Lorelai's Graduation Day is the 21st episode of Season 2 of Gilmore Girls.
Synopsis[]
Lorelai (Lauren Graham) is graduating from community college and Rory (Alexis Bledel) convinces her to don the old cap and gown for the commencement ceremony. Meanwhile, Rory takes a trip to New York City to visit Jess (Milo Ventimiglia), but on her way home she runs into some traffic that could delay her arrival at the big event.
Plot[]
Lorelai and Rory have breakfast at Sookie's in an effort to avoid Luke's, but Lorelai cannot avoid an awkward encounter with him at Doose's Market, where he fails to pick up on her hints to patch things up. In an effort to help Lorelai through final exam stress, Rory gets her excited about attending her college graduation ceremony and secretly invites Richard and Emily, despite Lorelai's assertion that they would never agree to attend. After a late night phone call from Jess, Rory impulsively cuts school the next day and visits him in Manhattan. Christopher sends Lorelai a graduation gift basket filled with fun goodies and an expensive pearl necklace. Lorelai is shocked to see Emily, Richard and a film crew accompanying them to her graduation, and must contend with an obnoxious classmate with an attitude about the rich. Rory is furious with herself when her bus home is delayed and she misses her mother's graduation. When Rory finally arrives home, Lorelai forgives her when she realizes that the trip to New York may indicate that her daughter has fallen in love with Jess, despite her protests to the contrary.
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
- Milo Ventimiglia as Jess Mariano
- and Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore
- special appearance by
- Edward Herrmann as Richard Gilmore
- Recurring cast
- Jackson Douglas as Jackson Belleville
- and David Sutcliffe as Christopher Hayden
- Guest starring
- Seth MacFarlane as Zach
- Ralph P. Martin as Bus Driver
- Mel Rodriguez as Raul
- Alicia Bergman as Liza
- Co-Starring
- Adam Borstein as Peter
- Cathrine Grace as Kate
- Mark Colson as the Western Shirt Man
- Chuck E. Weiss as the Proprietor
- Lauren Campedelli as the Woman
- Andy Kreiss as the Man
- Esther Friedman as the Name Calling Woman
Quotes[]
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- I'm able to, empirically, with my eyes –
- —Lorelai to Luke
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- No! I love Dean! Dean is my boyfriend, he will always be my boyfriend. That's it, forever!
- —Rory
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- Jess – I like this Emily chick, friend of yours?
- Rory – She's a friend to all of us dispossesed
- ―New Yorking
Trivia[]
- Rory misses Lorelai's graduation.
- Jackson buys and wears his first suit.
- Lorelai tries to make up with Luke, to no avail.
- Rory goes to NY to see Jess.
- Jackson takes an hour to come to in the morning
- He registers what people are saying in that hour, but sometimes takes days to recall it.
- Lane practices drumming on the Gilmore Girls' pots and pans.
- Christopher sends Lorelai a gift basket as a gift for her graduation.
- Richard and Emily are incredibly touched by witnessing Lorelai graduating.
- Richard gives Lorelai a graduation present.
Music[]
- 52 girls | B-52'S
- margaritas
- dance this mess around | B-52'S
- rory talks to jess on the phone
- o'oh | YOKO ONO
- rory and jess in new york
- monkey gone to heaven | PIXIES
- rory and jess in a record store
Photos[]
Stills[]
Screenshots[]
Gilmorisms[]
MUSIC
LITERATURE
- What Color Is Your Parachute? by Richard Nelson Bolles
- The Portable Nietzsche by Fredrich Nietzsche
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe.
- The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
FILM
POP CULTURE
- Lorelai – Didn't they feed lead to our jumping frog or something?
- Rory – Oh yeah, right after they stoned the woman who won the lottery.
- Lorelai – Oh look it's Michael Landon.
- Lorelai – Now say, I can't believe I ate the whole thing.
- Lorelai – Ugh Rory, my brain is full. It has reached capacity. It's Shea Stadium when the Beatles played. It's cramped and girls are screaming and I think George is fighting with Ringo.
- Lorelai – Unless I turn into John Nash and start drooling on people.
- Lorelai – I ended up in a career that apparently Jessica Hahn would think was beneath her.
- Jess – It's where David Lee Roth got busted.
- Lorelai – Hey, try to seat us next to a celebrity on the Concorde, like Sting or Screech or someone.
- Lorelai: You drank some Boone's Farm out of a bota bag and knocked a beach ball around.
- Rory: And bought a Hummel at the curio store in Stars Hollow.
- Jess – I like this Emily chick, friend of yours?
- Lorelai – I never leave home without all the essentials: mirror, make-up, picture of Shaun Cassidy.
- Lorelai – You look very GQ.
- Jackson – Oh, thanks to my best new friend: Ermenegildo Zegna.
- Zach – It's like a Baz Luhrmann movie out there.
- Lorelai – Thanks for coming, Sook, Marcus Schenkenberg.