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|job = Tenured professor at [[Yale]]<br>Writer |
|job = Tenured professor at [[Yale]]<br>Writer |
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|romances = [[Paris Geller]] (ex-girlfriend) |
|romances = [[Paris Geller]] (ex-girlfriend) |
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| + | Unnamed ex-girlfriends<br> |
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| + | Unnamed ex-wife |
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|friends = [[Richard Gilmore]] |
|friends = [[Richard Gilmore]] |
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| − | |family = Andrea (granddaughter) |
+ | |family = Leonard (son), Andrea (granddaughter), Sarah (granddaughter) |
|actor = [[Michael York]] |
|actor = [[Michael York]] |
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|seasons = [[Season 4]] |
|seasons = [[Season 4]] |
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|last = [[Luke Can See Her Face]] |
|last = [[Luke Can See Her Face]] |
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|episodes = 4 |
|episodes = 4 |
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| − | }}'''Asher Fleming''' is a recurring character on [[Season 4]] of |
+ | }}'''Asher Fleming''' is a recurring character on [[Season 4]] of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', portrayed by [[Michael York]]. |
== Character == |
== Character == |
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Asher is a [[Yale]] professor and author, who develops a romantic relationship with [[Paris Geller]]. The two meet through [[Richard Gilmore]], because Asher and Richard were classmates at [[Yale]].<ref>[[Ted Koppel's Big Night Out]]</ref> Despite the massive age difference, Paris and Asher had a serious relationship throughout Paris and [[Rory Gilmore|Rory]]'s freshman year of Yale.<ref>[[The Nanny and the Professor]]</ref><ref>[[Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels]]</ref><ref>[[Luke Can See Her Face]]</ref> |
Asher is a [[Yale]] professor and author, who develops a romantic relationship with [[Paris Geller]]. The two meet through [[Richard Gilmore]], because Asher and Richard were classmates at [[Yale]].<ref>[[Ted Koppel's Big Night Out]]</ref> Despite the massive age difference, Paris and Asher had a serious relationship throughout Paris and [[Rory Gilmore|Rory]]'s freshman year of Yale.<ref>[[The Nanny and the Professor]]</ref><ref>[[Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels]]</ref><ref>[[Luke Can See Her Face]]</ref> |
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| − | Asher dies of a heart attack two weeks before Rory and Paris's sophomore year of Yale begins.<ref>[[Written |
+ | Asher dies of a heart attack two weeks before Rory and Paris's sophomore year of Yale begins.<ref>[[Written In The Stars]]</ref> He was teaching a Shakespeare class in Oxford when he had the heart attack. He left Paris an eighteenth-century printing press, which she briefly stored in the common room she shared with Rory.<ref>[[Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too]]</ref> |
== Trivia == |
== Trivia == |
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* Asher dedicates his novel Jaglon (2004) to Paris, a 'wise, willful, wonderful woman'.<ref name=":0">[[Afterboom]]</ref> |
* Asher dedicates his novel Jaglon (2004) to Paris, a 'wise, willful, wonderful woman'.<ref name=":0">[[Afterboom]]</ref> |
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| − | * Doyle tells Rory that Asher is known for his string of affairs with the female students. |
+ | * [[Doyle McMaster|Doyle]] tells Rory that Asher is known for his string of affairs with the female students. |
| + | * Paris was still with Jamie when her and Asher got together. |
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== Notes and references == |
== Notes and references == |
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{{Reflist}} |
{{Reflist}} |
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[[Category:Yale]] |
[[Category:Yale]] |
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Latest revision as of 20:48, 19 December 2023
Asher Fleming is a recurring character on Season 4 of Gilmore Girls, portrayed by Michael York.
Character
Asher is a Yale professor and author, who develops a romantic relationship with Paris Geller. The two meet through Richard Gilmore, because Asher and Richard were classmates at Yale.[1] Despite the massive age difference, Paris and Asher had a serious relationship throughout Paris and Rory's freshman year of Yale.[2][3][4]
Asher dies of a heart attack two weeks before Rory and Paris's sophomore year of Yale begins.[5] He was teaching a Shakespeare class in Oxford when he had the heart attack. He left Paris an eighteenth-century printing press, which she briefly stored in the common room she shared with Rory.[6]
Trivia
- Asher dedicates his novel Jaglon (2004) to Paris, a 'wise, willful, wonderful woman'.[7]
- Doyle tells Rory that Asher is known for his string of affairs with the female students.
- Paris was still with Jamie when her and Asher got together.