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- "I've always done what's asked of me"
- —Rory to Mitchum Huntzberger
Blame Booze and Melville is the 21st episode of Season 5 on WB drama Gilmore Girls.
Synopsis
RORY FACES THE REALITIES OF THE WORKING WORLD – Rory (Alexis Bledel) is surprised by the performance review she receives from Logan's (Matt Czuchry) father, Mitchum Huntzberger (guest star Gregg Henry), at the newspaper. Luke's (Scott Patterson) plan to buy the Twickham house is threatened when Kirk (Sean Gunn) makes a competing bid.
Lorelai (Lauren Graham) is thrilled when the travel magazine featuring The Dragonfly Inn hits the stands, but worries about Emily's (Kelly Bishop) reaction to the article. Meanwhile, Sookie (Melissa McCarthy) goes into labor and Emily becomes a personal patron for a ballet dancer.
Quotes
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- "Rory – What about endowment boy?
Emily – The maybes
Rory – You go, grandma" - —Picking a dancer to sponsor
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- "The whole city is a decaying heap. It’s too many people crammed into too many buildings on too small a piece of land. It’s an experiment that’s failed. They should just give the whole island a push and float it over to Europe"
- —Luke writing a postcard from NYC
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- "Emily – I wanted to stick the little twig in the garbage disposal. So I exchanged her for Mikhail
Lorelai – Really? You can do that, just trade her in for another human being?
Emily – I paid for her, Lorelai, and she wasn’t what I wanted." - —The world of dancer sponsorships
Trivia
- The town elders make their first and only appearance. They knew both Luke's father and paternal grandfather.
- Rory accuses Logan of being interested in another woman.
- Kirk has amassed just shy of $250,000 working a myriad of jobs in Stars Hollow.
- Sookie gives birth to Martha Belleville.
- Sookie sends Jackson off to have a vasectomy done. Whether he follows through is uncertain, given that they are pregnant with their third child in Season 7.
Music
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Gilmorisms
MUSIC
- Brian Eno
- "Drop It Like It's Hot" by Snoop Dogg and Pharrell
- Franz Ferdinand
LITERATURE
- Moby Dick
POP CULTURE
- Lorelai – Imperialist propaganda.
- Rory – I think Noam Chomsky would agree.
- Luke – Do I look like eBay?
- Logan – Eccentric uncle?
- Rory – Brian Eno
- Logan – Jose Canseco, post-steroids. Should be a warning to people.
- Lorelai – But after we see Spamalot, right? I paid a lot for those tickets.
- Rory – You've been Anne Sexton since I pulled up.
- Kirk – Sally Forth is on fire today! On fire!
- Kirk – Hey, that would be a good line for Dennis the Menace after he fails to mow Mr. Wilson's lawn. I should send that in.
- Sookie – Right. Suddenly my midwife was Wolf Blitzer.
- Sookie – I am, Penelope Cruz.
- Lorelai – Oh, sure. She looks like Marlo Thomas.
- Lorelai – Boy. Sword of Damocles is really hovering over you for a couple weeks there, huh?
- Lorelai – Mom, it was meant as a joke! The Pol Pot, the walking anthrax. I was just being edgy like Chris Rock!
- Emily – I did not force Jimmy Carter out of his room at that hotel.
- Lorelai – See, now I thought that was just an amusing anecdote.
- Emily – I did not get into a, quote, "bitch-fight" with him. He's an ex-president! It was with that insufferable Rosalynn.
- Lorelai – See, I was mad at Mom – Mrs. Gilmore, here, at the time, and I ended up saying things I shouldn't have said, because, you see, normally, I don't make jokes about Joseph Stalin.