Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
Original Air Date: 5 October 2000
Rory is accepted into the elite Chilton prep school. Bad news for Lorelai: she must make amends with her parents to borrow the money for Rory’s tuition. The money is available- with strings attached.
Season 1, Episode 2: The Lorelais’ First Day at Chilton
Original Air Date: 12 October 2000
Rory’s first day at Chilton, where she has a confrontation with
Season 1, Episode 3: Kill Me Now
Original Air Date: 19 October 2000
Rory goes golfing with her grandfather and surprisingly has a good time. At the Lorelai’s inn a weeding is stressing everyone out.
Season 1, Episode 4: The Deer Hunters
Original Air Date: 26 October 2000
Rory misses an English test, which she has studied especially hard for. Lorelai yells at headmaster
Season 1, Episode 5: Cinnamon’s Wake
Original Air Date: 2 November 2000
Babbette and Morey’s cat dies. Lorelai misses her date with Max because of the funeral. She also discovers that Rory is keeping a secret from her, namely Dean.
Season 1, Episode 6: Rory’s Birthday Parties
Original Air Date: 9 November 2000
It’s Rory’s birthday. She gets two parties. An elegant and horrible affair thrown by her grandmother and an informal fun party thrown by Lorelai.
Season 1, Episode 7: Kiss and Tell
Original Air Date: 16 November 2000
Rory gets her first kiss from Dean. Lorelai spends the night with Max, while Rory is snowed in at her grandparents house.
Season 1, Episode 8: Love and War and Snow
Original Air Date: 14 December 2000
It’s snowing, and Lorelai is giddy. She runs into Max in Stars Hollow, and invites him back to her place. But they run into someone unexpected when they get there. Lane feels left-out of Rory’s life.
Season 1, Episode 9: Rory’s Dance
Original Air Date: 20 December 2000
Rory asks Dean to accompany her to a formal dance at Chilton, but the lovely evening is spoiled when they fall asleep together after the dance, leading to a fight between Rory’s grandmother and her mom over who has been a worse mother.
Season 1, Episode 10: Forgiveness and Stuff
Original Air Date: 21 December 2000
Richard Gilmore is rushed to hospital after collapsing at the Christmas party. Luke goes with Lorelai to the hospital, where Emily and Rory already are.
Season 1, Episode 11: Paris Is Burning
Original Air Date: 11 January 2001
As the relationship with Rory’s teacher Max grows more serious, Lorelai panics and decides to end it, but her attempt to break up with him during Parent-Teacher night at Chilton causes even more trouble at school for Rory.
Season 1, Episode 12: Double Date
Original Air Date: 18 January 2001
Two double dates. Rory and Dean set up Lane with Dean’s friend and the four go out. Meanwhile Sookie and Jackson’s first date includes Lorelai and
Season 1, Episode 13: Concert Interruptus
Original Air Date: 15 February 2001
Lorelai gives Rory, Paris, Madeline and Louise tickets to a Bangles concert, but the evening doesn’t go quite as planned.
Season 1, Episode 14: That Damn Donna Reed
Original Air Date: 22 February 2001
Rory and Dean fight, because Dean likes the idea of a 50s type house wife. Rory ends up pretending to be such that type of woman for an evening.
Season 1, Episode 15: Christopher Returns
Original Air Date: 1 March 2001
Christopher visits the Hollow for the first time and Rory shows him off and shows him the town. Dinner with the parents ends up with both Rory’s grand parents fighting. After talking up his business venture, Lorelai gets Christopher to admit he’s failing and has him proposing before leaving town.
Season 1, Episode 16: Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
Original Air Date: 8 March 2001
It’s Rory and Dean’s 3-mmonths anniversary, and he plans a special surprise, but it doesn’t quite go as he planned. Luke’s old girlfriend, Rachel, turns up.
Season 1, Episode 17: The Breakup: Part 2
Original Air Date: 15 March 2001
Rebounding from a fight with Dean, Rory ends up kissing Tristan at a party, while Lorelai follows her own impulse to show up at Max’s house for a night of passion.
Season 1, Episode 18: The Third Lorelai
Original Air Date: 22 March 2001
Lorelai’s paternal grandmother arrives from
Season 1, Episode 19: Emily in Wonderland
Original Air Date: 26 April 2001
Rory takes her grandmother around Stars Hollow for a day. She’s horrified to see where Lorelai and Rory first lived.
Season 1, Episode 20: P.S. I Lo…
Original Air Date: 3 May 2001
Lorelai and Max start dating again. After a fight with Lorelai, Rory spends the night at her grandparent’s house. Lorelai confronts Dean about the break-up.
Season 1, Episode 21: Love, Daisies and Troubadours
Original Air Date: 10 May 2001
In one of the highest rated shows: Lorelai is becoming seriously involved with Max just as she finds herself getting in the middle of another relationship when Luke’s girlfriend Rachel accuses him of being in love with Lorelai. Meanwhile, Rory has her own romance drama and tries to work up the courage to win Dean back.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Sadie, Sadie
Original Air Date: 9 October 2001
Lorelai accepts Max’s proposal, but when Emily hears about the upcoming wedding from Sookie, she is hurt and angry that Lorelai didn’t bother to tell her. Meanwhile, Rory brings Dean to dinner at her grandparents’ house and Richard’s obvious disapproval of Dean leads to the first fight between Rory and her grandfather.
Season 2, Episode 2: Hammers and Veils
Original Air Date: 9 October 2001
Lorelai avoids telling her parents about her engagement to Max, while Rory urges her to spill. But due to a call from Sooki asking them to come to a surprise wedding shower for the happy couple, they already know, and are appalled that Lorelai didn’t tell them and so they give her the cold shoulder. Meanwhile, Rory and Dean are having trouble in paradise due to the fact that Rory suddenly becomes obsessed with finding enough extracurricular activities that will set her apart from the hundreds of other Harvard applicants.
Season 2, Episode 3: Red Light on the Wedding Night
Original Air Date: 16 October 2001
During a wild bachelorette party thrown by Sookie, Lorelai makes an impulsive phone call to Rory’s dad Christopher and sadly realizes that Max is not the man for her.
Season 2, Episode 4: The Road Trip to Harvard
Original Air Date: 23 October 2001
The Gilmore Girl’s road trip takes them to a most unusual bed and breakfast and more importantly to tour Harvard and Rory’s possible future. Meanwhile Lorelai decides to move forward with her dream of opening an inn.
Season 2, Episode 5: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
Original Air Date: 30 October 2001
Lorelai’s well-intentioned advice falls on deaf ears when Luke reluctantly takes in his wild 17-year-old nephew Jess, while Rory finds herself attracted to the town’s newest resident.
Season 2, Episode 6: Presenting Lorelai Gilmore
Original Air Date: 6 November 2001
Rory surprises everyone by agreeing to Emily’s request that she make her debut at a Debutante Ball, and when Lorelai asks Rory’s dad Christopher to present his daughter to society, she finds herself attracted to the new, more responsible man he has become.
Season 2, Episode 7: Like Mother, Like Daughter
Original Air Date: 13 November 2001
Chilton’s headmaster
Season 2, Episode 8: The Ins and Outs of Inns
Original Air Date: 20 November 2001
Lorelai and Sookie have the first fight of their long friendship when, upon hearing that the Independence Inn may be sold, Lorelai panics and decides that their shared dream of opening an inn together is doomed to failure.
Season 2, Episode 9: Run Away, Little Boy
Original Air Date: 27 November 2001
When Rory and Tristan are cast as Romeo and Juliet in a school play, a jealous Dean insists on attending every rehearsal, forcing Rory to beg Tristan not to tell Dean about the time they shared a kiss, while Lorelai has to put up with Luke’s teasing after she dates a much younger guy.
Season 2, Episode 10: The Bracebridge Dinner
Original Air Date: 11 December 2001
While Rory struggles to keep the budding rivalry between Dean and Jess under control, Lorelai invites most of the citizens of Stars Hollow to an elaborate feast complete with Elizabethan costumes and horse-drawn sleigh rides, during which Richard announces to Emily that he has retired.
Season 2, Episode 11: Secrets and Loans
Original Air Date: 22 January 2002
Lorelai’s concern over the fact that she can’t afford to repair her home’s extensive termite damage turns to anger when Rory tells Emily about their problem and Emily again offers Lorelai a loan.
Season 2, Episode 12: Richard in Stars Hollow
Original Air Date: 29 January 2002
Newly retired Richard is driving Emily crazy, so Lorelai is coerced into taking her father for a day in Stars Hollow, where he proceeds to drive both Lorelai and Rory batty while criticizing every aspect of their lives and refusing to let Rory accept the car that Dean has built for her.
Season 2, Episode 13: A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Original Air Date: 5 February 2002
During the annual Stars Hollow charity picnic basket auction, both Lorelai and Rory’s baskets have more competition then they both anticipated. Meanwhile
Season 2, Episode 14: It Should’ve Been Lorelai
Original Air Date: 12 February 2002
Christopher and his girlfriend Sherry visit Stars Hollow leading Sherry to push for a Friday night out alone with Rory to bond. So Lorelai takes Christopher to a tumultuous Friday night dinner at her parents. Lorelai, thinking she missed out on a life with Christopher, confesses her self-realization.
Season 2, Episode 15: Lost and Found
Original Air Date: 26 February 2002
Rory (Alexis Bledel) panics when she suddenly realizes that she lost the bracelet Dean (Jared Padalecki) made for her, and when a suspicious Lorelai (Lauren Graham) catches Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) in Rory’s room, she accuses him of stealing the bracelet. Meanwhile, Luke (Scott Patterson) goes a little stir-crazy after living with Jess in the tiny apartment over the diner, and he impulsively buys the building so he can expand. Yanic Truesdale and Liz Torres also star. Amy Sherman-Palladino wrote the episode directed by Gail Mancuso.
Season 2, Episode 16: There’s the Rub
Original Air Date: 9 April 2002
Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Emily (Kelly Bishop) spend a weekend at a health spa, but they sneak out for some real food at a local restaurant where Emily dances with a distinguished stranger (guest star Hal Linden), then blames Lorelai for her feelings of guilt. Back at home, Rory (Alexis Bledel) looks forward to a rare evening alone, but when Paris (Liza Weil), Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) and Dean (Jared Padalecki) all drop by to keep her company, the sparks fly. Scott Patterson also stars. Sheila Lawrence wrote the episode directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino.
Season 2, Episode 17: Dead Uncles and Vegetables
Original Air Date: 16 April 2002
Lorelai and Rory help out at the diner, while Luke is left to plan his unpleasant uncle’s funeral, which causes him to reflect on his own existence. Meanwhile Emily lends a hand planning Sookies wedding and the skies the limit.
Season 2, Episode 18: Back in the Saddle Again
Original Air Date: 23 April 2002
After helping Rory out with her business project for the annual Chilton Business Fair, Richard realizes retirement isn’t for him. Meanwhile Dean, for good reason, is feeling insecure about Rory. Michel’s mother visits and their once great relationship is over after Lorelai interferes.
Season 2, Episode 19: Teach Me Tonight
Original Air Date: 30 April 2002
Luke asks Rory to tutor Jess who is close to failing, but Jess uses it to get closer to Rory and when they get into a car accident, Lorelai takes it out on Luke for taking Jess in to begin with. Lorelai takes over the movie selection for the town square movie night, but in the end realizes why
Season 2, Episode 20: Help Wanted
Original Air Date: 7 May 2002
Lorelai helps her dad open his new office and gets the cold shoulder when she tells him she has a job already. Rory tries to let everyone know Jess wasn’t the only one at fault for the accident and with a new music store in town, Lane discovers her new love.
Season 2, Episode 21: Lorelai’s Graduation Day
Original Air Date: 14 May 2002
After doing her best to avoid Luke, Lorelai can’t avoid the inevitable, but Luke isn’t ready to patch things up yet. Rory invites her grandparents to her mom’s graduation, but misses it herself after cutting school to meet Jess in
Season 2, Episode 22: I Can’t Get Started
Original Air Date: 21 May 2002
It’s Sookies wedding day and
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days
Original Air Date: 24 September 2002
Rory returns from
Season 3, Episode 2: Haunted Leg
Original Air Date: 1 October 2002
Christopher tries to talk to the Gilmore girls, but Emily saves the day. Francie tries to assert her power on the student council. Meanwhile Rory and Jess have it out about their hurt feelings and are Lorelai and Kirk dating?
Season 3, Episode 3: Application Anxiety
Original Air Date: 8 October 2002
As college nears, Rory receives her Harvard application leading her and Lorelai to have lunch with an alumni to see if she stands a chance at getting in, but the college talk has Dean worried about their future. Meanwhile
Season 3, Episode 4: One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes
Original Air Date: 15 October 2002
Lorelai and Luke are asked to speak about their success at the local high school, but things don’t go quite like Lorelai planned. Lane asserts her independence, at least for a short time.
Season 3, Episode 5: Eight O’Clock at the Oasis
Original Air Date: 22 October 2002
Lorelai is cornered by a new local and talked in to watering his garden whilst he’s away on a business trip. When Lorelai has to get to work, she asks Rory to take over, but when things go wrong she has to enlist Jess’ help. Lorelai also asks Emily for help finding a guy she met at an auction house, but realizes he’s not quite what she anticipated.
Season 3, Episode 6: Take the Deviled Eggs…
Original Air Date: 5 November 2002
Rory is invited to Sherry’s baby shower and Lorelai gets pulled in with her. Between Sherrys good will and the party poppers, Lorelai is at her breaking point and feels the need to let off some steam. Jess comes home with a car and the town gathers for a not so successful town demonstration…. stop the noodle shoes????
Season 3, Episode 7: They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They?
Original Air Date: 12 November 2002
It’s time for the annual Stars Hollow Dance marathon again and Lorelai is determined to win. Dean sits in the bleachers to support Rory, but so does Jess whose intentions aren’t quite so innocent.
Season 3, Episode 8: Let the Games Begin
Original Air Date: 19 November 2002
Sore from the dance marathon and the break up with Dean, Rory and Lorelai adjust to having Jess and Rory going together. Richard corners Rory and invites her to a Yale reunion where he has more plans then he tells her. Rory apologizes to Dean and Lorelai and Rory both consider Yale.
Season 3, Episode 9: A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving
Original Air Date: 26 November 2002
Rory and Lorelai work to fit in four thanksgiving dinners but they don’t eat much at the family dinner when Lorelai finds out Rory applied at more colleges then just Harvard. Lane has her first kiss and human Kirk and cat Kirk have a little adjusting to do.
Season 3, Episode 10: That’ll Do, Pig
Original Air Date: 14 January 2003
It’s Richards’s birthday and his mother arrives from
Season 3, Episode 11: I Solemnly Swear
Original Air Date: 21 January 2003
Emily is being sued by a maid for wrongful termination and asks Lorelai to attest to her character. Francie manages to come between Paris and Rory leaving Rory out in the cold and Sookie unwittingly sets up a date with an old friend.
Season 3, Episode 12: Lorelai Out of Water
Original Air Date: 28 January 2003
Lorelai and Rory clean out the garage so Lane’s band can use it for practice. Luke and lawyers don’t mix except for maybe
Season 3, Episode 13: Dear Emily and Richard
Original Air Date: 4 February 2003
When Sherry goes into labor and asks Rory to be with her at the hospital, Lorelai is reminded of the day Rory was born. Flashbacks tell the story of 16-year-old Lorelai as she learns she is pregnant, decides not to marry Christopher, and ultimately leaves home with her new baby.
Season 3, Episode 14: Swan Song
Original Air Date: 11 February 2003
Lorelai heads off to New York with Alex, Sookie and Jackson meanwhile Jess gets a black eye and doesn’t want anybody to know just how it happened which leads to trouble at Friday night dinner for starters.
Season 3, Episode 15: Face-Off
Original Air Date: 18 February 2003
Jess said he would call Rory but he doesn’t, so she goes to a hockey game where she sees Dean with his new girlfriend. Trixie surprises Richard and Emily freaks out.
Season 3, Episode 16: The Big One
Original Air Date: 25 February 2003
Rory and Paris finally hear from Harvard. Lorelai and Max meet again.
Season 3, Episode 17: A Tale of Poes and Fire
Original Air Date: 15 April 2003
The Poe Society is in town, and the inn catches fire, forcing guests to move into Lorelai’s house. Rory tries to decide between Harvard, Yale and
Season 3, Episode 18: Happy Birthday, Baby
Original Air Date: 22 April 2003
Rory plans Lorelai’s birthday party.
Season 3, Episode 19: Keg! Max!
Original Air Date: 29 April 2003
Lane’s band lands a gig at a local party. Everyone in town is there and it leads to trouble.
Season 3, Episode 20: Say Goodnight, Gracie
Season 3, Episode 21: Here Comes the Son
Original Air Date: 13 May 2003
While Rory frets over her last term of finals before graduation, Jess finds himself in
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Season 3, Episode 22: Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
Original Air Date: 20 May 2003
Rory graduates from Chilton, and the girls look forward to traveling in
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Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Ballrooms and Biscotti
Original Air Date: 23 September 2003
Lorelai and Rory return from their summer backpacking trip to Europe only to discover Rory miscalculated how much more time she had off till school starts which puts her in a bind with Taylor and Lorelai in a bind with Emily. Luke’s summer cruise with Nicole got him in a bind and Sookie is almost ready to have her baby.
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Season 4, Episode 2: The Lorelais’ First Day at Yale
Original Air Date: 30 September 2003
Always willing to help, Luke lends his truck to Lorelai to get Rory moved into her dorm despite how much trouble it turns out to be meanwhile the Gilmores realize Rory is growing up, but Lorelai helps her ease into her new life.
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Season 4, Episode 3: The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles
Original Air Date: 7 October 2003
To earn some money before the baby arrives, Sookie asks Lorelai if they can cater a kids party but Sookie doesn’t know what kids like. Emily sets Rory up the proper way and Richard contemplates a business partner.
Season 4, Episode 4: Chicken or Beef?
Original Air Date: 14 October 2003
Lorelai needs to get permits approved before they can more forward with the inn and learns that business also involves back room deals. Rory runs into Dean who invites her to his wedding.
Season 4, Episode 5: The Fundamental Things Apply
Original Air Date: 21 October 2003
After thinking twice about her non social life, Rory decides to try dating and finds it harder then it looks. Lorelai is still adjusting to an empty house and has Luke over to try to fill the gap meanwhile Lorelai is somewhat disturbed after discovering that the designer she just hired to decorate the inn used to work for Emily.
Season 4, Episode 6: An Affair to Remember
Original Air Date: 28 October 2003
Rory’s roommates have her on edge so she tries to find the perfect place to study meanwhile Emily hires Sookie and Lorelai to cater Richards office party only to find out Jason has other ideas.
Season 4, Episode 7: The Festival of Living Art
Original Air Date: 11 November 2003
Stars Hollow is asked to host the festival of living pictures when
Season 4, Episode 8: Die, Jerk
Original Air Date: 11 November 2003
After getting advice on what he’s looking for, Rory’s next article is a huge hit with everybody except the dancer she reviewed. Richard and Emily return from their Atlantic business trip while Lane is told to send her wedding jug to Dave in
Season 4, Episode 9: Ted Koppel’s Big Night Out
Original Air Date: 18 November 2003
At lunch, Richard introduces Rory and
Season 4, Episode 10: The Nanny and the Professor
Original Air Date: 20 January 2004
Luke hires Lane to help out at the diner. Rory isn’t happy
Season 4, Episode 11: In the Clamor and the Clangor
Original Air Date: 27 January 2004
Lane’s band gets a gig at famous CBGB’s in
Season 4, Episode 12: A Family Matter
Original Air Date: 3 February 2004
Lane fits right in at Yale, almost. Luke’s sister Liz visits for her high school reunion and Jess returns to get his car meanwhile with Jaime in town, Rory makes
Season 4, Episode 13: Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospel
Original Air Date: 10 February 2004
It’s firelight festival time again and with
Season 4, Episode 14: The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais
Original Air Date: 17 February 2004
Lane moves in with Lorelai for the time being and lets Mrs. Kim know who advises her to wear socks. Lorelai the first visits and learns that Lorelai’s inn construction is costing more then anybody expected. Lorelai and Rory play phone tag as their frustrations mount. Lorelai’s financial woes reach a boiling point and so does Rory’s school pressures as each have a melt down with the strong married men in their lives.
Season 4, Episode 15: Scene in a Mall
Original Air Date: 24 February 2004
Kirk tries his hand at dog sitting meanwhile the Gilmore girls are finally able to connect and decide to spend some quality time together window shopping, but with both of them “skint”, shopping isn’t much fun. The two run into Emily on a shopping binge… angry and upset about her marriage, lack of accomplishments and a little jealous of her daughter.
Season 4, Episode 16: The Reigning Lorelai
Original Air Date: 2 March 2004
Lorelai the first passes on suddenly leaving Richard a mess and Emily handling all the arrangements till she discovers a letter Trix wrote Richard the day before he and Emily married. Lorelai finishes up the arrangements the best she can. Luke and Nicole quarrel in the town square and bar glass pinching cousin Marilyn reminisces about Lorelai the First’s full life.
Season 4, Episode 17: Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin’ the Twist
Original Air Date: 13 April 2004
Rory and Paris flee from a rainy Dickens-like late winter for a week in
Season 4, Episode 18: Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!
Original Air Date: 20 April 2004
Richard and Jason invite Jason’s father for dinner only to discover he wants to ruin their competing company. Rory tells Lane what she thinks of Deans selfish wife not knowing Lindsay can hear her and after months of deception, Richard and Emily learn Jason and Lorelai have been dating.
Season 4, Episode 19: Afterboom
Original Air Date: 27 April 2004
Luke and Nicole finalize their divorce. Lorelai concerned only about Jason, confronts her father on their business problems. Emily too question Richards decisions and gets the cold shoulder which is the final straw for her. Jason then decides to counter sue Richard which leaves Lorelai with only one clear choice.
Season 4, Episode 20: Luke Can See Her Face
Original Air Date: 4 May 2004
Liz returns to Stars Hollow with news that she and TJ will marry next week in the towns square which has Luke asking Jess to attend. Lorelai and Sookie overhear Dean and Lindsay’s problems and Luke works on his dating and communication skills with a self help tape that makes him realize Lorelai is the one.
Season 4, Episode 21: Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
Original Air Date: 11 May 2004
With Lorelais help, Mrs. Kim and Lane work out their new relationship. Thanks in part to her grandmother, Rory gets stranded on a bad date where she turns to Dean for help. Liz and Tj’s Renaissance wedding in the town square has Luke and Lorelai enjoying each others company so much so that Luke asks Lorelai for another date and on his way out of town, Jess asks Rory to leave everything and run away with him.
Season 4, Episode 22: Raincoats and Recipes
Original Air Date: 18 May 2004
Using the Dragonfly’s practice weekend, Lorelai gets her parents to admit they’ve separated. Meanwhile Luke, doing everything by the book, feels like an idiot when it looks like Jason and Lorelai are still dating prompting her to clarify the situation to both of them meanwhile Rory takes a big step with her first love and Lorelai reminds her he’s married.
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller
Original Air Date: 21 September 2004
Then tension is still thick between Rory and Lorelai over Dean so Rory seeks out Lane’s perspective and decides to talk to Dean which leads to more trouble. Lorelai and Luke clarify their new relationship while Emily announces she and Richard have separated and she and Rory decide to head to
Season 5, Episode 2: A Messenger, Nothing More
Original Air Date: 28 September 2004
With Lorelai & Rory’s relationship still strained and unresolved, Lorelai takes on everything at the inn till Sookie convinces her to take some time off. At the corner of bark and cheese, Rory realizes she was wrong and writes Dean a letter which she asks her mom to deliver. Lane begins to see Zack in a new light and Lindsay finds Rory’s letter which leaves Dean out in the cold and without either girl.
Season 5, Episode 3: Written in the Stars
Original Air Date: 5 October 2004
Luke and Lorelai enjoy their first official date where Luke tells her he’s all in for their relationship. Their new relationship is the basis for the next town hall meeting.
Season 5, Episode 4: Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too
Original Air Date: 12 October 2004
Fed up with all the hoops Taylor makes Jackson go through, Jackson decides to run for town selectman with Lorelai and Sookie heading up the campaign only to find that he may not want the job after all. Rory and Dean try to work things out, but have trouble finding a place to be together.
Season 5, Episode 5: We Got Us a Pippi Virgin
Original Air Date: 19 October 2004
Season 5, Episode 6: Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant!
Original Air Date: 26 October 2004
At the Dragonfly Inn, Sookie is terrified by the perspective of having lunch taken out of the menu, and blames writer Norman Mailer for ordering only ice-tea.She also discovers she is pregnant and runs to the same Norman Mailer to shout her news.
Season 5, Episode 7: You Jump, I Jump, Jack
Original Air Date: 2 November 2004
Meanwhile, when Emily discovers that Lorelai is dating Luke, she insists he come to dinner. Not to be outdone, Richard invites Luke to a game of golf, and Luke finds himself overwhelmed by the strength of the elder Gilmores’ personalities.
Season 5, Episode 8: The Party’s Over
Original Air Date: 9 November 2004
Luke tries to smooth things over with Liz and TJ when they stress out about buying a house in Stars Hollow. When Emily learns Rory and Dean are dating again, she calls a temporary truce with Richard to throw a party to introduce Rory to more suitable men where Dean realizes he isn’t one of them and
Season 5, Episode 9: Emily Says Hello
Original Air Date: 16 November 2004
Season 5, Episode 10: But Not as Cute as Pushkin
Original Air Date: 30 November 2004
Rory is asked to host a Chilton student for a few days at Yale but the student is more interested in her freedoms then the responsibilities that go with them. Lorelai learns about Lukes dark day which happens to fall on the same day as Miss Patties 40th anniversary party.
Season 5, Episode 11: Women of Questionable Morals
Original Air Date: 25 January 2005
Rory continues to give her dad the cold shoulder until she learns his father has passed away. Lorelai spends time comforting Christopher but keeps it from Luke and Richard and Emily find a lost dog.
Season 5, Episode 12: Come Home
Original Air Date: 1 February 2005
After finding out that Emily started dating again, Richard’s jealousy forces him to reconcile and they both agree to renew their wedding vows. Rory offers to help
Season 5, Episode 13: Wedding Bell Blues
Original Air Date: 8 February 2005
At her parents’ wedding,Lorelai has a very unpleasant surprise. Chris appears and has a fight with Luke, stating that he is the only one suited for Lorelai,and that Luke is just a temporary faze. Lorelai finds out that this is her mother’s doing,as she had gone to see Chris and encouraged him to fight for Lorelai.
Season 5, Episode 14: Say Something
Original Air Date: 15 February 2005
After all the drama at the wedding, Lorelai is afraid she’ll lose Luke who needs time to process what’s happened and finally decides her family and history maybe too much for him. She takes to her bed to wallow where Rory tends to her needs while the town takes sides.
Season 5, Episode 15: Jews and Chinese Food
Original Air Date: 22 February 2005
Lorelai is hurt again when she realizes Luke has moved his boat from her garage without even telling her. Luke helps the school kids build the sets for their Fiddler on the Roof play in hopes of working with Lorelai who he is realizing he misses. Rory tries to make up with Marty by hosting a movie night, but
Season 5, Episode 16: So… Good Talk
Original Air Date: 1 March 2005
Luke, upset and missing Lorelai begins to take it out on his customers. Lane realizes her moms is in her head and with the grandparents back from their second honeymoon, Rory makes it clear that Friday night dinners are just dinner and nothing more. Emily acts like she doesn’t realize all the hurt she’s caused Lorelai but goes to see Luke to make things right.
Season 5, Episode 17: Pulp Friction
Original Air Date: 8 March 2005
Rory and Logan’s causal dating situation gets more complicated when Rory spots
Season 5, Episode 18: To Live and Let Diorama
Original Air Date: 19 April 2005
Luke volunteers to help convert old man Twickums house into a museum just to see if he can buy it. Meanwhile with the help of some Founder’s day punch, Lane,
Season 5, Episode 19: But I’m a Gilmore!
Original Air Date: 26 April 2005
After realizing that casual dating isn’t for her, Rory tries to just be friends, but then lands the whale when Logon agrees to date her exclusively, but his family isn’t happy about it despite the fact the Gilmores came over on the Mayflower. Luke’s patience is tried as he tries to help out as chef while Sookie has trouble giving up control of her kitchen meanwhile
Season 5, Episode 20: How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?
Original Air Date: 3 May 2005
Season 5, Episode 21: Blame Booze and Melville
Original Air Date: 10 May 2005
The article about the Dragonfly comes out and Luke and Lorelai celebrate. Sookie goes into labor.
Season 5, Episode 22: A House Is Not a Home
Original Air Date: 17 May 2005
Rescuing Rory after a night of reckless behavior with Logan, Lorelai is shocked to hear her daughter’s plans for the future. Lorelai first turns to Richard and Emily for help, but soon realizes that Luke is the only person she can trust.
Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: The New and Improved Lorelai Gilmore
Original Air Date: 13 September 2005
Luke answers Lorelai’s question and as news of Luke’s reply leaks to the denizens of Stars Hollow, the untraditional proposal stirs up more talk than the answer itself. Richard and his lawyer go to bat for Rory in court for her yacht incident, but the judge is tougher than expected.
Season 6, Episode 2: Fight Face
Original Air Date: 20 September 2005
Feeling a little lonely, Lorelai adopts a dog. Luke agrees to repair Lorelai’s house, rather than buy the Twykham house. This soon turns into trouble as TJ does some unwanted construction on the house. Rory starts her community service assignment. Feeling neglected and unhappy with how things are going, Rory visits Luke at his diner. He lets it slip that he and Lorelai are engaged, leaving Rory feeling even more alone.
Season 6, Episode 3: The UnGraduate
Original Air Date: 27 September 2005
Sookie creates a S’mores wedding cake, so what more does Lorelai need to set a date?
Season 6, Episode 4: Always a Godmother, Never a God
Original Air Date: 4 October 2005
Church ladies. Lorelai and Rory don their proper summer dresses and show up at the baptismal font to godmothers to Sookie’s children - a clever ploy on Sookie’s part to get the Gilmore girls back together.
Season 6, Episode 5: We’ve Got Magic to Do
Original Air Date: 11 October 2005
Rory’s World War II-themed DAR bash is a piperoo (even when suddenly impoverished
Season 6, Episode 6: Welcome to the Dollhouse
Original Air Date: 18 October 2005
What’s in a name? To boost tourism,
Season 6, Episode 7: Twenty-One Is the Loneliest Number
Original Air Date: 25 October 2005
Since Rory was a tyke, the Gilmore girls have planned her 21st birthday: in
Season 6, Episode 8: Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out
Original Air Date: 8 November 2005
Who can finally get Rory thinking she made a BIG mistake dropping out of Yale? If you guess Jess, you’re right. her old flame returns with exciting news about his life… and some blunt advice about hers.
Season 6, Episode 9: The Prodigal Daughter Returns
Original Air Date: 15 November 2005
Like meat and potatoes, like salt and tomatoes, the Gilmore girls belong together. Rory comes home. And a supersmart middle schooler shows up at Luke’s Diner with a startling idea for a science fair project.
Season 6, Episode 10: He’s Slippin’ ‘Em Bread… Dig?
Original Air Date: 22 November 2005
Thanksgiving arrives and, after months of emotional turmoil, all is well on Planet Gilmore. Except for one teeny issue: Luke doesn’t know how to tell Lorelai about his daughter. Lane’s band plays a showcase.
Season 6, Episode 11: The Perfect Dress
Original Air Date: 10 January 2006
The perfect dress: elegant blush-silk tulle, in Lorelai’s size and on sale -ideal for a wedding. The perfect mess: Lane, short tempered, belligerent and miserable since she broke up with Zach and moved back home.
Season 6, Episode 12: Just Like Gwen and Gavin
Original Air Date: 17 January 2006
Hetting an education: Taylor Doose learns the Winter Carnival can be success without him.
Season 6, Episode 13: Friday Night’s Alright for Fighting
Original Air Date: 31 January 2006
Lorelai and Rory go to the Gilmore mansion for Friday night dinner, and there is a fight. Luke is still getting to know April.
Season 6, Episode 14: You’ve Been Gilmored
Original Air Date: 7 February 2006
Lorelai’s parents insist that Luke come to Friday night dinner, and she says yes without asking him.
Season 6, Episode 15: A Vineyard Valentine
Original Air Date: 14 February 2006
Rory and Logan ask Lorelai and Luke to celebrate Valentine’s Day with them on a weekend at the Huntzberger’s house on Martha’s Vineyard, where Lorelai is annoyed by Luke’s disdain for
Season 6, Episode 16: Bridesmaids Revisited
Original Air Date: 28 February 2006
Lorelai and Christopher attend a journalism panel at Yale where Rory dazzles the crowd. Afterwards, Lorelai offers to help Christopher out by babysitting his daughter and is horrified by the toddler’s terrible behavior. The next day, Rory and Logan attend the wedding of
Season 6, Episode 17: I’m OK, You’re OK
Original Air Date: 4 April 2006
Rory forgives
Season 6, Episode 18: The Real Paul Anka
Original Air Date: 11 April 2006
Although Rory and Logan are back together,
Season 6, Episode 19: I Get a Sidekick Out of You
Original Air Date: 18 April 2006
Lane is getting married and the entire episode consists of a Korean Wedding and then the American Wedding.
Season 6, Episode 20: Super Cool Party People
Original Air Date: 25 April 2006
Luke decides to give April a birthday party at the diner. Lorelai volunteers to help, and is hurt when Luke explains that he still thinks it’s too soon for them to meet. However, Luke changes his mind when the party is a disaster, giving Lorelai a chance to bond with April. Meanwhile, Rory rushes to be with
Season 6, Episode 21: Driving Miss Gilmore
Original Air Date: 2 May 2006
Temporarily unable to see after minor eye surgery, Emily enlists Lorelai’s help as her driver and companion, finally revealing a huge surprise that catches Lorelai completely off-guard. Meanwhile, Rory takes charge of
Season 6, Episode 22: Partings
Original Air Date: 9 May 2006
The town troubadour departs Stars Hallow for his Neil Young gig (creating a stampede of would-be troubadours to town).
Season 7
Season 7, Episode 1: The Long Morrow
Original Air Date: 26 September 2006
Picking up on the day after last season’s finale, Lorelai wakes up in bed with Christopher. Confused and mortified, she makes a hasty exit, ignoring Christopher’s pleas that she stay. Once at home, Lorelai tries to get rid of everything that reminds her of Luke and ends up practically emptying her house. Rory receives a toy rocket ship as a parting gift from
Season 7, Episode 2: That’s What You Get, Folks, for Makin’ Whoopee
Original Air Date: 3 October 2006
Rory is upset over
Season 7, Episode 3: Lorelai’s First Cotillion
Original Air Date: 10 October 2006
When Richard and Emily have no real reaction to the news of her break up, Lorelai suddenly realizes that most of her emotional life has been based on doing and feeling the opposite of whatever her parents want. Later, when Michel forces Lorelai to attend Emily’s cotillion dance, Lorelai discovers that some things her parents wanted for her weren’t really that terrible. Meanwhile, Rory has a tough time making her long-distance relationship work.
Season 7, Episode 4: ‘S Wonderful, ‘S Marvelous
Original Air Date: 17 October 2006
Lorelai and Christopher have begun to date, and although Lorelai is finding it difficult to fully commit to the relationship, Christopher keeps coming up with romantic dates to win her over. Back at Yale, Rory meets some eccentric new girlfriends at an art exhibit, and Richard becomes a guest lecturer. April comes to stay with Luke for a few weeks while Ana is out of town. Finally, Emily gets arrested and Lorelai has to bail her out of jail.
Season 7, Episode 5: The Great Stink
Original Air Date: 24 October 2006
Emily and Richard are delighted when Lorelai and Christopher attend Friday night dinner together as a couple. Christopher reveals that Sherry has written him a letter saying she regrets leaving their daughter, G.G., and asking him to send G.G. to visit her in
Season 7, Episode 6: Go, Bulldogs!
Original Air Date: 7 November 2006
Christopher talks Lorelai into visiting Rory at Yale during Parents’ Weekend, and Lorelai is surprised to find that Richard and Emily are also there. Trying to prove how cool he is, Christopher invites all of Rory’s co-workers on the Yale Daily News to an expensive lunch where they all drink too much, and the meal ends abruptly when Rory insists they leave to cover a breaking story. Meanwhile, Luke meets April’s swimming coach, who convinces him to take her adult swimming class. When the coach flirts with him, Luke asks her out on a date.
Season 7, Episode 7: French Twist
Original Air Date: 14 November 2006
Christopher and Lorelai take his daughter G.G. to visit her mother in
Season 7, Episode 8: Introducing Lorelai Planetarium
Original Air Date: 21 November 2006
Rory takes a visit home to Stars Hollow to have dinner with her parents. Big news (an elopement) that took place in
Season 7, Episode 9: Knit, People, Knit!
Original Air Date: 28 November 2006
Here comes the birth of Liz’s baby delivered by a midwife. Luke is informed of the news. A “knitathon festival” takes place in Stars Hollow.
Season 7, Episode 10: Merry Fisticuffs
Original Air Date: 5 December 2006
Emily throws an extravagant party. Meanwhile, Luke talks to a lawyer about partial custody over April. Something big happens between Luke and Lorelai. “St. Nick might bring more than fruitcake this season.”
Season 7, Episode 11: Santa’s Secret Stuff
Original Air Date: 23 January 2007
Lorelai and Christopher put the holidays on hold until Rory returns from
Season 7, Episode 12: To Whom It May Concern
Original Air Date: 30 January 2007
Noticing Sookie’s recent odd behavior, Lorelai forces
Season 7, Episode 13: I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
Original Air Date: 6 February 2007
Lorelai and Rory receive unexpected comfort and some grief while at the hospital and at Richard’s side: Christopher won’t return Lorelai’s calls, but Luke is there for her and the family; Emily is so distraught that she tries to distract herself by maintaining her rigorous social calendar, with Luke offering to help her out in keeping up her appearances; Rory is met by Logan, who flies to the hospital in a helicopter; and, when Christopher finally does arrive, he speaks the words of sympathy to Lorelai, but his emotions betray him: he’s still mad at her from their fight and he can’t respect her when she needs him the most. Suffice it to say, Emily is far from impressed upon witnessing Christopher treat Lorelai so poorly.
Season 7, Episode 14: Farewell, My Pet
Original Air Date: 13 February 2007
Rory quickly develops a crush on Richard’s replacement TA and feels compelled to confess the attraction to
Season 7, Episode 15: I’m a Kayak, Hear Me Roar
Original Air Date: 20 February 2007
Lorelai has trouble telling her parents about the end of her marriage to Christopher, instead getting distracted by the new healthy lifestyle Emily wants to impose upon Richard. Meanwhile, Rory goes to
Season 7, Episode 16: Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?
Original Air Date: 27 February 2007
Rory goes to meet with an editor from the New York Times, just as she starts to put together Lane’s baby shower. Lorelai takes over the production and has to arbitrate a disagreement between Lane and Mrs. Kim about how to raise the unborn child. Meanwhile, Luke decides to change his situation in life and buy a new boat;
Season 7, Episode 17: Gilmore Girls Only
Original Air Date: 6 March 2007
Lorelai, Rory and Emily take a road trip to
Season 7, Episode 18: Hay Bale Maze
Original Air Date: 17 April 2007
During Stars Hollow’s annual Spring Fling festival, a huge hay bale maze leads to a chance encounter for Luke and Lorelai, where they apologize to one another and talk about the problems that led to their engagement being called off. As Rory shows
Season 7, Episode 19: It’s Just Like Riding a Bike
Original Air Date: 24 April 2007
Lorelai heads to Luke’s for her first breakfast there in a while — overall, it’s an awkward experience for them both. Later on, when Lorelai’s Jeep breaks down, Luke helps her shop for a new car. They argue and fight, which Lorelai thinks is ultimately a good sign.
Season 7, Episode 20: Lorelai? Lorelai?
Original Air Date: 1 May 2007
Rory stresses out as graduation approaches, which leads to a day of eating and shopping with Lorelai. Later, with Luke in tow, the Gilmores hit the bars, where Lorelai takes the stage for a karaoke number obviously intended for Luke.
Season 7, Episode 21: Unto the Breach
Original Air Date: 8 May 2007
Lorelai and Christopher are reunited at a party Emily and Richard throw in honor of Rory’s graduation.
Season 7, Episode 22: Bon Voyage
Original Air Date: 15 May 2007
Rory gets a job following the presidential campaign of one of the candidates running for president. While she prepares to leave in a mere three days, Lorelai adjusts to the idea that she may not see her daughter again for weeks, even months. Meanwhile, Luke is still trying to sort out how he really feels about Lorelai after they locked eyes at the karaoke jam. To see Rory off before she leaves for her new job, the entire town puts on a farewell party, despite the presence of rain.
