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Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out is the 8th episode of Season 6 on WB drama Gilmore Girls.

Synopsis

Who can finally get Rory thinking she made a big mistake dropping out of Yale? If you guess Jess, you're right. Her old flame returns with exciting news about his life … and some blunt advice about hers.

Plot

JESS RETURNS WITH A SURPRISE FOR RORY – Rory (Alexis Bledel) is pleasantly surprised when her old flame Jess (guest star Milo Ventimiglia) appears at her grandparents' house and reveals an amazing development in his life. Rory agrees to go to dinner with Jess, and when Logan (Matt Czuchry) unexpectedly joins them, an ugly confrontation develops, leaving both Rory and Logan to face the choices they have made.

Emily (Kelly Bishop) is concerned about Rory's sudden evasiveness and tries to exert some parental discipline. Meanwhile, Luke (Scott Patterson) agrees to sponsor a local girls' soccer team and Lorelai (Lauren Graham) channels all her concerns about Rory into caring for her dog, Paul Anka.

Starring

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
Scott Patterson as Luke Danes
Keiko Agena as Lane Kim
Matt Czuchry as Logan Huntzberger
and Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore

Special Guest Star

Milo Ventimiglia as Jess Mariano

Recurring cast

Sally Struthers as Babette Dell
Alan Loayza as Colin McCrae
Tanc Sade as Finn
Riki Lindhome as Juliet
Elisabeth Abbott as Rosemary
Lucy Butler as Maggie
Kyle Chavarria as Megan
Lexi Ainsworth as Tillie
Channing Nichols as Bonnie

Trivia

  • First appearance of Jess since Season 4[1]. The character makes his last appearance on the original run later in the season[2], but returns for Season 8.
  • Jess wrote a book entitled The Subsect.
  • Logan is threatened by Jess and Rory's past.

Music

back in the USSR | THE BEATLES
tom dooley | FOLK TRAD.

Photos

Gilmorisms

MUSIC

LITERATURE

FILM

TV

POP CULTURE

Lorelai – You've got the Queer Eye, my friend.
Rory – It's one thing to be forced to live in the big house, but now the big house is feeling Tom Thumb tiny. My grandmother is everywhere. I'm positive there's at least five of her wandering the property like she's a Cylon.
Luke – I want my girls to look good.
Lorelai – Listen to Daddy Warbucks.
Lorelai – They could make a movie about this someday … and you know who would play you? Tobey Maguire.
Luke – He's way younger than me.
Lorelai – But his career is hot. Go with Tobey.
Luke – What about that Vito Morgenstern?
Lorelai – Sure. Or Viggo Mortensen. Or Donald Sutherland.
Lorelai – Who is their coach, Sam Peckinpah?
Logan – So, were you two high school sweethearts? Rock around the clock, two straws in the milkshake?
Logan – So what are we talking here? Short novel, Kafka length, or longer? Dos Passos, Tolstoy, or longer? Robert Musil? Proust?
Logan – I was just challenging him, jeez. Hey, if Hemingway could take it, so can he.

Notes and references

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