Season 1, episode 3: “Kill Me Now”
Original air date: 19 October 2000
Directed by: Adam Nimoy
Written by: Joanne T. Waters

Summary: After Rory spends a day golfing with Richard, Lorelai worries that Rory is too amenable to her grandparents’ privileged lifestyle.

Note: My timestamps are based on the series DVDs, which include a “previously on Gilmore Girls” montage at the beginning of some episodes, including this one. Streaming services may cut the recap sequence, placing their timestamps a minute or so behind my own.

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References in Chronological Order

04:20 – 🪶 reference
RICHARD: Physical fitness is as important as intellectual fitness. So says Plato, and so say I.

There is a quotation popularly attributed to the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato (Ancient Greek: Πλάτων, c. 428-347 BCE): “In order for a man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.” This usually appears in meme form or in self-help resources a citation.

A deleted user in the r/askphilosophy subreddit suggests it may be a simplification of Republic 411e: “It seems there are two arts which I would say some god gave to mankind, music and gymnastics for the service of the high-spirited principle and the love of knowledge in them–not for the soul and the body except incidentally, but for the harmonious adjustment of these two principles” (Tufts University). Richard has no doubt read the philosophical dialogue Republic (c. 375 BCE), as it is Plato’s best-known text and a foundational text in Western philosophy.

06:25 – 📺 reference
EMILY: If Rory goes and has a good time without you, then I win.
LORELAI: Okay, Bob Barker.

Bob Barker (born Robert Barker, 1923-2023) hosted the CBS television game show The Price Is Right from 1972 until his retirement in 2007. On the show, contestants compete to win cash and prizes by accurately guessing the prices of merchandise. It is the longest-running game show in the United States.

The show’s famous catchphrase, called out by an announcer to summon contestants from the studio audience, is, “Come on down!” An animal-rights supporter, Barker was also known for closing episodes by urging viewers to spay and neuter their pets, a tradition that was kept up by his successor, US actor and comedian Drew Carey.

07:55 – ⭐ reference
LORELAI: I’d rather get my face surgically altered to look like that lunatic rich lady with the lion head than go to the club with you.

Jocelyn Wildenstein (born Jocelyne Périsset, 1940-2024) was a Swiss socialite known for her strange catlike appearance, for which tabloid outlets dubbed her “Catwoman,” “the Lion Queen,” and “the Bride of Wildenstein.” She denied having had extensive facial procedures, claiming that her ex-husband (US billionaire art dealer Alec Wildenstein) exaggerated the plastic surgery narrative in the midst of their high-profile 1999 divorce.

08:50 – 🏷️ reference
MRS. SHALES: Now, go away. My Advil is wearing off.

Advil (ibuprofen) is an over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) used to alleviate mild to moderate pain, as well as fever and inflammation. Headache, menstrual cramps, and rheumatoid arthritis are common ailments for which Advil might be used.

09:30 – ⭐ reference
LORELAI: Why don’t you go up to your room and have a fabulous bubble bath, and I’ll send up some wine and a masseuse who bears a remarkable resemblance to Antonio Banderas?

Antonio Banderas (born José Antonio Domínguez Bandera, 1960) is a Spanish actor, producer, and director. He first made a name for himself in the Spanish cinema of the 1980s, working repeatedly with acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. By the time this episode aired, he had also appeared in a number of Hollywood films, including Philadelphia (1993), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Evita (1996), and The Mask of Zorro (1998). He would go on to appear in Spy Kids (2001) and voice Puss in Boots in Shrek 2 (2004).

Technically, a masseuse is a female massage therapist, and a masseur is a male one. Regardless of the practitioner’s gender, “massage therapist” is typically the preferred title. In the United States, massage therapy is a regulated profession requiring appropriate training and licensure.

10:30 – 📺 reference
LORELAI: You don’t care at all, do you?
MICHEL: To me, you are the teacher in the Charlie Brown cartoon.

Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip is populated by a cast of children, the main one being Charlie Brown. Adults are rarely seen, and in the television specials based on the comics, they exist mainly off screen. Their speech is unintelligible, created for the specials using a trombone. The distorted speech effect was first used in the 1967 special You’re in Love, Charlie Brown and can be heard in this clip from It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown (1969).

Peanuts was written and illustrated by Schulz, a US cartoonist, from 1950 to 2000. At the time of Schulz’s death in 2000 (the night before the final strip appeared in print), it ran in over 2,600 newspapers worldwide.

11:05 – 🏷️ reference
LORELAI: It’s like a really snooty Doublemint commercial.

Doublemint is a US brand of peppermint-flavored chewing gum produced by the Wrigley Company since 1914. In 1939, Wrigley launched an advertising campaign starring a pair of identical twins, a play on the “double” in the brand name.

The twins were illustrated in print advertisements until 1959 when Jayne and Joan Knoerzer were hired to play them. They have been portrayed since by numerous sets of twins, including Linda Puffers and Lisa Winters, who had the longest run from 1985 to 1995. Nicole and Natalie Garza were cast as Doublemint twins in 2005, and, as it happens, they appear in a guest spot on Gilmore Girls later in the series.

12:55 – ⚽ reference
EMILY: Now you look just like Tiger Woods.

Eldrick “Tiger” Woods (born 1975) is a US professional golfer widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time. By the time this episode aired, he was also one of the world’s most famous athletes, having won the US Open Championship just four months prior in June 2000. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2021.

As far as I can tell, Woods has never worn a hat like the one Emily gives to Rory in this scene. He regularly wears the brimmed, baseball-style cap typical of golfers. He has frequently worn apparel by US athletic goods corporation Nike, with whom he had an endorsement deal from 1996 to 2024.

13:20 – 🗺️ reference
RORY: Is it hard to become a member here?
RICHARD: Everyone has to go through a thorough screening process.
RORY: Kind of like the FBI?
RICHARD: Oh, much more thorough than that.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the United States’ domestic security service and its principal federal law enforcement agency. The FBI is not to be confused with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the United States’ foreign intelligence service. Like CIA operatives, FBI agents are specially vetted and trained due to the classified nature of their work.

The FBI has been the subject of many controversies, including, but not limited to, covert operations carried out on private citizens. The agency has targeted numerous student protesters, celebrities, and political activists (notably Martin Luther King Jr.) with tactics including surveillance, psychological warfare, and even assassination. It is particularly notorious for its activities under US law enforcement administrator J. Edgar Hoover, who directed the agency from 1924 until his death in 1972.

13:55 – 📖 reference
RICHARD: Now, what do you know about golf?
RORY: That it’s a good walk spoiled?

The witticism about golf being “a good walk spoiled” is commonly, though apocryphally, attributed to US author and humorist Mark Twain. Though the saying has been in circulation in some form since the early twentieth century (within Twain’s lifetime), it was not until 1948 (thirty-eight years after his death) that it was attributed to him in an article in the Saturday Evening Post. Twain is a widely quoted author, and the saying seems consistent with his wry tone, so it’s not difficult to see how it might be believable as one of his own.

Though Twain is not mentioned here by name, he is mentioned in the pilot episode at 10:50.

15:40 – 🪶 reference
SOOKIE: There’s no such thing.
JACKSON: Hey, the world was flat until someone took a boat trip.

It is a popular misconception that Europeans of the Middle Ages believed in a flat earth until Christopher Columbus discovered otherwise. In fact, the idea of a spherical earth was proposed as early as antiquity, and it was common knowledge to sailors of Columbus’s time.

The myth of widespread flat-earth belief can be traced to seventeenth-century anti-Catholic sentiment. The story goes that Columbus made his exploratory voyage in spite of opposition from regressive Catholic churchmen. This narrative was popularized by US author and historian Washington Irving in his four-volume historical fiction account A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828). Once seeded in the popular imagination, the story became an object lesson in debates over the conflict between science and religion.

15:45 – 🏷️ mention
SOOKIE: Can I see these strawberries?
JACKSON: No.
SOOKIE: Just one?
JACKSON: No.
SOOKIE: How about a Polaroid?

Polaroid was a US instant film and camera company founded by US scientist Edwin H. Land in 1937. The company introduced its first instant film camera in 1948. Unlike traditional film, which must be processed manually in a darkroom or professional photo lab, instant film is self-developing. The photographer simply points and shoots, a square of film is ejected from the camera, and a photo develops within minutes.

The habit of shaking a Polaroid is a holdover from an earlier stage of the film’s evolution, when it needed to be coated with a protective solution, but it is a myth that shaking helps the film develop faster.

17:25 – 🏷️ mention
SOOKIE: That one has a Post-it on its back.
MICHEL: Oh, well then, that’s Mark. The one of the right is Matt.

Post-it is a US brand of sticky notes produced by US multinational conglomerate the 3M Company. In 1968, US chemist Spencer Silver accidentally discovered a reusable, pressure-sensitive adhesive, and in 1975, fellow US scientist Arthur Fry applied the adhesive to the creation of sticky notes. Fry filed a patent for the notes in 1993. Both Silver and Fry were employees of the 3M Company.

In US English, the term “Post-it” has become a generic trademark, or proprietary eponym, a brand name that, due to its prevalence or significance, has become a generic term for an entire class of products. Any sticky note, of any brand, may be casually referred to as a “Post-it” despite the fact that the term is a registered trademark owned by 3M.

17:45 – 📺 reference
MICHEL: If you ask me, this union belongs on a public-access station. It’s against the laws of nature and just short of completely obscene.

Public-access television (sometimes known as cable access or community television) is a form of non-commercial media broadcast through cable television channels. It is considered “public-access” because anyone, including small, local studios and members of the general public, can reserve air time. Due to its low cost and limited oversight, it was known, in its heyday, for bizarre, low-budget, and often unscripted content, somewhat in the vein of early YouTube channels.

US far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones made his start on public-access television in the 1990s. Fictional examples of public-access shows include Wayne’s World (run by rock fans Wayne and Garth in the 1992 film and Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name) and Lilly Tells It Like It Is (run by Lilly Moscovitz in US author Meg Cabot’s 2000 young adult novel The Princess Diaries).

19:30 – 🗺️ mention
RICHARD: Any particular place you’d like to go?
RORY: Hundreds of places. Paris, Rome, London, Prague, Istanbul, Fez.
25:50
RICHARD: She’s going to Fez someday.
JULIAN: Fez? What the hell is in Fez?
RICHARD: That’s for her to find out.
28:25
RORY: We talked about Fez.
LORELAI: And he thought it was a hat.

Rory mentions the European capital cities Paris, France; Rome, Italy; London, United Kingdom; and Prague, Czechia (also known in English as the Czech Republic). She also mentions Istanbul, the most populous city in Turkey; the country is located mainly in West Asia and partly in Southeast Europe, and its capital city, Ankara, straddles the two continents. Rome was also mentioned in episode two at 30:20.

Fez, or Fes, is the third-largest city (after Casablanca and Tangier) in the North African country of Morocco. Fez is home to the University of al-Qarawiyyin, which was founded as a mosque in the ninth century and is described by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as the world’s oldest continually operating institution of higher learning.

In lowercase, “fez” may also refer to a headdress, cylindrical in shape, made of felt, usually dyed red, often with a tassel attached at the crown. According to some sources, the hat may derive its name from the Moroccan city. It became a symbol of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century and is still worn, especially in parts of North Africa and West Asia, today.

22:10 – 🗺️ mention
NANETTE: And, you know, she took the house in Amagansett.
PEG: She deserved it, putting up with that tramp all those years.

Amagansett is a hamlet located in the town of East Hampton on the South Shore of Long Island, New York. It is a popular resort destination, and many famous and wealthy people have vacationed or own homes there. Located on the ancestral land of the Montauk, or Montaukett, people, the name Amagansett comes from an Algonquian phrase referring to “the place of good water.”

23:50 – 🗺️ mention
MICHEL: I was attacked by a band of swans in the Luxembourg Gardens when I was a boy.

The Luxembourg Garden (French: Jardin du Luxembourg) is located in Paris, France. It was created in 1612 and occupies the grounds of the Luxembourg Palace, which, today, is home to the French Senate. As such, the garden is sometimes known as the Senate Garden, or Jardin du Sénat.

23:55 – 💿 reference
LORELAI: Oh, no. Not being attacked by a band of swans. Was it an all-boy band? Kind of a scary, feathery NSYNC kind of fiasco?

NSYNC (stylized *NSYNC) was a US boy band active from 1995 to 2002. Their first two albums were certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and featured hit singles such as “Bye Bye Bye” and “It’s Gonna Be Me,” both released in 2000. The band’s name incorporates the last letter of each original member’s first name; when Lance Bass replaced original bass singer Jason Galasso, he was reportedly nicknamed “Lansten” in order to keep up the gimmick.

Though there are many all-male bands, not every all-male band is a “boy band.” Boy bands like NSYNC are vocal groups; they do not play instruments and instead perform choreographed dance routines. Their members are usually young, in their teens and twenties, and are known for singing love songs marketed toward a young, female audience.

24:10 – 📺 reference
DRELLA: Hey, Pepé Le Pew, you wanna give me a hand with this?

Pepé Le Pew is a character from the Warner Bros. cartoon series Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. He is depicted as a striped skunk who speaks with a strong French accent, as heard in this clip from the 1955 short Two Scent’s Worth. He made his first appearance in the 1945 short Odor-able Kitty.

Pepé’s storylines usually involve his aggressive romantic pursuit of a female black cat with a white painted stripe, whom he mistakes for a fellow skunk. In more recent times, the character has been criticized for his inability to take “no” for an answer and for reinforcing stereotypes of French men as sexually overbearing.

25:00 – 📺 reference
RORY: It’s a conspiracy.
RICHARD: It’s Peyton Place.

Peyton Place (1964-1969) is a US nighttime soap opera “set in the small New England town of Peyton Place, whose quaint charm masks a complicated web of extramarital affairs, shady business deals, scandals, even murder” (Rotten Tomatoes). The series is based loosely on US author Grace Metalious’s 1956 novel of the same name. It is considered the United States’ seminal prime-time soap opera.

Mia Farrow (star of the 1968 film Rosemary’s Baby, mentioned in the pilot episode at 23:10) was part of the original main cast but left shortly after the series premiered.

29:05 – 💿 feature
The bridal couples dance to “La Casa” by Graham Preskett and Mauricio Venegas-Astorga in a lesson with Miss Patty.

This song comes from the 1996 album Sabor y Salsa by English composer and musician Graham Preskett and Chilean composer and musician Mauricio Venegas-Astorga.

30:25 – 💿 reference
MRS. SHALES: Now, Jackie wants Samuel Barber, John Cage, and Philip Glass, and Jessica wants Shania Twain’s “I Feel Like a Woman.”

Samuel Barber (1910-1981), John Cage Jr. (1912-1992), and Philip Glass (born 1937) are all highly influential US composers. Notable works include Barber’s 1936 Adagio for Strings and Cage’s 1952 4’33”, which consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of ambient sound (in other words, no composed music at all). Glass has composed operas, symphonies, chamber music, and film scores, three of which have been nominated for Academy Awards.

“Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” is a country pop song featured on the 1997 album Come On Over by Canadian singer-songwriter Shania Twain. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and won Best Female Country Vocal Performance at the 2000 Grammy Awards (having been released as a single in 1999).

32:00 – 📖 mention
LORELAI: What book was it?
RORY: Mencken’s Chrestomathy.

A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writings is a 1949 collection of writings chosen, edited, and annotated by the author, Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken. Mencken was a social and cultural commentator perhaps best known for his coverage of the Scopes trial, a 1925 US legal case in which Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes was accused of violating a state law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools; it was Mencken who gave the case its famous nickname, the “Monkey Trial.”

The word “chrestomathy” can refer to either “a selection of passages used to help learn a language” or “a volume of selected passages or stories of an author” (Merriam-Webster). While the latter definition obviously applies to A Mencken Chrestomathy, Mencken is also known for his 1919 multi-volume study of US English, The American Language.

32:25 – 💿 mention + 🏷️ mention
BABETTE: He must have been meowing for an hour, but Morey was playing some Thelonious on the Steinway, and when Morey plays, I go into this trance where all I can see is blue, and moon, and stars…

Thelonious Monk (1917-1982) was a US jazz pianist and composer. Many of his compositions, including “‘Round Midnight” (1943), “Straight, No Chaser” (1951), and “Blue Monk” (1954), are now jazz standards. As of 2009, he was the second-most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington.

Steinway & Sons is a high-end US-German piano company. It was founded in 1853 by German piano-maker Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, who would come to be known as Henry E. Steinway.

32:40 – 💿 feature
Babette tells Morey to “play her home,” and he begins “Teach Me Tonight” by Gene de Paul and Sammy Cahn on the piano.

This song is a jazz standard with music by US pianist and composer Gene de Paul and lyrics by US songwriter and musician Sammy Cahn. It has been recorded many times since its publication in 1953, with US singer Dinah Washington’s 1954 rendition being one of the most notable. It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

33:05 – ⭐ reference
LORELAI: So, you know what I was thinking?
RORY: That Madonna and Sean Penn should get remarried?

Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone, 1958) is a US singer, songwriter, and actor, and Sean Penn (born 1960) is a US actor and filmmaker. The two met and married in 1985. The marriage was a turbulent one, involving two divorce filings (the first being withdrawn) and a 1989 assault complaint filed against Penn. Though Madonna later dropped the complaint, they were divorced that same year. Both Madonna and Penn have since been remarried, though not to each other.

36:25 – 🏷️ reference
LORELAI: If the country club life is what she wants, more power to her, right? You know, little white gloves and coming-out parties? That makes some girls happy, right?
SOOKIE: Sure, yeah. If they’re on Prozac, absolutely.

Prozac (fluoxetine) is an antidepressant medication prescribed to treat clinical depression, as well as some anxiety and eating disorders. It belongs to the class of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).

US writer Elizabeth Wurtzel’s 1994 memoir Prozac Nation, which recounts her experiences with atypical depression, was culturally influential around this time. A film adaptation directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg and starring Christina Ricci was released in 2001.

37:30 – 💿 feature
At the twins’ wedding, the band plays a cover of “A Kiss to Build a Dream On” by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Oscar Hammerstein II.

US songwriters Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby wrote this song in 1935 under the title “Moonlight on the Meadow” for use in the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera. However, the song was not used, and US lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II adapted the lyrics to become “A Kiss to Build a Dream On.” US jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong recorded a famous version in 1951. (You may remember it from the soundtrack of 1993 romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle.)

Hammerstein was one half of famed musical theater writing duo Rodgers and Hammerstein, along with composer Richard Rodgers.

38:35 – 🗺️ reference
MRS. SHALES: They just told me they’re going to share a condo in Tucson, Arizona. That’s hundreds of miles away.

Tucson is the second-most-populous city in the state of Arizona, after the capital, Phoenix. It is located on the ancestral land of the Hohokam and their living descendants, the Tohono O’odham. The name Tucson “comes from the O’odham phrase Chuk Shon, meaning ‘at the base of the black mountain'” (Visit Tucson). Arizona is located in the Southwest region of the United States, placing it diagonally opposite Connecticut in the Northeast.

38:45 – 💿 feature
MRS. SHALES: Oh! Sister Sledge! Excuse me.

Mrs. Shales rushes off to dance to “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge, a US vocal group formed by sisters Debbie, Joni, Kim, and Kathy Sledge in 1965. The song comes from the 1979 album of the same name. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and topped the US Billboard Hot Soul Singles chart in its year of release. In 2017, it was selected for preservation in the US National Recording Registry.

41:35 – 🏷️ reference
EMILY: You brought us used dessert?
LORELAI: It’s not used. It’s left over.
EMILY: How nice. I’ll just put it in the kitchen next to my half-empty box of Cheer.

Cheer is a brand of laundry detergent produced by US multinational consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble since 1950.

42:00 – 📺 reference
EMILY: In this age of MTV and a hundred television channels, who would have imagined that a young girl could still get a thrill spending a simple afternoon with her grandfather?

MTV (an abbreviation of Music Television) is a US cable television channel launched in 1981. Though the channel has produced a wide range of youth-oriented content in its history, including animated, comedy, and documentary series, it initially maintained a focus on music videos and music-related programming. It aired its first reality series, The Real World, from 1992 to 2017 and increasingly shifted its focus to reality programming over the course of the 2000s.

I touched on MTV’s coverage of the 1999 Woodstock music festival in the pilot episode at 07:30.

42:40 – 📖 mention
RICHARD: Not only did I find that copy of Mencken’s Chrestomathy we discussed, I also found a first edition of his memoirs as well.

Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken’s autobiography, known as the Days trilogy, comprises three volumes: Happy Days, 1880-1892 (1940), Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 (1941), and Heathen Days, 1890-1936 (1943). Another of Mencken’s works, A Mencken Chrestomathy, was mentioned earlier at 32:00.

43:00 – 💿 feature
“Here They Go” by Sam Phillips plays as Richard, Emily, and Rory go to look at H. L. Mencken’s autobiography, leaving Lorelai alone sipping her wine.

I can’t find any indication that this song is commercially available, so it’s possible Phillips recorded it for use in the show. Sam Phillips is a US singer-songwriter and the composer of the Gilmore Girls score. Her songs have been featured previously in the pilot episode at 18:30 and in episode two at 03:35.

References Sorted by Category

Jump to category: 🏷️ Brand Names | ⭐ Famous Figures | 📺 Film, Television & Theater | 🗺️ Geography & Politics | 🪶 History | 📖 Literature | 💿 Music | ⚽ Sports

🏷️ Brand Names

• 08:50 – Advil (over-the-counter drug)
• 11:05 – Doublemint (chewing gum brand)
• 15:45 – Polaroid (camera brand)
• 17:25 – Post-it (sticky-note brand)
• 32:25 – Steinway & Sons (piano company)
• 36:25 – Prozac (prescription drug)
• 41:35 – Cheer (laundry detergent brand)

⭐ Famous Figures

• 07:55 – Jocelyn Wildenstein (socialite)
• 09:30 – Antonio Banderas (actor)
• 33:05 – Madonna (musical artist and actor)
• 33:05 – Sean Penn (actor and filmmaker)

🎥 Film, Television & Theater

• 06:25 – The Price Is Right (television game show), Bob Barker (television host)
• 10:30 – Peanuts (television specials), Charlie Brown (character)
• 17:45 – public-access television (cable television programming)
• 24:10 – Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (cartoon series), Pepé Le Pew (character)
• 25:00 – Peyton Place (television soap opera)
• 42:00 – MTV (television channel)

🗺️ Geography & Politics

• 13:20 – Federal Bureau of Investigation (law enforcement agency), FBI (also known as)
• 19:30 – Paris, France (European city)
• 19:30 – Rome, Italy (European city)
• 19:30 – London, United Kingdom (European city)
• 19:30 – Prague, Czechia (European city), Czech Republic (also known as)
• 19:30 – Istanbul, Turkey (Asian city)
• 19:30, 25:50, 28:25 – Fez, Morocco (African city)
• 22:10 – Amagansett, New York (US hamlet)
• 23:50 – Luxembourg Garden (garden in Paris, France)
• 38:35 – Tucson, Arizona (US city)

🪶 History

• 04:20 – Plato’s Republic (classical text)
• 15:40 – Christopher Columbus (navigator), flat-earth belief (cosmological model)

📖 Literature

• 13:55 – “A good walk spoiled.” (apocryphal Mark Twain quotation)
• 32:00 – Henry Louis “H. L.” Mencken (journalist and essayist)
  • 32:00 – A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writings (book)
  • 42:40 – Days trilogy (book series)

🎧 Music

• 23:55 – NSYNC (boy band)
• 29:05 – “La Casa” by Graham Preskett and Mauricio Venegas-Astorga (song)
• 30:25 – Samuel Barber (composer)
• 30:25 – John Cage (composer)
• 30:25 – Philip Glass (composer)
• 30:25 – “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” by Shania Twain (song)
• 32:25 – Thelonious Monk (pianist and composer)
• 32:40 – “Teach Me Tonight” by Gene de Paul and Sammy Cahn (song)
• 37:30 – “A Kiss to Build a Dream On” by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Oscar Hammerstein II (song)
• 38:45 – “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge (song)
• 43:00 – “Here They Go” by Sam Phillips (song)

⚽ Sports

• 12:55 – Tiger Woods (golfer)

Credits

Episode citation: “Kill Me Now.” Gilmore Girls, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, cinematography by Teresa Medina, season 1, episode 3, Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, Hofflund/Polone, Warner Bros. Television, 2000.

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