Lorelai: Rory's quitting Yale.
Richard: What? What are you talking about?
Lorelai: [to the maid] Thank you.
Emily: What do you mean, Rory's quitting Yale? Why would you joke about something like that?
Lorelai: What makes you think I'm joking?
Emily: Because Rory would never quit Yale. This must be one of your bits. You scare us with something horrible, like Rory's quitting college, and then after we have a heart attack, you tell us you were just kidding. You're having a sex change operation.