The Fundamental Things Apply

The Fundamental Things Apply
Season	4
Episode	5
INFO
Airdate	21 October 2003
Written by	John Stephens
Directed by	Neema Barnette
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The Fundamental Things Apply is the 5th episode of Season 4 of Gilmore Girls.

Synopsis

After blowing off his initial invitation, Rory (Alexis Bledel) makes a date with a classmate; Lorelai (Lauren Graham) considers firing her interior decorator after finding out about one of her former clients; Luke (Scott Patterson) is schooled in the rules of movie night at the Gilmore house; suitemates Paris (Liza Weil) and Janet (Katie Walder) engage in a war of wills.

Starring

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James Scott Patterson as Luke Danes Keiko Agena as Lane Kim Yanic Truesdale as Michel Gerard Liza Weil as Paris Geller Chris Eigeman as Jason Stiles and Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore Recurring cast Olivia Hack as Tana Schrick Katie Walder as Janet Billings Ethan Cohn as Glenn Babble Guest starring Sally Struthers as Babette Dell Karl T. Wright as Professor David Rogers as Trevor Wayne Wilcox as Marty Traci Lords as Natalie Zimmermann

Co-Starring Alan Simpson as Keebler Annalea Rawicz as Maid Peter Klausner as William Toby Smith as Hostess Mike Henry as Ed Kimi Reichenberg as Heather Adam Shapiro as Sugarman

Trivia

CONTINUITY

• When Rory's date asks if she has any siblings, she says no. This is not true, however. Rory has a half-sister, Georgia "Gigi" Hayden, who's a little less than a year old at the time of the episode.
• Karl T. Wright makes his second appearance in the series as a professor. In this episode, he works as a Yale professor instructing one of Rory's classes. His first appearance was in season 2 Episode 4 "The Road Trip to Harvard" as the Harvard professor whose class Rory briefly attends.
• The boy Rory unsuccessfully asks out in the Yale laundry room will appear again and be named, in season 4, episode 5, In the Clamor and the Clangor.

Music

shadow dancing | ANDY GIBB

lorelai in her car

rusholme ruffians | THE SMITHS

rory's first rejection

Photos

Screenshots

Gilmorisms

MUSIC

• Belle & Sebastian, Hootie & the Blowfish

LITERATURE

• The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro, by Ernest Hemingway
• Tender Is The Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

FILM

• Casablanca
• Chinatown
• Bonnie and Clyde
• It Happened One Night
• His Girl Friday
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Diner
• Mr. and Mrs. Bridge mentioned by Luke
• The Poseidon Adventure
• Hardbodies
• Grey Gardens
• Sex and the City mentioned by Emily

POP CULTURE

Paris – Charlie tried the same tricks on our boys at Khe Sanh, and let me tell you, if she keeps this up, I am not gonna be responsible for what happens.

Trevor – Rory's right. The book's about a guy who can't sleep with the woman he loves. It's not some Woody Guthrie song.

Lorelai – I've always loved horses, ever since I was a little girl, and now I finally have a grown-up excuse to buy a pony.

Luke – Great. Listen, National Velvet, you have to move this stuff out of here.

Lorelai – He's trying to steal "The World's Grumpiest Diner Guy" title from Mel.

Natalie – Small world, isn't it?

Lorelai – Yes, yes. Really small. About the same square footage as that box they threw McCain in.

Luke – Look out, Jason and Freddy!

Lorelai – Days. You've been stomping around, barking at people for days.

Luke – I have not.

Lorelai – Yes, Cujo, you have.

Luke – I always talk to people like that.

Lorelai – No, Benji, you don't.

Luke – I'll be fine tomorrow.

Lorelai – Really, Lassie? Why is that?

Emily – You will not dress her up in one of your Sex and the City ensembles.

Sookie – I love Little House on the Prarie. Jack the dog. Where is Lindsay Sidney Greenbush?

Lorelai – Okay, just one more warning. When they showed the first motion picture over a hundred years ago, it featured a train rushing toward the camera, and, um, people were so sure the train was going to burst off the screen and crush them, that they ran away in terror. Now, Luke, the train is not going to leave the screen.