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Gilmore Girls

  • TV Series
  • 2000–20072000–2007
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 44m
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Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham in Gilmore Girls (2000)
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A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.A dramedy centering around the relationship between a thirtysomething single mother and her teen daughter living in Stars Hollow, Connecticut.
IMDb RATING
8.2/10
121K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
144
13
  • Creator
    • Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Stars
    • Lauren Graham
    • Alexis Bledel
    • Keiko Agena
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  • Creator
    • Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Stars
    • Lauren Graham
    • Alexis Bledel
    • Keiko Agena
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 433User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
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    • Won 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 23 wins & 85 nominations total

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    Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson in Gilmore Girls (2000)
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    Lauren Graham
    Lauren Graham
    • Lorelai Gilmore
    154 episodes154 eps • 2000–2007
    Alexis Bledel
    Alexis Bledel
    • Rory Gilmore
    154 episodes154 eps • 2000–2007
    Keiko Agena
    Keiko Agena
    • Lane Kim…
    154 episodes154 eps • 2000–2007
    Scott Patterson
    Scott Patterson
    • Luke Danes
    154 episodes154 eps • 2000–2007
    Yanic Truesdale
    Yanic Truesdale
    • Michel Gerard
    154 episodes154 eps • 2000–2007
    Kelly Bishop
    Kelly Bishop
    • Emily Gilmore
    154 episodes154 eps • 2000–2007
    Edward Herrmann
    Edward Herrmann
    • Richard Gilmore
    154 episodes154 eps • 2000–2007
    Melissa McCarthy
    Melissa McCarthy
    • Sookie St. James
    153 episodes153 eps • 2000–2007
    Sean Gunn
    Sean Gunn
    • Kirk Gleason…
    137 episodes137 eps • 2000–2007
    Liza Weil
    Liza Weil
    • Paris Geller
    127 episodes127 eps • 2000–2007
    Liz Torres
    Liz Torres
    • Miss Patty
    79 episodes79 eps • 2000–2007
    Jared Padalecki
    Jared Padalecki
    • Dean Forester
    63 episodes63 eps • 2000–2005
    Matt Czuchry
    Matt Czuchry
    • Logan Huntzberger
    59 episodes59 eps • 2004–2007
    Jackson Douglas
    Jackson Douglas
    • Jackson Belleville…
    57 episodes57 eps • 2000–2007
    Michael Winters
    Michael Winters
    • Taylor Doose
    53 episodes53 eps • 2000–2007
    Sally Struthers
    Sally Struthers
    • Babette Dell
    52 episodes52 eps • 2000–2007
    Emily Kuroda
    Emily Kuroda
    • Mrs. Kim
    43 episodes43 eps • 2000–2007
    Todd Lowe
    Todd Lowe
    • Zack Van Gerbig…
    42 episodes42 eps • 2002–2007
    • Creator
      • Amy Sherman-Palladino
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Alexis Bledel hates coffee, but Rory, her character, loves it. Whenever you see her drinking "coffee" in the series, she is actually drinking Coca-Cola out of her cup.
    • Goofs
      More than a few episodes have mic drops into the top of the scene. There is also at least one episode at Lorelai and Rory's house that shows a brown sweater sleeve of a crew member on the right side for a brief second.
    • Quotes

      [Luke and Lorelai's first real date; they have just read a long story on the back of a menu, hence the menu line]

      Lorelai: Hey, do you remember the first time we met?

      Luke: What?

      Lorelai: I'm just trying to remember the first time we met. It must have been at Luke's, right?

      Luke: [nods] It was at Luke's, it was at lunch, it was a very busy day, the place was packed, and this person...

      Lorelai: Ooh, is it me? Is it me?

      Luke: This person comes tearing into the place in a caffeine frenzy.

      Lorelai: [happily] Ooh, it's me.

      Luke: I was with a customer. She interrupts me, wild-eyed, begging for coffee, so I tell her to wait her turn. Then she starts following me around, talking a mile a minute, saying God knows what. So finally I turn to her, and I tell her she's being annoying - sit down, shut up, I'll get to her when I get to her.

      Lorelai: Y'know, I bet she took that very well, 'cause she sounds just delightful.

      Luke: She asked me what my birthday was. I wouldn't tell her. She wouldn't stop talking. I gave in. I told her my birthday. Then she opened up the newspaper to the horoscope page, wrote something down, tore it out, handed it to me.

      Lorelai: God, seriously. You wrote the menu, didn't you?

      Luke: So I'm looking at this piece of paper in my hand, and under Scorpio, she had written 'You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she'll go away.' I gave her coffee.

      Lorelai: [grins] But she didn't go away.

      Luke: She told me to hold on to that horoscope, put it in my wallet, and carry it around with me -

      [takes a piece of paper from his wallet and gives it to her]

      Luke: one day it would bring me luck.

      Lorelai: [teasing] Well, man, I will say anything for a cup of coffee

      [reads it, grows serious]

      Lorelai: Um... I can't believe you kept this. You kept this in your wallet?

      [sees his face]

      Lorelai: You kept this in your wallet.

      Luke: Eight years.

      Lorelai: [emotionally] Eight years.

    • Crazy credits
      The Dorothy Parker Drank Here production logo after end credits to each episode features an illustration of Dorothy drinking a bottle of wine.
    • Connections
      Featured in The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2002)
    • Soundtracks
      Where You Lead
      (remixed version)

      Written by Carole King and Toni Stern

      Performed by Carole King and Louise Goffin

    User reviews433

    Review
    Top review
    Life (caffeinated, with some lemon juice please)
    Gilmore Girls is one of those shows that people love because they're so adorable...and they simply don't know it. And not teen pop bunk adorable, but as in they're easy to love. I was surprised by the quality of the series, considering it's on the WB. It's intelligent, creative, and sophisticated in an everyday way. And even though this show has enough sarcasm to give you heartburn (it's fueled by sarcasm, in double digit gallons) the characters are fleshed out and live an alternate lifestyle that may be foreign, but is completely believable. These aren't people who live stereotyped mid class American TV lives, they live like the people next door, but like the strange people next door. They're those specially chosen eccentrics, small town hicks, artists, and snobs who are so full of quirks and idiosyncrasies they tend to make our lives colorful.

    And this show is about characters and how they relate to each other. The crux of the show is the relationship between the close in age coffee addict mother (Loralai, played by the fantastic Lauren Graham) and daughter (Rory, beautifully played by Alexis Bledel) who have an unusually close knit, and witty, relationship. The two are an eccentric pair, they live for each other and pay no heed to those who sneer upon them and indulge in their wacky Bohemian-ness. They eat at Luke's Diner for breakfast and order economy size platters of Chinese food from Al's House of Pancakes. Rory likes chaperones, Loralai intrinsically trusts her daughter.

    When Rory is accepted to a posh prep school (which she doesn't care for, but deals with because, quite simply, she has a higher IQ than most of the town and wants to get to Harvard) paid for by her incorrigible and borderline personality grandmother (another recurring character), her mother has to take a job she doesn't want at a first class hotel, and thus a whole passel of problems and dilemmas occur. Long term plot lines gracefully combine with town occurrences, scandals, gossip, etc, and create a show with as much flavor and pizzazz as Stars Hollow can take.

    And where the sarcasm and one liners, bizarre scenarios and crazy happenings flow freely there's always an underlying riptide that surfaces quickly here and there, and the tensions that arise can become especially pungent because we're allowed to be close to the characters. For example, in one episode Rory accidentally falls asleep next to her boyfriend late one night while they were both reading a book together, and next morning they are found by Miss Patty (the fabulously fabulous Liz Torres who is also from "American Family"), nothing had happened, Rory is completely innocent, but Loralai is worried when she's alerted that she hadn't come home and receives the call that they had been found together. Rory's grandmother jumps to conclusions and starts harshly saying that Rory has ruined her life just the way Loralai had, but her mother adamantly sticks up for her. Yet when Rory comes in, they have an explosive fight, with Rory crushed that her mother didn't trust or believe her.

    And yet situations with even a slight potential for sugaryness are resolved with lightning fast dialogue a la `Philadelphia Story'. The fact that they're close is already there, anything else feels wrong. This is the genius of the show's writing and acting. All said, whether during revealing moments of emotion or poignancy, or the standard rib cracking, fire crackling wit and sarcasm, this show gets under your skin and refuses to let go. It's more than a gem, and I hope that it lasts.
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    • mercybell
    • Aug 16, 2002

    FAQ21

    • how accurate Is the cast list, rewatching series 1 & 2 and Richard Gilmore has already missed 3 episodes yet cast list says he was in all? Don't think his wife was in them all either
    • Can I visit the filming locations?
    • What is Rory's full name?

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    • Release date
      • October 5, 2000 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • The CW (United States)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Gilmore Girls: Beginnings
    • Filming locations
      • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions
      • Hofflund/Polone
      • Warner Bros. Television
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    • Runtime
      44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
      • Dolby Digital

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