I'm only about halfway through season 3 in Mad Men, but I got strange looks recently when I told friends I was jealous of Pete, Alison Brie for Christ's sake! And i've since found out that he apparently hits it off with Alexis Bledel in season 5…

I disagree that Logan was the goal of anything, he was important so we could see that Rory had finally fully recovered the heritage from her grandparents and was no longer just mommy's girl, but having her finish with her college boyfriend woukd have just felt wrong, HUGE SPOILERS, that the show ends with Rory single…

Don't forget Savages! And they're very good live.

Mazes are pretty good too

Yes, their fugal writing is sorely uninventive.

I'm starting to lose hope. Anyone knows when woukd the deadline be for the show to have a summer season? I'm guessing that's the best we can expect, or would a September/October return be a possibilty?

It's not just a feeling…

Maybe you know all the bands on the line-up I don't but I can find two "guitar bands" in the first four bands listed for each day on Fri and Sat, with a few if not a lot more if you check the rest of the day, the exception being Sunday where you "only" get Yo La Tengo.

Just to point out in reply to your third, when Emily and Richard arrive at Lorelai's for Rory's birthday party, Lorelai says it's weird as they've never been here. But she mentions that they've come to visit at the inn when Rory was a baby; if we assume the writing to be consistent, that would imply that Lorelai then…

I'm going to play devil's advocate here for a second; but I see it as a society thing more than anything else, to Emily these are Rory's peers and they are people she should get to know and socialise with, SPOILERS, Rory will after all get into trouble later at Chilton because she doesn't socialIse enough.
Emily knows…

We just got the first hint of the friendship to come, but the relationship was ambivalent until they got to Yale IIRC, and maybe even then at times… But all of Chilton could be quite tense, Rory and Paris didn't really seem like they were going to keep in touch after graduation.

About 20 minutes, 25 if there is a lot of traffic.

"I don't know how many French people you've met over the years, but most of them are insufferable."

He did say he managed to get nature to bow down to him and that he had become God, he had to have done something apparently impossible, it's not a miracle otherwise.

The Bunheads reviews were the first time I became aware that there was such an opinion, and while I don't have the lists right here, I remember people highlighting incriminating evidence that I thought were perfectly good episodes.
The only episodes that were trying too hard were season 7

That we never saw it was the best part, they just kept mentioning it and added more and more cuisine it was serving.
I'm half-tempted to keep track of all they served while on this rewatch: so far, seafood.
I wonder if they ever actually got pancakes there.

I remember all of two mentions before that episode that could hint at it, Luke telling Lorelai it's a good thing she won't try to see that Chilton dad in the second episode, and Lorelai asking Rory what she thinks of Luke.
But Emily stating seems to me to really be the point where it becomes clear to the audience that…

Stars Hollow world building: this is the first mention of Al's Pancake World; a running joke that never got old.

I'm not sure it's meant to be a quirky small town thing as much as a Babett thing, she cared about her cats and the town cares about her.
Max is still very much from the Chilton mould, I wouldn't expect him to accept it straight away.

I can't help but think that the Luke/Lorelai relationship was forced a little at the beginning, Emily claims it is obvious, but it's the first time in the show it's stated so strongly, and nothing before would have hinted at such a strong display of affection at that party.
She apparently knows her daughter a lot…