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Gilmore Girls
Created byAmy Sherman-Palladino
Starringsee below
Opening theme"Where You Lead" by Carole King and Louise Goffin
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons7
No. of episodes153 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerDavid S. Rosenthal
Running timeapprox. 41 min
Original release
NetworkThe WB (2000-2006)
The CW (2006-2007)
ReleaseOctober 5, 2000 –
May 15, 2007

Gilmore Girls is an American television drama/comedy that began on October 5, 2000 and aired its final episode on May 15, 2007.

The show follows single mother Lorelai Victoria Gilmore (Lauren Graham) and her daughter Lorelai "Rory" Leigh Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, a close-knit small town with many quirky characters, located roughly thirty minutes from Hartford. The series explores family, friendship, generational divides, and social class.

Gilmore Girls features intricate, extremely fast-paced dialogue, (70 pages of script are used in each show) with numerous popular-culture references, along with many other allusions to politics, feminism, and high culture. It also has specific perspectives on social class, represented most regularly by Lorelai's difficult relationship with her wealthy upper class parents. The show's wit and character-based humor won it a loyal following of both critics and viewers.[citation needed]

On May 3, 2007, The CW announced that the series would not be renewed.[1][2][3][4] According to Variety, "Money was a key factor in the decision, with the parties involved not able to reach a deal on salaries for the main cast members. Other issues, such as number of episodes and production dates, may have also played a role".[5]

On May 23, 2007 TV Guide's Michael Ausiello interviewed Amy Sherman-Palladino and she talked about a possible TV movie in the near future.[6]

Cast

Main article: List of Gilmore Girls characters

Main cast

Actor Character Seasons
Lauren Graham Lorelai Gilmore All
Alexis Bledel Rory Gilmore All
Scott Patterson Luke Danes All
Kelly Bishop Emily Gilmore All
Edward Herrmann Richard Gilmore All
Keiko Agena Lane Kim All
Melissa McCarthy Sookie St. James All
Matt Czuchry Logan Huntzberger 5 (recurring); 6-7
Sean Gunn Kirk Gleason All
Jared Padalecki Dean Forester 1 (recurring); 2-3; 4-5 (recurring)
Liza Weil Paris Geller All
Yanic Truesdale Michel Gerard All
Chris Eigeman Jason Stiles 4
Milo Ventimiglia Jess Mariano 2-3; 4-6 (recurring)

Recurring

Actors who were not in the main credits but were significant to the program:

Actor Character Seasons
Sebastian Bach Gil 4-7
Adam Brody Dave Rygalski 3
John Cabrera Brian Fuller 3-7
Scott Cohen Max Medina 1-3
Gregg Henry Mitchum Huntzberger 5-7
Shelly Cole Madeline Lynn 1-4
Jackson Douglas Jackson Belleville 1-7
Emily Kuroda Mrs. Kim 1-7
Todd Lowe Zach Van Gerbig 3-7
Vanessa Marano April Nardini 6-7
Chad Michael Murray Tristan DuGrey 1-2
Teal Redmann Louise Grant 1-4
David Sutcliffe Christopher Hayden 1-7
Danny Strong Doyle McMaster 4-7
Sally Struthers Babette Dell 1-7
Liz Torres Miss Patty 1-7
Kathleen Wilhoite Liz Danes 4-7
Michael Winters Taylor Doose 1-7

Notable guest stars

  • Madeleine Albright (64th United States Secretary of State & first woman to hold that position) as Lorelai Gilmore in Rory's dream
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Madeleine Albright with Alexis Bledel

Plot

Main article: List of Gilmore Girls episodes

Background

Lorelai's conflict with her wealthy parents is central to the back-story for the series. Tension with her headstrong mother, Emily, and her father, Richard, recurs throughout the show. This presumably began when Lorelai became the teenage mother of Rory at the age of sixteen, which required the sacrifice of her elite prep-school education (and future as a college student). In addition, Lorelai opted to not marry the baby's father, Christopher, much to the constant dismay of her parents.

As an extension of her stubborn and rebellious nature, Lorelai ran away to Stars Hollow, a small town near Hartford. There she met Mia, owner of the Independence Inn, who gave her a job as a maid and acted as a surrogate mother to both Lorelai and Rory. Lorelai eventually became general manager of the inn, her position at the start of the series. She and Rory lived in a converted potting shed behind the Inn for about ten years before moving to the house they live in during the show. Lorelai consistently tried to minimize her parents' contact with Rory until Rory needed money for school.

Rory's education

Rory's academic aspirations complicate matters on the show. Rory had wanted to attend Harvard University since kindergarten; to achieve this she transfers to the private (fictional) Chilton Academy, an elite prep school in Hartford, Connecticut, from the public Stars Hollow High at the beginning of her sophomore year. There, she encounters an unfamiliar social environment of wealthy, high-strung peers. Lorelai knows that she cannot afford Rory's Chilton education, and reluctantly solicits help from her parents. Richard and Emily Gilmore negotiate a mutual arrangement; Lorelai is given a financial loan on the condition that Rory and Lorelai attend dinner at their Hartford mansion every Friday evening. The dinners become a common setting for heated conversations and family drama.

After much deliberation, and with her mother's blessing, Rory ultimately decides to go to Yale, her grandfather's alma mater, instead of Harvard. Lorelai repays her parents' Chilton loan just before Rory's graduation, ending their mutual arrangement. However, she later discovers Yale is not offering any financial aid for Rory, putting her education in financial jeopardy once again. Rory requests the tuition money from her grandparents in exchange for the continuance of the Friday night dinners - until the spring semester of Rory's junior year, when her father, Christopher, begins paying her tuition. This creates tension with her grandparents, but ultimately the Friday night dinner tradition continues.

In the seventh season, Rory graduates from Yale. She got an opportunity at a job, but she turned it down in favor of applying for the New York Times fellowship program. Unfortunately, she later finds out she was not accepted into the fellowship and the job she was offered before is now filled. So, Rory graduates from Yale uncertain where her career is going and what she will be doing. In the final episode she accepts an impromptu job offer to work for an online magazine, in which she will follow Barack Obama on the campaign trail. The town throws an equally impromptu going away party for Rory, wishing her well and love as she heads into the world outside of Connecticut.

Lorelai's romantic life

Lorelai's various romantic entanglements also played a role in the show.

  • Her relationship with local restaurant owner Luke Danes (Scott Patterson) gradually grew from a playful friendship to a romantic relationship at the end of the fourth season, and they get engaged in the sixth season premiere — only to break up shortly after. During the Spring Fling, in the middle of the hay maze (on which Taylor Doose, the town selectman, spent the entire budget of the town's carnival costs), they both apologized for their behavior regarding the end of their relationship, beginning a new, tentative friendship. In the series finale, Luke moves mountains to throw Rory a graduation/going away party in the town square. When Lorelai is told that Luke painstakingly put this bash together, with the help of most of the townfolk, she thanks him for his thoughtfulness. Her voice gets husky. Luke tells her that he just likes to see her happy, they embrace, and kiss. In the final scene of the final episode, Lorelai and Rory are seated at Luke's Diner for an early breakfast, before Rory must leave for her first job post-Yale graduation. When Luke asks Lorelai what she would like to eat, she says that she needs a minute as she can't decide. Luke smiles and tells her to take all the time she needs; and Lorelai is wearing a necklace that Luke gave to her as a gift. The final scene brings the show to the ending of the very first episode, as they were sitting at the table, in front of the window, as they are at the end of the series.
  • Max Medina (Scott Cohen), Rory's Chilton English teacher, to whom Lorelai was briefly engaged. Luke makes Lorelai a chuppah, and as they talk, Luke mentions to her that you only get married once. This makes Lorelai realize that she does not truly love Max, and she ends their engagement. He shows up again in the second season, but nothing serious happens between them.
  • For a while in season 3 Lorelai casually dated Alex, a divorced man with two kids who was starting his own coffee shop. He took her coffee tasting and fishing and then was no longer on the show.
  • Jason "Digger" Stiles, Richard's much younger business partner and a childhood friend of Lorelai. She initially dated him to bother her mother, who would likely disapprove. However, when the relationship became more serious, she feared telling her parents. The relationship was exposed when Jason's father hired a private investigator to follow his son. They broke up when Jason filed a lawsuit against Lorelai's father after Richard sues Jason. Lorelai eventually choses her father over Jason to repair their relationship. In the 4th season finale, Jason comes to the test run at the Dragonfly to try and win Lorelai back. He becomes annoying by the end of the night, and Sookie, apparently, told him his Condo was on fire. He is never seen again. That ends up being the night Luke and Lorelai first kiss.
  • Lorelai periodically reconnected with Christopher Hayden (David Sutcliffe), Rory's father. As their subplot developed, it becomes evident that Lorelai always expected to reunite with Christopher, but he was never prepared to commit seriously. When their relationship was first rekindled, he suddenly left Lorelai for his former girlfriend, who revealed that she was pregnant with his child. When his relationship with his former girlfriend ended, Lorelai was already romantically involved with Luke, although Christopher tried to win her back. They remained platonic until the final episode of the sixth season, when Lorelai spent the night with Christopher after breaking up with Luke. In the seventh season, they took a romantic trip to Paris and decided to elope. During the November sweeps 2006, they are a married couple. However, soon into their marriage they broke up again due to conflicts over lack of sincere devotion to their marriage on her part and her lingering feelings for Luke, as well as his inability to work through conflict.

Rory's romantic life

As with Lorelai, Rory's romantic attractions also run throughout the show.

  • Rory meets Dean Forester (Jared Padalecki) in the first episode of the series, and maintains a relationship with him for almost two and a half seasons. She does break up with Dean briefly in the first season, when she isn't able to say "I love you." It is during this time apart that Rory kisses Tristan Dugrey (Chad Michael Murray), a Chilton classmate with whom she has a love-hate relationship. Eventually, she renews her relationship with Dean and they remain a steady couple until the third season, when Dean decides to call it quits because he is convinced that Rory is in love with Jess Mariano, the nephew of Luke Danes. They do not reunite until much later, when she loses her virginity to a now-married Dean in an unexpected fling, which ultimately ends his marriage and creates a short-lived rift between her and her mother.
  • She befriends Luke's belligerent nephew, Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), during the second season. Their relationship becomes closer as their similarities surface (for example, both are well-read, as opposed to Dean). Rory steers clear of Jess, because Dean and Jess do not get along. Jess and Rory end up becoming friends, and Rory struggles with feelings for both Dean and Jess. Rory kisses Jess in the second season finale. Early in the third season, Rory has conflicting feelings for Dean and Jess, until Dean publicly breaks up with her when he realizes her feelings. Rory and Jess are a couple throughout the third season. However, their relationship ended when Jess dropped out of school and left Stars Hollow without telling Rory. He goes to California to see his father--- his life there was potientially going to be a Gilmore Girls spin-off. In season four, Jess reappears after several months and confesses his love for Rory, imploring her to run away with him, but Rory is unwilling to take him back. While visiting Jess in Philadelphia, Rory shares a romantic kiss with him after he writes a book and tells her all his success is due to her support. This is cut short however when Rory realizes she doesn't want to betray Logan and walks out.
  • At Yale, Rory becomes involved with Logan Huntzberger (Matt Czuchry), an underachiever whose wealthy family owns a newspaper empire and immediately disapproves of Rory. Logan's father, the infamous Mitchum Huntzberger, hires Rory as an intern. His crushingly negative evaluation of her work leads to her leaving Yale temporarily at the end of the fifth season. (The scenes of Logan's house are filmed at Doheny mansion on the Mount St. Mary's campus.) In the sixth season premiere, Lorelai and Rory are estranged and Rory is living with her grandparents. She is taking time off from college and serving community service for stealing a yacht with Logan. Eventually, an intervention from Jess makes Rory regret her actions, and she reunites with her mother. Logan gets upset at Rory because of Jess' appearance and leaves without resolution. Rory then returns to Yale for the spring semester of the 2005–2006 school year. Rory's relationship with Logan is particularly tumultuous after she attends the wedding of Logan's sister, and discovers that he had sex with all of the bridesmaids during their brief "break up" earlier in season 6. In the next episode, Rory takes Logan back, although she has not forgiven him. Logan then leaves for three days on a Life and Death Brigade event, although Rory had expressed her concern. During his absence, Rory visits Jess at his new bookstore and kisses him, apologizing and fully confessing her feelings for Logan. Logan is seriously injured on the trip. Rory takes care of Logan after his accident, and their relationship is repaired.
  • In the season 6 finale, Logan graduates and leaves for London. In the seventh season, he relocates to New York City to start his own internet company, which becomes a financial disaster. Logan has a breakdown and heads to Las Vegas, where he parties frequently. Rory and Logan fight over his irresponsible behavior, but eventually make up. Their relationship continues to strengthen when Logan comes home with Rory to Stars Hollow. There, he asks Lorelai for Rory's hand in marriage and reveals his plans to move to San Francisco. When Logan reveals his intentions to Rory at her graduation party (held by her grandparents), she replies by saying she "needs more time." After her graduation, Rory tells Logan that there is so much in life to pursue now, and that being married would change that. She attempts to convince him to give a long-distance relationship a try, but he tells her that it's "all or nothing". She gives the ring back to Logan and he ends their relationship that same day. Logan still plans to move to San Francisco without Rory.

Other characters

Rory's friendships with long-time best friend Lane Kim (Keiko Agena)—a first-generation Korean American from a strict background—and Paris Geller (Liza Weil), a friend/rival at both Chilton and Yale, are also themes in the show. At the end of the sixth season, Lane marries Hep Alien band-mate Zach van Gerbig (Todd Lowe), a sweet and slightly dopey rocker. At the beginning of the seventh season, Lane discovers that she is unexpectedly pregnant and gives birth to twin boys (Kwan and Steve) later in the season. In the seventh season, Paris is accepted into Harvard Medical School (Harvard is the school she has wanted to go to for years, as her family are all alumni, but was not accepted for the Baccalaureate program during the third season). In season four, Doyle McMaster (Danny Strong) storms onto the show as the Yale Daily News editor. He and Paris start dating in the fifth season, after Paris's relationship with a much older Professor Asher Fleming (Michael York) ends with his sudden demise.

Production

History

The pilot episode of Gilmore Girls received financial support from the script development fund of the Family Friendly Programming Forum. It was the first network show to reach the air with help from funding provided by that organization, which includes some of the nation's leading advertisers.

The show was not a ratings success initially, airing in the tough Thursday 8pm/7pm Central time slot dominated by Survivor and Friends in its first season. It grew a following that saw it outdraw its time-slot competitor, popular series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the ratings. (Several of the writers of Buffy have been prolific writers on Gilmore Girls, such as Lauren Christian and Rebecca Rand Kirshner.)

In its fifth season, Gilmore Girls blossomed into The WB's second most watched primetime show, with a fan base which grew by double digits in all major demographics.[7] In its syndicated release in the U.S., the show airs exclusively on the ABC Family Channel.

By the time of its fifth season, Gilmore Girls received an American Film Institute Award and two Viewers for Quality Television Awards, and was named New Program of the Year by the Television Critics Association.

For its seventh season Gilmore Girls had 3.7 million viewers per episode on average.[8]

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Milo Ventimiglia as Jess Mariano in Here Comes the Son

The WB planned to air a spin-off featuring Jess as the main character, called Windward Circle, in which he gets to know his estranged father better and befriends a bunch of California skateboarders. However, the network canceled the show before it aired, citing high production costs to shoot on location in Venice Beach as the reason.[9]


The show's actors have received many awards for their work on the series. Graham won two Family Television Awards along with a Teen Choice Award for Best TV Mom. Alexis Bledel has won a Young Artist Award and a Family Television Award. The series also won a Family Television Award for New Series, and was named Best Family TV Drama Series by the Young Artist Awards. The show won an Emmy for its only nomination in six years: 2004's Outstanding Makeup for a Series for the episode The Festival of Living Art.

The first season was released on DVD on May 4, 2004; the second season was released on December 7, 2004, the third on May 3, 2005, the fourth season was released on September 27, 2005 and the fifth season was released on December 13, 2005. All five seasons are formatted in the traditional NTSC 4:3 format on the DVD box sets, despite the series transitioning to the widescreen, HDTV 16:9 format in the fourth season; this was an artistic decision made by Sherman-Palladino to present the program as she envisioned it.[citation needed]

The sixth season of the series was released on DVD on September 19, 2006 one week before the season premiere for the seventh season on September 26.[10] and also framed in 4:3.

The seventh season will be released on DVD November 13, 2007 along with a "Complete Series" boxed set which contains extra material not found on the individual season sets.[11]

Cultural references

In addition to fast-paced dialogue, Gilmore Girls is also known for numerous popular culture references made by the characters. The references, which may point to anything from movies, television shows, music and books to quotes from celebrities, are frequently quite obscure and thus seem to be understood only by the characters.

To help the viewer understand what the characters are talking about, The WB has included "Gilmore-isms" booklets in the DVD sets of the seasons (except for seasons one, five and six, where purchasers of that set were referred to the site below). The booklets contain "the 411 on many of the show's pop culture references", along with comments from the show creators.

Music

Music plays a large part in the show. Most of the main or recurring characters on the show have had their musical tastes revealed at one time or another. Lorelai famously likes '80s music like that of The Bangles, The Go-Go's, David Bowie, Metallica, and Brian Eno, but Rory credits her with introducing her to new books and music throughout her life, and she and Rory often swap CDs. As we find out in 5th season Rory isn't a fan of the famous American singer Bob Dylan or The Smashing Pumpkins (whom Lane likes).

Lane is a music enthusiast, and her list of musical influences ran to five pages when she was writing her "drummer-seeks-rock-band" ad. Included were David Bowie, the Ramones, Jackson Browne (Lane: "Ah, see, cool people know that he’s more than a mellow hippie-dippy folkie, that he actually wrote some of Nico’s best songs and was in fact her lover before he bored us with 'Doctor My Eyes.' That will separate the poseurs from the non-poseurs." —Season 3, Ep. 3 "Application Anxiety"), The Accelerators , The Adverts, Agent Orange, Angelic Upstarts, and Agnostic Front. She also owns a record of Rilo Kiley and another by The Beta Band. Lane's band, Hep Alien (which is an anagram of producer Helen Pai's name), plays rock with different influences, and Sebastian Bach, formerly of Skid Row, plays Gil, the band's guitarist. In one episode Lorelai explains that Lane's kid may like anything. Lorelai says the Lane's mother didn't know that she would love Jane's Addiction, thus showing more of her musical interests. In another episode Zack is planning to have sex with Lane and asks her if the music is alright; He was playing Siouxsie and the Banshees' hit-Hong Kong Garden. Lane says that she likes the music.

The Bangles made a guest appearance in the Season 1 episode "Concert Interruptus" while The Shins guest-starred (playing their song "So Says I" from the album Chutes Too Narrow) in the Season 4 episode "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist" (also, their 2000 single "Know Your Onion!" is heard in season two "Like Mother, Like Daughter", while their album Chutes Too Narrow later appears). The song "Know Your Onion" is also on the Gilmore Girls CD, Our Little Corner Of The World: Music From Gilmore Girls. Carole King, who re-recorded her 1971 song "Where You Lead" as a duet with her daughter Louise Goffin as the Gilmore Girls theme song, appears occasionally as local music store owner Sophie Bloom. The original score to the show is performed by Sam Phillips. Grant-Lee Phillips appears in at least one episode per season (up to season 6) as Grant, the town troubadour.

In the finale of the sixth season, the aforementioned troubadour is "discovered" by a music producer and is set to open for Neil Young (who Kirk says is "one of the Monkees") and, as a result, Stars Hollow is infested with new "troubadours" including Sonic Youth , Yo La Tengo, Pernice Brothers and Sparks, all "hoping to be discovered". Taylor, the town's Selectman, tries to shove away the musicians, to no avail. He claims that there's no greater music admirer than him, a Pat Boone enthusiast, but that they lack Boone's talent. Later on, the original troubadour returns and says he was booed off stage and never even got to meet Neil Young - "Heart of Gold my ass" he tells Taylor.

Lorelai adopts a dog and names it Paul Anka. The famous singer himself appeared in season 6th in the episode "The Real Paul Anka": Lorelai has a strange dream (that serves as the episode introduction) in which "the dog Paul Anka" switches bodies with "the real Paul Anka" numerous times during its morning walk, until the two, dog and artist, meet in the middle of Stars Hollow, and the world ends.

Joel Gion, formerly of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, also appeared in an episode, playing tambourine for Zack's side project while Hep Alien is on hiatus.

In 2002, a soundtrack to the show was released by Rhino Records, entitled Our Little Corner of the World: Music from Gilmore Girls. The CD booklet features anecdotes from show producers Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino covering the large part music has played in their lives.

Food and drink

Food is another important part of the show. Lorelai and Rory are coffee addicts and are frequently seen drinking it on the show. In reality, Alexis Bledel (Rory) refused to drink coffee. When shooting, her "coffee" mug was filled with Coca-Cola or tea.

It is a running gag that Lorelai and Rory can eat copious amounts of junk food, but never seem to gain weight. When they are not eating or playing bagel hockey at Luke's Diner, or having formal Friday night dinners at Emily and Richard's, they often order pizza or take-out Chinese food. Consequently, their refrigerator is always filled with leftovers. They eat tons of food, including french fries and tater tots, various types of pies, and ice cream straight from the carton. Lorelai and Rory love to eat Mallomars, which Rory uses to spell out "Happy Birthday Lorelai" on their kitchen table in the third season. The two also like doughnuts and various other chocolate and baked goods. They also enjoy many international foods while on their European trip in the fourth season, and eat the Italian dessert, biscotti, on the night before Rory leaves for Yale (see Season 4: Episode 1 "Ballrooms and Biscotti"). In the dvd commentary, Lauren Graham admits that no one could realistically eat the way Rory and Lorelai do.

Additionally, pop-tarts recur on the show as both Lorelai's and Rory's favorite breakfast and snack food.

Sookie, the chef at the Dragonfly Inn, is very passionate about cooking and often obsesses over the inn's menu. Lane Kim's mother, Mrs. Kim, is a fan of health food, and Luke's healthy eating habits are sometimes contrasted with Rory and Lorelai's junk-food diet. Especially in the first season, Rory sneaks Lane candy bars and etc.


U.S. ratings

            Season      US Ratings     Network     Rank      Rank (Network)
 1        2000–2001     3.6 Million    The WB      #126      #11
 2        2001–2002     5.2 Million    The WB      #122      #3
 3        2002–2003     5.3 Million    The WB      #121      #3
 4        2003-2004         Million    The WB      
 5        2004-2005         Million    The WB      
 6        2005-2006         Million    The WB       
 7        2006-2007     3.7 Million    The CW      #129      #5
  • In an episode of Family Guy, Lorelai and Rory are depicted talking really fast to end making out with each other.
  • In the fifth episode of the first season of Six Feet Under, Claire and Ruth are watching the show with some relatives.
  • One episode of MADtv featured a parody of Gilmore Girls called "The Gabmore Girls" which spoofs its fast talking and feel-good joyfulness by showing them talking fast for long periods of time and then making snow angels.
  • In an episode of Scrubs [Episode 516: My Chopped Liver, Season 5], it's revealed that Turk and J.D. watch the show on their night off. After watching the show, Turk calls J.D. over the phone to discuss it.

Turk: "Mothers and daughters... they speak so fast, but they speak so true."
J.D.: "I'm so mad at Lorelai, I can't even talk right now."

  • In an episode of Will & Grace, Jack is talking to Karen about Stan's mistress Lorraine Finster saying "We hate her! We hate her even more than the know-it-all daughter on the Gilmore Girls!"
  • In episode 1.02 of "Greek", Cappie says "How about we all be mature and say what's really on our minds. How the hell could they cancel the Gilmore Girls?!?!"
  • In the sixth seasons of Girlfriends and Gilmore Girls, the shows referenced each other. In Girlfriends, the character Joan Clayton mentions that she lives near a Gilmore Girl. In Gilmore Girls, Lorelai makes fun of Christopher's selection of saved TiVo programs, one of them being Girlfriends.
  • In episode 3.15 of Veronica Mars, Wallace is seen reporting on Logan and Parker's lunchtime tête-à-tête to a bemused Veronica,

Wallace: "What?"
Veronica: "I'm just trying to figure out which Gilmore Girl you are."

  • "Gilmore Girls" references are often thrown around on AFIM, mostly by members of the world-famous Delta Flight

DVD releases

The Complete First Season
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  • 21 Episodes
  • 6-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish and French
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • "Welcome to the Gilmore Girls" — Making-of Documentary of the First Season
  • Gilmorisms — Montage
  • Gilmore Goodies & Gossip: On-Screen Factoids — "Rory's Dance"
  • Additional Scenes



Release Dates
North America

United States Canada

Europe  United Kingdom Continental Europe Europe  Norway  Australia
May 4, 2004 February 6, 2006 November 16, 2005 November 16, 2005 April 5, 2006
The Complete Second Season
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  • 22 Episodes
  • 6-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • 4 Unaired Scenes
  • "A Film by Kirk"
  • "International Success" featurette
  • Gilmore Goodies & Gossip: On-Screen Factoids — "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
  • "Who Wants to Argue" shouting matches
  • "Guide to Gilmorisms" booklet
Release Dates
North America

United States Canada

Europe  United Kingdom Continental Europe Europe  Norway  Australia
December 7, 2004 March 13, 2006 March 15, 2006 March 8, 2006 April 5, 2006
The Complete Third Season
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  • 22 Episodes
  • 6-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish and French
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Additional Scenes on 3 episodes
  • All Grown Up: a Documentary with the Cast about their Childhood Experiences
  • Who Wants to Fall in Love: a Montage of the Best "Love Moments" from Season 3
  • Our Favorite '80s: the Cast and Crew Show off their Favorite '80s Dance Moves
  • "Guide to Gilmorisms" booklet
Release Dates
North America

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May 3, 2005 July 17, 2006 April 12, 2006 June 28, 2006 July 5, 2006
The Complete Fourth Season
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  • 22 Episodes
  • 6-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish and French
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Additional Scenes on 2 episodes
  • Who Wants to Get Together: A Montage of Season Four's Most Romantic Moments
  • Gilmore Goodies & Gossip: On-Screen Factoids — "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist"
  • Stars Hollow Challenge Trivia Game
  • "Guide to Gilmorisms" booklet


Release Dates
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United States Canada

Europe  United Kingdom Continental Europe Europe  Norway  Australia
September 27, 2005 TBA June 14, 2006 November 15, 2006 July 5, 2006
The Complete Fifth Season
File:Gilmoregirls s5.jpg Set Details Special Features
  • 22 Episodes
  • 6-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish and French
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Commentary by: Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino on "You Jump, I Jump, Jack"
  • Gilmore Girls Turns 100 – Featurette on the 100th episode
  • Behind-the-Scenes of the 100th episode
  • Who Wants to Talk Gilmore? The Season's Wittiest Wordplay Moments
  • "Guide to Gilmorisms" booklet (available online only)



Release Dates
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United States Canada

Europe  United Kingdom Continental Europe Europe  Norway  Australia
December 13, 2005 TBA August 16, 2006 January 24, 2007 September 6, 2006
The Complete Sixth Season
File:Gilmoregirls s6.jpg Set Details Special Features
  • 22 Episodes
  • 6-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: Spanish and French
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • None
Release Dates
North America

United States Canada

Europe United Kingdom Continental Europe Europe  Netherlands Europe  Norway  Australia
September 19, 2006 TBA May 8, 2007 January 10, 2007 May 25, 2007 February 6, 2007
The Complete Seventh Season
Set Details Special Features
  • 22 Episodes
  • 6-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Two behind the scenes featurettes
Release Dates
North America

United States Canada

Europe  United Kingdom Continental Europe Europe  Netherlands Europe  Norway  Australia
November 13, 2007 [11][12] TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA
The Complete Series
Set Details Special Features
  • 153 Episodes
  • 42-Disc Set
  • 1.33:1 Aspect Ratio
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish and French
  • English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Bonus Features
  • All new "Guide to Gilmorisms"
  • Episode Guide with pictures
Release Dates
North America

United States Canada

Europe  United Kingdom Continental Europe Europe  Netherlands Europe  Norway  Australia
November 13, 2007 [11][13] TBA TBA TBA TBA TBA

International

References

  1. ^ "CW Pulls Plug On Gilmore Girls". BroadcastingCable.com. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  2. ^ "Why Gilmore Girls is Ending". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  3. ^ "CW Bids 'Gilmore Girls' Goodbye". Zap2it.com. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  4. ^ "Gilmore Girls: Officially Cancelled, No Season Eight!". TVSeriesFinale.com. Retrieved 2007-05-03.
  5. ^ "'Gilmore Girls' canceled". Variety.com. Retrieved 2007-05-09.
  6. ^ "Scoop on about a Gilmore Girls movie". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2007-05-23.
  7. ^ "Overall Ratings". GilmoreGirls.org. Retrieved 2001-11-07.
  8. ^ "2006-07 primetime wrap". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2007-06-07. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  9. ^ "Production Cost". thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 2003-06-19.
  10. ^ "Premiere Schedule". thefutoncritic.com. Retrieved 2006-07-17.
  11. ^ a b c "Complete Series News, plus Season 7". TVShowsonDVD.com. Retrieved 2007-07-19.
  12. ^ "Large art for Season 7". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
  13. ^ "Hi-Res Pic of the Outer Packaging for The Complete Series". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Retrieved 2007-07-23.
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