Post #495244 by Tiki-Kate on Sun, Nov 22, 2009 6:47 PM

Years ago, I used to joke about people who would join TC then quickly offer up these two amazing facts:

1)They saw tikis on Gilmore Girls.

2)Spongebob's neighbor Squidward lives in a tiki.

I hate to admit it, but I have Gilmore Girls on sort of a perpetual loop at my house. It's my background noise when I'm cooking or cleaning or making templates, etc.

Anyway, Season 3 is currently in the DVD player, so I thought I'd offer up a few crappy screencaps.

But first, Tiki-bot's 7 year old reference to a possible Jimmy Buffett reference was slightly off. Although in a previous episode Lorelai is in Luke's closet picking out a shirt for him to wear, comes across a Jimmy Buffett shirt and very appropriately gives him shit for it. Good girl, Lorelai. I never quite looked at Luke the same way after that moment.

So Lorelai and Rory walk into Dwight's house, having been conned into water his African violets as well as his lawn. (Please don't get on my case about the dialog because I'm doing this from memory, and I'm therefore paraphrasing.)

Lorelai walks into the house and says: Someone took the lounge craze way too seriously.

Rory asks: Hey. Why don't we have a tiki bar?

Lorelei replies: Because we are not two wild and crazy guys.

Rory says: But you like pina coladas.

Lorelai: And getting lost in the rain.

So it's actually a Rupert Holmes reference.

Justin Tanner wrote this episode, so I can't really blame this on Amy Sherman-Palladino as much as I'd like to.

This first shot shows Dwight's bar. Plenty of mugs on that wall and a nice big OA tiki.

Next is a shot of the giant fish tank.

Different angle on the bar.

Lorelai gets a phone call from a man (played by Mad Men's Jon Hamm) who she met at an auction a few days earlier. He asks her to see David Bowie with him the following week and to dinner the following evening. Rory says that she thinks this place is lucky. Then the weird hula cuckoo clock goes off and sings the line "Eight o'clock at the Oasis," and Lorelai says that creepy might be a better word.

Another day, Rory goes back in to water the plants, and we see a shot of the Mai Tiki.

There's another OA rental.

This house is full of tchotchkes. Oy with the poodles already!

Familiar bar shelves in the background.