The Gilmore Girls Companion, a behind-the-scenes look at Gilmore Girls – its making, its episodes and its off-screen development – is available all around the world. You’ve heard me rave about it, and we’ve begun discussions based on it, and now you have a chance to win it!
Aaron Berman, the author of the book, hinted a while ago about the contest, and now it’s here! Thanks to Aaron, I have one copy of the book to give away to a dedicated Gilmore Girls fan!
How to Enter
Simply leave a comment on this post. I encourage you to be creative, however, and challenge you to answer this question: What is your most memorable Gilmore Girls watching experience?
My experience, for example, is in watching ‘Raincoats and Recipes.’ I was away on a family vacation with my mom but we were determined to watch this season finale. We sat down with my cousins and I vividly recall the experience of us all yelling at the tv when Rory made her decision to be the ‘other woman’ in Dean’s life.
The contest will close on March 15th at 2pm PST. The winner will be drawn randomly and will be emailed to ask for his/her address and will be announced here on the site.
One entry per person. A valid email address must be included in the email part of the comment form.
I don’t have one specific episode in mind but I do remember watching season 1-4 on dvd in about 2 weeks straight. For some reason, I couldn’t find anything that I wanted to watch and stumbled upon Gilmore Girls by chance. I’m really glad that I did. The show’s been one of my favorites ever since.
The Gilmore Girls episode I remember the most is ‘Raincoats and Recipes’ too. It’s memorable because it was my favorite episode…and my most hated episode haha Here’s why, I had been waiting for so many seasons for Luke and Lorelie to finally get together! Everyone who whatched an episode or two could see that they we’re going to. And when Luke finally kissed Lorelie I was like “YES!”. But then of course there was the whole “Dean and Rory” thing. Which I hated! Ugh do not even get me started on what a bad choice that was lol Well there it is, my most memorable episode
I have watched Gilmore Girls since the beginning.I always felt a special connection to this show because my birth mom was Lorelai’s age when she had me and gave me up for adoption. This show was like a window into what my life could have been like had she kept me.
I used to watch it with my mom. When I moved out i kept watching it and would call my mom after the episode so we could talk about it. A year later I moved into a new apartment without the CW channel so I had to wait until the dvds came out.I had asked for the final season for Christmas and my birthday but I didn’t get it. So I had netflized and had watched them all except the final disc. I had to wait a couple weeks for the next disc to come and was so bummed. I went to bed that night and my boyfriend had told me he thought there was something under my pillow. He bought me the final season for my birthday !!! So i made him stay up with me until 2 in the morning watching the final episodes. I cried so hard.
Although this isn’t a memory of actually watching the show I thought I would share. I recently found my birth mom and became close to her. I let her borrow my first season of Gilmore Girls to watch and she loves it. She had said that she didn’t watch it when it aired because it would have made her too sad. But now she loves it!! I surprised her the other day at work and one of the first things she asked me was when do Luke and Lorelai get together!! I guess you could say the love of Gilmore Girls could be hereditary ??
I’ve seen it more times than I can count, but I still blub when Rory makes her Chilton graduation speech. By this time in the series, you’re so invested in the characters you feel like you’re sitting in the audience with Lorelai!
My most memorable Gilmore moment comes in season three while Rory is in the process of picking her college. The episode is titled “The Big One” and ends with Rory getting accepted to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Gets me crying every time I watch. Never have I been more proud of a character; watching Rory achieve her dream was like the ultimate triumph of the good kid. This was Rory at her best, and that was the Rory I aspired to be. Going through the college process now makes that episode, and all of season three even more meaningful to me. “The Big One” was where the Gilmore Girls won, and I couldn’t be happier for them.
My most memorable Gilmore Girls moment would have to be episode, “The Lorelais’ First Day at Yale” because I remeber watching this with my mom… We were both sitting in the living room floor balling our eyes out because of the connection and bond that Rory and Lorelai have! Our favorite part was when Lorelai stayed with Rory the first night of college and they slept right next to each other- she cried 5 minutes after Lorelai left and needed her “mommy” again:) I just couldn’t help but to think of the relationship my mom and I have! She is my best friend and this episode really relates to both of us!
Gilmore Girls was “our” show and I was SO SAD that it went off! I have to keep watching reruns!
BEST SHOW EVER- LOVE IT!!!!!!!
My favourite memory of Gilmore Girls is when I watched “The Lorelais’ First Day at Chilton” on TV. It was the first time I caught an episode and afterwards I thought, I’m definitely coming back tomorrow, for it was in reruns here in Germany. The show is something special, It was already apparent to me back then. I couldn’t wait to get all the DVDs and would watch three in a row when they arrived. Definitely some good times back then.
I didn’t watch Gilmore Girls until I had my first baby and started spending crazy amounts of time sitting on the couch feeding or holding a sleeping baby or whatever and feeling very isolated. My cousin gave me season 1 to see if I liked it and I ended up watching the whole show in just a few weeks and bought my own set by the time bubs was a year old…My favourite episode was ‘I Can’t Get Started’ – I must have watched that first Rory/Jess kiss a hundred times! Closely followed by They Shoot Gilmores for the fabulous costumes and awesome dancefloor drama (and v cute Luke/Lorelai moments too – loved how he fixed her heel!).
Well I guess the most memorable moment is when I became obsessed with this amazing show!
I always watched Gilmore Girls on TV because I liked it, but four years ago something happened! I remember that it was on the episode “Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out” where Jess had come to visit Rory, but sadly he saw how different she was at the time. He came with his book and I don’t know why, but after that episode I wanted to see the show from beginning, I guess I wanted to understand better how from sweet, shy, hardworking Rory (that I remembered) became this dropped out stylish girl, with Birkin bags and living with her grandparents! So on that day, not only Rory changed and realized what mess was her life, but also I realized that this was so much more than just a simple TV show!
Plus I remembered the character of Jess and how cool he was, and what a great show was Gilmore Girls, especially the first seasons! So, I’ve bought all seasons and watch them and that was the moment I fell in love with this show. Since then, Gilmore Girls is my all-time favorite, it’s a lifestyle for me, and I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched it… And still watching it…I guess that there is no cure. :)) I even started making fan videos…Especially with Rory and Jess, I loved that couple!
What I like most about this show is that it has this familiarity that makes you believe you are a part of Stars Hollow, that you know everybody so well and everyone is friendly with you. You feel that you’re not a simple “watcher” of the story (like on other TV shows) but you are there, you are a part of everything that happens. This never happened with any other show I’ve watched.
Sorry if I have mistakes in my text…I don’t know English so well…
Gilmore Girls has always been special to me. I had my daughter when I was 16, so she and I grew up together similar to Lorelai and Rory. I watched this show from the first day it aired back in 2000 and fell in love with the characters immediately. I introduced my daughter, who is now 13, to the show this past summer and she fell in love just like I did. My two favorite episodes are “Raincoats and Recipes” and “You Jump I Jump Jack”, however, my favorite moment of all of the shows is when Rory calls Lorelai after their big fight when she drops out of Yale and she pulls up into the yard and almost jumps out of the car before she puts it into park so she can hug her mom. I have seen this episode so many times, but I still cry like a baby every time I see it.
I remember watching Gilmore Girls in the TV, and just getting more and more addicted to it. So I hurried down to the nearest dvd-shop, and bought the first 5 seasons, and I spent all of my money on them. I watched them every day when I got home from school untill dinnertime, and I continued with that untill I had watched them like 4 times in a row. I still can’t get enough of Gilmore Girls :)
My most memorable part has got to be when Lorelai sings ‘I will always love you’ to Luke in the bar!! Aww, I remember this because even my dad who has no interest in my tv programmes, looked up from the computer screen and watched the rest of the episode!! Aww, got to be the the memorable moment ever!! It was just awesome, me, my younger sister, my mum and dad all watching this great epsiode!! Fantastic!!
Ever since meeting Edward Herrmann last autumn, watching Gilmore Girls is more meaningful to me. I was star struck when I met Ed, and it is really fun seeing him act on the show when I watch it now, especially the ones where he is talking about being a visiting lecturer at Yale (he is currently, or maybe just last fall, a fellow at Yale).
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My favorite moment of all of the Gilmore Girls episodes is either:
Lorelai: My brain is a wild jungle full of scary gibberish. I’m writing a letter, I can’t write a letter, why can’t I write a letter? I’m wearing a green dress, I wish I was wearing my blue dress, my blue dress is at the cleaners. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue, ‘Casablanca’ is such a good movie. Casablanca, the White House, Bush. Why don’t I drive a hybrid car? I should really drive a hybrid car. I should really take my bicycle to work. Bicycle, unicycle, unitard. Hockey puck, rattlesnake, monkey, monkey, underpants!
Rory: Hockey puck, rattlesnake, monkey, monkey, underpants?
This always makes me laugh!!
Or…
In the 2nd season episode “Hammers and Veils”, when Lorelai comes down into the living room with a newspaper veil on her head and Rory tries to read the newspaper
My most memorable Gilmore Girls watching experience came which I was a senior in high school. My friends and I planned a GG marathon to watch the third season from start to finish. We watched for roughly 23 hours straight while eating glorious amounts of junk food and candy :) What made it really special though is we all got really weepy and emotional when Rory gave her graduation speech in “Those Are Strings Pinocchio” because we realized in less than a month we too would be graduating from high school. My friends and I always remember that night at 4am when we got uncharacteristically emotionally with each other, all because our beloved Gilmore girls :)
My most memerable experience of watching Gilmore Girls is watching ‘I jump you jump jack’ when Rory and Logan where going to jump off the building thing and i was watching it with my mum and she goes to me “oh my god we so have to do that i mean jumping off a high building thing soooo much fun” and i said ” yeah i know amazing but how are we going to do that”. My mum had me young at 18 bit like Lorelai anyway shes a bit crazy and adventerouse. so we have these high steep stairs not really sloped much so there kind of straight and tall so she grabs an umberella and goes out to the stairs and says “shall i jump” I said “no” because im the smart one anyway she jumps and the umberella turns inside out so she basicly falls and her heads bleeding so she comes back up the stairs and gets an ice pack then we continue watching Gilmore Girls and shes holding an ice pack to her head and keeps moaning then when Rory and Logan land safely on the ground shes like “yeah there ok but i have have a bloody head Arggggg everything happens to me” It was soo funny the show definatly brought be and my mum much closer but it made her more crazier!
That is my best Moment watching the amazimg episode of ‘i jump you jump jack’! :)
This year was the first year than I began watching the show. Over the summer, I saw my first rerun, and realized that i HAD to see every episode. After starting over from the beginning, I grew to realize how much Rory reminds me of myself. I instantly felt this connection to the character and knew that she was my new role model.
Since then, my best friend and I have planned our lives the Gilmore-esque way, complete with a Yale University education. Every time one of us is feeling down about school, or hopeless about grades, we remind our selves of what Rory would do. We haven’t started looking at colleges yet, but whenever anyone asks our future plans, we tell them it’s Yale or bust!
When I saw my first episode where Rory rebelled and changed from her “perfect daughter” role, I felt relieved, because who knew that living up to the Rory Gilmore standards would be so much work! I continue to work my hardest in school, aiming to resemble Rory in the high school years, but plan to stick with college if (**hopefully when) I get accepted to Yale.
My favorite episode and memory of Gilmore Girls was when my best friend and I watched “Bon Voyage,” the series finale, together. As soon as she left my house, I began to cry so hard and uncontrollably, babbling about how sad everyone must be. After looking back on that slightly embarassing scene, I realize that in the end, even though Lorelai will miss Rory, everyone was content, and I was the only one feeling bad.
I think that my connection with this show is a once-in-a-lifetime deal, and hope that someday, I will achieve my Rory Gilmore Goals and maybe even follow after Lorelai, finding a handsome diner owner for myself. :)
The first episode I saw of the Gilmore girls was The Breakup Part 2. I didn’t see the previous episode until later. I was hooked. I loved the banter, I looked for ways to work their funny lines in conversation, I wanted to be Rory. I loved that the teenaged drama was overshadowed by more adult but still realistic problems.
My most memorable Gilmore Girls watching experience would have to be the first time I accidently came across the show, watched it for a good two minutes, and then fell in love with it!!
One day after waking up early and working out, I was flipping through the channels on TV when I saw a pretty girl in a yellow shirt and a scruffy man in flannel having an argument. The dialogue and how the show portrayed itself really caught my attention, and I just had to watch it!
The episode I happened to watch that day was “The Long Morrow” (Season 7, Episode 1) and all of a sudden before I knew it they were scrolling the credits. I believed I let out a cry to something like, “Nooo!” I immediately wanted to know the rest of the story and was relieved to find out ABC Family ran re-runs of this supposed show called “Gilmore Girls” every day! I ended up finishing Season 7, and by the end of the summer I was onto Season 3!
After that summer I came back to school actually having a favorite TV show and knowing what I wanted for Christmas that year…the full DVD set (which I got and watched 15 eps Xmas day!) I’m sure if i could just start reading two pages of the “Gilmore Girls: Companion” book, just like I watched two minutes of the show that one day, I can experience falling in love with GG all over again!
I starts watching Gilmore Girls in my Grade Nine.Was in the same age like Rory and in the time starting working at the News Paper at my School.Saw the show erverytime in the afternoon before I starts with my home work.My favorite season are 1-3.The High School life is really intressing what Rory did for School .For Example the thing with the Puffs.Or the thing with the first D*….The Ree Deer Hunters*thats are things haopen in real life.You are really good at School but you have a Bad moment and get a D.Both Episodes are very importent for me,because.Was a little bit,like my time in High School.Working in the Paper,More a Nerd an Reading Books in the berak and not with the Puffs.And the thing with the Ds.The show gave my motivaion for School.My mom and I good freinds too.
I was crying in the Episode Lorelai Gratuation.The erra Rory at Chilton was ending.I think the first time the 3seasons Rory was a Nerd and in Yale she get a Cool Girl with Party but forever hard working.The Episode she stolen a yacht.At this time l was feeling so Bad like Rory ,because i had trouble too.My mood was often really like Rory Gilmore to the same was this episodes on TV.
And I saw 2episodes of season 6 in the cine.Thats was so cool the big screen.
I have got complet box ,solo seasons all and magazines with episodes guide .2 only gilmore girls and the other with other shows.Gilmore Girls was and is the only show I really watch and love,I`m a big Fan of the Gilmore Girls.Really good to improve your english,I learnd lots of englsh with the Gilmore Girls on DVD.Lots of talking and fast is the best thing to learn englsh and watch your favorite show forever.
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My most vivid Gilmore Girls memory is watching a few episodes every day after school with my mom my sophomore year in high school. We would cook up some dinner and then settle into her bed to watch. We started at season 4, some of the funniest episodes. I loved watching Rory go off to college and still miss her mom. It showed me that my fear of going off to college was not just me.
I started watching Gilmore Girls on the WB partway through season two. I was completely hooked in season 3. But the show became a mirror of my own life in season 4, with The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais.
I was between jobs (a bunch of us were laid off) and was starting to feel like I would never find another one, and there were Rory and Lorelai both feeling like failures too. I was crying for Lorelai, and for Rory, and for myself during that episode. I did find a job not too long after that, but by then the Gilmores were practically a part of my DNA.
Lorelai, Rory and I all hit a low spot at the same time, and we all cried, and we all came through it and got to the other side. I don’t know if there will ever be a show I will relate to as much as I related to the Gilmore Girls.
My first episode of Gilmore Girls was “The Deer Hunters”. I fell in love with the show instantly. I was 17 years old back then and felt like the show had been written for me. My favourite season still remains the first one (2000-2001). The tone and ambiance are unique to the show and set that season appart from the others. “Cinnamon’s Wake” is on my personnal favourites list. I remember watching it on a Friday night, with an ear infection, sitting on the couch wearing my big cat slippers. I’m glad Gilmore Girls had the opportunity to grow as a show and last for so many seasons. The audience grew as well, which is amazing. Although, being one of the few who watched the show in my entourage, during the first season, made it even more special.
I also have to mention my Gilmore Girls website, Gilmore Memories (formerly Little Corner of the World). I created it in 2000 and, ten years later, it is still going strong. I have so many fond memories around that website. I truly enjoyed discussing episodes with other fans on the forum. Our discussions were very intense during the 5th season and I appreciated the nice arguments and subjects everyone brought to the table.
Sat and forever am at work here.
My most memorable Gilmore Girls watching experience? When I just happened to stumble upon the show! This was in 2008. I was working from home that day and had the television going. I would listen to whatever was on while I was meeting my deadline for the day. My viewing habits changed, but a lot of the time I would leave it on the news. I happened to be flipping through the channels at one point and stopped on ABC Family. The episode was “That’ll Do, Pig.” I only caught the second half of the episode, but that was all I needed to see! By my birthday, I had the box set and would watch several episodes in a row! I remember getting so sad when I started season 7! Needless to say, I’ve watched the series a few times now – it is truly the best!
I remember when I started getting my sister into watching Gilmore girls about 2 summers ago. It was so awesome because we would stay up all night just watching episode after episode and after we finished watching the series we had to watch it again because we missed season 1 lol! We would get junk food and watch the series again ( season 3 episode when dean breaks up with rory at the dance) was our favourite episode because Jess and rory got together :) oh the memories! It honestly brought me and my sister closed together and randomly in our daily lives will reference GG. Like oh that is such a Taylor thing to do :)
I have been a fan of Gilmore Girls since only a little more than a year ago, but consider myself as much as a fan as the people that watched from the beginning (I wish I had watched then though). I was only 4 when it started, as I am 14 now (15 on May 2nd!). And although I was 11 when it ended, I still hadn’t known it existed. I came across it on ABC Family showing re-runs one day while flipping through channels. It was at the scene in Season 3, Episode 6, “Take the Deviled Eggs…” I turned it on when Lorelai and Rory get back from Sherry’s baby shower and throw the deviled eggs at Jess’s car. First thing that i noticed that made me stop to watch was how fast they talked. It amazed me. Although I was highly confused, i was completely hooked. After that I started watching it every day at 5:00 when it was on. I knew I wanted to see it from the beginning though, so I borrowed the DVD’s from my best friend’s (who happens to live 2 houses down from me) older sister whom has the series box set. First I borrowed seasons 1 and 2, and within a week, I went back for seasons 3 and 4. It was during the school year too, and I was then in 8th grade, but every spare moment I had I would watch it. I carried a portable DVD player around the house, and if we were to go out somewhere, I would bring it with me.
Thinking back now at my first reactions to many things that happened on the show, I realize that it was all a blur and blended together for me, because I would just watch episode after episode. Also, I mainly watched by myself, so I can’t really think of a “most memorable Gilmore Girls watching experience”. I wish I had a cool one though, like I have read in a lot of the other comments here. I have watched every episode at least 3 times by now, but many episodes more than that. I still watch every day at 5:00, and many times my dad starts watching with me (my mom and sister (11 years old) do watch occasionally too). My dad always gets most of the references. It’s funny. Anyways, I can’t really think of my favorite time watching it.
I have been reading the rest of the comments since there was only about 4 here, but knew I wanted to write something long like this, so it’s taken me awhile. So I figured I better submit it before the contest is over tomorrow.
Just some info for others reading this…
If you want to read “fan-fiction” stories, go to . An awesome Gilmore Girls Fanfic to read is “It’s Just Me and You Now”, By: Emiiily. My own “Pen Name” in fanfiction is “RandomNews3″ (don’t ask).
Also, if you want to read the best ever continuation of Gilmore Girls, go to . They wrote 54 episodes of Virtual Gilmore Girls over the span of three years. It really seems like you are watching the real thing!
One more thing… I recently found an awesome Podcast called “The Gilmore Girls Re-Watch Podcast”. It is so cool! Arkle (real name is Brian) and Angela are discussing every episode of our Beloved Gilmore Girls, one episode at a time. They are currently in season 2, and post a new one every Tuesday. They posted the first episode on the 10-year anniversary of when Gilmore Girls first premiered. Their website is . You can also get their podcasts on iTunes, for free. I’m not sure about anywhere else. Check it out!
A last but not least, my birthday party this year is going to be Gilmore Girls themed.
Repeating what was said in 2 of the earlier comments, “it is simply true what people say: gilmore girls is not only a show, its a lifestyle ;-)”.
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“The Bracebridge Dinner’ will forever be my most memorable Gilmore Girls watching experience and my favorite episode. So much happened in this one episode it is so hard to recap! Rory was falling for Jess, Dean started to see this blooming romance, Luke and Lorelai get cozy in a sleigh, Emily and Richard goof around… and then fall apart after Richards big reveal. Nearly every character is in the episode, and I love every Stars Hollow citizen, so I loved seeing them all together. As Lorelai said it was a crazy over the top slumber party. My favorite part of the episode, and what made it my most memorable watching experience, is because as Rory and Jess were falling in love on screen, I was falling hard for my boyfriend. Like Jess, he was quiet, but completely got me, just like Jess completely understood Rory. When Rory looks at Jess at the end when everyone is leaving, and Jess looks at Rory, we see them falling for each other. I was doing the same thing with my “Jess”, but just like Rory, I didn’t realize I was going to fall so hard and so quickly! I will never forget watching that episode for the first time, because when Rory and Jess were in the sleigh and then when they were looking at each other trying not to let the other one see, I saw me and the love of my life doing the same thing. Everyone loves falling in love and The Bracebridge Dinner’ showed exactly how it feels.
Though this contest is over, I have to chime in that my most memorable moment watching gg was the flash back to lorelei as a teenager when she had rory. From that moment on, I understood so much more about what the writers were trying to say about lorelei’s relationship with her parents. I became a mom three years ago and every time I rewatch the seven seasons, I enjoy watching the other gilmore girls relationship, emily and lorelei, just as much. I was lucky to have a mom who loved me so unconditionally but i’m close to plenty of people who really have to work hard keeping the bonds with mothers they didn’t jive with but loved all the same. As much as they can drive you crazy, love for your family is just something you can’t ignore.