Episode synopsis
S2 EP1 – Sadie, Sadie: Lorelai accepts Max’s proposal, but when Emily hears about the upcoming wedding from Sookie, she is hurt and angry that Lorelai didn’t bother to tell her. Meanwhile, Rory brings Dean to dinner at her grandparents’ house and Richard’s obvious disapproval of Dean leads to the first fight between Rory and her grandfather.
Cast
Lauren Graham…Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel…Rory Gilmore
Melissa McCarthy…Sookie St. James
Keiko Agena…Lane Kim
Yanic Truesdale…Michel Gerard
Scott Patterson…Luke Danes
Jared Padalecki…Dean Forester
Kelly Bishop…Emily Gilmore
Edward Herrmann…Richard Gilmore
Liz Torres…Miss Patty
Emily Kuroda…Mrs. Kim
Jackson Douglas…Jackson Belleville
Sean Gunn…Kirk Gleason
Scott Cohen…Max Medina
Best character
Sookie is just so sweet. She’s always over the moon for Lorelai, no matter the occasion and the fact that she instantly started talking about catering the wedding is so flipping cute. I love her so much.
Best supporting character
No best supporting character for this episode because it has Max in it and we all know by now that I absolutely despise him. I usually change this section to the worst supporting character but I’ve given Max Medina too much of my time already.
Favourite scenes
*I do not own the rights to any videos in this post, no copyright infringement was intended. All rights go to the production studio*
I couldn’t find a video of it, but the scene where the entire town starts following Lorelai when they find out she’s going to tell Luke about the engagement is too funny, especially when they all start crowding outside the diner. The video below does have the actual conversation and a little glimpse of the townies.
Lane with the huge suitcase (literally bigger than her) is possibly the funniest thing in this entire series.
Best quotes and one liners
RORY: Oh! You should walk down the aisle to Frank Sinatra with a huge bouquet of something that smells really good.
LORELAI: Pot Roast. RORY: InStyle Weddings. Very interesting.
LORELAI: No, not very interesting.
RORY: Get any ideas?
LORELAI: Yes, we should have cake more often.
LORELAI: Okay, I’m sharing something with you. Sharing is not making a big deal, sharing is a nice gesture. Like when you’re a kid and you have one of those popsicles and you break it in two and offer half to another kid. That is sharing, that is what I’m doing.
LUKE: You offered me half a popsicle?
MICHEL: I am weighing my turkey.
SOOKIE: Why?
MICHEL: A group of scientists did a study on rats where they cut their daily calories by thirty percent.
SOOKIE: And you felt left out?
MICHEL: No, the rats lived thirty percent longer. And the scientists were so impressed that they cut their own calories just like the rats.
SOOKIE: That was a very nice display of solidarity.
MICHEL: I have decided to do the same. I figure if I stay alive long enough, these scientists, they will be able to cure anything including death, therefore ensuring my indefinite existence. SOOKIE: So you’re gonna live forever, like on Fame?
MICHEL: Don’t speak to me.
SOOKIE: Well, what do you think is the most romantic vegetable?
JACKSON: You know, I’m the wrong guy to ask.
SOOKIE: You’re the vegetable guy.
JACKSON: Yeah, but the normal vegetable guy, not the romantic vegetable guy. I mean, I would have no idea what an appropriate vegetable would be to serve at a wedding. I’ve never even been to a wedding. One, my cousin BonBon. Yes, that’s his real name. And I didn’t stay long, and I didn’t notice the vegetables, so I would not be the guy to ask about wedding vegetables. I’m not the wedding vegetable guy! [leaves]
LORELAI: Uh oh. Jackson’s got panicked “my girlfriend wants me to get married” face on.
RORY: So, what kind of dress are you thinking of?
LORELAI: Um, the one Stephanie Seymour wore in the Guns N’ Roses video.
RORY: What about colours? Did you pick your colours yet?
LORELAI: Yes.
RORY: Really? What?
LORELAI: Spumoni.
RORY: When is dinner ready?
LORELAI: Do I look like a timer?
RORY: I thought you might have set one.
LORELAI: Silly rabbit.
RORY: Timers are for kids.
RORY: Where’s Dean?
LORELAI: Getting water.
RORY: You’re shameless.
LORELAI: He offered.
RORY: Please.
LORELAI: The first thing he said to me was ‘Hey Lorelai, can I change your water?’ What can I do? The kid’s a freak.
LORELAI: I just bet there is a fabulous fancy dessert just sitting out there in that kitchen of yours.
EMILY: As a matter of fact there is. Twinkies.
LORELAI: What?
EMILY: Well, Rory told me that was her favourite dessert.
LORELAI: Emily Gilmore, you are one classy broad.
Final thoughts and fun facts
Dean gave me such secondhand embarrassment in this episode, especially the whole beer situation. Pure cringe.
When Lorelai, Rory and Dean get back from dinner at the Gilmore’s, Lorelai says to Dean “Okay. Well, all I can say is Dean, tonight you officially became a Gilmore girl. Feels good, huh?” This is one of the only times that the title of the show is mentioned by one of the characters on the show. Well in the original series, it’s the name of Rory’s book in A Year in the Life.
After dinner with Emily and Richard, Rory and Lorelei are talking about the dinner, Rory is mad at Richard and says “what’s wrong with that man?” And Lorelei says “that is about a hundred years of inbreeding”. But when Richard’s mom, gran, dies and Emily and Lorelei are going through all her things, Lorelei is shocked to learn that the Gilmores would marry other Gilmores, because they considered their bloodline superior. (shoutout to IMDB for providing me with facts I wouldn’t have noticed on my own).
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I love Gilmore Girls. It’s definitely need to give it a rewatch.
Yessss do it!! It’s almost cosy season so now’s the perfect time