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Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!

‘Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!’

Season 4, Episode 18 -  Aired April 20, 2004

Lorelai and Jason attend a dinner with his parents at Richard and Emily's house. Meanwhile, Rory is unhappy when Dean admits he's dropped out of school, and Kirk desperately searches for the rotting remnants of the town's Easter egg hunt.

Quote from Emily

Lorelai: Patio looks great, Mom.
Emily: I guess. Where's that awful light coming from?
Rory: I think it's the moon?
Lorelai: You're not thinking of having the moon moved, are you, Mom?
Emily: I suppose it will move on its own at some point.

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Quote from Kirk

Kirk: Flower show's tomorrow. Flower show's tomorrow, and I can't find the last twelve eggs. I let Taylor down. He's like a father to me. I think he is my father.
Luke: He's not your father.
Kirk: No, my father's my father, which means Taylor's my tailor. I wonder how much he charges to hem pants.
Luke: He's not your tailor.

Quote from Luke

Luke: It's the noise they make.
Lorelai: This baby has not made a peep.
Luke: He will and at the worst possible moment.
Lorelai: Like when you're defusing a bomb or something?
Sookie: [gasps] That would be awkward.
Luke: You've got one minute to order, then six minutes to eat.
Lorelai: Yessiree, come on down to Luke's, where the motto is "eat it, then beat it."
Luke: One minute.

Quote from Luke

Taylor Doose: There is a distinct odor outside our establishments, and I have to assume it's coming from the diner.
Luke: There's no odor coming from my diner.
Taylor Doose: It wasn't there when I left for my trip. Where else could it be emanating from?
Luke: I don't know. Have you checked underneath that thing on your head?
Taylor Doose: I'm, uh, combing it differently.
Luke: The comb didn't loosen the glue?

Quote from Michel

Michel: Oh, my God, I'm getting a blister.
Sookie: Hey, how about by the front desk?
Lorelai: We could give it a shot.
Michel: That's it! I'm jumping off the Amistad. This is heavy, my back hurts, I'm not moving it again.
Dean: No problem. [lifts the table single-handedly] I can do it.
Michel: It's not me. It really is heavy.

Quote from Lorelai

Sookie: I think it's a lost cause.
Lorelai: We've got the Dennis Kucinich of bookcases.

Quote from Michel

Michel: The Deans of the world always get the Lindsays. The pretty little things just like the bookcase lifters.
Lorelai: That's a category? Jocks, nerds, bookcase lifters?
Michel: I was born with this bad back. It was heretical.
Lorelai: Congenital.
Michel: Ugh. Well, I hate that bookcase. I wish you had never ordered it. I wish you had never thought of it. I can't even be in the same room with it, mocking me for how alone I am.
Lorelai: It's mocking you?
Sookie: It's three pieces of wood.
Michel: Well, I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it!

Quote from Lorelai

Richard: Don't get the wrong idea. It's not a big company. It's smaller than ours, but very powerful.
Lorelai: Wait, the company is smaller than yours? Your company is two guys, you and Jason.
Richard: This company is a one-man operation, Bob Sutton.
Lorelai: So, you're acquiring Bob?
Richard: We're acquiring his company, and his company is him.
Lorelai: Did he have to give himself two weeks' notice? [Rory chuckles] Is there gonna be a sad little going-away party where he brings in his own cake and blows out his candles?

Quote from Emily

Lorelai: You're not big on the Bob?
Emily: Bob's fine. We've known him for years. It's that dolt he's married to, classic trophy wife.
Richard: She is quite young.
Lorelai: How young?
Emily: Her car looks just like Barbie's.
Richard: Regardless, I hope you will be kind to her at dinner.
Emily: I'll have to bring my English-to-dumbbell dictionary.

Quote from Kirk

Kirk: It's not skunks, it's eggs. Easter eggs from the Easter egg hunt.
Taylor Doose: But Easter was over a week ago.
Kirk: And I did it just like you told me. I personally hid 300 eggs around the town square, and the kids had a blast hunting them down, except the Banyan boys. They're bad seeds. Going to hell, both of them. But the kids only found 241 of them.
Taylor Doose: Are you telling me that there are fifty-nine rotting eggs hidden in the square?
Kirk: I thought they would naturally decompose and just disappear.
Taylor Doose: Eggs smell when they decompose.
Kirk: I just found that out. [Taylor walks away] I find your hair very believable.

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