Title: Rory’s Birthday Parties
This one is pretty self-explanatory: Rory has two birthday parties.
Summary: Emily serves pudding, a major peace offering. Rory turns 16 and gets two parties, one slightly better than the other. Lorelai takes Emily shopping for Barbara Hutton. Burger Boy proposes, then brings ice. Jackson makes a ras-quat. The Gilmores finally visit Stars Hollow. Richard discovers he is an “Autumn”. Continue reading
Title: Kill Me Now
Is it the hat? The golfing? The incestuous twin wedding? Emily’s veiled attempts at manipulation? The whose-boobs-are-bigger argument? Whatever it is – Kill Me Now seems like an appropriate phrase for this episode.
Summary: Rory has to pick a “Team Sport”. Richard takes her to the Club. Lorelai is in a Double Mint commercial for a creepy twin wedding, while her potential collects dust. Michel is afraid of the swans but more afraid of Drella. Kirk is still pretending to be not-Kirk. Rory wears a stupid hat. We meet the “most odious woman alive”.
Side note: this episode was directed by Adam Nimoy – Spock’s son himself! Adam is actually married to actress Terry Farrell who played one of the main characters on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, though she never acted alongside Nimoy Sr.
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
Lorelai Explains It All 