GILMORE GIRLS: SEASON 1
your hub for all Gilmore referenced content
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all listed titles are concretely mentioned unless otherwise distinguished
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all references to an author, book, or adaptation are noted with a ⓡ
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any book or movie that is physically held or watched on screen has an *
Pilot (1.1)
On the Road by Jack Kerouac ⓡ
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain*
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir* (book falls from cleaning out locker)
Mistress of Mellyn by Eleanor Hibbert* (locker book)
Chikara!: A Sweeping Novel of Japan and America by Robert Skimin* (locker book)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville*
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath* (reading at the Inn before the first Friday Night Dinner)
The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Anderson
To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785 by Robert Burns ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
Mark Twain
Stephen King
Movies and Television:
West Side Story ⓡ
Forrest Gump ⓡ
Rosemary's Baby
Mommie Dearest
The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton (1.2)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ⓡ
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo ⓡ
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
The Harry Potter Series, arguably Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
The Holy Bible ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
George Sand
Honoré de Balzac
William Shakespeare
Movies and Television:
Dukes of Hazzard
Schindler's List
The Goonies ⓡ
The Shining
Other: Archie Comics ⓡ
Kill Me Now (1.3)
The Republic by Plato ⓡ
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
The Days Trilogy: Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days by H.L. Mencken
Movies and Television:
Peanuts ⓡ
Pepé Le Pew
The Deer Hunters (1.4)
"An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope ⓡ
The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, 1st edition (ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor)*
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
King Richard III by William Shakespeare
Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare: A Complete A to Z Reference Guide with Over 6000 Entries by Evangeline M. O'Connor*
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain (Lorelai's book)*
Authors Generally Mentioned:
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
Ben Jonson
John Webster
Movies and Television:
The Deer Hunter ⓡ
The Thing ⓡ
Saved by the Bell
Flashdance
Other: Four Star Dining Magazine, September 2000* (fictional magazine ft. restaurant reviews)
Cinnamon's Wake (1.5)
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce ⓡ
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf*
Hamlet by William Shakespeare ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Movies and Television:
Frankenstein ⓡ
The Sixth Sense
Hee Haw
Valley of the Dolls
Rory's Birthday Parties (1.6)
Authors Generally Referenced:
Edith Wharton
Movies and Television:
Star Trek ⓡ
The Fly
I Love Lucy ⓡ
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ⓡ
Cinderella ⓡ
The Waltons ⓡ
Bright Eyes ⓡ
Freaky Friday
The Odd Couple ⓡ
Other:
Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2000*
The Wall Street Journal
Kiss and Tell (1.7)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes ⓡ
The Holy Bible ⓡ
Movies and Television:
Kiss and Tell ⓡ
Invasion of the Body Snatchers ⓡ
General Hospital
The Crucible
9 1/2 Weeks
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory*
Shaft ⓡ
Style with Elsa Klensch ⓡ
Cinderella
Sleeping Beauty
Ice Castles
The Way We Were
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Love & War & Snow (1.8)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen*
The Holy Bible ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
Emily Dickinson
Jane Austen
Hunter S. Thompson
Charlotte Brontë
Judy Blume
Movies and Television:
Star Trek ⓡ
Alive ⓡ
Rosemary's Baby ⓡ
What's Up, Doc? ⓡ
House on Haunted Hill*
Shall We Dance? ⓡ
Rory's Dance (1.9)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams ⓡ
The Group by Mary McCarthy book*
Hamlet by William Shakespeare ⓡ
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Václav Havel
Susan Faludi
Movies and Television:
Midnight Express
The Born Losers ⓡ
Sixteen Candles
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams ⓡ
V.I.P.
Fried Green Tomatoes ⓡ
The Outsiders
Double Indemnity*
Other:
The New Yorker Magazine, October 16 and 23, 2000* (Lorelai's reading material)
Forgiveness and Stuff (1.10)
The Holy Bible ⓡ
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*
Movies and Television:
The Miracle Worker
The Wizard of Oz ⓡ
Other:
Barron's Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
The Financial Times*
Paris is Burning (1.11)
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust*
"There's a certain Slant of light (258)" by Emily Dickinson
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier ⓡ
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman*
New Poems of Emily Dickinson (ed. William H. Shurr, Anna Dunlap, and Emily Grey Shurr)*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Marcel Proust
Michael Crichton
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Homer
Dante
William Shakespeare
Edna O'Brien
Movies and Television:
Paris is Burning ⓡ
The Omen ⓡ
This Old House
Psycho
The Shining ⓡ
Heathers ⓡ
The Odd Couple ⓡ
Double Date (1.12)
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. ⓡ
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (ed. Karen V. Kukil)*
Hoover's Handbook of American Companies, 1996 (ed. Patrick J. Spain and James R. Talbot)*
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare ⓡ
The Holy Bible ⓡ
Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Movies and Television:
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman*
Mask
Beethoven
The Great Santini
Concert Interruptus (1.13)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss ⓡ
Little Red Riding Hood by Egbert of Liège ⓡ
Macbeth by William Shakespeare ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
William Shakespeare
Movies and Television:
Star Trek ⓡ
House of Horrors
Joanie Loves Chachi
Carrie ⓡ
The Yogi Bear Show ⓡ
Everest
The Wizard of Oz ⓡ
That Damn Donna Reed (1.14)
The Pageant of World History by Gerald Leinwand*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Miguel de Cervantes
Movies and Television:
The Donna Reed Show*
Mary Poppins ⓡ
The Music Man ⓡ
Sex and the City ⓡ
I Love Lucy ⓡ
Wild Kingdom
A Streetcar Named Desire
Other:
InStyle Magazine
Glamour Magazine
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Christopher Returns (1.15)
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary*
The Holy Bible ⓡ
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
Charles Dickens
Movies and Television:
Happy Days ⓡ
The Little Rascals ⓡ
2001: A Space Odyssey ⓡ
Get Smart ⓡ
Citizen Kane
I Love Lucy
Productions:
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Fiddler on the Roof
Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers (1.16)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ⓡ
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Mourning Bride by William Congreve ⓡ
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell ⓡ
Tuesday's with Morrie by Mitch Albom ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
Leo Tolstoy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Movies and Television:
Lovers and Other Strangers ⓡ
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble ⓡ
The Food Channel
Iron Chef
Child's Play ⓡ
Lady and the Tramp
Misery
Miss Congeniality
Jeopardy ⓡ
Bambi
Christine
Other:
The New Yorker: Fiction Issue
The Breakup, Part II (1.17)
The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories by Carolyn Keene
Nancy Drew 33: The Witch Tree Symbol by Carolyn Keene ⓡ
The Pageant of World History by Gerald Leinwand*
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher*
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust*
The Holy Bible ⓡ
Movies and Television:
The Godfather ⓡ
Radio
Love Story
The Champ
An Affair to Remember
Ishtar
Old Yeller
Footloose
G.I. Jane
Sesame Street
Sleeping Beauty
The Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous ⓡ
Productions:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Third Lorelai (1.18)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare ⓡ
Holy Bible ⓡ
Authors Generally Referenced:
David Mamet
Friedrich Nietzsche
Movies and Television:
The Little Rascals ⓡ
The Marx Brothers
The Silence of the Lambs ⓡ
Casablanca ⓡ
Grease ⓡ
I Love Lucy ⓡ
Cabaret
Gaslight
Other: The Unabomber Manifesto ⓡ
Emily in Wonderland (1.19)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ⓡ
Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm ⓡ
The Big Book of Flower Gardening: A Guide to Growing Beautiful Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Roses by Time-Life Books*
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ⓡ
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Movies and Television:
The Lost Weekend
Charlie's Angels
Working Girl
Star Trek ⓡ
Pinocchio ⓡ
Queen of Outer Space*
Saving Private Ryan
Other:
CosmoGirl
The Far Side Comics ⓡ
P.S. I Lo... (1.20)
James Joyce's Ulysses: A Study by Stuart Gilbert*
Out of Africa by Isak Denison*
The Art of Fiction by Henry James*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Emma Goldman
Henry James
Movies and Television:
Wild Kingdom
Patton
Out of Africa
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Amityville Horror
Other:
GQ Magazine
Goofus and Gallant Comics ⓡ
The New York Times*
Love, Daisies, and Troubadours (1.21)
Webster's Dictionary
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman*
Glencoe English (textbook)*
Question and Form in Literature (fictional textbook)*
Max's Bookshelf*
Authors Generally Referenced:
John Muir
Henry David Thoreau
Movies and Television:
The Gypsy Queen ⓡ
All in the Family ⓡ
The Wheel of Fortune ⓡ
The Matrix
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves ⓡ
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows ⓡ
Return of the Jedi ⓡ
Soul Train
Other: Dick Tracy Comics