Gilmore Girls

Love and War and Snow [1.08]

: Michel, it's the first snowfall of the season. It's very lucky! Make a wish.

: Get away from me.

Lorelai: Oh, you're not supposed to say it out loud.

[Michel answers the phone.]

Lorelai: [dreamily to herself] The world changes when it snows. It's quiet. Everything softens.

Michel: It's your mother.

Lorelai: And then the rain comes.

[Emily has called Lorelai to warn her of the heavy snowfall before Lorelai leaves for Friday dinner.]

: Have you seen the news?

: Ever?

Emily: A bad storm is heading your way. It's already hitting us here.

Lorelai: Well, don't panic. I'll get the ark, you get the animals.

Emily: I just sent Lance to pick up Rory at school. The roads are terrible — black ice everywhere. It's just a mess out there. I hate this kind of weather. So, anyhow, what time will you get here?

Lorelai: Well, uh, gee, Mom, I don't know. Let me see… black ice, treacherous roads. I'll just put on my red, white, and blue leotard, grab my golden lasso, and fly the invisible plane on over?

Emily: You're not coming.

Lorelai: Well, if it's as bad as you say it is, I don't see how I can get there.

Emily: Well, I guess it'll just be the three of us then.

Lorelai: I guess so.

Emily: And you know, Rory should probably spend the night tonight also.

Lorelai: Uh, okay.

Emily: And if it's still bad tomorrow…

Lorelai: Mom? Why don't you wait to see what the weather does before you fill out a change of address card for her?

[The elder Gilmores, entertaining Rory, are left without the services of their cook, who is snowed in.]

: This is a serious problem. These Friday dinners are the only proper food that child eats all week.

: [to Rory in the other room] Rory? Are you in any way malnourished, or in need of some international relief organization to recruit a celebrity to raise money on your account?

: I'm good.

Rory's Dance [1.09]

[Emily is waiting on a wounded Lorelai, against the latter's wishes. She sets a plate of food down.]

: There ya' go.

: Mom, I think… somebody already ate that.

Emily: That is a mashed banana on toast.

Lorelai: [doubtfully] Mm-kay.

Emily: I used to make this all the time for you when you were a little girl.

Lorelai: You did?

Emily: Yes! Whenever you got sick, I made this.

Lorelai: You sure it wasn't the other way around?

Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers [1.16]

: Hey — tomorrow, if you have time, I'm planning on despising everyone who says, "Hey, how's it going?".

: You're on.

[A woman enters Luke's restaurant.]

Woman: Hey, how's it going?

Lorelai: [to herself] Oh, now that's just too easy.

Luke: Rachel!

Lorelai: [to Luke] Your Rachel? [turns to look at woman] You're Rachel?

The Third Lorelai [1.18]

[Lorelai is sparring with Michel over the hotel reservation computer as she answers the phone.]

: Independence Inn!

: I need the hat rack.

Lorelai: [mysteriously] The fish flies at night!

Emily: What?

Lorelai: I don't know. Who is this?

[Richard hears from his mother at Friday night dinner.]

: [So] you were on the phone…

: Long distance.

: God?

Richard: London.

Lorelai: God lives in London?

Richard: My mother lives in London.

Lorelai: Your mother is God?

Richard: Lorelai…

Lorelai: So, God is a woman.

Richard: Lorelai…

Lorelai: And a relative! That's so cool. I am gonna totally ask for favors.

Richard: Make her stop.

: Oh, that I could.

[Later in the conversation…]

Lorelai: I still can't get over that I'm related to God. It's gonna make getting Madonna tickets so much easier.

Emily in Wonderland [1.19]

[At Friday dinner, Rory wants family baby pictures from Emily for a school project.]

: [vexed] And I need some of Mom, too.

: I thought we already had this conversation.

Rory: Yeah, but I don't believe you.

Lorelai: Mother, tell her.

: I don't have any baby pictures of your mother.

Lorelai: Thank you.

Rory: How could you not have any baby pictures of Mom?

Emily: Because, when your mother was seven, I came downstairs and found her burning all of her baby pictures.

Rory: Why would you do that? I'm sure you were a cute baby.

Emily: She was. She was very cute.

Lorelai: 4… 3… 2… 1…

Emily: … in most respects.

Lorelai: Then we have liftoff.

Rory: What does that mean?

Lorelai: Nothing.

Emily: I don't see what the problem is. You certainly grew into it.

Rory: Grew into what?

Emily: As a child, your mother had an unusually large head.

Lorelai: The best thing about was that she would tell me — constantly. My first complete sentence was "Big Head want dolly".

[Emily is taking about a set of antique chairs she recently acquired.]

: Of course, they could only get ten of these, so I'm two chairs short of a set.

: You're telling me.

Love, Daisies, and Troubadours [1.21]

[Morning at the Inn. Sookie is moping around, having "caught" Michel's ennui. Lorelai has just gotten off the phone with Max after a wonderful evening together.]

: You look happy.

: Oh, well… what's the opposite of ennui?

Sookie: [pauses] Off-ui. [giggles] Oh, hey, I'm cured!

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