Santa's Secret Stuff

Santa's Secret Stuff
Season	7
Episode	11
INFO
Airdate	23 January 2007
Written by	Rebecca Rand Kirshner
Directed by	Lee Shallat-Chemel
EPISODES
Previous	Merry Fisticuffs
Next	To Whom It May Concern

Santa's Secret Stuff is the 11th episode of Season 7 of Gilmore Girls.

Synopsis

LORELAI MAKES CHRISTMAS WAIT FOR RORY'S RETURN — Rather than celebrating Christmas while Rory (Alexis Bledel) is in London over the holidays, Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Christopher (David Sutcliffe) decide to put their holidays on hold. Once Rory returns to Stars Hollow, they decorate several Christmas trees, do their shopping and even bake Christmas cookies for the first time as a family. Turning up unexpectedly at the inn, Luke (Scott Patterson) asks Lorelai to write a character recommendation letter for his custody battle over April (Vanessa Marano). Lorelai struggles to write the letter until she and Rory run into Luke and April at the mall and Lorelai suddenly remembers how important Luke has always been in Rory's life. Inspired, Lorelai writes the letter and mails it to Luke's attorney. Rory decides she will write an apology letter to her friend Lucy (Krysten Ritter), explaining why she and Marty kept their past friendship a secret.

Starring

Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore Scott Patterson as Luke Danes Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James Keiko Agena as Lane Kim Yanic Truesdale as Michel Gerard Special Guest Stars Sebastian Bach as Gil David Sutcliffe as Christopher Hayden Recurring cast Todd Lowe as Zack Van Gerbig Vanessa Marano as April Nardini John Cabrera as Brian Fuller

Guest starring Emily Kuroda as Mrs. Kim Jimmy Bennett as Macon Co-Starring Bo Barrett as Cashier Jill Basey as Older Woman Customer E.J. Callahan as Older Man Customer Nicolette Collier as G.G Denise Moses as Short Lady Customer Lauren Tuerk as Sue

Trivia

• Luke asks Lorelai to write him a character reference letter for his custody battle.
• This is a Christmas episode - except the Gilmores celebrate it a bit later, due to Rory spending the actual Christmas time in London with Logan. They also have 7 Christmas trees.
• Lane and Zack are preparing for the babies with the help of Mrs. Kim.

Music

i'll be home for christmas | BING CROSBY

lorelai types and sends a letter to luke

Photos

Gilmorisms

Lorelai: The redcoats are coming! The redcoats are coming!

Lorelai: Oh, God. Did you pack Big Ben? I still think it was kind of risky.

Lorelai: That's like saying Lenny Bruce rips off Carrot Top or Woody Allen gets his material from what's his name – the guy with the watermelons.

Lorelai: Maybe it would help if Sharon Stone would appear to me in an alarming caftan and coo inspirational words in my ear.

Lorelai: A "lie of omission?" Isn't that an Ashley Judd–Morgan Freeman movie?

Zack: I wrote one song that was kind of White Stripes' "Little Ghost" meets the Decemberists meets Gulag Orkestar meets, like, "Losing my Religion" meets Jethro Burns on that Steve Goodman album meets "Battle of Evermore" meets The Smiths meets… some other stuff.

April: You make it sound like Pearl Harbor or something.

Zack: And Mick Jagger – that cat has like 15 kids, and he still goes out and rocks.