- Hey, nobody asked me if I wanted to move to Stars Hollow – but I'm here. Pick whatever place you want and I'll be there, too
- —Jess to Luke
Lost and Found is the 15th episode of Season 2 of Gilmore Girls.
Synopsis[]
Luke (Scott Patterson) and Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) start to feel cramped by all the stuff overtaking their small apartment, and Rory (Alexis Bledel) tries to convince Lorelai (Lauren Graham) to hire Jess to clean out their rain gutters. Meanwhile, Dean (Jared Padalecki) notices that Rory isn't wearing the bracelet he made for her.
Plot[]
Rory embarks upon a campaign to improve Lorelai's relationship with Jess, and convinces her to let him clean out their gutters so he can make some extra money. Luke, annoyed by his cramped living quarters, goes apartment hunting. With the help of Lorelai, Luke is able to find a great place, but is shocked when he finds out that the building is owned by Taylor, who also expresses interest in the flower shop next door as the future site of a collectible plate store. Meanwhile; Dean notices that Rory is not wearing the bracelet that he made for her. Rory makes up an excuse, but later flips into panic mode when she cannot find the bracelet.
Jess, who secretly took the bracelet after Rory dropped it, leaves it under Rory's bed without her knowing. He then tricks Rory into searching for it in her bedroom again to make it look like it was there. Lorelei catches Jess sneaking out of Rory's bedroom and figures out he had the bracelet all along, but Jess denies it. After Jess leaves, Luke comes in and tells he had bought the flower shop building and is now the new owner of the place, much to Lorelei's delight. In the end, Luke smashes a hole in the office wall and claims it to be Jess's "new room".Starring[]
- Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
- Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
- Yanic Truesdale as Michel Gerard
- Scott Patterson as Luke Danes
- Jared Padalecki as Dean Forester
- Milo Ventimiglia as Jess Mariano
- Recurring cast
- Liz Torres as Miss Patty
- Michael Winters as Taylor Doose
- Sean Gunn as Kirk Gleason
- Guest starring
- Rose Abdoo as Gypsy
- Brett Paesel as Mary
Quotes[]
- (smashes a hole in the wall) That's your room. Finish up. We'll hold hands and skip afterwards.
- —Luke to Jess
Trivia[]
- This marks the first and only time on the show that Lorelai and Jess spend time alone together.
- The episode features another Stars Hollow event, the Buy A Book! Fundraiser.
- Jess is still very unhappy with living in Stars Hollow, yet Luke seems to make no effort to talk to him about it.
- Jess confirms to Lorelai that he had the bracelet saying that it took Rory two weeks to realise it was gone.
Music[]
- price yeah! | PAVEMENT
- jess listens to music
- what a wonderful world | JOEY RAMONE
- luke smashes the wall
Photos[]
Stills[]
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Gilmorisms[]
MUSIC
LITERATURE
- Inherit the Wind by Jermore Lawerence and Robert E. Lee
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
- Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (Kirk is haggling over it at the book fair)
FILM
- Young Frankenstein
- Silent Movie
- Mission: Impossible
- Bye Bye Birdie
- The Lord of the Rings
- Autumn in New York
POP CULTURE
- Jess wears a t-shirt referencing Punk Planet , an underground zine, when fixing the rain gutters.
- Rory – Well said, Ida Morgenstern.
- Lorelai – Well, aren't we suddenly a Rockefeller.
- Lorelai – It looks like a white-trash Hearst Castle.
- Lorelai – The 2000 year old man, Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie. You don't think Mel has earned the right to have his face on my butt.
- Lorelai – Calgon, take me away.
- Luke – How can anyone sleep through that? It’s like the Huns are attacking.
- Lorelai – Patience, grasshopper.
- Jess – I found an "I Like Ike" bumper sticker up there.
- Jess – Euell Gibbons wasn't a healthy eater like Luke.
- Lorelai – Wow, it's been ages since I've heard a good Euell Gibbons reference.
- Lorelai – Nice save, Gretzky.
- Luke – (about Jess) Even if he does stay, it'll only be for another year, and he'll go off to college, or Attica, or whatever...
- Lorelai – (to Luke) Entertain the possibility of a non-Unabomber existence.