Episode synopsis
S2 EP21: Lorelai’s Graduation Day – After doing her best to avoid Luke, Lorelai can’t avoid the inevitable, but Luke isn’t ready to patch things up yet. Rory invites her grandparents to her mom’s graduation, but misses it herself after cutting school to meet Jess in New York.
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
Liza Weil…Paris Geller
Jared Padalecki…Dean Forester
Milo Ventimiglia…Jess Mariano
Kelly Bishop…Emily Gilmore
Edward Herrmann…Richard Gilmore
Jackson Douglas…Jackson Belleville
Best character
This is a very cute Rory and Jess episode so I’m choosing them both. It shows just how great their chemistry is, even just as friends.
Favourite scenes
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Best quotes and one liners
LANE: Oh my God, you guys walk fast. I’ve been chasing you for the past two blocks.
RORY: Hey, we were being followed.
LORELAI: I told you I wasn’t just being paranoid. Maybe next time you’ll take me seriously when I tell you the furniture moved itself.
LANE: Where are you guys going?
RORY: Mystery breakfast.
LANE: Out of town?
LORELAI: Does no one remember the definition of the word mystery?
LANE: Sorry, I was just wondering if it’s okay to practice on your pots and pans again this morning?
LORELAI: It’s not like they have any other use.
LORELAI: Thank God I’m graduating and this is the last time I have to cram like this because my pursuit of higher education has led me to a very interesting discovery about myself. Do you wanna hear it?
RORY: Sure.
LORELAI: I despise academics. Yup, learning, knowledge, it’s all worthless. I have no idea in what you see in any of it.
RORY: Learning is fun, plus for me there’s that whole “I’m a minor so it’s mandatory” thing.
JESS: Go-go’s. You must have that one.
RORY: No, for my mom. This was her favourite group when she was my age, and it’s signed by Belinda. This would be the perfect graduation present. I’ve been looking for something all week long, and I couldn’t find anything and now I have Belinda.
JESS: Graduation?
RORY: Oh, from college, from business classes.
JESS: I’m surprised she has time for anything except lighting darts on fire and throwing them at my picture.
RORY: Well, it’s not a lot of time, but . . .
JESS: Uh-huh. Go on, get it. She’ll like it.
RORY: Thank you so much for bringing me here. This was fate.
JESS: Yes, it was.
RORY: And in return, I just might show you my withering stare.
JESS: I’m a lucky man.
JESS: Why did you come here?
RORY: What?
JESS: I said, why did you come here?
RORY: Well –
JESS: I mean, you ditched school and everything. That’s so not you. Why’d you do it?
RORY: Because you didn’t say goodbye.
Final thoughts and fun facts
This is probably one of my favourite episodes of season two. I love the scenes with Jess and Rory and the fact that Lorelai finally sees her parents proud of her is so nice.
When Rory is sitting on the bus from New York to Stars Hollow, the cast on her left arm is gone when she’s talking to another passenger. The next time we see Rory at the Gilmore house in Stars Hollow, her cast is back. Very nitpicky, but quite funny.
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