9:30 and Black Cat mentioned on TV

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

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.

[thirsty moore]

The Mom's a fox.  No doubt.  Though the show grates on my nerves.

[sonickteam2]

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....

[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.

[El Jefe Design]

Rory would never play checkers, only chess...

[Got Haggis?]

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

[Mobius]

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?

[Vas Deferens]

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?

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
  Isn't Bea Arthur on that show?

are you tony kornheiser??
 
 (it all makes sense ...)

[Darth Ed]

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.

[sch2383]

Lauren "Fuck Me Santa" Graham is from Fairfax.

[Jaguar]

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.

[kosmo vinyl]

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?"

[El Jefe Design]

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.

[amnesiac]

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...