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The Fundamental Things Apply

‘The Fundamental Things Apply’

Season 4, Episode 5 -  Aired October 21, 2003

Rory tries to hit the dating scene on campus. Meanwhile, Lorelai is uneasy with the fact the new inn's designer knows her mother.

Quote from Rory

Rory: Hey, Trevor. You know what else I like to do besides talk about a really good book? Eat. Isn't that weird? And, actually, for me, they're linked. It's true. When I talk about a book, I get really hungry starving. You ever experience that?
Trevor: Not really.
Rory: Oh. Well, it happens to me all the time. Like right now, for example, starving, really. And I enjoyed The Snows of Kilimanjaro so much that I will probably be hungry for quite some time. All weekend, probably. Especially Saturday night.

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Quote from Sookie

Sookie: He wanted Davey if it was a boy and Colgate if it was a girl.
Lorelai: Colgate?
Sookie: His great-grandmother's name.
Lorelai: Great-grandmother Colgate.
Sookie: Yep, that's horrible. You know what's worse, she looked like a Colgate.
Lorelai: Well, at least you know it's gonna be a boy.
Sookie: Yes, but he doesn't know it's going to be a boy. And I realized he has to know that I thought Colgate was an insane name, but if I didn't fight him on it, it must be because I knew we weren't gonna have a girl and then he would know we were gonna have a boy, and that would spoil everything for him. So I told him, "We are not naming our daughter after a toothpaste!" We got in a big fight and we're not talking.
Lorelai: Cool!
Sookie: Yeah, I know. Everything's perfect. My baby has a name and my husband's sleeping on the couch.

Quote from Lorelai

Lorelai: Hold on, whoa. Wow, that could have been very ugly, huh? The great cappuccino disaster of 2003. Very sad. Shelley Winters drowns. [chuckles] Think the coffee was stronger than I thought.

Quote from Lorelai

Emily: What are you doing?
Lorelai: I was looking for my lip gloss.
Emily: You need the radio on to look for your lip gloss?
Lorelai: Well, I came out here and I couldn't find it and so I thought maybe if I tried to retrace my steps, it would turn up.
Emily: Very clever idea.
Lorelai: Yeah, I thought so. So I put my purse on the seat and I put the keys in the car, and naturally the radio came on 'cause that's what it does, and, "Shadow Dancing" was playing, which was one of my all time favorite songs in junior high.
Emily: And you forgot to look for your lip gloss.
Lorelai: Just for a second.
Emily: Which makes sense since it's in the ashtray right next to you.
Lorelai: Oh, hey. It is. Look at that.
Emily: Yes, it's a miracle. Come inside, Lorelai.
Lorelai: Well, can't I just wait 'til the song- I'm coming.

Quote from Emily

Emily: I haven't sent her a gift, Lorelai. How does that make me look?
Lorelai: Like you hate her and all childbearing women.
Emily: You are so intent on keeping me out of your life.
Lorelai: It's not even my life. It's Sookie's life.
Emily: A simple phone call to tell me that Sookie is pregnant.
Lorelai: How did you find out about it, anyway?
Emily: Why, are you going to track down the informant and have him shot?
Lorelai: Maybe.
Emily: It doesn't matter how I found out. I found out, no thanks to you.
Lorelai: Mom, please, just tell me how you found out.
Emily: Why? Does it bother you not knowing?
Lorelai: Yes.
Emily: Me, too.

Quote from Emily

Emily: Oh, Rory, tell me you didn't ask a boy out.
Rory: I didn't ask him out. I just made sure he knew I was available.
Lorelai: Better, Mom?
Emily: No, that's not better. Rory, you're in Yale, not Amsterdam. How you conduct yourself socially is as important as how you conduct yourself academically.
Rory: I promise, it was very proper.
Lorelai: Yes, Mom, she had a nice Tiffany lampshade over her red light.

Quote from Sookie

Natalie: Okay, see, something like this outside against a wall - very Little House on the Prairie with a twist.
Sookie: I love Little House on the Prairie. Jack the dog. Where is Lindsay Sidney Greenbush? When she came tumbling down the hill, I would just laugh.

Quote from Paris

Paris: Setting your alarm for 5:30 in the morning when no one else here shares the desire to put on nylon shorts and run in circles for an hour like a greyhound is selfish.
Janet: I have a partial athletic scholarship, Paris.
Paris: The grunting and the sweating, and there are plastic balls everywhere.
Janet: One balance ball.
Paris: No one can sleep. No one can breathe. Rory missed breakfast the other day. You've seen Rory eat. She cannot miss breakfast.
Rory: Paris has a point there.
Janet: Excuse me, but if I remember correctly, Rory missed breakfast because you turned her alarm off.
Rory: Janet does have a point there.
Janet: And while we're airing grievances, what about your stupid craft area? Everywhere you turn, there's glitter or seashells or macaroni. And the smell of the glue.
Paris: Hey, I make things we can all enjoy. I am contributing. The coasters I make are for everyone. Those push-ups are for you and you alone.

Quote from Lorelai

Lorelai: Okay, but, you can't squish during the movie because it's distracting. That's rule number one.
Luke: There's rules?
Lorelai: Oh, yeah, especially for a true classic like Casablanca. It's not like we're watching a there's-nothing-else-on movie or a guilty pleasure like Hardbodies.
Lorelai: Oh, my God. Have you seen Hardbodies?
Luke: I don't think so.
Lorelai: Three middle-aged guys rent a beach house and they hire this young local stud to introduce them to cute girls, a.k.a. Hardbodies.
Luke: Let's see that.
Lorelai: No, Luke, we're seeing Casablanca.
Luke: Then let's see that. Okay, the rest of the rules: no talking during the movie. No exceptions during a true classic. And minimize distraction. You know, no shifting around a lot, no phone calls, nothing. No going to the bathroom. If you go, you miss the movie 'cause we're not pausing the movie. That's the only way to get the flow of the thing, okay?
Luke: Fair enough.

Quote from Lorelai

Lorelai: Okay. Here we go.
Luke: What's that?
Lorelai: Okay A, no talking during the movie, and B, don't tell me you've never seen the FBI warning before.
Luke: It's new to me.
Lorelai: Oh, my God. You're beyond monk. You're uber-monk.
Luke: Just start it up. I won't talk again.
Lorelai: Okay, just one more warning. When they showed the first motion picture over a hundred years ago, it featured a train rushing toward the camera, and people were so sure the train was going to burst off the screen and crush them that they ran away in terror. Now, Luke, the train is not going to leave the screen.
Luke: Hit the button.

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