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 1, Episode 7

Title: Kiss and Tell

Apparently, Rory doesn’t “Kiss and Tell” – at least not to Lorelai.

Summary: The Girls don’t do laundry. Luke fights the Autumn mob mentality. Rory’s got kissed! And she shoplifted! But Lorelai only finds out through Mrs. Kim. Luke catches Lorelai spying on the new kid, while he smugly bags groceries. Rory and Lorelai rent Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and pick up massive amounts of junk food at Doose’s. Lorelai invites Dean over for movie night and Rory flips. But it all ends with a kiss.  Continue reading

Season 1, Episode 6

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

Season 7, Episode 1

Title: The Long Morrow

An episode of the The Twilight Zone that aired January 10, 1964. An astronaut and his girlfriend at home age at different speeds for 40 years. “That’s true love.” Starring Robert Lansing, who was also in Star Trek, young Luke’s favorite show according to Mia (See Season 2, Episode 8).

Summary: The girls try racketball. Rory gets a weird rocket. Lorelai fucks it up. Luke is crushed. Taylor puts up a traffic camera. Kirk is Evel Knievel. Paris frightens the next generation. Continue reading