The Attractive Nuisance can quote The Golden Girls, so I sure as heck can quote Gilmore Girls. (Shut up. I love that show.) This interchange is the rare moment when Luke actually demonstrates some knowledge of pop culture:
KIRK: I was doing my Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink impression.
LUKE: Duckie?
KIRK: Yes, Duckie.
LUKE: Were you near the end of the movie yet?
KIRK: No, just getting to the "Try a Little Tenderness" moment.
LUKE: You've got plenty of ammo left. Go on. Go back over there.
This dialogue came to mind last night when, while flipping channels, I came across the aforementioned, apparently famous scene in Pretty in Pink where Duckie does his lip-synch performance in the record store. Maybe it was important in a seminal sense back then. John Hughes movies tended to show a character's freedom from angsty social constraints by having them get into the music; it was the only way they were truly having fun. But Duckie's performance is met with indifference from its spectators, Andie (Molly Ringwald) and Iona (Annie Potts). Back then it seemed that Duckie was enlightened, and that the ladies just didn't get it yet. What's wrong with them? Now I look at it differently: what's wrong with Duckie?
A few years ago, at the urging of my sister, we watched Pretty in Pink in its entirety. After getting over the tee-hee moments of a young James Spader, I pointed out, somewhat blasphemously, that Duckie is an early prototype of the A.D.D.-afflicted stalker. This analysis gathers support from the spot-on sendup of a hapless Duckie type in Not Another Teen Movie. Very expressive, very devoted, very wrong for the girl.
I'm sure there must be many ladies out there who remember Duckie fondly, or at least give him the benefit of the doubt. But think to your own lives, and the Duckie-types who plagued them ever so briefly. Not very pretty, was it? I rest my case.
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Give me 16 Candles and Long Duck Dong any day.
Far be it from me to judge you on your hot wax predilections, but I'm still telling your husband.
There is nothing wrong with my love for The Golden Girls! As it happens, the Gilmore Girls are my other favorite G/Girls (even though I, unlike every other fan in the world, want Lorelai to end up with Christopher and not Luke).
When a girl has a real-life Duckie, it's kind of annoying. But you do feel sorry for movie-Duckie. The problem is that nowadays, the "Duckie"-type character is usually played by someone who is unbelievably hot in boy-next-door kind of way (or a girl-next-door kind of way like Katie Holmes). Jon Cryer was genius casting because he looks like someone who could be your ADD stalker in real life.
C: "in an Anne Heche sort of way" always sounds gay.
AN: Christopher? Luke? I want Lorelai to end up with me. Though I'd settle for Lauren Graham. Even if the rumors about her and Marcia Cross hanging out "in an Anne Heche sort of way" are true.
Whoa, are you serious about those rumors? Marcia Cross is my secret lesbian lover, and I'm not even gay.
A couple of months ago there was talk that Marcia Cross was going to be on the cover of The Advocate for the same reason most people make the cover. The rumor was that she had a secret relationship with an adult cast member of a WB series. Since Anne Heche is apparently on Everwood and Marcia Cross used to be -- I don't watch it -- I assumed this was what they were talking about. But when Lauren Graham's name popped up, I paid more attention.
Marcia Cross is 43 and single. Lauren Graham is 38 and single. Neither has ever married, or been in a serious relationship in recent years. (There was talk about Lauren Graham and Matthew Perry at one point, but honestly, does that mean anything?)
I remember the rumors about Marcia being a lesbian, but I never heard the additional aspect of the rumor that she might be involved with Lauren. Yowza. (Also, Lauren is 38? She's a goddess. I should look that good at 25.)
Did you see Tuesday's Gilmore Girls episode? I want to slap the crap out of Rory.
New here from APL--what a bombshell!!
I LOVE Gilmore Girls, and thisi s the first I've heard about any of this. Wow. Too cool.
And I totally agree with the Attractive Nuisance, definitely time to smack Rory.
SuzanH: welcome.
AN: Again, it's a rumor, and apparently Marcia denies all. I haven't heard anything new on that front in a while. But whatever plans we had for Tina Fey and her husband, I'd be happy to transfer over to the mutually beneficial breakup of Lauren and Marcia. It's bad for the lesbian community, but good for us.
I haven't seen the last two episodes -- been taking a financing class the last two Tuesdays. Smackable Rory? It's happened before, so I can imagine.
Rory is just getting increasingly caught up in the world of rich kid entitlement. It's quite grating.
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