A Tale Of Poes And Fire is the 17th episode of Season 3 of Gilmore Girls.
Synopsis[]
As Rory (Alexis Bledel) considers which university to attend, an emergency arises at the inn and displaces members of the Edgar Allan Poe Society. Also: Luke (Scott Patterson) is perplexed by Jess's (Milo Ventimiglia) employee-of-the-month award; and Rory pays a house call on the hibernating Paris (Liza Weil).
Starring[]
- Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
- Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
- Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James
- Keiko Agena as Lane Kim
- Yanic Truesdale as Michel Gerard
- Scott Patterson as Luke Danes
- Liza Weil as Paris Geller
- Jared Padalecki as Dean Forester
- Milo Ventimiglia as Jess Mariano
- Sean Gunn as Kirk Gleason
- Recurring cast
- Liz Torres as Miss Patty
- Emily Kuroda as Mrs. Kim
- Sally Struthers as Babette Dell
- Shelly Cole as Madeline Lynn
- Teal Redmann as Louise Grant
- Guest starring
- Tricia O'Kelley as Nicole Leahy
- Michael Mantell as Fred Larson
- Arielle Kebbel as Lindsay Lister
- Stoney Westmoreland as Bill Borden
- Robert Clendenin as Poe #2
- Beth Kennedy as Mrs. O'Malley
- Willie C. Carpenter as Chief Baker
Quotes[]
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- Lorelai – Since when are you a cat person?
- Sookie – Well, ever since I got pregnant, I've become very nurturing toward all living things. Jackson, too
- Lorelai – Well, both your bodies are changing
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- Lorelai – If the Poes start fighting, does that punch a hole in the space/time continuum?
- Rory – And throw us into a universe where everything is the exact opposite of what it is here?
- Lorelai – Cool. There'll be funny sitcoms there
Trivia[]
- Rory got into Princeton, Yale and Harvard.
- Lindsay and Nicole are respectively throwing shade at Rory and Lorelai.
- Dean got into Southern Connecticut State.
- Young Chui broke up with his girlfriend Karen.
- Lane realises Young Chui is in love with her.
- Kirk does the topical daily t-shirt business.
- Lorelai tells Luke about her dream.
- The second Poe is correct that the real Edgar Allan Poe was court-martialed and forced to leave West Point in 1831, not 1832. The first Poe is correct that the same year he was court-martialed (though not the year he believed it was) was the year his brother died. He calls the brother William, which was his legal first name, but he was known by the name Henry, not William.
Photos[]
Gilmorisms[]
MUSIC
LITERATURE
- The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
FILM
POP CULTURE
- Lorelai – There will be a complementary cask of amontillado on the table in your room. And if you're expecting your friends Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether, I'll send up another one.
- *silence*
- Lorelai – You said you were with the Poe Society.
- Larson – Yeah, but it's just a hobby, we're not Trekkies.
- Rory – Try to make it home in time for Charlie Rose. Billy Joel's on, and he might cry or something.
- Lorelai – Hey, Shari Lewis, how's the show going?
- Miss Patty – I was Ricardo Montalban's receptionist for six months, and he never complained.
- Lorelai – You checked the Cheshire Cat, the Maiden's Teacup, the Cookie House, the Sugar Bear Inn?
- Michel – Every place that sounds like Glinda the Good Witch threw up? Yes, all booked.
- Paris – I've been totally Howard-Hughesing it.
- Paris – I'll get an apartment in Cambridge, buy a Harvard sweatshirt, talk about Mira Sorvino a lot.
- Paris – I was flipping through Harvard class schedules when you were still delighting to the adventures of Gumby and Pokey
- Rory – I was more a Pee Wee Herman kind of gal.
- Lorelai – I'm a nomad. I am the lonely wanderer. Hank Williams would be too sad to write a song about me.
- Lorelai – Stella!
- Jess – What else did she think I did? Start the fire? Put Phil Spector up to it?
- Jess – As they say on the Family Feud, "Good answer."
Media[]
- Gilmore Girls (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • APRIL 2003)