I think that's the key over the early seasons of the show. In, say, the year before the show began, Lorelai didn't care for her parents' approval or love or anything. We see that in the first couple of episodes. But by getting to know them better, getting closer to them than ever before through the first season, AND…

The season five episode (so, erm, spoilers) I watched last night saw the grandparents - Richard especially - much cannier in how to deal with undesirable relationships. By this point they've learned that Rory is back with Dean (I don't think they ever learn he was married in the meantime) & Lorelai is with Luke. Emily…

Wait, Sunset Boulevard didn't have two sequels, did it?

Would've been better if it finished with a long scene of a patronising psychiatrist patronisingly explaining to us what's wrong with Norman.

I was wondering if anyone would mention that other movie Hitchcock made, about the young woman having an affair that prompts her to steal a huge amount of money from her employer. She then goes on the run, before her conscience gets the better of her… It's your classic story of one person led by a desperate series of…

Yeah, that deleted scene is pretty sweet. Really drives home (as it were) how important the Independence Inn had been to the two of them.

I need closure on this ancedote!

I love that Thursday afternoon girls line. It's such a great example of when hyper-literate people realise mid-sentence that they're being completely illogical, but also know that they mean it anyway.

Ditto Grant Lee Phillips. He's only in about ten episodes, but it somehow feels like way more than that.

Hmm, they're all pretty good, really. I'd probably have to go with 'Raincoats & Recipes', but 'Those Are Strings, Pinocchio' (3) & 'I Can't Get Started' (2) land pretty high too.

Well yes, but at least it allows us to put it in a category with The Wire as Great Shows The Emmy Voters Apparently Never Saw.

Note also in early season five, on their first Proper Date, Luke tells, in quite remarkable detail, how they first met, eight years earlier. It's a rather cute (if very Lorelai) moment, when she came into his diner, demanded coffee, asked when his birthday was, then ripped the appropriate horoscope out of the paper &…

@avclub-b7784c8bc13cfa7214f249fef97abfe9:disqus Actually, we don't return to the Dragonfly until a fair bit later (with Kirk, Luke & Sookie). The next day there's a reference to Digger, but Sookie explains that she (& Michel) got rid of him the previous night after Lorelai left. It's a bit puzzling why they didn't…

Yeah, the Australian one is pretty weak. And I don't say that just because I'm Australian, either. None of their international ones were particularly great. The problem with the Australia one is that, other than knifey-spoony, there's not really a single memorable gag.

Brilliant. I only wish I'd thought of that.

Yeah, that line, for some reason, ranks waaaaaaaaay up high for both my wife & I. It's one we quote remarkably often, especially given that neither of us has ever ruined two perfectly good jackets.

@avclub-b7784c8bc13cfa7214f249fef97abfe9:disqus Yep, he appears in the s4 final, just as Luke is about to make his Big Move on Lorelai. Throws a wrench in that, albeit briefly.

I just finished rewatching season four, and I must say Digger has grown on me a lot since the first time I saw it. That said: I like him as a character in the show, and as Richard's partner. I never really bought him as Lorelai's boyfriend. In a way, I sorta would have preferred if he'd just been a quick casual thing…

Don't you sorta answer your own question there? 'Everybody in Stars Hollow is very self-sufficient' - and here comes someone who rejected their life of privilege, but has worked her way up to a senior & prominent position through sheer hard work & ability? All the while raising a daughter by herself? Sounds like…

I think that ended up being the big failing with Max - classic case of Telling Rather Than Showing. Because, really, he has very little screentime (especially if you discount all the Rory-based time - he actually doesn't have, if memory serves, all that many scenes just with Lorelai), we have to just take Lorelai's…