- Michel Gerard: You know what heppens when you assume, don't you?
- Lorelai Gilmore: No.
- Michel Gerard: Well, it is something about a donkey, it is a stupid American phrase!
- Rory Gilmore: Mom, um, I know you're probably not gonna want to do this...
- Lorelai Gilmore: Yes I will! Unless it's something I don't want to do.
- Rory Gilmore: Do you want to be the parent advisor on my economics project?
- Lorelai Gilmore: Ooh, Rory, gosh.
- Rory Gilmore: I'm kind of in a spot.
- Lorelai Gilmore: No one else can do it?
- Rory Gilmore: Nope.
- Lorelai Gilmore: You checked?
- Rory Gilmore: Yes.
- Lorelai Gilmore: You double-checked?
- Rory Gilmore: Yes.
- Lorelai Gilmore: And no one else can do it so you came slumming after me and I'm your last choice?
- Rory Gilmore: Of course.
- Lorelai Gilmore: [giggles] I appreciate that.