NFH's latest post brings this on: do you watch Gilmore Girls?
| Never miss it. Did you know "Luke" used to pitch in the Rangers organization? |  22 (13.92%) |
| Meh. If it's on, I'll watch it | 11 (6.96%) |
| Only when compelled to do so by "significant other" forces | 8 (5.06%) |
| Not really, but that Lorelai is hot | 31 (19.62%) |
| Never, never, never | 54 (34.18%) |
| What's Gilmore Girls? | 32 (20.25%) |
158 votes | 28 featured comments
Share your favourite snappy dialogue!
"What is it? It looks like something worn by that homosexual man whose tiger tried to eat him."
"What is it? It looks like something worn by that homosexual man whose tiger tried to eat him."
"You traded my Baccarat candlesticks for a sneering, slightly pornographic monkey lamp?"
Lorelai: "I found all sorts of games to play, including parts of both Candyland and Battleship. Which I figure, we can mix together to form a fabulous new game, Candyship Battleland. War never tasted so good!"
another one:
Luke: "What is this feeling, this tightness in the chest, this anger mixed with paralyzing weakness?"
Lorelai: "You've been Gilmored!"
another one:
Luke: "What is this feeling, this tightness in the chest, this anger mixed with paralyzing weakness?"
Lorelai: "You've been Gilmored!"
"I hear he controls the weather and wrote the screenplay to Glitter!"
Come on, someone else play.
"It was like drinking a My Little Pony."
Come on, someone else play.
"It was like drinking a My Little Pony."
I'm a huge GG fan. Lots of great quotes. I think I like the Emily-Lorelai interactions the best.
Lorelai: "My mother - she was here. I can feel it. Smell that? The room smells like guilt and Chanel No. 5."
or
Emily: "I am going to Europe, and I'm going to have a marvelous time. I'm going to get up at 10:00, and I'm going to have two glasses of wine at lunch every single day."
Richard: "Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch!"
or
Michel: "Well, you know what happens when you assume."
Lorelai: "What?"
Michel: "I don't know. Something about a donkey. It is a stupid American phrase."
or:
Emily: "The code to the panic room is [whispers] one, one, one, one, one. Don't write it down, and whatever you do, don't tell the maids. They tell their children and then their children grow up and rob you."
or
Emily: "Lorelai, you scared me half to death."
Lorelai: "Yeah well follow-through has always been my problem."
or
Priest: "You know Rory, being a young lady comes with many gifts. Your virtue, for example, is a gift, a precious gift, possibly the most precious gift you possess. You want to give this gift very carefully. It is a gift you can only give to one man. Once you give it, it's gone. You can't re-gift it. If you give it away too soon, to the wrong man, then when the right one does come along, you will have no gift to give. You'll have to buy him a sweater."
Lorelai: "My mother - she was here. I can feel it. Smell that? The room smells like guilt and Chanel No. 5."
or
Emily: "I am going to Europe, and I'm going to have a marvelous time. I'm going to get up at 10:00, and I'm going to have two glasses of wine at lunch every single day."
Richard: "Only prostitutes have two glasses of wine at lunch!"
or
Michel: "Well, you know what happens when you assume."
Lorelai: "What?"
Michel: "I don't know. Something about a donkey. It is a stupid American phrase."
or:
Emily: "The code to the panic room is [whispers] one, one, one, one, one. Don't write it down, and whatever you do, don't tell the maids. They tell their children and then their children grow up and rob you."
or
Emily: "Lorelai, you scared me half to death."
Lorelai: "Yeah well follow-through has always been my problem."
or
Priest: "You know Rory, being a young lady comes with many gifts. Your virtue, for example, is a gift, a precious gift, possibly the most precious gift you possess. You want to give this gift very carefully. It is a gift you can only give to one man. Once you give it, it's gone. You can't re-gift it. If you give it away too soon, to the wrong man, then when the right one does come along, you will have no gift to give. You'll have to buy him a sweater."
Man, I really think you guys should run a '24' poll tomorrow...
Oh can't forget one of my favourites.. a battlestar gallactica reference in Gilmore Girls!
"Fracking Celine Dione!"
"Fracking Celine Dione!"
"That's the last time I buy something just because it's furry!"
"Remind me to tell you about the time my mom wore her rhinestone penis T-shirt to dinner and Grandma had her car towed."
You know, some of these quotes are fairly witty. If they were uttered in The Simpsons I'd be all over them. But yet I absolutely hate Gilmore Girls. I've given it a shot but get too frustrated within about five minutes. There aren't two characters/actresses on TV whom I'd rather do away with.
I have never seen Gilmore Girls, but another chick-oriented show you can enjoy with your wife/sister (though maybe not your daughter if she is under 18) is Weeds. I would highly recommend it (no pun intended).
I have watched it, but of course there is no shame for me, because although I am not a Gilmore, I am a Girl.
I think Paris kicks quite a lot of ass.
- Paris: I can't do this.
Rory: What?
Paris: Date. I can't date. I'm not genetically set up for it.
Rory: Not true.
Paris: I get no pleasure out of the prospect or the preparation. I'm covered in hives, I've showered four times, and for what? Some guy who doesn't even have the brains to buy a Zagat so we don't wind up in a restaurant that's really just a front for a cocaine laundering ring?
- Rory: Why me?
Paris: Because people like you. You're quiet. You say "excuse me". You look like little birds help you get dressed in the morning.
- Paris: I pierced my nose. And within an hour of having it done, my nose swelled up to four times its normal size, blocking all nasal passage, making it impossible to breathe. I went to the emergency room, where they pried the thing out of my nose and shot me up with antibiotics. I spent the night with an ice pack strapped to my face.
Rory: Oh, Paris.
Paris: It seems that I was allergic to the crap metal hoop that I paid $19.95 to have jammed into my nose.
Louise: Did you take a picture?
Paris: No, Louise, I did not take a picture. I was a little busy trying to get air to my brain cells, a burden you've not yet faced.
I was going to say "Option three, a thousand times option three!" but the show is, admittedly, quite decent.
Just ask Boone Logan.
Just ask Boone Logan.
Wow I never thought I would even see the words "Gilmore Girls" in Da Box.
Since we're on the topic of a CW show, I've become a huge Veronica Mars fan.
I just started watching the DVD's about 2 months ago and now I'm all caught up. I've even watched the first episode of Season 3 (which can be viewed on the MSN website).
There is a baseball player/gambling problem storyline in Season 2. Heck there's even a Willie Randolph refence.
I urge all of you to watch Veronica Mars. It's on Tuesday at 9pm. You don't need to know the previous seasons to really get into it.
Since we're on the topic of a CW show, I've become a huge Veronica Mars fan.
I just started watching the DVD's about 2 months ago and now I'm all caught up. I've even watched the first episode of Season 3 (which can be viewed on the MSN website).
There is a baseball player/gambling problem storyline in Season 2. Heck there's even a Willie Randolph refence.
I urge all of you to watch Veronica Mars. It's on Tuesday at 9pm. You don't need to know the previous seasons to really get into it.
Veronica Mars also rocks.. except for the fact that her favourite player is Johnny Damon.
Well, Veronica Mars is possibly the best show on TV, of course, and comes with my highest recommendation, but the CW show that I'm most excited about these days is Superman and the Legion of Super Heroes on Saturday mornings. The Legion on TV! We live in an age of wonders.
Uh....
What's Gilmore Girls?
And would I like it?
What's Gilmore Girls?
And would I like it?
I feel guilty when I watch Smallville, jeez, I don't think I could live with myself watching Gilmore Girls.
Wow... there is a lot of us baseball nerds(Magpie excluded) who secretly watch"chick" shows. I never thought I would say it publicly, but I do watch the program with some regularity. I was dragged in by my mother and sister who watched occasionally and I was quite simply to lazy to leave the room but by the middle of season two was watch intently all though putting up the facade that I thought the show was crap. I feel better for saying it now. Also IMDB states that Scott Patterson(Luke) "Attended Rutgers University to study for a degree in comparative literature but dropped out to play baseball for community colleges in Florida and Arizona. (1980) Drafted into the minor baseball leagues and played with The New York Yankees, The Atlanta Braves and The Texas Rangers" so I guess this is "him" and for another tidbit he was in one of the worst baseball movies ever "Little Big League"
Actually, I often watch "chick" shows (I find that they often have... well, chicks featured prominently) - and some of these quotes have piqued my interest.
Piqued? I wrote that? Must be late...
Piqued? I wrote that? Must be late...
Mags, I can loan you the first couple of seasons if you want to try it on for size. Personally, I think it's a riot. The pilot episode is a little weak, actually -- they hadn't figured out the pace of the show yet, it seems -- but episode number two is wonderful.
Well, I miss an awful lot of TV - I only seem able to pay attention to one or two shows at at time, among all of the ones that are being shown during any calendar year. At the moment, the only shows that I actually make an effort to watch are "Hustle" (I love the con, any con, it runs in the family) and "Criminal Minds" (Inigo Montoya grows up and becomes an FBI profiler? Yes.)
With the multitude that I know nothing about, I normally download a couple of test episodes years after the fact to discover if I have, in fact, been missing anything. And need to follow up. My most recent conclusions: "Sports Night" was a lot of fun, "The Wire" is really good, "Deadwood" is worthy but not essential... and I've still never seen an episode of "Six Feet Under."
With the multitude that I know nothing about, I normally download a couple of test episodes years after the fact to discover if I have, in fact, been missing anything. And need to follow up. My most recent conclusions: "Sports Night" was a lot of fun, "The Wire" is really good, "Deadwood" is worthy but not essential... and I've still never seen an episode of "Six Feet Under."
Magpie, I'd totally recommend "Six Feet Under" (5th and final season is the best TV I've ever watched) and "Sports Night"; it is not a coincidence that the star in both is Peter Krause. I have the "Sports Night" DVD box set (Felicity Huffman, now of Desperate Housewives fame, is great in it too). It's a bit dated now, but I highly recommend it because Aaron Sorkin writes kick-ass dialogue (as can be seen in "The West Wing").
Aaron Sorkin writes kick-ass dialogue (as can be seen in "The West Wing").
Well, as used to be seen on "West Wing," as he left the show what, two or three seasons back and, not coincidentally, it has since been canceled?
Get your Sorkin fix on "Studio 60," great new show and even features WW alum Brad Whitford.
Well.. part of me is happy, not even 15% of people on Da Box are routine watchers. Which does show ya something.. (like why this poll has been running for 3 days?!?!)
I still think you guys should run a '24' poll, for balancing purposes. Balancing the masculine - feminine vibe, I suppose...
I guess it doesn't really matter, as long 7th Heaven polls don't start popping up...
I still think you guys should run a '24' poll, for balancing purposes. Balancing the masculine - feminine vibe, I suppose...
I guess it doesn't really matter, as long 7th Heaven polls don't start popping up...
Actually, it's been up for less than two days.
But I'll take it down, I guess. Not many married men here on Batter's Box, it appears -- that third option is a distant last in the poll results.
I've been enjoying Studio 60 so far. The first ten minutes of the first episode were a complete knockout, the best opening I've ever seen on television. Full stop.
The rest of the episode was merely very good.
The rest of the episode was merely very good.