Brad Ellis, who plays the piano player for the school theater production, played "Brad" the piano player on Glee! (2009).
Riki Lindhome, who previously made an appearance in Season 3 One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes (2002) as a precocious student, makes a new appearance as a completely different character; Juliet, one of the Life and Death Brigade ladies with a penchant for watching others eat in deference to keeping her figure until marriage.
At Yale, Lorelai says "they thought she was a student and Polynesian." Actress Lauren Graham was born in Hawaii.