Lorelai: [on the phone] Dad, I explained this to Mom and I'll explain it to you. I'm not sixteen, I don't live with you anymore, I've been making my own decisions, romantic and otherwise, for a long time now and you can play all the golf you want but the subject better be letting chicks into the Augusta Golf Club because my love life is officially off limits.
Richard: Didn't you hear what I just said?
Lorelai: About the tea? Yes, I heard it, and I'm sorry, but it sounds insane.
Richard: Of course it sounds insane! It is insane, that is not the point.
Lorelai: Okay, then what's the point?
Richard: The point is your mother is upset, and I don't want her to be upset. Now, you may not understand her world, I may not understand her world, but it is her world, and in her world it is very, very important that she have the first cup of tea. And I don't care about your independence or what you told your mother or anything else you have to say. If my wife wants the first cup of tea, she's going to have the first cup of tea, that's it! Now, I will call you after I play golf.