‘Lorelai's First Cotillion’
Season 7, Episode 3 - Aired October 10, 2006
When Lorelai doesn't get a reaction from Richard and Emily after they learn about her break-up with Luke, she wonders whether all the decisions in her life were made to go against her parents' wishes. Michel wants Lorelai to take him to Emily's cotillion at the inn. Meanwhile, Rory tries to maintain intimacy with Logan away, and Lane finally tells Zach that she's pregnant.
Quote from Michel
Lorelai: My mother is everywhere. In my shoes, in my clothes, in my food.
Emily: Your mother is here.
Lorelai: In my Inn. What do you mean? What are you talking about? Why is my mother here?
Sookie: She's here to taste the menu for the tea. Why doesn't she know what I'm talking about?
Lorelai: What tea?
Sookie: I thought you were going to tell her.
Lorelai: What tea?
Michel: I was going to tell her. Then I considered what it would be like if I did not tell her, and I thought it might be more fun. I was right.
Lorelai: What tea?
Quote from Lane
Lane: We need to talk.
Zach: Okay. Let's talk.
Lane: Alone? [Brian starts to get up]
Zach: Anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of Brian. [Brian sits down]
Lane: I'm pregnant. [Brian gets up and walk away]
Zach: With a baby?
Lane: Yes, pregnant with a baby.
Zach: But how? When?
Lane: On a beach in Mexico, about three weeks ago. I'm pretty sure you were there.
Zach: But we only did it once.
Lane: Once is really all it takes. [Zach gets up] Where are you going?
Zach: Brian must be freaking out!
Quote from Lorelai
Emily: Is the library ready for us?
Lorelai: Yes, the tables are set, and the tea is brewed, and I've hired some extra poor people for the girls to look down on.
Quote from Michel
Michel: Oh, my god, I love them. They are like Madame Alexander dolls come to life.
Quote from Michel
Michel: Such elegance, such a sense of decorum, manners, grace, charm. Everything my childhood could have been but wasn't. Oh, to go back and do it right.
Quote from Lorelai
Lorelai: Ugh, it's all coming back to me. Proper spacing and distance. Other kids were hugged and kissed. I was taught to maintain proper spacing and distance.
Quote from Lane
Lane: Oh, and did I mention the extra hair that may start to grow on my chin? Can't wait for that magic.
Quote from Lane
Lane: Well, I'm glad you're fine with the whole baby thing, but I'm kind of freaking out.
Zach: You are?
Lane: Totally. Zach, this is not how I expected our life to go... be married for like a day and then suddenly having to take on this new responsibility. Bringing a child into this world, it's so...
Zach: It's major, right?
Lane: It's very major.
Zach: So, you're not all psyched about being knocked up?
Lane: Are you kidding? This baby sucks!
Zach: Yeah, this baby totally sucks!
Lane: It does.
Zach: It so does.
Quote from Lane
Lane: Do you know what afterbirth is?
Zach: No. [Lane points to a book] Dude.
Lane: I know.
Zach: You know how the baby is connected to you by that hose and I'm supposed to cut that hose? No way I'm cutting that hose.
Lane: No way I'm letting you in the room when that thing comes out of me.
Zach: Oh, man, you are so awesome. I love you so much.
Lane: I love you, too.
Quote from Michel
Michel: You know what I see when I look at this room?
Lorelai: A bunch of kids whose outfits cost more than my car?
Michel: No, these are not kids. They are perfect, tiny adults. We are standing amongst the next generation of movers and shakers. The future president of the united states may be in this room with us tonight.
Lorelai: You're very odd.