- Babette Dell: Hey, you guys hear the bells?
- Luke Danes: No, we were just on one of our spontaneous three-in-the-morning strolls, saw everybody in here, and wondered, "hey, what's up?".
- Babette Dell: Really?
- Luke Danes: No.
- Babette Dell: [to Lorelai] He's cranky at three in the morning.
- Paris Geller: [Their apartment is full of flowers] Oh, terrific. Bring 'em on in, Algernon. The more, the merrier.
- Rory Gilmore: It's Logan's doing. What can I do?
- Paris Geller: Tell him to stop.
- Rory Gilmore: We're not speaking, remember?
- Paris Geller: Well, they're putting our lives in jeopardy.
- Rory Gilmore: Oh, stop it.
- Paris Geller: They scream bling, draw eyes to the apartment. Bad guys see roses, then they come for our diamonds.
- Rory Gilmore: We don't have diamonds.
- Paris Geller: The Doo-Wop group doesn't know that.
- [as Rory is about to put the vase near the window]
- Paris Geller: Yeah, by the window is good, next to the neon sign that says "come pistol-whip us".
- Luke Danes: I was having a dream. I was shopping for a car and I wanted to see the trunk space, and... 'cause I have a truck and it's convenient to haul things. So I wanted to see what the deal with the car was, and the salesman opened it. I asked him how many cubic feet it was and he looked it up in the manual and I was satisfied. So when he closed the hood, the bells rang.
- Lorelai Gilmore: You have very mundane dreams.
- Lorelai Gilmore: Kirk, you needed carnival-game volunteers and I volunteered. What's with the hassle?
- Kirk Gleason: We do things like ring toss and rope ladder climbing. Your choice is unorthodox.
- Lorelai Gilmore: That's because I'm not orthodox. I'm liberal with a touch of reform and a smidgen of zippity-pow.
- Paris Geller: Hey. You check in?
- Rory Gilmore: Check in?
- Paris Geller: The board. The new system? This is the best way for me to know where anyone is at any given time. All the names are on the left. Each coloured magnet represents an activity. If you're out on assignment, it's a red magnet. If you're in the john, it's a blue magnet. If you're at home, a purple magnet. If you're at your desk, it's a green magnet.
- Rory Gilmore: But if they're at their desk, you can just glance over and see that they're at their desks.
- Paris Geller: But I'd have to glance all around. This saves extraneous glancing. Look, it's not really for people like you. I know you're dedicated. I trust you, but I can't appear to be playing favourites.
- Rory Gilmore: I have a class.
- Paris Geller: Orange magnet.
- Rory Gilmore: Maybe this is a cheesy perspective to offer you, but Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale went through the same sort of situation. He found out he had a kid that he didn't know about, but they made it work. As far as I know.
- Lorelai Gilmore: Meaning?
- Rory Gilmore: If they can, you can.
- Lorelai Gilmore: Really?
- Rory Gilmore: They're people, you're people. I mean, you don't sing, and neither does Luke, but really neither do Gwen and Gavin. But they're still together. I think. I haven't read anything to the contrary.
- Luke Danes: [Taylor is video-conferencing a town meeting] Where the hell are you, Taylor?
- Taylor Doose: I'm at my sister's in Maine. Anyway, we have never not had a Stars Hollow Winter Carnival. It's a hundred and twenty-five year tradition.
- Lorelai Gilmore: Is he getting to the point soon?
- Babette Dell: Yeah, come on, Doo-doo head.
- Taylor Doose: Fine, let's cut to the chase. I run the winter carnival, it's this weekend, and I am snowed in, unable to get back into town.
- [Gets no reaction from the town]
- Miss Patty: So, what's this about, Taylor?
- Taylor Doose: Maybe it's the lateness of the hour or the computer connection isn't clear. We have never had to cancel a carnival, and it's absolutely impossible for me to get back into town to run it.
- Babette Dell: I must be tired. I'm not getting this.
- Miss Patty: It's like a riddle or something.
- Taylor Doose: People, are you not hearing me? I won't be there to run the carnival. Draw the obvious conclusion.
- Miss Patty: Oh, OK, I got it now.
- Taylor Doose: Thank you, Patty.
- Miss Patty: Kirk, could you take it over?
- Kirk Gleason: Sure.
- Miss Patty: Great. Anything else, Taylor?
- Kirk Gleason: [mumbled from outside] Town meeting.
- Lorelai Gilmore: What was that?
- Luke Danes: Some dead guy yelling something.
- Lorelai Gilmore: Ghosts are yelling something outside the house?
- Luke Danes: No, guys I'm gonna kill yelling stuff outside the house.
- Kirk Gleason: [mumbled from outside] Town meeting.
- Lorelai Gilmore: What are they saying?
- Luke Danes: There was a clown beating?
- Lorelai Gilmore: Huh! Not again.
- Kirk Gleason: Town meeting!
- Luke Danes: Now, they're saying, "town meeting".
- Lorelai Gilmore: Town meeting? At this hour?