Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)

by Lauren Graham

I still find that, in general, having a plan is, well, a good plan. But when my carefully laid plan laughed at me, rather than clutch at it too tightly I just made a new one, even if it was one that didn’t immediately make sense. In blindly trying a different path, I accidentally found one that worked better. So don’t let your plan have the last laugh,

Rory’s speech to Lorelai at graduation gets me every time. Oh, and the season began with Lorelai having a dream about being with Luke, and ends with Luke having

one about Lorelai. I never noticed that parallel before!

EMILY: You have the word “juicy” on your rear end. LORELAI: Well, if I’d known you were coming over, I would have changed. EMILY: To what—a brassiere with the word “tasty” on it?

Perhaps, as Richard and Emily did, we’ll just have to renew our vows.

I liked the feeling that I was working,

Look up! Look up! What you see might surprise you.

Kelly spoke to him that first day on set. “Ed? We know you’re here. We miss you,” she said, and everyone choked up.

“Isn’t that more of a cliffhanger?” I ask Amy. But Amy doesn’t answer me. She just smiles. Hmmmm.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4 It’s my first scene with Kelly, and our first day on the Gilmore house set together. In the show, Emily has commissioned a portrait of Richard, and as we enter the living room there’s his face, ten feet tall. For a moment no one can speak. Then Kelly asks Ed to somehow make his presence known

today by doing something big and loud. Later, during the scene, a key light goes out for no reason. “Thanks, Ed,” she says. Tears.