Pop Culture Minisode (S3 E18 "Happy Birthday, Baby”)

Laura Lee about how to revive the inn. Lauraa says, hm, how can we get a celebrity here, Tobin says, I know, Tony Randall and Renee Es. I'd be happy to put in a call, especially Renee Estevez. That's like Charlie's brother, Yes, sister, Charlie's brother or sister sisters from It's the sister of Amelia and Charlie Sheen and daughter of Martin Sheen. And she has a referring role of the office assistant Nanny Office Assistant Nancy on the West Wing. Father played the

President yep and Tony Randall was an American actor. He's best known for portraying the role of Felix Unger in the TV adaptation of the play The Odd couple by Neil Simon. Yes, all right, and then this is Loralai going around the house making a handyman list for Luke. Uh Rory says, Luken sweep about the chimney. Lorelai says, why not. Rory says, because you need to be a chimney sweep to sweep at chimney. Loriala says, please, If

Dick van Dyke can do it, so can Luke. And this is referring to Dick Van Dyke's character um Bert, who laid a chimney sweep in Mary Poppins. Love Dick Van Dyke. I'm having a moment. He's still alive, right, yes, thank God, thank god. Who was one of the great great actors and great personalities of his generation. And he's still dancing and he's like very old one in a magnetic personnelity. Dian Dyke show was fantastic show. Did you

see the newer version of Mary Poppins with Blunt? And he showed up at the end and yes, and then he was just at the Kennedy Center honors or something and he gets honored. He dances. God, let's get him on, sang I love him. I love that guy. All right. The next one, we have Rory in Paris on the phone. Paris says, my parents returned tomorrow. I think my mom

is bringing home a new face. Rory says, really. Harris says, there's a doctor in France who injects some kind of gel into your head and molds it to give you better cheekbones. Rory says, you're kidding me. Paris says she needs to sleep on her back for a month otherwise her face will flatten like are He says, Oh my god, it's Brazil. I missed that whole thing somehow. Brazil is

the DeNiro movie, the Terry Gilliam movie. Um, yeah, Rory's referring to the movie Brazil, where the character miss i'd allow reyes having her face pulled to look twenty five years younger while talking to her son, and during production, actress Katherine Hellman Uh spent ten hours a day with the mask glued to her face, and her scenes have to be postponed to the due to the blisters. At that match. Sounds awful. You have to look up the picture,

by the way, because I looked it up. You know, they stretched the cellophone over alright, So this next one is Lorelei on the phone with Richard Um. Richard says, I don't have the time. I don't have the time. Now, Lori Lai says, we'll put Mrs hoe Wiggins on the phone, have her tell me. Mrs Wiggins is a series of comedy sketches Feet on the Carol Burnett Show, with one installment airing on Carol Burnett and Company, and Carol Burnett

played the secretary of Mrs Wiggins. And by the way, the way laurel I says Hoe Wiggins is the reference to how Mr tudd Bull would say her name, which is who she was assisting. All right, So next one is Nicole Taylor going over paperwork while at Luke's. Nicole says, why don't we leave the wording like it is for now and see how things go. We can always get tougher later if necessary. Luke says, yeah, you can send over a couple of Opa loompas to keep a crap

out of punt Philly Candy. Can I just say how inappropriate that scene was? You know? To this Luke in front of him to a woman that he's dating, try to set up what his nephew. Can I give you his number. I mean, listen where I'm from. I don't care who Taylor is or what his ages. He's getting wamp It's only funny because they're such an arch nemesis. No, I know why it's funny. Thanks for explaining that I was in the show. Appreciate that. The education. Now I

get it. Now I get it. Thank you. Oh no, yeah, I don't even know what So what I was saying so relevant because now I understand, Do you explain it to me? Thanks? That's amazing. Hey, So, just so you know, Scotty on the show, his name is Luke and he's age nemesis dude Taylor, and that's why that makes double double secret agent acting the double acting double secret agent acting. Yeah, I'm only giving you this note because the people are

giving you this note. It's not I just want you to know that people would make sure that you're explaining why the reference makes sense. Right. So this one with Lumpa's uh Willy Wonka, the Chocolate Factor is where that character comes from from Roll Dolls book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory then created into a movie and they're talking about the candy shop and starts, uh ye all right, So the next one is Richard gives Laura Lie seventy five her property investment. Laura, do you think it was

going to be more? I was disappointed that it was grand because they were just a part owner. He bought like in part of this property. So I thought a thirty five year investment only turned into seventy five grand, and he couldn't put in a thousand bucks. Come on, money bags, let's go up to Annie when she's born. Alright, so little like seventy five thousand dollars. Seventy five thousand dollars. Oh my god, that's like a hundred and fifty pairs

of Jimmy Choose. Richard says, what are Jimmy choose? Lotal Li says, shoes. Richard says, a hundred and fifty pairs. That's it, um, And then loyal I says, Dad, they're Jimmy Choose, And so loyalizes estimating the cost of Jimmy Choose, which a pair costs about five dollar for heels. Um, but well, that was probably like estimating. But right now, the most inexpensive shoe on the website costs seven so technically and in dollars, would be about a hundred and

eight pairs. You know what I did like about that scene is that Richard never even remotely criticized her. If she was going to buy a hundred pairs of shoes, He's like, he went with it because it's her money, so he's buy four regulations. Like I actually liked that that he never like. Yeah, I think he stopped resisting and realized that there's nothing he could do just go along with. Right. Also, I'm just a fun fact. One of the first celebrities to showcase Jimmy Choose was Princess

Diana m m m alright. So the next one is Luke trying to talk to Jess about knowing he skipped school to go work at Walmart. Luke says, just offering how was work. Luke says, the cleaned up version of The Eminem Show seems to be selling pretty well, so the world is basically coming to an end. But Eminem Show is the fourth studio album released UM on two thousand two. It was the best selling album in two thousand two, and of course from the rapper eminem Um.

Eminem said in an interview with Spin magazine, one of the frustrating things was people saying he's got to he's got to cuss to sell records. And that's why with this album, I toned it down a bit as far as a shock value. So that was timely back then. Yeah, that was This could be what Jess was referencing because Eminem toned it down a bit. Smart. Okay, that's a deep reference, but you'd really have to know what's going on. Yeah, yeah, all right, So this is Tobin the night manager gives

Lorelai a second um birthday gift. Tobin says, that is the jacket that Joe Strummer awards during the nineteen seventy nine Pearl Harvard tour. Lorelai says no, Tobin says yes. Michelle says, Who's Who's Joe Strummer? Loreli says, tell me, you're kidding. Michelle says, who's Joe Strummer? Joe Strummer. Laurel I says, you did not get me this. Michelle says he's He's a Hell's angelman, and Tobin says Joe Strummer is from the Clash. So Sandy Pearlman, producer of Give

Him Enough Rope, disliked Joe Strummer's voice. He felt so strongly that he even makes Strummer's voice more quietly than the drums throughout the album. In nineteen seventy seven, the band was arrested for some strange crimes. For example, Strummer and he Didn't were arrested for stealing pillowcases from a hotel room in Newcastle. Didn't like Joe Strummer's voice. Jesus, what what's like a hit clash song rock the cos Ba? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, and this is

the last one for today's short. I know uh. This is when Roy was arguing with Joe, Kirk and Pete saying the better deliver her the pizza she creates as she ordered. Um. Roy says, no, butts, that was the concept. Get back to the concept. This is not Gangs of New York with Cameron d This is Gangs of New York twenty years ago with Meryl Streeps. We're casey originally imagined it. Come back, refocus Remember the goal? Am I making myself clear? Joe says, Cameron Di has it's hot.

Ray says not the point tho, yeah, yeah, person. I never could see Meryl Streep with Leo's a whole lot of gangs in New York. Amy taking the gloves off there and so it is true. In nineteen seventy, Martin Scorsese was inspired by the book Herbert's asked by the book Herbert Asbury's The Gangs of New York and Informal History of the Underworld, about the city's nineteenth century criminal underworld,

and found it to be revelation. It took him twenty years to develop the film, thirty years to get it funded. Um he had worked with Meryl Street. Took him fifty years to finally Yeah, twenty years to develop a thirty years for funding. I never saw it, did you guys all see it? Gangs in New York was great, No, it was we were really busy watching You never saw Gangs of New York with this Daniel day Lewis coming

back from being a cobbler. My left my left foot in there now watching other I was watching other movies. That was a great movie. Was There was nothing wrong with Cameron in that film. She's great, But I loved other movies. Do you know who was originally cast um as the role instead of Cameron Diaz? Don't um? You mean like a contemporary actress who she don't tell on a hit TV show in the late nineties, Shannon Doherty No Vampires, Vampires, Oh, Sarah Michelle Geller. Sarah Michelle Geller

was supposed to be that's crazy. Scorsesey chose her to play that role originally, and then what happened was he always attached to direct it. She I don't know the answer to that, but she backed out because of scheduling conflicts with Buffy the Vampires. Wait a minute, he do a Scorsesey film. I know it's really dumb. It's also Buffy though, so right, Yeah, but you know what you you delay the filming schedule on Buffy to I mean

Sarah Michelle gellar, would you know what? They were afraid she was going to become a huge film star and they never see her again. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. I love Sarah Michelle Gellers. She's got a new show coming. See, these actors got to negotiate these things into the contracts beforehand. If there's got to be a film clause, if if you know, you put this podcast in your contract. Goddamn right at the kidding me? Are you kidding me? Yeah?

I mean they were trying to come over and give me. Uh, they were coming over and trying to give me a COVID test, and I said, here's your window. Here's your window, right, And the guy forgot the swabs. What do you go here? So go all the way back and get this job. And I thought he was just I was I was just. I thought he was just going. These people are great. I don't want to I'm not down. These people keep

it safe. They're great guys. You know all those people working over there, they're they're on set and they know the COVID compliance people are doing. They're doing a great they really are. But I had scheduled the podcast for the last time, right, And I told him, I said, listen, this is the window. I gave him, like, you know, a two hour window. And it was an off day and I said, here's your window, and uh, you know,

I'm available. Guy I forgot his cute tips. And I thought he was going down to get his car and he was going to get the swamps. But he had to drive all the way back to the facility, the medical distility, come back, and I kept getting text from our line producer thing he's almost there. I said, I'm already podcasting, you know, sorry, can't I'm not going to stop the podcast for this. People listening should know it's

a real priority and we appreciate it. And I'm not being funny being thinking we couldn't take a break for you to get a swab though, if you'd ever need to, had they not, had they not been so great about this, I wouldn't have taken this job. See everyone listening, Gilmore will always come first, forever, matter what incarnation of Gilmore. Wait, Scott, how many days till you see Matt Zukari? Two days? Tara, you're both seeing Zukar in two days. You know what

else we're saying. We're seeing Sean Gun, We're seeing Jannan Truesdale. Oh, tell him he's been crushing it. Yeah, I could not. I could never back is hurting. Tell him he's literally I can't tell him that. You can't tell him that he's Oh, he's going to get a big head. I got the other way with Tara. You've been doing a great job in episodes we've been rewatching from twenty years. Scott. Yeah, Scott, let's practice what you're gonna say to Matt. You used

to be really funny to you. Really you really got that, Tobin. Then you you look a lot better in person. Don't they say that you look better on screen? What are you going to say to Matt Hey, Matt, Okay, not that, but don't do that, Matt. How's it go? I don't even. I don't even. I won't even talk to Mat i've met. Yeah, that's how I would be. I would be too dorky if I saw him. I just gonna run because I can't. I can't. Yeah, I'll probably run. I would run. You

have just good ideas? Run sprint or do this? This is what I do? Did we finish? Cameron Diaz, go, Sarah Michelle Geller? Yeah, not a lot of pop culture in this one, No, but there were some good ones in there. You know. There was some super qua high quality. Yeah, super high and the clash also saying should I stay or should I go? Yep, m amazing band amazing for the jacket, wouldn't Tobin could not have afforded that Jack it was It was a lie. He said that in

Yannick should have pointed that out. Michelle should have pointed out he had a certificate of auth, authentication certificate. That's a fabricated document. You're not you're not getting slipping that by anyway, I think we're good. It's time for I have fun with um. Yeah, we'll see everybody down there at the Epics and chill in Charleston, South Carolina Mountain Mount Pleasant, South Carolina writer instead of Charleston, and uh, come rock and roll with us because we are gonna

light it up. Man. Let's tell you right everybody. Thank you Danielle, thank you, Tara, thank you Amy, and uh, I guess Tara, I'll be seeing you yeah in person in a couple of days. All right, anyway, let the games begin, see everybody. Thanks for downloading. Hey everybody, and don't forget follow us on Instagram at I Am all In podcast and email us at Gilmore at I heart

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