Lorelai: Yes, it was bad. My father was in fine form tonight. But-
Rory: But? There's a "but" from you? There's a but?
Lorelai: Twinkie? I don't think my father has ever loved anything in this world as much as he loves you. Now, that having been established, let's just consider that maybe this flip-out tonight actually came from somewhere that possibly has nothing to do with Dean and possibly has nothing to do with you.
Rory: What are you talking about?
Lorelai: You are the great white hope of the Gilmore clan. You are their angel sent from up above. You are the daughter they didn't have.
Rory: Mom.
Lorelai: No, it's not a feel-sorry-for-me thing. It's just the truth. I mean, you're going to go to college. Hell, you're going to graduate from high school. They're going to get to watch you walk down the aisle wearing your cap and gown and get your diploma and go to Harvard and be a Phi Beta bimbo and graduate with honors and just set the world on fire. I mean, that is the plan. Looks like it's going to happen.
Rory: It is going to happen. Except for that "Phi Beta bimbo" part.
Lorelai: But then tonight, you walk in with this beautiful boy who likes you enough to brave going to your grandparents' house for dinner and Dad looks at you and sees you with him and all of a sudden, has a terrible Lorelai flashback. He sees it all going away, the college, the cap and gown.