Gilmore Girls — Episode Guide

3-18
2003.04.22

Happy Birthday, Baby!
A thumbnail sketch of the episode until the full recap goes live.

Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Author
3-18 Recaplet	Happy Birthday, Baby! Happy Birthday, Baby! - A thumbnail sketch of the episode until the full recap goes live.	2003.04.22 2003.04.22	Kim
3-17 Recap	The Tell-Tale Episode A Tale of Poes and Fire - Moving things along nicely, we find out where Rory's going to college, what's going to happen to the inn, and how they're kicking Jess off the show.	2003.04.15 2003.04.19	Pamie
3-16 Recap	Teen Sex Ruins Lives The Big One - ...unless you're Lorelai. But Rory doesn't partake in the sins of the flesh, so she gets to go to Harvard. Poor Paris.	2003.02.25 2003.03.03	Pamie
3-15 Recap	Poor Rory Face-Off - For one second, the town's focus was on something other than Rory, so she had to go out and get it back on her.	2003.02.18 2003.02.21	Pamie
3-14 Recap	Lucky Swan Swan Song - Jess has a black eye, Dean has an alibi.	2003.02.11 2003.02.14	Pamie
3-13 Recap	Flashback Scenes, Yea or Nay? Dear Emily and Richard - Nay, nay, nay.	2003.02.04 2003.02.07	Pamie
3-12 Recap	I'm Just a Girl. Someone Tell Me What To Think! Lorelai Out of Water - The women of Stars Hollow take seven giant steps backwards.	2003.01.28 2003.01.30	Pamie
3-11 Recap	Bossy Ladies I Solemnly Swear - Girls with agendas. Ladies with attitudes. Emily's outraged, Paris is outraged, Lorelai is outraged, Sookie is outraged, Rory plays dumb, and Jackson is almost cuckolded.	2003.01.21 2003.01.24	Pamie
3-10 Recap	Oh, Boy! That'll Do, Pig - Love is strange, but the way Rory and Paris act is even stranger.	2003.01.14 2003.01.21	Pamie
3-9 Recap	Thanks, But No Thanks A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving - What's worse than one long, drawn-out Thanksgiving episode? Four tiny ones without resolution. Everyone gets at least one line.	2002.11.26 2002.11.27	Pamie
3-8 Recap	Yale. Harvard. Jess. Dean. Get it? Got it? Good. Let the Games Begin - It's always two steps forward, three steps back with Rory, isn't it?	2002.11.19 2002.11.20	Pamie
3-7 Recap	Sniff! They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They? - Goodbye, CuteDean. We love you.	2002.11.12 2002.11.13	Pamie
3-6 Recap	Inappropriate! Take the Deviled Eggs... - Lorelai trashes a bathroom while Rory eggs a car. What's up with these ladies?	2002.11.05 2002.11.11	Pamie
3-5 Recap	Wet Teens! Wet Teens! Eight O'Clock at the Oasis - Fifty minutes of filler for one good moment when Jess and Rory are soaking wet and lusty.	2002.10.22 2002.10.29	Pamie
3-4 Recap	Hate Your Life? Try Bad Wigs. One Has Class and the Other One Dyes - Lorelai fights a gang of Bad Blonde Wigs while Lane dons a couple of her own.	2002.10.15 2002.10.17	Pamie
3-3 Recap	Rory's Sudden Freak-Out Application Anxiety - Oh, so Rory's not Harvard material? Now you tell us.	2002.10.08 2002.10.15	Pamie
3-2 Recap	Bully For You Haunted Leg - Rory finds out that politics isn't just fun and games as Lorelai learns that Emily has Christopher's home number.	2002.10.01 2002.10.02	Pamie
3-1 Recap	Look Who's Talking...Still Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days - To make up for months of silence, Rory and Lorelai talk until their mouths fall off the screen. One recapper tries to keep her fingers from going on strike.	2002.09.24 2002.09.25	Pamie
2-22 Recap	Speak Now and Forever, Forget the Peace I Can't Get Started - Everybody talks and we see no action. All action happens off-camera. Hey, what is this, a play? Give us some action!	2002.05.21 2002.05.24	Pamie
2-21 Recap	Rhapsody in Blue Lorelai's Graduation Day - Rory skips school because she loves that boy so much she won't stop until everyone's disappointed in her.	2002.05.14 2002.05.21	Pamie
2-20 Recap	His Girl Friday Help Wanted - Richard tries to make Lorelai his new secretary when he sees her natural talent at codependence. Rory wishes everybody didn't hate Jess, but there's nothing she can do about it.	2002.05.07 2002.05.10	Pamie
2-19 Recap	Jess Is Dumb Teach Me Tonight - This "very special" episode is all talk and hardly any bite. Lorelai gets angry when Jess almost kills Rory.	2002.04.30 2002.05.06	Pamie
2-18 Recap	Back in the Saddle Again Back in the Saddle Again - CuteDean reaches the breaking point a month too late. Richard and Paris bond. Michel and his mother start out with a side plot that gets dropped halfway through the show.	2002.04.23 2002.04.30	Pamie
2-17 Recap	The Dangers of Danielworld Dead Uncles and Vegetables - An entire hour of Gilmore Girls that advances not one storyline and is filled with grumpy, cranky, rude comments.	2002.04.16 2002.04.19	Pamie
2-16 Recap	Adultery, Theft, and Lies There's the Rub - Can't leave those Gilmore girls alone for a second.	2002.04.09 2002.04.14	Pamie
2-15 Recap	Jess Is a Tool Lost and Found - Rory realizes that her bracelet is missing once CuteDean points it out. Jess smirks and smugs his way through cleaning Lorelai's gutters. And yes, that is what the kids are calling it these days.	2002.02.26 2002.03.02	Pamie
2-14 Recap	WPM? A Billion. It Should Have Been Lorelai - Christopher flaunts his perfect new girlfriend around Stars Hollow. Emily freaks out. Lane is grounded.	2002.02.12 2002.02.14	Pamie
2-13 Recap	Tristan - Cute = Jess A-Tisket, A-Tasket - This week, we learn that the best thing to do is let boys figure things out on their own. Don't make waves. Just hang around and let them fight over you.	2002.02.05 2002.02.07	Pamie
2-12 Recap	Papa Don't Preach Richard in Stars Hollow - Pamie knows she uses that title too often, but for real, this episode is just about Lorelai dealing with her father's preaching. Pamie couldn't help it.	2002.01.29 2002.01.31	Pamie
2-11 Recap	Zzzzzzzzzzzz Secrets and Loans - All talk and no action. That's this episode. When Lorelai doesn't have any money to fix her house, it takes forty minutes of talking about what she should do and then another fifteen minutes of talking about what she should have done.	2002.01.22 2002.01.24	Pamie
2-10 Recap	Ye Olde Plote The Bracebridge Dinner - Daniel Palladino assembles his finest cameos all in one room so no real story has to be flushed out. Brilliant!	2001.12.11 2001.12.18	Pamie
2-9 Recap	Philllipppe, CuteDean, Troilus, Cressida Run Away, Little Boy - A Shakespeare project brings the preps of Chilton to Stars Hollow. Philllipppe returns to make Rory furious and fiery. Lorelai has a play-date.	2001.11.27 2001.11.30	Pamie
2-8 Recap	Mamma Mia! The Ins & Outs of Inns - The owner of the Independence Inn breezes into Stars Hollow, forcing Lorelai to wonder whether she's making the right decision by going into business with Sookie.	2001.11.20 2001.11.23	Pamie
2-7 Recap	"Veronica! Dinner!" Like Mother, Like Daughter - Follow the linear storyline as Rory tries to do good and ends up being bad.	2001.11.13 2001.11.15	Pamie
2-6 Recap	Balls. But Not In That Funny Way. Presenting Lorelai Gilmore - Rory becomes a lady to make Emily happy. Emily's still not happy. Christopher shapes up and becomes an upstanding citizen, making Lorelai forget about how he's abandoned her for the past sixteen years.	2001.11.06 2001.11.10	Pamie
2-5 Recap	There's a New Boy in Town Nick and Nora/Sid and Nancy - And he's looking clich�d. Luke and Lorelai fight about childrearing as Rory handles The Max Situation.	2001.10.30 2001.11.01	Pamie
2-4 Recap	Responsibility's For Suckers! The Road Trip to Harvard - In a very special episode brought to you by Harvard and Certs, Rory and Lorelai ditch all responsibility and have other people handle their problems as they bad-mouth people to their faces and trespass on other people's property.	2001.10.23 2001.10.25	Pamie
2-3 Recap	Run, Max! Run! Red Light on a Wedding Night - The only thing worse than having to marry Max is having to marry Lorelai. Talk about bossy!	2001.10.16 2001.10.18	Pamie
2-2 Recap	Panic and Freak-Outs Hammers and Veils - Rory figures out that she'll never get into Harvard if she doesn't find a retarded kid and ditch the surfer boyfriend. Lorelai tells Emily that she's engaged and is met with an icy silence.	2001.10.09 2001.10.12	Pamie
2-1 Recap	The Longest Summer Sadie, Sadie - We're still back in time as Lorelai decides to get hitched and Rory brings a boy to the Gilmore home for the first time.	2001.10.09 2001.10.11	Pamie
1-21 Recap	Season Fi-wha? Love, Daisies and Troubadours - We end the season with lots of love, all the townies, and the ultimate John Hughes tribute.	2001.05.10 2001.05.12	Pamie
1-20 Recap	Rory Gets Grumpy P.S. I Lo... - Suddenly Rory gets all pissy and has to deal with her break-up. Ah, to hell with continuity. CuteDean is back! Now with less floppy hair!	2001.05.03 2001.05.07	Pamie
1-19 Recap	Rune and Rachel: The Bad Seeds of Stars Hollow Emily in Wonderland - Emily and Rory bond over antiques until Emily finds out more about Rory's past than she wanted to know.	2001.04.26 2001.05.05	Pamie
1-18 Recap	Friday, Sunday, Happy Days. Friday, Friday, Happy Days The Third Lorelai - Richard's mother, the original Lorelai, bitches into town, causing ulcers for Emily and a giant dilemma for Lorelai. Well, it's only a dilemma once Emily chimes in. Rory helps Paris on her first date and Mrs. Cunningham is a delightful old bag.	2001.03.22 2001.03.28	Pamie
1-17 Recap	Scary Nipple! Scary Nipple! The Breakup, Part 2 - Rory chooses not to wallow in her recent breakup, but rather to get some work done. Lorelai's along for the early-ass ride, since the entire town is already aware of Rory's fragile condition.	2001.03.15 2001.03.23	Pamie
1-16 Recap	Love Bites Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers - Stars Hollow gets all mushy while the Gilmore girls have to deal with their own personal matters of the heart.	2001.03.08 2001.03.09	Pamie
1-15 Recap	Family Matters Christopher Returns - Christopher wants back into Lorelai's life, and all Hell breaks loose.	2001.03.01 2001.03.06	Pamie
1-14 Recap	There's Something About Rory That Damn Donna Reed - The girls learn something about their own co-dependence as they spend an evening with their significant others.	2001.02.22 2001.02.23	Pamie
1-13 Recap	A Hazy Shade of Whining Concert Interruptus - The Gilmore girls score tickets to see The Bangles. Lorelai takes this as the perfect opportunity to bribe Rory some friends.	2001.02.15 2001.02.19	Pamie
1-12 Recap	Two, Two, Two Dates in One! Double Date - Lorelai and Rory both go off on separate hell dates as Sookie tries to get closer to Jackson, and Lane thinks she's found another soulmate.	2001.01.18 2001.01.25	Pamie
1-11 Recap	Snotty Girls Need Love Too Paris Is Burning - Lorelai evaluates her relationship with Max as Paris becomes the school's rumor target.	2001.01.11 2001.01.12	Pamie
1-10 Recap	Sniffles, Part Two Forgiveness and Stuff - All holiday cheer is put on hold when Grampa suddenly goes to the hospital. The Gilmore girls learn who their true friends are, and the importance of family -- just as a good holiday special is supposed to teach you.	2000.12.21 2000.12.28	Pamie
1-9 Recap	A Christmas Rory Rory's Dance - Rory gets her first formal dance, where she learns that boys can be jerks, other boys can be boyfriends, and curfew means don't fall asleep reading Dorothy Parker.	2000.12.20 2000.12.27	Pamie
1-8 Recap	Love and War and Snow Love and War and Snow - With a blizzard hitting the Gilmore Girls, everyone is up to a little bit of trouble. Well, except Rory, who always remains quite squeaky-clean. But that's why we love her.	2000.12.14 2000.12.19	Pamie
1-7 Recap	Thank You. Kiss and Tell - Thanks, Gilmore Girls, for making pamie have to re-evaluate her early romances. The Mental Anguish suit is still pending. Her people will call you. Your people had better send over some Doritos and a cute young boy to pet her hair and call her a pretty princess. We're just sayin'.	2000.11.16 2000.11.20	Pamie
1-6 Recap	Pudding. Just another reason to hate Bill Cosby. Rory's Birthday Parties - It's all about Rory this week, as she has more parties than she wants -- with more people than she wants, and more presents than she wants -- and ends up sassing around just a bit too big for her sixteen-year-old britches. It doesn't matter. This show rules.	2000.11.09 2000.11.11	Pamie
1-5 Recap	Gilmore Girls Discover Boys Cinnamon's Wake - In this episode, our heroines discover the opposite sex. Lorelai and Mr. Medina decide they are attracted to one another and decide to start dating. Only, neither of them tells Rory until she discovers Mr. Medina on her front porch during Cinnamon's wake. That's right. They're having a wake for a two-hundred-sixty-year-old cat. Life is just so darn bittersweet.	2000.11.02 2000.11.08	Ragdoll
1-4 Recap	All's Well That Ends Well The Deerhunters - Lorelai and Rory have parallel bad days; in fact, they have parallel bad weeks. As both women adjust to the school change, books are lost, cars are dented ,and worlds are tripped over. Meanwhile, poor Sookie mercilessly chases down a restaurant reviewer who had the audacity to call her "magic" risotto "fine."	2000.10.26 2000.11.01	Ragdoll
1-3 Recap	My Grampa and me, like to climb up a tree... Kill Me Now - It's more of the same wholesome, good-natured fun you've come to expect from this show. No, really. It is. This week's lesson: even snotty, rich, bigoted grandfathers like to brag about their granddaughters if they're good enough for it.	2000.10.19 2000.10.24	Pamie
1-2 Recap	The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton - Rory asks why Lorelai is insisting on painting her toes. Lorelai explains that Rory is starting private school and that "everyone knows that private-school girls are bad. And bad girls wear red nail polish."	2000.10.12 2000.10.12	Pamie
1-1 Recap	Pilot Pilot - Looking through the opening credits also tells me that Gilmore Girls might be the most ethnically diverse cast in WB history. This probably seals its untimely fate.	2000.10.05 2000.10.05	Pamie
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