- [Richard collapsed at Christmas dinner due to angina, and is now trying to have a serious talk with her as he lays in the hospital]
- Richard Gilmore: Emily, listen to me: if I die--
- Emily Gilmore: No!
- Richard Gilmore: Emily.
- Emily Gilmore: Richard Gilmore, there may be many things happening in this hospital tonight, but your dying is not one of them.
- Richard Gilmore: But--
- Emily Gilmore: No! I did not sign on to your dying. And it is not going to happen. Not tonight, not for a very long time. In fact, I demand to go first. Do I make myself clear?
- Richard Gilmore: [tenderly] Yes, Emily. You may go first.
- Rory Gilmore: You just want to hold a grudge.
- Lorelai Gilmore: Yes. Burns more calories.
- Rory Gilmore: That's not true.
- Lorelai Gilmore: Yes it is. How do you think your grandma got those legs of hers? She's not exactly a Stairmaster gal.
- Rory Gilmore: Taylor, the baby Jesus is missing an arm again.
- Taylor Doose: What? Let me see that. Oh, for Pete's sake, alright listen up! The arm is missing! I repeat, the arm is missing!
- Rory Gilmore: Maybe it's just trying to get a new baby Jesus, you know, when it's a boy.
- Taylor Doose: It's a doll. No one can tell.
- Rory Gilmore: Well, it has a bow.
- Taylor Doose: This has been the baby Jesus in every Christmas pageant since 1965. Were you here in 1965?
- Rory Gilmore: No I wasn't.
- Taylor Doose: Find... the arm. Well?
- Rory Gilmore: I swear, I looked twice.
- Taylor Doose: Look again.
- Rory Gilmore: [at the hospital seeing Luke with his head leaning down due to his paranoidance with hospital beds and tubes] Where's Mom?
- Luke Danes: Looking for coffee.
- Rory Gilmore: What are you doing?
- Luke Danes: Staring at my shoes.
- Rory Gilmore: Okay, carry on.