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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: El Jefe Design on May 02, 2007, 08:37:00 am
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On Gilmore Girls last night, one of the characters, Zach, is asked to join a band called the Vapor Rubs. In listing the cities they are going to his wife points out that he'll be playing The 9:30, The Black Cat, and the Unitarian Church and how awesome that is. I found it funny they pointed out two DC venues.
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Between that and the reference (twice!) to Barnacle Billy's (in Ogunquit, Maine), it may have been my all-time favorite "Gilmore Girls" for pop culture references ...
My daughter's goal in life is to have her band pop-culture-reffed on GG.
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It's funny, my wife and I were debating the hotness of the mom character on GG last night, though we didn't actually see the show.
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That heather chick was hot in Bad Santa.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
It's funny, my wife and I were debating the hotness of the mom character on GG last night, though we didn't actually see the show.
Did the whole "Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa!" thing factor in your discussion?
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My mom called me and mentioned that, though what she was doing watching the Gilmore Girls is beyond me. Actually, my mom is pretty awesome, she got me PJ Harvey's autograph (long but cool story...PJ was visiting Steve Alibini, who lived across the street, and on a total whim my mom recognized her, stopped her and asked her if she would sign an autograph for me).
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
It's funny, my wife and I were debating the hotness of the mom character on GG last night, though we didn't actually see the show.
Yeah, Lauren Graham. Never peeped the show personally, but that has absolutely no adverse effect on the fact that she can get it. She can SO get it.
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No, I didn't pull that one out. One doesn't want to appear to be OVERLY appreciative of other hot women, particularly when one's wife doesn't share the same opinion.
She generally thinks I set my standards too low when it comes to judging hotness.
Originally posted by Relaxer:
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
It's funny, my wife and I were debating the hotness of the mom character on GG last night, though we didn't actually see the show.
Did the whole "Fuck me Santa! Fuck me Santa!" thing factor in your discussion? [/b]
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Gilmore Girls usually has cool musical references but they were trying way to hard last night to cram as many in as possible... Tokyo Police Club, Grizzle Bear, the already mentioned clubs and the Magic Stick in Detroit.
they sort hooked me when they name dropped the Sugarplastic in an early season.
and Sebastian Bach was fun to watch when he was part of Lane's band
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there was also a moment when rory and laine go on a double date (first season maybe?) and laine is with rory's BF's friend and he's wearing a fugazi shirt (the cover of end hits i think) and laine asks him about it but he says something like "uh, it's my sister's shirt".
i thought it was funny that it sounded like they were going to play the 9:30 *and* the black cat on the same tour.
has that even ever happened?
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I go to Birchmere for the food.
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I must admit, after using a lame Franz Ferdinand joke (twice) I was a bit worried about Gilmore Girls but since then they have gotten back on track with a great rant on the wonderfulness of Art Brut.
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I agree that they overdid the band and club references last night (plus it's preposterous that a band would play both the Black Cat and the 9:30 Club on the same tour), but that is one of the reasons why I like that show. I remember being floored when Gilmore Girls first mentioned Arcade Fire in February 2005, just days after they played the 9:30 Club.
RORY: Hey, do you want Arcade Fire?
LORELAI: I don't know, do I?
RORY: Yes.
LORELAI: Then yes.
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Isn't Bea Arthur on that show?
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A tad impressed they mentioned BC in addition.
After the club mentions, Zach's references are a little too expected. Nonetheless, good for them for mentioning real clubs and artists. I still watch for these few and far between episodes w/ Laine, Zach, etc. Perhaps that's why they rattle off so many, it's been ages since they've had a good music exchange..plus new writers. Can't remember my favorite exchange, but there's been a couple, mostly from the band w/ Sebastian. I remember being impressed w/ Laine's collection hidden in her floorboards.
Otherwise, this show has been over for a long time. The characters never evolved and Rory is pretty whiney even after Yale.
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I tried watching this show a couple of times in honor of their rock star connections...i think i saw thurston moore and joe pernice...but found it boooooooring.
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The Mom's a fox. No doubt. Though the show grates on my nerves.
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are we talking about Gilmore Girls??? (i think we are)
i met Alexis Bledel on a few occasions a long long way back, as she lived down the hall from a friend attending NYU.
i beat her in checkers once....
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i think i remember the foo fighters doing a night at the club and a night at the cat, but i could be wrong.
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Rory would never play checkers, only chess...
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my exgf used to force me to watch this show. i can't believe there is a thread on the 930 club forums about it ahahha
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Originally posted by thatguy:
i think i remember the foo fighters doing a night at the club and a night at the cat, but i could be wrong.
You're right. That was in November 2000.
Didn't Fugazi regularly play at a Unitarian Church here (and the Evens played at last year)? Could that be what the writers were thinking of?
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It seems like they are trying hard to be the next O.C. Come on, the Black Cat and 930 Club two days in a row?
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Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
Isn't Bea Arthur on that show?
are you tony kornheiser??
(it all makes sense ...)
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Originally posted by nonameface:
Can't remember my favorite exchange, but there's been a couple, mostly from the band w/ Sebastian.
My favorite music reference without a doubt was way back in season 3 when Lane was first trying to start a band. She listed her music influences for a "drummer-seeks-band" newspaper ad.
LANE: Okay, I just crunched the numbers and at two thousand words and twenty-five cents a word, this stupid adâ??s gonna cost five hundred dollars! Thatâ??s five months worth of Minwaxing end tables at my momâ??s store. I give up.
RORY: No, donâ??t give up. Just cut down your influences to the most important ones, like with David Bowie.
LANE: Gotta have Bowie.
RORY: But do you have to list every album he ever recorded plus your personal rating between one to ten?
LANE: Maybe not.
LORELAI: And whatâ??s with Jackson Browne making the list?
LANE: Ah, see, cool people know that heâ??s more than a mellow hippie-dippy folkie, that he actually wrote some of Nicoâ??s best songs and was in fact her lover before he bored us with "Doctor My Eyes." That will separate the poseurs from the non-poseurs.
RORY: Wax on, wax off.
Then, later that episode....
[a boy walks up to Lane]
DAVE: Excuse me, Lane?
LANE: Thatâ??s me.
DAVE: Okay, great, Iâ??m Dave Rygalski.
LANE: Right, hi. Youâ??re a guitarist.
DAVE: Yeah.
LANE: But howâ??d you know I was me?
DAVE: The Dead Kennedys shirt was a tip off.
LANE: Good thinking. Hey, uh, isnâ??t it a drag that Jello Biafra isnâ??t singing for them anymore?
DAVE: Yeah, now their front-manâ??s that kid from the Courtship of Eddieâ??s Father.
LANE: Yeah, whatâ??s next â?? Urkel joining the Wu-Tang Clan?
DAVE: Or maybe Malcolm in the Middle fronting for the Butthole Surfers.
LANE: Some things are sacred.
DAVE: Iâ??m with ya on that.
LANE: So, um, whatâ??s your band like?
DAVE: We do a lot of cool covers â?? uh, the Clash, the Kinks, et cetera. Statistically, itâ??s like thirty-eight of the forty-three bands you listed.
LANE: Nice percentage.
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Lauren "Fuck Me Santa" Graham is from Fairfax.
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Originally posted by sch2383:
Lauren "Fuck Me Santa" Graham is from Fairfax.
Haha! I think that you just triggered chain reaction heart attacks. Wonder if she's their DC 'connection'? (I've never seen the show so I only have these forum reports to go by.) Wonder if she's a forum lurker? If they start talking about BEN'S CHILI BOWL or the food at the Birchmere, than I would seriously suspect something. Would be pretty funny though as a very inside joke between the writers and this forum.
Considering how the industry works, I'm wondering whose paying out the goods to Hollywood for the references. Or whatever kind of deal they have working to get all of that name dropping. This kind of thing started back in the 60s with The Beverly Hillbillies. Well, not that a few things hadn't been done prior but the BH are often credited for starting this wave. Somehow, Corn Flakes got the show to strategically place boxes of their cereal (usually Jethro eating a whole box in one sitting) within the set. It started a whole new method of product advertising.
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I would to say that since The OC came after Gilmore Girls, the OC were doing the ripping off. Usually, the band dropping that goes on is more subtle on the show... it seemed that they attempted to cram as much in as possible in one episode.
My favorite reference will be the one where Kirk couldn't decided where to sit at Suki's kids baptism.
"Are you a Davey or a Martha? I bet you're a Davey; he's more accessible. He's the Dandy Warhols to her Brian Jonestown Massacre."
There was also the episode where the BJM tambourine player joined Laine's band which resulted in the lead singer having a fight with the band on stage. The episode was called "He's Slippinâ?? â??Em Bread... Dig?"
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To make another DC connection, in the episode where Rory and Paris go on Spring Break, Alexis of Girls Against Boys is standing next to them as The Shins (I believe) are playing in the background.
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Originally posted by Mobius:
Didn't Fugazi regularly play at a Unitarian Church here (and the Evens played at last year)? Could that be what the writers were thinking of?
I was thinking the Unitarian Church in Philly...
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i concur...
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I second the concurrence.
Kosmo also remembered my favorite quote regarding Warhols/BJM (we have discussed GG before, this isn't the first time;)).
This show won't become like The OC since music has been a part of their storyline since the beginning. Plus, let's not forget which show gave birth to the Dave Rygalski character & who portrayed him...
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Lauren Graham was in the local TV Guide a few years ago. I had remembered incorrectly, thinking she hailed from MD. She graduated from Langley H.S.
In other music news, Grant-Lee Phillips will return to his role of town troubadour.
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Well, so much for any hopes of any GG referencing in the future ...
Just announced that this IS officially the last season and only two more episodes.
"The real Paul Anka or the dog Paul Anka?"
Ah, good times.
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The original writer always mentioned that the show was to end with one of them at the alter and with last week's episode it looks like it may be Rory. Ugh.
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I hate the food at the Birchmere, all the sauces are watery and the ranch tasted like paint, I thought i was taking drugs for a second with that dressing
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Isn't Bea Arthur on that show?
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Originally posted by thatguy:
i think i remember the foo fighters doing a night at the club and a night at the cat, but i could be wrong.
Yes, yes they did. That was 2001 or 2002....I can't even remember. I think 2001.
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Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by thatguy:
i think i remember the foo fighters doing a night at the club and a night at the cat, but i could be wrong.
Yes, yes they did. That was 2001 or 2002....I can't even remember. I think 2001. [/b]
11/14/00 9:30 Club
11/16/00 Black Cat
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if the season ends with rory and logan getting hitched, i'll be very very sad.
They also used one of my favorite XTC songs to start off an episode- Loreli and Rory silently go about getting up and ready and out the door as "earn enough for us" plays.
it was really a brilliant moment.