Episode synopsis
S2 EP17: Dead Uncles and Vegetables – Lorelai and Rory help out at the diner while Luke is left to plan his unpleasant uncle’s funeral, which causes him to reflect on his own existence. Meanwhile, Emily lends a hand planning Sookie’s wedding and the skies the limit.
Cast
Lauren Graham…Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel…Rory Gilmore
Melissa McCarthy…Sookie St. James
Yanic Truesdale…Michel Gerard
Scott Patterson…Luke Danes
Milo Ventimiglia…Jess Mariano
Kelly Bishop…Emily Gilmore
Liz Torres…Miss Patty
Michael Winters…Taylor Doose
Jackson Douglas…Jackson Belleville
Sean Gunn…Kirk Gleason
Sally Struthers…Babette Dell
Best character
I really missed Luke in the last episode and I really feel for him in this one. He’s such a nice person.
Favourite scenes
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Best quotes and one liners
KIRK: Hello? How ’bout that coffee?
LORELAI: I got it.
LUKE: Thanks.
KIRK: But, but mine’s a quarter caf.
LORELAI: Huh?
KIRK: Three-fourths decaf, one-fourth caffeinated.
LORELAI: I four-fourths don’t care.
KIRK: Fill it up.
[Jess stumbles into the diner, followed by Rory] LORELAI: Well, you’re very graceful.
JESS: She pushed me.
RORY: Sue me.
JESS: I could’ve broken my neck.
RORY: As long as it’s not your arm. We need your arm.
MISS PATTY: Oh, hi Taylor, how are you?
TAYLOR: You mean not counting the knife sticking in my back?
MISS PATTY: Oh, sure honey, whatever.
MICHEL: Nine rooms for Luke from Luke’s Diner?
LORELAI: That’s right.
MICHEL: French fry convention?
LORELAI: No, just personal.
MICHEL: Milkshake symposium?
LORELAI: No Michel, it’s something personal and I’m vouching for him.
MICHEL: Soda pop seminar?
LORELAI: Stop!
MICHEL: Pickle party?
RORY: Hey Luke, where’s Jess?
LUKE: I don’t know, he’s probably out playing basketball or something.
RORY: That little punk.
LORELAI: What are they doing?
JACKSON: They’re measuring the town.
LORELAI: They’re what?
JACKSON: They’re measuring the entire town with tape measures.
LORELAI: Oh my God.
JACKSON: Your mother got hers at Neiman Marcus. It’s platinum with gold leaf, it costs more than my car!
LORELAI: I am so sorry.
JACKSON: Look, I love Sookie and I want her to have what she wants, but . . . you see what they’re doing now?
LORELAI: Yeah.
JACKSON: According to their diagrams, that’s where the sixteen-piece orchestra goes.
LORELAI: How are they gonna fit a sixteen-piece orchestra in the gazebo?
JACKSON: Oh, they wanna move the gazebo.
LORELAI: What?
JACKSON: A gazebo that’s been there for a hundred years and they wanna move it. Who moves a gazebo? What kind of twisted mind even thinks about moving a gazebo?
TAYLOR: Harry’s House of Twinkle Lights has been an integral part of this time for twenty years, so it’s only right that we honour his retirement. So I hereby designate next Tuesday, Harry the Twinkle Light Man from Harry’s House of Twinkle Lights Day.
JESS: Well, that just trips off the tongue. [Lorelai and Rory walk in]
TAYLOR: Late again, are we?
LORELAI: Yes, I hope I’m not pregnant!
TAYLOR: What?
LORELAI: Are these seats taken?
LUKE: Don’t drag me into this.
TAYLOR: You really have to work on your punctuality, Lorelai. I banged the meeting in a half an hour ago.
LORELAI: Uh, dirty!
CUSTOMER: Young man, where’s the young lady we’ve heard so much about who’s using those delightful old diner phrases to place people’s orders? It sounds so fun. Could you point her out for us?
JESS: No.
EMILY: I know that in a million years, you would never let me plan your wedding. I gave up on that dream a long time ago. Yours was going to be a Russian winter theme; the Romanovs.
LORELAI: Before the firing squad, I assume?
LORELAI: Do you think he’s in heaven?
LUKE: I hope so, just so my dad can kick his butt around the place.
LORELAI: Can you kick when you’re in heaven?
LUKE: It’s probably frowned upon.
LORELAI: Yeah, plus you’re all see-through and gauzy and your dad’s foot could go right through him.
LUKE: This is a silly conversation.
Final thoughts and fun facts
When Jess says Rory pushed him he says ” I could’ve broken my neck. And Rory says at least it ain’t your arm.” And in the next episode, Rory and Jess get into a car accident and Rory breaks her arm. That moment isn’t funny, but they have a lot funny moments in this episode.
Emily describes her vision for what Lorelai’s wedding would have been. Many of the details are actually present in her and Luke’s wedding at the end of A Year in the Life.
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