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Chicken or Beef?

‘Chicken or Beef?’

Season 4, Episode 4 -  Aired October 14, 2003

When Rory makes a surprise visit back to Stars Hollow, she is shocked to learn Dean and Linsday are set to marry this weekend. Meanwhile, Lorelai and Sookie try to forge ahead with the plans for inn, including bringing Michel on board.

Quote from Miss Patty

Miss Patty: Taylor, I got your PennySaver and your girly magazines.
Taylor Doose: Those are lifestyle magazines.

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Quote from Lorelai

Taylor Doose: People, your children and elderly are going to have to wait a while longer for you to get home because Lorelai Gilmore and her associates want to discuss some proposed changes to a beloved town structure.
Lorelai: Thank you. Let's go, Sook, [to Michel] Augustus Gloop.
Rory: Knock 'em dead.

Quote from Michel

Michel: Have you noticed, this is not going very well.
Lorelai: Taylor, everyone, there will be millions of questions, some of them even legitimate, but the bottom line is, you know me. I've been apart of this town for well, look how big my daughter is... for that long. And opening this inn has been a dream of mine and of Sookie's for most of that time. Along with Michel, we plan to make this community as proud of the historic Dragonfly Inn as you were when the same team was running the Independence Inn.
Taylor Doose: You mean the place that burned down on your watch?
Michel: Can I slap him?

Quote from Lorelai

Lorelai: Now, this will also help our local economy because we plan to employ- [cellphone rings] Sorry, we plan to employ- This call is coming from the house.
Rory: Our house?
Lorelai: It's flashing our number.
Rory: But we're here.
Lorelai: I know. That's the weird part.

Quote from Michel

Sookie: Okay, if you have any questions
Michel: Yes, about the Dragonfly or deodorant: the places to buy it, how to apply it, that sort of thing.

Quote from Miss Patty

Lorelai: Patty, please, please, help, help. He's killing me here, and you've got pull with him.
Miss Patty: Oh, honey, I got my own remodeling to do on my studio that Taylor has to approve. I'm saving my pull for me.
Lorelai: Can't I have just a little teeny, tiny bit of your pull, please?
Miss Patty: Oh, he's gonna see us talking. [walks off]

Quote from Rory

Rory: Mom, Kirk's following us in a little clowny car.
Lorelai: He's watching out for us.
Rory: Okay.

Quote from Michel

Michel: Ready?
Lorelai: No, it's gotta look like we're actually demolishing the porch.
Sookie: We're gonna do pretend swings.
Lorelai: Which would have been easier if we had pretend sledgehammers.
Sookie: Why do they make these so heavy?
Michel: Well, even without the swing, this is a good picture of the two of you about to record an important moment for the two of you.
Lorelai: Michel.
Michel: I would love a copy of this for my mantel, such a nice moment.
Lorelai: You have to be in the picture, too, Michel.
Michel: Me? I don't know. All right.
Sookie: That thing have a timer on it?
Michel: It's set. I framed the shot. Grab your hammer and smile.

Quote from Lorelai

Sookie: What?
Lorelai: Just sometimes, it hits me. This place had a long history before us, has a long future after us. I keep thinking it's apart of our lives, but, really, it's the reverse. For a little while... I don't know... it's like we're apart of its life.
Sookie: Yeah.

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