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 â“¡
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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 â“¡
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 â“¡
Authors Generally Referenced:
Mark Twain
Stephen King
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Movies and Television:
West Side Story â“¡
Forrest Gump â“¡
Rosemary's Baby
Mommie Dearest
The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton (1.2)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll â“¡
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo â“¡
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 â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
George Sand
Honoré de Balzac
William Shakespeare
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Movies and Television:
Dukes of Hazzard
Schindler's List
The Goonies â“¡
The Shining
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Other: Archie Comics â“¡
Kill Me Now (1.3)
The Republic by Plato â“¡
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
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Movies and Television:
Peanuts â“¡
Pepé Le Pew
The Deer Hunters (1.4)
"An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope â“¡
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)*
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Authors Generally Mentioned:
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Francis Bacon
Ben Jonson
John Webster
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Movies and Television:
The Deer Hunter â“¡
The Thing â“¡
Saved by the Bell
Flashdance
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Other: Four Star Dining Magazine, September 2000* (fictional magazine ft. restaurant reviews)
Cinnamon's Wake (1.5)
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce â“¡
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf*
Hamlet by William Shakespeare â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Jean-Paul Sartre
Movies and Television:
Frankenstein â“¡
The Sixth Sense
Hee Haw
Valley of the Dolls
Rory's Birthday Parties (1.6)
Authors Generally Referenced:
Edith Wharton
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Movies and Television:
Star Trek â“¡
The Fly
I Love Lucy â“¡
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes â“¡
Cinderella â“¡
The Waltons â“¡
Bright Eyes â“¡
Freaky Friday
The Odd Couple â“¡
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Other:
Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2000*
The Wall Street Journal
Kiss and Tell (1.7)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes â“¡
The Holy Bible â“¡
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Movies and Television:
Kiss and Tell â“¡
Invasion of the Body Snatchers â“¡
General Hospital
The Crucible
9 1/2 Weeks
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory*
Shaft â“¡
Style with Elsa Klensch â“¡
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 â“¡
Authors Generally Referenced:
Emily Dickinson
Jane Austen
Hunter S. Thompson
Charlotte Brontë
Judy Blume
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Movies and Television:
Star Trek â“¡
Alive â“¡
Rosemary's Baby â“¡
What's Up, Doc? â“¡
House on Haunted Hill*
Shall We Dance? â“¡
Rory's Dance (1.9)
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams â“¡
The Group by Mary McCarthy book*
Hamlet by William Shakespeare â“¡
The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker*
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Václav Havel
Susan Faludi
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Movies and Television:
Midnight Express
The Born Losers â“¡
Sixteen Candles
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams â“¡
V.I.P.
Fried Green Tomatoes â“¡
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 â“¡
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka*
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Movies and Television:
The Miracle Worker
The Wizard of Oz â“¡
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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 â“¡
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
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Movies and Television:
Paris is Burning â“¡
The Omen â“¡
This Old House
Psycho
The Shining â“¡
Heathers â“¡
The Odd Couple â“¡
Double Date (1.12)
Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. â“¡
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 â“¡
The Holy Bible â“¡
Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
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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 â“¡
Little Red Riding Hood by Egbert of Liège â“¡
Macbeth by William Shakespeare â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
William Shakespeare
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Movies and Television:
Star Trek â“¡
House of Horrors
Joanie Loves Chachi
Carrie â“¡
The Yogi Bear Show â“¡
Everest
The Wizard of Oz â“¡
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 â“¡
The Music Man â“¡
Sex and the City â“¡
I Love Lucy â“¡
Wild Kingdom
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Other:
InStyle Magazine
Glamour Magazine
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Christopher Returns (1.15)
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary*
The Holy Bible â“¡
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Charles Dickens
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Movies and Television:
Happy Days â“¡
The Little Rascals â“¡
2001: A Space Odyssey â“¡
Get Smart â“¡
Citizen Kane
I Love Lucy
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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 â“¡
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Mourning Bride by William Congreve â“¡
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell â“¡
Tuesday's with Morrie by Mitch Albom â“¡
Authors Generally Referenced:
Leo Tolstoy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Movies and Television:
Lovers and Other Strangers â“¡
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble â“¡
The Food Channel
Iron Chef
Child's Play â“¡
Lady and the Tramp
Misery
Miss Congeniality
Jeopardy â“¡
Bambi
Christine
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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 â“¡
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 â“¡
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Movies and Television:
The Godfather â“¡
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 â“¡
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Productions:
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
The Third Lorelai (1.18)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare â“¡
Holy Bible â“¡
Authors Generally Referenced:
David Mamet
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Movies and Television:
The Little Rascals â“¡
The Marx Brothers
The Silence of the Lambs â“¡
Casablanca â“¡
Grease â“¡
I Love Lucy â“¡
Cabaret
Gaslight
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Other: The Unabomber Manifesto â“¡
Emily in Wonderland (1.19)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll â“¡
Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm â“¡
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 â“¡
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Movies and Television:
The Lost Weekend
Charlie's Angels
Working Girl
Star Trek â“¡
Pinocchio â“¡
Queen of Outer Space*
Saving Private Ryan
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Other:
CosmoGirl
The Far Side Comics â“¡
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*
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Emma Goldman
Henry James
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Movies and Television:
Wild Kingdom
Patton
Out of Africa
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
The Amityville Horror
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Other:
GQ Magazine
Goofus and Gallant Comics â“¡
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
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Movies and Television:
The Gypsy Queen â“¡
All in the Family â“¡
The Wheel of Fortune â“¡
The Matrix
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves â“¡
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows â“¡
Return of the Jedi â“¡
Soul Train
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Other: Dick Tracy Comics