'You lost me at carrots' - Movie & TV references from the Gilmore Girls

Pilot

Rory: God! You're like Ruth Gordon, just standing there with the tannis root. Make a noise.
(Dean was looming over Rory like the character in the horror movie 'Rosemary's Baby'.)

Lorelai: You're not gonna give me the 'Mommie Dearest' treatment forever, are you?
(Mommie Dearest is the title of the book and the movie written by Joan Crawford's adopted daughter, about the abuse the movie star inflicted on her children.)

Lorelai (to Luke): Look, Officer Krupke, she's right at that table, right over there.
(Officer Krupke was the beat cop in both the play and the movie versions of West Side Story.)

Lorelai: So tell me about the guy. Is he dreamy? - Rory: That's so 'Nick at Nite'.
(Nick at Nite: evening programming block broadcast over Nickelodeon with a lineup of classic television, largely sitcoms.)

The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton

Lorelai: Look at me! I look like that chick from 'The Dukes of Hazzard'.
(Lorelai is referring to Daisy Duke, best known for wearing extremely short denim shorts.)

Madeline: Bugs dirt, twigs. Something's biting be. I hate nature!
('I hate nature!' is a classic line from the movie The Goonies.)

Rory: I was in the German Club for a while, but there were only three of us, and then two left for the French Club after seeing 'Schindler's List', so...
(Schindler's List is a shocking movie about World War II by Steven Spielberg.)

Lorelai: We like our internet slow, okay? We can turn it on, walk around, do a little dance, make a sandwich. With DSL, there's no dancing, no walking, and we'd starve. It'd be all work and no play. Have you not seen 'The Shining', Mom?
(In Stephen King's 'The Shining' a father goes crazy and ends up on a killing frenzy, repeatedly saying, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".)

Kill me now

Emily: Of course it's about me. If Rory goes and has a good time without you, then I win.
Lorelai: Okay, Bob Barker.
(Bob Barker is the host of the game show The Price Is Right.)

(As the brides and grooms to be enter the Inn, all four extremely handsome and alike...)
Lorelai: It's like a really snooty Doublemint commercial.
(Commercials for Wrigley's Doublemint gum were famous for using sets of twins to pitch the product.)

Lorelai: You don't care at all, do you?
Michel: To me, you are the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoon.
(Charlie Brown is one of the characters in the Peanuts comic / TV show. The voices and faces of adults in those television shows are blurred and indistinct.)

Lorelai: Why don't you go up to your room and have a fabulous bubble bath and I'll send up some wine and a masseuse who bears a remarkable resemblance to Antonio Banderas. - How remarkable? - Get ready to applaud.
(Antonio Banderas is a handsome Spanish film actor, usually cited as the most prominent Spanish actor in America.)

The deer hunters

Title: The Deerhunters
(This is a homage to the movie The Deerhunter which tells the stories of Vietnam vets who have difficulty adjusting to civilian life, creating a parallel to Rory's difficulty adjusting to Chilton.)

Drella: Back off, Chevalier.
(Maurice Chevalier was a famous French actor who was considered the prototype of the gallant Frenchman.)

(Rory entering with a lot of books...)
Lorelai: Behold, in theaters now, The Thing That Reads A Lot.
(Reference to 'The Thing from Another World', a 50's science fiction film which tells the story of an Air Force crew & scientists who fight an alien being.)

Rory: I couldn't tell you. It was too humiliating.
Lorelai: Oh honey, you once told me that you loved 'Saved by the bell'. What could be more humiliating than that?
(Saved by the Bell is a popular American teen sitcom which originally aired between 1988 and 2000.)

Cinnamon's wake

Michel: (to man in overalls) Yoohoo, Hee Haw man, where's Lorelai Gilmore?
(Reference to the 1960's TV variety show Hee-Haw, which featured country music and rural-themed humor.)

Miss Patty: Fresh fruit always has such a... a sensuality about it....
(Similar to a scene in Animal House where fresh vegetables' "sensuousness" is used as a prop to start a conversation at the supermarket.)

Lorelai: Life is a funny funny thing, huh?
Sookie: Yeah, I love that Jim Carrey.
Lorelai: What?
Sookie: Jim Carrey. He's just -- he's just -- funny.
(Jim Carrey is of course a popular movie actor mainly due to his turn in lead comedic roles.)

Rory: If you could live in any city in the world you'd pick Philadelphia?
Lane: M. Night Shyamalan lives there.
(M. Night Shyamalan directed The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, ... He is particularly known for plot twists at the end of his movies.)

(As Babette packs up a whole kitchen shelf full of her cat's medicine bottles)
Lorelai: It's like a scene from the kitty version of Valley of the Dolls.
(The Valley of the Dolls is Jacqueline Susann's famous 1960s novel, later made into a movie, about drug use among a group of Hollywood starlets.)

Rory's birthday parties

Lorelai: Here. A Shirley Temple
Rory: What are you drinking?
Lorelai: A Shirley Temple-Black.
Rory: (sniffs at it) Wow.
Lorelai: I got your Good Ship Lollipop right here, mister.
(When Shirley Temple retired from film, she married businessman Charles Black, taking his name. A "Shirley Temple-Black" is an adult version of the children's bar drink. It's also a rhythmic rhyme of Johnnie Walker Black, which is of course a brand of Scotch (Thx Odysseus). Good Ship Lollipop is the trademark song of the actress from the movie Bright Eyes.)

Lorelai: (after Rory yelled at Emily) That was a pretty Freaky Friday moment we had back there.
(Freaky Friday is a movie about a mother and daughter who switch bodies.)

Lorelai: (after Jackson crossed different fruits) You didn't build one of those machines like in The Fly, did you? We're not going to find you wandering the streets wearing a raspberry head, crying "Eat me!"
(The Fly is a 1958/1986 sci-fi film about a scientist whose teleportation device inadvertently melds him with a fly. The "Eat me" part refers to the ending of the 58 version, where the fly is crying "Help me!" as he's going to be eaten by a spider (Thx Odysseus).)

Emily: Oh, yes, and there was a T-shirt with a Farrah Fawcett face.
Lorelai: A hero to many who aspire to the perfect feather fluff.
(Farrah Fawcett was an actress who became a pop culture icon and sex symbol in the ‘70s and was the star of the TV series Charlie’s Angels.)

Lorelai: Lucy, I'm home!
(Line from I Love Lucy that Ricky would say when he came home from work.)

Lorelai: And there I was, in labor. And while some have called it the most meaningful experience of your life, to me it was something more akin to doing the splits on a crate of dynamite…
Rory: I wonder if the Waltons ever did this.
(The Waltons was a TV show that followed a family through good and bad times through the eyes of the eldest son, John Boy.)

Sookie: Too bad you couldn't get your mom to relinquish Friday night.
Lorelai: No, she has her Vulcan death grip on that one.
(Reference to Spock's non-existent Vulcan death grip from a Star Trek classic episode.)

Kiss and tell

Taylor: You have lived in Stars Hollow for a long time, young man. It's time you became one of us.
Luke: Sorry, I guess my pod's defective.
(In the sci-fi film Invasion of the Body Snatchers alien beings send out pods that clone humans while they are sleeping, and replace them with the hive-minded lookalike.)

Lorelai: I am gonna be so cool in there, you will mistake me for Shaft.
(Shaft is a movie from 1971 with Richard Roundtree playing John Shaft, a damn cool black detective.)

Dean: Well, I have no embarrassing secrets.
Rory: I bet I know one. At the end of The way we were, you wanted Robert Redford to dump his wife and kid for Barbra Streisand.
Dean: I've never seen The way we were.
Lorelai: What are you waiting for? Heartache, laughter,…
Rory: Communism.
Lorelai: All in one neat package!
('The way we were' is a 1973 film which tells the story of an activist, liberal jewish woman (Streisand) who marries a conservative WASP (Redford) following World War II, at the height of McCarthyism; their completely different sociopolitical views eventually drive them apart.)

Dean: What about Boogie Nights?
Rory: You'll never get it past Lorelai.
Dean: No Marky Mark fan?
Rory: She had a bad reaction to Magnolia. She sat there for three hours screaming "I want my life back!"....
(Magnolia is a longish 1999 movie with independent film influences, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, which tells the story of a peculiar interaction among several individuals, interweaving nine separate yet connected storylines. Boogie Nights, another Anderson film, follows a young porn star in the late 1970s and deals with the highs and lows of success.)

Lorelai: Are you crazy? You can't watch Willy Wonka without massive amounts of junk food. It's not right, I won't allow it.
(Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a is a 1971 musical film based on the children's book by Roald Dahl. While the film was not a commercial success at the time of its release, it has since grown into a cult classic with both children and adults.)

Rory: We weren't making out. It was just one kiss.
Lorelai: Yeah, by the time that gets to Miss Patty's it's a scene from Nine 1/2 Weeks.
(Nine 1/2 Weeks is a movie starring Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger about a couple who meet and have a torrid affair for nine 1/2 weeks.)

Comments:
Contributions are more than welcome, I probably won't notice every reference…

The title of this list is a reference to Jerry Maguire, from season 5:
Sookie: Okay, you need to grate six carrots and four parsnips, and then take some
flour and butter, melt the butter, make a roux…
Lorelai: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Baby, you lost me at carrots. Which, by the way, was the
first draft of 'you had me at hello'.