Gilmore Girls

Lorelai Gilmore, 32, has such a close relationship with her daughter Rory that they are often mistaken for sisters. Between Lorelai's relationship with her parents, Rory's new prep school, and both of their romantic entanglements, there's plenty of drama to go around.

Cast

• Lauren Graham
• Alexis Bledel
• Melissa McCarthy
• Liza Weil
• Sean Gunn
• Keiko Agena
• Yanic Truesdale
• Kelly Bishop
• Edward Herrmann
• Scott Gordon-Patterson
• Matt Czuchry
• Liz Torres
• Jared Padalecki
• Milo Ventimiglia

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Pilot
  Lorelai: [after leaving Emily and Richard's house] Do I look shorter? 'Cause I feel shorter.::Rory: ...
• Episode 2: The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
  Lorelai: Hey, what do you think of Luke?::Rory: What do you mean?::Lorelai: I mean, do you think he'...
• Episode 3: Kill Me Now
  Michel: [explained to Lorelai that he once got attacked by swans] No one forgets that.::Lorelai: Oh,...
• Episode 4: The Deer Hunters
  Rory: Thanks though.::Lorelai: For what?::Rory: For yelling at the Headmaster the way you did.::Lore...
• Episode 5: Cinnamon's Wake
  Lorelai: [about some homemade lemonade] Mmm... tasty and flame retardant....
• Episode 6: Rory's Birthday Parties
  [Doorbell rings]::Lorelai: Who the hell rings a doorbell at a party? Bring your ass in here.::[Richa...
• Episode 7: Kiss and Tell
  Lorelai: I'm going to be so cool in there, you will mistake me for Shaft....
• Episode 8: Love and War and Snow
  Lorelai: When I was five, I had a really bad ear infection and I had been home in bed for a week and...
• Episode 9: Rory's Dance
  Rory Gilmore: Hey Sookie, look.::Sookie St. James: [gasps] Oh, my goodness. Your a movie star! I'm s...
• Episode 10: Forgiveness and Stuff
  Rory Gilmore: You just want to hold a grudge.::Lorelai Gilmore: Yes. Burns more calories.::Rory Gilm...
• Episode 11: Paris Is Burning
  Lorelai Gilmore: Hey, you will not stand there singing Ricky Martin songs to me. This is not a patte...
• Episode 12: Double Date
  Lorelai: Okay, so... How important is this business school, anyway? I mean, so what if I never run m...
• Episode 13: Concert Interruptus
  Lorelai Gilmore: Hey, you didn't wake me up.::Rory Gilmore: I set the clock.::Lorelai Gilmore: Yes, ...
• Episode 14: That Damn Donna Reed
  The information about 'Donna Reed' (qv), which Rory shows to Dean, is from IMDb.com....
• Episode 15: Christopher Returns
  Lorelai: Can I give one more suggestion?::Luke: No.::Lorelai: How about curtains?::Luke: No!::Lorela...
• Episode 16: Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
  [Lane sees that Rory's crying/A guy asks for her number]::Lane Kim: The last name's Kim, we're the o...
• Episode 17: The Breakup: Part 2
  Rory Gilmore: I'm ready to wallow now....
• Episode 18: The Third Lorelai
  Rory: [in government class at Chilton] Henry VIII started a new church when the old one wouldn't all...
• Episode 19: Emily in Wonderland
  The episode's title is a reference to the title of the novel "Alice in Wonderland"...
• Episode 20: P.S. I Lo...
  Dean: [Dean enters Kim's antiques] Hello? Lane are you here?::Mrs. Kim: [Mrs. Kim pops out from behi...
• Episode 21: Love, Daisies and Troubadours
  Rory: Dean!::Dean: What?::Rory: Stop...::Dean: Why?::Rory: Because I love you, you idiot....
• Season 2
• Episode 1: Sadie, Sadie
  Emily: Come in, come in, come in.::Lorelai: Uh, no.::Emily: Why?::Lorelai: Cuz', you're scaring Rory...
• Episode 2: Hammers and Veils
  Rory Gilmore: Dean, I promise, the *only* way you could be more important to me is if you had a kit-...
• Episode 3: Red Light on the Wedding Night
  Taylor Doose: Townspeople, we should all be proud of the new addition to our streets. I know many of...
• Episode 4: The Road Trip to Harvard
  Lorelai Gilmore: [looking in her purse for food] Hey look!::Rory Gilmore: What?::Lorelai Gilmore: Ce...
• Episode 5: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
  Luke: I'm trying to help you.::Jess: Well, stop trying! Stop talking to me, stop following me, stop ...
• Episode 6: Presenting Lorelai Gilmore
  Lorelai Gilmore: [to Emily and Richard] Are you two completely out of your minds? There's a ceremony...
• Episode 7: Like Mother, Like Daughter
  Rory: This is the headmaster's office. How did she get the keys? I'm sure he didn't give them to her...
• Episode 8: The Ins and Outs of Inns
  Taylor Doose: What are you gonna do about it Luke?::Luke Danes: About what?::Taylor Doose: About the...
• Episode 9: Run Away, Little Boy
  When Rory and Tristan are cast as Romeo and Juliet in a school play, a jealous Dean insists on atten...
• Episode 10: The Bracebridge Dinner
  Lorelai Gilmore: Hey, I have a new year's resolution for you: Become more cynical and self-absorbed....
• Episode 11: Secrets and Loans
  USA...
• Episode 12: Richard in Stars Hollow
  [Jess comes down from Luke's apartment]::Paris: Hey, where did he come from? What's up there? Is tha...
• Episode 13: A-Tisket, A-Tasket
  Rory Gilmore: Please, don't walk away like that!::Dean Forester: Sorry, I'd do a silly walk, but I'm...
• Episode 14: It Should've Been Lorelai
  Luke Danes: [to Lorelai and Rory] Call me if anyone sane walks in....
• Episode 15: Lost and Found
  Lorelai: I mean... a lady friend::Lorelai: A red hot mama::Lorelai: A big pretty dish of loving with...
• Episode 16: There's the Rub
  Jess: ...Okay well give him my best, would you?::Jess: Actually, I guess I could do that myself.::Ro...
• Episode 17: Dead Uncles and Vegetables
  Taylor: [Lorelai and Rory enter Town Meeting late] Late again, are we?::Lorelai: Yes, I hope I'm not...
• Episode 18: Back in the Saddle Again
  Michel Gerard: You know what heppens when you assume, don't you?::Lorelai Gilmore: No.::Michel Gerar...
• Episode 19: Teach Me Tonight
  Kirk: In my heart I am a true Akira Kurosawa.::Lorelai: Ah, Seven Samurai.::Kirk: What?::Lorelai: Se...
• Episode 20: Help Wanted
  Lorelai: Hello?::Karen: Lorelai Gilmore?::Lorelai: You got her.::Karen: I'm calling from Richard Gil...
• Episode 21: Lorelai's Graduation Day
  Paris: So I told her, "Look missy - "::Rory: You called your advisor "Missy"?::Paris: It was attitud...
• Episode 22: I Can't Get Started
  Lorelai Gilmore: You know what I just relized? Oy is the funniest word in the entire world.::Rory Gi...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days
  Lorelai Gilmore: [talking to Rory about her dream] And then, he kissed me and talked to my stomach.:...
• Episode 2: Haunted Leg
  Lorelai Gilmore: Are you okay?::Kirk Gleason: My mother has developed a knee condition. It makes her...
• Episode 3: Application Anxiety
  Rory is reading "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol....
• Episode 4: One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes
  Luke: You and I have to have a little talk.::Jess: Hey, if you're gonna get all Ward Cleaver on me I...
• Episode 5: Eight O'Clock at the Oasis
  Dwight: Hey, it's Dwight. Leave me a message. Namaste.::Doris: Dwight? Hi, it's Doris. Doris, your w...
• Episode 6: Take the Deviled Eggs...
  Rory Gilmore: You want catharsis?::Lorelai Gilmore: Yes.::Rory Gilmore: I know what'll do it for you...
• Episode 7: They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?
  Rory: I used to hang up on Dean all the time.::Dean: You did?::Lane: I remember that!::Dean: When di...
• Episode 8: Let the Games Begin
  Jess: Hey, Romeo and Juliet had warring families and they still managed to do a little damage....
• Episode 9: A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving
  Lorelai: Rory what are we if not the world's champion eaters?::Rory: It's too much food.::Lorelai: I...
• Episode 10: That'll Do, Pig
  It's Richards's birthday and his mother arrives from Europe to help celebrate and announce she's mov...
• Episode 11: I Solemnly Swear
  [Lorelai displays a cootie catcher]::Lorelai: Pick a color.::Sookie: Pink!::Lorelai: 'Cause you're a...
• Episode 12: Lorelai Out of Water
  Rory: Hug-a-World!::Lorelai: What?::Rory: Hug-a-World, it's my Hug-a-World.::Lorelai: Where's the wo...
• Episode 13: Dear Emily and Richard
  Lorelai: It's from my mother.::Rory: What is it?::Lorelai: It's heavy. It must be her hopes and drea...
• Episode 14: Swan Song
  Luke: Where'd you get the black eye?::Jess Mariano: You wouldn't believe it.::Luke: Try me, tough gu...
• Episode 15: Face-Off
  Rory Gilmore: [to Luke's and Jess's answering machine] It's me. I just wanted to let you know that t...
• Episode 16: The Big One
  Rory Gilmore: Hey, this looks different.::Luke Danes: It's not different.::Lane Kim: It's totally di...
• Episode 17: A Tale of Poes and Fire
  Luke Danes: Don't do that.::Lorelai Gilmore: Don't do what?'::Luke Danes: Don't pull the sheet back ...
• Episode 18: Happy Birthday, Baby
  Taylor: [in the middle of convincing Nicole to date his nephew, instead of Luke] Luke I'm not talkin...
• Episode 19: Keg! Max!
  Rory: So you mean someone broke into our house, went past our TV, our stereo and our jewelry, then h...
• Episode 20: Say Goodnight, Gracie
  Lorelai: So, not only did you GO to a cop raided party, but you were the cause of the fight that cau...
• Episode 21: Here Comes the Son
  Lorelai: [after seeing a brochure to Lane's college] Every kid in that brochure was awkward and pani...
• Episode 22: Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
  Rory: [to Jess, on the phone] Jess, is that you? Jess, I'm pretty sure it's you and I'm pretty sure ...
• Season 4
• Episode 1: Ballrooms and Biscotti
  Taylor: You don't have to yell, Luke.::Luke: You put a giant window in my wall.::Taylor: So what?::L...
• Episode 2: The Lorelais' First Day at Yale
  Lorelai: Well, I can't take it back to Yale.::Luke: I'm not storing your microbe mattress, forget it...
• Episode 3: The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles
  Paris: You're 18 grandpa, sleep when you're dead....
• Episode 4: Chicken or Beef?
  Rory Gilmore: [visiting from Yale to find the house's new alarm blasting] I can't even believe there...
• Episode 5: The Fundamental Things Apply
  Emily: I am reduced to calling you and asking are you coming?::Lorelai: Uh-hu.::Emily: Is that "uh-h...
• Episode 6: An Affair to Remember
  Richard Gilmore: They have a ball machine on the their tennis court that is extraordinarily loud and...
• Episode 7: The Festival of Living Art
  Zach: [debating whether or not Gil should become a member of the band] Bottom line: Dude rocks, but ...
• Episode 8: Die, Jerk
  Rory Gilmore: One of them, a married man, had a long conversation with, how shall I put this delicat...
• Episode 9: Ted Koppel's Big Night Out
  Rory: I want you to meet Marty.::Lorelai: Oh, naked guy.::Marty: You told your mother about me.::Ror...
• Episode 10: The Nanny and the Professor
  Lorelai Gilmore: Well dad, you know what monkeys do when they don't like people staring at them at t...
• Episode 11: In the Clamor and the Clangor
  Lane Kim: It's people like you who are destroying music.::Rory Gilmore: Oh no, Britney's got some of...
• Episode 12: A Family Matter
  Luke: I didn't kick you out, you got yourself kicked out.::Jess: Nice spin, you should work for Bush...
• Episode 13: Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospel
  Jess: [Jess gets in his car, finds an envelope with money, and gets out of the car. He stops when he...
• Episode 14: The Incredible Sinking Lorelais
  Luke: I mean you look distracted.::Lorelai: Distracted? No, well, maybe, yeah, distracted, okay, sur...
• Episode 15: Scene in a Mall
  Kirk tries his hand at dog sitting meanwhile the Gilmore girls are finally able to connect and decid...
• Episode 16: The Reigning Lorelai
  Jason: There was a real bad time in my family when we had someone die about once a month. Yeah, for ...
• Episode 17: Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist
  Paris: Excuse me for thinking a banana-eating contest was about eating a banana!...
• Episode 18: Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!
  Lorelai Gilmore: Wyle E. Coyote used them, that's how common they were.::Emily Gilmore: Who?::Lorela...
• Episode 19: Afterboom
  Rory Gilmore: FIRE!::Lorelai Gilmore: What?::Rory Gilmore: Nothing, I was just feeling left out....
• Episode 20: Luke Can See Her Face
  Guy on tape: Complete this sentence, I feel angry because...::Luke: I am listening to this tape.::Gu...
• Episode 21: Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
  Liz Danes: What was *your* wedding like? Were you this nervous?::Lorelai Gilmore: Never been married...
• Episode 22: Raincoats and Recipes
  Dereck: Lorelai, are you alright?::Lorelai: Well there's a debate going on about that....
• Season 5
• Episode 1: Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller
  Mr. Roarke: [throughout the series] Indeed!...
• Episode 2: A Messenger, Nothing More
  With Lorelai & Rory's relationship still strained and unresolved, Lorelai takes on everything at the...
• Episode 3: Written in the Stars
  Luke: I had Caesar open.::Lorelai: And he did, with a floor show....
• Episode 4: Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too
  Fed up with all the hoops Taylor makes Jackson go through, Jackson decides to run for town selectman...
• Episode 5: We Got Us a Pippi Virgin
  Emily Gilmore: It's a panic room.::Rory Gilmore: Like Jodie Foster?::Emily Gilmore: What does Jodie ...
• Episode 6: Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant!
  Rory Gilmore: They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.::Dean Forester: Yeah. Sex can do that al...
• Episode 7: You Jump, I Jump, Jack
  Logan: It'll be fun, it'll be a thrill. Something stupid, something bad for you. Just something diff...
• Episode 8: The Party's Over
  Lorelai: You're the perfect man.::Luke: Thank you.::Lorelai: I used to think it was Kelsey Grammer, ...
• Episode 9: Emily Says Hello
  Paris Geller: I need the exact time of today's sunset.::Rory Gilmore: I'm in the middle of an articl...
• Episode 10: But Not as Cute as Pushkin
  Richard: Logan!::Logan: Huh? Richard! [stands up to shake his hand] Wow, this is a pleasant surprise...
• Episode 11: Women of Questionable Morals
  Lorelai: Oh, forget the foot. I need caffeine. Whatever form you've got, I haven't had any all day. ...
• Episode 12: Come Home
  Kyon: She says not coming is same as spitting on ancestors and ancestors no like spit....
• Episode 13: Wedding Bell Blues
  Logan: Rory, you're special.::Rory: Like, "Stop eating the paste" special?...
• Episode 14: Say Something
  Lorelai: [ talking about Luke] He could have been the one.::Rory: He'll come around....
• Episode 15: Jews and Chinese Food
  Lorelai is hurt again when she realizes Luke has moved his boat from her garage without even telling...
• Episode 16: So... Good Talk
  Emily: [to Luke] My daughter and I aren't speaking. She won't take my calls. She won't come to dinne...
• Episode 17: Pulp Friction
  Lorelai: Hey, everything okay, Michel?::Michel: Yes, everything is fine. Lots of sunshine. I'll be r...
• Episode 18: To Live and Let Diorama
  Rory Gilmore: Why doesn't he like me, why won't he call me, what did I do?::Rory Gilmore: Mom.::Lore...
• Episode 19: But I'm a Gilmore!
  Michel: [Suki's doctor put her on bed rest for her pregnancy] Well, we need Suki here.::Lorelai: Wel...
• Episode 20: How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?
  Paris Geller: Sick people freak me out.::Doyle: You're pre-med!...
• Episode 21: Blame Booze and Melville
  USA...
• Episode 22: A House Is Not a Home
  Luke: Okay, I'm sorry. I have to jump in here. Uh, I know you think you have this thing handled, but...
• Season 6
• Episode 1: New and Improved Lorelai
  Emily Gilmore: [to Rory, who is asleep in bed in the pool house at 8:30] Good morning! You're still ...
• Episode 2: Fight Face
  Liz Danes: [talking about giving T.J. a carpentry job] Luke! His life depends on it.::Luke: How?::Li...
• Episode 3: The UnGraduate
  Luke: I'll gather up your stuff.::Lorelai: Last time you gathered my stuff you accidentally brought ...
• Episode 4: Always a Godmother, Never a God
  Lorelai Gilmore: He's snarky.::Sookie St. James: And sarcastic.::Lorelai Gilmore: He's snarcastic!...
• Episode 5: We've Got Magic to Do
  Emily: Now let's talk about your money. You were a two-bit gold-digger fresh off the bus from Hicksv...
• Episode 6: Welcome to the Dollhouse
  Taylor comes up with a plan for boosting local tourism by reviving old street names. Lorelai support...
• Episode 7: Twenty-One Is the Loneliest Number
  Luke: [talking about the pink drink Emily created] God, that's terrible. It's like drinking a "My Li...
• Episode 8: Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out
  Logan: Oh. You penned the great American novel, Jess?::Jess: Wasn't quite that ambitious.::Logan: So...
• Episode 9: The Prodigal Daughter Returns
  Jackson: [asking why Luke and Lorelai are fighting] Was it because I brought up my meat rub?::Sookie...
• Episode 10: He's Slippin' 'Em Bread... Dig?
  Lorelai Gilmore: Dry sugar on a dry toe isn't gonna work!...
• Episode 11: The Perfect Dress
  Anna: You would flip out if you saw a woman breastfeeding in public, you couldn't stand to watch dia...
• Episode 12: Just Like Gwen and Gavin
  Zack: Welcome to the SH, bitch!...
• Episode 13: Friday Night's Alright for Fighting
  Luke Danes: I actually bought a book, "Geometry for Dummies"; I stashed it in the kitchen and run ba...
• Episode 14: You've Been Gilmored
  Lorelai: You're going to have to tell me how it is living with a guy before I let Luke move in. If i...
• Episode 15: A Vineyard Valentine
  Lorelai Gilmore: [after receiving a massage] Oh wow, I was like in a zen trance, totally somewhere e...
• Episode 16: Bridesmaids Revisited
  Lorelai: And just remember, if things don't go well, we will stop loving you....
• Episode 17: I'm OK, You're OK
  Paris: Well, well, if it isn't New Haven's favorite whorehound.::Logan: Is Rory here?::Paris: Yes.::...
• Episode 18: The Real Paul Anka
  Luke Danes: First things first: What the hell is that?::Jess Mariano: It's an abstract painting.::Lu...
• Episode 19: I Get a Sidekick Out of You
  Lorelai Gilmore: Lorelai Gilmore: disappointing mothers since 1968....
• Episode 20: Super Cool Party People
  Sookie St. James: Super cool party people bid ya super cool adieu!::Sookie St. James: [Lorelai gives...
• Episode 21: Driving Miss Gilmore
  Liz Danes: Hey, let me tell you my big exciting news.::Luke Danes: Oh-oh.::Liz Danes: It's not an oh...
• Episode 22: Partings
  [Emily is ranting in the foyer, to Lorelai, about Christopher after a Friday night dinner]::Lorelai:...
• Season 7
• Episode 1: The Long Morrow
  [Paris talking to a woman who signed her daughter up for Paris' SAT prep class]::Paris: She's got a ...
• Episode 2: That's What You Get, Folks, for Makin' Whoopee
  Zack: [after coming back from a miserable honeymoon in Mexico] I found out I'm not morally opposed t...
• Episode 3: Lorelai's First Cotillion
  Rory Gilmore: Hey you're gonna wow em at your cotillion.::Beverly: Did you ever attend a cotillion?:...
• Episode 4: 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous
  Luke Danes: Don't worry.::Anna Nardini: I'm not worried... Okay, maybe a little....
• Episode 5: The Great Stink
  Lorelai: Bring Bring. Hi Rory, how are you?::Rory: Oh Logan's in town::Lorelai: Oh my goodness, that...
• Episode 6: Go, Bulldogs!
  Christopher Hayden: Thought our stomachs should start adjusting to French cuisine so I got us croisa...
• Episode 7: French Twist
  Christopher and Lorelai take his daughter Gigi to visit her mother in Paris. Despite severe jet lag,...
• Episode 8: Introducing Lorelai Planetarium
  Rory goes home to Stars Hollow to have dinner with her parents, where it is revealed that they elope...
• Episode 9: Knit, People, Knit!
  The basketball game that Christopher and Jackson are watching at the bar is the University of Kentuc...
• Episode 10: Merry Fisticuffs
  Lorelai: What about instead of La Boheme, we took our inspiration from Rent: East Village, 1985, ric...
• Episode 11: Santa's Secret Stuff
  Lorelai: My brain is a wild jungle full of scary gibberish. I'm writing a letter, I can't write a le...
• Episode 12: To Whom It May Concern
  USA...
• Episode 13: I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia
  Emily Gilmore: Some overused sayings are true, like children should be seen and not heard.::Lorelai ...
• Episode 14: Farewell, My Pet
  Lorelai: [while crying] [to Chris] I need you to know that you're the man that I want to want....
• Episode 15: I'm a Kayak, Hear Me Roar
  In this episode, Mitchum Huntzberger (Gregg Henry) says the word 'firefly' while having dinner with ...
• Episode 16: Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?
  Mrs. Kim: Better I watch my daughter writhe in pain?::Lane Kim: I wasn't writhing! Lorelai, tell her...
• Episode 17: Gilmore Girls Only
  Emily: He's just become a pain in the you-know-what.::Lorelai: Nose? Ear?::Emily: Would it really pl...
• Episode 18: Hay Bale Maze
  Michel Gerard: Whatever.::Sookie St. James: Michel, people stopped saying "whatever" like two years ...
• Episode 19: It's Just Like Riding a Bike
  Rory: Hey, hey, you got into Stanford! [Doyle and Rory start cheering]::Paris: Okay, enough of the h...
• Episode 20: Lorelai? Lorelai?
  When Rory is telling her family about not getting the job at the New York Times, Emily says that "if...
• Episode 21: Unto the Breach
  Liz Danes: [Luke chooses earrings, made by Liz, as a graduation present for Rory] All right. This is...
• Episode 22: Bon Voyage
  Lorelai Gilmore: Hey.::Luke Danes: Hey.::Lorelai Gilmore: Thank you.::Luke Danes: Aw, it's no big de...
• Season
• Episode : Unaired Pilot