one of my favorite things about gilmore girls is seeing the development of rory/paris because they hated each other at first and then slowly became best friends and I love that so much!! now it's been years since I watched and idk if I'll like rogan in any way after years of not watching but I just can't see it lol literati will always be my otp and luke/lorelai and if rory had to end up with anyone besides jess it should've been paris just saying!!
Twenty years ago today, the Gilmore Girls spring break episode, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist" aired for the first time on The WB, and everything shifted in that moment for me. Rory Gilmore and Paris Geller had a fun and light few days of fun, let off all the steam, yelled at some guys about how they ate bananas, watched some Power of Myth, listened to the Shins...oh, and maybe Paris kinda kissed Rory and introduced her to lesbianism in a panic about being cool on the dance floor 🥹.
Sure, Prory didn't happen in ASP's "canon", but so many young minds shifted from 'god is there any other guy besides Dean and Jess Rory can love' to 'PARIS IS THE LOVE OF HER LIFE THIS IS THE DESTINY SHE TALKED ABOUT GOING BACK TO WHEN SHE TRIED TO SEDUC–I MEAN INIMIDATE RORY WITH A READING OF SONNET 116 STOP FORCING THESE MEN UPON THESE LOVELY AND SMART LADIES!"
This episode changed my life, made me who I am today, gave me so many friends I treasure to this day, and even if it ended up with Logan the next season, the AU where Rory doesn't pull away from Paris and says 'let's take this back to the room' and they become the happiest Boston marriage of all time still fills many a Gellmore shipper's brain to this day.
Thank you, episode 417 for showing Rory and Paris at their best.
Gen V characters who kind of remind me of other characters (in a good way)
Marie Moreau reminds me of Diane Nguyen
Wants desperately to be a good person (because she is), empathetic sometimes to her own detriment, has a tendency to just casually say the deepest shit you've ever heard.
Jordan Li reminds me of Paris Gellar
Fiercely competitive, acerbic, more sensitive than what meets the eye, definitely a lesbian but also not really (it's complicated)
Cate Dunlap reminds me of Amy Dunne
Emotionally neglected, stands for something (although perhaps in not the healthiest of ways), she kind of sucks but you can't help stanning anyway
Sam Riordan reminds me of Ken
Part of a privileged class but in a situation where it doesn't really matter, quick to adopting the most extreme pov possible because he knows no better, cute but also a menace to society
Paris jumping in and defending Rory when Dean walks in and starts berating her despite Paris sitting at the table staring in disbelief. Is one of my favorite moments. And the scene they deleted from the show of them laying and watching tv after it all should have made it in.
Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, Season 2, Episode 9, "Run Away Little Boy". Part 2
You can read my previous reviews here.
If you have to keep repeating something out loud like this, it probably isn't true.
Every time Rory or Lorelai say Rory's relationship with Dean is "a really good thing going right now", God plucks a whisker off a kitten.
TWWGG= We Make Weird Metaphors.™
The Time Traveler hath returned (after a stop for a quick shave, apparently).
I forgot to add that in the middle of all this DL/Rory/Dean drama, Lorelai went on her date with TT and had fun but twas not meant to be but she was happy to discover she could Date Casually ™ after Max.
A crystal clear Tomatos Sign spotting!
Lorelai to Rory, who is stifling laughter: What? Say it!
Rory: Nothing, I always wanted a little brother.
Lol.
And we have another scene for the Rory's Bizarre Food-Related Habits Hall of Fame.
Rory picks up her burger and walks out of the diner without putting it into a to-go box. Is this the neatest burger ever that doesn't drip grease or ketchup? Like the time she walked out with a piece of French toast in her hand with no syrup dripping down her uniform?
Luke's Diner Motto: Do You Think We're Made of To Go Boxes Or Something? Carry Your Own Food.™
I kind of look like Lorelai right now after the suffering this episode has put me through.
Lorelai apparently talked about Luke on her date with Time Traveler or at least has mentioned Luke on some other occasion. Time Traveler even knew about Rachel.
STOP. EVERYTHING.
A MIRACLE HAS JUST OCCURED IN STARS HOLLOW!
LORELAI PAID FOR HER FOOD!
Luke In My Gritty Gilmore Girls Reboot titled "The Hollow": "You are hereby banned from this establishment. Get the fuck out."
God, Dean is so creepy. And not to say I'm an expert on Shakepeare, but Tristan reciting Shakespeare was...wow. That was some of the worst line reading I've ever heard, ChadMIchaelMurrayDietLogan.
The lips are getting reaaaal thin!
While looking straight at Dean, making Rory panic that he's about to tell Dean about their kiss, but he turns it around and pretends he was just talking about a scene from the play. Sneaky, disgusting, an absolutely vile piece of dog shit either way.
Honestly if I were Rory the sweet release of death would be preferable to being alive and having to suffer these two Butts With A Capital B.
Let's all Take Five and have an Ancient Cellphone Break.
Lips are realllly thin. Practically invisible.
I don't know how much longer I can tolerate this shit stain talking to Rory like this. How is this the fourth or fifth time I've suffered through this show? Why am I doing this to myself? Am I that masochistic? I'm in pain.
Dean is such a piece of shit that I am concerned for Jared Padalecki himself, in the same way that Milo Ventimiglia's mother thought he had suffered some kind of unspoken childhood trauma because he played dark villains so believably. Are you ok, JarPad? How are you this believably awful?
This is horrible. I want to shut it off. There are 9 minutes left in the episode. Ugggggggggh. Poor Rory. PUNCH HIM! PUNCH HIM! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
The next episode is the Bracebridge Dinner. My second favorite episode and a shining beacon of of light, joy, minimal drama, and Jess galore in his ugly brown winter coat. You can do this, TWWGG. You can do this.
Oh my god my blood is just BOILING right now.
Portrait of the author.
Let's take turns. Something should absolutely fall on your head, but also, I really need something big to fall on mine right now. I would welcome the sweet, sweet unconcious state where when I wake up this episode is over and I'm watching The Bracebridge Dinner.
(Context: Lorelai is annoyed because everyone is calling her a pedophile).
(Because of her date with the Time Traveler, not because she's absolutely having an affair with 17 year old Dean Forrester).
Luke is grumpy with her for going on a date with this guy. Jealous or something. Whatever. I'm tired of these men.
Sure, Jess has not made any appearance in this episode yet. But with 5 and half minutes left to go, my pain and suffering is about to be rewarded in other ways. With one tiny scrap and one medium scrap to gnaw on and one big, big juicy hunk of meat. Justice, thy name is Amy Sherman Palladino! (and Chad Michael Murray leaving for another TV show).
The small scrap:
Lane's face while she's watching Henry. My girl is feeling things. Stirring, yearning, Un-Christian things.
The medium scrap: Paris taking Diet Logan's part as Romeo to Rory's Juliet. Sweet.
And the big one:
DIET LOGAN IS GONE!!!!! GONE GONE GONE GONE!!!!!!!! WHO CARES WHY!!! HE BROKE INTO A SAFE OR SOMETHING WHO CARES!!! GOODBYE!!!! *PUNTS HIM IN THE ASS*
Look at Dean creeping again in the background!!! But I'm so happy we're back down to only one clown instead of two!!!! Wait, there's still Christopher. Still two clowns left. God damn it. #ClownMath
He's getting shipped off to military school lol he'll be eaten alive probably lol BYE
Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya #BYE
"Take care of yourself Mary."
Ahahah I won't have to hear anyone call Rory a stupid nickname again because I'm not watching this show past season 4 ever again and I won't have to suffer through Full Calorie Logan calling her "Ace" yay!
Ahhhh. *breathes in* Everything just feels...a little more right once more.
A sea of confusion.
Dean: Did you and Paris actually kiss or was that just a stage thing?
Shut up.
The episode ends on a sweet little note of Luke & Lorelai talking about how they can rely on each other.
Not even a drop of Jess in this episode. Not even a shot of him in the background cleaning the counters. Nothing, zip, nada.
But...
BRACEBRIDGE DINNER NEXT!
It KILLS me that someone wrote an AMAZING fic about Rory, Paris, and Jess forming a sort of book club after There's the Rub, and then they deleted it. 😫
I really don't think the Gilmore Girls fandom (or the writers, either) take into account that Paris Gellar was 19 years old, stranded in England with her much older lover, her second serious relationship ever, months after musing how small and old he looked in the hospital and how he'd tire of her while she was in a foreign country isolated from everyone she knew....and then he up and DIES on her, and she's the one who has to make arrangements. Just think about how terrifying that would be, how she'd have to explain who she was to his colleagues and family, how much they would probably judge her.
She wasn't even old enough to buy her own beer back home! Come on. She was still a teenager. Just imagine the huge, huge trauma of that. The show plays it off as comedy but it's really horrific if you think about it for two minutes and how truly awful it was for Asher to place her in a situation like that in the first place.
If you're still taking prompts: In a universe (either Schneider or otherwise) where Jess graduated and he and Rory went to prom, Jess being a Yale-y's boyfriend, visiting Rory at Yale? Maybe even being mistaken for a student himself given his smarts?
He gets Fridays off from his internship, and so this particular Friday, he swings by Russ and Daughters, picking up a sesame bagel with caviar cream cheese (his girlfriend and her expensive taste) and an egg bagel with horseradish dill cream cheese (because if she's going to eat salty fish eggs before they kiss, he can give as good as he gets), along with a piece of cinnamon babka to share. In a separate bag he stores half a pound of smoked yellowfin tuna; a request from Rory's roommate.
Thankfully, a year into Rory's tenure at Yale, Jess isn't feeling quite so awkward stepping onto campus and heading towards her dorm. He's stopped feeling self-conscious, especially when the sentence "I'm doing an internship at Rolling Stone Magazine" managed to impress quite a few people Rory had introduced him to.
Except for that Marty guy. That Marty guy seems pretty salty about just about everything.
He's nearly to Rory's dorm when some blonde guy stops him.
"Man, I will give you six hundred dollars in cash for the Russ and Daughters," he says.
Jess chuckles and sidesteps him. "Nope."
"Aw, c'mon!"
"If I sold this to you, I'm pretty sure my girlfriend would eat me," Jess responds.
"But that sounds like fun!"
"Sure, buddy," he rolls his eyes as he heads into Rory's dorm and knocks on her door.
She opens the door and lights up. "You're here! And you brought lunch!"
"Right on both counts," Jess confirms, stepping inside and kissing her softly. "Hi. How was class?"
"Fine," Rory beams, leading him inside.
Jess hands one bag to Rory and then drops the other into Paris' lap as she sits in a chair in the common room. "Your fish."
"Finally," Paris snaps, getting to her feet and pulling some money out to pay Jess. "Took you long enough."
"Eh, some blonde guy tried to haggle for the food, offered me six hundred bucks," Jess explains.
"Logan," Rory and Paris groan in unison.
"Who?" Jess asks as he unpacks their lunch.
Rory huffs. "There's this...guy. Logan Huntzberger. He's kind of a jerk."
"A rich, handsome jerk," Paris adds as she stores the fish in their mini-fridge, much to Rory's chagrin. "The worst kind, because they're always insufferable."
Rory hands Jess his sandwich before biting into her own. "He is that, for sure."
"Well, you don't have to think about that guy right now," Jess assures her. "Just eat your weird fish eggs."
"Says the man with horseradish in his sandwich," Rory criticizes.
But here she stands with a boy that makes her knees weak with a glance and he likes books so much he does it for a living and he is looking for a book for her. She fears her heart might have dropped on the floor and she’s unable to pick it up. Doesn’t want to pick it up. She just wants to leave it there and wait for him to notice and pick it up and give it back to her (she probably wouldn’t mind if he just kept it to be honest).
“You better not be looking for any Hemingway.” She tells him all coquettish and light-hearted.
She hears him chortle, bending directly down to look at the bottom shelf. “Don’t worry, I’m not looking for Hemingway in the horror category, although I’m sure that’s where you think he should belong.” And boy does that make her laugh because it feels like he knows everything about her already, which isn’t shocking because she feels like she’s laid herself bare here. All blood, guts, and bones exposed. An open book even if that seems too cheesy to think while in a bookstore.
paris gellar went to the faith lehane school of i HAVE plans but i will accept your invitation to spend the evening with you because i'm actually super into you