#Dean and Lorelai Affair

[saltygilmores]

A List Of My Favorite Gilmore Girls AU's, Conspiracy Theories and Ridiculous Headcanons

There are definitely more... as I think of them I'll keep adding to it. But these are the biggies and some of my favorites. 13. Jess eventually gains custody of Doula and she avoids ending up in the cult, and she changes her name to something way less stupid too. 12 Jess and Lane have a fling as an act of rebellion to piss off Mrs. Kim (but I really can't see any long term compatability here) and because pissing off one Stars Hollow mom just wasn’t enough for Jess 11. There is an alternate universe where Jess ends up enrolled at Chilton because his mother conned some rich fucker into marrying her and he used his money and influence to bribe Headmaster Charleston into letting him in. I feel like Luke is sitting on a lot of money but he would never have enough to pull to make it happen. 10. Rory was actually a hero for sleeping with Dean and breaking up Dean's marriage so Lindsey could escape 9 Luke, Jess, and/ or Rory finally snap one day after they can't take any more bullshit and go on a rampage around Stars Hollow slaughtering the many people who have wronged them, I call it the Blood In The Hollow triology. 8. Taylor Doose is pocketing all the money made from the festivals in Stars Hollow and he has no intention of fixing The Bridge or putting that money towards other charitable causes 7.In season 4 when Jess is living in New York and Luke insinuates Jess is a drug dealer he's right #HeyTawd 6. Luke serves cheap ordinary supermarket coffee (oh wait, that one is actually TRUE, Mr. Folgers can. I've seen you). 5. There's a vortex/black hole in California sucking in the unsuspecting men of Stars Hollow (Dave Rygalski. Jess. Max. Even Christopher, apparently ) called the Male Gilmore Girls Character California Wormhole, it swallowed Dave Rygalksi permanently because It loved him so much, but it spit everyone else back out eventually 4. Jess erased Shane after the Dance Marathon and threw her body in the lake and the swan that beaked him was a reincarnation of Shane out for revenge 3. Jess' novels become unexpected worldwide best sellers, turned into movies, turned him into a household name, earned him legions of fans and book groupies, making him a millionaire, causing our reluctant and modest blorbo to face the pressures of fame, press, wealth and attention 2. During the Truncheon years and beyond Jess Mariano blossoms sexually and becomes a raging manwhore the likes of which Philadelphia has never seen, sometimes I make him a college student (sometimes I don't), he has a Myspace page that the girlies flock to and a very busy flip phone and two roommates who never get any sleep 1. Lorelai and Dean are having a torrid love affair, and I call it The Dala (The Dean and Lorelai Affair) I will die on this hill, this is my Death Hill

#gilmore girls #ridiculousness #jess mariano #rory gilmore #lane kim #the DALA #Dean and Lorelai Affair #Jess the Slutbag #Shane #Wormholes #Vortex #Luke Danes #hey tawd #Tawd #my abundant imagination

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

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#jade watches gilmore girls #rory's little part 2 plot with laundry guy is so embarrassing this episode that im dreading the scenes #i swear they barely do much for rory her first year of yale in s4 #lane and even paris have big plots going on (even though i hate the asher plot) while she gets upset over a tree a guy and the big plot they #-give her is having an affair and her first time with Dean just to have a couple more eps with him until they break up a third time #and it ruins my luke and lorelai moment for me #we see her with these friends this ep then never again #she barely has friends only lane and paris #it's sad #i would've loved if we saw her going out etc #it's a why i like the spring break ep

[blackwoodbanshee]

Thinking about the gilmore girls talked bad about linkin park and italian food. Rude..Well noone from gilmore girls is in twilight italian food and linkin park are in twilight so...

#idk #gilmore girls were pretty arrogant about lots of stuff and always wailing in self pity somehow rory had all the chances in the world and... #gilmore girls #those were some of the rudest things also how they treated dean winchesters brother whoa #lorelai should have married that max teacher guy 😬 then have an affair with luke then get back with max #rory should have travelled europe as a travel journalist and married a french guy or so #rory in paris travel blogger spin off

[frazzledsoul]

The real generational parallel in Gilmore Girls no one wants to point out is that Rory is the new Christopher.

They both supposedly fucked around during their twenties, coasting on family money and the generosity of an old flame (Lorelai, Logan), working temporary jobs but never settling down to anything stable. Rory, like Christopher, claims she's got a gazillion "irons in the fire" but like Christopher, it's all illusory and not leading her anywhere. AYITL era Rory, like Christopher at 32 (when we meet him) prides herself on not being committed to anyone or anything: she's been on and off with Logan for years and seems to be involved in what the kids these days call a long term "situationship" that keeps either of them from fully moving on but also requires no real effort or commitment from her. She has no steady job, no home, no permanent income, slacks or gives up on most of her projects, mooches off of everyone she knows, and shows little desire to change these things. Everyone else in her age group (Logan, Jess, Paris, Lane, Dean) is either professionally or personally successful and has found their direction in life while she flies around in every single direction. Despite the cheating (if that's what it really is: the fact that he's so sloppy about it kind of implies he's got permission to fool around) Logan is fairly stable: yes, he ended up working for his dad but we actually see him working, he seems to get along with Mitchum and doesn't seem particularly unhappy about his lot in life. He also is fairly supportive of Rory and encouraged her to settle down and get a job: after all, that's what he did and his life's not so terrible. She seems to want to know nothing about him or his life. Look at it from Mitchum or Honor's perspective, if they knew all the details: exactly who is holding who back from realizing their potential? Heck, Mitchum pulls strings to get Rory that Conde Nast interview and she shows up expecting to be handed assignments and with no input or ideas of her own. Like Lorelai, Logan has a fairly nice life except for the unreliable old girlfriend who doesn't want to settle down and takes and takes but never gives back. And unlike the affair with Dean, Rory is aware of all the circumstances involved with Logan and chooses to keep fucking him anyway. She has not been lied to or misled in any way or promised a relationship that she wanted but he didn't, nor does she seem to want Logan around full time, either. She seems to like that nothing much is expected of her here and likely chooses to stay because of that.

What finally could hypothetically force Rory to choose a path in life, a home, a steady job? Oh, yeah. The unplanned pregnancy with the ex that she finally decides she doesn't want at all anymore. Jess may have helped provide her with a potential career path and be poised to be a larger part of her life in the future, but none of that is a guarantee and her overall circumstances haven't changed. However, now she's going to be forced to truly be responsible for the first time in a long time. Just like Dad.

#i am not implying rory should get back together with logan for the sake of the kid or anything #just that if you look at it from his perspective she really is the flighty and irresponsible one #and the parallels are definitely there #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #hawt take

[weepynymph]

Revival Rory

I’ve just started reading @rhiawriter ‘s. The Writers (SO GOOD by the way) and it got me thinking about how the revival kind of failed Rory in terms of where she’d be with her career. Not so much just hitting a rut, but ending up in stars hollow for a year.

I think when talking about Rory’s storyline in the revival it’s important to not that ayitl is not just a continuation of Gilmore girls but kind of a fan service (to a certain extent) celebration of the show.

Therefore when writing it they needed a storyline that would include as many of the old characters as possible depending on what actors wanted to come back.

They also needed a way for Rory to be back in stars hollow.

Hence her moving home and having a kind of ‘I don’t know what I’m doing with my life’ crisis storyline instead of being out in the world thriving the way that most of us would envision for her from seeing how talented and adaptable Rory is as a character. (I’m not saying it’s totally out of character for Rory to find herself a bit lost or hitting a rut, it’s just a very specific choice for her character that conveniently puts her back in stars hollow for the duration of ayitl because we need her to be there so the Gilmore girls can talk really fast in person instead of over the phone)

Even in terms of the Logan stuff they obviously wanted the character to be in the show so he needs a reason to be there without making him Rory’s endgame because we don’t want to side overly with one ship - so he and Rory are having an affair, and what are the only circumstances under which Rory would do this? When she’s at rock bottom. (As we’ve seen from the whole dean incident where she was so lonely and heartbroken over Jess that she didn’t think through what she was doing with dean she just wanted to feel loved and important)

Anyway I just think it’s interesting how the nature of the revival impacted Rory’s storyline (as well as others see Luke and Lorelai not being married or having discussed kids in ten years just because we don’t want to throw new kids into the mix and we want a fan service loreluke wedding) and whilst I’ve actually grown to like ayitl for what it is, I do think that it suffers from the constraints of being a revival and I wonder what the writer would have envisioned for Rory at this stage of her life if it weren’t for those constraints.

#gilmore girls #rory gilmore #gilmore girls ayitl #ayitl #gilmore girls a year in the life #Gilmore girls revival #literati #anti logan huntzberger #kinda #I’ll just never agree with the whole Logan challenged Rory and made her more confident argument #if anything I feel like he made her less confident over time and more than any of her other partners made her an actively worse person #aaaaaanyway #luke danes #luke x lorelai #lorelai gilmore #Gilmore girls meta #jess mariano

[jessmmariano]

Things in AYITL I disagree with:

Paris and Doyle getting a divorce, especially the part where Paris insists on it being messy. Like, she’s felt the repercussions of a messy divorce before why is she putting her kids through that?

Luke and Lorelai making literally no progress in their relationship.

Rory having an affair with an engaged Logan. She learned her lesson with Dean.

That Lorelai couldn’t come up with one nice thing to say about Richard at his funeral. He helped her daughter to attend Chilton and then Yale. That was a safe yet sweet thing to say, yet she couldn’t come up with it?

Paris being a surrogate agent. She said she wanted to do cancer research. This job just doesn’t seem like something she’d be interested in.

Rory having a boyfriend that she was always forgetting about/just stringing along.

Wtf was the musical? Like, it didn’t need to be that long and it wasn’t funny in the slightest. Fill that time with, I don’t know, Luke and Lorelai’s wedding maybe??

Building off of the Luke and Lorelai relationship thing—they seriously didn’t talk about kids? What was that whole surrogacy thing? It seemed so out of character. Also, why did they make Luke so dumb about the whole thing? He isn’t dumb.

Sookie’s poorly explain disappearance. Like, I get Melissa McCarthy had a conflicting schedule or something of that sorts, but give a better background? Or just have her come in one day and film a bunch of small scenes of her’s to slowly sprinkle in? I don’t know, it just bugged me.

What was that Mr. Kim thing? C’mon, you can’t just suddenly have him pop up and try to act like we’ve known about him the entire show.

Why was Jess only in, like, five minutes of the entire thing? He was literally there just to push other characters to do stuff (Luke with Lorelai, Rory with her book). What’s he been up to?? Don’t give us a longing look just to have it never discussed again?

So yeah, that’s all I have right now. I’ll probably add to this later bc I know I’m forgetting a lot. Feel free to add more!

#rory gilmore #gilmore girls #lorelai gilmore #jess mariano #luke danes #stars hollow #literati #rory x jess #logan huntzberger #liz danes #anti ayitl #richard gilmore #emily gilmore #paris geller #doyle mcmaster #sookie st james #jackson belleville

[humansofstarshollow]

and if you wish you could pick more than one, pick the top answer and explain the rest.

also, the breakups don't count.

#gilmore girls #gg #humansofstarshollow personal #humansofstarshollow polls

[fearsomeandwretched]

The Dean Rory affair is my least fave storyline of like any tv show I actually actively prefer Chris Lorelai marriage storyline and I hate season 5 it's my least fave season bc of this

[mauradersdaughter]

Lorelai and Rory’s relationship is interesting to dissect. We are introduced to them best friends first. At first, we think of this relationship as perfect, but if we really look into it, it was flawed in some ways, like every ‘mother daughter’ relationship.

1)The way that Rory wasn’t allowed to make mistakes: It was clear that Lorelai didn’t want Rory to end up like her, but in the way she did it, it strangled Rory into wanting to be perfect all the time. It made her think that she couldn’t make mistakes, like when she got D in a test and was freaked out about it or had to drop a class at Yale. Imagine it as a balloon that keeps getting filled with water and no one removes some of it, it keeps filling, what’s going to happen? The balloon is going to explode eventually. Rory keeps on behaving like an adult at 16, not allowing herself to screw up, the balloon gets bigger and eventually she can’t hold it and breaks down and drops out of Yale.

2) The “good girl” complex: In Lorelai’s eyes, Rory’s a saint. “No, Rory wouldn’t lie.” She puts her daughter on this pedestal and when she doesn’t fulfill the expectation, she reprimands her. I think we see this the most when Rory starts to like Jess. Jess in Lorelai’s opinion is the devil, he’s the guy with a smart mouth and bad attitude and a good girl shouldn’t be with a guy like that. Lorelai’s naive vision of her daughter doesn’t let her understand who Rory is becoming and what she sees on Jess. So, this makes her treat Rory’s relationship with Jess as a stupid teenager thing and a bad boy fase. It also, makes her blind to the fact that Rory simply doesn’t like Dean anymore.

3) Projecting on Rory: This is a big problem. Lorelai has a lot of trauma from giving birth at a young age and then having to raise herself and daughter alone. So the way she raises Rory is to not be like her, be better. But also, she lives through Rory. She achieves her own personal goals, like Harvard, by influencing and giving the idea to her. All of this is way more personal to Lorelai than Rory. As I said, Rory is not supposed to be like Lorelai, which means, she can’t be flawed and that comes back to topic 1. That’s the biggest reason Lorelai freakes out when she notices Jess and Rory might become a serious thing. “Rory’s made her choice, I want her to be happy, I’m just hoping for the best at this point.” She sees Jess as this screwed kid that is irresponsible and might get Rory pregnant. That’s why she loves Dean so much. He’s the “good boy”, he’s the sort of guy Lorelai wanted when she was a teenager. She gets blinded by this. So much, that even after Dean makes Rory the other woman, she’s still happy that he’s back with Rory. Lorelai wanted a Dean when she was 16 and pregnant, but instead she got a Christopher.

4) Not taking responsibility for their actions: In the show, we see Rory make mistakes, but when Lorelai is supposed to teach her not to do them and behave like a mother, she behaves like a best friend. The only time I’ve seen Lorelai actually make Rory accountable for her decisions was after the affair with Dean, but even after she was passive-aggressive. Even in the revival, when Rory says that she has been seeing Logan while he’s engaged, she still doesn’t say anything to make Rory understand her mistakes, she just talks about how her seeing Logan is sluttier than a one night stand. Lorelai’s bad relationship with her mother influences the way she treats Rory. Emily is harsh and not understanding, but she knows how to make her child accountable. Lorelai is loving and supportive, but she doesn’t know how to play the mom, only the cool friend.

#lorelai gilmore #rory gilmore #lorelai x rory #gilmore girls #mommy issues #literati #relationship analysis #fictional characters #character analysis

[saltygilmores]

THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS-SEASON 3, EPISODE 1: LAZY HAZY CRAZY DAYS (PART 5)

Faces of Fear. Bozo got an early flight home, bringing with him an immovable stench cloud that is hanging over the day's festivi-titties. The city of Chicago is letting out a sigh of relief, though. In the middle of her crisis, Lorelai immediately abandons Rory, who is shaking in Dean's presence like a flu-stricken chihuaua. But not before reminding Dean how much she's missed him.

I heard there's a vacancy at the Shane and Jess Tree now, why don't you two make a reservation?

What the what! They're still going, in the same spot, completely uninterrupted! The Foreplay King and Queen! I am not worthy! Have they been making out in public so frequently that they just blend in with the scenery and hundreds of people walk right past them without even glancing? They've fused with the FuckTree. The 69 Pine. Witnessing this peep show, Rory experiences an instantaenous full blown sexual awakening so seismic the earth threatens to crack open beneath her. At FND, Emily and Richard take the news of the Lor & Crusty breakup just as well as anyone would have expected, which is to say, Not Well. When Lorelai returns home...presumably after 8 pm,as it's pitch black outside but the summer festival is still underway, somehow, with hundreds of people roaming the streets. The Barbershop Quartet is still singing "Lazy Hazy Crazy Days" into the night sky, creating an eerie scene. This is like something out of the Twilight Zone. The festivals never end, Taylor Doose in his never ending quest for power and money is forcing the citizens of The Hollow to listen to the same song (actually, more like two lines from the same song) on a loop until they go mad, forced to sell corn dogs and cotton candy until they drop dead, while Shane and Jess are still making out against the Poke Oak.

Again, the last few episodes have been making me feel like something was missing, then I remember Luke still exists. Hi Luke! Why don't you put a light on or something, why are you working in the dark?

Looks like someone decided to put on her big girl panties and be brave. With Lorelai breaking in and Jess always escaping it seems like Luke doesn't know what a lock is. Lorelai states she isn't there to beg for forgiveness or have a conversation with him or to talk to him or interact with him in any whatsoever, but she had a bad night so she wants him to make her coffee. DIdn't you hear the man? He's closeddddd.

When Luke won't budge, Lorelai asks him to just pretend she's some other random customer she made up called Mimi, as if it's in any way possible for Luke to imagine this ridiculous woman as someone else. There's no way these two have ever successfully engaged in role play. I guess he could pretend she's Kirk, both of them take up space for hours at his establishment and don't tip and make him want to lay down face first on the grill with his hand in the deep fryer. Luke won't assist her, so Lorelai helps herself to a pot of tepid coffee, sits down at his counter and starts crying about all the fucky guys she's dated in the last two years.

"Crusty's gonna have a baby with this woman" True "He's gonna be there for her when she's pregnant" False "He's gonna be there with her to see his child grow up" False "He's gonna be there for her while she does whatever it is she does." You mean be super duper creepy? #CreepySherry

Am I supposed to feel sorry for you or something? Go cry to Dean Forrester.

You got a LONG wait ahead of you, sister.

Wah wah wah. I want a Tyrannosaurus to storm the streets of The Hollow and swallow your boyfriend Dean Forrester, then I want the t-rex to spit him out so he can be eaten a second time by another t-rex, but we can't always get everything we want, right Lorelai?

Here. Have a 14 hour old donut to ease your pain and hopefully make you go home.

Me, Outloud (Very Animated): What the what, she was about to pay you for the first time ever and you stopped her?! A flipped script, but that's more or less the same reaction I have during A Year in the Life when Jess offers Rory money. “Why aren’t you taking her money” vs “why are you giving her money”

Is she gone? Lorelai returns home to find Rory in the living room. It makes me verrrry nervous when Lorelai and Rory meet on the couch at the end of an episode. Shit always goes down on that couch. It's the Scary Couch. The couch where Lorelai imparts horrible wisdom. It turns out my intuition would be correct in this instance. So horribly, horribly correct. Lorelai apologizes to Rory for reacting in the town square earlier, even though for once in her life Lorelai was actually the reasonable one who was totally in the right about Rory's behavior being slimy, and even if Lorelai is a hypcorite of the highest magnitude to try and impart on her child that you shouldn't mess around, cheat and play games. We can throw her a sprinkling of "Do as I say not as I do" points as long as she doesn't fuck it up in the last two minutes of the episode.... Hahahahaha. Ha? LORELAI GILMORE GO 15 SECONDS WITHOUT MENTIONING DEAN FORRESTER CHALLENGE. GO! Lorelai plops down on the couch with 2:58 left in the episode. *starts timer*

2 minutes and 43 seconds left. From sit-down to How's Dean was 15 seconds, she then asks "How was Dean" three more times. That fucking couch! Oh, and of course, after she took off and abandoned Rory earlier when Dean approached, Lorelai has yet to ask Rory how she's feeling.

Yay.

Unfortunately, yes. I called the T-Rex to eat Dean but she's booked to the gills, like, you really gotta know someone to get her to show up in your sleepy Connecticut town. 17 seconds from the last Dean mention to the next.

Oh..honey....

It's crazy NOW? No one tell her what a Three Ring FuckCircus the Jess Thing is going to turn into. She has to find out on her own. It's the only way she'll learn.

She says "I love Dean" with as much conviction as someone saying "Yes, I love walking around in wet socks."

But..ya kinda do, miss "just because you and Rory broke up doesn't mean we did, Dean." Lucky for you your daughter is a pathological people pleaser who won't dare to upset you or Dean, So you can rest easy knowing your precious Dean won't be going anywhere, for like, another 7 episodes.

He deserves to have his nuts crushed by a wooly mammoth.

You know what *deep breath* I'll choose to hear "In this alternate timeline, the HPV vaccination has already been invented in 2002 and I'm going to take you to the gynecologist to get it because I want you to be safe in case you one day decide you want to have sex with Jess" instead of unleashing Double T Rex's on Lorelai.

#THAT FUCKING COUCH #gilmore girls #Denise Rewatches Gilmore Girls #GIlmore GIrls season 3 #lazy hazy crazy days #Anti Dean Forrester #Two Things I Googled While Working on This episode: #What kind of dinosaurs eat meat? #What are types of trees? #so I can rhyme them and make dirty tree puns #Jess Mariano #Shane #Luke Danes #DALA #Dean and Lorelai Affair #FuckTree #69Pine

[wonderlandleighleigh]

In which Joel Maisel passes away the week before Stars Hollow finds out about Rory and Dean’s affair. 

Midge takes all of this...poorly.

Lenny calls Jess in for backup. 

Big thanks to @alixinwwonderland for chatting with me while I wrote this.

His cell phone rings as he’s getting in from work. 

“Lenny?” 

“Oh, good I caught you,” Lenny’s voice says. He sounds tense. “You busy?” 

“Tired. Just home from work,” Jess responds. “Something wrong?” 

“Yes, but it’s not life threatening, so if you wanna tell me to go fuck myself when I ask this favor, that’s fine.” 

Jess frowns. “What’s wrong?” 

Lenny sighs heavily. “Okay. So. Midge’s ex-  the cheating idiot - passed away about a week ago, and this week, the entire town found out that Dean - you remember Dean, tall, brainless - cheated on his wife with Rory.” 

Jess stays completely quiet, attempting to process that information. 

“And I am aware that this is a big ask, considering your…previous entanglements with Lorelai the younger but Midge is taking this very, very badly,” Lenny goes on. “Very badly. And I know you just escaped from your mother’s circus of a wedding, but-” 

Jess takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. “Midge isn’t okay.” 

“She is not, in fact, okay,” Lenny confirms. “I thought maybe you could drop in, spend a few days with us, help distract her a little -” 

“I’ve got the next couple of days off,” Jess tells him. “I can drive in tonight.” 

“Oh, kid, you are saving my life here,” Lenny tells him. “Seriously.” 

“Well, you did your best to save mine when I was fucking up, so…I figure I owe you a little.” 

“Why don’t you leave the car, take the train in. I’ll buy you a ticket and pick you up in Hartford,” Lenny offers. “You can nap on your way.” 

He almost says no. The idea of not having a quick exit putting him a little on edge, but he’s got the Schneiders and Luke in Stars Hollow to protect him from whatever bullshit he might encounter. And a nap in a comfortable train seat sounds really nice.

“Yeah. Okay. Thanks, Lenny.” 

*****  

By the time they get back to the Schneider’s house from the train station, Midge has cooked everything in the house.

“Jess! You’re here! You’re hungry, right?” 

He blinks. “Uh…” 

“I made two kinds of kugel, and I made homemade gefilte fish - so much better than the jarred stuff, blech. There’s roasted chicken and lamb chops, and tzimmes and I made potato knish, which I know you both love, and there’s apple cake and I was just about to start the sufganiyot!” 

“The what?” Jess asks. 

Lenny sighs deeply. “She’s gonna fry jelly donuts. Sweetheart, there’s so much food.” 

“But the donuts will be great with coffee in the morning,” Midge beams. “The guestroom is all set for you, Jess. I pulled out all your favorite records to listen to including that noisy Pavement thing I hate, but if you keep the door closed I don’t hear it.” 

Jess shakes his head, bewildered. “Thanks?” 

Midge beams at him. “Sit! Eat! How was the train?” 

“Fine,” Jess says slowly. “Midge, are you okay?” 

“I’m good,” she tells him, patting his shoulder as she passes him plate after plate of food. 

Lenny rubs his eyes and sits down. “Hand me the fucking knish.” 

Midge lights up and hands them over. 

***** 

Eventually, Lenny is able to convince Midge to get some sleep, and he and Jess sit out on the front porch, each smoking a rare cigarette. 

“Joel’s funeral was tough,” Lenny confides in him. “Mei - Joel’s second wife - wanted Midge to give a eulogy, and Midge wouldn’t do it. Mei shouldn’t have asked. I warned her not to, but Mei didn’t want to give a eulogy either.” 

“So what happened?” Jess asks. 

“Neither of them did. Ethan gave one, and Joel and Mei’s daughter gave one,” Lenny sighs out a puff of smoke. “But the entire day was a mess. Midge wanted to be in the background. She didn’t want to play the grieving wife because she hasn’t been Joel’s wife since 1958. But everybody was treating her like she had never gotten over Joel…so…she got day drunk, told Mei ‘I hadn’t seen that penis since 1958, stop treating me like a fucking sister wife’ and then…we left.” 

“Jeez. Poor Midge.” 

“Grief does very strange things to people,” Lenny shrugs. “When my mother died I drank an entire bottle of whiskey and wandered around her house with my underpants on my head, yelling at her for being a terrible parent.” 

“That is extreme.” 

Lenny shrugs. “I was alone that day. I didn’t feel too bad. But Mei is in this weird space where she’s pretending she didn’t spend the last fifty years with that guy. That Midge was always Joel’s one true love and so Midge should take responsibility for…I don’t know. Something. It’s strange, and it’s sad. And Midge…has been reliving the night Joel left.”  

Jess nods, listening and taking another drag off his cigarette. 

“She threw out our suitcases the other day,” Lenny says quietly. “She said she didn’t want to take any chances, as if after all this time I’m going to find something better than this. Better than her. So they went into the garbage. Suitcases, who gives a shit. If it makes her feel better, I’ll buy fifty more and she can throw those out too.” 

“And then there’s uh…the Rory stuff,” Jess says hesitantly. 

Lenny sighs and looks at him sympathetically. “I’m sorry, kid. I know I dropped that on you without warning, that wasn’t fair.” 

“It’s-” 

“Not fine,” Lenny finishes. “It’s not. Rory fucked up. Dean fucked up. It’s a mess.” 

“What happened?” Jess asks. 

Lenny takes another drag, blowing out the smoke. “They slept together the night of her mother’s inn opening, and then she immediately left for Europe. While she was gone, she had Lorelai give Dean a letter telling him it couldn’t happen again because it was wrong, and Lindsay found it. Now the whole fucking town knows.” 

“Shit.” 

“Yep.” 

Jess pulls out another cigarette and lights it, taking a more stressed out drag. “You know, I -” he stops. “You know what? No. Rory isn’t my fucking mess. If my asking her to leave with me drove her to fuck Dean? That’s a sign.” 

Lenny looks at him as if he’s crazy. “You asked Rory to leave with you?” 

Jess rubs his face. “I…I asked her- I - I just thought-” 

“Aw, Jess.” 

“Nope. I’m here for Midge. Rory can clean up her own crap.” 

“Jess-” 

“I’m gonna go to bed.” 

Lenny watches him go and stubs out his cigarette as well as Jess’s that he dropped as he went inside. “Fuck.

***** 

“Oh, my god, you have to be kidding me.” 

Jess closes his eyes at the sound of Rory’s voice behind him in the diner. He’d stopped in to grab coffee and donuts since Midge hadn’t fried hers the night before. As well as check in with Luke, let him know he’s in town.

“What, are you stalking me now?” Rory accuses, obviously upset. 

“Outside,” Jess tells her, gesturing towards the door, and the two of them stalk back out to the sidewalk. 

“Midge’s ex husband passed away last week. I’m here to visit her,” Jess explains. “She’s having a really hard time and Lenny asked me to come back to town.”  

“Nobody believes that, Jess,” Rory tells him in an annoyed tone. 

“Not everything is about you, Rory!” Jess snaps, louder than he means to. “Or did you forget that in all of the drama of fucking someone else’s husband?” 

Rory stares at him for a long moment before storming away. 

Jess shoves a hand through his hair. “Shit.” 

***** 

"Oh, please."

They decide to hit the diner for lunch the next day as Jess helps Luke with the lunch rush, but it’s less than a great idea.

Lenny sighs heavily. "Shit."

Teresa Lister has been bitching about her daughter's impending divorce and "that slut Rory Gilmore who broke up my baby's marriage" for a good twenty minutes and Midge has clearly had enough. 

"Excuse me?" Teresa snaps. "How dare you-"

"How dare I. You're the one blaming the wrong person. Did it ever occur to you that Rory or no Rory, Dean was always going to find a way to cheat? That's what cheaters do."

"Dean isn't a cheater!"

"What the fuck do you call coming onto another woman behind your wife's back, and sliding off your wedding ring to fuck her?"

The entire diner goes silent and still. Dean has just walked in. Rory and Lorelai have been huddled at a corner table. Jess and Luke are behind the counter. Babette and Miss Patty had been trying to talk Teresa down. 

"No?" Midge asks. "Nothing? No accountability for the man who did the cheating, just a good old fashioned verbal witch burning for the woman he cheated with? Typical."

"Dean was seduced!"

"Happily married men don't get seduced. He was looking! And Rory did your daughter a favor with that letter. Dean was too dumb to actually hide it, though she didn't think of that."

"That slut-"

"Saved your daughter from months - maybe years - of being lied to," Midge snarls. "Because that's what men like Dean do. They stay in their unhappy marriages because they're fucking comfortable, and they promise their side pieces they'll leave eventually and then they don't because who the fuck would give up a nice home with someone who cooks for them and washes their underpants? Thank god Lindsay is getting out before they had kids. Co-parenting with a man who deems you unworthy to be his wife after years of marriage and partnership is hell. It is literally hell, Teresa. And I wouldn't wish that on anyone. If it hadn't been Rory, it would have been someone fucking else." She takes a breath, trying to steady herself as Lenny takes her hand gently. 

"And no one will ever blame him!" Midge cries, starting to get really upset. "What is it, Dean?" She asks, looking at him. "You're too dumb? Too innocent? Easily seduced? Rory used her underdeveloped feminine wiles to trick you into bed?"

He stands at his full height and opens his mouth, but she beats him to it. 

"I swear to God, if the words 'I love Rory' leave your damn fool mouth, I will beat you to death with a hot frying pan from Caesar’s stove. You wanted what you wanted, and it has nothing to do with either of the women you've hurt. You don't love Rory. That's not love. That is lust. And I'm right, aren't I? You were never going to leave Lindsay. You were always going to do your damndest to have your cake and fuck it to."

Lenny squeezes her hand. "Midge" 

She stops talking, squeezing his fingers back. 

"Out, Dean," Luke says evenly. 

"But-"

"Out. Now."

***** 

“That was some rant,” Lorelai says quietly as she sits next to Midge in the gazebo late that night. “Like Mrs. X at the Gaslight take 2: Electric Boogaloo.” 

Midge snorts softly as she takes a puff off her cigarette, offering the pack to the younger woman. “I am nothing if not verbose when I’m pissed off.” 

Lorelai declines and sits back. “Luke told me about Joel. I’m really sorry.” 

“He wasn’t a particularly good man,” Midge shrugs. “He wasn’t…kind or generous. He wasn’t exceedingly smart. But for a few years, he was my husband. And that means something. I don’t know what. But something.” She sighs out some smoke. “You know, Joel’s mistress was about as dumb as a box of hair. She was a certified idiot. Rory’s a smart girl. She’s not supposed to fall for the kind of shit Dean was selling that night.” 

“I think she’s just…feeling lost,” Lorelai says quietly. “She knows it was wrong.” 

“That won’t stop her from starting a relationship with him now that Lindsay’s thrown him out,” Midge smirks wryly. 

“I don’t know,” Lorelai admits. “I don’t know what happened. I couldn’t believe it when I found out, and then she went to Europe and had time to think and realized how bad it was, and now…” 

“Now he’s fair game,” Midge shrugs. “What a fucking mess. I don’t envy you. LIving through it was bad enough. Watching your kid live through it is probably a sonofabitch.” 

“It hasn’t been my best summer, that’s for sure,” Lorelai agrees. “What do I do? How do I…shake her out of this.” 

“You can’t,” Midge tells her. “She’ll either realize she’s fucking up or she won’t.” She looks at Lorelai. “And eventually Dean will remember that Rory is too smart for him and find an idiot to fuck. And then the shoe will be on the other foot.” 

“Maybe you should talk to Rory,” Lorelai suggests.

Midge chuckles darkly. “She may not survive that talk.” 

“Really, though. You’ve lived through this. You…you were in Lindsay’s shoes. She’s not seeing Lindsay as anything but someone who was making Dean unhappy. If Rory hears what you went through, she might…snap out of it.” 

Midge thinks about that for a long moment before nodding. “Okay, then. I’ll kick the boys out tomorrow afternoon, and she can come over.” 

***** 

When Rory shows up at the Schneider’s the next day there is a veritable feast of leftovers sitting on the dining room table. 

“I figured you might be hungry,” Midge shrugs as they sit down together. 

“This is a lot of food,” Rory comments quietly. 

“It’s been a tough couple weeks,” Midge admits. “My ex-husband passed away a week or so ago, and while funerals are never really enjoyable, this one was particularly terrible.” 

“I…Jess mentioned, but I thought-” 

Midge shrugs again as she takes a couple of knishes onto her plate. “Lenny called in some backup to help handle my…well, I didn’t have a breakdown, but it wasn’t like I was totally sane.” 

“I’m really sorry, Midge,” Rory says. Her voice is still quiet. 

Midge takes a breath. “Thank you.” 

“I guess-” Rory stops and considers her words for a moment. “I guess what’s been going on with me hasn’t been…helping. With grieving the guy who cheated on you.” 

“It hasn’t,” Midge admits. 

Rory sits in silence, poking at the food on her plate, unsure of what to say. 

Midge takes a breath and lifts her hands, slipping her engagement ring off before taking off her wedding ring and holding it up. “Consider the simple wedding band.” 

Rory looks at it, swallowing. “I never really looked at yours. I guess I thought you would- have a fancier one. Famous and all.” 

“There’s a lot of beauty in simplicity,” Midge tells her. “I didn’t used to think so when I was younger, but as I got older, and lived a little more, I learned that very basic things can be very beautiful. And more than that, meaningful. It means something to put one of these on and promise to be someone’s partner.” 

Rory looks away. 

“Even when I’m not wearing it, it still means something that I put it on in the first place. When I take it off to do the dishes or take a shower, I’m no less Lenny’s partner.” She pauses for a moment. “Dean wasn’t any less Lindsay’s partner when he took his wedding ring off that night, Rory.” 

Rory finally looks at her, getting heated. “Lindsay was-” 

“His wife,” Midge finishes. “Lindsay was Dean’s wife. Whether she was making his life miserable or not. Whether he was happy or not. Whether she was whatever he said she was or not. Lindsay was Dean’s wife. And that’s meaningful. The second he put that ring on for the first time, he became Lindsay’s partner. If he didn’t want that anymore, he needed to deal with it on his own. He made it your problem, and that was wrong of him. It was wrong of him to prey on the fact that you were attracted to him, and it was wrong of you to give in to that attraction..” 

Rory swallows, staring at her. 

“The sooner you realize that, the sooner you can move forward from this.” 

“It’s not fair,” Rory blurts out, looking upset. “He was- he was mine first.” 

“I don’t know that I’ve ever heard you say anything that childish, and I have known you since you were in diapers,” Midge says. “You’re not a little girl anymore, Rory. You’re going to be twenty. You’re an adult, and these are adult matters, and adult feelings, and if you don’t have the ability to deal with them like an adult, you shouldn’t be having sex yet to begin with.” 

“That’s not fair!” 

“Neither is finding out the man you married fucked someone else behind your back,” Midge says evenly. “You helped Dean destroy his marriage. You helped him break Lindsay’s heart. And if you’re unwilling to come to terms with the part you played in this then you’re not the person I thought you were.” 

Rory says nothing.

“Is this the way you want to live your life?” Midge asks. “You want what you want and fuck the consequences? Fuck the collateral damage?” 

“That’s not what I want!” 

“You cannot go through life like a bulldozer,” Midge warns her. “What you want is not the only thing that matters.” 

She’s about to respond, but stops, staring at her. 

“If you don’t start thinking about the feelings and the wellbeing of the other people around you, you’re going to wind up very, very unhappy,” Midge tells her softly. “Nothing happens in a vacuum.” 

Rory stays quiet, tears starting to well up in her eyes. 

“Your actions hurt Lindsay. They hurt your mother. They helped Dean hurt the people in his life,” Midge goes on. “Accept that as reality. Let yourself feel guilty, and disappointed in yourself. Let yourself feel pissed at Dean. And Pissed at yourself, and then move on.” 

“Without Dean,” Rory says bitterly. 

Midge nods. “Without Dean.” 

“Why?” Rory snaps. 

“Because cheaters rarely cheat just once,” Midge tells her. “And next time, he might be telling some other unsuspecting girl how unhappy he is in his relationship, and he’ll be talking about you.” 

Rory swallows. “Dean wouldn’t do that.” 

“He did it once,” Midge shrugs. “There is absolutely nothing stopping him from doing it again.” 

“Dean loves me.” 

Midge closes her eyes and takes a breath. “Dean doesn’t know anything about loving someone.” 

There’s a long, long moment of silence, before Rory eventually bursts into tears over her plate of food. 

“I don’t want you to be right,” she sniffles. 

Midge nods, putting her rings back on. “I know. I don’t want me to be right, either.”

***** 

Jess steps onto the Schneider’s from porch that evening, finding Midge sitting there with an untouched bottle of wine. 

“Am I interrupting, or…?”

She grins a little and pats the seat next to him. “I’ve been thinking too hard to drink. Where’s Lenny?” 

“He stopped by Al’s to pick us up some dinner,” Jess explains. “He says you’ve cooked enough, and he’s dying to try Al’s Kung Pao Quesadillas.” 

Midge wrinkles her nose and laughs. “He can’t get enough of Al’s bizarre creations. I swear it’s like the flea circus fixation all over again.” 

Jess chuckles a little and sits back. “How’d it go?” 

“It…went,” Midge nods. “I think she listened. I don’t know if she’ll actually heed any of my warnings, but…there were tears. But no broken bones, no bloodshed.” 

“That’s somethin’ I guess,” Jess says. 

“What about you?” Midge asks.

“Me? I’m dandy.” 

“You are not the bullshit artist you think you are, Jess,” she tells him. “C’mon. Talk to Grandma.”

Jess sighs heavily. “She’s going through some stuff. I can’t help with it, and I don’t really…want to.”

Midge nods. “And that’s hard.” 

“It’s really hard,” Jess agrees. “But I gotta wait for her to come out the other side of this, and…I guess maybe we might be friends again.” 

“Just friends?” 

Jess shrugs and looks out at the Gilmore house. 

Midge rubs his back comfortingly, as she’s done a million times with her own (other, really), grandchildren. “It’ll all work itself out.” 

“You think so?” he asks, glancing at her.

“Generally,” Midge shrugs. “Look at my life. By all rights I should have died sad and alone after Joel left me.” 

Jess rolls his eyes. “Bullshit. That’s not you.” 

“It was a lot of other women,” Midge says quietly. “A lot of divorced women just…stayed unhappy. I got pretty lucky.” 

“Lucky my ass,” Jess tells her. “That was all you. You saved yourself.” 

Midge huffs out a soft laugh and ruffles his hair. “Cut this.” 

“No.” 

“Dinner!” Lenny calls as he walks up the porch steps, holding a takeout back. “Kung Pao quesadillas, and chow mien subs.” 

“Gross, I can’t wait,” Midge tells him, standing up to peck his lips.

“Chow time, Jess,” Lenny says as he opens the door, letting Midge in first. 

Jess takes a breath and gets to his feet, giving one last look to the Gilmore house before following them in, grabbing Midge’s unopened bottle of wine on his way.

#fic #au #The Schneiders of Stars Hollow #Midge/Lenny #Midge x Lenny #Rory Gilmore #Lorelai Gilmore #Jess Mariano #Gilmore Girls #not super happy #tough convos

[avisrkive]

marriage in 'gilmore girls' (pt. 2)

here in part 2, i’m gonna talk about dean getting married when he knows he's still in love with rory and go off on a small tangent about dean.

there are extremely mixed opinions when it comes to old deany boy. mine is no. i don’t like dean. the first time around, my first ever watch of this show in late 2021, i did like him. i loved him, admittedly.

it was only when i watched a video essay on “why everyone hates dean forester” on youtube, i came to start disliking him and thank god i opened up my eyes because that boy was a walking red flag.

but we’re not necessarily here to talk about dean today, we’re here to talk about one of the most crappy decisions he ever made: getting married to lindsay at 19 while he was still in love with rory.

he and lindsay’s relationship when they were dating seemed great from where rory was standing. we only ever get to see from her perspective when they’re dating, since there are little to no scenes of dean and lindsay alone of course.

there’s then that scene where he tells rory he’s getting married and she says “why not date? dating’s fun.” then he gets all offended as if this isn’t the worst decision ever.

like yes, rory did dump you for jess about two years ago. TWO YEARS.

but i digress.

simply what is the rush? you’ve already got the girl. stay dating and FIGURE YOUR FUTURE OUT BEFORE YOU MAKE A LIFELONG COMMITMENT AT 19.

19. technically, you are still a teenager. nineTEEN.

and here lorelai was thinking that dean is so responsible, dean is this, dean is that… i guess you can’t predict everything that’s gonna happen, now can you.

he wasn’t even mature enough to get married.

literally right before the affair, dean swore he had done everything he possibly could to try to save his marriage.

then he blows up at lindsay for answering his phone after. she should’ve been fighting back as far as i’m concerned, i believe dean treated her so poorly for that two months they were married.

it reminds me of when jess told him “you’re gonna make some woman a fine doormat one day.”

he wasn’t wrong…

nevertheless, she’s calm, she’s not yelling, she’s trying to keep the peace. she’s the one trying hard to save her marriage, not dean. he already knew it was over after the affair.

T H E P A R A L L E L S.

it’s like the ‘that damn donna reed’ episode all over again but in real life. that was the first red flag.

lindsay stays at home learning how to cook roast beef for dean. dean works all hours of the night and day trying to save money for them to get a bigger place and a car and basically a LIFE without being college-educated.

he just wanted it to be a housewife situation at the end of the day. he didn’t want anything for lindsay, he never did. he wanted to come home to a huge meal and a wife that cooked and cleaned for him. that was the other reason his marriage didn’t work other than the fact he barely spent time with his wife because he was OUT MEETING RORY.

crazy.

but that’s dean. that’s what he wanted from the start and i’m glad rory didn’t get caught in that trap at the end.

i actually have so much more to say about marriage in this show but i may stop here. in the future, there will be many more posts about the characters but for now…

see ya <3

#Gilmore girls #rory gilmore #team jess #dean sucks #relationships #ahhhhh #thank u

[femmedefandom]

so interesting to me that Rory can have an affair with a married man and break up said marriage and Lorelai will be on her side and defend her and even try to support the relationship but when Rory is overwhelmed and emotional and drops out of Yale that’s just too far and she’s cut out of Lorelai’s life. what is it about Dean in Rory’s life that makes him the only worthwhile mistake Rory makes???

#rory gilmore #lorelai gilmore #anti dean forester #anti lorelai gilmore #this is not rory hate #this is a question on why Lorelai chooses to draw the line where she does about acceptable behavior #emotionally manipulated into breaking up a marriage? #not happy but let’s give dating a shot cuz Dean is just the best! #stressed and not coping and dropped out of school? #you’re dead to me unless you go back to being a student

[frazzledsoul]

The thing about S6 Jess Mariano is that there is simultaneously too much of him and not enough.

I've been watching old episodes recently because of a story I've been writing on and off for a week, and I don't think people truly appreciate the amount of set-up that went into Jess's scenes in The Real Paul Anka. In this show, there are supporting cast members who almost never get scenes of their own outside of interacting with the girls and various townies. I think Paris has exactly one scene that doesn't involve Lorelai or Rory. Dean has a handful. Sookie has just one off the top of my head. I believe Logan has one as well. All of these people were on the show far, far longer than Jess was. It seems only Luke, Lane, and Jess have a lot of scenes with characters other than Lorelai and Rory...and in season 6, Jess has not been seen for two years and has not been a main cast member for three. We get an introduction to his place of work, he has interactions ALONE (!) with his friends/coworkers, we get an extended sequence where he explains to Luke how exactly his job works and where he lives, he has significant interactions with both Luke, April, and Rory, and closes out the last we see of his relationship with Luke in the OS on a good note. None of the other love interests get this, because while we spend more time with them, they are not developed as individuals outside of Rory. Dean is the good boyfriend who unexpectedly leads Rory into an affair and who we last see chafing at her desire to leave him behind, while Logan is the rich, dangerous boyfriend who entices Rory into the elitist world that Lorelai sought to escape from and who will eventually lead her astray because he is unable to escape from his father's expectations, forcing Rory to repeat the life patterns of her mother (God, I hate the AYITL ending. It blows). Jess is his own person, whose existence is not completely defined by Rory, but who eventually inspires her to seek out the path that she wants by virtue of his own example. And at the end of the story, he is the one door left open, the one person who is working with her on her goals and is still involved with her life.

(This is why I chafe when people say Jess wasn't endgame, even after all of these years. One of the last things ASP said about a follow-up is that she was going to chase Milo and Alexis down and make them do it. Her intentions were pretty obvious, even for those of us like me who don't necessarily hate Logan).

What's so great about S6 Jess is that almost all of the stuff that made him a terrible boyfriend and such a damaged, tortured character during his original run on the show has been smoothed over. He meets Rory on her terms and makes plans at her convenience: he acknowledges her discomfort: he is far more concerned with her than busting the chops of her boyfriend (although that part is clearly fun, too). He's considerate, social, a person who makes plans and follows up on them. He's confident yet self-effacing: when Rory is found to be using him, he reminds her of the boundary she's crossed yet doesn't lash out. It doesn't change his feelings overall: she isn't choosing him at the time being, but he still cares about her. Even though we leave him with a broken heart, we know he's got a life beyond her, something he didn't have when we last saw him in season 3 and season 4. He has friends, a purpose, a respected place in his community: he will be okay. It's a better place than we leave Dean and likely a better place than we leave Logan in AYITL. He will be okay.

I'm of the mind that Jess's participation in the last season of the OS has less to do with the writing team changing (although I don't think Milo was particularly keen on working with the new guys, either) and more to do with what else Milo was working on at the time. Heroes was a huge, huge deal when it first came out and networks aren't always amenable to lending out their actors to work for their competitors. I just don't think it was possible for Jess to show up no matter who was writing that season. I do occasionally wonder what the S7 writers would have done with him. It doesn't escape my scrutiny that the show skips the actual Christmas holiday because Rory was in London, because Jess almost certainly would have traveled to Stars Hollow to visit his mom and newborn sister and comfort his depressed uncle. There certainly were a lot of uses for him that had nothing to do with Rory.

AYITL Jess is of course more or less the same, only with bigger arm muscles and some of the edges smoothed out: the main difference is that we see he's been more or less accepted into the Gilmore/Danes clan and is a more active support system for Luke and his mother.

At this late stage in the game, I'm not expecting or wanting a follow-up and I think odds are very much against there ever being one. I do wish that knowing that AYITL was all there was that they had given us more time with Jess (if possible) and that there was some sort of definitive end for him and Rory instead of the door just being swung wide open and an indication of a future (and of course, Jess being a total dreamboat). However, as with all things ASP, you take what you can get and what was given to us here wasn't that bad.

Those last four words still suck, though.

#meta #gilmore girls #jess mariano #literati

[vindieselsfacebook-blog]

Meaning/references behind every Gilmore Girls episode title - Season 3, Part 2

Masterlist: Season 1 Season 2, Part 1 Season 2, Part 2 Season 3, Part 1 Season 3, Part 2

My notes: - As always, please correct anything I've gotten wrong and share your own insight! - Many of these notes are pulled from and/or learned via annotatedgilmoregirls.com - an absolute icon! - I just KNOW there must be some more specific reference with "Keg! Max!"... anyone have any ideas? Perhaps also with "Happy Birthday, Baby"...?

Season 3, Part 2

Lorelai Out of Water The title is a twist on the familiar idiom, “fish out of water”, which refers to someone who feels awkward or uncomfortable in an unfamiliar environment. The earliest known use of the phrase comes from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1483, and was about someone riding a horse, which they weren’t used to. In this episode, Alex asks Lorelai on a fishing date, which she knows nothing about and gets Luke’s help with.

Dear Emily and Richard Through a series of flashbacks, we see how things played out for teenage Lorelai when she learns she’s pregnant and eventually leaves her parents’ house suddenly with baby Rory, telling them in a letter that presumably begins with “Dear Emily and Richard…”

Swan Song

A common metaphorical phrase for a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement, referring to an ancient belief that swans sing a beautiful song just before their death since they have been silent (or alternatively not so musical) for most of their lifetime. The belief, whose basis has been long debated, had become proverbial in ancient Greece by the 3rd century BC and was reiterated many times in later Western poetry and art. This is of course jokingly referring to Jess getting “beaked” by a swan.

Face-Off In ice hockey, a face-off occurs at the start of each period, or to restart play. An official drops the puck between the sticks of two opposing players, who are then said to “face off” from each other in order to gain control of the puck. This episode has a hockey game as its focal point as well as several characters having “face offs” with each other, or efforts to gain control of their situations - Rory running into Dean and learning he’s moved on with Lindsay, Rory confronting Jess about his disrespect of her time, and Emily outing Trix’s affair with the tracksuit man.

The Big One“The Big One” is an informal name for World War II. It’s also a commonly used name for an anticipated megathrust earthquake along Western North America or Japan. It’s an appropriate name for this episode where several big important life events happen for multiple characters - Rory and Paris compete for the honor of speaking at Chilton's Bicentennial, Sookie and Jackson learn they are pregnant, Lorelai runs into Max and reignites old feelings, Paris has sex for the first time with Jamie and melts down on national television when she fails to get into Harvard, and Rory's college acceptance letters finally arrive. Lorelai says “You got the big one,” referring to the fact that acceptance letters come in big envelopes, whereas rejections come in small ones.

A Tale of Poes and Fire A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. The stories depict a violent world, largely without magic and dominated by political realism. The title references the Society of Edgar Allan Poe fans staying at the Independence Inn when it suffers a fire.

Happy Birthday, Baby Happy, Happy Birthday Baby is a 1957 song written by Margo Sylvia & Gilbert Lopez originally performed by The Tune Weavers, who had their only hit with this song. This episode marks the one and only time Lorelai’s birthday is celebrated on the show.

Keg! Max! Lane’s band plays their first gig at a houseparty and she somehow drinks enough cheap beer from the keg to get drunk for the first time. Lorelai continues running into Max and pushing his boundaries. It’s common for young people to yell excitedly about kegs at parties.

Say Goodnight, Gracie This line is spoken by George Burns in the TV show The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950-1958). Actors George Burns and Gracie Allen met in 1922 while they were both touring on the Vaudeville circuit. After falling in love and getting married, the two developed an act together—George would play the straight man and Gracie his silly and illogical wife. By the time they brought their act to TV in 1950, the two were a huge hit. The end of every show became a catchphrase: George and Gracie would come out and do some jokes until it was time to close the show, when George would turn to his wife and tell her, "Say goodnight, Gracie," and she would simply reply, "Goodnight." Thanks to Gracie’s ditzy delivery and the hilarious chemistry she had with George, this line became iconic. Presumably this title is referencing the ending of Jess and Rory’s relationship and/or his time in Stars Hollow

Here Comes the Son This episode title is a play on the song title Here Comes the Sun by the English rock band The Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison and is one of his best-known compositions. The lyrics reflect his relief at the arrival of spring and the temporary respite he was experiencing from the band's business affairs. In this episode, Jess leaves Stars Hollow to try and form a relationship and a new home with his estranged father in Los Angeles.

Those are Strings, Pinocchio Rory strikes a new deal with her Grandparents for more Friday night dinners in exchange for her Yale tuition. Lorelai warns her of the implications or “strings attached.” “Rory, honey, do you understand, the Gilmores do nothing altruistically. Strings are attached to everything.” “There are no strings.” “No strings?” “No. I just have to pay them back starting five years after I graduate and I have to start going back for Friday night dinners.” “Um, hello, Pinocchio, those are strings.” The Adventures of Pinocchio is a famous children’s novel written by Carlo Collodi in 1883. Pinocchio is a wooden marionette puppet operated by literal strings.

#gilmore girls #my gg brainworms #lorelai gilmore #rory gilmore #gilmore girls season 3 #jess mariano #gg episode titles explained #literati

[emmafallsinlove]

you ever get irritated when seeing lorelai just brush over things with rory’s other boyfriends that she crucifies jess for? dean has an affair with rory but he gets a break cause he’s 19, not the kid who grew up with an alcoholic mom and her string of boyfriends. logan jumps off that giant tower thing with rory but no, lorelai’s gonna keep hating ‘the boy who broke my daughter’. i hate that she advocated for dean over and over again when clearly, rory wasn’t in love with him, she just wanted to be. and i hate that she sent that letter to rory to convince her to give logan a second chance. yet, not once did she stand up for jess, not when he was clearly struggling with something greater than logan or dean, something that came so incredibly close to the same struggle lorelai went through in terms of neglect and abandonment and mistrust.

oh my god anon, you have no idea how much i hate the way jess being treated by lorelai. i have so much problems with lorelai lately as long as i keep rewatching, and i totally agree with you. somehow she can forgive logan and share a cake with him in her kitchen after he: got her daughter arrested, made her quit yale, made them not speak with each other for 5 months 3 weeks and 16 fucking days!!!!! and yet she still accepted his requests to ask rory to marry him? i am sorry but s7 lorelai is so out of character to me i’m just pissed. I would have shoved logan down the damn stairs before i would agree him to ask my daughter to marry this jerk if i was lorelai!

and oh my god don’t let me start with lorelai unclear obsession towards dean! she fucking worship the ground he walks on! and he did nothing to deserve getting that treatment! oh wait, he changed the water bottles every time he came to visit, what a hero.

but jess who had an alcoholic mother and had no one by his side and she could have at least understood him a bit more, love him a bit more, treated him like he’s the reason to all the bad in the world and I HATE IT I HATE IT my boy jess deserves the world -

and i just hate how lorelai basically kicked rory out of her house when rory told her she’s quitting yale, and then didn’t told her about her engagement to luke and had the nerve to get mad at rory for changing her phone number? like i am sorry but if my mom would have been getting engaged to the person i see as my father figure and she wouldn’t have told me about it - it would have become my villain origin story. rory is stronger than me in that regard.

#i love lorelai but sometimes she just DRIVES ME INSANE #it’s not an anti lorelai post or whatever but!!!! #ask*