Lorelai: Do you want flat water or sparkling? I hope flat, 'cause I don't have sparkling. Or flat. Or ice cubes. I have cups, I think.

Sherry: Except for our unexpected visit, we may never have even met.
Lorelai: Well, I think we would have met eventually.
Sherry: Sure, perhaps at some function or other.
Lorelai: Yeah, you, me, Martin Sheen, all chained to the same tree.

Rory: [answers phone] Hello?
Lorelai: Hi, it's me. I'm still in the kitchen. I just wanted to tell you that Sherry asked me if both of you could go out tonight. She trapped me into saying I'd get you out of Friday dinner. I said she had to ask you, so you can get out of it. But it may be good to get this over with, 'cause it seems inevitable. If you're okay going with her, say, "Sorry, Leonard, I'll call you back."
Rory: Sorry, Leonard, we've got company. Call you back. Okay. Bye. [hangs up]
Lorelai: Okay, here's your drink. Who was that?
Christopher: That was Leonard.
Lorelai: Oh, did you tell him we have company?
Rory: Yeah.
Christopher: Who's Leonard?
Rory: Oh, just, a friend.
Christopher: A friend of yours or a friend of Lorelai's?
Lorelai: Mutual friend.
Rory: Yeah, it's pretty much equal.
Christopher: A mutual Leonard.
Lorelai: Yeah, we're constantly fighting over him.

Sherry: Of course, this does leave you a sad little orphan.
Christopher: It's okay. I'll have one of my patented White Castle bachelor dinners.
Lorelai: Or you can come with me tonight, if you want.
Christopher: To your parents?
Lorelai: Yeah, 'cause with Rory not there, I might need a hostage.

Lorelai: Honey, hurry, they said 6:00.
Rory: Yeah, but it's 6:00 Dad-time, so it's more like 6:30.
Lorelai: Dad-time is now linked to Sherry-time. That Sherry seems awfully punctual.
Rory: That's so annoying.
Lorelai: They have to live with each other's deficiencies.

Lorelai: If you want a drink, Rory's got the list of places that serve minors.
Rory: It's okay. I got a flask in my purse.
Sherry: Okay, I'm going to have to drink a lot of coffee to keep up with you two.
Lorelai: Damn, our secret's been revealed.

Luke: You okay?
Lorelai: Yeah.
Luke: You don't seem your chipper self.
Lorelai: I brought sparklers. I'll light them later and do some kicks.
Luke: I can clear the counter, and you can play bagel hockey.
Lorelai: You can't play bagel hockey yourself.
Luke: I'll play with you. You'll have to explain the rules.
Lorelai: It's okay. I'm just recovering from last night. It was one of those nights where you start off stepping in quicksand and end up with a 16-ton anvil on your head.
Luke: I've had plenty of those. I'll get you some coffee.

Lorelai: I must have been sound asleep when you got home last night.
Rory: You were snoring like a buzz saw.
Lorelai: I believe that's defined as a superfluous comment.
Rory: Yes, you were sound asleep.

Lorelai: When you've thought about me and your dad, what have you been thinking all these years?
Rory: Um, what do you mean?
Lorelai: I mean, did you ever picture us potentially together like, "we are family" together?
Rory: Not really.
Lorelai: But, sort of? It crossed your mind?
Rory: I feel like I'm on The Ricki Lake Show.
Lorelai: Go, Rory! Go, Rory.
Rory: Well, I'll admit I have pictured the three of us living together at various times but in the way that all kids picture their estranged parents living together. The way they should be together, but it's stupid.
Lorelai: It's not stupid.
Rory: Yeah, I've pictured it.

Rory: But I also pictured you with Pee Wee Herman.
Lorelai: Oh.
Rory: We lived in his playhouse, and we'd be talking to Chairy and Captain Carl would be walking by.
Lorelai: Fun.
Rory: And later, I pictured you marrying Matthew Broderick. We lived in New York in this great apartment in the Village and we would talk about his Ferris Bueller days.
Lorelai: Just think how easy Producers tickets would be to get.
Rory: Oh, it would be fourth row center every night.
Lorelai: I'm sorry that Matthew and I couldn't work it out, honey.
Rory: I'll try to get over it.