Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out

Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out
Season	6
Episode	8
INFO
Airdate	8 November 2005
Written by	Daniel Palladino
Directed by	Kenny Ortega
EPISODES
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Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out is the 8th episode of Season 6 of Gilmore Girls.

Synopsis

JESS RETURNS WITH A SURPRISE FOR RORY — Rory's ex-boyfriend Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) pays her a visit and gets an icy reception when he's introduced to Logan (Matt Czuchry). Elsewhere, Luke (Scott Patterson) sponsors a middle-school girls soccer team and is shocked by their style of play.

Starring

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore Scott Patterson as Luke Danes Keiko Agena as Lane Kim Matt Czuchry as Logan Huntzberger and Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore Special Guest Star Milo Ventimiglia as Jess Mariano Recurring cast Sally Struthers as Babette Dell Alan Loayza as Colin McRea Tanc Sade as Finn

Guest starring Riki Lindhome as Juliet Elisabeth Abbott as Rosemary Lucy Butler as Maggie Kyle Chavarria as Megan Lexi Ainsworth as Tillie Co-Starring Channing Nichols as Bonnie Amy Kuney as Girl Singer Matthew McKane as College Guy John Henry Canavan as Football Dad

Quotes

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Kids usually talk, but they don't say anything. You know, they just kind of yammer, so if you don't find them cute, they're just boring

—Luke

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Well, it's my prerogative, you know. You're damn straight. I'm gonna party. I'm gonna do it while I have the chance because come June, my life is over

—Logan

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Really? It's all so easy for me? I don't want that life. It's forced on me. You talk about all these doors being open? All I see is one door, and I'm being pushed through it. I have no choice. You try living without options

—Logan

Trivia

• Jess wrote a book entitled The Subsect.
• Logan is threatened by Jess and Rory's past.
• Rory moves out of her grandparents' house and temporarily moves in with Lane.
• A girl at the bar performs "Tom Dooley"

Locations

• Lorelai's House
• Gilmore Mansion
• Kim's Antiques
• Yale
• Rich Man's Shoe

Music

back in the USSR | THE BEATLES

Photos

Stills

Gilmorisms

Film

• Sophie's Choice

TV

• Get Smart

Pop Culture

Lorelai – You've got the Queer Eye, my friend.

Luke – It's "The Twilight Zone". I do not know what to do here.

Lorelai – Hey. I think The Lullaby League is looking for you.

Lorelai – Wow, Oliver Twist just kindly asked for a little more gruel, and you kicked him right in the junk.

Rory – It's one thing to be forced to live in the big house, but now the big house is feeling Tom Thumb tiny. My grandmother is everywhere. I'm positive there's at least five of her wandering the property like she's a Cylon.

Luke – I want my girls to look good.

Lorelai – Listen to Daddy Warbucks.

Lorelai – They could make a movie about this someday … and you know who would play you? Tobey Maguire.

Luke – He's way younger than me.

Lorelai – But his career is hot. Go with Tobey.

Luke – What about that Vito Morgenstern?

Lorelai – Sure. Or Viggo Mortensen. Or Donald Sutherland.

Colin – How INXS missed her, I don't know.

Jess – You graduate already, Doogie?

Lorelai – Bend it like Beckham!

Lorelai – Who is their coach, Sam Peckinpah?

Lorelai – Scarface on a soccer field.

Logan – Call me Superman

Logan – So, were you two high school sweethearts? Rock around the clock, two straws in the milkshake?

Logan – So what are we talking here? Short novel, Kafka length, or longer? Dos Passos, Tolstoy, or longer? Robert Musil? Proust?

Logan – I was just challenging him, jeez. Hey, if Hemingway could take it, so can he.