Episode synopsis
S2 EP9 – Run Away, Little Boy: Dean gets jealous when Rory and Tristan are cast as Romeo and Juliet in a school play. Luke teases Lorelai for dating a younger man.
Cast
Lauren Graham…Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel…Rory Gilmore
Melissa McCarthy…Sookie St. James
Keiko Agena…Lane Kim
Yanic Truesdale…Michel Gerard
Scott Patterson…Luke Danes
Liza Weil…Paris Geller
Jared Padalecki…Dean Forester
Liz Torres…Miss Patty
Emily Kuroda…Mrs. Kim
Shelly Cole…Madeline Lynn
Teal Redmann…Louise Grant
Chad Michael Murray…Tristin Dugray
Best character
I’m choosing Michel purely because of the blueberry pancake scene. There isn’t a video of it, but I included it in the quotes section.
Favourite scenes
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Best quotes and one liners
RORY: An ice cream maker!
SOOKIE: A Musso Lussino 480!
LORELAI: Somebody sent me a fascist ice cream maker?
LORELAI: Aunt Bobby, hi. It’s Lorelai, Richard and Emily’s girl. Um, I’m the one with. . . yeah, that’s right. Wow, you don’t hear the word wedlock much anymore.
RORY: I’m home!
LORELAI: Uh huh, uh huh, really? The Bible said all that, huh? Did it, did it mention me by name? I’m just. . .okay, I’m just kidding. So, um, judging by your Billy Graham impression, I am guessing that you didn’t send me an ice cream maker, so maybe you could just give me Aunt Clarissa’s phone number? Oh no, I hadn’t heard. That’s terrible. Uh huh. Well, then I guess she had it coming, didn’t she? Hey, listen, I’d love to chat about who else is the family is currently or soon to be headed for hell, but I’ve gotta run, so I promise to call in the next twenty years, okay? Bye bye. [hangs up] How scary is it that my parents are turning our to be the normal ones in the family?
PAUL: And here I thought you had a special relationship with this vending machine.
LORELAI: Only in the sense that it keeps me alive.
PAUL: I actually have theory on that.
LORELAI: Uh oh.
PAUL: You know, ever since we were children, we got our nourishment from our mothers.
LORELAI: Okay, are you trying to gross me out so I can’t eat my burrito?
PAUL: And now, we’re getting it from machines.
LORELAI: Your point being?
PAUL: I think it’s a conspiracy getting us ready for the day we’re all gonna be raised by machines. No human contact whatsoever.
LORELAI: You know my mother, don’t you?
RORY: Hey.
MADELINE: Hey.
LOUISE: We’re the Monkees.
PARIS: What do you think you’re doing?
TRISTIN: Uh, Professor Anderson forgot to include me when she made up the groups, so she told me to pick one.
PARIS: Fine, you have four other acts to choose from. Take your pick.
TRISTIN: Yeah, well Summer’s in act 1, Beth and Jessica are in act 2, Kate’s in act 3, and uh, Claire, Kathy, and Mary are in act 4. So this is the only one free of ex-girlfriends.
PARIS: So we’re being punished for our good taste?
PARIS: Too late.
RORY: It can’t be too late, we haven’t done anything yet.
PARIS: You’re Juliet. You’re the best public speaker here, you’ve definitely got that waif thing down, and you’ll look great dead.
SOOKIE: Okay, here we go. Low fat, whole wheat blueberry pancakes.
MICHEL: Are there twelve?
SOOKIE: Twelve what?
MICHEL: Blueberries. I can only have twelve blueberries for breakfast.
SOOKIE: Or what?
MICHEL: What do you mean, or what?
SOOKIE: What happens if you eat thirteen blueberries?
MICHEL: Well this is a silly conversation.
SOOKIE: Would you die?
MICHEL: Just hand me the plate.
SOOKIE: Only if you don’t count.
MICHEL: I won’t count.
SOOKIE: Swear. Raise your right hand and say, ‘May Destiny’s Child break up if I count these blueberries.’
MICHEL: Pick another group.
SOOKIE: Nope.
MICHEL: I hate you! Hate you!
LORELAI: Hey Dean. Do you want some fries?
DEAN: No, I’m actually going home for dinner. My mom made fried chicken tonight and she saved me some.
LORELAI: Oh, you have a cooking mom.
RORY: That’s so nice.
LORELAI: Well, she may make chicken, but is she a casual dater?
RORY: I hope not. She’s married.
RORY: Dean’s coming to rehearsal tonight. T
RISTIN: Wow, are you sure they can spare him? I mean, what if there’s a run on baked beans?
LUKE: Sookie, am I being mean?
SOOKIE: Well, I wouldn’t pay you to put on a red nose and work a birthday party right now.
LUKE: Thank God for that
Final thoughts and fun facts
Why does Lorelai donate the ice cream maker to the inn if she knows it’s going to be sold? Did someone say classic Gilmore Girls continuity error?
Lorelai’s date is the actor who plays Detective Wilden in Pretty Little Liars (2010). Gilmore Girls and PLL are filmed on the same set for their towns. I actually noticed that they’re the same set when I started a rewatch of Pretty Little Liars earlier this year.
This episode is the last appearance of Chad Michael Murray as Tristin. Tristin (Chad Michael Murray) tells Rory he’s being sent away to military school in North Carolina. North Carolina would become the filming location for the shows Dawson’s Creek (1998) and One Tree Hill (2003) also starring Murray. I actually enjoyed seeing him play a bad boy, mean character. I feel like he’s always the nice sensitive guy.
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