This is your pop culture for S4 E2 "The Lorelais' First Day at Yale”.
I am all in. I am all in with Scott Patterson and I heart radio podcast Everybody. Scott Patterson, the pod Father coming to you with another pop culture episode. You will not stop me. I will. I have dubbed myself the pod Father. Um uh. Pop Culture four, Season four, Episode two, The Laurelize first day at Yale. Let's get rocket and good. This is juicy. There's a lot of good ones and I'm joined by my intrepid crew yet again, Amy Sugarman, Tara sud Daniel Romo, fresh out of the desert after five days of walking and thank you. Um. Laureline is trying to a candid photo of Rory before they leave for Yale. Rory, you're having serious any Leibowitz delutions here and is a famous photographer known for her work in Vogue. Lebitz is polaroid photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, taken five hours before Lennon's murder, is considered one of Rolling Stone Magazine's most famous cover photographs. Larelai is showing Rory how she should walk for her candid photo. Rory, you look like Alfalfa coming to pick up Darla Alfalfa, darl Are characters in the film Little Rascals, based on the TV series from What the nineteen twenties or the um The movie is about a group of young boys that start the he Man Woman Hating Club. Alfalfa is a member of the club, had a crush on Darla, and when the boys find out, Uh, they try to sabotage Alfalfa's relationship with Darla. No, alright, still trying to get the candid photo of Rory Laurela. I'll put it on the computer and then superimpose an important person standing next to you seeing you off, like Kissinger or Lady Burr Johnson or Pat Summer, Rory Pat Summer All, Laureli. You think somebody better? Rory Orson Welles Uh, George Allen. Pat Summer All was an American football player and television sportscaster for who worked for CBS, FOX and ESPN. In addition to football, he announced major golf and tennis events. Some are all announced sixteen Super Bowls on network television, twenty six Masters tournaments, and twenty one US opens. Uh. I knew the name, but I don't know that I know exactly who Pat Summer. You would you would recognize it? If yeah, um. Pat summer All died in two thousand and thirteen, and this episode came out in two thousand and three, so Pat was very much alive at the time of Rory and Laura, and Rory arguing if he died or not, he doesn't look familiar to me at sorry yeah uh. George Orson Wells was an American director, actor, screenwriter, and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theater, and film. He has considered to be among the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Uh, and some of his top movies are Citizen k Chimes at Midnight, Touch of Evil, Uh, ironically to Hear of My Birth. Do you guys think that Pat summer All. Don't answer Scott, is that Pat summer All, or Orson Wells. That's not Pat right, I'm trying to think. I feel like Pat summer All hosted something that I watched. I can't figure out what it is. I think if you would have held that up to me and said, is that Pat summer All, I would have been like, maybe I did not? Was I Was I right or wrong? That's Orson Wells. Oh, Okay, um, also the magnificent Emberson. Also, if you want a good laugh, uh, you've got to look up on YouTube Orson Wells doing a commercial for a wine company. I think it was not Mogen David or something, but he was drunk off his hini doing it and they just kept doing take after take after take. So if if if you want to, if you need a good laugh, just google that anyway. Luke telling the lawyer who came to discuss his divorce papers who his legal representation is in the diner, Luke, his name is Don Dewey. He is from the firm Dewey Cheatahman. Common. A common theme in lawyer jokes is to present a lawyer or a law firm, particularly in parody settings, with a gag name, such as the commonly used Dewey Cheataman how Uh. The gag name pokes fun at the perceived propensity of legal professionals to take advantage of their clients the name of the firm, and this example is a punt on a phrase is such as do we cheat him? And how yeah? Because if you didn't, I don't have anything left? Um the empty tank on that one. Meeting Rory's sweet mate Hanna and Laurela, I asked how old she is? Now we're Yale in Rory's dorm room. Rory sixteen, tonna oh. On Tuesday, Rory Happy Birthday. Doogie. Uh. Laurela is referencing Doody Hauser, who possesses a genius intellect and a photographic memory. He earned a perfect score in the s A t at the age of six. Neil Patrick Harris is Doogie. Did you guys ever watched I did? Yeah, I've seen it. Not like regular it was definitely reruns, but I've seen it. Uh. He completed high school in nine weeks, graduated from Princeton University at the age of ten, and finished medical school four years later. At age fourteen, Hawser was the youngest licensed doctor in the country. My question is, if he was such a genius, whyted it take him four years to finish medical school. I don't know, but Doogie howser rocks because they didn't want to They didn't want to hire an eleven year old to do all the dialog. They Neil Patrick Harrison uncoupled. It's pretty good. Yeah. Harris is like a great example of a child star who's really gone on and continued to thrive and had like a whole resurgence. Go Neil Patrick Harris I life coached him for a little while. Laura defending Luke to Nicole's lawyer, saying he wants nothing from Nicole. This is in Luke's downer, Laurel, I could show you his place upstairs. You half expect how are you Christmas? To jump out of the bathroom banging tambourines. Harry Krishna is a mystical sect of Hinduism. It is usually classified as a monotheistic form of Hinduism, since Harry Krishna's believe that all deities are simply various manifestations of the one god, Vishnu or Krishna. Harry Krishna has often used chance and mantras while playing tambourines to bring happiness to the soul. Laurel I is referring to Luke not being like a Harry Krishna, not being loud and happy. Uh, He's a hermit and happy being one okay, Uh. Luke asking why the mattress is still in the bed of the truck. This is outside the diner, Laurel I. Uh, that's a Yale supplied mattress that has microbes in it that date back to Henry Box Brown. Henry Box Brown was the nineteenth century abolitionist who escaped freedom by mailing himself in a wooden crate to Philadelphia. That took Oh lord, he escaped freedom or he escaped to freedom, Okay, anyway. He later moved to England because he was an escaped slave. I was afraid of being caught. In England, he earned his living as a traveling musician. I mean, this reference went completely over my head. I have never heard of this, any of this. Wow, Henry Box Brown. Yeah, that's why you know, that's for this, That's why we're here. This right, that's part of why people watch the show over and over again. I could tell you about doogie all day long, but this and you did it was I got more doogie stuff, if you know, I know, all let it slide for now, save it literally, you guys. Right when I said I could talk long, Tara's like, apparently, look, man, apparently you don't want to hear about doogie. I think she voted with her mouth right there. Fine, look call me after you can tell me all the doogie details. Okay, Fine, I'm just gonna like keep I want to I want to hear them. Luke and Laureli are arguing over who needs to take the mattress. Luke says, we've been here before, Lola, I recognize that tree. Lorelai is referring to the play Waiting for Good Dough. Oh, waiting for Good Dough. Yeah, I think that's misspelled. It's not. It's good. They do a whole waiting, Okay, Amy Sherman Palladino must love Waiting for Good because I think there's a whole waiting for good reference in bun Heads my favorite Gunheads, right, um, Waiting for You to Wear A tree is the only piece of the set in the play. The tree represents life and hope, especially between the first and second acts. For the tree inexplicably sprouts leaves um paris, surprising Rory as her roommate in Yale in the dorm room, Rory, my nose, it feels like Clay. Rory is referring to an episode of I Love Lucy entitled l A at Last, where Lucy and company finally arrived in Los Angeles. In the episode, they are at the brown Derby Uh, Lucy accidentally causes a pie to fly in William Holden's face. When Ricky unexpectedly brings Holden home later that day to meet Lucy, she tries to avoid embarrassment by disguising herself with a clay nose. After letting a cigarette, her nose catches fire and she quickly blows it out. A wick was placed within the clay nose to prevent Lucy's actual from catching fire. Uh. Lucille Ball improvised dipping her flamed clay nose and a cup of coffee. Many have wondered if the nose catching fire was improvised or scripted. But it was scripted, boy that Lucille Ball. Uh. Yeah. Absolutely. When laurel I sees that Paris is Rory's roommate Rory uh and Terence her life coach, Laurelai like an Oprah like on Oprah. Yeah. Oprah one the Miss Black teen Tennessee beauty pageant at just seventeen years old, leading to her first media job at radio station. September marked the beginning of Oprah's monumental Emmy Emmy winning daytime talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, on air for twenty five years. She became the first woman to both own and produce her own television show. Oprah is the first African American female billionaire in the country, making her the richest black woman in the US. She's on my list of two point six billion dollars who I want to have dinner with? Anybody with me? Oprah? Yeah, number one. Yeah, I love that. Everyone's obviously she's on my vision board every year. Like there's always a picture of Oprah. Oprah and I'm about to drive to Monticito, and I always think, maybe maybe maybe this is your day, this could be my day. It could be Oprah. Huh. Because she needs a sandwich just like I do. She should always go to the same it's I would call it a deli, but it's not a deli, but it's like a very famous place, little market in Montecito. And it's like, Oprah needs a sandwich. You know who? My number one is, Elon Musk. Yeah. I sometimes see Billy Baldwin, China Phillips at this same place. I get a sandwich and that is good. And I've seen Kevin Costner there. Oh my god, never Oprah. But no, I don't want to have it. I didn't an event for Elon Musk a few years ago. Was it great? I was just gonna go. I definitely signed an n d A. But you had a meeting. You had a meeting. I did say about but I did it, and it was It was cool. It was PROTESTLA. They were launching a new carline. No pass Oprah Oprah. The only other one I want more than Oprah is Barack but whatever, m oh Barack would be great Oprah. Have dinner with Barack and Oprah, like I could just die like that. You know, you know who my tied for first would be Larry Fink. Larry Fink, Yeah, that the CEO of Black Rock, Laron heard of it is? Are you making this up? It's the biggest hedge fund in the world. Oh boring, God, you boring CeON to that list in the world. Black Rock is running the world. What are you talking about? Dinner with Selene? And also like add like Dolly Parton on there too. I feel like it's a leg It's just a legends, the biggest ever. The legend Snoop Dogg too, alright, he might he might come with Martha, though he might bring Martha can cook for us. Barack should be the host. But because he's the only dude, and then it's us three. Sorry Scott, you're out, Oprah, Martha Selene, Wait a minute, I don't get to go because they're not like us, I know, and some hedge fund guy that's not fun, not invited, dude, No, you're ruining our dinner. What you're bringing Elan and Larry Fink. I don't even know who that is. You don't know who Larry Fink is? No, absolutely not at all the description I will. I will still pass there. Anyone we forgot, I forgot. I feel like we forgot, like Larry Fink controls something like I don't know Wilton John Dan. I was gonna say Danielle I was like Harry Styles as well, but he's kind of a living legends not legend. Says it's hardly a living legend, Tara. He's he's like a child. Absolutely not. But wait, who did you just say Danielle? I said, Elton John totally come. You know who else? I weirdly want to come? M J Glenn Smith. Do you guys know who that is? No? No, I understand she's not a legendary, but like, literally I've never seen someone seventy years old. Look have that amazing of hair and her workout. I literally am falling around TikTok to do her workouts. Do yourself a favor. I don't want to have aged route, but I'm pretty sure she's seven. Another person I would bring. I would bring Nile Ferguson. No, we don't care. He's an author seventies six. Jacqueline Smith is seventy. Oh my god, Okay, the dinner parties all right? Luke Luke is having to help Chip moving his stuff because he helped him move the Yale mattress back to the dorms. Laurel I says he's probably busy taping his Karma Electro poster upon a ceiling above his bed. Prince discovered Karma Electra. He found her after she auditioned for a girl group that would be signed to his record label, Paisley Park count carm Elector has been featured in Playboy, a whopping forty four times in twenty one countries, as well as three times in the US between two thousand two thousand and nine. She became very famous after her bay Watch role during only Pamela Anderson has appeared in Playboy more times than Electra. Pamela was featured on one hundred and fifty one covers in thirty one countries. At Carmen Electra was the actress that I was going to read with right after my Gilmore Girls audition. By the way, no, no, all right, Laurel, I did you know she also was a part of the Pussycat Dolls like she stepped in. I no, I don't follow them. Push it on my button, Babe, you're gonna You're gonna invite them to dinner too. They're not going all right. Laurela, talking to Rory as she is exiting the dorms, getting ready to leave, Rory at Yale for the first time, asking if she needs anything else in the room, suggests a disco ball. Laurel I says, you cannot host. You are much antasted, dissipated salute to Barry White Knight without a disco ball. Barry White is a singer songwriter from the disco genre. His biggest hits were Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, Can't Get enough Goodn't get enough, a little bit, Uh, You're the first, uh the last, my everything, legendary voice on Berry White, and that is gonna wrap up this week's pop Culture, The Laurea Lies first day at Yale. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, all everybody that's gonna wrap it up. Thank you ladies. Next episode, Season four, Episode three, The Hobbit, the Sofa and the Digger styles. M h is this one of your favorites? Digger? Oh gets good? Good? You dig? Do you dig? Digger? But this is gonna get juicy? Huh? Danielle, Okay, okay, don't stop. Your face is making me think of what is going to happen. All right, everybody, Thank you, Amy, Thank you, Tara, Thank you Danielle. Thanks everybody. Keep those cards and letters coming. Uh. We want to hear what you have to say. Love to all, Stay safe, yea hey everybody, and don't forget Follow us on Instagram at I Am all In podcast and emailis at Gilmore at I Heart radio dot com. 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