Episode Notes
Rating: 5.9 million viewers
Emily and Richard renew their wedding vows.
As the 100th episode of Gilmore Girls, this episode drew the series' largest audience in three years and set a record for the women 18-49 demographic. With these big numbers, this episode finished #2 in ratings for the night.
The wedding scenes for this episode were filmed at Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, California.
In The Futon Critic's top episodes of 2005 list, this episode was ranked #17.
Rory and Lorelai plan a
Cop Rock night. Kathleen Wilhoite (Liz Danes) was a recurring guest star on the show.
Episode Quotes
Logan: I have thought about asking you out, several times. I just don’t think it’s such a good idea.
Rory: Why not?
Logan: Because you’re special.
Rory: Special, like ‘Stop eating the paste’, special?
Lorelai: (To Emily) You and me, we're done.
Luke: I'm with Lorelai!
Christopher: Yeah, for now!
Richard: Focus, please.
Lorelai: I am a camera.
Lorelai: (walks in on Logan and Rory kissing) Grandma wants a picture.
Rory: Of this!?
Luke: Hold on, did you say Cop Rock marathon?
Lorelai: Yeah, I got 'em all on tape. (pauses) Trying to figure out what you see in me?
Luke: Yep.
Cultural References
Episode Title: Wedding Bell Blues
"Wedding Bell Blues" is the title of a song by The 5th Dimension and is the song that plays during Richard and Emily's dance. There was also a
Beverly Hills, 90210 episode entitled "
Wedding Bell Blues".
Christopher: It's very Bugsy Malone.
Bugsy Malone is a gangster movie in which all of the gangsters are kids.
Lorelai: Ab-Fab, sweetie darling.
In the British comedy series
Absolutely Fabulous, the main characters, Eddy and Patsy call each other "sweetie darling".
Emily: Maybe I should take a seconal.
Lorelai: Excellent idea, Judy.
Actress Judy Garland died due to an overdose of seconal, a barbiturate drug.
Lorelai: And over here we have the Romanov table.
The Romanovs ruled Russia until the 1917 revolution when they were overthrown as Czars.
Marylin: (to Luke) Gardeners are very in now.
In both
Desperate Housewives and
The O.C., main characters have had a fling with a gardener: Gabrielle with John on
Desperate Housewives and Marissa with D.J. on
The O.C..
Lorelai: Hey, aren't you the culture Queer Eye guy?
On the series
Queer Eye, Jai is the culture expert.