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A Family Matter

‘A Family Matter’

Season 4, Episode 12 -  Aired February 3, 2004

Jason encourages Lorelai to tell her parents about their relationship. Meanwhile, Lane stays up at Yale with Rory, while Luke has two visitors.

Quote from Lorelai

Jason: Why not Duke's?
Lorelai: It's not so special.
Jason: You go there daily.
Lorelai: Yeah, but I think Duke's is closed and it's Luke's.
Jason: Closed at eight in the morning on a Friday?
Lorelai: Yeah. Sabbath.
Jason: Duke's a Jew?
Lorelai: No, Luke's a Jew.
Jason: Sabbath's not 'til sundown.
Lorelai: Well, he likes to get an early jump on his... Sabbathing.

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Quote from Kirk

Luke: Hey, Kirk, you want another piece of pie?
Kirk: No, I'm fine. And this is the commencement of your classic mid-morning lull. People off to work, kids off to school. You may not have another soul in here for half an hour. It gets peaceful, quiet... kind of like a sweet death.
Liz: He's trippy.
Luke: Kirk, are you sure you don't want anything else?
Kirk: A spider monkey, but there is probably nothing you can do about it.

Quote from Lorelai

Jason: I pulled a muscle waving at you.
Lorelai: How was I supposed to know you were talking to my mother?
Jason: It was a very personal wave. It was a big, broad, over the top personal wave.
Lorelai: She called you?
Jason: She called.
Lorelai: Are you doing like a Mrs. Robinson thing with my mother?
Jason: Yes, I was visiting Richard one day, and he stepped out and Emily lit a cigarette and did that triangle thing with her thigh.
Lorelai: Well, you said hotel.

Quote from Lorelai

Jason: We're gonna get caught.
Lorelai: This is just a freak occurrence.
Jason: This is destined to be repeated.
Lorelai: They'll be mad that I hid it.
Jason: They'll be madder the longer you hide it.
Lorelai: They'll screw things up, I don't want that. I like us.
Jason: But, it's inevitable. They're gonna see us together someplace, or a traffic report will take pictures of cars on the expressway and we'll be sitting in the car, and then Richard will be watching the news and he will see us, so barring some sort of Star Trek-like cloaking device - which was problematic in every incarnation of Star Trek - I remember Kirk complaining about it, I remember Picard complaining about it - they will see us, and we'll get caught.
Lorelai: I'm very uncomfortable dating a Trekkie.

Quote from Lorelai

Rory: That's weird.
Lorelai: What's weird?
Rory: This.
Lorelai: Bread? Bread is weird?
Rory: It's weird when its here. It does not make a good snack.
Lorelai: It does when you add stuff to it, like cheese.
Rory: We have cheese?
Lorelai: Yeah. It's not Donner Pass, Rory, we have cheese.

Quote from Rory

Rory: Whoa! It's like a frickin' cornucopia.
Lorelai: Yeah, there's the stuff.
Rory: There's the cheese!
Lorelai: Yeah, yeah. Why are you making such a big deal about this?
Rory: Because we never had real food in this house the whole time I was growing up.
Lorelai: What? We always had food. This fridge was never empty.
Rory: Well, yeah. We had left overs from take-out - cold pizza, Luke's fries, - but never stuff you had to assemble.
Lorelai: Okay, chill out on the inquiry.
Rory: Is that a cucumber?
Lorelai: Listen, you'd make a terrible private investigator, because you get hung up on all sorts of dumb stuff that does not matter. Now come on. We're late, I'll drive.
Rory: Sounds good. Oh my God, is that a tomato?

Quote from Lorelai

Rory: Please do not say that word again.
Lorelai: It's a free country.
Rory: Just say hot chocolate or say nothing at all.
Lorelai: Mmm, terrific "Ho-Cho".
Rory: Oooh, I hate that. It's so cutsey-wootsey.
Lorelai: Do you hate it as much as my favorite summer treat?
Rory: Don't!
Lorelai: An ice-cold Fro-Yo!

Quote from Lorelai

Rory: Well, it's right in front of his place. How could he not know?
Lorelai: Well, it's freezing out here. He could die, he must not know.
Rory: Or doesn't care.
Lorelai: Do you think David Blain put him up to this?

Quote from Luke

Luke: Well his mom showed up - for what reason I don't know - I'm still waiting for that shoe to drop. I mention Jess' car and then, boom, there's Jess.
Lorelai: So the mystery woman from this morning? That's Liz?
Luke: In all her glory.
Lorelai: Quite a day you've had.
Luke: Oh, it's been delightful. I think Bobby McFerrin's gonna write one of those happy boop-boopdy-doo songs of his about this.

Quote from Lorelai

Lorelai: It's very confusing. Luke was not in an expansive story telling mood. All he knows is that Jess said he came for his car and he's not leaving without it.
Rory: Okay.
Lorelai: Yeah. Which means he might be here part of the day tomorrow, so uh, danger, Will Robinson.

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