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Gilmore Girls :: Those Are Strings, Pinocchio (03x22)
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| Title: | Those Are Strings, Pinocchio |
| Episode #: | 03x22 |
| Production Number: | 175022 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday May 20th, 2003 |
*Also Known As: - Ein starker Abgang (
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Jul 08, 2004 |
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As Rory's graduation day approaches, the Gilmore girls plan their long-awaited summer backpacking trip across Europe, even as Lorelai faces the possibility that the recent fire will force the owners of the Independence Inn to sell the building. Rory takes matters into her own hands when she discovers that Lorelai is making a great personal sacrifice to pay for the Yale tuition. Richard and Emily present Rory with a lavish graduation gift, and everyone is touched by Rory's moving valedictory speech. Meanwhile, Luke has second thoughts about a summer cruise with his new girlfriend.
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Episode Notes |
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This is the last appearance of Milo Ventimiglia as Jess until season 4's "A Family Matter".
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Lorelai: Rory, honey, do you understand, the Gilmores do nothing altruistically. Strings are attached to everything.
Rory: There are no strings. I just have to pay them back starting five years after I graduate, and I have to start going back for Friday night dinners.
Lorelai: Um, hello, Pinocchio, those are strings.
| Rory: Headmaster Charleston, faculty members, fellow students, family and friends, welcome. We never thought this day would come. We prayed for its quick delivery, crossed days off our calendars, counted hours, minutes and seconds and now that it's here, I'm sorry it is, because it means leaving friends who inspire me and teachers who've been my mentors, so many people who've shaped my life, and my fellow students lives impermeably and forever. I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric, but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything. Richard and Emily Gilmore are kind, decent, unfailingly generous people. They are my twin pillars, without whom I could not stand. I am proud to be their grandchild. But my ultimate inspiration comes from my best friend, the dazzling woman from whom I received my name and my life's blood, Lorelai Gilmore.
Sookie: (tearing up) Uh, oh -
Lorelai: (on the verge of crying) Hang in there.
Rory: My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn't do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. She filled our house with love and fun and books and music unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith. As she guided me through these incredible eighteen years, I don't know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her...
Sookie: (choking up) Not crying.
Lorelai: (starting to cry) Crying a little.
Sookie: Crying a little, but not blubbering. That's what we meant when we said no crying. No blubbering.
Rory: (teary-eyed) Thank you Mom, you are my guidepost for everything.
Sookie: On the verge of blubbering here.
Jackson: (tearfully) Not doing to well myself.
Lorelai: (to Luke) Not you, too.
Luke: (blubbering) I'm blubbering, you're freaks!
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Lorelai: Wait, wait. Look around for a second. Notice?
Rory: Notice what?
Lorelai: It's not so scary anymore.
Rory: No, it's not.
| Rory: How was my speech?
Lorelai: It made everyone cry, including stone cold Luke.
Rory: Luke, you old softy.
Luke: I will never live this down.
Lorelai: Not with me in your life.
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When Rory and Dean are talking at the town meeting, Rory's hair changes from in front of her shoulders to behind them between shots.
| While taking a picture, Emily says that she can't distinguish Rory from all the other graduates because they're all wearing blue. However, since Rory is the valedictorian, she has a yellow sash that easily distinguishes her from the others.
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Episode Title: Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
The episode title is a reference to the tale of Pinocchio, the story of a wooden puppet who dreams of being a real boy.
| Lorelai: (about Rory's dress) If you wear it with a moody look on your face like you're thinking of Bolsheviks, they'll mistake you for Simone de Beauvoir.
Simone de Beauvior was a French philosopher and author of The Second Sex, a feminist book.
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