History Series / GilmoreGirls

** Sookie, due to Creator/MelissaMcCarthy's superstar film career. She took a hiatus from the inn and moved to a farm in the woods with Jackson and the kids as part of an experimental food collective, and appears in only one scene towards the very end of the revival. (The {{Doylist}} explanation is that there was a failure in communication between the ''GG'' crew and Melissa [=McCarthy=]'s people, who never told her that Stars Hollow had called. Subsequently, Amy Sherman-Palladino announced in a very clear and public manner that the cast and crew were willing to drop everything and make time for [=McCarthy=] if she could swing by. Sookie's scene looks like it required a bit more preparation than that, so everything seems to have worked out in the end.)

** April is the most logical, now being a college student and only showing up briefly during "Summer". (Despite ''not'' being Series/SwitchedAtBirth, April is somehow ''more'' socially awkward than Bay Kennish.)

* QuirkyTown: Pretty much everyone in Stars Hollow seem to have some kind of [[AmbiguousDisorder ambiguous disorder]], and the ones that don't will just have to be okay with it.

* MoodWhiplash: Notably, the season 4 finale, which combines [[spoiler:Luke and Lorelai [[RelationshipUpgrade finally getting together]] while also having Rory [[WhatTheHellHero sleep with a married Dean.]]]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: Dean and Rory. She is very smitten when she first sees him in the pilot. So much that she balks at transferring to Chilton. And he [[ItMakesSenseInContext didn't even have a motorcycle.]]

** Lorelai and Rory sabotage relationships by cheating on their boyfriends and are very immature when they can't get their way.

** Deconstructed and then reconstructed with Rory and Jess. Their relationship initially fails because he has too many issues that get in the way and she is not equipped to handle that; a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome. Jess gets his life together over the next few years, including writing a novel, and credits Rory with some of that success, since she was the first to express unwavering confidence in him. However, his CharacterDevelopment not only happens independently of her, it's also ''Luke's'' love and support that's shown to be a big part of Jess's transformation.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Rory's whole personality is this in a nutshell. She was raised by a mother who had her as a teenager, raised her as more of a best friend/surrogate sister than as a daughter, and treats her as a paragon of pure perfection ("If you see a child walking around reading a book wearing a halo, that's my daughter."). Not to mention, she has rich, old money grandparents who constantly dote on her and buy her anything she ever wants. She grew up in a small town where everyone worshipped and adored her, had no trouble getting any guy she ever wanted, is naturally intelligent, and is constantly told what a great person she is. Therefore, for all her positive attributes (natural empathy, intelligence, curiosity), Rory is a spoiled, sheltered, self-centered person who is so used to being praised and worshipped for everything she does, so whenever she has to face real and genuine criticism in any way, shape, or form, she has a complete and total meltdown.
** In "Keg! Max!", the Season 3 episode where Dean and Jess get into a CockFight over Rory, Jess is a good fighter and able to hold his own, but Dean is almost a full head taller, furious because he thought Jess hurt Rory, and is noticeably much stronger. Thus, he ends up getting the better of Jess--among other things, Dean is the one who throws the first and last punches of the fight.
** Lorelai thinks of herself as the hip, cool parent all the other kids wish they had for a mom, and at times the show seems obsessed with portraying her that way. Not to mention, she thinks of and speaks of her daughter as the physical embodiment of pure perfection. Therefore, when she is forced to acknowledge that Rory is far from perfect and has shortcomings, that's when Rory and Lorelai have their worst fights--the two most notable examples being when Lorelai catches Rory and the married Dean after their first time, and when Rory drops out of Yale for a semester.

'''Richard:''' Lorelai… \\

After the sixth season, contract disputes resulted in the departure of the creators and showrunners, CreatorCouple Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino. The seventh and final season ultimately the entire town gathering for a bon voyage/graduation party for Rory, due to her graduating college and landing a plum journalist gig following then Presidential hopeful Barack Obama on his 2008 Election run. This ironically was the opposite of Palladino's plans for the series, which was to have the series end with a DownerEnding.. On October 19, 2015, Creator/{{Netflix}} announced that it has closed a deal with Warner Brothers to release a limited-series revival, titled ''Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life''. This six-hour, four-episode mini-series was released on November 25, 2016. Basically every actor listed in the above paragraphs managed to make an appearance, though many had very limited screentime due to the compressed narrative and the actors' own commitments to other projects. All episodes were written and directed by the Palladinos, and included the specific four words with which Amy had intended to close the original show. It was announced in October 2020 that ''A Year in the Life'' would re-air on The CW over Thanksgiving week the following month, primarily to fill network time after the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic impacted production of their ongoing series and delayed them to January 2021, marking a rare instance in which a Netflix Original is licensed to air off of the platform itself.

* BlackSheep:
** Lorelai, at least in Hartford society.
** Logan, to the Huntzbergers.

* SignificantClothingShift: Emily shifts from her ConsistentClothingSytle of twinsets with matching skirt and jewelry for something more casual as she adjusts to life without Richard and finds who she is independent of her MRSDegree. At the start, this is drastic; Lorelai walks in on her Marie Kondo-ing the house in an old t-shirt and ''jeans.'' Lorelai finds this "terrifying" and informs Emily those are her clothes from when she was a teenager. She shifts back to her usual formalwear for "Spring" and "Summer," but by "Fall," when she has moved to Nantucket and taken a job at a whaling museum, she has traded them for slacks, soft sweaters, and minimal jewelry. There's a scene of Emily talking with someone she knows at the museum, confirming her employment, stepping out of her usual fancy loafers in favor of white tennis shoes, symbolically leaving her old life behind and starting anew.

** The WillTheyOrWontThey tension that ruled the two Gilmores lives is still present. Only now it's keeping Rory even MORE mired in the past because she can't break up with Logan despite the fact their relationship is going nowhere. For Lorelai's part, the fact she and Luke took so long getting together means her desire to have a second child with him is unlikely to happen seeing as how she's pushing almost fifty.

* RetroactiveStepsiblingRelationship: Jess and Rory's WillTheyOrWontThey is restarted in the same episode they become related by marriage. Subverted in the fact that the relation has never been an issue on the show, and isn't here--Luke curiously inquires about Rory excitedly running out to show Jess her book, and when he asks Jess if he's "over that," the tone of his voice implies he wouldn't be surprised to hear Jess isn't.

* RetroactiveStepsiblingRelationship: Jess and Rory's WillTheyOrWontThey is restarted in the same episode they become related by marriage. Subverted in the fact that the relation has never been an issue on the show, and isn't here--Luke curiously inquires about Rory excitedly running out to show Jess her book, and when he asks Jess if he's "over that," the tone of his voice implies he wouldn't be surprised to hear Jess isn't.

The titular Gilmore girls are, more or less, two sides of the same coin. Mother Lorelai (Creator/LaurenGraham) was born to privilege, but saw her education get messed up by a TeenPregnancy. Despite pressure from her parents Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Creator/EdwardHerrmann), and a proposal from the father Christopher (David Sutcliffe), the 16-year-old Lorelai chose to strike out on her own, moving to Stars Hollow, Connecticut as a GlamorousSingleMother. Daughter Rory (Creator/AlexisBledel), despite having been born in comparative poverty, is a gifted student. Both women are intelligent, witty, cynical, cute, and comically dysfunctional when it comes to men.

* ParentTeacherRomance: Lorelai dates Rory's English teacher, Max Medina.

** Luke had to deal with another one of those with Digger Stiles, who also made a point out trying to win Lorelai back when she and Luke were just getting started. Luckily, Digger struck out, and we got one of the best TheyDo [[BigDamnKiss moments]] ever.

* MoodWhiplash: Notably, the season 4 finale, which combines [[spoiler:Luke and Lorelai [[TheyDo finally getting together]] while also having Rory [[WhatTheHellHero sleep with a married Dean.]]]]

* MayDecemberRomance: Paris and professor Asher Fleming. While Paris did not make a secret of their relationship, when Asher died she was at pains to stress he did ''not'' [[DeathBySex go out with a bang]]: