Help Wanted

Help Wanted
Season	2
Episode	20
INFO
Airdate	7 May 2002
Written by	Allan Heinberg
Directed by	Chris Long
EPISODES
Previous	Teach Me Tonight
Next	Lorelai's Graduation Day

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We're never gonna agree on this

—Rory to Lorelai about Jess

Help Wanted is the 20th episode of Season 2 of Gilmore Girls.

Synopsis

A newcomer (guest star Carole King, record-breaking "Tapestry" album) opens Stars Hollow's first music store. And Richard (Edward Herrmann) decides to kick off his new business by searching for a secretary. Then Lorelai (Lauren Graham) starts to help out at the office, and Richard --- surprisingly --- wishes she would stay.

Starring

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore Keiko Agena as Lane Kim Yanic Truesdale as Michel Gerard Scott Patterson as Luke Danes Jared Padalecki as Dean Forester and Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore special appearance by Edward Herrmann as Richard Gilmore Special Guest Star Carole King as Sophie Bloom

Recurring cast Michael Winters as Taylor Doose Sally Struthers as Babette Dell Sean Gunn as Kirk Gleason Emily Kuroda as Mrs. Kim Guest starring Patrika Darbo as Waitress Co-Starring Evie Peck as Karen

Quotes

Lorelai – Dad, there’s another Margie out there, honest. Just give it a chance.

Richard – An office without Margie...

Emily – Seems inconceivable.

Lorelai – Dream with me here folks.

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Lorelai – You bagged the Swede?

Richard – Well, just as I didn’t score the deal, I also haven’t bagged the Swede. We simply talked, we came to an agreement, we shook hands

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Rory – It wasn't his fault

Luke – I know it wasn't

Music

heavy metal drummer | WILCO

lane visits sophie's music for the first time

Photos

Stills

Screenshots

Gilmorisms

MUSIC

• Wu-Tang Clan
• Keith Moon
• Neil Peart
• Rick Allen

LITERATURE

• The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway
• Complete Novels, Dawn Powell; Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night, Come Back to Sorrento,Turn, Magic Wheel, Angels on Toast, A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell

FILM

• Nanook of the North

POP CULTURE

Lorelai – How am I going to fit my three sugars into Barbie's Malibu Dream cup here –

Lorelai – I don't know why were not opening for Rickles.

Emily – Where is the woman's sense of loyalty?

Lorelai – Gee, I don't know. Maybe with the company that's keeping her from standing in line for government cheese.

Lorelai – There is a baby here desperately in need of some bathwater.

Lorelai – Next time hold an envelope up to your head before you do that.

Lane – Dawn Powell? I've never heard of her.

Rory – Nobody has, which is a shame because she wrote 16 amazing novels, 9 plays, and there are some who actually claim that it was Powell who made the jokes that Dorothy Parker got credit for.

Taylor – I know that there's no way that you would be involved in something like that if it weren't for that Sal Mineo wannabe. Believe me, Chachi and Chachi alone will be held responsible for that incident.

Babette – I met this guy once. Gorgeous. Tan. Looked just like Mickey Hargitay.

Richard – You're like the tiny fellow on that M*A*S*H program, always anticipating.