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Gilmore Girls :: But Not as Cute as Pushkin (05x10)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: But Not as Cute as Pushkin
Episode #: 05x10
Production Number: 2T5310
Original Airdate: Tuesday November 30th, 2004
*Also Known As:
  • Die Ausreißerin ( Germany [Vox])
9.4/10 (5 Votes cast)
Other Release Dates: (Edit)
Country: Aired On:
DE (Vox) Jan 03, 2006
Episode Crew
Director: Michael Zinberg
Writer: Amy Sherman-Palladino
 
Episode Summary
 
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Rory is delighted when the headmaster of her old prep school asks her to play hostess to a young student, Anna, who is thinking of applying to Yale. However, Anna turns out to be more interested in boys than academics and runs off to party, leaving Rory to deal with Logan's elaborate practical jokes. Meanwhile, Lorelai and Luke have their first fight when she accidentally upsets him by buying an old boat that had belonged to his father.
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Alan LoayzaplayedColinRecurring (4th appearance)
Dakin MatthewsplayedHanlin CharlestonRecurring (10th appearance)
Danny StrongplayedDoyleRecurring (7th appearance)
George Anthony BellplayedProf. BellRecurring (second appearance)
Liz TorresplayedMiss PattyRecurring (52nd appearance)
Matt CzuchryplayedLogan HuntzbergerRecurring (5th appearance)
Mitch SilpaplayedTerenceRecurring (second appearance)
Tanc SadeplayedFinnRecurring (4th appearance)
Wayne Wilcox (1)playedMartyRecurring (6th appearance)
Bunny LevineplayedMrs. Thompson 
Conor KnightonplayedBilly 
Darren RobertsonplayedMark 
Joe EgenderplayedJack 
Sandra Denise (1)playedModerator 
Sarah ForetplayedAnna 
Vicki GoldsmithplayedDrunk Yale Student 
 
Main Cast
 
Lauren GrahamplayedLorelai Gilmore
Alexis BledelplayedRory Gilmore
Melissa McCarthyplayedSookie St. James
Scott PattersonplayedLuke Danes
Edward HerrmannplayedRichard Gilmore
Kelly BishopplayedEmily Gilmore
Yanic TruesdaleplayedMichel Gerard
Keiko AgenaplayedLane Kim
Liza WeilplayedParis Gellar
Sean GunnplayedKirk Gleason
 
Episode Notes
 
Rating: 4.2/6
 
This is the first appearance of Dakin Matthews as Headmaster Charleston since "Those Are Strings, Pinocchio".
 
 
Featured Songs
 
ArtistSong TitlePlayed When
The FutureheadsRobot 
North GreenDrunk 
 
Episode Quotes
 
Paris: Just tell me if my lipstick is too whorish.
Rory: Nope, just whorish enough.
 
Lorelai: I think it's going very well, you and me, you think it's going very well?
Luke: I have very few complaints.
Lorelai: I'm going right past the 'very few complaints' comment because I know you're just trying to bait me . . . what complaints?
 
Lorelai: Luke, I can drive you back to the diner. I promise if we pass any senior citizens I'll let you jump out and pants them.
Luke: Fine.
 
Lorelai: Because, you keep all those crazy anal Bob Graham kind of notebooks. "Eight a.m., got up. Eight fifteen, brushed teeth. Eight twenty-five, had impure thoughts. Eight thirty-six, sent dwarves off to
work."
Rory: I do not have my diaries from last November on me at the moment.
Lorelai: But you do have them.
Rory: Yes.
Lorelai: And they will contain where we ate breakfast that morning.
Rory: Yes.
Lorelai: I love my little circus freak.
 
Jack: I'm Jack.
Paris: Paris.
Jack: Parents travel a lot?
Paris: Why?
Jack: Your name is Paris.
Paris: No. Did your parents change flat tires a lot?
Jack: What?
Paris: Or plug the phone into the wall a lot?
Jack: No.
 
Luke: I smashed my leg on a Thigh Master.
Lorelai: I'm so sorry.
Luke: And then I tripped and smashed my other leg on another Thigh Master.
Lorelai: I'm sorry.
Luke: Why the hell do you have so many Thigh Masters?
Lorelai: I have a really bad thigh complex.
 
Lorelai: Oh you know what? I have someone standing abnormally close to me. I'll call you later.
Rory: Okay, say hi to Kirk for me.
 
 
Episode Goofs
 
Rory tells Anna that she hasn't dated anyone at Yale. However, in "The Fundamental Things Apply", Rory goes on a date with Trevor.
 
 
Cultural References
 
Episode Title: But Not as Cute as Pushkin

Aleksandr Pushkin is a 19th century author noted for works such as Boris Godunov and Eugene Onegin.
 
Rory: It's 11 o'clock at night! Who are you planning on hooking up with? Spike and Drusilla?

Spike and Drusilla are two vampires from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Danny Strong (Doyle) was a recurring character on Buffy and the TV show aired in the same timeslot as Gilmore Girls at one point.
 
Lorelai: Business? Now you're Willy Loman?

Willy Loman, a travelling salesman, is the main character from Death of a Salesman.
 
Lorelai: Did your Mini-Me show up?

In the Austin Powers trilogy, Mini-Me is Dr. Evil's clone.
 
Paris: Eve Harrington has arrived.

Eve Harrington is a character from the 1950 movie All About Eve. The movie told the story of an aspiring actress, Eve Harrington, who is taken on as a personal assitant to a Broadway super-star.
 
Lorelai: Great, then I'll hop a fence and get Richard Widmark to sign my grapefruit.

This refers to the classic I Love Lucy episode "The Tour," broadcast May 30, 1955. When Lucy and Ethel take a tour of movie star homes, Lucy falls off Richard Widmark's fence reaching for a souvenir grapefruit and gets trapped in Widmark's back yard.
 
Lorelai: (about shoe-shopping) Everyone thinks it started with Bradshaw, but actually it came over on the Mayflower.

Carrie Bradshaw, the main character of HBO's Sex and the City who has a shoe addiction.
 
 
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