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05/15/2007

The Good-bye Gilmore Girls Contest

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I just thought of another one... you know the Thanksgiving episode when Lorelei and Rory realize the commited themselves to 4 dinners? It's funny when they are like "what are we going to do?" Because they both eat like horses.

Posted by: nova | 05/15/2007

I already posted my favorite Rory moment over at Knitting Lemonade, so I'll post my favorite Lorelai moment here: When she and Luke are painting his diner in the first season and they're kneeling looking at his dad's order on the wall, and he says "thank you" to her, and they come so close to kissing. *sigh*

Posted by: Karin | 05/15/2007

Fun, fun, fun!!!

I've already mentioned this on my blog, but I absolutely love the Dance Marathon episode. Lorelei's so intent on winning, but after Rory breaks Dean's heart, she gives up on the trophy. And Kirk wins! Kirk always wins!

Posted by: laceyj. | 05/15/2007

I'm so sad it's ending!! I love after Jess is such a jerk to Rory and then they Devil egg his car.

Posted by: Christine | 05/15/2007

Mmm...so many to choose from...

I love the episode where Lorelai graduates from community college...specifically, the moment where she accepts her diploma on stage and her parents are all teary-eyed in the audience and she looks at them and proudly moves her tassle. Because: Aww.

Posted by: Rachel | 05/15/2007

We're freaky fans too! Unfortunately we can only watch it on DVD, so we won't feel the full extent of your pain until next September when season 7 is released. Then I'll be crushed.

There is no way I could choose just one moment, so thanks for the option of posting two! I think that my favorite for right now is the Friday night dinner when Lorelai and Rory make up with Emily & Richard after the Luke/Christopher debacle at the vow-renewing ceremony. One minute they're crying, then they're laughing, then shouting. It is paced very different from most GG scenes, but so so funny!

(My husband's moment is Kirk's unwillingness to come up three cents when bartering for books at the local bookstore sale. And of course Kirk's movie.)

Posted by: sulafaye | 05/15/2007

i liked any moment they had a super fast dialoge banter... oh wait that was all the time.

i always like jess so when Rory first choose him over dean - i confess it's one of my fav parts.

Posted by: margaux | 05/15/2007

Kay so I posted the thanksgiving one on the other blog, but the episode that i really like too is when Rory comes out as a deb and christopher is there. And you got to see flash backs of when Lorilei was supposed to come out. I love that whole one, something to do with the big, white, princess dresses.

Posted by: cassi | 05/15/2007

Kay so I posted the thanksgiving one on the other blog, but the episode that i really like too is when Rory comes out as a deb and christopher is there. And you got to see flash backs of when Lorilei was supposed to come out. I love that whole one, something to do with the big, white, princess dresses.

Posted by: cassi | 05/15/2007

Man I love Gilies. I was crushed to hear that they are ending. I started watching them during season 2. After I met my husband he got hooked. The only problem is that we always are gone on Tuesdays. So I get to watch everything 24 hours later.

My fave moment of many. Lane finally fessing up to her momma about all her hiding spots and she flips open every spot. So amazing. I went to a super strict boarding school and I had to hide my music like lane.

Posted by: chrispy | 05/15/2007

Fav moment: After Asher dies and she is telling Rory....Rory starts to try to ask if it happened during "you know" and Paris replies "No, this great man was not brought down by my vagina."
Definitely my favorite line.
I, too, was sad that it is leaving. I'm an addict and the first 5 seasons on DVD are my repetitive watching while knitting. However, I thought that this was the last season after Amy Sherman-Palladino left, and I kept getting confused by why things weren't getting wrapped up. When I read on your blog, that they just decided, I was rather bummed b/c I knew it didn't have time to end right. At least, Logan is out, though.

Posted by: Christy/ Not Hip | 05/15/2007

Ahh, I know, so sad! I love how Kirk has just about every single job every known to mankind--he's always popping up in random scenes. Then again, is directorial debut was pretty amazing too.

Posted by: Sophia | 05/15/2007

It's all because of Kdubbs that I'm hooked on GG, so I am sure a lot of it has to do with you as well! Thanks for the years of great memories:
I love when Luke and Lorelai break up and she is sooo sad and so she leaves the message on Luke's phone about the movie "The Way We Were" - when Katie (Barbra) calls Hubbell (Robert Redford) after they break up because he's her best friend and he is who she wants to be with when she's sad. (I had just seen TWWW the week before for the first time, so I was totally vibing with the scene) When Lorelai realizes what's she's done she runs to Luke's and steals his answering machine tape and when she gets back - he is there! Oh! So classic GG - The tenderness and deepness of the Luke/Lorelai friendship mixed with the pop culture reference, just makes very thing that much more powerful.

This was so good it prompted lots of tears and a call to Kdubbs to freak out!

Posted by: amy | 05/15/2007

I loved the episode where they had Lane's baby shower and they drug her down in the bed just to have one for her since she was under bedrest...I got such a kick out of their onsie decorating station....must be the baby urges in the air....

Posted by: BAM | 05/15/2007

I love all of the little quips and pop culture references. I probably miss about half of them, but they are hilarious. I know that it's not just *one* moment, but I couldn't pick just one.

Posted by: Heather | 05/15/2007

i love gilmore girls, too. my favorite moment is when lorelai asks luke to marry her. it was so sweet and unexpected and so lorelai.

Posted by: amanda | 05/15/2007

My favorite moment (if I have to narrow it down) was in season 2 in the episode titled The Bracebridge Dinner (I had to look that up). There was a snowman contest and Rory and Lorelei built a Bjork snowman. And the song that was playing was Bjork's Human Behavior. Its my favorite moment because it is so quintessentially Gilmore Girls -- non-sequitor, random, unexplained, and really an inside joke for the Bjork fans out there.

The passing of GG is especially poignant for me since I have been watching it for the last seven years with my daughter who is leaving home to go away to college. And so it goes . . .

Posted by: freerangeliberal | 05/15/2007

I have to admit that I wasn't an avid watcher this season, but I was for the first four.
I loved Lorelei and Rory's relationship. I think my favorite moment from Gilmore Girls was the night of Rory's 16th birthday when Dean made her a car and then says "I love you"... but she is afraid to say it back, and runs home.
Lorelai then instructs Rory to wallow after she tries to spend the morning running many, many errands. Once Lorelai convinces her, they have such a great moment when Rory finally cries.

Posted by: allie | 05/16/2007

I love Gilmore Girls so much I own all of them on DVD (except for the season that is airing on CW right now).

One of my favorite moments is from Season 3- Dear Emily and Richard- I just like the flashbacks of the younger Lorelai and Christopher. I like at the end when Lorelai is in the hospital and Emily and Richard are rusing in the hospital and Emily is all upset about how Lorelai left them a note that she was in labor and was going to the hospital.

Posted by: Jessica | 05/16/2007

I'm so sad to see GG go.

I love the episode where Headmaster Charles tries to get Rory to be more involved at Chilton rather than listening to her headphones and reading at lunch.

Posted by: Jodi | 05/16/2007

My favorite GG moment is when Richard and Emily have their minister over to convince Rory that having sex is a bad idea, and the minister tells rory that if she gives it away to one man, then all she has to give the next is a sweater.
That had me laughing for days.

Posted by: Kate | 05/16/2007

i love gg but am terrible at remembering tv, movies - anything. however, i did just love the knit out this season. the scene with all of them in the park knitting was definitely a fav moment for me.

Posted by: amy | 05/16/2007

I absolutely cried last night. It was so sad, but I think a good way to end the show. They wrapped up all the ends nicely.

How can I choose my favorite??

Um...perhaps the shirtless Kirk dancing movie extravangza?

Oh, and when Babette comes running up to Luke in the town square holding her bazooms, I can't remember what she was doing that for though...geez!

Or when Sookie threw that golf ball cake into the trash because the guy wanted a troll theme retirement party (what???!!)

But I can't leave out the episode when Sookie and Lorelia comment on Luke's butt the whole time. Too good.

Ok...I'm going to leave more on your sister's blog.

Posted by: Sarah | 05/16/2007

There are so many great moments from the first 6 seasons. I'm enjoying reading everyone else's favorite moments because it brings back such great memories. I really like that snowman one too! One of the many great moments for me was Lorelei learning French from tape before the Paris trip but she's repeating the English with a French accent instead. What about yours, are you going to tell us your favorite moment?

Posted by: Evelyn | 05/16/2007

It's not really a moment as it is moments. I like the very last scene of the first episode of the first season AND of the final eppisode of the seventh season, because they are the same!. The girls sitting in the diner with Luke in the background, giving them the time they need to be together but also in eyesight - watching over them and taking care of them. Kind of like the Stars Hallows' version of Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nighthawks). I loved how they bookend the series like that; basically saying that everything has changed but yet everythings still the same.
I also love the Dragon Fly Inn's test run for the town and the bay brige(?) theme dinner!

Posted by: Adrienne | 05/16/2007

I love it at the end of season 4 when Luke realizes that he wants to date Lorelai while he's listening to those self-help audiobooks. He's so earnest about courting her properly. I love it!

Posted by: Susan | 05/16/2007

I cried my eyes out last night!

One of my favorite moments was when Lore gave Luke an ultimatum and he didn't say yes so she called off the wedding and slept with Chris.

When Luke comes to see her the next day he is so desperate, rambling with all the possibilities. He just wants to be with her. When she tells him what happened the night before he just leaves. He doesn't get angry and yell or scream. He is very upset but doesn't take it out on her and that is classy in my book.

Posted by: brandilion | 05/16/2007

omgoodness, i started crying right when emily looked kicked in the gut at rory's job announcement, and didn't stop until a good 20 minutes after the show was over. it was the perfect ending, and a little piece of me died when they started to pan out on the two of them ordering ridiculous amounts of breakfast in the diner, because it would be the last time we would see that.

okay, one of my favorite moments (there's about 5,300, so i'll just pick one) was when paris and rory got on the paper at chilton, and paris got editor. she and rory had had a grudge going for some time, and rory tried to get paris to let it go, since they would be working together. paris pretends to be okay with that, then tells rory the first meeting is at 4, when it's actually at 3:15. this caused rory to show up late in front of everyone, then paris gives her a crap assignment for her first story (covering the repaving of the parking lot.) after the meeting, rory gives one of her fantastic comebacks, telling paris she can keep giving her crap stories all she wants, that she's gonna write the best damn paper on paving you ever saw, and the next day she'll write the best copper piping story, etc. etc.

that was kinda rambly, but there you have it. =]

Posted by: amy | 05/17/2007

Ooh! Ooh! The music nerd in me got off-the-wall excited when Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth along with their daughter Coco performed on last year's season finale. So edgy!

Posted by: Faith | 05/17/2007

Bugger, I think I'm out by 16 minutes...

My favourite, amoung many, many, many would have to be the Luke/Kirk battle for Twickham house!!! Kirk the bad boy....Ha!

Please Season 7 on DVD soon, it's killing me here in Australia, reading all these Season 7 references!!!!

Posted by: Rachael | 05/18/2007

I'll probably be disqualified for this because I've never actually seen the show. BUT, my husband's best friend has seen them all, so my favorite part about the Gilmore Girls is teasing this macho guy about watching a girly show. Good times. Goooood times.

Posted by: 5elementnknitr | 05/18/2007

ok, i know i've already commented, but I just rewatched the finale and I think the sweetest part about it is when Lorelai and Rory pull up to the surprise party and Jackson and Zach come out with the umbrellas. How fitting that Jackson and Zach are taking care of the best friends of the women they love. Reminds me of how much my best friends husbands mean to me and the strange but special relationships I have with them.

Posted by: amy | 05/20/2007