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All Episodes Talk: Lorelai and Rory and the People They Love


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On 5/14/2025 at 9:46 AM, chessiegal said:

In "The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton", we meet Sean Guinn's character Mick whose name then changes to Kirk for the rest of the series.

I was looking at the IMDb page for the series that has tons of trivia about the show. One trivia entry says that Kirk held 62 different jobs during the series. I knew it was a lot, but I never would have guessed 62!

I remember reading this somewhere, but another entry notes that Liza Weil auditioned for the part of Rory. They didn't want her for that role but liked Liza so much they created the role of Paris for her.

 

I read that too.

I've found that IMDb trivia can have errors, but the 62 jobs over the length of the series sounds about right even though it surprised me. 

I found an error in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk is At Your Service". Trivia said Natalia's mother was nursing a Bloody Mary when in fact she was sipping a martini. I created an account with IMDb and had it corrected, including dialogue that went with the scene.

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4 hours ago, chessiegal said:

I've found that IMDb trivia can have errors, but the 62 jobs over the length of the series sounds about right even though it surprised me. 

I found an error in the Monk episode "Mr. Monk is At Your Service". Trivia said Natalia's mother was nursing a Bloody Mary when in fact she was sipping a martini. I created an account with IMDb and had it corrected, including dialogue that went with the scene.

I did that with a Wikipedia entry on Whatever Happened to Baby Jane. The entry stated that Baby Jane bought the house they were living when on the contrary, Blanche bought the house.

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Thinking about the deer episode from season 1. I completely understand Rory's and Lorelai's outrage at her not being allowed to take the test even though she was a few minutes late. From their perspective it's completely unfair and, after all, she ended up late because a deer ran into her car.

But Charleston's side was also understandable. He shouldn't have been condescending to Lorelai in their meeting but, from his and Max's perspective, Rory was late to school with no proof as to why. Yes she was claiming she was in a minor car accident, and I do think Max believed her, but other students arrived late with all kinds of excuses they couldn't prove. Charleston even rattled them off and I'm sure some of them were valid just like Rory's.

If Rory had called the police to report the accident and then their insurance to file a claim she'd have had paperwork to take to Max and Charleston to support how being late was out of her control. Hindsight and all that of course but I think she'd have been allowed an opportunity for a retake if she had documentation of the accident. Even hard ass teachers and headmasters will work with their students in the event of an emergency.

Finally my theory is the extra credit offered to Rory is an off the books policy that gets offered to students in certain situations. If the excuse for the tardiness or absence is believable, or if the parents are influential/rich enough, then Charleston may grant the request should the teacher make it. If they don't then it doesn't get offered. 

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The older I get, the more I agree with Emily regarding dancing with the guy at the 60/40 bar in There's The Rub. The first dance was fine, but when he pulled her in for the cheek-to-cheek slow dance, even Lorelai should have been able to understand that was inappropriate for a married woman and not acted like Emily was being unreasonable for wanting to leave.

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Of course but there was always an explanation for why Maris was never seen. I think the Ps just didn't care about Mr Kim but didn't want to him to be dead so they just stopped referencing him until the revival. The traveling around to get antiques theory works to explain his absence, why he was never shown helping at the store, and why he wasn't referenced much.

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What I love about the Deer episode is Lorelai and Rory's talk later. Lorelai worries that she's pressured Rory to go to Harvard. She is worried about Rory loosing it in class and being so tired and overwhelmed by Chilton's workload. Rory assures her mother that Harvard is her dream and she can handle the workload. She was just far behind. Which is true. She transferred after the school year started and had to catch up. It's a great talk and Lorelai's being a good mom telling her if she wanted to go back to Stars Hollow it was okay.

On 5/27/2025 at 7:55 PM, Taryn74 said:

The older I get, the more I agree with Emily regarding dancing with the guy at the 60/40 bar in There's The Rub. The first dance was fine, but when he pulled her in for the cheek-to-cheek slow dance, even Lorelai should have been able to understand that was inappropriate for a married woman and not acted like Emily was being unreasonable for wanting to leave.

To Lorelai it was just dancing. And maybe a little happy for her mom passing for a 40 year old woman. They were having fun together for once and her mom looked like she was having fun. I didn't like Emily blaming it all on Lorelai.

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11 hours ago, andromeda331 said:

They were having fun together for once and her mom looked like she was having fun. I didn't like Emily blaming it all on Lorelai.

Emily was CLEARLY uncomfortable during the second dance, which is the one I had a problem with and feel that Lorelai should have been able to pick up on. I do agree, though, that Emily blaming it all on Lorelai for even taking her there was wrong. Typical Emily, LOL, but still wrong.

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