Why is Paris such a bitch? (We hear from our niece she was originally auditioning for Rory - no! no!) Liza Weil.
The moment future husband Max (Scott Medina) start wondering if Rory and Dean have been outside on the porch too long is the moment we know the relationship's in danger.
Luke's nephew comes to stay - dial T for Trouble. We thought he looked familiar - it's only a young Milo Ventimiglia!
Film references galore - some of these are from Season One, but most from here: Casablanca's last line is quoted by Rory, Chinatown's last line quoted by Lorelai. We have a double reference in the episode that is titled 'Nick & Nora / Sid & Nancy'. We have a discussion about a Ruth Gordon retrospective of Harold and Maude, Rosemary's Baby and 'that episode of Taxi'. A nose twitch from Bewitched is referenced, as is Hannibal Lecter and (inevitably) Frank Capra. And Oscar and Felix (The Odd Couple) and Abbott & Costello. Then Bringing Up Baby, Misery, On The Town, Mystic Pizza, The Thomas Crown Affair, GF3, Purple Rain, Silkwood, From Here To Eternity, 'Tara' (the house in GWTW), Julia, Young Frankenstein, Risky Business, John Cleese and Life of Brian, Cocktail, The Yearling and 'Grasshopper' from Kung Fu! Autumn in New York I did not know, but it doesn't look very good; Billy Jack is supposedly even worse, though the girls seem to enjoy taking the piss out of it.
Rory is the strongest, kindest, most hard-working, loyal, empathic, beautiful and delightful of characters. The episode where she falls out with her mum so badly that she takes off for grandparents' house is most memorable. And the sequence of punishments she has planned for herself when running off to NYC.
Loved Lorelai's made-up fast food expressions like ordering 'An Adam and Eve - and destroy it' (two eggs scrambled) and 'Burn one, and a pink stick with mud on it' (a burger and ice cream and chocolate sauce)!
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