Episode synopsis
S2 EP4 – The Road Trip to Harvard: Lorelai takes Rory on a road trip, where they stay at an unusual bread-and-breakfast and visit Rory’s dream school.
Cast
Lauren Graham…Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel…Rory Gilmore
Melissa McCarthy…Sookie St. James
Keiko Agena…Lane Kim
Scott Patterson…Luke Danes
Kelly Bishop…Emily Gilmore
Liz Torres…Miss Patty
Best character
This episode is basically just pure Lorelai and Rory so I’d have to choose one of them and honestly, Rory is very cute in this one.
I do also love Luke’s mood change when he finds out Lorelai isn’t getting married, that guy is as transparent as a pane of glass.
Favourite scenes
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Best quotes and one liners
LORELAI: Ah. No music. I can’t believe we forgot to bring tunes.
RORY: Do you realise that neither of us has the vaguest idea where we are?
LORELAI: What is a road tip without tunes?
RORY: The sun is directly behind us.
LORELAI: Never been in this car for any extended period of time without playing AC/DC.
RORY: I have no idea which way it’s going.
LORELAI: I need my “Highway to Hell.”
RORY: It’s right out the windshield there.
LORELAI: There’s nothing on the radio but Top 40 and Christian Rock. Christian Rock, there’s an oxymoron for you. I need my tunes.
RORY: Stop complaining about the tunes!
LORELAI: Stop complaining about our whereabouts.
RORY: Well, my complaint is legitimate, yours is infantile.
RORY: Serendipity has never been kind to us.
LORELAI: Ah, yes, but I talked to serendipity on the phone last night. She feels bad about how she’s treated us in the past. We had a nice chat. It’s all gonna be different now.
SOOKIE: You were a good cake Clyde. I never should’ve named you.
RORY: We get cranky when we’re hungry.
LORELAI: Well, plus we’re above everyone else on the planet.
RORY: Wait a minute. You weren’t writing in this thing, were you?
LORELAI: Maybe some random thoughts.
RORY: [reading guestbook] ‘Satanic forces are at work here.’ Mom.
LORELAI: What?
RORY: What? What? We cannot write that in here. [changes it] Here. ‘Sat and forever am at work here.’
LORELAI: That doesn’t make any sense.
RORY: And it doesn’t invoke the Dark Prince so I think it’s preferable.
LUKE: You’re been sitting there for two hours.
KIRK: I just want a little more coffee.
LUKE: You’ve had eight refills.
KIRK: You know, in France, when you sit and order, you can have the table as long as you want.
LUKE: I bet you know what I’m gonna say next.
KIRK: That we’re not in France?
LUKE: Give or take a profanity.
LORELAI: All right. Well, you’re out now, what do you wanna do?
RORY: Kill you.
LORELAI: And?
RORY: I don’t know. What do you wanna do?
LORELAI: Bounce tennis balls off of Sammy?
LORELAI: So, what about dinner?
RORY: It should probably be something healthy since we’ve been eating junk the whole trip.
LORELAI: We had lettuce on our burgers last night.
RORY: You picked it off.
LORELAI: But it left its essence.
RORY: There was lettuce essence on our burgers?
LORELAI: Definitely.
RORY: And that satisfied our vegetable requirement?
LORELAI: For the week.
RORY: We can’t argue with cold hard facts.
EMILY: Focus the picture Lorelai.
LORELAI: It is focused.
RORY: That’s how it came out.
EMILY: It’s hurting my eyes.
LORELAI: Come on Mom, they’re supposed to be a little arty.
RORY: Plus she doesn’t know how to use her camera.
LORELAI: I’ve only had it six years.
EMILY: It’s like I have glaucoma. What’s that?
LORELAI: That is a Harvard squirrel.
EMILY: Good grief.
RORY: Sitting on a Harvard rock.
LORELAI: Doesn’t he look smart?
EMILY: He looks dirty. Next.
Final thoughts and fun facts
I will not take the Linkin Park slander in this episode. I don’t really listen to them, but they’re great.
At Harvard, when Lorelai leaves Rory at the lecture hall, she says something about someone putting “an aspirin in my coke”. Rory responds with “Okay, Rizzo”, referring to the character in “Grease”. However, in “Grease” it is Marty, not Rizzo, who catches someone putting aspirin in her coke at the dance.
When Lorelai is looking at pictures of Harvard valedictorians she fixates on the graduate from 1990. This could possibly be because 1990 is the year that Lorelai would have graduated college had she gone, but Rory was born in 1984 when Lorelai was 16.
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