Pop Culture Minisode (S4 E14 "The Incredible Sinking Lorelais”)

Janet's boyfriend hanging out in their college dorm room. Paris, I should just tell her Asher Flemings my man so she can compare her circle. Nineteen seventy two Lou Frigno with Frigno with him, It's a good line. Starting in nineteen seventy one, Lou Frigno uh started competing in body building competitions. In seventy two, he placed second in the

World body Building Guild MR America competition. LOUI even won the International Federation of body Building Fitness MR Universe title in ninety three, but didn't get cast as the Incredible Hulk in nineteen seventy seven. He didn't so who back in the day and this was on the Hulk scared me. I used to have nightmares. He's turning into the Hulk, Like I was so terrified at the Incredible Hulk. But the Hulk in like the Mark Ruffalo Hulk is way

less scary. If you watched The Incredible Hulk from the seventies and you're a kid, it was a little scary. Mark Ruffalo turns into the Hulk, or no he does. He's such a nice guy. How could he be scared to him? Well, he's so Bruce Banner. But then the Hulk, I think, is like c G I but mover or no. That was scary when he when like, um, oh my god, who played Bruce Banner? Don't tell me? Oh my god,

what was that guy's name? That actor, that famous actor that played Oh wait a minute, here's a correction from the staff. And he didn't get cast as the Incredible Hulk until Hill till seven. Okay, Jackie who played Bruce Banner? It was yeah, he was famous, wasn't it. The Bill Bixby? Yes, Oh god, Scott, did I just get you nailed that? You nailed that Courtship Bavetti's father Bill Bixby, and I actually googled randomly the other day, did the Hulk ever

get cured? And I think the answer was no. Like at the end of the remember how sad that was at the end of the show when they played that sad music, and like Bruce Banner would walk up or was it, yeah, Bruce Banner, not David Banner. Shoot, was it David Banner or Bruce Banner? It was David Banner. David Banner, okay, And David Banner would walk off with his like backpack and it was so sad, and You're like, oh no, he's still the Hoholk and he's just like off he goes sad. What a show? What a show?

What a show? What it really was? It really? What a concert? Right? I was watching a ton of old Wonder Woman the other day. Has such great television in the seventies. Do yourself a favorite people wonder Woman. In the sixties, you watch the original Batman. Then you get to the seventies, you get all that great stuff. Six million Dollar Man, I mean totally Bionic Woman. Okay. Rory got a job card swiping dining cards at Yale. Glenn is getting impatient because she is trying to study and

card swipe and talking on the punk Glenn. Everyone is going to be sorry one day. Everyone looks off. Rory. You really gotta stop watching Taxi Driver. Glenn. Roy is referring to Glenn as the taxi driver character that Robert De Niro portrayed from the film the same name as main character Travis is in a decaying mental state of chronic insomnia and loneliness brought on by post traumatic stress

syndrome from the Vietnam War. UH. Taxi Driver is a ninety six film by Martin Scorsese story Robert J. Hero. The scene where Travis Pickele is talking to himself of the mirror was completely ad libbed by Robert jer you're talking to me. You're talking to me. I'm the only one here talking to me. Uh, you must be talking to me. The screenplay details, Um, Travis looks in the mirror. That's all the screenplay said. Travis looks in the mirror and then shocked to know that I've never seen this movie.

You've never seen Taxi Driver. And I'll bet money with Albert Brooks and sil Shepherd. No, but I love Sibyl Shepherd and I love Albert Brooks. In was he and Aaron Brock and Peter Boyle and from Everybody Loves Raymond Peter oh Man, you gotta you have to see Taxi Driver was Albert Brooks in No wait, he's not an Aaron Brockovitch. Just I'm gonna I don't know, but I'm gonna prepare you when you when you see Taxi Driver.

I'm gonna prepare you for one thing. Okay, Harvey Ky tells in this now you will watch it because civil Shepherds and and you gotta see the scene where Robert de Niro where Travis Bickle gets a date with Sibyl Shepherd, right with a young Cibyl Shepherd, and where he takes her. You've got to see the movie just for that scene. Anyone care? It was Albert Finney in Aaron Brockovich, right, Um, anyway,

that's all that was written in the script. Travis looks in the mirror, and then de Niro took care of the rest with his amazing talent. Um Martin Scorsese claims that he got the inspiration for the scene from Marlon Brando mouthing words in front of a mirror in Reflections of a in a Golden Eye from an old Brando film. Paris is upset again at Janet, saying her boyfriend put a big crater in the couch when he sat on at Janet, you're so full of it Paris, Paris, kids

were skateboarding up and down it. Gandalf the Gray is still falling down it. It was a big hole. Gandalf as a wizard. In J. R. Tolken's novels The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, Paris are referring to Gandalf falling down the whole the battle with ball Rog and landing on top of the mountain, as he did in Lord of the Rings. Lourel I upset at Suki for not being more involved in the decision making of the in Laurela Suki, for the past six weeks, I have

taken every meeting. I've been in and out the in round the clock. I haven't had a second for himself. And I just asked for one hour to get my hair done, and then two seconds into the shampoo we get a phone call from a guy it sounds like kids in the hall character telling me I have to get in the end today. Uh to okay a sink and I wouldn't know how to okay? Because I don't know what makes it okay. You know what makes it okay, which is why you said you're gonna be there whether

or not it was okay, all right. The Kids in the Hall as a Canadian sketch comedy troupe for consisting of comedians Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mike McKinney, and Scott Thompson. Uh. Their names came from nineteen fifties TV sitcom comedians, said Caesar, who would attribute a joke that did not go over well or played worse than expecting to the kids in the Hall, referring to a group of young writers hanging around, I got into it, so he's he'd tell a bad joke and they go,

that's that's because the kids in the Hall. Uh wrote a bad joke, alright. Visiting Rory's visiting your professor of game theory at Yale in his office, making up an excuse about her notes. Uh Rory, Okay, Well, I have something down here, but I cannot, for the life of me, read my own handwriting. Seriously, if I had this analyze, Shirley's Theron would be playing me in a movie because I'd be a serial killer and pretty girls like to get fat play serial killers because they went an oscar

and I'm sorry I should go on. That was that was pretty funny. Yeah, Rory is referring to charlie's Theron's role in Monster and Monster. She was in Monster. Yes, yes, that's the name I felt. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm thinking of I'm thinking of halle Berry wasn't. Halle Berry was in Monster's Ball. So both incredibly attractive, very talented actresses played in films where they were but halle Berry

didn't gain any weight for that. Um anyway, I don't know. Uh. She's preferring to Charlie Stron's role in Monster as serial killer Eileen, a prostitute who murdered seven of her male clients between one year. She whacked seven seven John's the real Aileen Knows, a notoriously uncooperative person, gave writer and director Patty Jenkins access to hundreds of letters she had written and received in order to gain insight into a

Leen's life. Grandma Tricks is criticizing Richard's mustache tricks. It makes you look like Adolph Mendu was an American actor's career spanned both silent films and talk as. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role Stanley Kubrick's Passive Glory. That's right. He was that commanding officer that was on the side of Kirk Douglas. Um. None of this is meaning. Oh, you have to see Passive Glory. Passive Glory is one

of the best war films you ever saw. It was maybe one of the best films Stanley Kubrick ever directed. I mean really just it's such a fast paced film and it's so full of tension. Stanley Kubrick lost me because I watched that Tom Cruise disaster. What the the eyes wide shut? That was a great film, very watchable film. I love Tom Cruise more, I really love him. And well, that's very challenging material for a box office movie starting to get involved in. But it was a great But

I just want top Gun. Stanley Kubrick, please, thank you. Wait a minute two thousand one of space on it. I never saw it. I know I do need to maybe see that. I never saw clockwork Orange. There's a lot of things I never saw. The shining I've got a lot to do. Shining was my least favorite. Stanley kuber Um anyway, he played uh Stanley Krubridge Pass of Glory with Kirk Douglas. Great performance by all players. Um. He had over one d and fifty one film credits

from nineteen sixteen to nineteen sixty one. Tricks Is referring to Adolfs mustache. The men jew mustache was named after him. Um. In another very funny tricks line or no, this was Adjason line, Jason is running away from Grandma Tricks in Richard's study Laura, I You're hiding from my grandmother, aren't you, Jason? She is scarier than Nick Nulty's mug shot. That yeah, that was good. Nick Nalty is an actor known for movies The Thin Red Line, The Warrior, The Prince of Tides,

and Affliction. In two thousand and two, Nulty was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving after he was pulled over in Malibu, California. When Nulty was put in cuffs and taken to the police station, he had a post from mug shot that would go down in history, and there it is. Grandma tricks Is asking Laurelai about her financial state. And assuming she is in financial trouble with opening the in Tricks, unless your partner is a Rockefeller, you are

in serious financial trouble. Uh. As we know, John D. Rockefeller was an oil magnet and one of the richest men in American history. And why did he become so rich? Do you know this? Berkeley? Berkeley? Hello Berkeley? Yeah, I'm thinking are you sleeping again in the back of the class. I'm trying to think of the Rockefeller Why? Why did he become so rich? He was? He was rich? And then give me a minute. Do you know what the

government did to him? They broke up his company and so he he broke it up into twenty four different LLC's and guess what he became twenty five times richer, Thank you very much. Tricks is comparing her not having money like John D. Rockefeller. Uh, when Rocket Fellers was at its wealth, is his money equals Uh his money equal to three hundred eighteen billion in two days money? Wow,

that's that's pretty darn good. Now there are one hundred and fifty descendants, uh, and which some still run Rockefeller and Company. Well, well, well, then we learned something about this episode. Next episode is they skip Selene dion I think we've done her a couple of times before. It's like where it's like it was, okay, I hope she gets better. We love Yeah, I don't know what's going on. Is ill? What is it called stiff person syndrome joints

her joints or stiffening or something like that, honor, I don't. Well, we send her the best and she's an extremely gifted person and wonderful personality, wonderful person, super funny. I love her. I love her too, so speedy recovery and all the best to Celine dion. Um. Anyway, that's gonna that's gonna do it for pop culture kids. I hope you enjoyed it and we will see you next time. Best fans

on the planet. And uh my resolution for two thousand twenty three, I want to hug every single one of you. That's my resolution because these fans are just like they give us so much. Look what they're giving us. Except they did have some harsh comments on them, like they started with a bang of aggers. But that's okay, Yeah, but that's you know what, there's there's a very one there's a very strong possibility amy that those aren't Gilmore fans writing those messages. I'll see the daggers any day.

It too. It could be coming from the competition, you just never know. It could be bots, it could be disgruntled competitors. There's one I want to read. Wait, let me read it. Hold on, it was pretty much towards me. Let me let me read it. Oh no, I can't. Oh, this one's so good, you guys, this one's so good. Respect to it because it's so good. It finally hit me this week that I give zero fs about what any of these people have to say about Kilmar girls,

and they're actually just really annoying, you know what. You're probably right, so's so good anyway? Yeah, so I don't know, really, I really, I mean, have you ever written or typed anything like that to anyone for any reason? So? I think that says it all right there? Okay, we get comments about that. We can take it. You can't to do these shows if you can't take it? Are you kidding me? I used to get booed out of baseball stadiums, you know, because I gave up a home run. I mean,

come on, you want to see my skin? Hey man? Yeah? Mine spinners can be, but I can take any You want to see my skin, it's it's an inch. Think I'm like a gorilla. You can't hurt me alright anyway, all right, see you guys next week's best fans on the planet. Thanks for down loan and stay safe everyone. Hey, everybody, and don't forget Follow us on Instagram at I Am All In podcast and email us at Gilmore at I

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