Teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoon

LORELAI: You don’t care at all, do you?
MICHEL: To me you are the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoon.

Michel is referring to the popular Peanuts cartoon strip by Charles Shultz, featuring Charlie Brown as the main character. In the original cartoons, adults were referred to but never drawn, and this continued with the first television special.

The 1967 Peanuts television special You’re in Love, Charlie Brown had a classroom scene which had interaction with a teacher named Miss Othmar. Her voice was represented with a wah-wah sound made by a trombone. Since then all adult voices have been represented by the trombone sound.

The reference is made by people to indicate that they’re not listening, or that what they’re hearing is going over their heads. It seems an odd thing for Michel to know about, but perhaps he watched a lot of cartoons when he moved to the US to improve his colloquial English.

Moose

LORELAI: Do you want me to talk to anybody? A parent, a teacher, a big guy named Moose?

Marmaduke “Moose” Mason is a character in the Archie comics. Large, muscular, and athletic, the loyal Moose often protects his friends from bullies.

Bizarro

LORELAI: God, this has been one hectic, bizarro day for me.

Bizarro is a supervillain character in DC Comics who is the mirror image of superhero Superman. A Kryptonian clone from Bizarro World, Bizarro is a flawed imitation of Superman who does everything the exact opposite. For example, he has freeze vision instead of Superman’s heat vision, and in his view, bad is good. First appearing in Superboy #8 in 1958, the popular character has featured in comics, TV, film, and video games.