Gilmore-Isms Season 5

The $25,000 Pyramid - Popular game show once hosted by

Auto-Focus - Bio-film outlining the amateur pornography and sex life

Dick Clark; the current incarnation is hosted by Donny Osmond

of Hogan’s Heroes star, Bob Crane. (Ep. 5)

and goes by the shorter, hipper Pyramid. (Ep. 17)

Ava Gardner - Described as the “most beautiful animal in the world,” A Star is Born - Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, and

and the woman Frank Sinatra pined after for years. (Ep. 3)

Barbra Streisand all starred in different versions of this movie, the story of an obscure actress gaining fame

Barefoot Contessa - Food Network program hosted by

while her famous actor/ boyfriend’s star fades. (Ep. 16)

Ina Garten. (Ep. 8)

Abba Zabbas - A thick chewy taffy filled with a rich

Baretta - ’70s television series about the life of Detective Tony

creamy peanut butter center. (Ep. 19)

Baretta and his bird. Baretta was played by Robert Blake. (Ep. 11)

Abe Vigoda - Journeyman character actor best known for playing

Bee Gees - Three hugely successful brothers

“Fish” on Barney Miller, and in the spin-off Fish. (Ep. 9)

who made up the musical trio Bee Gees. (Ep. 14)

Al Gilbert - Singer/tap-dancer famous in the 1940s and ’50s…would

Believe It or Not - Schmaltzy ’80s soft rock ballad by

not be associated with contemporary sexuality. (Ep. 1)

Joey Scarbury; also served as the theme song for the TV series Greatest American Hero. (Ep. 4)

An Officer and a Gentleman - Taylor Hackford’s 1982 film about an officer candidate and his factory-worker girlfriend that ends with

Benny Hill - Famous British comic, and star of the wildly popular

him carrying her away from her blue-collar blues. (Ep. 5)

The Benny Hill Show during the ’70s & ’80s. (Ep. 11)

Anarchist’s Cookbook - Controversial book by William Powell.

Bob Graham - U.S. Senator from Florida from 1987-2005; has a quirky

The recipe book for drugs and explosive devices was meant to be a

habit of keeping color-coded notebooks outlining his daily activities. (Ep. 10)

protest against the Vietnam War. (Ep. 6)

Boggle - A crossword game that is a competitive match of vocabulary The Arcade Fire - Indie rock band from Montreal, Canada.

skills in a race to beat the unforgiving egg timer. (Ep. 14)

(Ep. 13)

The Brontës - Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë were three sisters Aristotle Onassis - The most famous Greek shipping magnate of

who were also great writers, each in her own right. (Ep. 14)

the 20th century; married former first lady Jackie Kennedy. (Ep. 8)

Bugsy Malone - A fictional mobster from a film by the same name. (Ep. 13)

Caged Heat - 1974 Jonathan Demme film about women in prison;

Cop Rock - Short-lived ’90s TV series following police stories told

the tagline read: Women’s Prison U.S.A. - Rape Riot and Revenge!

in Broadway musical format. (Ep. 13)

White Hot Desires Melting Cold Prison Steel! (Ep. 22)

Curling - Bizarre winter sport played on ice with large pieces of granite Can’t Sheriff Taylor just let him share a cell with Otis for the night? - A reference to The Andy Griffith Show which had

in a shuffleboard fashion; curling came to national prominence when it became an Olympic event in 1998. (Ep. 11)

an ongoing gag in which the town drunk would let himself in and out of his cell when he was smashed. (Ep. 18)

Dahnso - A wind instrument used in traditional Korean music. (Ep. 12)

Captain Hook - Peter Pan’s pirate nemesis; named for

Dark Shadows - A late ’60s television series centering

the hook in place of his severed hand. (Ep. 5)

around ghosts and vampires; currently syndicated on the Sci-Fi Channel. (Ep. 12)

Cecil Beaton - Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton was a 20th-century English fashion and portrait photographer. (Ep. 13)

Deepak Chopra - New Age doctor/guru who has made millions on a series of books on the benefits of holistic healing. (Ep. 2)

Century 21 - Large realty company; employees are immediately recognized for their heinous, mustard-colored blazers. (Ep. 22)

Delta Dawn - Ethereal Helen Reddy song that hit #1 in 1973. (Ep. 3)

Chanel - A brand of couture fashion. (Ep. 9)

Divine Brown - Prostitute who was with Hugh Grant when police caught him with his pants down…literally. (Ep. 9)

Charles Kuralt - Award-winning American journalist and former host of CBS Sunday Morning. (Ep. 7)

E! True Hollywood Story - The E! Network’s tell-all tale of Hollywood success and inevitable heartache, drug problems, and sex addiction.

Condoleezza Rice to my Barbara Boxer - Senator Barbara Boxer

(Ep. 2)

famously laid into Condoleezza Rice about her role in the war in Iraq during Rice’s January ’05 Senate confirmation hearing. (Ep. 18)

Emma Goldman and Hillary Clinton - Two shining examples of the women’s movement. (Ep. 14)

Cool Hand Luke - The title character in Stuart Rosenberg’s film about a man in a Florida prison who refuses to give in to the system;

Etch A Sketch - A popular drawing toy that first

Paul Newman played Luke. (Ep. 5)

came to prominence in the ’60s. (Ep. 18)

Eternal Sunshine’d - A reference to the mind-erasing

The Green Destiny - Chow Yun Fat’s character’s fabled sword

technique used in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. (Ep. 14)

(Ep. 22)

Greenpeace - Environmental group fighting to save the rainforests, Fanny Brice to your Nicky Arnstein - The lead characters in

endangered species, and the ozone layer, among other things. (Ep. 16)

Barbra Streisand’s Funny Girl. (Ep. 14)

Hammer Time - The moment in MC Hammer’s superfreak-based Faulkner - Nobel Prize-winning author famous for writing

tune, Can’t Touch This, in which the gloves come off and the freshest dance

The Sound and the Fury in the early 20th century. (Ep. 3)

moves are required. (Ep. 20)

Franz Ferdinand - Popular rock group that takes its moniker

Harvey Weinstein - Former head of Miramax Films and ardent

from an Archduke of Austria. (Ep. 21)

Quentin Tarantino supporter. (Ep. 17)

From Justin To Kelly - The critically lambasted film starring former

He just stood outside all night playing In Your Eyes on a boom box. - A reference to an incredibly romantic scene from the ’80s

American Idol participants Justin Guarini and Kelly Clarkson. (Ep. 11)

film Say Anything in which John Cusack’s character, Lloyd Dobler,

Garrison Keillor - Founder and host of the American Public

stands outside his love’s house blaring a heart-wrenching Peter Gabriel

Media Radio program A Prairie Home Companion; notoriously

song. (Ep. 4)

long-winded. (Ep. 18)

Hello! Magazine - British-produced gossip magazine George & Rosemary Clooney - George Clooney, actor and world-renowned leading man, is the nephew of famous jazz singer

that competes with the National Enquirer for scoops on celebrity hook-ups and break-ups. (Ep. 3)

Rosemary Clooney. (Ep. 8)

Henry James - 19th-century novelist of Daisy Miller and Portrait of a Lady, George Plimpton - Journalist for Sports Illustrated; famous for

two famous novels in which a young American woman encounters

participating in his stories; author of Paper Lion. (Ep. 7)

trials and tribulations in Europe. (Ep. 1)

Gisele Bündchen - Supermodel and actress; longtime girlfriend of

Hotel Rwanda - A very heavy film starring Don Cheadle based

Leonardo DiCaprio. (Ep. 15)

around the 1994 Rwandan genocide. (Ep. 20)

Gogo - The mace-wielding schoolgirl from Kill Bill. (Ep. 17)

Houdini - Master illusionist and escape artist who gained worldwide fame in the late 1800s. (Ep. 22)

“I am the Oracle” - The oracle is the all-knowing, all-seeing computer

Kabbalah - The mystical offshoot of Judaism that’s sweeping the

program embodied in the form of an elderly African-American woman

tabloids thanks to Madge, Demi, Ashton, and any rising actor looking for

in the film The Matrix. (Ep. 7)

some ink. (Ep. 4)

“If you build it they will come.” - A mystical line from the

Kennebunkport - The Maine location of the Kennedy Family Compound.

film Field of Dreams instructing Kevin Costner to transform

(Ep. 20)

a portion of his farm into a baseball diamond. (Ep. 6)

Kalashnikov - A Russian assault rifle. (Ep. 7) In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly song that heavily influenced Heavy Metal. (Ep. 12)

Krav Maga - Close-combat martial art used by the Israeli Defense Forces. (Ep. 15)

Jake LaMotta - Boxing legend who had issues with spousal abuse; the subject of Scorsese’s bio-pic, Raging Bull. (Ep. 8)

Kropog - A fictional unit of distance, named after a man who graduated from Yale in 1944. (Ep. 20)

James Joyce - One of Ireland’s most lauded writers. (Ep. 4) Lars Ulrich - Drummer from the band Metallica; instrumental in Jimmy Breslin - New York City columnist who predicted a John Kerry

bringing down Napster, a file-sharing server. (Ep. 6)

victory in the 2004 Presidential Race. (Ep. 19)

Last Tango in Paris - A sexually explicit film in which Marlon Brando Jose Canseco - The first player in Major League history to hit 40 home

bares all. (Ep. 5)

runs and steal 40 bases in a season; has admitted to using steroids while in the Majors. (Ep. 21)

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman’s most famous poetic work. (Ep. 16)

Judi Dench - One of England’s most renowned actresses; has a great

Lieberman - Al Gore’s running mate in the 2000 Presidential

affinity for roles in which she condescends to the “little” people; berates

Election. (Ep. 15)

James Bond regularly as the most recent incarnation of “M.” (Ep. 3)

Lincoln Logs - A popular log-like building toy for kids named Julia Roberts to Kiefer Sutherland - Julia Roberts famously dumped

after the former American President who grew up in a log cabin. (Ep. 17)

fiancé Kiefer Sutherland for rival actor Jason Patric. (Ep. 19)

Lizzie Grubman - New York PR woman famous k.d. lang - A popular singer and lesbian who adopts a somewhat

for plowing down a group of party-goers with her SUV

masculine wardrobe while still managing to look feminine. (Ep. 14)

in the Hamptons. (Ep. 3)

Louis B. Mayer - Mayer produced films with some of the world’s

“Mel kissed Flo’s grits.” - A reference to the character “Flo” from

greatest film stars while heading MGM in the early-to-mid-1900s. (Ep. 22)

the ’70s sitcom Alice ; whenever annoyed with crusty owner/short order cook Mel, Flo would utter the immortal line “Kiss my grits.” (Ep. 10)

Lurch - The large and monstrous family butler on The Addams Family. Milton Berle - Uncle Milty; popular ’50s & ’60s era variety showman

(Ep. 5)

famous for skits done in drag. (Ep. 10)

Magic 8 Ball - A popular game, the Magic 8 Ball has a series of answers branded on a multi-sided die floating in an unknown goo…the game consists of the user asking the 8 Ball random questions to

Mira Sorvino - Academy Award-winning actress; daughter of actor Paul Sorvino; ex-girlfriend of Quentin Tarantino. (Ep. 17)

which there are a very limited number of answers; intriguing to the average ten-year-old for approximately 1.5 minutes.

Moby Dick - Herman Melville’s acclaimed work about an elusive white

(Ep. 21)

whale and his obsessed hunter. (Ep. 21)

Mamet - The award-winning writer of Glengarry Glen Ross and

MoonPie - A popular treat consisting of marshmallow and graham

The Spanish Prisoner. (Ep. 17)

crackers dipped in chocolate. (Ep. 13)

Marmaduke - The syndicated comic strip about a Great Dane,

Mothman Prophecies - 2002 film starring Richard Gere as a reporter

his family, and their misadventures. (Ep. 21)

drawn to a strange series of events. (Ep. 6)

Mary Martin - An American star of mainly stage musicals; amongst

Motorhead - Bone-crushingly loud Metal band. (Ep. 7)

the roles originally created by her were those of Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. (Ep. 12)

MoveOn.org - A liberal political website. (Ep. 9)

Maxell Tape Ad - A famous ad campaign for Maxell Audio Tapes

Muzak - An instrumental watering down of traditionally

that pictures a long-haired leather-clad male sitting in front of his

lyric-driven songs. (Ep. 18)

speakers whilst his hair is blown straight back. (Ep. 18)

Nancy Drew - Popular series of books for young girls about the Maxwell Smart and Ninety-Nine - The duo were

title character’s mystery-solving adventures. (Ep. 12)

the main characters in the ’60s TV series Get Smart, about a bumbling secret agent (Smart) and his

Nick Lachey - Former 98 Degrees singer and husband of Jessica Simpson.

competent female partner (99). (Ep. 22)

(Ep. 17)

Nietzsche and Lichtenstein - Brilliant German philosophers. (Ep. 14)

Pink Lady and Jeff - Japanese stars of an ’80s NBC television show; neither could speak English. (Ep. 12)

Norman Mailer - Famous American writer who was crucial to the innovation of the non-fiction novel. (Ep. 6)

Pippi Longstocking - The red-haired, horizontalpony-tailed, horse-lifting heroine of The Adventures

The Office - Wildly popular BBC television series about a clueless office

of Pippi Longstocking. (Ep. 5)

manager and the people who work for him; starring Ricky Gervais.

Pol Pot - Former Prime Minister of Cambodia; his regime is

(Ep. 12)

said to be responsible for up two million Cambodian deaths. (Ep. 18)

“Oh, what’s that Lucy? A football for me to kick?” A reference to Charlie Brown’s recurring naïveté to Lucy’s cruel

The Polyphonic Spree - A popular contemporary band comprised of

game of “Pull the football away just before the blockhead tries

two dozen members dressed in flowing white robes who are known for

to kick it.” (Ep. 2)

their hippie-esque lyrics and sensibilities. (Ep. 1)

Oxford Blues - ’80s teen flick starring Rob Lowe as a Vegas rower

Pontius Pilate - Governor of Judea who gave the order for Jesus

who enrolls in Oxford to follow the girl of his dreams. (Ep. 11)

to be crucified. (Ep. 15)

Papa Doc - François Duvalier; president of Haiti before becoming

Prada - High-cost, high-fashion clothing and

dictator in 1964. (Ep. 4)

accessories. (Ep. 15)

Paper Moon - 1973 Peter Bogdanovich film set in the

The Price Is Right - The Bob Barker-hosted game show

Depression Era and starring Ryan and Tatum O’Neal. (Ep. 20)

that gives contestants a shot at fabulous prizes. (Ep. 17)

Patsy Cline - Iconic female singer whose most famous song is the

Randy to my Tai - Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner; world champion

gorgeous ballad, Crazy. (Ep. 3)

figure skating duo. (Ep. 11)

Paul Thomas Anderson - Popular contemporary director of

Robert Frost - One of America’s most renowned poets; known for

Boogie Nights and Magnolia; known for the lengthy and rambling nature

describing the innate beauty in nature. (Ep. 3)

of his films. (Ep. 3)

Roy Cohn - An American lawyer who came to prominence during Petunia Pig - Animated female pig from the Looney Tunes cartoons; Porky Pig’s girfriend. (Ep. 5)

the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into Communism. (Ep. 20)

Sabrina - A 1954 film starring Humphrey Bogart, William Holden,

Stand By Your Man - Famous country standard sung by

and Audrey Hepburn. (Ep. 10)

Tammy Wynette. (Ep. 6)

Sally Forth - Syndicated comic strip about a working mom. (Ep. 21)

Swept Away - A Guy Ritchie film, starring his wife, Madonna, that was brutalized by almost every critic on the planet. (Ep. 4)

Sam Ash - Online source for musical instruments. (Ep. 12) Switchblade Sisters - 1975 film about a gang of dangerous girls; Seymour Hersh - American investigative journalist who received the

the tagline read: So Easy to Kill. So Hard to Love. (Ep. 22)

Pulitzer Prize for his work concerning the My Lai Massacre. (Ep. 12)

Tae Bo - The music-oriented kick-boxing fad workout popularized by “Shaken not stirred” - James Bond’s signature phrase and the

former martial arts film star, Billy Blanks. (Ep. 4)

only way a chilled martini should be prepared. (Ep. 3)

Tex Watson - Convicted murderer serving life in prison for his role Sidecar - A cocktail consisting of 2 oz. brandy, 1 oz. lemon juice,

in the Manson family murders. (Ep. 5)

and 1 oz. of triple sec; should be shaken with ice and strained into a cocktail glass. (Ep. 20)

Thigh-Master - A gimmicky infomercial contraption that is supposed to ensure shapely legs for the user; endorsed by Suzanne Somers. (Ep. 10)

Sipowicz - Dennis Franz’s character from the long-running cop drama, NYPD Blue. (Ep. 22)

Thora Birch - Actress whose film credits include American Beauty and Ghost World. (Ep. 13)

Skull & Bones - Secret Yale Society; members include President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry. (Ep. 6)

Three Doors Down - Pop-rock band responsible for the hits Kryptonite and Let Me Go. (Ep. 22)

Spamalot - Monty Python’s musical comedy based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (Ep. 21)

Thumper - The adorable animated bunny rabbit from Disney’s Bambi. (Ep. 19)

Squiggy - One half of “Lenny and Squiggy” from the hit sitcom Laverne and Shirley. Their main claim to fame was

Tiananmen Square - The site of a protest in China in which students

their ever-occurring ill-timed entrances. (Ep. 1)

lay in front of oncoming tanks and were killed by the hundreds. (Ep. 17)

St. Elmo’s Fire - ’80s film about leaving college,

Toblerone - Pyramid-shaped chocolate bar made in Switzerland; its shape

starring integral members of the Brat Pack. (Ep. 9)

is taken from the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. (Ep. 12)

Tom Sizemore - Gifted actor in trouble with the law for a series of

Winston Churchill - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

failed drug tests and “incidents of physicality” toward a former

during the second world war. (Ep. 11)

Hollywood madam. (Ep. 22)

Wolf Blitzer - CNN journalist and author; hosts Tony Kushner - Award-winning playwright most

CNN’s The Situation Room. (Ep. 21)

famous for penning Angels in America.

Yanni - A New Age musician whose hairstyle is near identical

(Ep. 11)

to Lynda Carter’s during the Wonder Woman years; fierce John Tesh

Trojan Man - The “always heard, but never seen” pseudo-super-hero

rival. (Ep. 14)

who dispenses “Trojan” brand condoms to unprepared couples in television commercials. (Ep. 1)

“You had me at hello.” - A famously romantic line from Jerry Maguire that is mocked by comedians across the globe. (Ep. 19)

Tumi - A popular line of designer luggage. (Ep. 20) Zucker Brothers - The film-making trio responsible for Urinal cakes - The crystal discs placed in urinals to give them a clean

Kentucky Fried Movie; Airplane; and The Naked Gun TV series/film

fresh scent. (Ep. 18)

spinoff. (Ep. 20)

Velasquez - Spanish Baroque Era painter, 1599-1660. (Ep. 19) Walking on Sunshine - 1983 Katrina and the Waves song that must be sung or played whenever a character in film or television is in an inordinately good mood. (Ep. 20)

The Way We Were - Iconic 1973 romance/ heartbreak film starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford. (Ep. 14)

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