Rory's Birthday Parties
- Episode aired Nov 9, 2000
- TV-PG
- 45m
It's Rory's birthday. She gets two parties. An elegant and horrible affair thrown by her grandmother and an informal fun party thrown by Lorelai.It's Rory's birthday. She gets two parties. An elegant and horrible affair thrown by her grandmother and an informal fun party thrown by Lorelai.It's Rory's birthday. She gets two parties. An elegant and horrible affair thrown by her grandmother and an informal fun party thrown by Lorelai.
- Mitzi
- (as Bridget Ann White)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaNear the beginning, Lorelai sits down at the kitchen table and slices an apple to eat. Later on in a future season of the series, Lorelai has a pregnancy scare. It starts when she craves an apple. She talks in that future episode about how she doesn't like apples and the only time she ever wanted apples was when she was pregnant. Clearly, the apple idea didn't come to the writers early in the show. You can see apples in a bowl on the table in a few other early episodes.
- GoofsIt's supposedly Rory's 16th birthday in S1E6, but she's already driving solo in S1E4 when she gets hit by a deer. Connecticut requires you to be 16 to get a license.
- Quotes
Lorelai: And I was screaming and swearing, and being surrounded as I was by a hundred prominent doctors, I just assumed there was an actual use for the cup of ice chips they gave me.
Rory: There wasn't.
Lorelai: But pelting the nurses sure was fun.
Rory: I love you, Mom.
Lorelai: Shh. I'm getting to the part where he sees your head. So there I was...
- ConnectionsReferences Bright Eyes (1934)
- SoundtracksWhere You Lead
Performed by Carole King and Louise Goffin
Words and Music by Carole King and Toni Stern
Produced by Carole King and Greg Wells
She had, like two bday parties, one with her grandparents and their snooty high friends and - unfortunately- the Chilton kids. With only one outburst on Rory's part, the party was almost okay.
The other party was awesome, though, which consisted of Rory's and Lorelai's friends and Rory really had fun in this one.
So, what else went down this episode, you ask? I will tell you what else went down: the post-it incident. God, was that hilarious. It was also kind of crazy Lorelai's mum and dad's part. I mean, who has their daughter and granddaughter put post it notes to mark stuff they want after one's demise? It was super ridiculous, but also super funny.
Rory and Dean progress further in their relationship (secretly of course). He even stops by at Luke's to mouth happy birthday to her. That reminds me, if we didn't know this already, we know it now for sure: Luke's a ginormous softie. We can tell from the effort he put in setting up a table specially for Rory at her birthday complete with balloons and a cake.
The creepy guy, Tristin, simply refuses to give Rory a break even on her birthday. Also, I am willing to bet Paris has a secret crush on Tristin coz she's seen asking Rory whether she's going out with Tristin. Speaking of which, Paris was decent to Rory for the entirety of this episode. Crazy, right?
Lorelai had a twinkle in her eye when her mum stated that Like had a thing for her. So, yeah. Luke and Lorelai are also gonna hook up.
Oh, there was significant growth observed in Rory's grandma.
And that's all I have to say for this episode. Thank you for reading!
- misslegend-16637
- Jul 20, 2020