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Logan first calls Rory by the nickname "Ace" during Season 5 in episode 6 "Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant". In the episode Rory, who writes for The Yale Daily News, uncovers a story about a secret society called "The Life and Death Brigade". Logan Huntzberger is a member of the group, so Rory questions him on his involvement and the club's activities. Logan calls Rory "Ace" (as in Ace Reporter) during an instant message session in the news room because of her tenacity in covering the story. It is then that Logan promises Rory a full scoop and it also plants the seeds of their eventual romantic relationship.

Rory's full name is Lorelai Leigh Gilmore. We see this on the birthday party invitation in the episode "Rory's Birthday Parties." and on her graduation day.

Lorelai Lee is the Marilyn Monroe character in the Howard Hawks classic film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".

According to Wikipedia, Rory Gilmore was born October 8, 1984 in Hartford, Connecticut, at 4:03am.

Jess first appears in the season 2 episode "Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy."

Lorelai's middle name is Victoria.

Lane's father is spoken about many times, mostly in the beginning seasons, and though we never actually see him, he does exist and is still married to Mrs. Kim.

Luke first asks Lorelai out in "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights" (Season 4). They first kiss in "Raincoats and Recipes", which is the season 4 finale. They have their first date in season 5, in the episode "Written in the Stars."

Rory and Dean first started dating in the first season, and broke up on their three month anniversary after Dean told Rory he loved her, and she didn't say it back (S1, "Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers"). They got back together in the Season 1 finale "Love, Daisies and Troubadours", but broke up again in season three when Rory's feeling for Jess became painfully obvious to Dean ("They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?"). In the season finale of season 4, Rory and Dean slept together, even though Dean was married to Lindsay. Lindsey found out and she and Dean divorced, at which time Rory and Dean started dating for a third time. They broke up for the third and final time in the episode "The Party's Over" in season 5, when Dean realized he no longer fit into Rory's lifestyle.

What is interesting is that Dean's character continued appearing the last times during season 5 when Rory wasn't with him anymore and his characters gained a much darker, almost villain-esque tone when instead of coping with his break-up with Rory, he tried to insinuate that also Luke and Lorelai couldn't last very long. This conflict between Dean and Luke gets portrayed in the episode "To Let Live or Diorama".

Gilmore Girls is filmed on the Warner Bros lot in Burbank, California, except for the pilot and parts of some of Season 1's episode, which were shot in Canada (Unionville).

Mia was the owner of the Independence Inn. When Rory was a baby, Lorelai took her and ran away from home, and found herself at the Independence Inn. Mia took her in and gave her a job as a maid at the Inn, and Lorelai eventually worked her way up to become the manager. Mia became a sort of surrogate mother to Lorelai, which has created even more hard feelings between Emily and Lorelai. The character Mia first appeared in Season 2 in the episode "The Ins and Outs of Inns", where she was played by actress Elizabeth Franz. She appearead again in season 7 in the episode "Gilmore Girls Only", where she was played by actress Kathy Baker.

No it is not, but while Stars Hollow is a fictional town, it is based on the very real village of Washington Depot, Connecticut.

Yes. Sherilyn Fenn played both Anna Nardini and Sasha, the live-in-girlfriend of Jess's father. She was originally supposed to star in the Jess spin-off as Sasha but when that didn't work out Amy Sherman-Palladino brought her back as Anna Nardini. There are several other actors/actresses who are used for multiple small roles, like Alex Borstein for instance (who plays both the harp player Drella in season one and the quirky Gilmores' fashion consultant Celine) and, casually, Borstein ended up marrying cast member Jackson Douglas.

The girl herself is not of much importance. Lorelai looks at her and sees what she could have had if she didn't have Rory and if she had continued her schooling and gone to college. Lorelai never actually wanted to go to Harvard like Rory did, she just didn't get the chance to. And in the episode "Let the Games Begin" when the four Gilmores take a road trip to Yale, Richard tells Rory that when Lorelai was ten she wanted to go to Yale like him.

Yes. They were both played by Marion Ross.

His name was Mick, and he was supposed to install DSL in Lorelai's house. Sean Gunn also played a man delivering swans to the inn in "Kill Me Now." After that point he was always Kirk.

Yes, the 7th season was the series finale. There were disagreements between the cast members and the network, some of which were never fully explained. No, it is not Alexis's fault. Lauren Graham had stated in an interview that she and Alexis had very long work weeks, 6 or even 7 days at a time, and both of them emotionally exhausted. Lauren also said that although the rumored 13 episode 8th season was tempting, she felt that the fans and the show itself would be cheated.

That interview is still available for those interested. http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Lauren-Grahams-Final/800014383

Paul Anka is a Polish Lowland Sheepdog.

Edward Herrmann is a pretty big name actor, and reportedly Amy Sherman-Palladino worked very hard to get him in the show. The 'Special Appearance' is just a small shout-out to him and his career.

No. Unofficial rumors were spread by gossip and Tv websites that Amy Sherman-Palladino is willing to make a movie someday. To prove that a movie is highly unlikely to happen, there are many facts. An interview with Entertainment Weekly basically says that Amy Sherman Palladino couldn't possibly make a sequel movie on the series because she has not ever seen the entire final season, which she didn't work on because she and her husband Daniel left the show at the end of Season Six over creative differences with the studio. In other statements, it became known that ASP had a pretty defined ending in her mind and that it could be resumed with four words (other sources are that she knew the final line for Gilmore Girls, which was made up of four words). In another interview concerning her short-lived sitcom "The return of Jezebel James" to the question 'Are you ever going to tell us the ending you'd planned for Gilmore?' Amy Sherman-Palladino said: "Not at the moment, but eventually. I'll be on top of a building, ready to jump, and I'll yell it to the world, and I'll plummet to my death" obviously meaning with tipically Gilmore-esque sarcastic tones that she's definitively put a cross over the entire project. Supposing that a movie could be made, we still have the big issue that ASP and the studios have burned their legal bridges and that the sets and props in the WB lot in Burbank have been sold or given as souvenirs. ASP would have to fix that to even have the rights to make a movie and re-creating Stars Hollow would be too expensive for Warner Bros. Right now, the executive producer Gavin Polone, is also suing Warner Bros. because most of the show's profits were channelled into the big studio's finances, leaving the independent production company relatively out of money. No matter these undeniable facts, reporters brought the unofficial news of a possible movie out to the "Gilmore Girls" ex-cast members and every one of them sounded surprised, sad or mad because the way they were told the series wasn't going to get renewed for an eighth season wasn't particularly pleasant although they had it coming. In addition to that, Lauren Graham, who also produced some episodes during Season Seven and had somewhat decisional power over the way the final episode should have been, did state that if something like the "Sex and the city" movie happened to Gilmore Girls it would have been like killing the show.

Tristan (Chad Michael Murray) left in the Season 2 episode "Run Away, Little Boy" because his father was sending him to military school after he broke into a friend's father's safe. Chad Michael Murray actually left the show to appear on One Tree Hill.

Tristan and Rory never dated. He had an obvious interest in her, but she did not reciprocate his feelings. The most that ever happened between them was a kiss at a party in "The Breakup, Part 2" when both of them were emotional, Rory over her break-up with Dean, and Tristan over his break-up with his girlfriend, Summer.

Against the belief that writers didn't do their job well, if you watch the series again focusing on the Rory-Logan relationship you will find continuous proof that the final break up in season seven episode "Unto the breach" has actually been in the making very longly and since the beginnings of season six where the sudden touch-and-go return of Jess in episode "Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out" caused a big fight between Rory and Logan over issues regarding serious differences between them although they were inevitably bound.

After the fight, they don't see each other for quite a while and Jess' scolding has a positive effect on Rory, who comes back home to Lorelai and resumes her studies at Yale. Soon, Logan manages to get back with Rory, also with the unexpected help of Lorelai, who writes a mysterious letter we never know the content of. They briefly live an intense love relationship which starts fading abruptly when, in the episode "A Vineyard Valentine", Logan is forced by his father to accept a job in London by the end of his senior year at Yale. In the following episode "Bridesmaids Revisited" Rory goes to Honor's wedding preparations (Logan's sister) and she finds out by some of the bridesmaids that they have slept with Logan. Rory is hurt and decides to leave Logan immediately. The following episode "I'm OK, You're OK" Logan convinces Rory that he played around because he believed their story was over, while Rory just hoped it was in a stall. Their misunderstanding seems to don't matter anymore because Rory is willing to get back with him and stay at his house instead of Paris'. What happens next is that Logan starts understanding that Rory hasn't really forgiven him and in the episode "The Real Paul Anka" he decides to go with Colin, Finn and the Life and Death Brigade on a risky parachuting trip. At the same time, Rory receives an invitation by Jess at Truncheon Books, a small publishing house and art gallery that he founded in Philadelphia with a few friends. Rory goes to meet him and casually meets also Luke and April there because they are on a school trip. Jess tries to win Rory's heart back and they even kiss each other, but Rory feels that it isn't right for her. Jess lets her go for the last time, although he suggests her telling Logan about their kiss in case she wanted to obtain a final break-up and get back with him. Rory wants to be loyal and returns to Logan when he has a very serious accident during his parachuting trip. Rory will become his everyday assistant and their relationship becomes even deeper during Logan's convalescence. All up until the season six finale, where Logan, after graduating at Yale, is forced to leave America to go working in London for his father.

Season seven's first half is the long-distance chapter, where Rory and Logan grow more distant, both geographically and romantically. At one point, Logan comes back to New York to acquire an internet company and the two lovers meet with great pleasure. Rory finds herself irrationally jealous when Logan invites her at a dinner with two of his work-fellows and one of them, who is a nice girl named Bobbi. The jealousy seems to get them even more involved with each other. In the episode "French Twist" Rory meets two new friends, Lucy and Olivia, at an art exposition. Lucy's boyfriend happens to be Marty with whom she was friendly involved during freshman year and who was blatantly in love with her although she didn't allow him to go further because she was already involved with Logan. Right now the tables turn and Marty pretends he never knew her. This upsets Rory, who gets more unsettled in her relationship with Logan during the episode "Introducing Lorelai Planetarium", where she becomes charged up over Lorelai's decision to marry Christopher back in Paris without consulting her and over Logan when he feels offended by an article written by her on a pre-launch party organized by him yet full of snobs and people from the priviledged world she hates so much (like Lorelai). The couple fights badly and Logan replies Rory telling her that if she's still staying with him, maybe it's more about economic and residential stability. Rory can't handle Logan anymore and leaves their apartment telling him "Screw you, Logan". By the end of the episode, Rory understands that she must find a place of her own to gain more independence although she and Logan have managed to make peace again. She decides to go and stay at Paris and Doyle's new apartment.

During the following episodes, the problem with Marty returns and this time Logan will be involved. Rory confesses Logan that she's having problems with Marty because they were more than friends during freshman year and the guy simply prefered to pretend they didn't know each other when Lucy introduced him to Rory. Logan tells her that he's glad he told him and that he is not jealous at all, but when he, Rory, Marty and Lucy go at a dinner together, Logan turns the tables and tells Lucy that Rory and Marty knew each other very well. Lucy remains completely shocked and disappointed and leaves everyone. Rory becomes mad at Logan because what he did not only was obnoxious but also had the result of making her losing a friend and causing a couple to break up.

In the episode "To whom it may concern" Rory makes amends with Lucy thanks to Paris, but soon enough a new drama gains ground: Richard has a heart attack. During the hospitalization of him, Logan helps Rory like a true and caring boyfriend (in the meantime, Lorelai and Chris are distancing from each other because of Lorelai's remaining deep involvement with Luke). A few episodes later, Rory flirts with Richard's assistant at Yale and tells Logan immediately about this, confessing him she fears of having a self-destructive personality. Logan demonstrates that he understands her and in his opinion having discussed the matter already solved their problem. The couple is at a point where they believe they have reached a perfect harmony, but it's not as simple as that.... What will happen next is the most interesting turning point in the whole Rory-Logan plotline.

In the episode "I'm a Kayak, Hear Me Roar" Rory celebrates Logan's birthday big time, but at the end of the episode the guy receives bad news about a big failure at work. The following episodes, Logan becomes isolated from the world for a while and his father Mitchum, who basically is his boss, gets to him, trying to make him put everything back together. Logan doesn't want to do anything but relax at home and go with his friends partying (like he did back in college). Rory hates to agree with Mitchum but tells Logan that he must do something to get back on track. Logan goes to Vegas instead, without even inviting her. Rory returns to Stars Hollow to be at Lane's baby shower. Her issues with Logan are all still there, but she doesn't tell Lorelai directly also because she hates to admit it to herself.... But Lorelai guesses just by looking at her, she's her mother after all.

In the following episode "Gilmore Girls Only", Rory Lorelai and Emily go to Mia's wedding. There Logan surprises Rory and reveals her that he is no longer under his father and that he feels the world is opening up new doors to him. For a while, he goes living with Rory at her and Paris/Doyle's place. In the episode "Hay Bale Maze" he proves Lorelai that he isn't the spoiled and rich boy she always despised anymore. At the same time, Rory is taking in consideration many opportunities for what will happen after she will graduate. She tells Logan that among the factors in her usual pro-cons list she wants to factor him as well, but Logan suggests her to do what she feels she wants to do and then he will factor her in as well.

An emblematic moment foreshadowing that they will soon break up is when they get into the hay maze and at a crossroads Rory looks forward to go one way and Logan to another, they momentarily stop holding hands and then they go forward together but uncertain of the future.

The next episodes Rory takes a risk and applies for her dream: the New York Times internship. Unfortunately, while Paris receives multiple proposals from a lot of medical grad schools, Rory receives a negative letter from the New York Times that will put her very down at the point that she will be distracted at one of her literature final exams. Lorelai manages to bring back some hope to Rory's soul telling her that she can do whatever she wants and that she will never disappoint her. Logan gets a good job in Paloalto, California and tells Lorelai he wants to propose to Rory and bring her in California with him.

The second to the last episode "Unto the breach", Rory graduates and sees her horizons get wider no matter the New York Times internship declined her request (as a matter of fact, the next episode she gets a job as reporter during Obama's campaign). Things change completely when Logan proposes to her in front of a crowded reception room that the Gilmores are using to celebrate their grandaughter. Rory drags Logan away from the people and Logan tells her to take a risk like they did the first time they were really together (see episode "You jump, I jump, Jack"), but Rory really can't make up her mind, she can't jump this time and asks Lorelai to give her some good advice. Lorelai tells it's too big a decision to make it for her. Rory thinks of it overnight and after a long-awaited graduation ceremony where everyone (including Chris) is proud of her and teary, she tells Logan that she wants to pursue a career as much as him and that they could still be happy together trying the long distance method for a while... But Logan doesn't want to go backwards, he wants all or nothing. Rory insists that they should try long distance, but after finally uttering the words "What's the point?" Logan leaves her for good. Rory is sad and relieved at the same time, but she doesn't cry onscreen. During "Unto the breach" 's final scene, Lorelai discusses Rory's decision telling her that one day she will just meet the right person without any hesitation.