Bruni

Okay, here’s another one – Sookie’s house. I remember that Jackson moved in with her when they were dating. Then, in season 2, episode 17, with Emily trying to make all those extravagant wedding plans, Lorelai said that Sookie and Jackson are saving to buy a house and don’t have a lot of money for a huge wedding. But in the end, there is never any mention of a house being bought. They live in what was Sookie’s house and there is never any mention of it being rented. So, if she actually owned the house before she got married, how could she have afforded the payments on a house that is large enough for a family of five? And, why would a single person have such a big house? I was looking up head cooks’ salaries, and recent data gives salaries of only around $40,000-$50,000 these days.

It's when Paris found out she didn't get accepted to Harvard. From what I could find, it looks like they send out acception/rejection letters at the end of March. Maybe he was on spring break? Now that I think of, I don't think it was ever established where he was from. junienmomo - I got a good laugh out of your Pennylyn Lott theory!

I'm another that thinks Luke & Lorelai never really worked as a couple. I don't feel the supposed chemistry. They also lacked communication skills. It was painful to watch at times, the arguing and then sulking/not talking. I don't know if Jason was the guy for the long haul, but he and Lorelai seemed suited to each other in many ways.

Oh, and another one. When Paris said she had sex with Jamie. She said she went over there to study. Wouldn’t he have been in Princeton? Seems like a long way to travel to study. Google maps says 165 miles, 3.5 hours.

Richard’s job situation was always weird to me. In season 1, episode 16, he says he is a client contact guy, not one for the numbers/actuarial stuff. Basically, to me that sounds like he’s in account management. If he’s a VP, he probably oversees other account managers and maybe deals with the most important accounts himself. So, with that sort of job, all the international travel didn’t make much sense even if they try to add international to his title. I know some insurance lawyers and others in the business. They always say that insurance is a highly local field. Every country has their specific licensing requirements and regulations. There are international insurance companies, of course, but someone in the US isn’t going to be dealing with clients in Germany, or Australia or wherever. Someone in Germany who understands how things work there and the language would be doing that. Also, what is with all the 2-month vacations with Emily while he is employed? Most US employers wouldn’t go for that. I don’t really see him catching up with the office on skype from a café in Rome. He didn’t even have internet at home until Jason helped him set it up after they started working together. Oh, and on the vacation thing. How many times did they say they’d be away all summer at Martha’s Vineyard or in Europe for 2 months, but then soon after there’d be a Friday night dinner, when the rest of the story hadn’t advanced 2 months? I guess there was one time when there were mentions of getting postcards and not going to dinner – one of the times when Lorelai had fought with Emily, but that seemed to be the exception Finally, when he goes into business by himself, given his client contact background, was that enough expertise to offer consulting services? Maybe that was partly why he agreed to Jason as a partner or why they brought on that other guy (Bob?), but what would he have been doing when the company was just him? Similarly, there was a scene where Jason was coming back from Australia with signed documents, which sounds like contracts to me. So, it seems like they were selling insurance in Australia not just consulting. Of course they’d need a license to sell insurance in Australia, which would probably take months to get. And, what company would buy insurance from a tiny two-guy outfit based in the US, when there are plenty of Australian insurance companies and brokers with better local expertise they could deal with? Yeah, this bugs me!