a coroner's note."

John Houseman was an actor who worked in theatre, films and television and was a co-founder with Orson Welles of the Famous Mercury Theatre. Possibly best known for his role in The Paperchase movie and subsequent televsion series.

Lorelai: "Have you seen my bag with the beads and the fur, kind of looks like Stalin's head? "

Joseph Stalin was a Bolshevik Revolutionary and became General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party in 1922 after Lenin's death. He had won a power struggle with Leon Trotsky and afterwards he began The Great Purge in which he conslolidated his power. He introduced an economic and political system based on Marxist-Leninist ideology, which became known as Stalinism. He remained the Soviet leader until his death in 1953.

Paris: "Look, I understand the whole Mystic Pizza, small town, 'we don't let a clock run our lives' thing, but I come from the big city where money talks and I'm paying good money for this place and I have a schedule to keep."

Mystic Pizza was a movie about three young women who work at a pizza parlour in Mystic, Conneticut.

Louise: "What's with the cast from Cocoon?"

Cocoon was a movie about senior citizens who find themselves with renewed vigour after trespassing and swimming in a pool containing alien cocoons.

Lorelai: "He's never seen Ab Fab."

Ab Fab is short for Absolutely Fabulous, a scathing British comedy series about a daughter and her immature mother and the mother's equally immature friend.

Lorelai: "Plus, he's outdoorsy. Remember that Meryl Streep movie where she and her family take a rafting trip and then psycho Kevin Bacon forces them to take 'em down the river?"

Is describing the movie The River Wild.

Tristan: "Yeah, I think somehow I'll recover from the great romance between you and the Beave."

Comparing Dean to Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver. The main character on the 50's show Leave it to Beaver. The Beave was a goody goody kid who always tried to do the right thing.

Lorelai: "I mean it. Today is the day we finally spring for the Powerpuff girl shotglasses."

Powederpuff Girls is a cartoon show where three super-powered little girls constantly save the world.

Lorelai: "Luke. This is incredible. I go on one stupid date, and suddenly I'm the female Jerry Lee Lewis."

Jerry Lee Lewis is a singer who was popular in the 50's. He married his 14 year old second cousin in 1957.

Lorelai: "I wasn't running, he's not a kid. We had dinner. You say Chuck E. Cheese, I'll break your nose."

Chain of North American restaurants with entertainment designed for kids.

Luke and Lorelai: LUKE: "Doogie Howser was a doctor at sixteen." LORELAI:" Doogie Howser was not real."

Doogie Howser was a tv character, played by Neil Patrick Harris, who was a child genius and became a doctor as a teenager.

Paris: Hey, anyone stupid enough to hand out with Butch Cassidy and the Sun-dunce kid deserves whatever they get.

Obviously a take on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Outlaw bank robbibg team from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Madeline: It's very On the Town.

Musical starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Jules Mushin about three sailors on a 24 hour leave in New York.

Lorelai: So, um, judging by your Billy Graham impression, I am guessing that you didn't send me an ice cream maker

Billy Graham is a popular evangelist from the southern United States.

Sookie: Swear. Raise your right hand and say, 'May Destiny's Child break up if I count these blueberries.'

Female R & B group that was very popular in the 90's. They members include: Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Rowland and MIchelle Williams. The trio took a break in 2001 and treid solo careers, Beyonce having the most success of the three. They reunited in 2004 to release a new album and tour.

Lorelai: Okay, you know what Vanna? I'm gonna need a few more vowels here.

Vanna White lights up the letters on the gameshow Wheel of Fortune.

Lorelai: Yeah. Then at the play, right as Tristin enters to find you dead and pulls out the vial of poison to kill himself, Dean can leap from the audience and rip his head off, adding a level of reality few productions have ever seen before. You'll get an A. The

Inside the Actors Studio is a tv series in which famous directors, actors, and writers reminisce about their career. The host is James Lipton

Lorelai: Ugh, enough already! The horse is dead. His ashes have been sprinkled over the land. Let it rest.

Refers to the phrase: beating a dead horse, which means that you are becoming repetitive and redundant by continually bringing up a subject.

Lorelai: Okay, he was not that much younger than I am. I met him a business school, not his Bar Mitzvah. Business school has to indicate some kind of maturity, right?

Jewish religious ceremony for male when they reach the age of 13. It signifies that they have reached manhood. The female equivalent is a Bat Mitzvah.

31. The Bracebridge Dinner

Lorelai: Fine, I'll just use the Mrs. Potato Head lips.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head are plastic toys shaped like a potato in which you can remove and put on various facial features as well as limbs.

Rory and Loreali: RORY: Oh, we have to rent Godfather 3 on DVD. LORELAI: You're kidding. RORY: In the audio commentary, Coppola actually defends casting Sofia.

The Godfather III is the final movie in the Godfather trilogy and portrays Michael Corleone's decline and final days. Frances Ford Coppola directed all three installments and when Winona Ryder withdrew, he cast his daughter, Sofia, as Michael Corleone's daughter much to public and critical dismay.

Lorelai and Rory: RORY: We're competing against the Michelangelo of snow. LORELAI: And we're Ernest Builds a Snowman.

Michelangelo was a famous renissance artist and sculptor. Ernest is a hapless but well meaning character played by Jim Varney. He was first seen in tv commercials but as the character's popularity grew, he was eventually featured in a series of Ernest movies.

Michel: Stop jumping like a Mexican bean.

Mexican jumping beans were a fad in the 70's in which beans from a Mexican shrub were sold because they tended to spontaneously move. The reason they did that was because the beans contained caterpillars and moves when the caterpillars inside the bean moved.

Rune: I thought an alarm would go off like in The Thomas Crown Affair.

Referes to the 1999 version of The Thomas Crown Affair in which Pierce Brosnan plays an art thief who steals paintings.

Lorelai: We're beyond crazy. We are 'Anne Heche speaking her secret language to God and looking for the spaceship in Fresno' crazy.

In August of 2000 actress Anne Heche was found wandering in Fresno and knocked on strangers' door in a confused state.

Lorelai: Yeah, like play Running Charades, and get out that Slip 'n Slide.

Slip 'n' Slide is basically a long piece of plastic stretched out and wide enough to accomodate the average person. Water is placed on the slide and people run towards the "slide", fall down on the plastic and glide along the sheath of water.

Lorelai: It would be like The Shining, except instead of Jack Nicholson, we have Rune.

The SHining is a novel by Stephen King about the caretaker of an motel who slowly goes crazy and terrorizes his wife and son. It was made into a movie in 1980 and starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall. It was later made into a mini-series in 1997.

Lane: How's that Pixies reunion coming along?

The Pixies were an influential alternative rock band in the 80's. However, due to internal conflicts the band broke up in 1993 and there was much talk in 2001 (the time the show sired) about a possible reunion tour. The tour didn't happen until 2004.

Lorelai: Woody and Soon-Yi?

Woody Allen was seeing Mia Farrow when he fell in love with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi. Eventually he broke off his relationship with Mia and married Soon-Yi.

Morey and Babette: MOREY: Charlie Parker was late to everything. BABETTE: Charlie Parker had more drugs in him than a Rite-Aid. Forget Charlie Parker.

Charlie Parker was a Jazz musician who led a troubled life. Clint Eastwood would direct Bird, a movie about Charlie Parker's life. Rite-Aid is a chain of pharmacies in the U.S.

Rory: Hello there. Hey Clara. Nice, is that a Stella McCartney?

Stella McCartney is the daughter of Paul McCartney and a fashion designer who is friends with Madonna and Gwyenth Paltrow.

Sookie: No! It tastes too twentieth century guys. It's gotta shout Washington Irving, not Irving my accountant. It needs something, help me. What is it?

19th century author probably best known for The Legend of Sleepdy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Lorelai: The Joy-less Luck Club.

A take on Amy Tan's novel: The Joy Luck Club which was made into a movie starring Joan Chen.

Lorelai: Come on. We can pull a Ben Hur and take down Taylor's sleigh.

Refers to the famous chariot scene in Ben Hur.

Lorelai: Giddy up. [the sleigh starts moving] Uh! The horses heard me, I speak horse language! I'm Dr. Dolittle!

Dr. Dolittle is a literay character who had the ability to converse with animals. Later made into several movies, the most recent of which starred Eddie Murphy.

Richard: Didn't we ever go to Coney Island?

Coney Island in Brooklyn is a boardwalk that has amusement rides.

Jess: It definitely has the most personality. Kind of looks like Bjork.

Icelandic singer formerly part of the Sugarcubes who went on to have a successful solo career.

Lorelai: They're the Old England Abbot and Costello.

Comedy team from 40's and 50's probably best known for their Who's on first routine.

Bootsy: See ya, thanks. By the way, last night did I sing Hotel California?

One of The Eagles most popular songs.

Anne Heche's alien language- refrence to the actresses claim that she lived mush of her life through an alternate personality from another planet, whom she called Celestia and who was able to communicate to God through her own secret language. From Amy: "To quote Anne,'Oh,Quiness. Nokka dune notta' Need I say more?"

Bogarting- synonym for "hogging" or "monopolizing".

Chick Mangione- Jazz flugelhorn player best known for his 1978 soft-rock instrumental hit Feels So Good.

Ernest Builds A Snowman-Refrence to bumbling movie character ernest P. worrell, played by the late Jim Varney.

Pixies Reunion- legendary rock band The Pixies were a notoriously quarrelsome group who suffered a nasty breakup in 1993. Although s reunion was rumored at the time of this episode's airing in 2001, it seemed unlikely until the band in fact reunited in 2004.

Tammy Faye Bakker- Ex-wife of televangelist Jim Bakker, Tammy became involved in her then-husband's scandal and is best remembered for wearing an excessive amount of mascara.

32. Secrets and Loans

Lorelai: Okay. So we should celebrate. Hey, how about we get all dressed up tonight and hit the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

The Rocky Horror Picture Show started off as a stage production. It was later made into a film which initially flopped but gained cult status as people would dress up like characters in the movie, talk back to the screen and engage in various antics like doing the Time Warp (a dance in the movie), squirting water pistols during rain scenes or actually act out the movie while it's playing.

Madeleine: Boys. A Nancy Drew mystery.

Originally a series of mystery books in which the main protangonist is a teenage girl. She was the female equivalent of the Hardy Boys. The books were made into several movies and a couple of tv series

Lorelai: Yeah, well, here. But somewhere in the world it's still Miller time.

Miller is a brand of American beer. For a while they used the slogan it's Miller time in their commercials.

Lorelai: I was thinking about opening a Coyote Ugly lemonade stand.

Coyote Ugly is a bar in which women tend bar, wear sexy clothing and occasionally dance on the bar. It has become a nation-wide chain in the U.S. and was the basis for a movie.

Rory: And then she chased me halfway down the street with the hose. It was like a scene from Silkwood.

Silkwood is a movie about Karen Silkwood, an employee of a nuclear facility, who was supposed to meet a reporter about worker safety violations at the plant. In one scene, she needs to be decontaminated and they hose her down.

Lorelai: See, we have to stop talking to people. We have to stay at home with the curtains drawn collecting stacks of old newspapers, muttering to each other, eating nothing but Cup of Soup and Slim Jims.

Slim Jims are desicated meat sticks.

Lorelai: Aw honey, it's not the amount of places that turns you down that matters, it's the quality of the place that turns you down that matters. And when you've got Jacko's Loans and Stuff not wanting your business, you know it's time to hang out with the Coreys

Corey Haim and Corey Feldman who starred in seven movies together. They were two of the highest paid teen stars in the 80's but their popularity declined and Corey Haim had to declare bankruptcy and Corey Feldman was arrested in the early 90's for drug possession.

Lorelai: It's okay. I won't think about it tonight. I'll think about it tomorrow - at Tara. You ready?

Tara was the plantation in Gone with the Wind.

Lorelai: EMILY: Yes, it is good. [sees Lorelai taking a pill] What are you taking? Lorelai: Roofies

Roofies is short for rohypnol which is a prescription sedative/tranquilizer.

Lorelai: Oh, you think I don't know that? You think I sit around all day swapping witticisms with Robert Benchley at the Algonquin?

Robert Benchley was a humorist, drama critic and film actor. He was a contemporary of Dorothy Parker. The Algonquin is the hotel where Dorothy Parker and her contemporaries would meet for lunch between 1919 and 1929. They became known as the Algonquin Round table.

Lorelai: Hi Mr. Regalsky, it's Lorelai Gilmore. Again, yes, just like the pink bunny with the drum. Uh, anyway, I was wondering if, um, you have had a chance to reconsider my loan? . . . Uh, no, I think it's Energizer. . .

The energizer bunny was the mascot for energizer batteries whose commercial parodies had a pink bunny beating on a drum. The bunny kept on going and going to illustrate that the batteries lasted a long time.

Lorelai: 'Cause I'm Tony Soprano?

In The Sopranos, a tv show on HBO, Tony Soprano is the patriarch of the Soprano mob family.

Rory: Yeah, well pinning it to the Mallomars is always a safe bet.

Mallomars are a type of cookie consisting of a graham cracker like base, topped by marshmallow and cover in chocolate.

Rory: I liked it. Very John Waters.

John Waters is a filmmaker whose films often combine outrageous subject matter with a sense of humor.

The Algonquin- Hotel site of the famous Algonquin Roundtable, where Robert Benchley, Dorthy Parker and other literary luminaries gathered to drink and coverse.

The Coreys- Former child stars, Corey Haim and Corey Feldman co-starred in such films as Dream a little and License to Drive.

Coyote Ugly- World famous saloon in downtown Manhattan known for its cheap drinks, all-country jukebox, adn scantily-clad female bartenders who dance on the bar. The establishment eventually inspired a chain of theme bars and a feature film.

"Exene wannabe"- Exene Cervenka sings with early eighties and still existing LA punk outfit X.

"Nico obsessed"- The late Nico acheived prominence as a singer with The Velvet Underground.

Robert Benchley- A humrist, drama critic and film actor who was a famous contemporary of Dorthy parker.

33. Richard In Stars Hollow

Lorelai: It's going to be a bad, depressing Lifetime movie, and Nancy McKeon will be playing me. I am Jo.

Nancy McKeon is best known for playing Jo Polniaczek in "The Facts of Life", a 1980s television show about a group of girls attending a boarding school.

Richard: "Who's going to help Rory get into Harvard?" Lorelai: "Reese Witherspoon."

In "Legally Blonde", Reese Witherspoon's character is an aspiring model who applies to Harvard to get back at her ex. She gets accepted and ends up graduating at the top of her class.

Lorelai: Oh, look at that. All three of us fine, just like the Judds.

Naomi and Wynona Juud were a mother and daughter singing duo known as the Judds. Ashley Judd, is the daughter of Naomi and sister of Wynona. While Ashley is not a singer she has had a fairly successful career as an actress.

Richard: A first edition Flaubert, mint condition, shoved behind several of my Churchill biographies.

Gustave Flaubert was a 19th century French writer probably best know for Madame Bovary. Winston Churchill was The British Prime Minister during World War II

Lorelai: Mom, when Dad was talking about the vase, you were pulling a full-on Tabitha.

Tabitha was the daughter on the tv show Bewitched about a witch married to a mortal. Eventually Tabitha's character got her own show as a grown-up. To perform her magic she needed to twitch her nose, and earlier Lorelai claimed her mother was twitching.

Lorelai: Got it, plus four boxes of Red Vines.

Red vines are a brand of licorice.

Paris: Nothing, not even a cigarette butt on the ground, I can't believe it. This town would make Frank Capra wanna throw up.

Film director known for his sentimental and sappy movies. Probably his best known work is: It's a Wonderful Life.

Lorelai: Nothing that came out of your mouth today might, in any universe visited by Kirk or Spock, be construed as constructive

Captain Jame T. Kirk and his first officer Mr. Spock were part of the Enterprise crew whose five year mission was to explore the universe in the tv series Star Trek.

The Judds- Country music group consisting of Wynona Judd and her mother Naomi. though not part of the group, Ashley Judd is part of the family.

Patricia Krenwinkle- A member of the CHarles Manson "family" and one of his murdering emissaries, Krnwinkle was involved in all seven Manson murders and is currently imprisioned in California.

34. A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Andy Hardy- All-American boy-next-door character played by Mickey Rooney in a series of movies co-starring Judy Garland.

Boy in the Plastic Bubble- Television movie first broadcast in 1976 that starred John Travolta as a boy forced to live in a bubble due to his non-fuctioning immune system.

Edgar Bergen and Harlie McCarthy- Refrence to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy.

From Here to Eternity- 1953 film most memorable for its scene of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing on the beach.

John Cleese- Member of British comedy troupe Monty Python. Amongst his stock of character was "The Minister of Silly Walks".

Lenny Bruce- Brilliant comedian known for his controversial performances and resulting harassment from the law.

William Holden- Late, great movie star of such films as Bridge on the River kwai, Sabrina and Sunset Boulevard, Holden won an Oscar for Stalag 17.

35. It Should Have Been Lorelai

Rory: "No two people know more about assisted suicide than the two of us. Kevorkian called today for a couple of tips."

Jack Kevorkian is the nation's most visible proponent of physician assisted suicide.

The Barrymores- Family of actors that includes Lionel, Ethel and Drew.

Chairy and Captain Carl- Chairy (a giant, plush, talking chair) and Captain Carl (one of the Playhouse gang, played by Phil Hartman) were characters on Pee Wee's Playhouse.

Dr. Dre- Founding member of rap group N.W.A and producer for Eminem, he was sentenced to house arrest and slapped with an ankle braclet in 1996.

Pee Wee Herman- Paul Reubens' character, the eccentric star of children's television series Pee Wee's Playhouse and feature film Pee Wee's Big Adventure.

"Rabbit boiling on the stove?"- One of Glenn Close's model of revenge in the film Fatal Attraction.

Sephora- National chain of all-encompassing make-up stores.

"Whack you with a cannoli..." Lorelai: "In the orner, the mafia table where nobody can sneak up behind you and whack ou with a cannoli." Rory: " Whack you with a cannoli? Oh, because he left the gun and took the cannoli."- Refrence to Pete Clemenza's line of dialogue in The Godfather: "Leave the gun. Take the cannoli," spoken just after the murder of one of his associates.

36. Lost and Found

"Calgon, take me away."- Famous motto for woman's bathing salts.

Euell Gibbons- Spokesman for the vegetarian lifestyle as being beneficial for longevity, died of natural causes in his early sixties.

"I Like Ike"- Campaign slogan of Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America from 1953-1961.

Ida Morgenstern- Overbearing mother character played by Nancy Walker in the sitcom Rhoda.

Mel Brooks- The comedic genius behind Young frankenstein, The Poducers and Silent Movie.

"Patience, Grasshoper."- famous quote from the television series Kung Fu, starring David Carradine.

The Shaggs- All-Girl garage band whose sloppy 1960's recordings have achieved classic status.

The 2000-Year-Old Man- In which Mel Brooks, as the 200-year-old man, is interveiwed by Carl Reiner.

Unabomber- Ted Kaczynski, a loner who lived in Montana shack, is in prison for mailing explosive packages.

37. There's The Rub

Chicken Ranch- Legal brothel in Nevada.

Driving Miss Daisy- Film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman about a chaufeur and his demanding passenger.

Luca Brasi- Don Corleone's go-to henchman from The Godfather.

Ted Nugent- A rock musician and guitar showman, Nugent is responsible for a few memorable tunes such as Cat Scratch Fever, and is well-known for his support of hunter's rights. If it walks, crawls, swims or flies, Ted's gonna shoot it.

38. Dead Uncles and Vegetables

"Mac and Tosh":

Lorelai: "My, aren't we amusing, Mac?"

Rory: "Indubitably, Tosh."

Mac and Tosh are the Goofy Gophers of Looney Tunes fame.

Colossus of Rhodes- A statue of the patron god Helios that stood at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes in Greece until an earthquakedestroyed it in 282 B.C. Commonly known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

David and Lisa- Refrence to a play by James Reach whose title characters did not like to be touched.

Lady Godiva- The Saxon lady who, according to the legend, rode through the streets of Coventry on her horse naked with only her long hair covering her.

Library of Alexandria- Founded at the beginning of the third century B.C., The Royal Library of Alexandria is believed to have been the largest library in the Mediterranean world.

Patricia Hearst and the SLA- Heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in the early seventies by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and brainwashed into assisting in a bank robbery.

Pop Rocks- A candy first introduced to the public in 1975 from which small amounts of carbonation are released, causing a popping sensation in the mouth and sizzling noise.

Romanoffs- The Last royal family of Russia; all died by firing squad when the Communists took over.

39. Back In The Saddle Again

Brad: "She doesn't have a baseball bat in her hands, does she?"

In "The Untouchables", Al Capone walks around a table of his associates speaking calmly, much as Paris does. He then discloses that someone in the group has betrayed them, and he beats him over the head with a baseball bat.

Bhagavad Gita- Sacred Hindu text known for its length and complexity.

Bobby Fischer- Former world class chess champion who reached the height of his fame at age 15 when he defeated the Russians and became a Cold War hero.

Geneva Convention- A diplomatic conference held in Geneva in 1949 at which standard rules for the treatment of prisoners of war were agreed in.

Godot- The character who never shows up in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot.

Gomer- Refrence to Gomer Pyle, a character played by Jim Nabors in a television show of the same name.

Napoleon and Elba- French Emperor Naploleon Bonaparte was exiled to Elba in 1814.

Vicious Circle- A term oftten used to describe the members of the Algonquin Roundtable, the group of literary greats that included Dorthy Parker.

40. Teach Me Tonight

Akira Kurosawa- Japanese film director of such classics as The Seven Samurai and Ikiru.

Asaad Kelada- Television director.

Cocktail- 1988 film in which Tom Cruise plays a cocky New York bartender who earn his popularity through flashy drink-making performances.

Eve Harrignton- Anne Baxter's character in the classic 1950 film All About Eve who plots to maneuver her way into, then steal for herself, the life and career of Broadway start Margo Channing, playing by Bette Davis.

Lon Chaney Jr.- Character actor whose career was mostly overshadowed by his more famous father, the silent film start Lon Chaney.

Marianne Faithful- Famously drug-addicted singer/songwriter who was romantically involved with Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones.

Stan Freeberg- radio comedian, recording artist and influential adman.

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?- Cult classic film starring Bette Davis former child star long forgotten and Joan Crawford as her more famous actress sister, who is confined to a wheelchair and forced to edure Jane's torment.

41. Help Wanted

Chachi- Refrence to Scott Baio's characters in the television series Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi who started out as a bit of a hoodlum beofre he fell in with the right crowd.

Don Rickles- Internationally famous comediann often called the "King of Insult" who still plays Las Vegas after working his first gig there in 1959.

Mickey Hargitay- Father of Mariska Hariska and 1955 Mister Universe winner who was married to Jayne Mansfield.

"Next time hold an envelope up to your head before you do that."- Refrence to Johnny Carson's Tonight Show bit, "Carnac the Magnificent," in which Carson held sealed envelopes to his forehead and predicted their contents.

Sal Mineo- Academy Award- nominated star of Rebel Without a Cause who is often remembered for his brutal murder in 1976.

"The tiny fellow on that M*A*S*H program." Gary Burghoff's character "Radar" O'Reilly was the reliable assistant on the television series M*A*S*H.

42. Lorelai's Graduation Day

Baz Luhrmann- Film director of Moulin Rouge, Strictly Ballroom and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

Hummel- Collectible ceramic figurines, originally the craftmanship of German artist M.I. Hummel.

"Lead to our Jumping Frog."- Refrence to The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, a short story by Mark Twain.

Marcus Schenkenberg- Swedish-born male supermodel.

Shaun Cassidy- The younger brother of Partridge Family star David Cassidy, singer/songwriter Shaun Cassidy was a seventies teen-idol who later went on to reinvent himself as an actor and television writer/producer.

Tante- The Yiddish word for aunt.

43. I Can't Get Started

Annie Sullivan- Helen Keller's teacher, she taught the deaf, dumb and blind woman to communicate.

Brigadoon- 1954 Broadway musical by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe about a magical village in Scotland that comes to life for one day every hundred years and the American tourists who fall in love with its resident.

Girl, Interrupted- Refrence to the book by Susanna Kaysen about her stay in a mental hospital that as later made into a film starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie.

Gloria Allred- High-profile attorney most famous for her pioneering work on behalf of woman and minorities, Ms.Allred is currently the President of the Woman's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund.

Greg Louganis- Considered by many to be the greatest diver in history, he is often remembered for a diving incident at the Seoul Olympics in 1988 in which he struck his head on a diving board

Hubert H. Humphrey- Vice President to Lyndon Johnson, he ran for President against Richard Nixon in 1968 and was defeated.

"...writting letters to Jodie Foster."-John Hinckley, the gunman responsible for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Regan in 1981, was famously obsessed with the actress Jodie Foster. He wrote many letters to her, including one just before the assasssination attempt, explaining that he was going to shoot the President in her honor.