"STOP TALKING TO THE DOGS!" Kelly Bishop and Marion Ross both played the Emily/Trix conflict absolutely hilariously, because they're both awesome, but Richard's attitude towards the appalling way his mother treated his wife did get pretty painful sometimes. I mean, sure, it's a generational thing and a boy's best…

Oh God, definitely. Luke being petulant is funny sometimes, but that was just beyond cringey and out of character, in my view. But really, the whole Rory/Dean 2.0 (or 3.0) situation was awkward.

I also started screaming when Jimmy said "I've got two people who love me but only one who's IN LOVE with me and it's not the one I want." FUCKING DIE JIMMY.

Ryan Murphy, is that you?

I am precisely that person who wildly enjoys Danny and Donald doing impression of each other for 22 minutes, so that was all delightful. They've gotten even better since "I like football, but also I don't…?" And while that breakup did have a whiff of frantic Joey-and-Rachelesque backpedaling,  it did lead to some nice…

[SPOILERS for later seasons]
Possibly my biggest Dean complaint is the way everyone, including Dean and even Lorelai, pretended that Rory dumped Dean for Jess, when in fact he very savagely and publicly dumped her at the dance marathon. Yes, she was definitely flirting with Jess a lot and was interested in him, but at…

I mean, in the moment it's not that bad—his feelings were hurt and he reacted like a kid, because he was a kid—but when I put it next to all the other stuff he did later (getting upset about her playing Juliet to Tristan's Romeo, yelling at her upon finding Paris and Jess at her house when she was home alone, flipping…

I thought of that too! But then again, they've made a point of saying the boys never carry umbrellas in rainy scenes, either. They're just badasses, okay.

This is just so dumb in so many ways. I mean, putting aside the fact that the bombings have nothing to do with the episode's plot, as far as I can tell, putting it online in tantalizing "webisode" form only (a) ensures that people will find and watch the full thing illegally and (b) seems almost like they're taking…

I so wanted to like Chris, since I find it really charming that he and Lorelai have known each other for so long and have a strong basis of friendship as well as romantic attraction, but they just ruined him/their relationship so badly in later seasons that it affects the earlier stuff as well. Ugh. (But you're right,…

"Throw the old harpy's carcass in a ditch, let a wolverine eat her!"

I am actually gonna semi-almost-sorta defend that episode: the racist truck was dumb as balls, of course, but I loved Cassie; she was my favorite of all of Dean's ladies and I feel like he truly loved her the most. I was quite frustrated that he went back to Lisa instead of her when he was attempting to Give Up The…

HOORAY, finally some gay on this show! I've been waiting. I mean, I still think Miles and Monroe are/were totally in love (and the whole Alec thing kinda played like a jealous/betrayed ex), but badass science lesbians is okay too! And considering we've never met these people before, the Jane/Beth scenes were pretty…

"Of course. 'Hit List.' *dumps ice* NOW GET OUT" totally killed me. I still adore Anjelica, I don't even care.

I have to say I noticed that too, with Rosie, though I was mostly distracted by the hilarious clunkiness of her lines. They're so not afraid of exposition on this show, are they.

HA! Good point! And much later, in "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist," things get similarly Sapphic. (I mean, come on, Ty Lee and Azula were freakishly in love.)

The "painting songs" jokes is only outdone later in season 3 when Lorelai threatens to annoy Luke into doing something or other by singing in a Louis Armstrong voice. "I'll be comin' 'round the diner singin' sooooongs." I laugh embarrassingly hard every time.

I honestly thought we were going for a Brandon Lee thing within the story for a second—like, Derek tells Ana to 'choose' whom to shoot and OH GOD SHE KILLED HIM FOR REAL, PLOT TWIST! And I'm not convinced they won't go there later, and/or she'll be randomly murdered by Jimmy's drug dealer friend Adam in a Patch…

the story is so dumb

I love that Natalia Tena spoke out about that and said it totally didn't make sense for her character. Tonks is awesome.