Hammers and Veils is the 2nd episode of Season 2 of Gilmore Girls.
Synopsis[]
Lorelai (Lauren Graham) tries to decide what veil length she would like to wear for her wedding, while Rory (Alexis Bledel) starts the summer session at Chilton and volunteers to build houses for the needy. Meanwhile, Dean (Jared Padalecki) is feeling left out of Rory's life when she starts planning a slew of extracurricular activities.
Starring[]
- Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
- Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
- Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James
- Keiko Agena as Lane Kim
- Yanic Truesdale as Michel Gerard
- Scott Patterson as Luke Danes
- Liza Weil as Paris Geller
- Jared Padalecki as Dean Forester
- and Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore
- special appearance by
- Edward Herrmann as Richard Gilmore
- Recurring cast
- Liz Torres as Miss Patty
- Jackson Douglas as Jackson Belleville
- Sean Gunn as Kirk Gleason
- Shelly Cole as Madeline Lynn
- Teal Redmann as Louise Grant
- Guest starring
- Biff Yeager as Tom[1]
- Eddie Shin as Henry Cho
- and Scott Cohen as Max Medina
Quotes[]
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- Luke – Yep, there's nothing like a wedding to screw up a family
- Lorelai – Or, in my case, there's nothing like a family to screw up a family
Trivia[]
- Lane goes to Pusan.
- Max leaves for Toronto for two months.
- Paris has known Madeline since she was at least 8 years old.
- CONTINUITY
- Emily says she wore a tiara at her wedding, but in Love and War and Snow when Rory shows the album with old pictures to her grandparents, they came across a wedding picture of Richard and Emily where Emily is not wearing a tiara.
Music[]
- spring released | GRANT LEE PHILLIPS
- love will keep us together | CAPTAIN & TENNILLE
- one fine day | THE CHIFFONS
- until the real thing comes along | DEAN MARTIN
- love is everywhere I go | SAM PHILLIPS
Photos[]
Gilmorisms[]
MUSIC
- "Music" by Madonna
- Frank Sinatra
- The Damned
- Bette Midler
LITERATURE
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
FILM
POP CULTURE
- Lorelai – (about her veil) And then there's the full on Diana.
- Paris – You have to go to college.
- Louise – Princess Grace didn't go to college.
- Paris – Thank you for the history lesson, A.J. Benza
- Lorelai – He's the one with the early plane. We don't have to go anywhere tomorrow. We can stay all night. Have a party, do some Jell-O shots, play "Light as a feather, stiff as a board."
- Lorelai – I have hit a level of perfection that has rarely been seen outside the Victoria's Secret catalog.
- Lorelai – Yeah, well, by the time I could get my jaw off the ground, Speed Racer had taken my plate.
- Lorelai – You know, the Gettysburg Address was only one page long, and that was about a war.
- Rory – Why don't you go on inside and you and my mother can continue the 'Rory's building a house' routine and when that gets boring you can move on over to Who's on First?
- Rory – Funny, I never pictured you as a Bob Vila kind of girl.
- Rory – Paris has been accumulating these things since she could walk. I mean, she has a list of good deeds that could bump Mother Teresa off the Harvard list.
- Michel – If I eat that, I cannot have my Boca Burger later.
- Rory – I will be tying yellow ribbons 'round the old oak trees
- Lorelai – These are women from countries that have dictatorships and civil wars and death squads and all of that they survived, but 5 minutes working for Emily Gilmore and people are begging for Castro
- Lorelai – Hey, whatever happened to Xuxa?
Notes and references[]
- ↑ First appearance of Tom, Stars Hollow's main contractor.