“Do you want me to talk to anybody? A parent, a teacher, a big guy named Moose?” Lorelai questioned her daughter as Harley thought of all the ways she could somehow throw a nairtini at the girl without getting expelled. Gilmore Girls earned several accolades, but did not receive much attention from the major awarding bodies. Its only Emmy nomination was for Outstanding Makeup for a Series, for the episode “The Festival of Living Art”, which it won in 2004. Michael Ausiello has attributed this to “a notorious bias against the WB”.
Watching Gilmore Girls again in such quick succession, it becomes pretty easy to spot an Amy Sherman-Palladino-written episode straightway and an episode written by a one- or two-off . “Tippecanoe” was the first of only two GG episodes for writer Bill Prady, who went on to co-create The Big Bang Theory with Chuck Lorre. Lorelai then left the room to phone Jason, who was in his car outside.
Recognition did come from the American Film Institute, who named Gilmore Girls one of the ten best shows of 2002, and the Television Critics Association who named it Outstanding New Program of the Year in 2001. The TCA Awards also nominated the show for Outstanding Drama in 2001 and 2002, and Outstanding Comedy in 2005. The Satellite Awards nominated it for Best Series – Musical or Comedy in 2002 and 2004, while it was nominated for Favorite Television Drama at the People’s Choice Awards 2005. The show was honored by the Viewers for Quality Television with a “seal of quality” in 2000. The series also achieved considerable attention from the Teen Choice Awards, where it received multiple nominations and wins including the award for Choice Comedy Series in 2005. I’d second the fact that Lorelai was just too busy raising Rory, as was alluded to when talking about not knowing about Rachel.
Luke Danes (Season 5, Episode 22 and Season 6, Episode
After a short break-up, Lorelai and Luke reconcile and start dating again, with Lorelai proposing to Luke. In either the first or second season when Lorelai first finds out about Rachael, she asks Miss Patty “how did I not know about this?” and Miss Patty says something like “you had a little kid, you were busy”. We also know from the flashback episode that Lorelai didn’t have her driver’s license when she had Rory, meaning that probably Mia or someone at the inn taught her to drive later. So I think when she lived at the inn she probably never really left the place (Mia probably gave her food and board so she wouldn’t have even had to go shopping). Then when she and Rory moved to Stars Hollow she would’ve been working full time to pay for the house and probably had coffee/breakfast at work with Sookie.
Their first engagement falls through as Lorelai finds out about Luke’s daughter, April, which leads to another break-up. Eventually, they date once again but, as Gilmore Girls viewers find out in the spin-off A Year In The Life, never end up getting married in the nine years of their relationship. After a little uncertainty over the future of their relationship, Lorelai realizes they should get married. They plan the wedding but ultimately end up getting married the night before the wedding in the last episode of A Year In The Life, signifying both Lorelai’s and Luke’s romantic happy ending in Gilmore Girls. The two ran into each other in season 3, after both attending a course on how to run an inn, and immediately hit it off while Sookie and Alex’s friend catch up.
Season one, episode 12, “Double Date”
Lorelai and Rory have a big argument and Rory spends time with Emily and Richard , which drives home the guilt and pain that Lorelai feels. While the mother and daughter are always close, they fight when they disagree with each other’s life decisions, and it’s easy to see Rory’s perspective. Although one of Lorelai’s worst parenting mistakes is dating Max, she tries to fix the situation by putting distance between them. These episodes show how conflicted Rory feels, as she tries to be mature and accept the situation, but she is also afraid of being made fun of at her new school for a long time.
Rory is accepted to Chilton, a private school that would get her to her lifelong dream to study at Harvard. Because of the heavy price tag the private school comes with, Lorelai talks to her wealthy parents, with whom she has not communicated for a long time. Emily and Richard agree to BaldDating pay for the tuition, although there is a catch; that Lorelai and Rory would have Friday night dinners with them. Rory has a difficult time settling in at Chilton, struggling to match the demands of private school and attracting the fury of classmate Paris Geller, her academic rival.
The last time we see Jess in the original “Gilmore Girls” is in Season 6. However, Rory is still dating Logan and the kiss with Jess, at least on Rory’s part, is partially a way for her to get back at Logan for seeing other people when they were on a break. In the revival, “A Year in the Life,” we finally get to see Mr. Kim — at the town’s International Spring Food Festival, Lane points out to Rory that her dad is there and the two wave to Mr. Kim. Facing conflict with her mother, Rory embarks on a European trip with Emily and seldom speaks with Lorelai.
For two weeks in winter 2018–19, Warner Bros. added a special feature to their studio tour that recreated the Stars Hollow set and displayed props and costumes from the series. The show has an active fandom, posting in internet forums and creating work such as fan fiction. Special Gilmore Girls trivia nights have been held at venues in multiple different cities. In the pilot, Sookie was played by Alex Borstein, but she could not be released from her Mad TV contract.
Harvard is her dream school, but she applies to Yale as well, which causes a rift between Lorelai and Emily and Richard. Rory is accepted but decides to attend Yale University instead, much to Emily and Richard’s delight. The Independence Inn is badly damaged in a fire, but Lorelai and Sookie are able to buy the Dragonfly when its elderly owner dies. Jess pressures Rory into almost having sex with him, leading to a fist fight between Dean and Jess when the former witnesses an upset Rory.
Near the end of the trip, Lorelai and Rory reconcile over the phone, and Rory asks Lorelai to give Dean a letter for her. Dean’s wife finds the letter, which contains information about the affair. Rory briefly progresses her relationship with Dean but it ends when he realizes how different their lives are. She falls for Logan Huntzberger, a wealthy playboy Yale student whose parents and grandfather consider Rory’s lineage inferior to their own. Lane starts a relationship with her bandmate Zack, and Paris starts a relationship with Yale Daily News editor Doyle.