Damn, now I just want to see a whole mess of deleted scenes based around this character.

Nah, you have to watch it all if you've made it this far. It's never as TERRIBLE as some people like to make out, and the last few episodes at least bring it all together for a satisfying (-ish) conclusion.

Related question for those who have read the book & seen the film:

Thanks! But that wiki is very incomplete. Maybe we all should help them fill it in each week as we play along with these reviews/our own commentaries?

Well, there's also the one in 'A Tisket, A Tasket', but I'm having trouble remembering many others at the moment. The ice sculpture one?

I think it actually goes pretty well with Jackson, even if it is entirely a made-up phrase. You see his family at their various gatherings & think, "yeah, they'd totally use the expression 'four in four'".

I read 'Marty' in your comment as 'Martyr', for some reason.

Yeah, 'Let the Games Begin' is one of my favourites. The scenes with the four of them, pre-fight, wandering around Yale are actually really sweet and - again - show us that Richard & Emily were never as bad as Lorelai made them out to be. Then, of course, Richard surprises them all, and proves that sometimes they were…

Also: Michael misremembers his big moment. For a start, he describes himself as having 'starred' on a kids' tv show, which is not exactly the same as being a one-off interview.

That's actually not a bad pick, having just recently rewatched through to the end of five. Rory shifting to Yale does some interesting things, yet - in that season at least - she still spends a lot of time with Lorelai. Plus we get the momentous last few episodes, which really are (for me) the peak of the show proving…

I know we all have talked about this before - although why should that let us stop here! - but my understanding was not so much 'enemies' as just that both of the actors are kinda similar to their characters (Graham is outgoing & possibly mildly flaky, Patterson is introverted & a bit grouchy) and so it was just never…

One of my least-favourite story arcs on the show. Classic example of manufacturing a tension but letting the mechanics show just a bit too obviously.

I haven't seen the episode in a while, so I can't remember the specifics. You're probably right that it's not particularly pointed in the episode. That said, if you see it for the first time already knowing that Linehan is (more-than-the-average) anti-Scientology, as I did, it probably takes on a more specific…

Well, the other clue is that Graham Lineham is a prominent anti-Scientologist. I'm surprised it took him this long to work it into an episode, to be honest. (Unless his interest really only started about when this episode was made?)

Roy's Sea Parks storyline is one of my top couple of favourite things from the entire run of The IT Crowd. Every scene, and every moment within each scene, is just perfect.

They are if they've been under the guidance/leadership of a good Community Organiser.

I only read one Spillane Hammer book (borrowed a trilogy from the library), and I have to tell you - a terrible parody of that style of writing would have been preferable. The sexism/wish-fulfillment angle is absolutely obnoxious.

Someone pointed out a while ago that the Hardy Boys never actually catch a criminal. In pretty much every book, they stumble on something fishy going on, and track it well enough, only to be saved at the end by their dad, who coincidentally is working the same case himself.

Yeah, but Jess treats books like shit in general too - folding the cover back, shoving them into pockets, that sort of thing. He clearly has no affection for books as physical objects.

Maybe the point was supposed to be that she wasn't really all that badly off? That we were supposed to take the side of 'hey, Lorelai, stop over-reacting!'. If Rory had been seriously hurt, we would have identified more with Lorelai & then been turned off Jess.