Let the Games Begin is the 8th episode of Season 3 of Gilmore Girls.
Synopsis[]
Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) join Richard (Edward Herrmann) and Emily (Kelly Bishop) on a trip to visit Yale, but things turn ugly when Richard surprises everyone with the news that he has arranged an interview for Rory with the Dean of Admissions. Luke (Scott Patterson) lays down the law to Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) about Jess' relationship with Rory.
Starring[]
- Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
- Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
- Scott Patterson as Luke Danes
- Jared Padalecki as Dean Forester
- Milo Ventimiglia as Jess Mariano
- Sean Gunn as Kirk Gleason
- and Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore
- special appearance by
- Edward Herrmann as Richard Gilmore
- Guest starring
- William Forward as Harris Fellows
Quotes[]
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- Lorelai – You know what, I’ve spent a lot of time and energy fighting the whole Jess thing. Rory’s made her choice, I want her to be happy. I’m just hoping for the best at this point
- Luke – Very romantic
- Lorelai – Says the man who yelled "Finally!" at the end of Love Story
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- One day, when your mother was ten years old, she ran into my office and she said, "I'm going to go to Yale, just like you." She actually took my diploma out of my office and put it in her room. She wouldn't give it back to me for about six months. This place makes you remember things
- —Richard to Rory
Trivia[]
- The Yale scenes were shot on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, CA.
- In the bathroom scene, Lorelai drops the reference to a Scud missile, which is a tactical missile then recently used in the ongoing Gulf War.
- It is revealed that while a student, Richard proposed to Emily by a bench on the Yale campus (near a trash can).
Music[]
- then she appeared | XTC
- jess and rory kiss
Photos[]
Stills[]
Screenshots[]
Gilmorisms[]
MUSIC
LITERATURE
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
PHILOSOPHY
- Rory mentions the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard during the visit to Yale.
FILM
POP CULTURE
- Lorelai – We're lucky it wasn't snowing. It would've been the Donner Party all over again, but with slightly better hair.
- Lorelai – Luke, we need a couple of doughnuts, and some of those extra legs Heather Mills is sending over to Croatia.
- Rory – Think about something else.
- Lorelai – Like what?
- Rory – Something disgusting that will take your appetite away.
- Lorelai – Ari Fleischer?
- Lorelai – Mom, you know, if you’re not a little nicer to your help, you might find yourself in a Frank Lloyd Wright situation.
- Luke – (to Jess, about Rory) Any evidence of alcohol, cigarette smoke, or anything else that Nancy Reagan would find unacceptable, and you will not be allowed near her without an adult present.
- Lorelai – Never give her the opportunity to give you a thirty-minute lecture on how, if you’d brought the second bathing suit like she told you to, it wouldn’t have mattered that the first one’s strap broke in a freak pool slide incident that no one, including The Amazing Kreskin, could’ve predicted, you would’ve been covered.
- Emily – And then he’d talk about the paintings he had seen in Paris and the colors of Titian, and by the end of the date, you thought he was the most brilliant man in the entire world.
- Lorelai – (to Emily) That you were the Helena Bonham Carter of the society set?
- Emily – What can we do in a bathroom?
- Lorelai – Meet George Michael
- Emily –The situation's that dire?
- Lorelai – Four salads ago no, not dire. Right now it's money for nothing and your chicks for free.
- Rory – You gonna smoke that or mind meld with it?