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| Genre | Dramedy |
| Creator(s) | Amy Sherman-Palladino |
| Starring | Lauren Graham Alexis Bledel Scott Patterson Melissa McCarthy Keiko Agena Yanic Truesdale Liza Weil Sean Gunn Matt Czuchry Kelly Bishop Edward Herrmann |
| Opening theme | "Where You Lead" by Carole King and Louise Goffin |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 149 (List of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | David S. Rosenthal |
| Running time | 42 minutes (approx.) |
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| Original channel | The WB (2000-2006) The CW (2006-Present) |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run | October 5, 2000 – Present |
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Gilmore Girls is an hour-long American television drama/comedy that has aired since October 2000.
The show follows single mother Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her daughter Lorelai Leigh "Rory" Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, roughly thirty minutes from Hartford. The series explores family, friendship, generational divides, and American class issues. It is set in a close-knit small town with many quirky characters.
Gilmore Girls features intricate, extremely fast-paced dialogue, with numerous popular-culture references, along with many other allusions to politics, feminism, and high culture. It also has specific perspectives on social class, represented most regularly by Lorelai's sometimes contentious relationships with her wealthy upper class parents. The show's wit and character-based humor have won it a loyal following of both critics and viewers.
The program is currently broadcast on The CW network — successor to The WB — in the United States and in dozens of other countries. Re-runs in the US are shown on ABC Family. Amy Sherman-Palladino created the show and served as its executive producer with husband Daniel Palladino until the end of the sixth season. David S. Rosenthal, the current executive producer of the show, took over as show-runner in the wake of the Palladinos' departure. The traditional U.S. time slot of the series, Tuesdays at 8 pm Eastern/7 pm Central, remained unchanged with the move to the CW from the WB.
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[edit] Cast
[edit] Main Cast
- Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore)
- Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore)
- Scott Patterson (Luke Danes)
- Melissa McCarthy (Sookie St. James)
- Keiko Agena (Lane Kim)
- Yanic Truesdale (Michel Gerard)
- Liza Weil (Paris Geller)
- Matt Czuchry (Logan Huntzberger) (season 5-)
- Sean Gunn (Kirk Gleason)
- Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore)
- Edward Herrmann (Richard Gilmore)
- Jared Padalecki (Dean Forester) (seasons 1-3; recurring otherwise)
- Milo Ventimiglia (Jess Mariano) (seasons 2-3; recurring thereafter)
- Chris Eigeman (Jason Stiles) (season 4)
[edit] Episode Guide
Main article at List of Gilmore Girls episodes.
[edit] Plot
Lorelai's conflict with her wealthy parents is central to the back-story for the series. Her headstrong mother, Emily (Kelly Bishop), and her father, Richard (Edward Herrmann), had high hopes for her, their only child. At the age of sixteen, she was a college-bound student attending an elite prep school. Lorelai dashed their hopes, however, by becoming the teenage mother of Rory, without marrying the baby's father, Christopher (David Sutcliffe), a match approved of by everyone but Lorelai. Lorelai ran away from home when Rory was about a year old. Running to the small town of Stars Hollow (about 30 minutes away from Hartford) she met Mia, owner of the Independence Inn, who gave her a job as a maid and acted as a sort of mother to both Lorelai and Rory. Lorelai eventually became general manager of the inn, her position at the start of the series, and tried to minimize her parents' contact with Rory. Lorelai and Rory lived in a converted potting shed behind the Inn for about ten years before moving to the house they live in during the show.
The first season of the show begins with 16-year-old Rory's acceptance to Chilton, an elite prep school in Hartford, Connecticut. Lorelai knows that she cannot afford the high cost of tuition and reluctantly decides to ask her parents for help. They give her a loan on the condition that Rory and Lorelai must join Emily and Richard for dinner at their Hartford mansion every Friday evening.
Lorelai's various romantic entanglements also play a role in the show. Her relationship with Luke Danes (Scott Patterson) finally grows from friendship to a romantic relationship at the end of the fourth season, and they get engaged in the sixth season premiere — only to subsequently break up. Prior relationships included Max Medina (Scott Cohen), Rory's Chilton English teacher, to whom she was engaged, as well as Jason "Digger" Stiles, Richard's much younger business partner. Lorelai periodically reconnects with Christopher, Rory's father. In the seventh season, they take a romantic trip to Paris and decide to elope. As of November sweeps 2006, Lorelai is currently married to him. However, soon into their marriage they break up again.
Lorelai's career as the manager of The Independence Inn and aspirations to open an inn of her own are pivotal to the first few seasons of the show. After a fire at the Independence Inn, she and her best friend, chef Sookie St. James (Melissa McCarthy), finally open their own property, the Dragonfly Inn. Sookie and Lorelai are joined at the Dragonfly by their co-worker Michel Gerard (Yanic Truesdale), a Frenchman with attitude to spare.
Rory's coming of age is complicated by her close relationship with her mother. Rory is fifteen in the first episode (although Lorelai says she is sixteen in the pilot, she celebrates her sixteenth birthday 3 episode. She and Lorelai regard each other more as best friends than mother and daughter. Rory's burgeoning adulthood and occasional need to pull away begin to complicate this relationship, although the closeness between them remains a constant on the show.
Rory's academic aspirations also complicate matters. Rory had wanted to attend Harvard University since kindergarten; to achieve this she transfers to the private (fictional) Chilton Academy from the public Stars Hollow High at the beginning of her sophomore year. There, she encounters an unfamiliar world filled with rich and high-strung peers. Rory ultimately decides to go to Yale, her grandfather's alma mater, after making extensive pro and con lists and receiving her mother's blessing.
Paying for Rory's education is another recurring theme of the series that binds the main characters. Lorelai repays her parents' loan for Chilton just before Rory's graduation, but weeks later discovers Yale is not offering any financial aid for Rory, putting her education in financial jeopardy once again. This time, Rory goes to the elder Gilmores and asks for tuition money, once again in exchange for the continuance of the Friday night dinners. Emily and Richard agree and continue to pay for Yale until the spring semester of Rory's junior year, when Rory's father, Christopher, begins paying her tuition. This creates tension with her grandparents, but ultimately the Friday night dinner tradition continues.
As with Lorelai, Rory's romantic attractions also play a part in the show. Rory meets Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki) during the first season and maintains a relationship with him for the first two seasons. She does break up with Dean briefly in the first season, when Rory isn't able to say "I love you." It is during this time apart that Rory kisses Tristan Dugrey (Chad Michael Murray), a boy she has a love-hate relationship with at Chilton. However, by the end of the season, she is back together with Dean. She meets Luke's nephew, Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), during the second season. They become friends, but their relationship grows, and Rory kisses Jess in the second season finale. Early in the third season, Rory is torn between Dean and Jess, but she chooses Jess and remains with him throughout the third season. In season four, after Rory and Jess break up, she has a fling with now-married Dean, which ultimately ends his marriage and creates a short-lived rift between her and her mother. At Yale, Rory becomes involved with Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), an underachiever whose wealthy family owns a newspaper empire and immediately disapproves of Rory. Logan's father, the infamous Mitchum Huntzberger, hires Rory as an intern. His crushingly negative evaluation of her work leads to her leaving Yale temporarily at the end of the fifth season. The scenes of Logan's house are filmed at Doheny mansion on the Mount St. Mary's campus.
In the sixth season premiere, Lorelai and Rory are estranged and Rory is living with her grandparents. She is taking time off from college and serving community service for stealing a yacht with Logan. Eventually, the mother and daughter reunite after Jess makes her realize her mistake. Logan gets upset at Rory because of Jess' appearance and leaves without resolution. Rory then returns to Yale for the spring semester of the 2005–2006 school year. Lorelai, who was engaged to Luke, was frustrated by his keeping his newly-discovered daughter (April) from her, and their relationship is on the rocks. Rory's relationship with Logan is on-again-off-again, after she attends the wedding of Logan's sister to discover that he slept with all of the bridesmaids during their brief "break up" earlier in season 6. The next episode, Rory takes Logan back, although she has not forgiven him. Logan leaves for three days on a Life and Death Brigade event, although Rory had expressed her concern. Meanwhile, Rory visits former love interest Jess and kisses him at his new bookstore and apologizes because she loves Logan. During the trip Logan is seriously injured. Rory takes care of Logan after his accident, and their relationship is repaired.
At the end of season six, Logan leaves for London to work for his father's newspaper. Rory confronts Mitchum Huntzberger, in the elevator, about sending Logan away and he tells her it is time for Logan to grow up. She does not disagree and later she and Logan have a tearful farewell. Meanwhile, Lorelai is upset with Luke when he refuses to elope. She spends the night with Christopher and the episode ends with a shot of her in bed with him.
In the seventh season premiere, Lorelai tells Luke, who had shown up fully packed ready to elope, that she slept with Christopher the night before. In the next episode, Luke says that it would be best if they would go back to being individuals and for him to be "the guy in the diner who pours" her coffee. Later, Lorelai and Christopher begin a relationship.
Rory's friendships with long-time best friend Lane Kim (Keiko Agena)—a first-generation Korean American from a strict background—and Paris Geller (Liza Weil), a friend/rival at both Chilton and Yale, are also themes in the show. At the end of the sixth season, Lane marries Hep Alien band-mate Zach, a sweet but slightly dopey rocker. At the beginning of the seventh season, Lane discovers that she is unexpectedly pregnant with twins.
Lorelai and Christopher take Gigi to Paris to see her mother. They spend their time fighting jet lag and hunger, but also succumb to the romance of the city. Christopher proposes to Lorelai for the third time (the first being when she was pregnant with Rory 22 years ago, and the second being when he comes to visit from California in season one) and they elope in Paris. Zack and Lane learn that they're going to have twins and Lane finally tells Mrs. Kim she's pregnant. Mrs. Kim asks them to move in with her. After declining the offer, Zach and Lane find Mrs. Kim baby-proofing their home. Mrs. Kim decides to move in with them.
Rory retires as editor of the Yale Daily News and realizes she doesn't know what she wants to do after Yale; she later calls her new friends to cheer her up and discovers that Lucy's boyfriend is her old friend Marty (Wayne Wilcox). Rory is upset when Marty pretends not to know her. She decides to confront him about his rude behavior with her. He starts to become talkative again, and it quickly becomes apparent that Marty still has feelings for her. Meanwhile, Logan announces that he has been relocated to New York, where he will be able to spend more time with Rory, but that he will have to get another apartment. After a confrontation with Logan about how she lives off of other people like the trust-fund children that she mocks, Rory decides to move out of the apartment. The couple reconciles, but Rory is set in her decision, stating that she has to "do this for her." In a later episode, Logan becomes upset and jealous at Marty's affectionate behavior towards Rory, and tells Lucy, Marty's girlfriend, that Marty and Rory have known each other since freshman year. Lucy is hurt and angry, and despite Rory's efforts to apologize, will not speak to her. Meanwhile, Rory and Logan have a fight over his betrayal, and Logan cuts his visit short and goes back to New York. Sookie finds out she is pregnant after Jackson didn't get a vasectomy. Lucy and Rory make up when Paris defends Rory in the Yale cafe.
Luke gets partial custody of April after the judge reads Lorelai's heartfelt "character reference" letter which Christopher finds. He confronts Lorelai about the context of the letter. He believes that Lorelai still has feelings for Luke despite her denials. Christopher walks out stating "I can't do this". While teaching an Economics class, Rory's grandfather, Richard, collapses from a heart attack. Rory rides with Richard in the ambulance to a local hospital. Lorelai and Emily come to the hospital and nervously wait for news of Richard's condition. Richard has an emergency bypass surgery. Babette, who is with Lorelai when she gets the phone call about Richard's heart attack, tells Luke what has happened, and Luke visits the hospital. Lorelai tries to contact Christopher, but he doesn't return her phone calls. When Christopher finally shows up, he sees Lorelai and Luke talking. Christopher only stays at the hospital for a few moments and when he and Lorelai finally talk later that night, Lorelai admits to him that she doesn't believe it will work between them, because she doesn't believe Christopher is the one for her, and also because she still has feelings for Luke. They end their marriage. Logan has a business issue when the company he bought has patent issues and Logan could lose the bulk of his trust fund.
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[edit] History
The pilot episode of Gilmore Girls received financial support from the script development fund of the Family Friendly Programming Forum. It was the first network show to reach the air with help from funding provided by that organization, which includes some of the nation's leading advertisers.
The show was not a ratings success initially, airing in the tough Thursday 8pm/7pm Central time slot dominated by Survivor and Friends in its first season. It grew a following that saw it outdraw its time-slot competitor, popular series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the ratings. (Several of the writers of Buffy have been prolific writers on Gilmore Girls, such as Jane Espenson and Rebecca Rand Kirshner.)
In its fifth season, Gilmore Girls blossomed into The WB's second most watched primetime show, with a fan base which grew by double digits in all major demographics [1]. In its syndicated release in the U.S., the show airs exclusively on the ABC Family Channel.
By the time of its fifth season, Gilmore Girls received an American Film Institute Award and two Viewers for Quality Television Awards, and was named New Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association.
The WB was going to air a spin-off featuring Jess as the main character, called Windward Circle, in which he gets to know his estranged father better and befriends a bunch of California skateboarders. However, the network canceled the show before it aired, citing high production costs to shoot on location in Venice Beach as the reason.[2]
The show's actors have received many awards for their work on the series. Graham won two Family Television Awards along with a Teen Choice Award for Best TV Mom. Alexis Bledel has won a Young Artist Award and a Family Television Award. The series also won a Family Television Award for New Series, and was named Best Family TV Drama Series by the Young Artist Awards. The show won an Emmy for its only nomination in six years: 2004's Outstanding Makeup for a Series (Non-Prosthetic) for the episode The Festival of Living Art.
The first season was released on DVD on May 4, 2004; the second season was released on December 7, 2004, the third on May 3, 2005, the fourth season was released on September 27, 2005, and the fifth season was released on December 13, 2005. All five seasons are formatted in the traditional NTSC 4:3 format on the DVD box sets, despite the series transitioning to the widescreen, HDTV 16:9 format in the fourth season; this was an artistic decision made by Sherman-Palladino to present the program as she envisioned it.
The sixth season of the series was released on DVD on September 19, one week before the season premiere for the seventh season on September 26 [3], and also framed in 4:3.
[edit] Cultural references
In addition to fast-paced dialogue, Gilmore Girls is also known for numerous cultural references made by the characters. The references, which may point to anything from movies, television shows, music and books to quotes from celebrities, are frequently quite obscure and thus seem to be understood only by the characters.
To help the viewer understand what the characters are talking about, The WB has included "Gilmore-isms" booklets in the DVD sets of the seasons (except for seasons one, five and six, where purchasers of that set were referred to the site below). The booklets contain "the 411 on many of the show's pop culture references", along with comments from the show creators.
[edit] Music
Music plays a large part in the show. Most of the main or recurring characters on the show have had their musical tastes revealed at one time or another. Lorelai famously likes '80s music like that of The Bangles, The Go-Go's and David Bowie as well as Metallica, but Rory credits her with introducing her to new books and music throughout her life, and she and Rory often swap CDs. As we find out in 5th season Rory isn't a fan of the famous American singer Bob Dylan or The Smashing Pumpkins (whom Lane likes).
Lane is a music enthusiast, and her list of musical influences ran to five pages when she was writing her "drummer-seeks-rock-band" ad. David Bowie, the Ramones, Jackson Browne (Lane: "Ah, see, cool people know that he’s more than a mellow hippie-dippy folkie, that he actually wrote some of Nico’s best songs and was in fact her lover before he bored us with 'Doctor My Eyes.' That will separate the poseurs from the non-poseurs." —Season 3, Ep. 3 "Application Anxiety"), the Accelerators , The Adverts, Agent Orange, the Angelic Upstarts, and the Agnostic Front. She also owns a record of Rilo Kiley. Lane's band, Hep Alien (which is an anagram of producer Helen Pai's name), plays rock with different influences, and Sebastian Bach, formerly of Skid Row, plays Gil, the band's guitarist.
The Bangles made a guest appearance in the Season 1 episode "Concert Interruptus" while The Shins guest-starred (playing their song "So Says I" from the album Chutes Too Narrow") in the Season 4 episode "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist" (also, their 2000 single "Know Your Onion!" is heard in season two "Like Mother, Like Daughter", while their album "Chutes Too Narrow" later appears). Carole King, who re-recorded her 1971 song "Where You Lead" as a duet with her daughter Louise Goffin as the Gilmore Girls theme song, appears occasionally as local music store owner Sophie Bloom. The original score to the show is performed by Sam Phillips. Grant-Lee Phillips appears in at least one episode per season (up to season 6) as Grant, the town troubadour. In the finale of the sixth season Stars Hollow is infested with musicians including Sonic Youth , Yo La Tengo, Pernice Brothers and Sparks.The aforementioned troubadour is "discovered" by a music producer and is set to open for Neil Young (who Kirk says is "one of the Monkees") but says he was booed off stage and never even got to meet Neil Young "Heart of Gold my ass" he tells Taylor. The famous singer Paul Anka appeared in season 6th as himself in the episode "The Real Paul Anka". Joel Gion, formerly of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, also appeared in an episode, playing tambourine for Zack's side project while Hep Alien is on hiatus.
In 2002, a soundtrack to the show was released by Rhino Records, entitled Our Little Corner of the World: Music from Gilmore Girls. The CD cover of the album features anecdotes from show producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino covering the large part music has played in their lives.
[edit] Food and drink
Food is another important part of the show. Lorelai and Rory are coffee addicts and they love all kinds of junk food. In reality, though, actress Alexis Bledel, who plays Rory, hates coffee, and her mugs are always filled with Coca-Cola.
- Luke: So what'll you have?
- Lorelai: Coffee, in a vat.
- Rory: I'll have coffee also. And chili fries.
- Luke: That's quite a refined palate you got there.
- —Season 1, Ep. 1 "The Pilot Episode"
It is a running gag that Lorelai and Rory can eat copious amounts of junk food but never seem to gain weight. When they aren't eating at Luke's Diner or having formal Friday night dinners at Emily and Richard's, they often order pizza or take-out Chinese food. They eat tons of food, including french fries or tater tots, various types of pies, and ice cream straight from the carton. Lorelai and Rory love to eat Mallomars, which Rory uses to spell out "Happy Birthday Lorelai" on their kitchen table in the second season. The two also like doughnuts and various other chocolate and baked goods. They also enjoyed many international foods while on their European trip in the 4th season, and ate the Italian dessert, biscotti on the night before Rory left for Yale (see Season 4:Episode 1 Ballrooms and Biscotti). Rory has a fondness for Indian food, while Lorelai doesn't and complains that Indian food makes the house smell strongly of spices whenever Rory orders it. Additionally, pop-tarts occur on the show recurringly as both Lorelai's and Rory's favorite breakfast and snack food. Sookie, the chef at the Dragonfly Inn, is very passionate about cooking and often obsesses over the inn's menu. Lane Kim's mother, Mrs. Kim, is a fan of health food, and Luke's healthy eating habits are sometimes contrasted with Lorelai's junk-food diet.
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[edit] International
- Argentina — Warner Channel
- Australia — Nine Network, Arena
- Austria — ORF1
- Brazil — Warner Channel (original sound with subtitles); SBT (lipsynch in Portuguese), title in Portuguese "Tal Mãe, Tal Filha"
- Belgium — VijfTV, Kanaal 2, ClubRTL
- Canada — Global Tuesday at 8pm E/P (8:00pm AT), W Network (airs reruns Mon. to Thurs. at 5 pm EST),VRAK.TV (French translation)
- Central America — Warner Channel
- Chile — Warner Channel
- Croatia — HRT2, title in Croatian "Glimoreice"(The Gilmore's)
- Czech Republic — TV Nova
- Denmark — Kanal 4 up to the fifth season, but from mid-2006, the show was moved to the sister-channel, Kanal 5
- Estonia — Eesti Televisioon (ETV)
- Finland — YLE TV1, title in Finnish "Gilmoren tytöt" - "Gilmore's girls"
- France — France 2 was the first French channel to air the show but stopped at the end of season 1 due to "unsatisfying" ratings. Gulli has begun airing the show since the cable network was created in 2005.
- Germany — Vox
- Greece — Star Channel, title in Greek "Οικογένεια Γκίλμορ" ("Family Gilmore")
- Hungary — m1 (seasons 1-5), Viasat 3 (season 6-); title in Hungarian "Szívek szállodája" — "Hotel of Hearts"
- India — Zee English
- Ireland — RTÉ 1/Hallmark Channel/Nickelodeon
- Israel — first aired on Channel 3, later continued on Channel 10, Hallmark Channel; some seasons on Channel 10 — "בנות גילמור"
- Italy — Italia 1, title in Italian "Una Mamma per Amica" — "A mother as a friend"
- Malaysia — premiered on TV3, moved to 8TV.
- Mexico — Warner Channel
- Netherlands — Net 5
- Norway — TVNorge
- Poland — TVN7 (TVN Siedem), title in Polish "Kochane kłopoty" — "Dear trouble"
- New Zealand — TVNZ TV2
- Peru — Warner Channel
- Philippines — Studio 23
- Portugal — FOX Life, title in Portuguese "Tal Mãe, Tal Filha" — "Like Mother, Like Daughter"
- Romania — Acasă
- Serbia — RTV Pink
- Singapore - Channel 5
- Slovakia — Markiza
- Slovenia — A Kanal, title in Slovenian "Midve z mamo" — "Me and my mother"
- Spain — La 2, FOX, title in Spanish "Las chicas Gilmore"-Gilmore girls
- South Africa — M-Net , SABC 2
- South Korea — OnStyle network
- Sri Lanka - ETV
- Sweden — Kanal 5
- Switzerland — SF2
- Thailand — True Series
- Turkey — CNBC-E
- UAE — Dubai-One TV
- UK — Nickelodeon/Hallmark Channel
- US — CW
- Venezuela — Warner Channel
[edit] External links
- Official Gilmore Girls Website on WB Studios
- Official Gilmore Girls Website on ABC Family
- Official Gilmore Girls Website on The CW
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Lorelai Gilmore | Rory Gilmore | Luke Danes | Christopher Hayden | Sookie St. James | Lane Kim | Paris Geller | Jess Mariano | Logan Huntzberger | Kirk Gleason | Emily Gilmore | Richard Gilmore |
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Jackson Belleville | Taylor Doose | Dean Forester | Michel Gerard | Jason Stiles | Max Medina | Trix Gilmore | Mrs. Kim |
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