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Rory's Dance

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Peter

Rory's friend is Lane.

Peter

Lorelai has a real point about Rory being shy. You probably didn't notice, but in her relationship with Dean she has been almost entirely passive. Dean expressed interest in her, Dean initiated the first kiss, Lorelai was the one who asked him out for the first date. Rory never had to put herself out there, make herself vulnerable. The nature of the show is that her passively is consistently rewarded. But she has to put herself in situations where she will be vulnerable.

Peter

Emily just passive aggressively needling until Lorelai asked her to come over is very Emily, and very much why they have such a strained relationship.

Peter

Drive through fried chicken is great, so I don't know what Emily's problem is...

Peter

Kelly Bishop won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1976 for A Chorus Line. She originated the role of Shelia.

Peter

Paris has severe issues with socialization, and projecting all of her insecurities onto Rory who essentially effortlessly has everything she wants.

Peter

Emily in this fight is not talking to Lorelai, she is talking to herself. Obviously, Lorelai would never lose Rory. Emily was projecting all over that fight.

Joy M

Girls don’t want to treated like they are “drive thru fried chicken” is the point. You go in and let the parents (or grandparents) take the photos of you.

Joy M

I think this really shows how mothers and daughters know how to push each other’s buttons.

Joy M

She is the girl who was reading the book so intently that she missed a kid getting hit with a football and bleeding right in front of her. She’s got her Stars Hollow friends and life. She doesn’t really fit in at Chilton with the snobby girls.

Allison Otto

I sprayed my hair spray facing the wrong direction once, but it went in my mouth, which I actually think was worse. Considering the dance and the Gilmore house are both in Hartford, it would have made more sense to have Rory and Dean stop by and see Grandma before the dance. But then Emily wouldn’t have been there to see Rory not come home, which is of course the whole point. This episode is definitely one of the ones that really feels like a “teen series” to me.

HereBeMeghan

Great episode with all the different mother-daughter dynamics. Emily Gilmore is a very complex character who I love, but I don't know if I could handle her as my mother! (Especially season 1 her.) Can't wait for the next episode coming up in particular.

Jonathan

This was the first episode of Gilmore I saw accidentally due to a vcr recording issue and I was immediately hooked. I loved the way Rory and Dean handled the Chilton kids and how her confidence has grown since the beginning of the season. The ending was abrupt because this and the next episode aired as a two hour mid season finale originally.

Jonathan

Many of the background songs in season one are from the British rock band XTC, which was a favorite of the Paladino‘s. The band had many financial problems, and were breaking up at this time, and this gave them a little career resurgence at the end. Another song from this episode that plays while Dean and Rory are walking through stars hollow after the dance is used in a dance related scene in another series and it took me years to realize that my emotional response to the song in that show was due to unconsciously hearing it in this.

Youtalkingtome

She is a lot and although she was out of line, I still like her character. There's a lot going on with her and the more we see her the better we understand her.

Youtalkingtome

I totally agree, I think we eventually will see her come out of her shell, but she's still so young. In many ways this show seems like a real coming of age story for her. Obviously it's deeper than that but I love how it's covering these three generations of women. It's so well done!

Onno Smits

Gosh, watching only one episode a week is killing me! 😅 That's not a complaint, I know you guys create a whole heap of content, I'm just used to binging this show so this pace feels excruciating.

Lady Stoneheart (Uncat)

Yup. If you try and miss a week and then watch two at a time it helps a lot in my experience 😅 I actually sometimes completely miss the drop though as it gets lost in all the others things, so by the time I think to look it's already the next drop. So try blindness & denial haha 😆

Lady Stoneheart (Uncat)

This is the highlight of my week(s). I bake some samosas and eat while I watch and just cheese the whole time at how great the show is and how great yall are at absorbing it, and how great of a time I know yall are gonna have throughout! There is no doubt about why this show is a top rewatch and feel-good, absolute GEM! 😁🥰💎😁🥰

Liah

Haven't even watched this episode with y'all yet, but just need to say that on this very tense night I NEEDED the comfort of watching this show with y'all. Thank you both for loving it and watching it with us!

Youtalkingtome

It can be brutal for us too! Luckily there are so many good shows we are doing right now that it makes the week go by faster.

Youtalkingtome

That makes me feel good knowing that us watching this show can brighten up your week. Watching this show with all of you is an absolute treat and we're so lucky that we get to do it.

Roland Cooke

A needed comfort watch this morning immediately after the US Election. + The avocado thing made me smile, completely relatable! 🤣 "Since when have you not liked my rhubarb crumble?" "For the last thirty years Mum!"

Roland Cooke

I'm torn on the exchanging gifts. On the one hand, don't buy someone a gift that they might hate. On the other hand don't exchange it for something the giver might hate.

Roland Cooke

Alexis Bledel is 5'7", although we don't know how tall her shoes are. > How tall was Dean in Season 1 Gilmore? At the dance they talk about Dean's height and he says he is 6'2". Jared Padalecki, who plays Dean & is 19/20 years old at the time, is actually 6'4". < That's a weird thing for the scriptwriters / Palecki to lie(?) about.

Joy M

I recently saw a giant list of all the books referenced on GGs.

Amelie W

Funny thing I noticed, Tristin, Paris and Emily all could have benefited from their antagonists calmly responding to their attacks with "How can I help you?" Cause all of them start fighting the heroes for literally no purpose. Not that they don't imagine they have reasons to be upset, but there's literally nothing any of them can hope to achieve by fighting. Unless you count Tristin getting Rory to fall in love with him by beating up Dean. But Emily is, again, the worst. The part where the phone starts ringing and Emily focuses completely on distracting Lorelai with yelling about her messy home instead of looking for the phone really tells you everything about her priorities. That's definitely the point to go "if you're not going to help, get out of my house."