College Admissions and Modern Art

We start talking about the dinner, The lemon chicken being, a bit too fatty. (We followed the directions and it just lead to it being fatty, but we have perfected the rolls. We talk then about how by the point we both went to college a college application could be easily found online. Simon reveals he from a very early age despised the Brady bunch. Then we shift to having a digression on the Ukrainian-Russian writer Gogol. We transition to talking about how how newspaper personal ads have effectively ceased to be. Below some of the bands Lane mentioned in the ad she is making are featured as youtube links. We then remark on how Dean is being supportive of Rory in applying for college. We foolwo this up with a extended debate about if one should do college essays on living persons. Abigail says it is fine,. Simon say you shouldn’t. The two of us then discuss, if the college admission panel that is featured at Chilton is too mean for even Chilton. We find it humorous that it turns out both Paris and Rory who were supposed to lead the conversation with the admission counselors were too intimidated to ask questions because of their mean comments. We move to the b plot. Taylor’s Icecream Shop and discuss why we didn’t make a chocolate phosphate for the episode. We marvel at the fact that our town doesn’t have such a ice cream shop but doe have what Taylor fears coming to Star Hollow. A Skate Park,.

Moving to the main part of the episode, the meeting with Darren Springsteen. Of course we open up on Simon wanting to bring up Darren’s actor was on Star Trek. We then move to talking about the art of Zoltan Kemeny, and simon reveals he isn’t fond of modern art. Following a digression about what dairy products Luke’s serves. We transition to the arrival of Adam Brody as the character Dave on the show, with Simon hinting on which show the actor would move onto. Simon misidentifies Christian Metal Band Demon Hunter as Demonslayer. We discuss then if Dean is being a jerk about wanting to break up if Rory goes to Harvard due to fat that It be very hard for him to see her as it be a long distance relationship and the element of transition being commented on.

Agnostic Upstarts- Crucified https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvPXl67D_Ho&list=RDocIT67BAL4k&index=2

The Adverts Gary Gilmore’s Eye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tb_j7dgUPg&list=RD2Tb_j7dgUPg&start_radio=1

Angelic Upstarts Last Night Another Soldier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWYnCPEKB10&list=RDNWYnCPEKB10&start_radio=1

Ash, Kung Fu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWqY8qrBBSI&list=RDdWqY8qrBBSI&start_radio=1

Agent Orange, Bloodstains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xssze9dU47I&list=RDXssze9dU47I&start_radio=1

Accelerators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWqY8qrBBSI&list=RDTD0NQ7VeOP0&index=2

Potatoes and Pesto?

We start by talking about our diner, Chicken noodle soup with carrots, and mashed potatoes with garlic and pesto which Abby doesn’t care for. We start discussing the apparent murder in the newspaper that horrifies Lorelai, Emily and Rory and Simon speculates on how a defense attorney would repreent the accused. Abby doesn’t take well to Simon paralleling Luke in the episode discussing Lorelai giving up coffee, Abby saying if she had to give up coffee it would end badly. We have a long off topic discussion of the differences between the movie Mouse Hunt, and the play Mouse Trap, as well as how one can deal with an indoor pest. We then move to Kirk trying to ask out Lorelai and the various humor the town has at Lorelai’s expense. We cover the inauguration of Rory and Paris as vice president and president respectively at Chilton, following that up with us speculating that Chilton may run a ticket student government system to explain Madeline and Louise’s presence in student government. Simon defends Paris’s desire to fire the Librarian, Abby speculates Paris was overreacting. We question how one can hide a stuffed pork chop. We move to Francie and have a discussion about why the heck are the Puffs still allowed at Chilton due to having committed criminal mischief in the last season. We speculate that with season 3 that the show had a a new casting director and assistant director due to the increasing quality of large scenes as well as the background cast. We then move to questioning is Emily right to brush off her chair at Luke’s before he sits down. And then move to Emily being awful for trying to get Lorelai to break up the Chris-Sherrie relationship. We have a digression to explain the career of photographer Helmut Newton, while agreeing that Rory should be clear with Paris that Francie is trying to sabotage Paris’s administration. We with the Friday night dinner both agree the maid is very incompetent and that Chris has no reason to barge in We end with discussing Jess and Rory encountering each other at the Grocery Store and say Jess was more in the right.

We had Pretzels and Rootbeer with this episode recorded quite some time ago. We start by talking about what clocks that wake up Lorelai in her dream we would want. Simon gets the play and movie “Inherit the Wind” confused with Patrick Rolfuss’s novel “The Name of the Wind”. We speculate on who hurt Taylor who is in wheelchair at the town festival featuring our date meal. We talk about how Lorelai is still not going to Luke’s. We have a segway on the two politicians featured as themsevles in the episode Doug Ose and Barbara Boxer and look at their real life careers. We transition to the new character Jaime, who will become a recurring character and we discuss if Jaime made it clear he wanted a date with Paris as Rory claims. Simon has trouble remembering the Gilmore’s summer schedule. We talk about how Rory is already treating Dean badly. We both agree we would want General Sherman’s shaving table. We debate on how Rory and Lorelai should react to Christopher and his very poor decisions at the end of Season 2, and if there was any way to make it clear to him they were both freezing him out. We marvel at the insane decorations Sookie got to “manify” her house for Jackson as well as defending the nautical themed art she chose. Also we wonder at how she painted it apparently in less then 12 hours. We discuss Rory being unhappy with Jess’s choices to not continue to pine for her. We both fully stand with Lorelai when she berates Rory for her pining for Jess while treating Dean so badly. We talk about the Gilmore’s reaction to the revelation that Christopher is going to raise a child with Sherry, instead of finally living with Lorelai. We discus how both Emily and Richard badly they take the news of Christopher and Lorelai not going to be together in different and horrifying ways. And we finish with the reconciliation of Lorelai and Luke.

Our second season finale. We start after several false starts and talking about the Cupcakes that we really do both love, but Abby is disappointed at her decorating ability. (Photos on Instagram) But we begin our discussion of the episode by talking about Suki’s various choices for her wedding Music. The songs Sookie has decided are must be played at the wedding are “I can’t get Started”, “Hey Jude”, “Seasons in the Sun”,” Cats in the Cradle” and “Don’t Cry Out Loud”. We both agree that the song choices are rather inappropriate. We move toward the scene where seemingly Lorelai and Luke are shown to be unable to mend their relationship due to the fight two episodes ago. We throughout the episode bring up Paris running for class president and Simon’s theory about her despite her obvious liberal politics not being based on any democrat who ran for the presidency in the last century but a certain republican politician and later president… We speculate again on Hilton's actual class size. We talk about the deleted scene and Rory recovering from her injury as well as Lorelai and Chris seeming to mend their relationship but as Abby notes not for long. Explaining the party at Sookie's and Jackson’s house we talk about Brigadoon due to Jackson being expected to wear a kilt. We have a little segway where mention why we didn’t use Jordan Almonds but Chocolates at our wedding and muse about other events of our own recent wedding. Simon when speaking of Brigadoon cannot remember the name of actor Robert Goulet. We ask why Luke is not at the Suki/Jackson Wedding, and Luke’s reaction to the return of Jess. Abby is very indignant about the lack of pink at the wedding even though we were told its colors were pink. We look at how it looks like now that the show seems to be implying Lorelai and Chris are going to make it work and then Chris almost immediately finding out he got his ex Sherry pregnant and alongside we see Rory, despite Rory being with Dean kissing Jess and how these two scenes reverberate for the rest of the series.

We start with the cake we sadly didn’t get a photograph of, the Mocha Cake, Simon is not a fan. Abby is in absolute heaven. We start our examination of the episode itself by questioning if Star’s Hollow is so close to another town it can be walked to. We talk about our actual wedding and discuss about why we didn’t have Jordan Almonds. We see that Lorelai is graduating from community college and Simon and Abby debate whether there is a discontinuity of whether Lorelai graduated from High school or got her GED. Abby spends minutes complaining about how Rory makes coffee. Simon doesn't understand Abby’s problem. We speculate on the bad relationship between Lorelai and Richard and Emily as for why he doesn’t want them at her graduation. We while explaining Christopher's gifts to Lorelai look at how one creates a pearl if it is not being taken from a clam.

We look at Rory coming to New York to see Jess, while also debating whether the proprietor of the record store they go to is meant to be on the spectrum . Then we move to Lorelai at the graduation and her issues with Emily bringing a camera guy. Simon explains why Shakey’s Pizza, a real restaurant that is now defunct was a bad pizza place. Simon then also goes into a extended explaination on the career of guest star Seth Macfarlane who plays the self important graduate Zach. We talk about issues of riding a bus. We end by looking at Rory’s apology to Loreal in missing the graduation.

We have a instagram now. Find us at https://www.instagram.com/datingwiththegilmoregirls/. You will find little reminisces of the food we ate for the show. 

We start by talking about how often Luke closes the diner then move to talk about diner style restaurant as a whole and their relative decline in the United States. Abby then vigorously defends her caffeine addiction. We question why Michel would go to a diner every day.  We  consider whether Dean’s reaction to finding out about the accident with Rory’s Car was to much or actually was a tame reaction.  We talk about both the story of Nanook of the North, and The Wind Done Gone with Simon assuring that Gone with the Wind is historically inaccurate . Simon then reminisces about Office Max and how it has changed since 2002. We look at the continuing theme of Jess being blamed entirely for the car accident and everyone being patronizing to Rory. We discuss the decline of music stores, and question Carol King’s cultural background and her character Sophies own cultural background to explain her charity to Lane later. Both of us engage in fan canoning on whether Babette was a Hari Krishna. Simon and Abby discuss Richard’s reasons for wanting Lorelai to be his secretary, suggesting it is sentimental even if it is a bit ridiculous. Simon explains the plot of the movie The Jazz Singer. We end with a massive freakout by Abby about the Donuts Luke allowed Lorelai to eat at the end.

HAPPY ONE AND A HALF YEAR ANNIVERSARY! We decided to watch three of the movies mentioned in episode 219 impromptu and give you our impressions on them. The movies are Suspense, Arctic Flight, and Killer Shark. We decide which one would have been fine to do instead of The Yearling. Also we talk about the Yearling as a piece of literature. 

218 Omelets and Business  We start with our dinner witgh a fine omelet; that Loreali might request some modifications on. We then move to talking about about the issues of Richard and not having not have anything to do. Then we move on to Rory and her treatment of Dean which we question if Rory showing disrespect for Dean, and how he should be able to meet her in Luke’s diner as based on previous episode we now its between route from his house to Stars Hollow High. It should be Dean and Rory’s relationship will be a continuous subject. We move to the main point of the episode: the Chilton econ class main project. We discuss the reasons apparently no ones parent can act as an advisor and note how Louise’s father is apparently in court and  we speculate if he was caught up in the accounting scandals of the early 2000s. In related matters speculate on Brads denomination of Judaism and how Paris could attack him for that.  Our conversation then moves to questioning whether Michel is from Quebec or France based on talk of his mother “coming down”. We look at Richard having to be talked by Emily into helping Rory. Then we have a digression where we question whether aptitude tests are good for anything. Simon thinks they’re not completely useless. Abby says they are useless. Abby also insists she is not Napoleon. We talk about the product ideas they went with the project agree a first aid kit would sell.  We talk about when Dean goes too far involving trying to keep relationship with Rory working and how Lorelai talks him down.  We discuss Michel’s very crazy diet tendencies.  We debate whether a product should work in a class project to be given best prize. We note how Richard gets very offended with Headmaster Charelston. We end with noting how at the Friday night diner a whole bunch of eventual events on the show are foreshadowed .