Season 1, episode 12: “Double Date”
Original air date: 18 January 2001
Directed by: Lev L. Spiro
Written by: Amy Sherman-Palladino
Summary: Lorelai and Rory agree to two awkward double dates; Lane has a crush on a dim-witted friend of Dean’s, and Sookie has her first date with Jackson, whose rude cousin is in town.
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All References in Chronological Order
00:05 – 🎧 feature
“Earn Enough for Us” by XTC plays as Lorelai and Rory prepare to leave for work and school in the morning.
- This song comes from the 1986 album Skylarking by English rock band XTC. The band was mentioned in episode two, and their music has been featured in episodes two, nine, and ten.
02:10 – 🎧 feature + 📖 feature
RORY: The Best of Blondie, Kraftwerk, Young Marble Giants…
Up on the Sun (1985) by the Meat Puppets and The Best of Blondie (1981) by Blondie are visible in the CD pile. A copy of Elle is also visible on the coffee table.
- The Best of Blondie is the first greatest-hits compilation by US rock band Blondie. It was released in 1981 and includes hits like “Atomic” (1979), “Heart of Glass” (1978), and “The Tide Is High” (1967).
- Kraftwerk (English: “power plant”) is a German electronic band. “Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the genre” (Wikipedia), in the 1970s.
- Young Marble Giants were a Welsh post-punk band formed in 1978. They released just one full-length studio album, Colossal Youth (1980), before breaking up that same year.
- Up on the Sun (1985) is the third album by US rock band the Meat Puppets. Formed in 1980, the band gained widespread exposure in 1993 when two of their members, brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood, played at Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show, participating in covers of three songs from the 1984 Meat Puppets II.
- Elle (stylized ELLE) is a worldwide magazine “that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle. The title Elle means She in French” (Wikipedia). The magazine was founded in Paris, France in 1945.
02:15 – 🎧 reference
RORY: Yoko Ono. Really?
LANE: A very misunderstood artist, and the Beatles would have broken up anyway.
RORY: Have you shared this theory with anyone?
LANE: I know it, Yoko knows it, Sean knows it. Julian’s still in denial, but what can you do?
- Yoko Ono (Japanese: 小野 洋子, katakana: オノ・ヨーコ, born 1933) is a Japanese-born artist, singer-songwriter, and activist. She was married to Beatles vocalist and rhythm guitarist John Lennon until his death in 1980. She has often been “blamed for the breakup of the Beatles and repeatedly criticized for her influence over Lennon and his music. Her experimental art was also not popularly accepted” (Wikipedia), though her collaborations with Lennon and her dance music have been commercially successful. Ono and Lennon had one child together, Sean Lennon, and she is stepmother to Julian Lennon (John’s child from a prior marriage), with whom she has had a difficult relationship. As Lane points out, numerous factors, many of which predated Yoko’s involvement with the Beatles, contributed to the breakup of the band.
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a 1967 Beatles album, was referenced in episode eight. A song by the Plastic Ono Band, the musical group formed by Lennon and Ono, was featured in episode ten.
02:25 – 🎧 feature
RORY: Okay, I must listen to anyone named Claudine Longet.
“God Only Knows” by Claudine Longet plays on the CD player as Rory and Lane discuss Lane’s new crush. Lorelai comes into the room, ostensibly because of the volume of the music, but really to procrastinate studying.
- This song comes from the 1972 album Let’s Spend the Night Together by Claudine Longet (discussed below). The song was recorded originally by US rock band the Beach Boys for their 1966 album Pet Sounds. Wikipedia describes the original as “a baroque-style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation…and subversion of typical popular music conventions.”
02:55 – 🏷️ reference
LORELAI: I have, like, 6,000 pages of case studies to memorize and this whole big test on the Walmart phenomenon coming up on Friday.
- Walmart is a US “multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores… [It was founded in 1962.] By 1988, it was the most profitable retailer in the U.S., and it had become the largest in terms of revenue by October 1989” (Wikipedia). Today, it “is the world’s largest company by revenue” and the world’s largest private employer.
- The Walmart phenomenon, or Walmart Effect, “is a term used to refer to the economic impact felt by local businesses when a large company like Walmart…opens a location in the area. The Walmart Effect usually manifests itself by forcing smaller retail firms out of business and reducing wages for competitors’ employees” (Investopedia).
03:55 – ⚖️ reference + 🪶 reference
LORELAI: Who the hell is that, anyway?
RORY: Claudine Longet.
LORELAI: The chick who shot the skier?
RORY: Uh, sure why not?
LORELAI: Wow. Renaissance woman.
- Claudine Longet (born 1942) is a US-French singer and actor known for her numerous appearances on The Andy Williams Show (1962-1971), hosted by her then-husband Andy Williams. In 1976, after her divorce from Williams, Longet was charged with fatally shooting her boyfriend, former Olympic skier Vladimir “Spider” Sabich. At her trial, she claimed the gun had discharged accidentally when Sabich was showing her how it worked. She was convicted of negligent homicide and sentenced to pay a fine and serve 30 days in jail.
- The Renaissance was a European cultural and intellectual movement that occurred during the 15th and 16th centuries. The term “Renaissance person” (typically “Renaissance man”) refers to an individual with a broad range of well developed skills and interests, similar to polymaths of the Renaissance era like Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
04:15 – 🎧 mention
LANE: Hey. Grandaddy! New album, used. I love a bargain.
The top sliver of The Sophtware Slump album cover was visible at 02:05.
- The Sophtware Slump (2000) “is the second studio album by [US] indie rock band Grandaddy. … It is seen by some as a concept album about problems concerning modern technology in society” (Wikipedia).
06:00 – 🏷️ mention
MICHEL: Are you sure you wouldn’t like me to wait?
LORELAI: No, Michel.
MICHEL: Because learning the eating patterns of the average Taco Bell consumer is a vital lesson that–
- Taco Bell is a US “multinational chain of fast food restaurants founded in 1962 by Glen Bell” (Wikipedia) and headquartered in Irvine, California. “The restaurants serve a variety of Mexican-inspired foods, including tacos, burritos, quesadillas, [and] nachos.”
06:30 – 🪶 mention
LORELAI: Put them in the Jefferson suite tonight, move them back to their previously booked room tomorrow, and offer them dinner on the house for the inconvenience.
- Presumably, this suite at the Independence Inn is named for Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), a US Founding Father and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson served as the second vice president of the United States, under John Adams, from 1797 to 1801, and as third president from 1801 to 1809.
- Like previously mentioned Founding Fathers George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, Jefferson claimed ownership over enslaved people. “Multiple lines of evidence, including modern DNA analyses, indicate that Jefferson impregnated [Sarah “Sally” Hemings, an enslaved woman whom he legally owned,] several times over years while they lived together on Jefferson’s Monticello estate, and historians now broadly agree that he was the father of her six children” (Wikipedia). You can read more about Jefferson’s beliefs about and participation in slavery here.
07:00 – 🗺️ mention
LORELAI: Maybe you could do them in the actual shape of Alaska.
SOOKIE: Interesting.
LORELAI: Or you could do little baked Alaskas and Hawai’is.
SOOKIE: Because they joined the union last.
- Alaska and Hawai’i are the only US states that do not share borders with any of the other 48. The rest of the country may be referred to as the “contiguous United States” because it occupies a contiguous land mass, from which Alaska and Hawai’i are disconnected. Hawai’i may be contrasted with the “continental United States” because, unlike the other 49, it is not located on the North American continent.
- Alaska (Aleut: Alax̂sxax̂, Inupiaq: Alaasikaq, Alutiiq: Alas’kaaq, Yup’ik: Alaskaq, Tlingit: Anáaski) shares land borders with Canada and a maritime border with Russia. It is the largest state by land area. Alaska’s population has the highest proportion (15%) of Indigenous peoples of any US state, and almost two dozen Indigenous languages are spoken there. On 3 January 1959, it became the 49th state incorporated into the union.
- Baked alaska is a dessert consisting of cake, ice cream, and meringue, traditionally flambéed for spectacle when serving. “According to popular mythology, [chef] Charles Ranhofer invented the dish at Delmonico’s [in New York] in 1867 and named it in honor of the Alaska Purchase” (Atlas Obscura). However, that dish was never called “baked Alaska,” but rather “Alaska, Florida,” in reference to the contrasting climates of those regions.
- Hawai’i is the only US state “not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics. … Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands [and] is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania” (Wikipedia). On 21 August 1959, it became the 50th state incorporated into the union.
07:50 – 🎥 reference
LORELAI: Okay. So, who walked in on who naked?
- Lorelai is invoking a television trope in which one character inadvertently sees another in a state of undress, usually in or emerging from the shower. This often results in “awkwardness and mutual avoidance, until they decide to pretend That Didn’t Happen” (TV Tropes).
08:40 – 📖 reference
SOOKIE: It’s his turn again.
LORELAI: All right, let’s say it is his turn. You can spend a lot of time sitting around waiting for him to realize it’s his turn, or you can just run with the wolves and make it your turn again.
- Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype is a 1992 self-help book by Jungian psychologist Clarissa Pinkola Estés. According to the author’s own webpage, the book uses “rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories…in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of [their] instinctual nature.”
10:05 – 📖 feature
DEAN: Is there anything in there about me?
RORY: I don’t know. Your name wouldn’t be “lithium,” would it?
Rory is reading The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.
- The journals of US author and poet Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) “were originally published in 1982 in a heavily abridged version authorized by Plath’s husband, Ted Hughes” (Penguin Random House). The edition Rory reads, edited by Karen V. Kukil and first published in 2000, comprises Plath’s complete journals.
- Plath’s struggles with clinical depression are well documented, and she was treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) several times. Lithium is a mood stabilizer often prescribed to treat bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder, but Plath did not use it.
12:50 – 📖 feature
Lorelai becomes frustrated looking at a copy of Hoover’s Handbook of American Business at the reception desk.
- This appears to be the 1996 edition edited by Patrick J. Spain and James R. Talbot. Spain co-founded US business research company Hoover’s, along with fellow businessman Gary Hoover (for whom the company and handbook are named), in 1990.
13:15 – 🏷️ feature
A USPS branded package is visible behind Lorelai at the reception desk.
- The United States Postal Service (USPS) “is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States… It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution” (Wikipedia). The logo shows the stylized face and beak of a bald eagle, the national bird of the United States.
- The slang phrase “going postal,” referring to a spate of workplace violence within the Postal Service, was used in episode four.
14:25 – 🏷️ mention
LORELAI: Rory?
RORY: What?
LORELAI: Viva Glam!
- Viva Glam is a line of lipsticks manufactured by Canadian cosmetics company MAC Cosmetics (stylized M·A·C). Proceeds from the sale of these lipsticks go toward the MAC AIDS Fund, a charity established in 1994 to support individuals affected by HIV/AIDS. The line’s first celebrity spokesperson was drag queen RuPaul Charles.
15:55 – 🎧 feature
“Holding On To the Earth” by Sam Phillips plays in Rory’s room while she and Lane get ready for their double date.
- This song comes from the 1988 album The Indescribable Wow. Phillips composed the Gilmore Girls score, and her own music has been featured in the pilot and in episodes two and three.
16:00 – 📖 reference
LANE: You’re sure you don’t mind?
RORY: What’s mine is yours.
- This phrase is one of many in the English language originating in the works of William Shakespeare. The full line, “What’s mine is yours and what is yours is mine,” comes from the play Measure for Measure, first performed in 1604. Another phrase coined by Shakespeare was used in episode nine, and Shakespeare, himself, was mentioned in episodes two, four, and eleven.
22:05 – 🎥 feature
A sign outside the Black & White & Read Bookstore advertises a showing of Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. A clip from the film is shown on screen at 26:55.
- Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is a 1958 science-fiction horror film directed by Nathan H. Juran (credited as Nathan Hertz). “The film’s storyline concerns the plight of a wealthy heiress whose close encounter with an enormous alien in his round spacecraft causes her to grow into a giantess, complicating her marriage which is already troubled by a philandering husband” (Wikipedia). This isn’t the same scene as the one shown on screen, but it does include the 50-foot woman’s giant hand.
22:25 – 🎧 mention
LANE: And the amazing thing is all these girls are screaming, and none of them are getting the joke. He’s playing the character of a rock star. I mean, Beck is a genius, and all these stupid girls are screaming at him just ’cause they’re buying into the rock star image. I love Beck. I understand Beck.
- Beck Hansen (born Bek Campbell, 1970), known professionally as simply Beck, is a US musician and singer-songwriter. “With a pop art collage of musical styles, oblique and ironic lyrics, and postmodern arrangements incorporating samples, drum machines, live instrumentation and sound effects, Beck has been hailed by critics and the public throughout his musical career as being among the most idiosyncratically creative musicians of 1990s and 2000s alternative rock” (Wikipedia). One of Beck’s songs, “Mixed Bizness,” was featured in episode nine.
22:45 – 🎧 mention
LANE: And the Foo Fighters. Gods! I mean, have you heard the acoustic version of “Everlong”?
- US rock band the Foo Fighters was founded by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl in 1994. They became a global success in their own right, winning 12 Grammy Awards and gaining induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility, in October 2021. Their song “Everlong” was included on the 1997 album The Colour and the Shape and remains one of their signature songs. An acoustic version became popular following an impromptu performance by Grohl on Howard Stern’s radio show in 1998.
- The band’s name comes from a term “used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various unidentified flying objects or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific theaters of operations” (Wikipedia).
22:55 – 🎧 mention
LANE: Hey, you know who I’ve really gotten into lately? The Velvet Underground. Oh, and Nico. She is amazing. Depressing German scary chick.
- The Velvet Underground was a US rock band founded in 1964. “Though their integration of rock and the avant-garde resulted in little commercial success, they became one of the most influential bands in rock, underground, experimental, and alternative music” (Wikipedia). German singer, model, and actor Nico (born Christa Päffgen, 1938-1988) joined the band for four songs on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico; she contributed lead vocals to “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” “Femme Fatale,” and “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” and backing vocals to “Sunday Morning.” The album features cover art by Andy Warhol, who also managed the band at the time.
23:10 – 🎧 feature
LANE: Fugazi?
TODD: What?
LANE: The band on your shirt.
Todd’s shirt features cover artwork from Fugazi’s 1998 album End Hits.
- Fugazi is a US post-hardcore band founded in 1986. “They were noted for their style-transcending music, DIY ethical stance, manner of business practice, and contempt for the music industry” (Wikipedia). Though not officially disbanded, the group has been on hiatus since 2003.
- The word “fugazi” is a slang term for a fake, counterfeit, or imposter; it was used prominently in the 1997 mob movie Donnie Brasco, for example, to refer to counterfeit jewelry. Fittingly, Todd’s shirt is likely unlicensed, as Fugazi is known for not selling merchandise. In a usage originating in the Vietnam era, the term can also refer to something that is beyond recovery or repair.
25:25 – 🎥 reference
LORELAI: You’re nervous? You don’t have some guy staring at you like he’s Cher, and you’re the kid from Mask!
- Mask is a 1985 US biographical film directed by Peter Bogdanovich. It tells the story of Roy “Rocky” Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a boy with a rare disorder called craniodiaphyseal displasia. The condition is sometimes referred to as lionitis “due to the disfiguring cranial enlargements that it causes. … Rocky’s mother, Florence ‘Rusty’ Dennis (Cher), is determined to give him as normal a life as possible” (Wikipedia) and advocates on his behalf, contrary to what Lorelai implies.
26:25 – 🎥 mention + 🏷️ mention
TODD: Beethoven!
LANE: Beethoven. The one with the dog?
TODD: There’s this scene where this little dog is running around with a huge cabbage in its mouth. Oh, man, it’s classic. I shot my Dr Pepper right out of my nose.
- Beethoven (dir. Brian Levant) is a 1992 US children’s movie about a family and their dog, a St. Bernard named after the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The film was written by Amy Holden Jones and John Hughes (whose 1984 film Sixteen Candles was mentioned in episode nine). A dog picks up a head of cabbage about one minute into this scene.
- Dr Pepper is a US brand of carbonated soft drink. It was invented by pharmacist Charles Alderton in the 1880s and first served around 1885.
27:15 – 🎥 reference
LORELAI: Hey. Four menus, one coffee, and an anvil, please.
LUKE: What’s the anvil for?
LORELAI: For Rune.
- Lorelai is alluding to a trope from cartoons, in which an antagonist drops an anvil (a heavy block of iron or steel used as a surface for hammering and shaping metals) on another character’s head. While this may be painful for the victim, it generally does not have fatal or other long-term consequences. The trope appears many times in classic Warner Bros. cartoons (content warning for WWII-era anti-Japanese racism around the 01:10 mark). Rory referenced a similar trope, in which a piano or safe is dropped on a character’s head, in episode nine.
28:05 – ⭐ reference
LORELAI: That’s very…Richard Simmons of you.
LUKE: Well, what can I say? Chicks dig a man with a feminine side.
- Richard Simmons (born Milton Simmons, 1948-2024) was a US fitness personality who promoted fun, accessible exercise throughout his decades-long career. He “created a fitness empire beginning in the 1970s” (National Public Radio), and was especially known for his Sweatin’ to the Oldies line of aerobics videos. “His high energy level was always featured in his workout videos, and his trademark attire was candy-striped Dolphin shorts and tank tops decorated with Swarovski crystals” (Wikipedia).
29:45 – 🕊️ reference
LUKE: I’m working.
LORELAI: Yeah, but after three cheeseburgers, you’re done. Unless you’re expecting Elijah to stop by.
- There is a story from the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament in which God commands the prophet Elijah to go into hiding, sending him to a widow, whom Elijah asks for food. Though she is poor and has only a small amount of flour and oil, God ensures their stores will not run out. This reference is an obscure one – kudos to The Annotated Gilmore Girls for working it out.
31:35 – 🏷️ mention
LORELAI: They’re at the movies! There’s no drugs there! They don’t even have the real Red Vines.
- Red Vines is a brand of tube-shaped red licorice produced by the American Licorice Company since the 1950s. They are a common movie theater snack, often sold at concessions, and were mentioned previously in episode seven.
33:25 – 🎥 reference
LORELAI: Look, I know Mrs. Kim and Robert Duvall in The Great Santini share a striking resemblance, but she is Lane’s mom.
- The Great Santini is a 1979 US drama film directed by Lewis John Carlino and based on Pat Conroy’s 1976 novel of the same name. Robert Duvall plays Wilbur “Bull” Meechum, a US Marine whose militant behavior clashes with his peacetime role as husband and father. He is also known to his fellow Marines as “The Great Santini.”
- One scene, in which Meechum berates his teenage son for beating him at basketball, has been parodied in other media, perhaps most notably in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999).
34:05 – 📖 reference
RORY: What’s up, Rapunzel?
- In the German fairy tale, “Rapunzel,” the titular character is confined to a tower by a witch. The only way to enter the tower is to call out, “Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair!” prompting Rapunzel to hang her long, golden hair out the window, allowing the caller to climb up and meet her. The story was “most notably recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 as part of Children’s and Household Tales” (Wikipedia), though it derives from earlier versions.
- Another Brothers Grimm fairy tale, “Cinderella,” was mentioned in episode six.
34:20 – 🗺️ reference
LANE: The words “convent” and “Siberia” were both used several times, and at least once as a combo.
- Siberia is a region in Russia, extending across North Asia. It “is vast and sparsely populated, covering an area of over 13.1 million square kilometres (5,100,000 sq mi), but home to roughly a quarter of Russia’s population” (Wikipedia). It is especially known for its long, harsh winters.
39:15 – 📖 reference
LORELAI: If she tells me the story of how Jackson cultivates his own meal worms to help fertilize his plants one more time, I’m gonna Romeo and Juliet them both.
- Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595. “It was among [William] Shakespeare’s most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers” (Wikipedia). Their deaths at the end of the play ultimately reconcile their feuding families. Shakespeare was discussed earlier at 16:00.
References Sorted by Category
Jump to category: Brand Names | Famous Figures | Film, Television & Theater | Geography & Politics | History | Literature | Music | Religion | True Crime
🏷️ Brand Names
- 02:55 – Walmart (retail)
- 06:00 – Taco Bell (fast food)
- 13:15 – United States Postal Service (postal service agency)
- 14:25 – MAC Cosmetics (cosmetics), Viva Glam (lipstick)
- 26:25 – Dr Pepper (soft drink)
- 31:35 – Red Vines (candy)
⭐ Famous Figures
- 28:05 – Richard Simmons (fitness personality)
🎥 Film, Television & Theater
- 07:50 – one character sees another naked (trope)
- 22:05, 26:55 – Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958 film)
- 25:25 – Mask (1985 film), Cher (actor)
- 26:25 – Beethoven (1992 film)
- 27:15 – falling anvil (trope)
- 33:25 – The Great Santini (1979 film), Robert Duvall (actor)
🗺️ Geography & Politics
🪶 History
📖 Literature
- 02:10 – Elle (magazine)
- 08:40 – Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés (book)
- 10:05 – The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath (book)
- 12:50 – Hoover’s Handbook of American Business edited by Patrick J. Spain and James R. Talbot (book)
- 16:00 – Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (stage play)
- 34:05 – “Rapunzel” by the Brothers Grimm (fairy tale)
- 39:15 – Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (stage play)
🎧 Music
- 00:05 – “Earn Enough for Us” by XTC (song)
- 02:10 – The Best of Blondie by Blondie (album)
- 02:10 – Kraftwerk (band)
- 02:10 – Young Marble Giants (band)
- 02:10 – Up on the Sun by the Meat Puppets (album)
- 02:15 – Yoko Ono (artist), Sean Lennon (son), Julian Lennon (stepson)
- 02:15 – the Beatles (band)
- 02:25 – “God Only Knows” by Claudine Longet (song)
- 04:15 – The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy (album)
- 15:55 – “Holding On To the Earth” by Sam Phillips (song)
- 22:25 – Beck (artist)
- 22:45 – “Everlong (Acoustic Version)” by Foo Fighters (song)
- 22:55 – the Velvet Underground (band), Nico (singer)
- 23:10 – End Hits by Fugazi (album)
🕊️ Religion
- 29:45 – Elijah (prophet)
⚖️ True Crime
- 03:55 – Claudine Longet (singer and actor), negligent homicide conviction (criminal case)
Frequent References
A few things come up so routinely in the show, I am not going to include an entry for them every time they do. I wrote about the following people, places, and things when they first appeared or were mentioned.
- Hartford, Connecticut (US city)
- Harvard University (academic institution)
- Herman Beeftink (piano and string composer)
- Independence Inn (named for the American War of Independence)
- Jeep (automotive brand)
- Sam Phillips (series composer)
- “Travel to Historic Brazil” (poster in Rory’s bedroom)
- “Where You Lead” by Carole King and Louise Goffin (series theme)
Image Credits
The backgrounds of images [1], [2], [3], and [4] are stills from this episode. Episode citation: “Double Date.” Gilmore Girls, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, cinematography by Ronald Víctor García, season 1, episode 12, Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, Hofflund/Polone, Warner Bros. Television, 2001.
The inset album covers in image [1] belong to (top) Blondie. The Best of Blondie. Chrysalis Records, 1981. (middle) Grandaddy. The Sophtware Slump. V2 Records, 2000. (bottom) Meat Puppets. Up on the Sun. SST Records, 1985.
Image [2]: Rory is reading this edition of Sylvia Plath’s journals. Book citation: Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Edited by Karen V. Kukil, Vintage, 2000.
Image [3]: Unless I’m mistaken about the year, Lorelai is reading this edition (accessible through the Internet Archive). Book citation: Hoover’s Handbook of American Business 1996: Profiles of Major U.S. Companies. Edited by Patrick J. Spain and James R. Talbot, The Reference Press, Inc., 1995.
The inset album cover in image [4] belongs to Fugazi. End Hits. Dischord Records, 1998.
Indigenous Land Acknowledgment
In beginning my work on this guide, I’ve come to realize just how many references (however subtle) the show contains to the Revolutionary War and the colonial history of the United States. It is important and necessary to acknowledge the people whose lands were usurped when these events took place, though this is not a simple matter. Please visit my land acknowledgment page to view the results of my research.
Posted 16 March 2021 (updated 13 July 2024)