Season 1, Episode 8

Title: Love and War and Snow

The Girls cover the diverse topics of love (Rory, Lane), war (Luke), and snow (Lorelai). Not very inventive for a title, but it’s accurate.

Summary: Lane joins Marching Band and the Rich Bloomingfeld Fan Club. Rory has the cookies and the love and the Dean. Mr. Medina is sacrificed by the snow gods and ends up in Stars Hollow, much to Lorelai’s pleasure and Luke’s dismay. Taylor and the townspeople hold their annual Battle of Stars Hollow reenactment. Old softy Luke brings them cocoa and coffee. Rory introduces the Gilmores to frozen pizza.  Continue reading

Season 7, Episode 2

Title: That’s What You Get, Folks, For Makin’ Whoopee

A 1929 Song by Eddie Cantor that’s been covered many times by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra. The song was also featured in an episode of Bunheads, another Amy Sherman-Palladino classic that was cut too short. It’s one of my favorite dances in that series. Here’s a video.

Summary: Loralei and Rory visit crazy Asia. Lane’s sick with a 9-month parasite. Kirk opens Kirk’s. Liz and TJ are into White Russians. Luke is fine. Continue reading