I grew up watching "Gilmore Girls" every day after high school cross country practice with my mom. When I moved to NYC after college, it's what I relied on to keep me company when I was feeling homesick and lonely. Does it hold up to modern standards? No... but I will always have a great nostalgia-fueled fondness for it. I worked through each episode slowly and tried to provide in-depth recaps targeted to fans of the show who hopefully understand my mix of fondness and irritation. After many years, I'm finally done with this gargantuan project that I almost entirely loathed by the end. Here is a full list of all the episodes:
Season 1
- Episode 1 - Pilot
- Episode 2 - The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
- Episode 3 - Kill Me Now
- Episode 4 - The Deer Hunters
- Episode 5 - Cinnamon's Wake
- Episode 6 - Rory's Birthday Parties
- Episode 7 - Kiss and Tell
- Episode 8 - Love and War and Snow
- Episode 9 - Rory's Dance
- Episode 10 - Forgiveness and Stuff
- Episode 11 - Paris is Burning
- Episode 12 - Double Date
- Episode 13 - Concert Interruptus
- Episode 14 - That Damn Donna Reed
- Episode 15 - Christopher Returns
- Episode 16 - Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
- Episode 17 - The Breakup: Part 2
- Episode 18 - The Third Lorelai
- Episode 19 - Emily in Wonderland
- Episode 20 - P.S. I Lo...
- Episode 21 - Love, Daisies and Troubadours
Season 2
- Episode 1 - Sadie, Sadie
- Episode 2 - Hammers and Veils
- Episode 3 - Red Light on the Wedding Night
- Episode 4 - The Road Trip to Harvard
- Episode 5 - Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy
- Episode 6 - Presenting Lorelai Gilmore
- Episode 7 - Like Mother, Like Daughter
- Episode 8 - The Ins and Outs of Inns
- Episode 9 - Run Away, Little Boy
- Episode 10 - The Bracebridge Dinner
- Episode 11 - Secrets and Loans
- Episode 12 - Richard in Stars Hollow
- Episode 13 - A-Tisket, A-Tasket
- Episode 14 - It Should've Been Lorelai
- Episode 15 - Lost and Found
- Episode 16 - There's the Rub
- Episode 17 - Dead Uncles and Vegetables
- Episode 18 - Back in the Saddle Again
- Episode 19 - Teach Me Tonight
- Episode 20 - Help Wanted
- Episode 21 - Lorelai's Graduation Day
- Episode 22 - I Can't Get Started
Season 3
- Episode 1 - Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days
- Episode 2 - Haunted Leg
- Episode 3 - Application Anxiety
- Episode 4 - One's Got Class and the Other One Dyes
- Episode 5 - Eight O'Clock at the Oasis
- Episode 6 - Take the Deviled Eggs
- Episode 7 - They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?
- Episode 8 - Let the Games Begin
- Episode 9 - A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving
- Episode 10 - That'll Do, Pig
- Episode 11 - I Solemnly Swear
- Episode 12 - Lorelai Out of Water
- Episode 13 - Dear Emily and Richard
- Episode 14 - Swan Song
- Episode 15 - Face-Off
- Episode 16 - The Big One
- Episode 17 - A Tale of Poes and Fire
- Episode 18 - Happy Birthday, Baby
- Episode 19 - Keg! Max!
- Episode 20 - Say Goodnight, Gracie
- Episode 21 - Here Comes the Son
- Episode 22 - These Are Strings, Pinocchio
Season 4
- Episode 1 - Ballrooms and Biscotti
- Episode 2 - The Lorelais' First Day at Yale
- Episode 3 - The Hobbit, the Sofa, and Digger Stiles
- Episode 4 - Chicken or Beef?
- Episode 5 - The Fundamental Things Apply
- Episode 6 - An Affair to Remember
- Episode 7 - The Festival of Living Art
- Episode 8 - Die, Jerk
- Episode 9 - Ted Koppel's Big Night Out
- Episode 10 - The Nanny and the Professor
- Episode 11 - The Clamor and the Clangor
- Episode 12 - A Family Matter
- Episode 13 - Nag Hammadi Is Where They Found They Gnostic Gospels
- Episode 14 - The Incredible Sinking Lorelais
- Episode 15 - Scene in a Mall
- Episode 16 - The Reigning Lorelai
- Episode 17 - Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist
- Episode 18 - Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!
- Episode 19 - Afterboom
- Episode 20 - Luke Can See Her Face
- Episode 21 - Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
- Episode 22 - Raincoats and Recipes
Season 5
- Episode 1 - Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller
- Episode 2 - A Messenger, Nothing More
- Episode 3 - Written in the Stars
- Episode 4 - Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too
- Episode 5 - We Got Us a Pippi Virgin
- Episode 6 - Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant!
- Episode 7 - You Jump, I Jump, Jack
- Episode 8 - The Party's Over
- Episode 9 - Emily Says Hello
- Episode 10 - But Not as Cute as Pushkin
- Episode 11 - Women of Questionable Morals
- Episode 12 - Come Home
- Episode 13 - Wedding Bell Blues
- Episode 14 - Say Something
- Episode 15 - Jews and Chinese Food
- Episode 16 - So... Good Talk
- Episode 17 - Pulp Friction
- Episode 18 - To Live and Let Diorama
- Episode 19 - But I'm a Gilmore
- Episode 20 - How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?
- Episode 21 - Blame Booze and Melville
- Episode 22 - A House is Not a Home
Season 6
- Episode 1 - New and Improved Lorelai
- Episode 2 - Fight Face
- Episode 3 - The UnGraduate
- Episode 4 - Always a Godmother, Never a God
- Episode 5 - We've Got Magic to Do
- Episode 6 - Welcome to the Dollhouse
- Episode 7 - Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number
- Episode 8 - Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out
- Episode 9 - The Prodigal Daughter Returns
- Episode 10 - He's Slippin' 'Em Bread... Dig?
- Episode 11 - The Perfect Dress
- Episode 12 - Just Like Gwen and Gavin
- Episode 13 - Friday Night's Alright for Fighting
- Episode 14 - You've Been Gilmored
- Episode 15 - A Vineyard Valentine
- Episode 16 - Bridesmaids Revisited
- Episode 17 - I'm OK, You're OK
- Episode 18 - The Real Paul Anka
- Episode 19 - I Get a Sidekick Out of You
- Episode 20 - Super Cool Party People
- Episode 21 - Driving Miss Gilmore
- Episode 22 - Partings
Season 7
- Episode 1 - The Long Morrow
- Episode 2 - That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopee
- Episode 3 - Lorelai's First Cotillion
- Episode 4 - 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous
- Episode 5 - The Great Stink
- Episode 6 - Go, Bulldogs!
- Episode 7 - French Twist
- Episode 8 - Introducing Lorelai Planetarium
- Episode 9 - Knit, People, Knit!
- Episode 10 - Merry Fisticuffs
- Episode 11 - Santa's Secret Stuff
- Episode 12 - To Whom It May Concern
- Episode 13 - I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia
- Episode 14 - Farewell, My Pet
- Episode 15 - I'm a Kayak, Hear Me Roar
- Episode 16 - Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?
- Episode 17 - Gilmore Girls Only
- Episode 18 - Hay Bale Maze
- Episode 19 - It's Just Like Riding a Bike
- Episode 20 - Lorelai? Lorelai?
- Episode 21 - Unto the Breach
- Episode 22 - Bon Voyage