History Fridge / GilmoreGirls

* When Liz stopped being TheGhost and started being an actual character, the writers kind of...forgot...that in addition to being Luke's sister, she was also Jess's mom. She's supposed to be a ditzy NewAgeRetroHippie of sorts, and her flighty, forgetful nature is supposed to be seen as charming. But her stories about her past--including her multiple marriages, countless other relationships with questionable men, her casual drug use, her binge drinking, and her inability to be functioning adult--take on a level of FridgeHorror when the audience remembers she had a child to care for. For some fans, this makes her UnintentionallyUnsympathetic, since she never takes responsibility for any of this behavior, and Jess is always portrayed as in the wrong when he wants nothing to do with her.

** Related related, in "There's the Rub," Jess brings a care package of food to Rory. He tells her Luke sent it because he didn't know how long Lorelai would be gone, and he wanted her "taken care of." There is enough food in there to feed 12 normal people, six Gilmore people. As Rory learns later, Luke had nothing to do with the package. And while Jess was definitely looking for an excuse to come spend time with Rory, the sheer volume of food and the wording of "Luke's" reason for sending it bring up a FridgeHorror realization: given what's implied about Liz's parenting, Jess probably was left alone for days at a time without food, and he didn't want that to happen to Rory.
** It doesn't help that after Liz was introduced as a character on the show, rather than just referenced, the writers sort of forgot she was Jess's mom and he didn't come to Stars Hollow until he was 17. She's ditzy and flighty and the comments she makes about her past, including her multiple marriages and relationships, her drug use, her binge drinking, and her inability to be a basic, functioning adult are supposed to come off as funny, but end up as FridgeHorror when you realize she had a child to care for. For some, this makes her UnintentionallyUnsympathetic, as she never takes responsibility for any of this behavior.

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* In ‘How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod?’, Logan states that he’s been swiping knick knacks from rich people’s houses all up and down the Eastern seaboard for years, and no one ever notices. Emily, naturally, notices that one of her possessions is missing immediately and threatens to fire her maid for stealing. How many other maids were fired as a consequence of Logan’s little prank, and he just didn’t know (or care) that it happened?

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* A substantial part of Christopher's screen time in later seasons was devoted to his feelings about his relationship with Rory, particularly his regret around not being involved until she was older and feeling disconnected from her life. He is an "executive parent," one who pays for things but doesn't know anything. He tries to make up for lost time, to Rory's wary approval. At the same time, he's parenting his younger daughter, struggling but not wanting to make the same mistakes. In the revival, not only is it heavily implied he and Rory are estranged, the first thing he does when she tries to talk to him about her life is offer her money. To make it worse, he's repeating old patterns. GG is now a teenager, living in Paris with her mother, and Christopher doesn't seem to know a lot about her life except that she's "got the baguette thing down."

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** Paris's kids are pretty obviously being raised by nannies, and she and Doyle were already seriously committed before the original series ended. In terms of her career, it would be cutting it really close but it's not implausible that she got certified as a dental technician some time during medical school and her residency, and then immediately after her graduation used her trust fund to open the fertility clinic at the same time she was starting a three-year law program. Her husband is a journalist and could have helped her tremendously with promoting the clinic and helping make it successful and well-known. Expertise on neoclassical (18th century) architecture can either be explained by courses she took in college or just a general enduring interest in her (limited) spare time over the last ten years. Yes, it would mean virtually no rest or downtime over a ten year period, but it ''is'' Paris...

* In early season 7, Rory confronts Lorelai about sleeping with Christopher as a response to breaking up with Luke. She angrily tells her mother that if you're heartbroken, you watch movies, eat ice cream, and "get a hideously unflattering breakup haircut"--which puts an interesting spin on Rory's self-confessed "spur-of-the-moment" ExpositoryHairstyleChange in season 4, given that happened only a couple months after Jess left town.

* In early season 7, Rory confronts Lorelai about sleeping with Christopher as a response to breaking up with Luke. She angrily tells her that if you're heartbroken, you watch movies, eat ice cream, and "get a hideously unflattering breakup haircut"--which puts an interesting spin on Rory's self-confessed "spur-of-the-moment" ExpositoryHairstyleChange in season 4, given that happened only a couple months after Jess left town.

* In early season 7, Rory confronts Lorelai about sleeping with Christopher as a response to breaking up with Luke. She angrily tells her that if you're heartbroken, you watch movies, eat ice cream, and "get a hideously unflattering breakup haircut," which puts an interesting spin on Rory's self-confessed "spur-of-the-moment" ExpositoryHairstyleChange in season 4, given that happened only a couple months after Jess left town.

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*** This explanation gains a lot of steam if you look back at hoe Rory treated Dean in early season 3. After cheating on Dean with Jess in the season 2 finale, she went away for the summer, where it's heavily implied she spent the whole summer pining after Jess and putting minimal effort into answering any of Dean's dozens of letters. When she gets home, all set to get together with Jess, she finds him in a relationship with someone else - so she continues to date Dean all the while very obviously simmering with jealousy, until Dean finally gets fed up with the whole charade and dumps her. She then melts down not because she's sad to have lost Dean, but because she's been publicly embarrassed and now has no boyfriend at all.

** Related related, in "There's the Rub," Jess brings a care package of food to Rory. He tells her Luke sent it because he didn't know how long Lorelai would be gone, and he wanted her "taken care of." There is enough food in there to feed 12 normal people, six Gilmore people. As Rory learns later, Luke had nothing to do with the package. And while Jess was definitely looking for an excuse to come spend time with Rory, the sheer volume of food and the wording of "Luke's" reason for sending it bring up a FridgeHorror realization that given what's implied about Liz's parenting, Jess probably was left alone for days at a time without food, and he didn't want that to happen to Rory.

** Related related, in "There's the Rub," Jess brings a care package of food to Rory. He tells her Luke sent it because he didn't know how long Lorelai would be gone. There is enough food in there to feed 12 normal people, six Gilmore people. We later find out that Luke didn't know anything about it. While Jess was definitely looking for an excuse to see Rory and stay awhile, the volume of food and the wording of Jess's excuse lead to the FridgeHorror realization that he might have very well been left on his own for days at a time without food, and he didn't want that to happen to Rory.

* Meta: Recently realized why people think Rory's birthday was on October 6. When she and Dean discuss anniversaries they say the original anniversary was on the sixth of each month, and on Founder's day Dean said they got together on Rory's birthday. Thing is, they must have ammended it to November six, or even [[Recap/GilmoreGirlsS01E07 December six]] since they didn't actually become an item on her birthday.

* So in a span of about 10 years by the time of ''A Year in the Life'' Paris has not only completed medical school and her residency (which that alone takes up about 7 years), but she has a law degree, is an expert on neoclassical architecture, and a certified dental technician. Plus during all that she found time to get married, have 2 children, and is now running a world-renowned fertility clinic. Granted this is Paris Geller, but it seems pretty farfetched for anyone to have accomplished that much by age 32.

** It doesn't help that after Liz was introduced as a character on the show, rather than just referenced, the writers sort of forgot she was Jess's mom and he didn't come to Stars Hollow until he was 17. She's ditzy and flighty and the comments she makes about her past, including her multiple marriages and relationships, her drug use, her binge drinking, and her inability to be a basic, functioning adult are supposed to come off as funny, but end up as FridgeHorror because this was going for Jess's entire childhood.

* So in a span of about 10 years by the time of ''A Year in the Life'' Paris has not only completed medical school and her residency (which that alone takes up about 7 years), but she has a law degree, is an expert on neoclassical architecture, and a certified dental technician. Plus during all that she found time to get married, have 2 children, and is now running a world-renowned fertility clinic. Granted this is Paris Geller who has always been incredibly driven, but it seems pretty farfetched for anyone to have accomplished that much by age 32.