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Gilmore Girls :: Pilot (01x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Pilot |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Production Number: | 226730 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday October 05th, 2000 |
*Also Known As: - Premier contact (
 France [TF6]) - Alles auf Anfang (
 Germany [Vox])
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Sep 08, 2001 |
| DE (Vox) |
Apr 02, 2004 |
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Episode Summary |
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When Rory gets accepted into Chilton, Lorelai has to deal with the fact that she can not afford the school and must go to her parents for help. Her parents, Emily and Richard, help her out by providing a loan to pay for the school, but in return ask that her and Rory must attend dinner every Friday night at their house.
During her last couple of days at Stars Hollow High, Rory meets a new transfer student, Dean, and begins to reconsider her transfer to Chilton. When Lorelai sees that Rory is thinking of giving up her future for a boy, she becomes angered and they engage in their first fight ever.
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The town of Stars Hollow is actually a set at Warner Bros. Studios called Midwest Street. It was originally built for Saratoga Trunk, a 1946 movie.
| Nathan Wetherington was originally cast to play Dean instead of Jared Padalecki.
| Alex Borstein was originally cast to play Sookie instead of Melissa McCarthy but couldn't get out of other contracts.
| The entire town of Stars Hollow was built on the backlot of Warner Brother's Studios in Los Angeles.
| Stars Hollow is based on the town of Washington Depot, Connecticut. Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino visited the town while on vacation and it became her inspiration for Stars Hollow.
| Alexis Bledel (Rory) strongly dislikes coffee, but her character loves it. Throughout the series, her coffee cup is filled with soda instead of coffee.
| Scott Patterson (Luke) originally signed only for the "Pilot" episode. However, after seeing the chemistry between him and Lauren Graham (Lorelai) he was signed on as a series regular.
| The Gilmore Way was the working title of this series.
| Ratings: 4.6/7
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Lorelai: Please, Luke. Please, please, please.
Luke: How many cups have you had this morning?
Lorelai: None.
Luke: Plus...
Lorelai: Five, but yours is better.
Luke: You have a problem.
Lorelai: Yes, I do.
Luke: Junkie.
Lorelai: Angel. You've got wings, baby.
| Rory: (to Dean) It's my mother's name, too. She named me after herself. She was lying in the hospital thinking about how men name boys after themselves all the time, you know, so why couldn't women? She says her feminism just kind of took over. Though personally I think a lot of Demerol also went into that decision. I never talk this much.
| Lorelai: Hey, I had dibs on being the bitch tonight.
Rory: Just tonight?
Lorelai: What the hell's wrong with you?
| Rory: So, Grandpa, how's the insurance biz?
Richard: Oh, people die, we pay. People crash cars, we pay. People lose a foot, we pay.
Lorelai: Well, at least you have your new slogan.
| Rory: You're happy.
Lorelai: Yeah.
Rory: Did you do something slutty?
Lorelai: I'm not that happy.
| Luke: Coffee...fries. I can't stand it. This is so unhealthy. Rory, please, put down that cup of coffee. You do not want to grow up to be like your mom.
Rory: Sorry, too late.
| Luke: You look nice.
Lorelai: I had a flagellation to go to.
| Miss Patty: Hands in the air, not in the nose.
| Richard: Lorelai. Your daughter's tall.
Lorelai: Oh, I know, it's freakish. We're thinking of having her studied at M.I.T.
| Michel: People are particularly stupid today. I can talk to no more of them.
| Emily: Champagne, ladies?
Lorelai: Wow, that's fancy.
Emily: Well, it's not every day I have my girls over for dinner on a day that the banks are open.
| Lorelai: This is it. She can finally go to Harvard like she's always wanted and get the education that I never got and get to do all the things that I never got to do and then I can resent her for it and we can finally have a normal mother-daughter relationship.
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In this episode Lorelai says that Rory is 16. However, Rory later turns 16 during the episode "Rory's Birthday Parties", meaning that in this episode she is 15.
| During the final scene at Luke's, Rory is wearing a blue sweater and Lorelai has a black coat and red shirt on. Later during the shot where the camera looks at Rory and Lorelai from outside of the diner, Lorelai has a purple sweater on and Rory has a black sweater.
| In the door of Kim's Antiques, there is a sign for Interac, the Canadian debit system. Being that Stars Hollow is in Connecticut and that Interac is not used outside of Canada, Mrs. Kim shouldn't be able to accept that form of credit at her store.
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Lorelai: Look Officer Krupke, she's right at that table, right over there.
Office Krupke was the beat cop in West Side Story.
| Lorelai: You're a regular Jack Kerouac.
Jack Kerouac is a writer known for going on long road trips which he wrote about in his novel On The Road.
| Lorelai: On the way home you can pull a Menendez.
Eric and Lyle Menendez were brothers convicted of killing their parents in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison in 1996.
| Rory: So, do we go in or do we just stand here reenacting 'The Little Match Girl'?
The Little Match Girl is a book by Hans Christian Anderson about a girl who is scared of returing home.
| Lorelai: You're not going to give me the 'Mommy Dearest' treament forever, are ya?
Mommy Dearest is a book by Joan Crawford, that was later turned into a movie, about her mother and the abuse she gave her family.
| Lorelai: You're gonna have to walk faster than that. You're gonna have to turn into friggin' Flo Jo to get away from me.
Flo Jo, whose real name is Florence Griffith Joyner, is a successful track runner.
| Dean: After school you come out and sit under that tree and you read. Last week it was 'Madame Bovary'.
Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert.
| Dean: My family just moved here from Chicago.
Rory: Chicago. Windy. Oprah.
Oprah is a famous talk show host of The Oprah Winfrey Show which is filmed in Chicago.
| Lane: Rory, if my parents are still upset over the obscene portion size of American food, I seriously doubt I'm gonna make any inroads with Eminem.
Eminem is a successful rapper whose songs include "Lose Yourself", "Stan", and "The Real Slim Shady".
| (After seeing the plaid skirt)
Rory: I'm gonna be in a Britney Spears video?
This is a reference to Britney Spears' video for "Hit Me Baby One More Time" in which Britney wears a plaid skirt similar to Rory's uniform.
| Mrs. Traister: For those of you who have not finished the final chapters of 'Huckleberry Finn', you may use this time to do so.
Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain.
| Lorelai: Sookie, there are several chapters from a Stephen King novel I'd reenact before I'd resort to that option.
Stephen King is a famous writer whose works are often horror novels.
| Rory: God! You're like Ruth Gordon just standing there with a tannis root. Make a noise.
Dean: Rosemary's Baby.
Rory: Yeah.
Rory compares Dean to Ruth Gordon, a character in the movie Rosemary's Baby, when he sneaks up on her. In the movie, Ruth Gordon is a nosy neighbor who often sneaks up on her neighbors.
| Character Name: Lorelai
The character Lorelai is a possible reference to the Styx songs "Lorelei".
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