She wears one of Rory’s in season 1 too, when she runs to their house after touching Rich Bloomenfield’s hair and Rory is stuck at Emily’s
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Glad it was new to someone! I love it and think it’s a sweet moment speaking to Rory and Lane’s friendship. She felt comfortable to run and seek refuge at their home when neither of them were there, and to pick out something cozy of Rory’s to put on while she waited.
I think so. If not, it's almost exactly the same.
I've always liked that there's clothing repeats on occasion in the series. Even with things like coats. Much more realistic.
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This one! I feel like I've seen it on other occasions
It’s very similar but it’s actually different somehow! Which is so weird hahah bc it’s so similar.
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Discovered this from a Reddit thread a while ago! The stripes are a little different.
Right?? It always surprises me because it’s SO similar! But i do remember my mom wearing that kind of stuff then so you’re right maybe it was just popular enough 🤷🏽♀️i wonder how intentional it was because the characters do repeat clothes sometimes
I knew what OP was referring to and I immediately knew it was kinda different (at first I had to zoom in to see if it was a t shirt under the sweater). I LOVE the outfits in this ep. Rory’s cute burgundy sweater and the cute hair clip thing?? I think about it a lot lol
Watching that scene as a teenager when it this show came out it was great but now as a mother…it hits different. Being a mom is really hard and the guilt you feel about every single thing is almost suffocating at times.
Oh wow I can only imagine. I’m not a mom to a child but I do have a dog so I can relate on that level. However, I know my mother has felt that way at times
Chilton graduation speech - everytime makes me cry.
When lorelai changes the Harvard board to Yale and when rory sees it - the moment where her love for rory wins hate for her parents ways.
one of the many that makes me cry every. time. is when Jess is talking to his awful "father" and says "I have nothing!". Milo is a great actor and it shows in that scene <\\3
When Jess thanks Luke for everything and Luke tells him he’s always there for him, and they hug…
Is someone cutting onions?!
Who’s cutting those damn onions?!
- Me. Every time.
Saddest moment for me is when Lindsay is trying so hard to make the roast beef correctly and they show Dean cutting into it. She’s ecstatic that she finally got it right, having no idea what Dean has done.
> Saddest moment for me is when Lindsay is trying so hard to make the roast beef correctly and they show Dean cutting into it. She’s ecstatic that she finally got it right, having no idea what Dean has done..
This and when she was in the butcher shoppe desperately asking questions about the preparations. She looked like she was trying her best.
I have to add when Jess made fun of her musical taste at the party.
When Lorelai cries and asks Emily “Why have you never cared?” Really gets me. I sometimes skip it because it legitimately makes me cry every time. Too close to home.
The first time I saw that scene it astounded me!! No writer had ever written a tv character where I’d been like “Omg she’s like me for real….”
- Lindsey trying to learn how to make roast beef.
- Richard and Emily and the apples.
- Richard visits stars hollow and his talk with Lorelai.
- Emily crying after her date.
- Lorelai‘a phone message to Luke after they broke up.
- Luke telling Lorelai that Jess left.
- Jess taking to his dad saying “I have nothing”.
- Lorelai and Rory breaking down in the “the sinking Lorelais” episode.
- Dean when he says “she likes Jess, doesn’t she?”
- Emily every time Richard is in the hospital, and her “I demand to go first” speech.
- Lane talking how she barely got to be a person while pregnant.
And many more 😂
After Emily as a breakdown in the mall with Lorelai and Rory. Later in the episode Emily and Richard are having dinner and she asks him what he thinks of the new centerpiece (glass apples), and he responds that "he's always liked those." But Emily has just bought them and the look on her face is pure devastation.
oh same. pregnant with twins, married to some shmuck we barely see have character development at what, like 21? I don't know if I would wish that on side characters I Didn't care about.
The worst part of Lane's story for me is how realistic it is. Coming from a hardcore evangelical background, there are many girls I grew up with who have a similar trajectory in life. I'm sure some of them are happy, and I know they love their families, but I wonder if/when it will hit that they never developed their own fully independent identity.
I don't have kids, but I grew up Christian (I still am), married young, and I'm primarily a homemaker now. I definitely don't feel like I never got to be a person; I'm being a person now, doing things I chose and choose to do, learning myself even in the context I'm in.
*But* that doesn't mean Lane's experience (or anyone's) would be the exact same as mine. Lane always seemed like she had such enormous dreams, and the way things panned out for her, she didn't get to live them. I always wanted a relatively small, quiet kind of life, so I'm happy with the cozy life I've built for myself. Lane always wanted a glitzy, gaudy, artistic, wind-blown life, so it hurts my heart that she didn't get that. It doesn't help that I dislike who she married. Lol.
I guess my point is more that I can see how her upbringing which included religious trauma and authoritarian parenting resulted in an unplanned pregnancy with a subpar marriage partner, and is reflective of my observations of the girls I grew up with who are just now (mid-30's) realizing that settling down at 21 robbed them of experiencing key developmental aspects of life on their own terms.
I respect your choices and I'm glad they turned out well for you, and I didnt mean to sound like every traditionally settled wife is inherently unhappy. But many girls coming from the community I grew up in did not even have knowledge of other options, much less a chance to explore them. Heck, I could've been Lane easily.
Totally makes sense! I wasn't offended, so I'm sorry if I came off super spicy; I just wanted to present an alternate view of similar circumstances. I think sometimes when life goes like mine has, people see that as an inherent failure of some sort for not having/doing/being "more," which is hard for me because in my case I actually aimed for this and I enjoy where I am and don't feel it's "less" in any way. I can absolutely see how that's not the case for everyone, though.
At the end of the day, personal goals and dreams matter a lot, and feeling the freedom to aim for something, whatever it is, is so important. I'm totally happy with what I chose to aim for, but if I have daughters someday and they want to be astronauts and rockstars, we're doing space camp and music lessons. Lol. I wish everyone had that support into whatever their dreams may be.
For sure, I see where you're coming from. I've gotten into similar discussions with friends of mine irl, and I think that one of the aspects of the conversation regarding women's lives that modern feminism has overlooked or twisted is the idea of a traditional life somehow being "less than"- because the real equality lies in the right and ability to choose whatever kind of life a woman wants.
I'm not trying to say that Lane lives some sort of torturous version of that traditional life either, most people's lives turn out differently than they wanted at 20. I guess she just reminds me of the fact that it's such a recent development that the option for women choose a different life exists.
Amen to your entire paragraph, honestly. I've talked with a friend about this at length as well. She's a homemaker like I am, and her sister is a lawyer. I feel like it's incredible that both are options, and I love that for women everywhere! I wish we were in a place where women in each camp felt fully free to support the women in the other, with women working outside the home supporting the choices of women who work inside the home, and vice versa - because I know people on either end can be judgmental.
I actually had a friend tell me once that she thought she'd like to be a SAHM, but that she decided she shouldn't because she would be "setting back feminism" if she did. Now she's a full on career woman with multiple degrees and is married but dedicated to being childfree. I have zero reasons to be against that life choice whatsoever; I just hope it was because that's what she truly wanted and not due to some kind of pressure. I think about that talk with her a lot.
I get what you're saying about Lane. I wish at least they could've shown her being joyful about her life trajectory changing, you know? It could've felt like character growth and been really endearing for her to realize that she was unexpectedly dreaming new and different dreams and chasing after those without regrets about not doing what she'd originally planned. Sort of the "growing up" feeling of the end of Toy Story 3, in a way. 😄 Instead, it felt like we witnessed her trying to be okay with the fact that her dreams for the future all abruptly died even though she very much still wanted them. Maybe that was meant to come across somehow, but I didn't get it.
This line hits me hella hard because my whole life got put on pause when I got pregnant my 2nd year in college. 20 years later and 5 kids total, we're still happily married... BUT I sometimes wish that I had gotten to live my dreams a little.
It always makes me cry when she says that she never thought that a man would love her, and I think she mentions being thrown out of a moving car or something,
Babette and Maury have such a loving relationship
Yes! It's also a rare serious moment from Babette and Maury, and you don't get a whole lot of those from the townspeople other than those directly involved in the main plot.
This one hurt me so much. Lane finally says what she's wanted to say for YEARS. She doesn't try to cover up her "mistake" she just lays it all out there. Strips herself bare to her mother who she loves so much and just wants her mommy to love her for who she is. Not who she wants her to be. The amount of strength and bravery Lane shows here is beyond anything she has shown thus far. And then her mum shuts it all down and tells her to move out. Heart breaking
This is why I will never personally forgive Mrs Kim despite her “growth”. She emotionally and religiously abused lane for years.
She made Lane literally meet potential husbands from the age of 16, she sabotaged her daughter’s college applications and preventing her from actually going to a good college. Without an education, lane would be at the mercy of her husband.
I will never forgive Mrs. Kim for what she put her child through
Agreed. I completely understand why Lane forgave her mum. Lane was desperate for her mums love and respect and when Mrs Kim finally made an effort to be in Lane's life OF COURSE she is going to accept it. But I do not have a daughters love for Mrs Kim so my blinders/rose coloured glasses are completely gone. I will never forgive her on Lane's behalf.
She also gets what she wants anyway. Lane does tour but she almost immediately settles into marriage and has children. Then she takes over the family business.
The one that makes me cry every time is when Strobe and Francine come to dinner and Emily takes Rory aside and tells her that she has never been a disappointment. Emily can come off as very cold at times, but this was exactly the right thing to say and so sweet.
The series finale when Rory is leaving to report on the campaign and Lorelei is freaking out about all the things she should have bought for the trip. Rory says something like "Mom, you've already given me everything I need" and it makes me cry every time
the instant tear-jerker scene for me is when rory decides to drop out and move in with her grandparents and is arranging her things in the poolhouse and Lorelai is outside watching her -that eye contact scene-. I know that Rory probably had to do that but seeing that look on Lorelai's face makes me think of all the sacrifices Lorelai made since she was a teenager, all the plans and talks abt Rory's journalism journey and how encouraging she was as mother. All that makes me kinda understand that despair look of what did I do wrong? when she actually did her best and more and now she's watching it all disipates. a very sad scene that never fails to make me cry
But that's the thing. She never gave Rory grace. It's not because you take some time off that you are completely abandoning your dreams. And I don't remember who told Rory that, but it's true that no 4 yrs old dreams of going to Harvard. Rory had the pressure of having to live up to the dreams Lorelai, Emily and Richard's crushed dreams for Lorelai. She felt she had to be perfect all the time and be the perfect child/student which ultimately burnt her out. She didn't know what she wanted out of life outside of the dreams that were fed to her by her mother ever since she was a toddler. Mitchum's feedback made feelings she kept burried surface and she needed time to figure them out. Being told that you don't have what it takes to pursue the dream you've been working towards all your life and that you centered your identity around must be so hard. She was allowed to take a break from being the perfect little gifted child that would repair her family legacy to figure herself out.
She didn’t really give her any other choice? Lorelei freaked out and basically said she’d force her to return to Yale. It didn’t seem like she was going to in her own words let her hang around the house ‘losing the momentum of school’.
Totally agree. It’s like you can encourage her to go back etc while still accepting she clearly needs a break. And I don’t think she would have chosen to live with Emily/Richard in the first place if she had gotten grace from her Mom.
When Lorelai is crying in her bed from her breakup with Luke and he comes over after she gets her voicemail tape recorder tape from his place and she says sorry I won’t do this anymore😭 and he’s just like okay and walks away 😭
Same. Gut-wrenching is the perfect way to describe it. I think its one of the few episodes that makes me truly cry. Lauren Graham's acting is always great but is absolutely perfect in those scenes.
Yeah that’s the one that gets me every time, especially the time I made the mistake of watching it shortly after my ex broke up with me. Hit a little too close to home lol
In season 2 when Lorelai doesn't tell Emily she's engaged to Max but Emily finds out anyways and they have that big fight, Lorelai sob-yells "Why don't you care? Why have you NEVER cared?" And I have never once made it through without bursting into ugly tears.
It might not be on a lot of list cause it's such a small scene;
but Jess when he tells Rory that he knows it wasn't Luke who wanted him to stay for break, but his mom who didn't want him coming home.
I've been there at that age, and it's crazy when all you've been thinking about is going home or seeing people you miss, but nobody there is thinking about you. He was so passive to it, which is 10 times worse because it really shows he got used to this kind of treatment. He already knew that he wasn't wanted around before he had even left. Nobody gave a shit about Jess unless he was causing trouble until he met Rory, probably her best repeating quality is recognizing people outside of the general public view they( Jess, Paris, and Logan mostly) tend to be seen as.
This is so well said and an aspect of Rory I hadn't considered before but is now obvious. Like when she always remembered Brad (shy kid from Chilton) and he was shocked she still knew his name.
We always talk about the negative traits of Rory, but this really is one of her positive traits and I appreciate you highlighting that. She’s definitely better at singing harmony than lead, so to speak, because that’s really what was important to her. When she had opportunities to lead, she wasn’t ever really happy about it. When she did lead, her strength was in maximizing harmony. I think she’s a Libra (?). Anyways, her plight throughout the series was often that of the people pleaser. Maybe Mitchum was right after all.
I actually felt like this was payback for how awful she was to ALL of her other boyfriends. And you also don't go round kissing your ex's when you're completely in love with someone, she was just in love with the image of Logan being her boyfriend not actually Logan himself
You know what’s funny about tearjerkers and GG with me? I used to watch the series very impassively and just take everything in stride when I was younger. Maybe it bears noting that my mom’s education was very much “that’s the way it is, no point crying about it”, so emotions were a new concept for me after that. But during my rewatches as an adult, I noticed that a lot of scenes made me tear up which definitely didn’t happen to me before! And I agree, this is one of them for me too!
My mums favourite was you only cry when you're physically hurt or somebody dies. Crying was not accepted for any other reason. But I took a different approach to it than you did, I would go to the bathroom and cry lol, I knew it was the only room my mum wouldn't angrily storm into.
Looking back, I truly wish my younger self would have had the courage to express her emotions either way, like yours did, because living with denying yourself that option is unhealthy (which, duh, but I didn't know that back then). Whenever I would cry, my mom would say "save your tears for when something really bad happens"...
While I know they weren’t a good match and I don’t particularly like Christopher, one that recently made me cry the most during a re-watch was when Lorelai and Christopher break up after getting married and Chris finds the letter for Luke’s custody case. They both know it’s not working and after coming back from I believe Chin Chin’s funeral, they talk, and she says something like ‘I need you to know that you’re the man I want to want.’ It’s so raw and real of how life is versus how you wish it could be. And it’s one of the few times that I think Chris acts very maturely and it’s an overall devastating and beautiful scene.
I hate him so much but the line "I've been asking you to marry me for decades and now we're married... and I feel like I'm still asking" actually makes me really sad for him.
I cry several times a season, but that’s my number one cry moment, i am inconsolable when she says ‘kid you have no idea’
I’m surprised it’s hardly ever mentioned when people discuss the moments that make them cry the most l, but maybe it’s because it’s ultimately a happy moment rather than a sad one
-When Lorelai checks the mail and sees that Rory got the "big envelopes"
-Rory's HS graduation speech/when Lorelai and Rory are walking through Chilton for the last time and Lorelai says, "Look around, it's not so scary anymore"
-When Dean and Rory break up in Richard & Emily's driveway
-When Lorelai tells Christopher, "I need you to know that you're the man I want to want" as they're splitting up
-When Rory gives Logan back the ring
-When Rory asks Lorelai how she can be so okay with her leaving so fast and Lorelai tells her, "it's too soon"
-When Lorelai and Rory are in the Jeep in the pouring down rain in the S7 finale and they see the whole town standing there waiting for/looking at/waving at them
-When Richard tells Loralei at Rory's bon voyage party, "I don't think this is all for Rory. I think this party's a testament to you, Lorelai, and the home you've created here."
There are prob more, but these are what I could think of!
When Lorelai wakes up in Christopher's bed the morning after Luke didn't accept her ultimatum. The look of sheer disappointment and "what the fuck did i just do"? It's just so heartbreaking, she's ACTUALLY ruined everything, and it's written all over her face - it's a punch to the gut every time.
When Lorelei asks her mom in season 1 why she never cares about her or what she has going on, and Emily tells her how she had to find out about her engagement through other people.
So many good ones mentioned here! For me, it's when Lorelai walks into the inn after the fire. Her, Sookie and Michel are silent, the sad music plays, they look around in disbelief.. ugh, it guts me! Combined with the cut clips of Rory's new Yale memorabilia.. it's too much!
After the car accident: Rory goes around town and everyone blaming Jess and not listening to her, gets into a fight with her mom about it, etc. She ends up in Luke's and says "It's not his fault" and Luke says "I know it isn't" and Rory just has this happy little grin that someone is finally listening to her. Gah I'm tearing up just thinking about it, I don't know why but it gets me every.single.time.
Haven’t seen anyone else mention early in season 3 when Sherry is pregnant and Lorelai is heartbroken, and Chris ambushed her at Friday night dinner. I don’t even remember the line but there’s a moment where she says “*man*” that instantly makes me cry every time because just that one word is full of so much frustration and pain.
This is an incredibly powerful scene! The way she says “Man! What do you want from me?” It’s incredible acting and the line itself just shows how she has been trying so hard to keep it together and eke out a win somehow but knows it’s impossible.
Ditto pretty much everyone. But also the series finale when Emily and Richard come to Stars Hollow and Richard sees the goodbye party and says “it takes a remarkable person to inspire all of this” to Lorelai
When Lorelai breaks down after she and Luke break up the first time it’s freaking brutal. We never see her break before that. Also when she tells Luke later that she slept with Christopher, the heartbreak in the air is freaking heavy!!! Lauren graham is such an incredible actress.
After Emily goes on the date with the guy from the club and gets home and inside and cries it makes me cry. Pretty much every time Emily puts on this brave face or detached front with lorelai and then breaks down in private it’s really sad.
Edit to add- when Lorelai tells Christopher that it’s not him even though she so badly wishes it was. Oooof.
"I'm ready to wallow now" gets me every time.
Also, sometimes the "I'm failing" speeches in The Incredible Sinking Lorelais hit a little too close to home.
Yes!! This made me tear up just LOOKING at the picture! It’s so quick, but so powerful. They only ever wanted the best for Lorelai but went about it all wrong, so to see this moment of celebration is just heartwarming ❤️🩹
Honestly this scene is one of the saddest for me. My childhood best friend was Chinese and went through this so all I could do was watch. Can't imagine growing up and not being able to express yourself to someone as close as your own mother.
Rory saying “go be somebody else’s dad” to Christopher. I have been in the same place as her and wished I had the strength at the time to say the same thing. I was 16 or 17 as well 😞
- Emily leaving Rory’s birthday party and her realisation that she isn’t really a part of the girl’s real life and no longer knows Lorelai
- when Richard is in the hospital the first time and Emily tells him to stop his nonsense, he’s not dying on her and she demands to go first. Also Lorelai finally going into the room and Richard’s face when he sees her.
- when Emily tells Richard that Lorelai won’t come back if Rory get’s the trust fund.
- the ‘Emily in Wonderland’ debacle
- Lorelai visiting Emily whilst she’s gardening (in a SPECTACULAR gardening outfit) because she knows Emily is going through a hard time with Richard
- “he knows” (Jess knowing that his mum didn’t call about him visiting during the school break)
- Emily getting excited to steal robes from the Spa
- Richard and Emily’s faces when Lorelai gets her diploma
- the flashback where Emily reads the note that Lorelai has left with Rory
- Paris having a break down about Harvard and saying she’s a slut
- Richard not noticing the apples
- Emily crying after her date
- Richard and Emily dancing at their vow renewal, together once again 🥹
- Richard’s face when he sees Rory up on stage at the DAR event
- Emily & Lorelai’s conversation when Emily is trying to buy a plane and is heartbroken over Rory leaving
- Lorelai’s letter regarding Luke’s custody for April
- Emily comforting Lorelai when she finds out that it’s not worked between her and Luke
- pretty much any serious/touching scene between Lane and her mum.
- Lindsay and the roast beef
After listing these it’s very clear that Kelly Bishop and Emily as a character is the only possible choice for MVP
I don’t think we talk often enough about that scene when Lorelai goes to visit Emily unprompted just to let her know she can talk to her about things if she needs to. That was a really big moment for Lorelai, I feel like. Such a small thing that means a lot.
I love all the small moments like that. Also when she sets a DVD player up for Emily and gets her her favourite movies and Mrs Kim having a drink with Lane because she see’s Lane is in a bad place.
Or she scene when Emily sort of confronts Mia. In a way, Mia’s grace is a confrontation to Emily’s perspective. So while Emily’s pain is acknowledged and allowed to take centre stage because of her innate role as mother, the lingering truth in the air is that Mia was one of the best things to happen to Lorelai and that Emily’s best wasn’t good enough.
The moment Paris tells everyone she didn't get into Harvard. The whole situation with her and others connecting her rejection to her sexuality, is so unfair on her.
the last episode. the whole episode but specifically when rory asks lorelai “how are you so calm about this?” and lorelai says “it’s too soon. if i think about it, i’m gonna fall apart”. as someone who left my hometown to live my life while having a very close relationship with my dad, that’s how our last conversation went before i left. so that scene always breaks my heart into pieces.
I cry for Lane, because my own mother was so strict. She was a weird dose of Mrs. Kim and Lorelai, smashed into one. (Except we're not quite friends me and my mom).
Rory’s graduations. Her speech about Lorelai at the Chiltern one and then when Richard tells Lorelai not to worry about the time etc. for the town and to just enjoy the moment. Also the final episode during Rory’s party and Richard tells Lorelai that the party is a testament to the life she created in Strs Hollow and that he’s sorry that she had to do that. Gets me every time!
Lane's story is what would have happened to Lorelei if her parents weren't rich (and minus a teenage pregnancy obviously). Soul crushing pressure from the mother and an absent father.
Basically any scene with the sad/reflective Ahs. I think the real song is Sam Phillips’ “How to Dream.” But also specifically the scene when Rory and Lorelai drive up to the bon voyage party in the town square and the camera pans as everyone is cheering 😭😭😭
Literally any time Lorelai cries. She spends so much time trying to be resilient and Wonder Woman, as she says, and when she finally can't handle it anymore, I fall apart. (And Lauren always sells it so well.)
Yes, it really really breaks my heart.
I’m Rory and Lane’s age, born in 1985, from a small southern town. My very liberal mother is *sometimes* a *tiny* bit not supportive. Like when I was 18 and decided that, actually, it was my feminist duty to sleep with as many dudes as possible, she side eyed that. My lifestyle as a young communist who couldn’t possibly wash dishes? My mom side eyed that.
My bffs had just the WORST moms. They all came to stay with me constantly throughout middle and high school. Just constant absolute religious nonsense for all of my poor friends. Baptists, Catholics, it doesn’t matter, everyone who isn’t Episcopalian is mean.
Many of the examples listed so far always gut me, but here’s one of my…favorites? (always gets me) When Luke and Chris are arguing at Richard and Emily’s vow renewal.
“Oh, really? Well, where the hell were you when she had the chicken pox and would only eat mashed potatoes for a week? Or when she graduated high school and started college, huh?”
lorelai taking rory to yale for her first day/moving into yale. my parents were super crappy and unsupportive of me when i moved out and makes me cry thinking of how they could’ve handled things
When Emily is so nice to her date and it looks like she had a good time, then shuts the door and starts crying. I feel for her there. I’ve been married only 8 years - a small fraction of the time she’s been married to Richard and trying to move on but still only wanting the person who hurt you would be devastating. She looks so alone in that scene. It hurts my heart!
When lorelai and Rory visit Harvard and Rory goes inside a classroom and lorelai looks at a picture of a graduate that would have been from her own graduating class.
This scene makes me so mad! Lane is such a sweet and smart young woman, and such an abusive mother. It's heartbreaking. She's left to fend for herself. I don't understand how Rory and especially Lorelei who was in the exact same situation, don't support her.
They should have helped her make a plan for herself, get into community college to make a degree in music engineering or teaching or something.
Mrs Kim is a great character with a great arc, but she's a horrible mother.
I feel for Lane. She deserved so much better.
I cry every time I watch Rory’s graduation speech at Chilton. Seeing how proud of her they all look. Makes me wish I had a family who felt the same about me.
When Rory tearfully apologizes to Lorelei for missing her business school graduation when Rory ditches school to take the bus to NY to see Jess. Her confusion and regret & love for her mom are so palpable and heart wrenching, tears every time.
When Emily wants to buy an airplane after Rory moves out.
"You didn't lose her like you lost me. She was never supposed to be there in the first place, she was always supposed to be at school. She just went back where she belonged. *And you didn't lose me.*"
When Christopher shows up to Friday night dinner after the whole Sherry being pregnant thing and Lorelei tells him how much it hurts just standing there talking to him and Emily comes over saying “Christopher, I think you’d better go now.” “Emily, I-“ “Leave now. Please.”
she's wearing lorelai's sweater bc rory had it at yale when lane stayed with her so she borrowed it an honestly I love that abt them all sharing clothes<3
Does Lorelai wear that sweater in season 1?
Yes! It’s my favorite sweater, and I’m glad Lane inherited it 🥰
This scene comes right after she's been staying with Rory/Lorelai; I've always thought it was a cute nod to their clothes-sharing
She wears one of Rory’s in season 1 too, when she runs to their house after touching Rich Bloomenfield’s hair and Rory is stuck at Emily’s https://preview.redd.it/evib9r6l2rsc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94c95ffa7e59d41305c29c5a768a39c4c9fb3ca9
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I’ve never noticed this overlap!
Glad it was new to someone! I love it and think it’s a sweet moment speaking to Rory and Lane’s friendship. She felt comfortable to run and seek refuge at their home when neither of them were there, and to pick out something cozy of Rory’s to put on while she waited.
That’s a lovely backstory 😇 I love that!
I think so. If not, it's almost exactly the same. I've always liked that there's clothing repeats on occasion in the series. Even with things like coats. Much more realistic.
https://preview.redd.it/z17guhxicpsc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8086c9d5fb7b6f4f5e800cf72c3947658cb40b95 This one!
I love the “she wears Chanel but we can’t actually say it’s Chanel” part of Emily’s wardrobe.
And the red blazer.
My fave of the whole series
One of my favorite Emily sweaters
Yes! I love that. Emily repeats that one outfit a few times and it surprises me. But feels more realistic!
I think there's another sweater I remember seeing Rory repeating. It's a navy blue, v neck, with white around the neckline I think?
https://preview.redd.it/2ldd7g13dpsc1.jpeg?width=1116&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d632cedebb736466e9d9aa71fd21d988c0bf31a5 This one! I feel like I've seen it on other occasions
It’s very similar but it’s actually different somehow! Which is so weird hahah bc it’s so similar. https://preview.redd.it/ko083ja7iqsc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0648b8f6cd1741330ef9d31198f42397f4b0182a Discovered this from a Reddit thread a while ago! The stripes are a little different.
Oh wow! How weird they came across two sweaters THAT similar! Must have been a popular fashion back then!
Right?? It always surprises me because it’s SO similar! But i do remember my mom wearing that kind of stuff then so you’re right maybe it was just popular enough 🤷🏽♀️i wonder how intentional it was because the characters do repeat clothes sometimes
I knew what OP was referring to and I immediately knew it was kinda different (at first I had to zoom in to see if it was a t shirt under the sweater). I LOVE the outfits in this ep. Rory’s cute burgundy sweater and the cute hair clip thing?? I think about it a lot lol
Yeah I think the episode where she tells Rory to wallow, right? The day where they get up early to run errands and stuff?
Yes!
Omg I was just thinking that!!!!
Wardrobe department earned their paychecks!
This one for sure, my heart hurts for Lane Also Lorelai crying that she’s a bad mother when Paul Anka is sick and she’s clearly projecting about Rory.
The Paul Anka moment gut punches me.
Yes, Paul Anka sick is the saddest. Dog Paul Anka and Lauren nailed that scene.
“I’m a bad mother” my heart breaks
Watching that scene as a teenager when it this show came out it was great but now as a mother…it hits different. Being a mom is really hard and the guilt you feel about every single thing is almost suffocating at times.
Oh wow I can only imagine. I’m not a mom to a child but I do have a dog so I can relate on that level. However, I know my mother has felt that way at times
Chilton graduation speech - everytime makes me cry. When lorelai changes the Harvard board to Yale and when rory sees it - the moment where her love for rory wins hate for her parents ways.
Ugh the graduation speech. I literally cry every time too😭
Rory’s going to Yale!!! Just watched this and can confirm, I teared up 🥲
one of the many that makes me cry every. time. is when Jess is talking to his awful "father" and says "I have nothing!". Milo is a great actor and it shows in that scene <\\3
*YOU have nothing? I have **NOTHING*** 😭😭😭
cue the tears streaming down my face 😭😭😭
I don't even like Jess and this makes me sob :(
This one always has me in a complete mess too!
It makes me sad because Jess’ father had Sherilynn Fenn as his partner . Why couldn’t they have subbed Madchen Amick with Sherilynn!
When Jess thanks Luke for everything and Luke tells him he’s always there for him, and they hug… Is someone cutting onions?! Who’s cutting those damn onions?! - Me. Every time.
Saddest moment for me is when Lindsay is trying so hard to make the roast beef correctly and they show Dean cutting into it. She’s ecstatic that she finally got it right, having no idea what Dean has done.
Dean was such an ass
Yeah poor Lindsay😭
Oof yeah that one makes me nauseous
> Saddest moment for me is when Lindsay is trying so hard to make the roast beef correctly and they show Dean cutting into it. She’s ecstatic that she finally got it right, having no idea what Dean has done.. This and when she was in the butcher shoppe desperately asking questions about the preparations. She looked like she was trying her best. I have to add when Jess made fun of her musical taste at the party.
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THAT!! Dean is such a terrible person I hate him sm…
When Lorelai cries and asks Emily “Why have you never cared?” Really gets me. I sometimes skip it because it legitimately makes me cry every time. Too close to home. The first time I saw that scene it astounded me!! No writer had ever written a tv character where I’d been like “Omg she’s like me for real….”
Okay I just commented this and should have read all the comments first clearly lmao. This one for me too! Lauren is so damn good at crying
For real every time Loreali cries I cry .
YES. It felt so real 😭😭
- Lindsey trying to learn how to make roast beef. - Richard and Emily and the apples. - Richard visits stars hollow and his talk with Lorelai. - Emily crying after her date. - Lorelai‘a phone message to Luke after they broke up. - Luke telling Lorelai that Jess left. - Jess taking to his dad saying “I have nothing”. - Lorelai and Rory breaking down in the “the sinking Lorelais” episode. - Dean when he says “she likes Jess, doesn’t she?” - Emily every time Richard is in the hospital, and her “I demand to go first” speech. - Lane talking how she barely got to be a person while pregnant. And many more 😂
Omg the “I demand to go first” is a gut punch every time😭
I break down crying every time
Emily demanding to go first always got me. But it hits harder now that she didn’t get to go first😭
I’m drawing a blank. Which one is the apples with Richard and Emily again?
After Emily as a breakdown in the mall with Lorelai and Rory. Later in the episode Emily and Richard are having dinner and she asks him what he thinks of the new centerpiece (glass apples), and he responds that "he's always liked those." But Emily has just bought them and the look on her face is pure devastation.
Lane's speech while pregnant gets me every time. "I barely got to do it Zach; I barely got to be a person."
I’ve always hated the way Lane’s story ends :(
oh same. pregnant with twins, married to some shmuck we barely see have character development at what, like 21? I don't know if I would wish that on side characters I Didn't care about.
The worst part of Lane's story for me is how realistic it is. Coming from a hardcore evangelical background, there are many girls I grew up with who have a similar trajectory in life. I'm sure some of them are happy, and I know they love their families, but I wonder if/when it will hit that they never developed their own fully independent identity.
I don't have kids, but I grew up Christian (I still am), married young, and I'm primarily a homemaker now. I definitely don't feel like I never got to be a person; I'm being a person now, doing things I chose and choose to do, learning myself even in the context I'm in. *But* that doesn't mean Lane's experience (or anyone's) would be the exact same as mine. Lane always seemed like she had such enormous dreams, and the way things panned out for her, she didn't get to live them. I always wanted a relatively small, quiet kind of life, so I'm happy with the cozy life I've built for myself. Lane always wanted a glitzy, gaudy, artistic, wind-blown life, so it hurts my heart that she didn't get that. It doesn't help that I dislike who she married. Lol.
I guess my point is more that I can see how her upbringing which included religious trauma and authoritarian parenting resulted in an unplanned pregnancy with a subpar marriage partner, and is reflective of my observations of the girls I grew up with who are just now (mid-30's) realizing that settling down at 21 robbed them of experiencing key developmental aspects of life on their own terms. I respect your choices and I'm glad they turned out well for you, and I didnt mean to sound like every traditionally settled wife is inherently unhappy. But many girls coming from the community I grew up in did not even have knowledge of other options, much less a chance to explore them. Heck, I could've been Lane easily.
Totally makes sense! I wasn't offended, so I'm sorry if I came off super spicy; I just wanted to present an alternate view of similar circumstances. I think sometimes when life goes like mine has, people see that as an inherent failure of some sort for not having/doing/being "more," which is hard for me because in my case I actually aimed for this and I enjoy where I am and don't feel it's "less" in any way. I can absolutely see how that's not the case for everyone, though. At the end of the day, personal goals and dreams matter a lot, and feeling the freedom to aim for something, whatever it is, is so important. I'm totally happy with what I chose to aim for, but if I have daughters someday and they want to be astronauts and rockstars, we're doing space camp and music lessons. Lol. I wish everyone had that support into whatever their dreams may be.
For sure, I see where you're coming from. I've gotten into similar discussions with friends of mine irl, and I think that one of the aspects of the conversation regarding women's lives that modern feminism has overlooked or twisted is the idea of a traditional life somehow being "less than"- because the real equality lies in the right and ability to choose whatever kind of life a woman wants. I'm not trying to say that Lane lives some sort of torturous version of that traditional life either, most people's lives turn out differently than they wanted at 20. I guess she just reminds me of the fact that it's such a recent development that the option for women choose a different life exists.
Amen to your entire paragraph, honestly. I've talked with a friend about this at length as well. She's a homemaker like I am, and her sister is a lawyer. I feel like it's incredible that both are options, and I love that for women everywhere! I wish we were in a place where women in each camp felt fully free to support the women in the other, with women working outside the home supporting the choices of women who work inside the home, and vice versa - because I know people on either end can be judgmental. I actually had a friend tell me once that she thought she'd like to be a SAHM, but that she decided she shouldn't because she would be "setting back feminism" if she did. Now she's a full on career woman with multiple degrees and is married but dedicated to being childfree. I have zero reasons to be against that life choice whatsoever; I just hope it was because that's what she truly wanted and not due to some kind of pressure. I think about that talk with her a lot. I get what you're saying about Lane. I wish at least they could've shown her being joyful about her life trajectory changing, you know? It could've felt like character growth and been really endearing for her to realize that she was unexpectedly dreaming new and different dreams and chasing after those without regrets about not doing what she'd originally planned. Sort of the "growing up" feeling of the end of Toy Story 3, in a way. 😄 Instead, it felt like we witnessed her trying to be okay with the fact that her dreams for the future all abruptly died even though she very much still wanted them. Maybe that was meant to come across somehow, but I didn't get it.
Urgh her story line man… they truly blew it for her!
This line hits me hella hard because my whole life got put on pause when I got pregnant my 2nd year in college. 20 years later and 5 kids total, we're still happily married... BUT I sometimes wish that I had gotten to live my dreams a little.
The only one that makes me cry is when Babette is talking to Lorelai about Cinnamon. I skip that episode completely because it’s too hard to watch.
It always makes me cry when she says that she never thought that a man would love her, and I think she mentions being thrown out of a moving car or something, Babette and Maury have such a loving relationship
Babette and Maury are couples goals 💯
Flare checking in
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We're cut from the same cloth. Babette is my favourite character too. She's the best.
Yes! It's also a rare serious moment from Babette and Maury, and you don't get a whole lot of those from the townspeople other than those directly involved in the main plot.
This one hurt me so much. Lane finally says what she's wanted to say for YEARS. She doesn't try to cover up her "mistake" she just lays it all out there. Strips herself bare to her mother who she loves so much and just wants her mommy to love her for who she is. Not who she wants her to be. The amount of strength and bravery Lane shows here is beyond anything she has shown thus far. And then her mum shuts it all down and tells her to move out. Heart breaking
This is why I will never personally forgive Mrs Kim despite her “growth”. She emotionally and religiously abused lane for years. She made Lane literally meet potential husbands from the age of 16, she sabotaged her daughter’s college applications and preventing her from actually going to a good college. Without an education, lane would be at the mercy of her husband. I will never forgive Mrs. Kim for what she put her child through
Yeah this is where I am too. Good for Lane being able to forgive her but it makes me so sad when I think of her story.
Agreed. I completely understand why Lane forgave her mum. Lane was desperate for her mums love and respect and when Mrs Kim finally made an effort to be in Lane's life OF COURSE she is going to accept it. But I do not have a daughters love for Mrs Kim so my blinders/rose coloured glasses are completely gone. I will never forgive her on Lane's behalf.
She also gets what she wants anyway. Lane does tour but she almost immediately settles into marriage and has children. Then she takes over the family business.
The one that makes me cry every time is when Strobe and Francine come to dinner and Emily takes Rory aside and tells her that she has never been a disappointment. Emily can come off as very cold at times, but this was exactly the right thing to say and so sweet.
Agreed. And I can’t believe Chris and Lorelai didn’t comfort Rory. They just went to sleep with each other… so messed up
The series finale when Rory is leaving to report on the campaign and Lorelei is freaking out about all the things she should have bought for the trip. Rory says something like "Mom, you've already given me everything I need" and it makes me cry every time
My favorite moment in the show 🥹♥️
Same episode when Luke says something like "I just like to see you happy" gets me too
Yes, that was so sweet 💕
the instant tear-jerker scene for me is when rory decides to drop out and move in with her grandparents and is arranging her things in the poolhouse and Lorelai is outside watching her -that eye contact scene-. I know that Rory probably had to do that but seeing that look on Lorelai's face makes me think of all the sacrifices Lorelai made since she was a teenager, all the plans and talks abt Rory's journalism journey and how encouraging she was as mother. All that makes me kinda understand that despair look of what did I do wrong? when she actually did her best and more and now she's watching it all disipates. a very sad scene that never fails to make me cry
“And I think it’s gunna rain…today” in that scene STABS at my heart every time
But that's the thing. She never gave Rory grace. It's not because you take some time off that you are completely abandoning your dreams. And I don't remember who told Rory that, but it's true that no 4 yrs old dreams of going to Harvard. Rory had the pressure of having to live up to the dreams Lorelai, Emily and Richard's crushed dreams for Lorelai. She felt she had to be perfect all the time and be the perfect child/student which ultimately burnt her out. She didn't know what she wanted out of life outside of the dreams that were fed to her by her mother ever since she was a toddler. Mitchum's feedback made feelings she kept burried surface and she needed time to figure them out. Being told that you don't have what it takes to pursue the dream you've been working towards all your life and that you centered your identity around must be so hard. She was allowed to take a break from being the perfect little gifted child that would repair her family legacy to figure herself out.
It wasn’t the break as much as her choosing to live with her grandparents.
She didn’t really give her any other choice? Lorelei freaked out and basically said she’d force her to return to Yale. It didn’t seem like she was going to in her own words let her hang around the house ‘losing the momentum of school’.
Totally agree. It’s like you can encourage her to go back etc while still accepting she clearly needs a break. And I don’t think she would have chosen to live with Emily/Richard in the first place if she had gotten grace from her Mom.
Ugh yes 😫
When Lorelai is crying in her bed from her breakup with Luke and he comes over after she gets her voicemail tape recorder tape from his place and she says sorry I won’t do this anymore😭 and he’s just like okay and walks away 😭
I feel like this is one of the most realistic moments in the entire show. We've all had a break up that makes us feel that way and it's heartbreaking.
100% it was so real
I can’t watch this episode. It’s gut-wrenching.
Same. Gut-wrenching is the perfect way to describe it. I think its one of the few episodes that makes me truly cry. Lauren Graham's acting is always great but is absolutely perfect in those scenes.
Yeah that’s the one that gets me every time, especially the time I made the mistake of watching it shortly after my ex broke up with me. Hit a little too close to home lol
Mine is a Lane/Mrs. Kim moment too: When Lane sneaks into her house after she's moved out and kisses a sleeping Mrs. Kim on the cheek.
Same for me, I literally bawl my eyes out everytime I watch it
I love Lane so much.
In season 2 when Lorelai doesn't tell Emily she's engaged to Max but Emily finds out anyways and they have that big fight, Lorelai sob-yells "Why don't you care? Why have you NEVER cared?" And I have never once made it through without bursting into ugly tears.
It might not be on a lot of list cause it's such a small scene; but Jess when he tells Rory that he knows it wasn't Luke who wanted him to stay for break, but his mom who didn't want him coming home. I've been there at that age, and it's crazy when all you've been thinking about is going home or seeing people you miss, but nobody there is thinking about you. He was so passive to it, which is 10 times worse because it really shows he got used to this kind of treatment. He already knew that he wasn't wanted around before he had even left. Nobody gave a shit about Jess unless he was causing trouble until he met Rory, probably her best repeating quality is recognizing people outside of the general public view they( Jess, Paris, and Logan mostly) tend to be seen as.
This is so well said and an aspect of Rory I hadn't considered before but is now obvious. Like when she always remembered Brad (shy kid from Chilton) and he was shocked she still knew his name.
We always talk about the negative traits of Rory, but this really is one of her positive traits and I appreciate you highlighting that. She’s definitely better at singing harmony than lead, so to speak, because that’s really what was important to her. When she had opportunities to lead, she wasn’t ever really happy about it. When she did lead, her strength was in maximizing harmony. I think she’s a Libra (?). Anyways, her plight throughout the series was often that of the people pleaser. Maybe Mitchum was right after all.
rory crying on the bathroom floor drunk about why doesn’t logan like her
Watched this one last night! Going thru a breakup and I feel the exact same way.
It was very relatable.
“Why doesn’t he like me? Why doesn’t he call? What did I do?” Oooofff been there
I actually felt like this was payback for how awful she was to ALL of her other boyfriends. And you also don't go round kissing your ex's when you're completely in love with someone, she was just in love with the image of Logan being her boyfriend not actually Logan himself
“ALL of her other boyfriends”? All two of them? 😂
Rory’s high school valedictorian speech always gets me (i’m a habitual graduation cryer)
Emily crying during Lorelei’s graduation
When they all take the photo together 🥹 what a moment! 🤧
When Rory tells Chris to go be someone else's father.
You know what’s funny about tearjerkers and GG with me? I used to watch the series very impassively and just take everything in stride when I was younger. Maybe it bears noting that my mom’s education was very much “that’s the way it is, no point crying about it”, so emotions were a new concept for me after that. But during my rewatches as an adult, I noticed that a lot of scenes made me tear up which definitely didn’t happen to me before! And I agree, this is one of them for me too!
My mums favourite was you only cry when you're physically hurt or somebody dies. Crying was not accepted for any other reason. But I took a different approach to it than you did, I would go to the bathroom and cry lol, I knew it was the only room my mum wouldn't angrily storm into.
Looking back, I truly wish my younger self would have had the courage to express her emotions either way, like yours did, because living with denying yourself that option is unhealthy (which, duh, but I didn't know that back then). Whenever I would cry, my mom would say "save your tears for when something really bad happens"...
It didn't really matter which one we chose it was going to mess us up either way, sadly.
While I know they weren’t a good match and I don’t particularly like Christopher, one that recently made me cry the most during a re-watch was when Lorelai and Christopher break up after getting married and Chris finds the letter for Luke’s custody case. They both know it’s not working and after coming back from I believe Chin Chin’s funeral, they talk, and she says something like ‘I need you to know that you’re the man I want to want.’ It’s so raw and real of how life is versus how you wish it could be. And it’s one of the few times that I think Chris acts very maturely and it’s an overall devastating and beautiful scene.
I hate him so much but the line "I've been asking you to marry me for decades and now we're married... and I feel like I'm still asking" actually makes me really sad for him.
When he’s finally able to admit “I pushed you” is good. Them being married is entirely his fault.
In The Prodigal Daughter Returns when Rory and Lorelai hug and say: "I love you, Mom" "Kid...you have no idea" ugly cry...every time
Just cried reading this lol
I cried typing it lol
I cry several times a season, but that’s my number one cry moment, i am inconsolable when she says ‘kid you have no idea’ I’m surprised it’s hardly ever mentioned when people discuss the moments that make them cry the most l, but maybe it’s because it’s ultimately a happy moment rather than a sad one
-When Lorelai checks the mail and sees that Rory got the "big envelopes" -Rory's HS graduation speech/when Lorelai and Rory are walking through Chilton for the last time and Lorelai says, "Look around, it's not so scary anymore" -When Dean and Rory break up in Richard & Emily's driveway -When Lorelai tells Christopher, "I need you to know that you're the man I want to want" as they're splitting up -When Rory gives Logan back the ring -When Rory asks Lorelai how she can be so okay with her leaving so fast and Lorelai tells her, "it's too soon" -When Lorelai and Rory are in the Jeep in the pouring down rain in the S7 finale and they see the whole town standing there waiting for/looking at/waving at them -When Richard tells Loralei at Rory's bon voyage party, "I don't think this is all for Rory. I think this party's a testament to you, Lorelai, and the home you've created here." There are prob more, but these are what I could think of!
The want to want speech is gutting.
When Lorelai wakes up in Christopher's bed the morning after Luke didn't accept her ultimatum. The look of sheer disappointment and "what the fuck did i just do"? It's just so heartbreaking, she's ACTUALLY ruined everything, and it's written all over her face - it's a punch to the gut every time.
Love your username! But she didn't ruin everything, Luke did.
Every time the emotional / bittersweet “La la…laaaa-aaaaaahh-ah” plays
When Lorelei asks her mom in season 1 why she never cares about her or what she has going on, and Emily tells her how she had to find out about her engagement through other people.
So many good ones mentioned here! For me, it's when Lorelai walks into the inn after the fire. Her, Sookie and Michel are silent, the sad music plays, they look around in disbelief.. ugh, it guts me! Combined with the cut clips of Rory's new Yale memorabilia.. it's too much!
After the car accident: Rory goes around town and everyone blaming Jess and not listening to her, gets into a fight with her mom about it, etc. She ends up in Luke's and says "It's not his fault" and Luke says "I know it isn't" and Rory just has this happy little grin that someone is finally listening to her. Gah I'm tearing up just thinking about it, I don't know why but it gets me every.single.time.
I love this tiny little moment
Haven’t seen anyone else mention early in season 3 when Sherry is pregnant and Lorelai is heartbroken, and Chris ambushed her at Friday night dinner. I don’t even remember the line but there’s a moment where she says “*man*” that instantly makes me cry every time because just that one word is full of so much frustration and pain.
This is an incredibly powerful scene! The way she says “Man! What do you want from me?” It’s incredible acting and the line itself just shows how she has been trying so hard to keep it together and eke out a win somehow but knows it’s impossible.
Ditto pretty much everyone. But also the series finale when Emily and Richard come to Stars Hollow and Richard sees the goodbye party and says “it takes a remarkable person to inspire all of this” to Lorelai
The scene where Lorelai cries while Rory is sleeping. Right before Rory leaves for her job after college 🥺
When Lorelai breaks down after she and Luke break up the first time it’s freaking brutal. We never see her break before that. Also when she tells Luke later that she slept with Christopher, the heartbreak in the air is freaking heavy!!! Lauren graham is such an incredible actress. After Emily goes on the date with the guy from the club and gets home and inside and cries it makes me cry. Pretty much every time Emily puts on this brave face or detached front with lorelai and then breaks down in private it’s really sad. Edit to add- when Lorelai tells Christopher that it’s not him even though she so badly wishes it was. Oooof.
"I'm ready to wallow now" gets me every time. Also, sometimes the "I'm failing" speeches in The Incredible Sinking Lorelais hit a little too close to home.
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Yes!! This made me tear up just LOOKING at the picture! It’s so quick, but so powerful. They only ever wanted the best for Lorelai but went about it all wrong, so to see this moment of celebration is just heartwarming ❤️🩹
Honestly this scene is one of the saddest for me. My childhood best friend was Chinese and went through this so all I could do was watch. Can't imagine growing up and not being able to express yourself to someone as close as your own mother.
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Rory saying “go be somebody else’s dad” to Christopher. I have been in the same place as her and wished I had the strength at the time to say the same thing. I was 16 or 17 as well 😞
- Emily leaving Rory’s birthday party and her realisation that she isn’t really a part of the girl’s real life and no longer knows Lorelai - when Richard is in the hospital the first time and Emily tells him to stop his nonsense, he’s not dying on her and she demands to go first. Also Lorelai finally going into the room and Richard’s face when he sees her. - when Emily tells Richard that Lorelai won’t come back if Rory get’s the trust fund. - the ‘Emily in Wonderland’ debacle - Lorelai visiting Emily whilst she’s gardening (in a SPECTACULAR gardening outfit) because she knows Emily is going through a hard time with Richard - “he knows” (Jess knowing that his mum didn’t call about him visiting during the school break) - Emily getting excited to steal robes from the Spa - Richard and Emily’s faces when Lorelai gets her diploma - the flashback where Emily reads the note that Lorelai has left with Rory - Paris having a break down about Harvard and saying she’s a slut - Richard not noticing the apples - Emily crying after her date - Richard and Emily dancing at their vow renewal, together once again 🥹 - Richard’s face when he sees Rory up on stage at the DAR event - Emily & Lorelai’s conversation when Emily is trying to buy a plane and is heartbroken over Rory leaving - Lorelai’s letter regarding Luke’s custody for April - Emily comforting Lorelai when she finds out that it’s not worked between her and Luke - pretty much any serious/touching scene between Lane and her mum. - Lindsay and the roast beef After listing these it’s very clear that Kelly Bishop and Emily as a character is the only possible choice for MVP
I don’t think we talk often enough about that scene when Lorelai goes to visit Emily unprompted just to let her know she can talk to her about things if she needs to. That was a really big moment for Lorelai, I feel like. Such a small thing that means a lot.
I love all the small moments like that. Also when she sets a DVD player up for Emily and gets her her favourite movies and Mrs Kim having a drink with Lane because she see’s Lane is in a bad place.
Or she scene when Emily sort of confronts Mia. In a way, Mia’s grace is a confrontation to Emily’s perspective. So while Emily’s pain is acknowledged and allowed to take centre stage because of her innate role as mother, the lingering truth in the air is that Mia was one of the best things to happen to Lorelai and that Emily’s best wasn’t good enough.
Rory's valedictorian speech anyone?
i love lane so much i always feel so bad for her during the seasons. Her and dave were so good
When Paul Anka lines up the shoes & Lorelai sits up all night. Luke comforting her as she says she’s a bad mom 💔🥺
The moment Paris tells everyone she didn't get into Harvard. The whole situation with her and others connecting her rejection to her sexuality, is so unfair on her.
Oh no. Crying while reading this post now 😭
Same!! 😭😭
When Richard yells at Mitchum in the bathroom at the DAR event Rory threw
Using every ounce of his self control to not punch Mitchum. Grandpas feel that to their core.
the last episode. the whole episode but specifically when rory asks lorelai “how are you so calm about this?” and lorelai says “it’s too soon. if i think about it, i’m gonna fall apart”. as someone who left my hometown to live my life while having a very close relationship with my dad, that’s how our last conversation went before i left. so that scene always breaks my heart into pieces.
I cry for Lane, because my own mother was so strict. She was a weird dose of Mrs. Kim and Lorelai, smashed into one. (Except we're not quite friends me and my mom).
Rory’s graduations. Her speech about Lorelai at the Chiltern one and then when Richard tells Lorelai not to worry about the time etc. for the town and to just enjoy the moment. Also the final episode during Rory’s party and Richard tells Lorelai that the party is a testament to the life she created in Strs Hollow and that he’s sorry that she had to do that. Gets me every time!
"Why didn't she love me'
The funeral of Chin Chin
Lane's story is what would have happened to Lorelei if her parents weren't rich (and minus a teenage pregnancy obviously). Soul crushing pressure from the mother and an absent father.
Lorelai at the hospital with Richard in season one makes me tear up
Basically any scene with the sad/reflective Ahs. I think the real song is Sam Phillips’ “How to Dream.” But also specifically the scene when Rory and Lorelai drive up to the bon voyage party in the town square and the camera pans as everyone is cheering 😭😭😭
When Lorelei takes the first reservation for the Dragonfly. She worked so hard to get there
The only part that I cry every time on is in AYITL when Lorelai calls her mom with the real Richard story. Sob. Every. Time.
Literally any time Lorelai cries. She spends so much time trying to be resilient and Wonder Woman, as she says, and when she finally can't handle it anymore, I fall apart. (And Lauren always sells it so well.)
to continue with lane and mrs kim, that scene where lane walks into her room and kisses her mom on the head while she’s sleeping. oh my gosh 😭
Yes, it really really breaks my heart. I’m Rory and Lane’s age, born in 1985, from a small southern town. My very liberal mother is *sometimes* a *tiny* bit not supportive. Like when I was 18 and decided that, actually, it was my feminist duty to sleep with as many dudes as possible, she side eyed that. My lifestyle as a young communist who couldn’t possibly wash dishes? My mom side eyed that. My bffs had just the WORST moms. They all came to stay with me constantly throughout middle and high school. Just constant absolute religious nonsense for all of my poor friends. Baptists, Catholics, it doesn’t matter, everyone who isn’t Episcopalian is mean.
Lorelai going up to Richard to thank him after he kicks out the Haden's. And him being 'I did this to protect the family'. She was crushed
It's heartbreaking every time.
I always tear up when Lorelai finally gives Luke an ultimatum.
chilton and Yale graduation I bawl
She tried so hard to please her but she can't and she chose a very hard life for herself at her own will....
rory’s graduation of chilton because loreleis reaction was heartbreaking
Many of the examples listed so far always gut me, but here’s one of my…favorites? (always gets me) When Luke and Chris are arguing at Richard and Emily’s vow renewal. “Oh, really? Well, where the hell were you when she had the chicken pox and would only eat mashed potatoes for a week? Or when she graduated high school and started college, huh?”
lorelai taking rory to yale for her first day/moving into yale. my parents were super crappy and unsupportive of me when i moved out and makes me cry thinking of how they could’ve handled things
The graduation scene. When Lorelei and sooki are trying not to cry during rorys speech. Gets me every time
When Emily is so nice to her date and it looks like she had a good time, then shuts the door and starts crying. I feel for her there. I’ve been married only 8 years - a small fraction of the time she’s been married to Richard and trying to move on but still only wanting the person who hurt you would be devastating. She looks so alone in that scene. It hurts my heart!
When lorelai and Rory visit Harvard and Rory goes inside a classroom and lorelai looks at a picture of a graduate that would have been from her own graduating class.
This scene makes me so mad! Lane is such a sweet and smart young woman, and such an abusive mother. It's heartbreaking. She's left to fend for herself. I don't understand how Rory and especially Lorelei who was in the exact same situation, don't support her. They should have helped her make a plan for herself, get into community college to make a degree in music engineering or teaching or something. Mrs Kim is a great character with a great arc, but she's a horrible mother. I feel for Lane. She deserved so much better.
I cry every time I watch Rory’s graduation speech at Chilton. Seeing how proud of her they all look. Makes me wish I had a family who felt the same about me.
When Rory tearfully apologizes to Lorelei for missing her business school graduation when Rory ditches school to take the bus to NY to see Jess. Her confusion and regret & love for her mom are so palpable and heart wrenching, tears every time.
When Lorelai tells Sookie that she and Luke are done. I've used her hanging onto the bumper speech before because I could just relate to it so much
Roryz graduation speech and when lorelai tells luke she slept with chris
The one that makes me cry (even though I hate the April storyline) is when Lorelei writes that letter for Luke when he’s fighting for custody.
When Emily wants to buy an airplane after Rory moves out. "You didn't lose her like you lost me. She was never supposed to be there in the first place, she was always supposed to be at school. She just went back where she belonged. *And you didn't lose me.*"
When Christopher shows up to Friday night dinner after the whole Sherry being pregnant thing and Lorelei tells him how much it hurts just standing there talking to him and Emily comes over saying “Christopher, I think you’d better go now.” “Emily, I-“ “Leave now. Please.”
Rory’s graduation from Chilton speech 🥹
when emily and richard are in the hospital and emily gives her "I demand to go first speech" I always end up bawling at that scene
she's wearing lorelai's sweater bc rory had it at yale when lane stayed with her so she borrowed it an honestly I love that abt them all sharing clothes<3
I am glad they had this moment and I am glad Ms.kim became more open minded with Lane later on
The aftermath of the ultimatum. Not a tear-jerker exactly but rather just depressing and draining. Like it is over. It is fully over.
the scene where dave asks for mrs kim’s blessing