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In the episode “A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving,” in reference to Grey Gardens.

RORY: Poor Edie.

LORELAI: Which Edie?

RORY: Little Edie. She’s just trying to sing and her mom won’t stop talking.

LORELAI: Big Edie was so beautiful in her day.

RORY: They were both pretty.

LORELAI: I can’t believe they were related to Jackie.

RORY: Well, the Kennedy’s kind of hid them in the background for many years.

LORELAI: Well, when you’re a Kennedy, how do you even choose who in the family to hide?

RORY: It’s a tough choice.

LORELAI: Something beautiful about them though. They’re cool, they’re free.

RORY: Yeah, and they’re memorable. Most people are very forgettable. And they’re happy.

LORELAI: They had their cats.

RORY: And their raccoons.

LORELAI: And their pretty house.

RORY: And each other.

LORELAI (joking): Add a few years and they’re us.

RORY: Yeah…
(suddenly realizing the import of that thought): Yeah.

LORELAI (frowning): Yeah.

“I like these women,” Rory says.

Lorelai replies, “I love these women.”

On the television, a fifty-something-year-old Edie Beale, a beige scarf wrapped around her head, sings for the camera. In the background, her mother shouts, “Don’t do it, Edie! I’ll get so mad!”

Edie Beale and her daughter Edie Beale (a.k.a., Little Edie) were the aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy-Onassis. The two lived happily for many years in a dilapidated estate in the Hamptons, called Grey Gardens. They really did have many cats, and they fed wild raccoons in their house. In 1972, the National Enquirer exposed the conditions in which they lived, and the local health department raided the place. To keep the house from being condemned Jackie Onassis persuaded her husband Aristotle to renovate the place. During this time, Albert and David Maysles and company created the documentary Grey Gardens, which is what Lorelai and Rory are watching.

Later in the episode, Rory lists the multiple Thanksgiving dinners they’ve committed to.

RORY: Lane’s house, Sookie’s, and we always stop by Luke’s— That’s three. And Grandma and Grandpa is four.

LORELAI: Ah, we’re mad, Edie.

RORY: We’re us, Edie.