Brooks t moore biography of rory gilmore
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.
TAYLOR: You have lived in Stars Hollow for a long time, young man. It’s time you became one of us. LUKE: Sorry, I guess my pod’s defective.
I think Luke is referencing Invasion of the Body Snatchers, a book and then several movie adaptions about a species of aliens who attempt to take over Earth after their planet goes Tits Up. In the 1993 remake/sequel, Body Snatchers, the aliens emit a high pitch scream when they detect a non-convert among them. Kind of like Taylor is doing to Luke in this scene for being a non-convert to “Autumnal Hues”. It makes sense that Luke would have a sci-fi reference ready to whip out when the moment strikes since we find out later that he is into Star Trek (S2 E8) and The Outer Limits (S2 E14).
LANE: OK, let’s do a little compare and contrast here. You get kissed on the mouth by a cute, cool, sexy guy you really like. And I get kissed on the forehead by a theology major in a Members Only jacket who truly believes that rock music leads to hard drugs.
I think these bad boys are coming back in style, just you wait. The fashion brand Members Only became popular in the 80s for their Racer jackets – a sort of polyester bomber jacket with military-style shoulder embellishments, collar straps, and knit trim around the wrists and waist. Picture Costanza from Seinfeld and you’ve got it. They were everywhere in the 80s, bu
Why Didn’t ‘Gilmore Girls’ Give Us the Feminist Ending We Deserve?
What does it mean for women to “have it all”? It sounds more appealing than the demanding reality: an exhausting, near-impossible balancing act wherein we seamlessly juggle a full-time career, a relationship, and parenthood. For the past 30 years, we’ve seen this fantasy reinforced in the culture, especially on 1980s sitcoms where working moms became the standard—we started seeing women like Claire Huxtable, who balanced five kids, a thriving law career, and her marriage with ease.
But sometime in the late 1990s and early aughts, we’ve seen this concept revert back to something more, as they say, conventional, and even TV’s quirkier, more independent sitcom women, like Friends’ Phoebe Buffay and Parks and Recreation’s Donna Meagle, become married off in the shows’ final season—despite the fact that they’ve shunned such tradition throughout the series. Why did we bother going on a ten-season journey with Rachel Green, who’d arguably evolved the most of the three women in Friends, who we met into Central Perk all ready to be a Real Housewife of Long Island, and watched as she reinvented herself as a successful businesswoman, only for her to give up her dream job at Louis Vuitton to stay with Ross (“We were on a break!”) Geller, without a so much as “what can we do to make this situation work for you, Rachel?” conversation.
And then there are the female characters who expressly demonstrated no interest in parenthood suddenly take a detour and become pregnant, as with Gilmore Girls’ Lane Kim whose burgeoning career as a drummer was cut short when she gave birth to twins—conceived the first time she had sex, while on her honeymoon. Or Parks and Rec’s April Ludgate, who’d always preferred animals to children—probably because she was already m
Teen Drama Dropout
The pilot episode opens with “There She Goes” by the La’s. (The same version plays in the criminally underrated So I Married an Axe Murderer.)
Lane tells Rory that Dean is swell because “he likes Nick Drake, Liz Phair, and the Sugarplastics.”
Jimmy Mariano comes to Luke’s Diner after closing to tell Jess he’s his father. They sit without saying anything while “Suffragette City” plays on Jess’ stereo. When Bowie sings “Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am,” they mouth the line together, nodding their heads in sync. Jimmy then abruptly leaves.
Remember when Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and their daughter Coco played in the Season 6 finale? That was awesome, though now it’s a sad reminder that Gordon and Moore are no longer together.
The Shins perform “So Says I” live at a club Paris and Rory go to on spring break in Season 4. Paris then kisses Rory in an effort “to do spring break” while The New Pornographers’ “The Laws Have Changed” plays in the background.
M. Ward’s cover of Daniel Johnston’s “To Go Home” plays in the background during the bar scene in “It’s Just Like Riding a Bike.”
Lorelai is a serious fan of The Bangles. She takes Rory, Paris, Madeline and Louise to their concert in Season 1’s “Concert Interruptus.”
Lorelai names her dog Paul Anka.
Sebastian Bach of heavy metal band Skid Row awesomely plays the guitarist in Lane’s band Hep Alien (which is in an anagram for the name Helen Pai, the Gilmore Girls’ producer).
So much Jess in this episode! And Rory. And Luke! Almost enough of Luke. It’s pretty great. Rory finally notices her bracelet from Dean is missing. She doesn’t notice that Dean is a little too controlling. She does notice Jess a whole lot. Lorelai notices Rory noticing Jess and she doesn’t like it.
Turns out she’s Rhoda’s mother from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda.
Moxie: Who’s Ida Morgenstern?
Butterscotch: yes, my thought exactly and I’m glad you said it because I was feeling dumb.
I would not be surprised if the crap shack was radioactive
Moxie: They’ve said every possible disease except the very likely tetanus.
Butterscotch: …yes. lockjaw? oh wait, that’s tetanus
Moxie: Or an adorable alien dog in the Marvel universe. And omg Lorelai with lockjaw. She’d explode.
Butterscotch: lol Who is Caesar? Have we ever met Caesar?
Moxie: The help. Not officially. We will but that’s the name Luke tosses around. Are those heart boxer shorts?
Butterscotch: OMG. It’s my childhood bedroom every summer after a year of college when I cram all my dorm crap into it. green alien head!
Moxie: This is most conversations between myself and Professor Furious.
Butterscotch: he was having a bath, Luke!
Moxie: Kiss her!
Butterscotch: the thing is, it’s not as crowded as they made it look, the door opened all the way
Moxie: Yeah, just explodey.
Sad bachelor man.
Butterscotch: hey look, a closed sign
Moxie: Take him home, Lorelai.
Butterscotch: Make Luke watch Mel Brooks!
Moxie: Yes!
Butterscotch: Is it me, or has Jess hugely humanized Luke?
Moxie: But I suspect he likes Mel Brooks.
He has. Luke’s nurturing side is emerging.
Butterscotch: I mean, I’ve always liked Luke. But I really like him now, despite hating Jess.
Like prostitution?
Moxie: Surliest prostitute ever.
Butterscotch: Luke is patient despite seeing thro