GILMORE GIRLS: SEASON 2
your hub for all Gilmore referenced content
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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 *
Sadie, Sadie... (2.1)
Mencken's Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken, First Edition (Richard's present to Rory)*
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Movies and Television:
Jeopardy â“¡
All in the Family â“¡
Not Without My Daughter â“¡
Fame
Funny Girl
Cujo â“¡
The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story*
The Tonight Show
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Other:
InStyle Weddings Magazine, Spring 2001*
Unidentified Text, Newspaper*
Max's Bookshelf*
Hammers and Veils (2.2)
Personal History by Katharine Graham* (Rory's book)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
William Shakespeare
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Movies and Television:
Thelma and Louise
Buck Privates â“¡
Speed Racer
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Lassie â“¡
Who's On First?
This Old House â“¡
Barbarella
Red Light on the Wedding Night (2.3)
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
"The Eve of Waterloo" by Lord Byron
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago* (coffee table)
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty*
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman â“¡
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Movies and Television:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Billy Jack*
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
Them!
A.I.
The Brady Bunch â“¡
Saturday Night Fever â“¡
The Yogi Bear Show â“¡
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Other:
The Hartford Courant
The New York Times
The Wall Street Journal
The Road Trip to Harvard (2.4)
New England Travel Guide (fictional text)*
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Dark Prince by Christine Feehan â“¡
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown â“¡
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf*
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Henry James
Seneca
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Movies and Television:
Behind the Music
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
MTV
Happy Days
Grease â“¡
Chinatown â“¡
Midnight Express
Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy (2.5)
The Mojo Collection: The Greatest Albums of All Time (ed. Jim Irvin)*
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain â“¡
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics ed.)*
Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell*
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Jess' bed)*
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson (Jess' bed)*
Unidentified Texts, Jess' bed (1 book, 1 magazine)*
Rory's Bookshelf*
Howl by Allen Ginsberg*
Unidentified Text, Faber and Faber*
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy*
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Movies and Television:
Star Trek â“¡
The Shawshank Redemption
The Godfather â“¡
West Side Story â“¡
Life of Brian â“¡
Breakfast Club
The Thin Man â“¡
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Other:
The New York Times
The Washington Post
The New Yorker
Juxtapoz Magazine, September/October 2001 (Jess' bed)*
Presenting Lorelai Gilmore (2.6)
Unidentified Text, Leather Bound Book (Rory borrows from Richard)*
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, New Edition*
Unidentified Text, (Lorelai is balancing on her head)*
Unidentified Text, Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics (Rory's reading material)*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Movies and Television:
The Sound of Music â“¡
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? â“¡
The Lion King
This Is Spinal Tap
Moment by Moment â“¡
Cinderella â“¡
Endless Love
Battlebots
Dirty Dancing â“¡
The Brady Bunch
ER â“¡
Like Mother, Like Daughter (2.7)
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford*
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner*
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal*
The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty*
Unidentified Text, Rory's French Book*
Snow White and Rose Red by The Brothers Grimm
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir*
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton â“¡
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells â“¡
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo â“¡
Unidentified Text, (Puff Initiate's lunch book)*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Anne Sexton
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Movies and Television:
The Andy Griffith Show â“¡
Fat Albert â“¡
The Matrix
The Wizard of Oz â“¡
Coming Home
Rainman â“¡
Freaky Friday â“¡
Gypsy â“¡
The Ins & Outs of Inns (2.8)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Cather in the Rye by J.D. Salinger â“¡
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Movies and Television:
Lost in Space â“¡
Rebel Without a Cause â“¡
The Money Pit â“¡
Star Trek
Glitter
Run Away Little Boy (2.9)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Richard III by William Shakespeare
Unfinished Business: Memoirs: 1902-1988 by John Houseman
The Mourning Bride by William Congreve â“¡
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
William Shakespeare
Movies and Television:
The Shining
Bringing Up Baby
The Sonny & Cher Show
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid â“¡
On The Town
The Twilight Zone
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
The Wheel of Fortune â“¡
The Actor's Studio
Mystic Pizza
Cocoon
Ab Fab
The River Wild â“¡
Leave It To Beaver â“¡
The Powerpuff Girls
Doogie Howser â“¡
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Other:
Jane Magazine, November 2001 (Madeline's magazine)*
The Bracebridge Dinner (2.10)
The Illiad by Homer
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Washington Irving
Movies and Television:
The Godfather III
The Ernest Movies â“¡
The Thomas Crown Affair
The Shining
Def Jam Comedy
Ben Hur
Invasion of the Body Snatchers â“¡
Dr. Dolittle
I Love Lucy
Battle of the Bands
Days of Our Lives â“¡
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Other:
Architectural Digest
Secrets and Loans (2.11)
Essentials of Economics, 3rd ed. by Bradley R. Schiller (textbook)*
The Nancy Drew Mystery Series by Carolyn Keene
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal*
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Gustave Flaubert
Movies and Television:
I Love Lucy â“¡
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Purple Rain
Coyote Ugly
Fiddler on the Roof
Silkwood
Gone with the Wind ⓡ​
The Sopranos â“¡
The Honeymooners â“¡
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Other:
The Big Takeover, Issue 48, 2001*
Richard in Stars Hollow (2.12)
Winston Churchill Biographies (referring to several)
Rory's Bookshelf*
Summer of Fear by T. Jefferson Parker (Rory's collection)*
The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum (Rory's collection)*
Contact by Carl Sagan (Rory's collection)*
The Apocalyptics by Edith Effron (Rory's collection)*
Working by Studs Terkel (Rory's collection)*
Unidentified Text, Tobias Allcott (Rory's collection)*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Gustave Flaubert, a first edition book
Movies and Television:
Bewitched â“¡
Three Days of the Condor
Shoah
The Jerk
Bull Durham
Dances with Wolves
The Postman
Harold and Maude
Rosemary's Baby
Taxi
Cool As Ice
Hudson Hawk
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo
Showgirls*
Lifetime Television Channel
The Facts of Life â“¡
Murder, She Wrote â“¡
Legally Blonde â“¡
Star Trek â“¡
Bambi
Dumbo
Babe
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Other:
Financial Times*
The New York Times*
The Wall Street Journal*
The Washington Post*
The Lessure Prep Gazette, The Broadmouth Banner, The Richmond Heights Chronicle (all fictional school papers)*
A-Tisket, A-Tasket (2.13)
The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman*
Unidentified Texts, Rory's books from Stars Hollow Bookstore*
Unidentified Text, Rory's book in Richard's office*
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Ernest Hemingway
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Movies and Television:
Sunset Boulevard
Sabrina
Stalag 17
The Andy Hardy Film Series (16 films) ​​ⓡ
From Here to Eternity
Ghostbusters
The Dating Game
Julia
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
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Other:
The Wall Street Journal
Jane Magazine, December 2001 (Lorelai's magazine)*
It Should've Been Lorelai (2.14)
The Mourning Bride by William Congreve â“¡
The Holy Bible â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
Marcel Proust
Movies and Television:
The Godfather â“¡
The Twilight Zone
The Outer Limits
Harvey â“¡
Two Fat Ladies*
Smart Jimmy, Slow Bob â“¡
Bewitched â“¡
Twin Peaks â“¡
The Andy Griffith Show â“¡
The Home & Garden Channel
Fatal Attraction â“¡
The Ricki Lake Show
Pee Wee's Playhouse â“¡
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Producers
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Other:
The New Yorker, January 14, 2002*
InStyle Magazine, January 2002* (seen 2x)
The New York Times Magazine
Lost & Found (2.15)
Howl by Allen Ginsberg (Jess' book stack)*
Unidentified Texts, Jess' book stack (cont.)*
Unidentified Text, Jess' bedside reading*
Unidentified Texts, Lorelai's coffee table books*
Stars Hollow's Buy a Book Fundraiser, various*
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee*
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (paperback)*
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Rory's book stack)*
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (Rory's book stack)*
Like Water for Chocolate (trans. Carol and Thomas Christensen) by Laura Esquivel (Kirk's book)*
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski* (Jess' book)
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Movies and Television:
Rhoda â“¡
The 2000 Year Old Man
Young Frankenstein
Silent Movie
Kung-Fu â“¡
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Autumn in New York
Fried Green Tomatoes â“¡
Mary Poppins â“¡
Bye Bye Birdie
Mission: Impossible
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Other:
Vanity Fair Magazine
Unidentified Text, Luke's newspaper*
The Stars Hollow Gazette
Jane Magazine, February 2002*
There's the Rub (2.16)
Hamlet by William Shakespeare â“¡ (episode title)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley â“¡
Authors Generally Referenced:
J.D. Salinger
Franz Kafka
The Beat's, general
Jack Kerouac
Charles Bukowski
Jane Austen
Movies and Television:
Risky Business
Driving Miss Daisy â“¡
The Godfather â“¡
Three's Company â“¡
West Side Story
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Other:
The National Inquirer
Dead Uncles & Vegetables (2.17)
The Holy Bible â“¡
Rapunzel by The Brothers Grimm â“¡
Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow â“¡
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Movies and Television:
The Diner Guy
I Dream of Jeanie â“¡
David and Lisa
The Money Pit
Looney Tunes: The Goofy Gophers â“¡
Charlie Rose
The Wizard of Oz â“¡
Back in the Saddle Again (2.18)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Bhagavad Gita
Candide by Voltaire
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, and Nikki Sixx*
Authors Generally Referenced:
Mark Twain
The Algonquin Roundtable, general â“¡
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Movies and Television:
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett â“¡
The Andy Griffith Show â“¡
Dr. Dolittle â“¡
The Odd Couple â“¡
The Untouchables â“¡
Who's the Boss?
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Other:
Teen Magazine
Young Miss Magazine
Seventeen Magazine
Spin Magazine
Rolling Stone Magazine
Jane Magazine
Teach Me Tonight (2.19)
Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut*
Unidentified Text, Rory's used textbook*
The Pageant World History (textbook on Luke's Diner table)*
Unidentified Texts, 3 textbooks*
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
Othello by William Shakespeare*
The Emily the Strange Series by Rob Reger â“¡
Unidentified Text, Stan Freberg Book (Rory's nightstand)*
Unidentified Texts, 3 nightstand books*
The Holy Bible â“¡
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Authors Generally Referenced:
William Shakespeare
Movies and Television:
Cocktail
All About Eve â“¡
The Wizard of Oz
The Sting
Rocky
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Singing Detective
Arthur
Sophie's Choice
Cabin Boy
Desperately Seeking Susan
Fletch
Urban Cowboy
Arctic Flight
Killer Shark
Where Are Your Children?
Sudden Danger
Suspense
Snow Dogs
Seven Samurai
Facts of Life
Babe
Babe 2: Pig in the City
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Schoolhouse Rock
The Princess Bride â“¡
Terms of Endearment
ER â“¡
Cinderella â“¡
a film by kirk*
The Yearling*
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Other:
The New York Times Daily Crossword Puzzles, Volume 36 by Eugene T. Maleska*
The Daily Racing Form
Help Wanted (2.20)
The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway*
Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 (Library of America) by Dawn Powell*
Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm â“¡
Authors Generally Referenced:
Dawn Powell (16 novels, 9 plays, Dorothy Parker jokes)
Dorothy Parker
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Movies and Television:
Nanook of the North â“¡
The Tonight Show â“¡
Rebel Without a Cause â“¡
Happy Days â“¡
M*A*S*H
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Other:
GQ Magazine, March 2002*
Lorelai's Graduation Day (2.21)
The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain â“¡
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson â“¡
Essentials of Economics, 3rd ed. by Bradley R. Schiller (textbook)*
The Life Plan Book from Hartford Community College (fictional text)*
Unidentified Texts, The Independence Inn Kitchen Bookshelf*
Unidentified Texts, Christopher's Bookshelf*
Unidentified Texts, The Independence Inn Bookshelf*
What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard Nelson Bolles*
The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche*
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Woolf*
The Emily the Strange Series by Rob Reger â“¡
Movies and Television:
The Lone Ranger â“¡
Bonanza â“¡
Saved by the Bell â“¡
The Graduate*
High Fidelity
Welcome to Scabland (fictional documentary)
Annie Hall
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Other:
The Zagat Survey
The New York Post*
GQ Magazine
I Can't Get Started (2.22)
Inferno by Dante â“¡
The Independence Inn Bookshelf*
Unidentified Text, Jess' book*
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Jess' bookshelf)*
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (Jess' bookshelf)*
Unidentified Texts, (Jess' bookshelf)*
Movies and Television:
The Miracle Worker â“¡
Girl, Interrupted
Diff'rent Strokes â“¡
Bambi
Basic Instinct â“¡
Cinderella â“¡
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Brigadoon
Sleepless in Seattle
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Other:
Batman Comics â“¡
Garfield Comics
The Franklin, Chilton's newspaper (fictional)
Unidentified Text, Newspaper*