IAAI Town Meeting: One Brioni Suit Costs $16,200 (Season 4 E15 “Scene in a Mall”)

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Tara will tell you all about Jerry duty when she returns. I was gonna say someday Tara will be done with jury duty and she'll be back, but it's us for today. So today we're going to talk about season four, episode fifteen, Scene in the Mall. This episode aired February twenty fourth, two thousand and four, so again probably still I forget which I know sweeps were in February and May, but it was only like a one week period. I don't know if this was part of sweeps week or exactly which week it was, but lots of good action in this one, you know. Seriously, Kelly Bishop should have won an Emmy for this episode. Yeah, this was her episode for.

Sure, range of her emotions and everything. Was amazing, Like, yeah, when I rewatched this because I watched it for you you and Scott, you guys did the recap and I was like, and I watched it again last night without like having to take notes and stop and do all that stuff.

I watched it like through.

Yeah, I was just like still amaze. It was like, wow, Kelly.

Yeah, she's she's so good. And just like that scene in the department store where she's just like barking orders at people and it's so fast and it's just like flying off her tongue and she's like, get me those and get me an application and I want three of those, No, I want twelve.

And the walk and talk and the steady shot it's like a circle shot, and I was just like how did they do that? And to be able to do all those things at once? Like I know, it's like walking and whatever, it's doing your thing, but when you have to memorize those lines and you're barking those orders, that's a lot for an actor. And so yeah, I thought that was just so good and and everything like Lorelei and Rory.

As well, you know, so yeah, yeah, so great episode. And I did I did want to clarify. So if you listened to the recap that I did with Scott, and he mentioned that he thought them all was Beverly Center, So I did look it up and it actually wasn't Beverly Center. It was Burbank Town Center. So I know we're probably gonna get comments of people saying it wasn't Beverly Center. We know, yeah, so I think I hadn't looked it up at that and I had recorded with Scott, and I looked it up in between and confirmed it is Burbank Center.

We clarified it. One thing I did notice too, in the town center or in the mall, it's all the stores that are no longer in business, like seeing yeah, Radio Shack. I'm just like so nostalgic for that, you know. And all these indoor malls, and I just like the eighties malls. They're called Stranger Things malls. Now you know that.

My niece calls it. Oh you guys have an indoor mall here in Modesta, and in my hometown it's it's like a Stranger Things mall. And I'm like, just the mall because you have the ones in southern californiaye, all open aired and beautiful and you know, and it's funny and this is a stranger thing small.

Yeah, and I think even since that was filmed, like it's all different now, like Burbank Town Center has been completely remodeled. They demolished one wing of it and it's wow, completely different now. So yeah, and I think I think I said this in the recap episode. I really miss malls, like I I'm an eighties kid. I bet our whole weekend at the mall. And for us it was seuth Coast Plaza down in Orange County.

But yes, I worked at South Coast and yeah, the Travelex currency Exchange. Okay, I know that mall.

Well, yes, so yeah, I just just seeing those scenes again, it was it was nice and it's something like that, like the younger generation they don't have that, like like you said, because malls are different now they're open air or they're just gone, like you know, a lot of malls have just died and disappeared.

Yeah, the food courts and all that. Yeah it's Julius. I mean I know those are still around.

But yeah. So one one funny thing I noticed, and I think I think I may have mentioned this on our first recap, which you know by now it was a couple of years ago. But Kirk the dog walker, So when we first see him with all the doll and they're waiting for Snuggles to come find them. If you watch that scene where Snuggles runs up to them and he's Kirk is celebrating and he's jumping around, Snuggles disappears and some of the shots Snuggles is there and some of the shots the shot so funny little thing. Yes, the disappearing dog.

Obviously he was misbehaving. Yeah, or they reshot some of that, you know, right.

Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. Animals, even even well trained animals, can be unpredictable. Let's see what else in this one. So this was, Oh, you know what, I think you're right when we were talking in the last episode about Adolph Monjou and the mustache, I think I think that mentioned was in this because I think it's when they were talking about dinner being burned, yes, and they and they were trying to decide where to go eat. So yeah, that's why her.

Dress was like so cute and that was such the style then too.

She Yeah, the sleeveless blue that was super cute, So yeah, I didn't see a problem with that. I don't know why. I don't know why Emily thought that it's.

Not a suit.

Yeah, exactly, So many of those saying the out that she was wearing later at the mall, like with the pink and gray stripes. It was like a striped blouse and then a pink sweater with diagonal stripes on it. That outfit wasn't doing anything for me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, And they had like little like puff balls like right on the.

Collar like the giants. Yeah. I didn't interesting that. Yeah, that outfit. I don't know, the individual pieces I didn't like, and I didn't like it when she put the pieces together, so yeah, yeah.

And also I liked the There was a mention about Emily the Strange Cat. Yes, she has worn an Emily the Strange shirts in past episodes and the cat. Yeah.

There was also a mention of Emily the Strange when Rory had the cast on her arm because Lane. I can't remember. It was something about when Laane signs it. Gosh, it's been so long since that since we watched that episode. I can't remember exactly, but I know there was a reference in that and I only.

Know that because of Eastern Stars hollow style that he does. He's in season two and he points out Emily the strange and Laura's wearing a shirt like that because there's like a weird cat on it. And then when I caught it when I was watching this, I was like, and I only know that because of.

Where would we be without podcast?

Would not exist because he helps us a lot behind the scenes. So if we want to talk fashion, I have some thing for you.

Yes, Okay, go for it.

Okay. When she's barking off orders, when she's saying all these brand names and what they are and stuff, you know most of them. I do know Manila Blani. Obviously, I'm a Sex and City fan. We know. And I even like looked at the shoe and paused. I was like, does carry own noose shoes? But I don't think she ever did, because I don't recognize it because I do know her shoes and Sex and cis. But I did look up what a soup tererene is a super cherene, because she's asking for that when she's asking about the apples and then the Prince of Persia's stuff. I had no idea what it was, and it's a large, deep serving bowl, equipped with a lid and often accompanied by a ladle. I was like those and I was like, oh,

that's what it.

Is, like those large Yeah, it's like a punch bowl but with a lid.

Yes, I had no idea. Okay, another one BRIONI had. I stopped that one. I put my captions on because I didn't understand what they said up first. And then obviously Laura Lai makes the reference of that's worth my car, and I was like, how about are they really worth? So the suits start at forty five hundred dollars at Neiman Marcus. They go up to eleven thousand dollars on NeiMa Marcus now, but if you go to Brioni's website you can get a charcoal gray pinstriped Utopia Super two twenties wool Brionico suit for sixteen thousand, two hundred. Oh my god, I'm like, WHOA, Like, yeah, that is definitely worth more than lorealized jeep. And so I had no idea because I don't.

Was ordering multiples like several of them.

Yeah, how much do you think she actually spent there? Probably like an easy like fifty grand I think.

Yeah, So we were talking about that in the recap episode, like how much did she spend? I think what? I can't remember what Scott and I came up with, but we might have to like quadruple that now.

Yeah, I know, I had no idea Brioni Brioni suits were that expensive. But again, I'm not a man who's shopping for those, so I'm not aware of those. I do know, Manola Blanix can range from four hundred to like a couple of thousand, just depends on the shoe. So yeah, yeah, yeah, And then they did have when they were in the shoe department when that meltdown happened.

I look in the background and they had the Bandolino. Oh yeah, the logo. And I owned a pair of Bandolinos. I mean like when I was in my twenties, I was like that was very And they still exist. They're at j C. Pennies and Macy's, which you mentioned they probably filmed this at the Macy's.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And one thing I caught in this episode that I because I like you, I watched it when I recapped it with Scott that I watched it again last night. And one thing I didn't catch until when I watched it last night. Is Rory tells she says that Emily bought Lorelai a vera wayhing wedding dress.

I know, oh yes, yeah, so that was probably another fifteen to twenty thousand.

That's so true. It's like so random ververa wing wedding dress. Yeah, beautiful dresses.

So yeah. So you know, poor Emily, she's having a very public meltdown, very expensive meltdown. Yeah. And you know, Scott and I talked a lot about it in the recap episode, but it's you know, she feels bad. She feels like Richard's life is moving on without her because he's doing all these new and exciting things with Jason, and he's having dinner with Moby, and you know, she's just doing her same old thing. And you know, Richard made that comment when they were trying to pick where to go for dinner and talking about shopping. He's like, well, that's what you do. Like it was kind of, uh, what's the like dismissive and condescending I think is the word I'm looking for. And it made her feel bad about herself. So you know, she kind of like man man, Yeah, yeah, exactly,

and it's like just a switch flow and she was like, all right, that hold my beer.

Like you know, yeah, watch me go to the mall and do all this. Yes, I know, and it's and it's you can see like because it again and we've mentioned this before, Emily is hard to feel like sorry for sometimes, but then you see these moments where it's like, this is why she is the way she is with tricks, and then this is why she is the way why she is, you know, like this, you know, it's very old traditional values where you take care of the house, you take care of your husband, you take care of all that. And that's why her and Laura li like crash clash so much, you know, because they it's it's they don't live by the same values. And so it's interesting to see how she's being so diminished in what

she holds so dear. Yes, that last scene with the apples is just heartbreaking and I feel bad for Emily. And then this is obviously leading to what we know they split up, you know, So yeah, you can see this these little instances throughout why it's happening, and it's a slow build of everything. But I do I do appreciate her performance. And I do appreciate also Lauraai trying to help her out at the food court and even Rory saying, Oh, I admire my mom every day. You know, that's not what Emily have you know.

Yeah, like those three generations sitting there having that conversation, I think was it was really important for all three of them, Like it was a good bonding moment.

For them, exactly exactly. And I just liked that Emily openly wanted to try all that food and I was like, cool, yeah doing it, And I didn't think she would. She's eating you know, a McDonald's burger fork and a knife, but you know she's trying it. And she tried the orange Julius you know, and so.

Right, and she liked it, like she liked that of course even like it, so yeah, she.

Had to say, oh, I know somebody who has holdings an orange Julius. You know, I thought it was good. And then I looked up what, like who where was orange Julius creating? It was creating la at like an orange stand. They use like powder, egg whites to make it foamy, and it's by dairy Queen and all that stuff.

So I kind of went into like a like quick Wikipedia of Orange Julius.

I remember my parents getting those at the mall, Yes, at the mall that we lived closest to. I remember it from Westminster Mall, which is actually being demolished as I speak. But I remember I haven't had one since then, and I remember they were really good, but I haven't had one.

And probably haven't been forever.

Yeah, going back to the mother daughter thing, missus Kim and Lane. So Lane comes to collect her belongings. She's got her new apartment, she's got to get her stuff. First of all, Christine was hilarious. Cousin Christine, Yeah, she was awesome. She got that Gilmore speed right away.

But it's like Paris statics, because you know Paris talks yeah and yeah, whoa, this one is going off.

Yeah. I would have loved to have seen her in more episodes. I thought she was funny.

Is she only in that one episode?

I wonder think so, because they get that exchange student and she's in a couple episodes. Yeah, yes, but I think cousin Christine was only in that one episode. But when Lane comes back downstairs with her box of stuff and she you know tells her mom, you know, I'm leaving. I've got my stuff, and there's like a long moment there where we see Lane and she wants to say more, but she doesn't, and it's like they, you know, there's still that culture of respect for your elders.

Mm hmm.

So that's I think that's why she doesn't say anything, but you could see she wanted to. And then when she leaves, then we get a long moment on Emily Carota's face and you can see the page she kind of wanted to say something too, like and then they're like on the edge of communicating and but then they both like back away.

So it's so good. It's the it doesn't have to be filled with words, and the actors can just say it with their face. And that's a nice moment because usually Gilmore Girls was filled with words, you know, exactly exactly and a June and yes, Tesla Ludwick, who played Christine, is only in this one episode. I just looked it.

Yeah, okay, So it's like you you're watching it and you're like, oh my gosh, are these two ever gonna like be able to you know, meet in the middle, Like I don't think either one is going to ever see the other's side completely. But there's got to be a middle ground that they can find somewhere. So, you know, we we have hope for them as viewers. But but yeah, it was just it was a really poignant moment.

I thought, yeah, yeah, it was really good.

It was.

It was a lot of lots said without saying any words. Yes, exact and like Emily who went off on everybody in Macy's, you.

Know, very stark contrast there.

Oh my goodness. I used to work in retail too. I never couched anybody like that, like I want this, I want this, I want this. We would have people that would be on a shopping spree, but it was never like like that. You know. So I did retail for a long time. So when I was.

A kid, this was in the seventies, my mom worked Okay, here's a name from the past. My mom worked at Buffum's. I don't know. It was a southern California change.

That's why I don't know.

We're not from southern California. You've probably never heard of it, but there were stores all over southern California. She worked the one in Newport Beach at Fashion Island and she worked in She worked in several departments, but mostly in china and glassware. And they used to get because it's Newport Beach, they used to get a ton of like super rich people would come by Emi, yes, the Emily's, And I don't really remember her telling stories about like anybody throwing a tantrum or anything like that, but she would say, you know, like these women would come in and just literally buy thousands and this is the seventies, buy thousands of dollars worth of housewares, and like, there's they're really hard people that dog that.

That are fill their mansions.

Yeah, exactly.

And they did acknowledge it at the end too, when they're counting all their stuff at the end with this is what people do? You know? And yeah, yeah, and Luca's just looking like what the difference? You know, So at least they acknowledge that it's like a gluttonous kind of thing to do, right, you know, right they can and they have the money and all that, and I'm like, well, you can do more with that and do charity work, but whatever.

Right, exactly, there's other ways you can spend that. It was like I want that globe and the guy's like, well that's you know, that's basically just a prop. It's not for sale. I still want it.

And everything's where sale exactly.

And that one made me laugh because in the last episode they were in Emily or not Emily, Lorli and Jason were in Richard's office talking about the globe that was in his office, so we already know he has a globe, you know, like, yeah, but that's just how crazy out of control she is.

But it was great, great performance, great setups. Again, like these are really good episodes, so and I like, I like them all.

So one one other thing I noticed when you're watching the tantrum scene when they're when Rory is trying on the hats, it's right after they talk about the globe and then they go to Rory and the hats. You can see that there was the one actress that was being I don't know if she was like the personal shopper or she was the store manager or whatever, but she was the one that was telling Emily about all the stuff that like they have these apples and anyways.

You can see her in the scene with the hat. She's you can see her just standing there watching the action. Waiting for her cue and then she walks in and like hands them something. It was really funny. But she's just like standing off to the side watching them. Yeah, let's see, I didn't have anything else. I enjoyed this episode.

I liked the little the thing we got at the end where they're in the diner and Laura is serving herself the pie and that was cute.

I did the one scene where Deane and you know, Laura or Deane and Rory see each other at the inn and like, you know, Lindsay is so domestic, you know, and yeah, and he does. He has these moments where it's like, oh, she's learning to cut, she's becoming the traditional wife, and then here'sh Rory barely hammering. It's like the difference of like Rory barely hammering the thing and she barely knows how to do anything. It's just it does get pointed out, Yes, she is the domestic wife.

And then it does get pointed out when you know, like she's at he's at the arcade and Luke and I mean and sees Luke and then Dean looks over at Rory. So it's like you do get that sort of build up by like the the totally different pages of.

Lindsay and Rory.

And it's that kind of cleverness that they build that characters for like Lindsay, like you build her like that, and then Rory the difference of them that like leads up to what we all know happens.

You know. Yeah, it doesn't have to be exactly.

You don't have to say Rory's so opposite of Lindsay, because you get moments like this that we know you.

Know, yeah, yeah it's true, Yeah it was. That was a good setup. And then also the I think I think I mentioned this when I did the recap with Scott, so I won't go too deep into it, but the scene at the beginning where Luke gives Lorelai the money, Like, that's another like really cute scene and we can now we can see this developing, you know, Luke is softening up a little bit.

Yeah, that would be so cool if they kept that napkin and framed it and sold it or somebody owns it, you know, like what was really written on there. You know, it would be such a cute like little prop you know, kind of like the Friends frame on the people on Monca's apartment. Yeah, like that kind of thing is like this is a napkin that they yeah, you.

Know, or the or the gum wrapper where she wrote the first first Yes, that.

Was a good one. Yeah, it's just like little things like that. Wonder what happened to all that stuff. It's like, don't throw it away. But they never knew. They never knew.

You don't think at the time. Yeah, I probably just all be iconic. Yeah, but anyways, so that wraps it up for this episodisode. We will be back next week. Hopefully Tara will be back. I mean not hopefully because this is fun.

But no, the regular No, we're good. We're good.

So our next scene is Our next episode is season four, episode sixteen, the Raining Lorelei.

Yes, another good one, another good one.

So we'll see you next week and meeting adjourn. Hey, everybody, don't forget Follow us on Instagram at I Am all In podcast and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.

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