Category: S3Ep13: Dear Emily and Richard

Travel Books from Emily

Fodor’s Selected Hotels of Europe

Published in 1987 by travel company Fodor’s. A guide to the luxury hotels of Europe in the late 1980s.

Hotels, Restaurants and Inns of Great Britain and Ireland, 1986 edition

A travel guide by Hungarian-born British food critic Egon Ronay, which was published annually. In 1987, it was sold to the British Automobile Association, however, Ronay was able to buy his rights back in 1997.

Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 edition

A guide by prolific travel and food writer, Molly Waldo. If you are planning to read all the books mentioned in Gilmore Girls, you’ll have trouble obtaining this one, as it appears to be unavailable.

Paris and Nicky Hilton

RORY: We have travel books.
LORELAI: No, sweetie, these aren’t our kind of travel books. These are Paris and Nicky Hilton’s kind of travel books.

Paris Hilton (born 1981), media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, and entertainer, and Nicholai “Nicky” Rothschild (born Nicholai Hilton in 1983), American socialite, fashion designer and model, younger sister of Paris [Nicky is on the left]. The granddaughters of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels, they were famous for being glamorous wealthy heiresses in the 1990s and early 2000s.

I somehow feel that Paris and Nicky would not need a guide book to find a good hotel …

Adrian Zmed

LORELAI: Angel face, you need to learn that there are going to be times in your life when you have to do ridiculous things for money. If you’re Adrian Zmed, that includes everything that ever happens in your whole career.

Adrian Zmed (born 1954), actor known for playing Johnny Nogerelli in the 1982 film Grease 2; several of his other films have gone straight to video. He is best known for the role of Officer Vince Romano on police drama TV series T.J. Hooker, airing from 1982 to 1986.

Beanie Babies

[Lorelai and Rory walk up to the house with boxes of Beanie Babies]
RORY: I just need to go on record that a grown man should not throw himself a Beanie Baby retirement party.

Beanie Babies are a line of stuffed toys created by American businessman H. Ty Warner in 1993. The toys are stuffed with plastic pellets (“beans”) rather than conventional soft stuffing. They come in many different forms, mostly animals.

Beanie Babies emerged as a major fad and collectible during the second half of the 1990s. They have been cited as being the world’s first Internet sensation in 1995. They were collected not only as toys, but also as a financial investment, owing to the high resale value of particular ones.

“She’s sort of my sister”

RORY: Well, I don’t know. I mean, I know it’s weird, but I kind of wanna see Georgia. She’s sort of my sister.
LORELAI: She’s more than ‘sort of’ your sister.

Georgia is Rory’s half-sister, but she already doesn’t feel very close to her because she’s Christopher’s daughter, and she and Lorelai have been fairly distant from him since Sherry got pregnant and Christopher dumped them.

An Invitation to the Birth of Georgia

RORY: I have been cordially invited to Sherry Tinsdale’s C-section … [reads from invitation] Friday, February seventh, six o’clock p.m. Join the girls for a toast, a hug, a wave to the mommy as they wheel her off, dinner at Sushi Sushi, and then back to the hospital for a formal viewing of brand-new baby Georgia. RSVP at your earliest convenience. P.S. Gifts are not necessary, but always appreciated.

I am stunned to inform you that the 7th of February reallly was a Friday in 2003, meaning that the writers of the show have somehow managed to find a calendar (maybe on the wall, maybe on their computer), and we are now getting real world dates in the show! Pretty exciting stuff.

Internal evidence tells us that the date in this scene is either Saturday the 25th January or Sunday 26th January. Unfortunately, that cannot be tallied with the number of Friday Night Dinners we’ve had, and we are already three weeks behind schedule. At this rate, Rory will be graduating in August.

Sushi Sushi does not exist in Boston, although there are many sushi restaurants there in the real world.

Glory of Easter

RORY: I got the flags and . . . he changed his mind again.
LANE: He’s worse than my mother at the Glory of Easter T-shirt stand.

Glory of Easter, an annual evangelical drama which begun in 1984 and went on until 2012. It took place at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California [pictured, now a Catholic church], suggesting that the Kim family went to it at least once, where Mrs Kim could not decide between all the tee-shirts available for sale.

I think this is the first time we’ve seen Lane working at the Independence Inn to help prepare for a function. Perhaps Mrs Kim is allowing her more freedom, or perhaps now she’s eighteen she can be employed at the inn without any worry about labour laws. In either case, this is another possible income stream for Lane.