9:30 and Black Cat mentioned on TV

my exgf used to force me to watch this show. i can't believe there is a thread on the 930 club forums about it ahahha

Originally posted by thatguy:
i think i remember the foo fighters doing a night at the club and a night at the cat, but i could be wrong.

You're right. That was in November 2000.

Didn't Fugazi regularly play at a Unitarian Church here (and the Evens played at last year)? Could that be what the writers were thinking of?

It seems like they are trying hard to be the next O.C. Come on, the Black Cat and 930 Club two days in a row?

Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
Isn't Bea Arthur on that show?

are you tony kornheiser??

(it all makes sense …)

Originally posted by nonameface:
Can't remember my favorite exchange, but there's been a couple, mostly from the band w/ Sebastian.

My favorite music reference without a doubt was way back in season 3 when Lane was first trying to start a band. She listed her music influences for a "drummer-seeks-band" newspaper ad.

LANE: Okay, I just crunched the numbers and at two thousand words and twenty-five cents a word, this stupid adâ??s gonna cost five hundred dollars! Thatâ??s five months worth of Minwaxing end tables at my momâ??s store. I give up.

RORY: No, donâ??t give up. Just cut down your influences to the most important ones, like with David Bowie.

LANE: Gotta have Bowie.

RORY: But do you have to list every album he ever recorded plus your personal rating between one to ten?

LANE: Maybe not.

LORELAI: And whatâ??s with Jackson Browne making the list?

LANE: Ah, see, cool people know that heâ??s more than a mellow hippie-dippy folkie, that he actually wrote some of Nicoâ??s best songs and was in fact her lover before he bored us with "Doctor My Eyes." That will separate the poseurs from the non-poseurs.

RORY: Wax on, wax off.

Then, later that episode….

[a boy walks up to Lane]

DAVE: Excuse me, Lane?

LANE: Thatâ??s me.

DAVE: Okay, great, Iâ??m Dave Rygalski.

LANE: Right, hi. Youâ??re a guitarist.

DAVE: Yeah.

LANE: But howâ??d you know I was me?

DAVE: The Dead Kennedys shirt was a tip off.

LANE: Good thinking. Hey, uh, isnâ??t it a drag that Jello Biafra isnâ??t singing for them anymore?

DAVE: Yeah, now their front-manâ??s that kid from the Courtship of Eddieâ??s Father.

LANE: Yeah, whatâ??s next â?? Urkel joining the Wu-Tang Clan?

DAVE: Or maybe Malcolm in the Middle fronting for the Butthole Surfers.

LANE: Some things are sacred.

DAVE: Iâ??m with ya on that.

LANE: So, um, whatâ??s your band like?

DAVE: We do a lot of cool covers â?? uh, the Clash, the Kinks, et cetera. Statistically, itâ??s like thirty-eight of the forty-three bands you listed.

LANE: Nice percentage.

Lauren "Fuck Me Santa" Graham is from Fairfax.

Originally posted by sch2383:
Lauren "Fuck Me Santa" Graham is from Fairfax.

Haha! I think that you just triggered chain reaction heart attacks. Wonder if she's their DC 'connection'? (I've never seen the show so I only have these forum reports to go by.) Wonder if she's a forum lurker? If they start talking about BEN'S CHILI BOWL or the food at the Birchmere, than I would seriously suspect something. Would be pretty funny though as a very inside joke between the writers and this forum.


Considering how the industry works, I'm wondering whose paying out the goods to Hollywood for the references. Or whatever kind of deal they have working to get all of that name dropping. This kind of thing started back in the 60s with The Beverly Hillbillies. Well, not that a few things hadn't been done prior but the BH are often credited for starting this wave. Somehow, Corn Flakes got the show to strategically place boxes of their cereal (usually Jethro eating a whole box in one sitting) within the set. It started a whole new method of product advertising.

I would to say that since The OC came after Gilmore Girls, the OC were doing the ripping off. Usually, the band dropping that goes on is more subtle on the show… it seemed that they attempted to cram as much in as possible in one episode.

My favorite reference will be the one where Kirk couldn't decided where to sit at Suki's kids baptism.

"Are you a Davey or a Martha? I bet you're a Davey; he's more accessible. He's the Dandy Warhols to her Brian Jonestown Massacre."

There was also the episode where the BJM tambourine player joined Laine's band which resulted in the lead singer having a fight with the band on stage. The episode was called "He's Slippinâ?? â??Em Bread… Dig?"

To make another DC connection, in the episode where Rory and Paris go on Spring Break, Alexis of Girls Against Boys is standing next to them as The Shins (I believe) are playing in the background.

Originally posted by Mobius:
Didn't Fugazi regularly play at a Unitarian Church here (and the Evens played at last year)? Could that be what the writers were thinking of?

I was thinking the Unitarian Church in Philly…

i concur…

I second the concurrence.
Kosmo also remembered my favorite quote regarding Warhols/BJM (we have discussed GG before, this isn't the first time;)).
This show won't become like The OC since music has been a part of their storyline since the beginning. Plus, let's not forget which show gave birth to the Dave Rygalski character & who portrayed him…
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Lauren Graham was in the local TV Guide a few years ago. I had remembered incorrectly, thinking she hailed from MD. She graduated from Langley H.S.

In other music news, Grant-Lee Phillips will return to his role of town troubadour.

Well, so much for any hopes of any GG referencing in the future …

Just announced that this IS officially the last season and only two more episodes.

"The real Paul Anka or the dog Paul Anka?"

Ah, good times.

The original writer always mentioned that the show was to end with one of them at the alter and with last week's episode it looks like it may be Rory. Ugh.

I hate the food at the Birchmere, all the sauces are watery and the ranch tasted like paint, I thought i was taking drugs for a second with that dressing

Isn't Bea Arthur on that show?

Originally posted by thatguy:
i think i remember the foo fighters doing a night at the club and a night at the cat, but i could be wrong.

Yes, yes they did. That was 2001 or 2002….I can't even remember. I think 2001.

Originally posted by Bags:

Originally posted by thatguy:
i think i remember the foo fighters doing a night at the club and a night at the cat, but i could be wrong.

Yes, yes they did. That was 2001 or 2002….I can't even remember. I think 2001.

11/14/00 9:30 Club
11/16/00 Black Cat

if the season ends with rory and logan getting hitched, i'll be very very sad.

They also used one of my favorite XTC songs to start off an episode- Loreli and Rory silently go about getting up and ready and out the door as "earn enough for us" plays.

it was really a brilliant moment.