19 ‘Gilmore Girls’ details you probably missed

Stars Hollow’s significance is evident from the very first shot.

In season one, the town is the primary focus of the show.

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Stars Hollow, the setting of “Gilmore Girls,” is an iconic element of the show. The fact that everyone knows and watches out for one another fosters a comfortable relationship between the characters.

It seems appropriate that the very first scene of the entire series is a close-up of Stars Hollow banners adorning the town’s streets, given that fans of the program adore the town’s continuous autumn climate and cozy ambiance.

During her time at Stars Hollow High School, Rory examines a well-known American classic.

The students are reading and discussing “Huckleberry Finn’s Adventures.”

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Before going to Chilton at the beginning of season one, Rory only has a few scenes at Stars Hollow High School.

In one of these images, however, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is inscribed on the blackboard, and copies of the Mark Twain novel can be seen on the desks of the pupils.

The pilot alludes to the school colors of Stars Hollow High.

The colors of the school are red and white.

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In the premiere episode, while Rory is still a student at Stars Hollow High School, she and Dean exit the building and pass a group of teenagers wearing red-and-white letterman jackets.

In addition to displaying the school’s colors, the jackets contain large “M” patches that, according to fan sites, are a tribute to the school’s mascot, the Minutemen.

Several clips from the second episode are featured in the opening credits for the first season.

The majority of the memorable scenes seen in the opening titles are from episode two.

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The opening titles feature a highlight reel of the first season, but the majority of the clips appear to be from the second episode, “The Lorelais’ First Day at Chilton.”

They include Lorelai painting Rory’s toenails on their front porch, Lorelai rushing down the stairs in a hot-pink top and denim shorts, and Lorelai and Rory’s first arrival in Chilton.

Lorelai continues to use her fluffy blue alarm clock, despite the fact that she overslept on Rory’s first day of school.

Lorelai keeps the clock despite the fact that it does not appear to work.

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Lorelai oversleeps on Rory’s first day of school, causing her to transport Rory to Chilton in an odd, mismatched ensemble.

Lorelai complains to Luke during the course of the day that the fluffy blue alarm clock she set the night before “didn’t purr on time.”

However, despite knowing that the alarm clock does not function, it remains in her room for the remainder of the season.

Even though Lorelai and Rory’s living room is comfortable, there is one disturbing item of furniture.

The clown cushion appears misplaced.

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Lorelai and Rory spend much of the first season in their living room, where they experience touching moments and consume copious amounts of junk food.

While the most of the decor is quite typical, the second episode features an oddly out-of-place clown pillow.

The pillow is visible right behind Lorelai as she is on the phone with her mother, Emily Gilmore, but it is never mentioned and does not reappear in season one.

Lorelai was an infant at the first lunar landing, thus it is understandable that she does not recall it.

“Gilmore Girls” is filled with references to niche pop culture.

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Emily is outraged that Lorelai does not want to attend the funeral of her “father’s grandmother’s sister’s daughter” when she dies. She claims that the deceased relative and Lorelai were similar like cousins and reminds her daughter that she witnessed the moon landing at her residence.

Lorelai was born in 1968, the same year as the first moon landing.

Lorelai’s inability to recall viewing the event with her “cousin” is understandable, given that she was only a year old at the time.

Cinnamon the cat lived an impossible 260 years in feline years.

The cat owned by Babette and Morey was named Cinnamon.

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During the first season, Babette’s cat, Cinnamon, passes away, and the pet’s gender is inconsistently alluded to – Cinnamon is presented as “he” but is later referred to as “she.”

However, perhaps surprising than this minor shift is the cat’s apparent age. When Cinnamon dies, the veterinarian estimates that she lived 260 cat years, or around 50 human years.

Never explained or questioned is how Cinnamon managed to live three times longer than the usual lifespan of a cat.

The city takes its Autumn Festival quite seriously, as evidenced by the pins.

At work, Dean wears an Autumn Festival button.

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It is also the episode in which Dean and Rory share their first kiss. The Stars Hollow Autumn Festival is a season-one event that solidifies the town’s autumnal atmosphere.

It becomes increasingly apparent throughout the series that the community takes pleasure in its festivities. Official Autumn Festival posters are displayed in business windows, and numerous characters wear Autumn Festival lapel pins in the premiere episode of season one.

Dean wears his pin on his market uniform, and Rory later wears hers with her pilgrim costume.

Lorelai and Max are the world’s worst moviegoers, but none of their other moviegoers have complained.

Probably, the love scene was quite unpleasant.

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Lorelai and Max share numerous adorable moments during the first season, but one of their movie dates is quite implausible.

They discuss at a typical volume while attending a movie in town, despite the fact that other audience members likely want to hear the film they paid to see. Max and Lorelai also kiss just in front of the movie projector, probably obstructing everyone’s view.

None of the moviegoers in Stars Hollow complain about the noise or obstructed view, which is charming but implausible.

Emily makes a valid remark regarding the lack of lighting in Lorelai’s home.

Emily and Lorelai’s relationship is complex.

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Rory and Lorelai’s living room is loaded with an insane quantity of lamps for whatever reason.

Emily always seems to find something wrong with her daughter’s residence, but when she arrives to take pictures of Rory before her school dance, her complaint about the lighting appears justified. The dreary lighting in the living room is a result of the room’s many hues.

A few episodes later, Luke really destroys a lamp while searching for a newborn chick, which could have been an indication that there are too many lamps in the room, but the most of the other lamps survive throughout the remainder of the season.

An emotional conversation between Richard and Emily makes a future subplot even more painful.

In the first season, Richard is hospitalized.

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In the episode “Forgiveness and Stuff,” Richard visits the hospital, which leads to emotional events.

For instance, Emily and Richard discuss the likelihood of Richard passing away. Emily then confesses her desire to die before her husband so that she will never have to live without him.

Given that the actor who played Richard, Edward Herrmann, passed away in 2014 and was unable to reprise his role on “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life,” this exchange is particularly difficult to observe.

Lorelai is replete with obscure pop-culture trivia, including information about a French singer.

Unusual pop-culture references are a significant component of the show.

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Lorelai is attempting to study for business school while Rory and her best friend Lane groove to a Claudine Longet album in the Gilmores’ living room. After requesting that they reduce the noise, she inquires as to what they are listening to.

Lorelai responds, “The woman who shot the skier?” after hearing this information.

In the 1970s, Longet was convicted of criminally negligent murder, a misdemeanor, for the shooting death of her partner, professional skier Vladimir Sainch, according to The New York Times.

Lorelai’s allusion was true, but it’s a bit surprising that she was able to think of it on the fly, given that the French singer had a niche fan base and the incident occurred about 30 years ago.

Rory reads aloud a false fact about Catherine the Great while studying.

Rory is devoted to her studies throughout the entirety of the show.

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Rory quizzes herself with flashcards one morning before school as Lorelai sews a button onto her outfit. She reads aloud from a card about Catherine the Great, which states that the empress wed Grand Duke Peter of Holstein in 1754.

Catherine the Great married the grand duke in 1745, so Rory needed to do some additional research.

A large family portrait of Lorelai and her dad hangs above the fireplace in their home.

Lorelai was estranged from her parents for several years.

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The family dinners at Richard and Emily’s house play a significant part in the first season, as the setup allows viewers to observe the evolving relationships between the four Gilmores.

Despite Lorelai’s estrangement from her parents before Rory’s birth, a huge photograph of Emily, Richard, and a young Lorelai hangs in their living room.

Lorelai was directed to the Dragonfly Inn by the ex-girlfriend of Luke.

The future Dragonfly Inn makes a brief appearance in the first season.

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Lorelai and Sookie discuss their aspiration to purchase an inn together from the very beginning of the episode.

In the episode in which Rachel, Luke’s ex-girlfriend, returns to town, she takes photographs and gives them to Lorelai and Rory. A photograph depicts an abandoned inn.

Lorelai and Sookie purchase the exact same structure years later and convert it into the Dragonfly Inn.

Bowringenee pansies are fictitious, thus it is unclear how a fundraiser will help rescue them.

Emily participates in numerous fundraising events throughout the series.

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In the episode “P.S. I Love…”, after an argument with Lorelai, Rory goes to Emily and Richard’s house. However, prior to Rory’s arrival, her grandparents were preparing for a fundraiser.

Richard complains about the charity event held to conserve the “Bowringenee pansy” and asks, “Whoever heard of such a thing?”

This is a reasonable question, given that the flower does not appear to exist.

Throughout the first season, Emily had many different housekeepers and cooks.

This becomes a regular gag in subsequent seasons.

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Emily reveals in the third episode that her cook’s name is Mira. Lorelai replies that she believed her name was Heidi, to which Emily replies that Heidi was fired a few months ago.

Emily continues by stating that after Heidi, Trina, Sophie, and Anton worked for her prior to the hiring of the current cook, Sarah. At the end of the season, however, Emily reveals that the cook’s name is Rosa, indicating that Sarah had departed during the season.

Emily’s rotating door of housekeepers and cooks becomes a running humor, although season one viewers may have missed its inception.

Max proposes to Lorelai with a number of yellow daisies over 1,000.

More than 1,000 flowers would be required to fill the room.

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Lorelai argues that a marriage proposal should include “one thousand yellow flowers” after Max casually mentions marriage during a disagreement.

When Lorelai arrives for work at the inn shortly thereafter, the entire lobby is filled with yellow daisies.

Despite the sweetness of the moment, there are far more than 1,000 daisies in the room. Possibly this wouldn’t be as distracting if Kirk hadn’t informed Michel that the order was for exactly 1,000 flowers, not one more or less.

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