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Gilmore Girls

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Posted byhonestlylorelai
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in/gilmoregirls-Sep 30, 2016 at 5:29 PM

Friday Night Dinner: Friday Night Dinners

  • lorelai gilmore
  • rory gilmore
  • emily gilmore
  • richard gilmore

I know that title seems a little repetitive (and redundant) (and repetitive) (and redundant), but let's talk about Friday Night Dinners. What were some of your favorite dinner scenes at the Gilmore house?

Comments5
  • honestlylorelaiSep 30, 2016 at 5:34 PMΔ

    My favorite is the dinner in Friday Night's Alright for Fighting. I love that after years of running away from her family's problems (in both the literal and figurative sense of the word), Lorelai's the one who finally makes them all sit down and talk through their issues. The fact that it's shot like a reality show could have been really gimmicky but I think it works to balance the anger all the characters are feeling with the light-hearted drama the show is known for.

  • luvtheheavenOct 02, 2016 at 12:01 AM

    It's hard to pick lol! I like most of them for different reasons. ;) I have a soft spot in my heart for the 2x13 "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" one near the end where Rory is ganged up on about the Jess vs. Dean stuff earlier in the episode, she tries to escape and call Lane but Lane has her own problems and refuses the call, and idk... There's something a little different about that dinner and I enjoy it (and its angst) for whatever reason.

    • honestlylorelaiOct 03, 2016 at 8:34 PM

      That's a good one! Is that the one where Lane ends up in Rory's room with Lorelai because Rory's too wrapped up in her own issues to help Lane with hers, or am I thinking of another ep?

      • luvtheheavenOct 03, 2016 at 10:15 PM

        That is "Love and War and Snow" in season 1 where because of the snow Max is going to spend the night with Lorelai and Rory is trapped/snowed in at her grandparents', but Lane was looking for Rory and interrupts Lorelei and Max's alone time by being in the house, and Lorelai and Lane have a great heart to heart. Rory discovers a Polaroid or photobooth kind of photo of her parents in the 80s, its before the first Christopher episode.

        "A-Tisket, A-Tasket", the one I mentioned, is the picnic bid-on-a-basket and win a date episode where Lane is so afraid to tell her mom about the guy she really likes that she loses him anyway. Lane is crying in bed when Rory calls the Kim household from Richard's study and Rory convinces Lane's mother to let her talk to Lane just this once at a late night time. Only lane says she's sick or something and can't talk to Rory. Mainly though the dinner included Lorelai and Emily agreeing that Jess was bad and Dean was good and Rory can't stand it?? Idk lol. I need to rewatch some episodes to remind myself.

        Those two season 1 Friday night dinners you mentioned were really amazing though. I feel extra bad for Chris when you explain it like that! ;)

  • honestlylorelaiOct 03, 2016 at 8:32 PM

    I just thought of two more: the dinner in "Christopher Returns" where Richard throws Christopher's parents out of his house, and the very next episode "Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers" where Richard lets Lorelai sneak out after Emily tries to set her up with a total bore. In both cases I felt like the dinners were very revealing when it comes to the relationships between all the characters involved.

    In the first one, we see Strobe and Francine meeting Rory for the first time since she was a toddler--that alone is very telling about their characters, that they apparently haven't acknowledged their granddaughter in all that time. The fact that they talk about Lorelai supposedly ruining Chris's life by getting pregnant right in front of Rory with no regard for her feelings at all shows what kind of childhood Christopher probably had. Richard standing up for Lorelai is one of my favorite moments of the series, even if he does kind of ruin it later by reminding her what a disappointment she is while she's trying to thank him.

    Back when I was a serious Lorelai/Chris shipper that balcony scene was also one of my favorite moments. :P It still kind of is, but for different reasons; I think this too says a lot without saying a lot, you know? In that moment (and maybe anytime they're together) they're both emotionally stuck at 16, and they cope with their problems the way they did at 16.

    Richard and Lorelai silently bonding over how boring that guy was in "Star-Crossed" is hilarious, because it's clear how alike they are. The part where he catches her sneaking out is another of my all-time favorite Gilmore moments. She gives this long, rambly apology for disappointing him and acknowledges that there's nothing she can do about it, and that feels like real growth for her--she's not just digging in her heels, she's owning her choices while still acknowledging his point of view. And I love that he doesn't respond except to tell Emily that she's not there--Richard isn't a man who talks about his feelings much, but that was his way of accepting her apology and maybe offering one of his own and Lorelai gets that, because that's just how they communicate. I've always thought it's really sweet when she calls him "Daddy" (tumblr kinkshaming aside).

    Basically I'm a big fan of scenes with a lot of subtext to pick apart.

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