Episode synopsis
S2 EP12 – Richard in Stars Hollow: Newly retired Richard is driving Emily crazy, so Lorelai is coerced into taking her father for a day in Stars Hollow, where he proceeds to drive both Lorelai and Rory batty while criticizing every aspect of their lives and refusing to let Rory accept the car that Dean has built for her.
Cast
Lauren Graham…Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel…Rory Gilmore
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
Michael Winters…Taylor Doose
Sean Gunn…Kirk Gleason
Shelly Cole…Madeline Lynn
Teal Redmann…Louise Grant
Best character
I feel like Paris really proves how off her rocker she is in this episode and I love it. After her interaction with Jess in Luke’s it really made me wish they shared more scenes together, they would have been comedy gold.
Favourite scenes
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Best quotes and one liners
LORELAI: Okay, what is going on?
EMILY: Well, I visited the family mausoleum today.
LORELAI: Never what you think it’s gonna be!
LORELAI: Ooh, I have an idea. I’ll probably go first, right? So when Rory kicks, just throw her in with me.
RORY: I’d like my own space if you don’t mind.
LORELAI: Why? It’d totally be fun to be there together. Plus I plan to be buried with all the good CD’s and my rock star belt.
RICHARD: Is your jacket in the back?
LORELAI: My jacket?
RICHARD: Your work jacket?
LORELAI: I don’t have a work jacket.
RICHARD: So that’s your working outfit?
LORELAI: Yeah.
RICHARD: And your boss doesn’t mind?
LORELAI: Oh, well considering my boss is me, no, she doesn’t. I mean, she did at first but then I bought her a cup of coffee and I realized all the hostility she was expressing toward me was just jealousy and we’ve been best friends ever since. Just take a seat Dad. [walks to the front desk] Hey, will you get me an extra bottle of champagne and smack me over the head with it?
MICHEL: Absolutely.
[Jess comes down the steps into the diner] PARIS: Hey, where’d he come from? What’s up there? Is that where you keep the girls? You got yourself a little cathouse up there?
JESS: Wow, I think she got you Uncle Luke. You better give up now.
LUKE: Do not add to this insanity.
JESS: An innocent boy like me should not be raised in an atmosphere like this.
LUKE: Jess!
JESS: I wanna be good, life’s just not letting me.
LORELAI: Because she wants to go to Harvard.
RICHARD: But that’s ridiculous. Who’s going to help her get into Harvard?
LORELAI: Reese Witherspoon.
RICHARD: I am a Yale alumnus. I give a great deal of money to that school. Getting her in will be a breeze.
LORELAI: We don’t like breezes, they mess up our hair.
LORELAI: Dean, now that you’re done with that, will you build me a plane? One that looks like Shamu?
RICHARD: How tall are you?
DEAN: Why, you wanna dance?
RICHARD: No, thank you. I appreciate the offer though.
Final thoughts and fun facts
This is another pretty forgettable episode to be honest. I liked how crazy some of the characters were acting, especially Paris, but there weren’t that many funny or memorable moments.
Emily tells Lorelai that they only have enough room in their mausoleum for Richard, herself, Lorelai, and Rory. However, in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016), Richard has been placed in a plot and is not in a mausoleum.
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