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The Christmas episode was great. The wife and I were laughing tons of times. I'm really happy they are starting to flesh out the office characters more. "I'm taking an Elfie!" I was on the floor with that one.

No matter how much they try, Ryan and Kristin come off as the biggest idiots in the room. I get they are basically paying for their own wedding but wow! I thought the last two years with Ryan pretty much ruining Christmas was bad enough. However, the writers have been so busy making it so Kristin and Ryan are the way they are to fit their stupid storylines. They come off as horrible, I've seen both of them in other shows and movies, and they can you know.... act!

I really hated how Emily treated her maid services. I know the Ps threw in ones that really weren't the best but after one sued her I really wanted to see several episodes where there was no maid. Emily always found an excuse to get rid her of her maids who did one small thing wrong like talk to her granddaughter in spanish once. When Rory was just being nice. Emily went off on the one blamed for Logan stealing that stupid box. Speaking of the DAR cronies, I remember when Luke asked what the DAR stood for and they just kept laughing even when he said he was being serious. There are interviews with DAR that some people don't know what it stands for even in this age of Google and even question why people don't think they are relevant anymore. I remember the horrified look at Richard's face after he found out that everything the Huntzburgers said to Rory was true. He was like: "My God!" "She is going to end up a DAR cronie and have no life!" Which of course turned over when Emily ended up realizing a lot of people thought she was just good at complaining and being up tight and also realized when she died. No one would care outside the family. I really, really wanted the older Gilmores to get a wake up call that maybe they weren't the bread and butter of society. I remember even Lauren Graham and Bishop saying they really wish the final season would have focused on finally ending the stupid feud between Emily and Lorelai because they said at this point in time, it was time to get over getting pregnant at 16 and leaving home.

Oh how I heart this show. The funny thing is, if you look carefully at how Barry covers the last digit during the countdown, you can tell it says: 1986 on it. What's funny even using the E.T reference is the movie was shown in theatres on and off during the early 80s since it was so successful. I was in 1st grade and the local movie theatre had it during Christmas and that was 1984, two years after it had been out and it was brought back in 1987 at another local theatre before not showing up again unless it was a film festival or the 20th anniversary. My wife even said she remembers seeing it at the movie theatre when she was growing up in 1986. Poor Murrey, he has a much better relationship with his kids but sadly he ended up taking some of his dad's worst traits including losing the pants. Then his brother went the opposite trying to not be like them and ended up doing very stupid stuff. Does make you wonder where grandma went if she is to blame why Pop Pop ended up so angry at the world. Great episode.

Wow! Now this is why I love the show. Finally after so long this episode hit everything write, I don't know who the writers were but they know why this show was successful to begin with. Either that or the rest of the producers have seen that keeping the families apart is killing the show and not playing on the traits that make them work. This was the Luke I knew even if he has been dumb down. When Lilly told them to sit and she would explain where babies come from and then he did. That was very Dylan thing especially when he was played so many times to think Haley and Dylan must really be stupid. Now, he is acting like them. That I don't like but his reaction when Manny and Alex heard how Lily thinks where where babies come from was priceless. Something that really threw me was even with her superior ego, how could Lily not think her older cousins did not know the birds and the bees. Plus, I really wanted to know where she got it from? Poor Phil and poor Jay, lost on that great deal and Jay still thinks he knows sales better than Phil. Gloria's tattoo ideas and Cam and Mitchell's reactions in the bar and the parlor had me laughing.

The truth being we need to see that more. They never had a problem showing Haley's boyfriends or her constant relationship with Dillion. Instead Alex has been constantly shown she either doesn't care about having a guy or has no idea how to act around them. It comes off with the entire family that they think is too much of a "nerd" to get a guy versus: "Your persona is at fault."

I saw it more that they had to visit Trix and then later on. She decided to start coming to see Richard more due to her health. Trust me, the same is going on with me with my own father. Now, its gotten to the point we don't do anything, he has to come visit us or we don't see each other at all.

I'm not saying its impossible but its another example of rewriting history and the characters to fit the story.

Vanessa's dream of being an inner-city high school teacher? Yeah, on top of why she went and got a PhD in Geology so she could make a difference in the world and didn't go back to work because she was helping Kristin with Boyd while Ryan was backpacking in South America. Mike's restaurant idea has truly come out of nowhere. Here is the problem with both of these stories: 1. Vanessa going from an energy job she quit due to Ryan's stupid talk would never work in a million years. Can I buy her going into a simple teaching job? Oh sure, because I know a teacher who left the college teaching due to a situation he couldn't control and decided to get away from that area. He was burned very badly there, what he do to help raise his wife and two kids? He took a job at Sears because that what he had to do but flash forward a couple years later he took a new job as a band teacher in a high school and guess what? He's happy there. With Vanessa they make it seem like she wanted to work in the public school system but there were no jobs and then she went to work with the oil company because it was time to work again. Really? That would mean that Vanessa would have wanted to be a simple Science Teacher and if she was going as far as getting her PhD. in Geology she would have been aiming for college level in in energy or with museums. Do writers ever look up what people with doctorates really do? The closest piece of fiction I ever seen with getting professors or people write with their advance degrees is Curious George and that is mean to to be a farce. 2. With Mike, he had these plans that kind of went out the door with Boyd being born and the girls being younger. Ok, that I can buy but the fact he constantly explained how much he hated Kristin at her old diner job because of how the owner/manager kept making up excuses to promote her or pay her more. The fact that he cheered when she went to work for JTT character's restaurant yet he never thought at some point: "Hey, you know, we've had the money and Kristin is great at management. How about I see that old idea of mine could world with her in charge and she could finish up school faster and then leave Ryan in the dust because he would find himself incapable of keeping up with her." Of course, as we know the episodes are written to be what the story is, no continuity or previous established character habits may apply. Not even getting into Eve and Mandy at this point in time, I'm surprised Eve hasn't killed her sisters and disappeared.

The entire spare bedroom my wife even asked about and of course she had to be so drunk she was magically drawn to the couch. What really annoys me about the writers and Alex is they really have fallen into: "She's too smart and isn't sought after" schink that really doesn't apply in this day and age. Is Alex awkward around guys, oh yes. That I can buy but what they really needed to have is all these guys trying to ask her out or go out with her. Have Haley actually get jealous and have Clare be happy for her but then have Alex realize being sought after isn't what she thought it would be like. As many posters have pointed out, the writers are so set of saying Alex isn't wanted, dressing her in baggy clothes because of her huge boos and constantly saying how much Haley is the "hot" one and sleeping with other guys that its great comedy. Newsflash, not its not!

What a painful episode, nothing was likable as much as I enjoy Kirsten Johnston. First of all adding in with the uninvited houseguest with a brand new white couch. Seriously? What was Cam thinking especially with Lily? Then you add in to everyone thinking Alex has a made up boyfriend/beau? Come on? No one could check facebook or make as simple phone call to confirm? In this age of Google, social networks and so forth. Or how about you know putting your iPad stationary in the bushes to see if Alex really was doing it all herself? Haley was just horrible, I'm so happy Luke wasn't anywhere near. Also, come on Manny, he was really this stupid? I also suspected that Manny pulled one on everyone with his reading of the DVD until he admitted he was just reading it. I do agree, Jay could have clued Manny in on his idea. Let's face it, there would have been no point that Manny would have given it away, did love how he was so out of his league watching his little brother. That was the only good thing about this episode because that was so true to life.

Exactly, Luke never told Jess to go that night he told him the new plan and if it wasn't enough he was 18 now and could go. Jess of course deciding not to admit he was at fault for everything decided to run to his father who he basically saw was a big screw up like him and go from there. Even though the spin off was never green lighted. The basis of the series was that Jess and his dad were going to rebuild together, Jess was going to get his GED, start working on his own book shop by the pier, ect. It was in the show's bible that of course never came to fruition. Why Jess then showed up a year later, wanting his car, finally apologizing to Luke and then opening the said book store another year after that. The problem was, it was just a big mess, also how Jess came back because his mother called him and told him Luke had his car in the shed. He just magically showed up to get it. He could have taken it right there and then. That never made sense to me or how much Jess wanted it back when it was a POS to begin with.

Another great episode and the history of how Chineese food stuck into society was great. Daniel Kim's mom is a great foil for Beverly, the actress did the part great.

The biggest problem with Rory and Jess was how much Amy P wanted Milo to be the star of his own show and how much Milo at the time wanted to have a larger focus with a show. Too bad he had to wait until Heroes a few years later to get his wish. I was happy that when Jess did return it was more plausible why he came back verses him leaving to be with the father who walked out on them. Saying: "You have nothing?" "I have nothing!" What crap hated the set up for a show that was never given the green light except in Amy P's head.

Completely agree with Max and Lorelai's wedding. After planning my own, nothing made sense how they were doing things. Really, not one bit. Sookie and Jackson's wedding planning made more sense.

Oh yes, it was Bush but remember, he didn't do anything wrong and isn't in the Oval Office. So, its not his fault. Like Kristin said, its Obama's fault because it hailed one day.

April and Anna were the worse ideas the Ps could have come up with all in an attempt to throw a wrench in Luke and Lorelai's relationship. How April just appeared out of nowhere and found out through an science fair entry. The fact that Anna ever said that she believed Luke would have been a deadbeat dad and he admitted it. At what point did Luke ever come off that would be a thought or in the past of being that way? He did everything for Liz growing up. Bent over backwards for Jess. Did almost everything for Rory and Lorelai. Was the victim of both Taylor and Kirk's stupidity and still treated them well. How was Luke going to run out on Anna if she told him she was pregnant with his child? How? How? How?

I so agree not to mention where was Mr. Kim? Never explained and it was like people tolerated Mrs. Kim because if they didn't, they acted like she would sneak into their house and kill them. I also was very mixed with Lane's story by the end of the series. I can take getting married and having kids young. But considering how much Lane's first and apparently only sexual experience with her husband lead to 5 minutes of pain, sand in areas they were cleaning out the next day and getting pregnaunt like that with twins of all things. Followed by Lane saying: "That's what you get for making whopie, folks!" It made it spelled the message: "Sex is bad kids! Don't do it!"

The Pallandinos were known to do the show how they felt was better instead of what would make sense. Reason why they put in Luke's long lost daughter was to throw a wrench in Luke and Lorelai's relationship because they didn't know what else to do until Rick Suttcliff's show was cancelled and they all of a sudden had Christopher back. Reason why Dean showed up at times out of nowhere because Jared was free because until Supernatural happened, his shows weren't picked up on. They saw he was free and Jared wanted a paycheck so they just threw in Dean because the actor was around even if him in the episode made no sense. His last appearance when he told Luke that the Gilmores would never accept Luke and to move on with his life was beyond painful that Jared said years later during Supernatural's height that his last appearances on GG were for a paycheck. He hated the scripts at times but it was paying the bills until Supernatural was a hit.

I do remember Amy P. in an interview said she grew up with a guy in town who had over 15 jobs in a three year span. From being a lifeguard to being a shoe salesman and Kirk was based on that guy but she said it was just more extreme. Its not that a person can't go from working simple job like selling tickets at a movie theatre and being the announcer for a high school game. Its just hard getting jobs that require a lot of testing and training like Mailman, Real Estate and one episode where he was an exterminator when Lorelai had termites. These aren't jobs you can just get over night and Kirk would have been needing the time to take these tests and the way in the first 3 seasons how he explained his living arrangements with his mother. I don't see how Kirk could have managed that. But then again, Taylor as town selectman could make all these huge town decisions and constantly said that Stars Hollow had a mayor. Yet, Ms. Patti and Gypsy said the town would fall apart without Taylor and that only Kirk was the right successor that even Taylor admitted to. Really paints Stars Hollow as a place I would not want to live in or visit.

I hated that. Watching Gilmore Girls was something I enjoyed watching each with with my mom and when that happened. I will tell you that my lovable mother said words I never thought she would ever say. Including: "I would smacked MamaKim upside the head and then told her mom that she had gone Christian on her and raised her only grandchild the same way." As many people have said about how they would have never tolerated most of the people in Stars Hollow. I have to agree, if people like Mrs. Kim ever did the way she treated everyone when they came into her store. She would have been out of business. Not to mention Kirk would have been eventually blackballed by the number of jobs he had and then quit or fired from. Speaking of Kirk, despite all the stupid stuff he did, him being the lead in the children's elementary school of Fiddler on the Roof was beyond ridiculous. He was the only adult in the entire play and considering what they showed of the play. There wasn't a change in the script, it came off very creepy to be telling a 10 year old about how much he loved her when she was playing his wife and not one of the daughters. It came off really, really wrong. Plus, you add in him needing to ask permission to use the bathroom? I'm also not even go into how Kirk was a real estate agent for one episode. Not to mention that Kirk had night terrors that he strips completely naked and goes run out scream? Too much.

Season 2 and 3 are my favorite. Followed by season 1 and 4. Season 5 is so rocky and season 6 is the worst!

Nope, I thought I did too and I was watching with my parents that night and they told me what was said and called it pretty bad writing. If you are going to make that big of a deal on a staple on a show you don't just sweep it under the rug like that unless you thought it was an idea that didn't go write. Of course, Gilmore Girls wasn't the first show or set of writers who just introduced an idea without having a game plan to see what would happen with their writing and then go: "Opps, this is bad." or "We have no idea what to do with this." then just sweep it under the rug or ignore it and hope no one would remember. As a writer myself my advice to others is if you have a great idea or a thought you need to play out. Just write it down, build something on it separate from what you are writing and if you see it keeps building, then go with it. If not, then file it away or toss it in the recycling because its not an idea its an after thought.

The problem I always had with Christopher besides his popping up when he felt like it was the fact that everyone enabled his behavior. His parents, especially Stobe: "He would have been great if Lorelai would never had gotten pregnant" speech was so so tiresome. I even remember Richard and Emily saying early on they wanted Chris to die because he got her pregnant and then did it again years later when Georgia was produced. Yet constantly, they gave him the chance, pushed him on Lorelai because "He has great genes and comes from a highly respective family." He was a moron and his grandfather leaving him the family fortune just because he was the only grandchild. Which irked me to no end how Lorelai and Chris were only children because their parents put them off on nannies left and right and talked about the family line could die with them. Well, you had the means and abilities to have more than one child. Yet, they always treated their kids as an inconvenience because of earaches or the fact they made dumb decisions as teens. Well, here was a wake up call for all them: "Kids do that!"

It actually was handled pretty badly. Jackson was chased down by Kirk and the rest of the town to do it. Jackson realized that the town did the meetings like a drug. They just "had" to have these meetings. Next episode, Jackson was gone and Taylor was back in and it was brushed off with Taylor saying: "Glad to be back, on to business." Last we ever heard about it again.