Tag: Gilmore Girls Project

Season Three Episode Fifty-Three: "That'll Do, Pig" Original Airdate: January 14, 2003 Has the world turned upside down? Paris zones out in class, daydreaming about her new boyfriend. And Emily takes Lorelai's advice about how to coexist with a difficult woman---Richard's imperious mother. The winter carnival, Trixie (Lorelai's grandmother, Richard's mother) returning and dinner at [...]

Season Three Episode Fifty-Two: "A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving" Original Airdate: November 26, 2002 Lorelai's parents expect the grils for Thanksgiving dinner . . . any so do Lane, Luke, and Sookie. How to handle four enormous dinners? Skip the rolls. Kirk adopts a cat with an attitude. I can't imagine eating four Thanksgiving dinners. Of [...]

Season Three Episode Fifty-One: "Let the Games Begin" Original Airdate: November 19, 2002 Richard has the bulldog spirit when he, Emily, Lorelai, and Rory tour Yale. He even arranges an admissions interview for Rory, although he knows she has her heart set on Harvard. Rory and Jess renew their romance. Super. The start of Jess [...]

Season Three Episode Fifty: "The Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?" Original Airdate: November 12, 2002 Lorelai and Rory partner for a 24-hour dance marathon. Couples couples, everywhere: dancing, arguing, holding each other up, shooting each other down . . . and changing partners. Best thing about this episode, Taylor drunk and him and Miss Patty fighting [...]

Season Three Episode Forty-Nine: "Take the Deviled Eggs" Original Airdate: November 5, 2002 The most uncomfortable person at the baby shower for Christopher's girlfriend Sherry isn't the very pregnant guest of honor. It's Lorelai, pressured to attend . . . with a big, fat, fake smile on her face. Want to know one of the [...]

Season Three Episode Forty-Eight: "Eight O'Clock at the Oasis" Original Airdate: October 22, 2002 Lorelai sees something she likes at an auction: a man. Only Emily knows his identity. Should Lorelai break her stay-out-of-my-love-life rule, just once? A broken sprinkler brings Rory and Jess together. This episode always kind of annoys me. Only because of [...]

Season Three Episode Forty-Seven: "One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes" Original Airdate: October 15, 2002 Bring your briefcase, your notes, and your scarlet "A" plans an inspiring business talk at Stars Hollow High School's career day, but all the kids want to discuss is her teen pregnancy. And we finally meet the members of [...]

Season Three Episode Forty-Six: "Application Anxiety" Original Airdate: October 8, 2002 Hackneyed, perfunctory, run-of-the-mill---that's Rory. When her Harvard application arrives, her confidence disappears. And soon three generations of Gilmore girls share one giant anxiety attack. I would think that Rory writing an essay on her mother and their life would be something far more real [...]

Season Three Episode Forty-Five: "Haunted Leg" Original Airdate: October 1, 2002 A night at the fights. Rory has it out with Jess, and Lorelai goes a rhetorical round or two with Christopher. But Lorelai has another chance at swept-off-her-feet romance: Kirk asks her out on a date. I've always liked this episode. Or at least [...]

Season Three Episode Forty-Four: "Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days" Original Airdate: September 24, 2002 Back from a summer internship in DC, Rory finds Dean waiting for her---and Jess giving a blonde some serious mouth-to-mouth, Lorelai tells her parents that Christopher's girlfriend is pregnant. Every time I watch this episode, I have the lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer song stuck [...]

Season Two Episode Forty-Three: "I Can't Get Started" Original Airdate: May 21, 2002 The happiest day of Sookie's life (even if her groom is wearing a kilt) brings romantic turmoil for Lorelai and Rory. Also, Paris runs for student body president, but she can't win without a VP who adds likability to the ticket. It's [...]

Season Two Episode Forty-Two: "Lorelai's Graduation Day" Original Airdate: May 14, 2002 Lorelai's graduating from community college so Rory organizes a cheering section for the event. Everyone shows up except for Rory, who takes an impulsive trip to New York to see Jess and doesn't make it back in time. There is one moment in [...]

Season Two Episode Forty-One: "Help Wanted" Original Airdate: May 7, 2002 No Post-Its, no paper clips. At Richards new consulting business, volunteer office manager Lorelai needs to hire a replacement---fast. When a music store opens, Lane hears the siren call of a shiny red drum set. I actually like this episode, well, at least the [...]

Season Two Episode Forty: "Teach Me Tonight" Original Airdate: April 30, 2002 Every parent's nightmare: a call from the emergency room. That's what Lorelai gets when Rory fractures her wrist in a car crash. When Luke finds out the driver was Jess, he sends his nephew packing. Yay! Jess is gone. Finally that sarcastic big [...]

Season Two Episode Thirty-Nine: "Back in the Saddle Again" Original Airdate: April 23, 2002 Richard helps Rory with her business-fair project and gets the entrepreneurial itch. Michl's mother Giselle, a French Auntie Made comes to visit. C'est magnifique! I actually really enjoy this episode because of how involved Richard gets with Rory's school project. And [...]