Cotton Candy

Special thanks to TV.com.

Welcome to Fan Forum's official appreciation thread for the episode "Road Trip to Harvard"!

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Original Airdate

This episode originally aired on Tuesday, October 23, 2001.

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Summary

Lorelai and Rory hit the road and stumble upon the bed and breakfast from hell before eventually arriving at Harvard, where Rory gets a taste of college life and Lorelai muses over what might have been.

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Music

"Perfect Situation for a Fool" by Jai Josefs and Roy Brown
"L-O-V-E (Bo Tuesday)" by Irving
"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" by Cher
"How To Dream" by Sam Phillips

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References

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman philosopher who championed stoicism.

Rizzo was the leader of the Pink Ladies in the play Grease.

Mojo is a British music lover's guide to essential rock recordings.

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Post away!

KCsGirl

Yay!! for episode threads!!! for Ariel!!

anyone else love Mischievous!Lorelai??

canopus

ABitStormy

Haha I do!

I love this whole episode, so great. Lorelai and Rory are hilarious at Harvard and at the Cheshire Cat Inn. They're in top form in that ep. Sneaking into the dorm and then running into the girl and saying "Oh, hi Susie!" always cracks me up.

And of course, as the title reminds us, "how does ink come out of pens?!" I love that whole little conversation. And how Luke found out the wedding was off and gave everyone coffee on the house.

snickelfritz

OMG so glad there's an app. thread for this ep now, I love it. Probably partially because I've always wanted to do a spur of the moment road trip like that . Ride the winds of change, as they say . Also love it cause it's just a great episode.

Cotton Candy

I'm so glad that you guys are enjoying the episode threads

My favorite scene from RTTH is the Lorelai/Luke moment at the end.

LUKE: Hey!
LORELAI: Lewis and Clark have returned.
LUKE: Oh yeah, which one are you?
LORELAI: I don't know. Which one had to paddle the canoe?
LUKE: Coffee?
LORELAI: You have to ask?
LUKE: So, uh, sorry about what happened…you know, the wedding thing...
LORELAI: It's okay. I'm fine. I want everyone to know that.
LUKE: Uh, I've been feeling like a jerk.
LORELAI: Why?
LUKE: Well, the way I had to come down on Max. I don't know, I was being a…I don't know, what's that word you use, pickleschnitz?
LORELAI: Schnickelfritz?
LUKE: Yeah, that's it.
LORELAI: Luke, it's okay, you already apologized for all that.
LUKE: Well, I've been feeling kind of guilty.
LORELAI: Don't. You are great, Luke. Just making me that chuppah alone...

LUKE: Oh, the chuppah! I left that stupid chuppah on your lawn!
LORELAI: Hey, it's okay.
LUKE: What an idiot!
LORELAI: Really, it's okay.
LUKE: Just this enormous reminder, just sitting on your lawn, mocking you.
LORELAI: I didn't even see it mock, I promise.
LUKE: I'll take it down in the morning. No, I'll take it down now. Hey, we're closing early. Chew it or lose it!
LORELAI: Hey, Luke, it's okay, really. I, uh, I think I'm gonna keep it.
LUKE: What?
LORELAI: Yeah. It's beautiful, and you made it for me, and it doesn't have to be a wedding chuppah. It can just be a beautiful archway in our yard. I'll grow stuff on it.
LUKE: Well, okay. Um, I'll help you move it around the yard, wherever you want it to be.

LORELAI: Well, that'd be good.
LUKE: So where'd you guys go?
LORELAI: Well, we drove around a little, we hit a B&B, and we took a tour of Harvard.
LUKE: Harvard...interesting.
LORELAI: It was amazing. Seeing Rory there, in a dorm room, in a classroom. She fit.
LUKE: Yeah, I can see her fitting there.
LORELAI: She was right at home.
LUKE: So, how you taking that?
LORELAI: Taking what?
LUKE: Seeing her fit?
LORELAI: I loved it...and I hated it.
LUKE: That seems about right.
LORELAI: Man, these past few days...just so many thoughts about my life then, my life now, what I missed. Thoughts about what I'll never have, and what I want to have.
LUKE: Yeah, that's a lot of thoughts.
LORELAI: You're not kidding. So can I ask you a question?
LUKE: Yeah.
LORELAI: Have you ever set up a line of credit at a bank?
LUKE: No.
LORELAI: But you don't pay for everything with cash on hand, do you?
LUKE: What's all this about?
LORELAI: I think it's time to make a move.
LUKE: Meaning?
LORELAI: I'm diving in. Sookie and I are finally gonna open that inn.
LUKE: Yeah, I know.
LORELAI: No, I mean now. We've been talking about it and dreaming about it and it's time to finally get going on it.

LUKE: Well, if the time is right.
LORELAI: It is. Think I can hack being a business owner?
LUKE: I think you can hack anything.
LORELAI: Really?
LUKE: Yeah. I mean, you know all the creative stuff to the job, and you can manage and uh, I've seen you try to add numbers, so I'd get an accountant first thing.
LORELAI: Okay, yes.
LUKE: So how far along are you?
LORELAI: This far.
LUKE: Well, listen, um, you know, I'm no financial genius, but you know, we can sit down sometime, and you can pick my brain on the few things I do know about.
LORELAI: Really?
LUKE: Sure, I've been around some.

LORELAI: Can I ask you stupid questions?
LUKE: There's no such thing.
LORELAI: How does ink come out of pens?
LUKE: All right, there is such a thing. But, um, you're going to avoid that when we sit down, right?
LORELAI: Right. Thank you.

LUKE: Yeah. And let me know when you need help with the thing that's not a chuppah anymore.
LORELAI: I will.

gg_obsessed

Awesome episode! One of my top 5 of season 2! Even though it's a tough race between some of them! I loved the Lorelai/Rory moments of this episode! So many good ones! The Emily and Lorelai bit about the wedding present was great! And one of the ending scenes with Luke and Lorelai! He wants to sit down with her sometime!

Cotton Candy

I totally agree. Aside from the JJ scene, that's my favorite part of the episode.

Mareike

I wonder if we'll ever find out what she got for her - I really hope so.

Cotton Candy

Hehe, I always wanted to know.

gilmore_maniac

Omg. This episode has probably the funniest Lorelai/Rory scenes ever... to name a few:

LADONN: Hello there.
LORELAI: Hi.
LADONN: Would you like to ring the bell?
LORELAI: What?
LADONN: Would you like to ring the bell, you or your daughter?
LORELAI: I don't understand.
LADONN: I'm not usually sitting here when guests arrive, so people ring the bell and they love to ring the bell, and you didn't get to ring the bell.
LORELAI: Uh. . . [rings bell]
LADONN: Well done.

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RORY: What's with the face?
LORELAI: Hmm, they're taller.
RORY: Not this again.
LORELAI: There's more of them.
RORY: Mom, the flowers on the wallpaper are not growing or reproducing.
LORELAI: Hm.
RORY: Wait a minute. You weren't writing in this thing, were you?
LORELAI: Maybe some random thoughts.
RORY: [reading guestbook] 'Satanic forces are at work here.' Mom.
LORELAI: What?
RORY: What? What? We cannot write that in here. [changes it] Here. 'Sat and forever am at work here.'
LORELAI: That doesn't make any sense.
RORY: And it doesn't invoke the Dark Prince so I think it's preferable.
LORELAI: Whatever.

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LORELAI: You know what isn't good?
RORY: What?
LORELAI: I ate the fuzzy Certs.
RORY: Gross!
LORELAI: They tasted like keys.

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LORELAI: That was not on the freaking list.

LADONN: We don't put things like this on the freaking list, because the delights of nature aren't on any kind of time schedule.
(I rofl everytime that line comes on)

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WOMAN: So, LaDonn says you're in publishing.
LORELAI: Huh?
WOMAN: Publishing, you're in publishing?
LORELAI: Oh yes, I am.
MAN: Books, huh? You should find a field with less paperwork.
LORELAI: Good one. [reaches for another scone]
RORY: Mmm! Hey!
LORELAI: You have two, I still have one!
WOMAN: So, uh, publishing?
LORELAI: Mm hmm. Yes, I do publish. Um, it's kind of a dry line of work, not much to talk about.
LADONN: Oh, nonsense. It's fascinating.
WOMAN: So what kind of books do you publish?
LORELAI: Umm, mainly youth-oriented ones.
WOMAN: Children's books?
LORELAI: Sure.
WOMAN: Oh, any that we've heard of?
LORELAI: Probably not.
WOMAN: No, wait, please. Give me some titles. I'll write them down and then when I get home, I'll look them up. Dave, do you have your space pen?
MAN: Do you have to ask?
WOMAN: Oh, he loves his space pen.
MAN: They write under water.
RORY: Cool.
WOMAN: So, what are the titles?
LORELAI: Well, there's um, 'Goodnight, Spoon' and um, 'The Horse that Wanted to Bark'.
WOMAN: Oh, I think I've read that to my grandson. The horse learns to bark, and then he. . . oh, what happens at the end?
LORELAI: He dies.
RORY: But he learned to bark though, so it's actually an upper.
WOMAN: So, where are your offices?
LORELAI: They're in the umm…in the building with the uhh, over on the road…would you guys excuse me for just a second? I have to make a very important call concerning publishing.

sorry to bombard you with qoutes, but I am a RTTH kick. I watch it all the time.
I don't understand how LG doesn't have en Emmy!

Cotton Candy

Aw, there's no need to be sorry. We love quotes

ocdwithlhg

Lol, this is seriously one of the funniest episodes out there.

-I love Lorelai's fake publishing identity. I think all of those scenes are so freaking hilarious + LG just makes them 100 times better than they already are.
-I loved the Rory/Lorelai talk about why Lorelai couldn't marry Max. Thought it was a good emotional scene and and again, Lorelai rocks the emotion boat real well.
-Looove when Luke finds out that Lorelai isn't going to get married. You can practically feel the 100 pounds being lifted off of his shoulders!

All in all, great episode! I'm gunna have to pull out my S2 DVD's and watch it again soon!

Cotton Candy

Yeah, that was a great scene.

smoothaise

Hilarious episode!

barbeegurl00

Glad we have this thread. Great episode, definitely one of the best of S2. Thanks for the pics and quotes.