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Look at us go, Poptarts! It's a wrap on season 1 this week, so come along with us on this adventure as we recap, review, and do some other celebratory stuff. This week we over-discuss:

• Lane-Rory interactions
• The frustration of Rory and Paris
• Not liking Dean
• Wishy-washy Christopher
• Great Paris episodes
• Quality rants and humanizing Rory
• Damn Donna Reed can go away
• Specifically-flavored characters
• No tolerance for predatory behavior
• Over-the-top everything

And we ask LOTS of questions because *helicopter noises* we bring you not one, but two trivia games (accidentally on purpose).

OK Season 1, we have to go!

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Hey there Poptarts! We dusted off the old DVDs and opened up Kirk's Mystery Mailbag for this deleted scenes and other things episode. This week, we over-discuss:

• The benefits of DVD hoarding
• Being nosy at other people's houses
• Thoughts about Max's questions
• Excuse me, Emily Gilmore
• Being realistically bedraggled
• Understanding the potting shed reaction
• Current sock styles and convenient shoe sizing
• The amount of pee in Lindsey's house

Ask a couple questions:

• Do you give a tour of your house to someone when they come over?
• Is he a voyeur?

And over-discuss fan thoughts and theories:

• The likability of Lorelai
• More hotdog logistics
• Missed plotline opportunities
• Luke the secret millionaire
• Dean's yelling and Summer's bathroom coke
• Tension between Dean and Lorelai (aka the DALA)
• Gen X pranks

Special thanks to Poptarts Kathryn N., Jhari, Lisa, Denise (https://saltygilmores.tumblr.com/), and Erin for contributing to Kirk’s Mystery Mailbag!

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We did Season 1 of Gilmore Girls, Poptarts! Celebrate! This week, we over-discuss:

• Hammering for free at 6:30am
• Words that don't exist in English
• Reoccurring dreams about malls and waiting tables
• Peter Stringbean/Dick Tracy continuity
• The likelihood of meeting Clara
• Things not to do when you want to get back together with someone
• The problem with the breakup
• Forcing an unforceable person
• Everybody at Chilton denies reality
• 2000s mean girl energy
• A triangulation of unhealth
• Does she or does she not always say goodbye
• You don't get married to solve a fight
• Three rules of the troubadour mystique

And ask so many questions:

• Do you have any reoccurring weird dreams?
• What exactly is cheerleader material?
• Do you think it’s appropriate for Luke to break into Lorelai's house to do fixing things?
• Lorelai, what are you doing?
• Do you want to be in a relationship, Luke?
• Who is this Max all of a sudden?
• Since when does Dean go to town meetings?
• Why are they unwrapped?

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It's the penultimate (super ultimate?) episode of season 1, Poptarts! We Lo… this one! This week, we over-discuss:

• 123 He's Yours
• Caesar or not a Caesar
• Not dealing with emotions
• Over-protected Rory
• Having hard conversations with women
• The Chat Club
• Rediscovering candles
• Dream boyfriend
• Explaining the clothes to Rachel
• The logistics of suit shopping
• Manic, chaotic Lorelai
• Ripping into a teenage boy at his minimum wage job
• Everyone missing the point
• Thinking about the Todd and Naveena Cutler story
• Air Supply love
• Traumatic 80s movies

And ask the best questions:

• Am I more beautiful today than I was yesterday?
• But does she learn?
• Is Luke insane?
• Was I high? Who did this?
• Is it weird for Lorelai to shop for Rachel?
• Wouldn't Rachel know that Luke didn't really do that?

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What do you love about Rachel, Poptarts? Find out what we think, while we over-discuss:

• Okay places to put eggs
• Messing with people at work
• Well-written women
• Great pairings
• Songs for all types of gloomy
• How liability insurance works
• Mischaracterizing Boo Radley
• Overcompensating Emily and Lorelai's lack of chill
• Not-so-self-reflective parenting
• Potting shed thoughts
• Rachel's inappropriate request
• Spontaneous sex with not Luke
• Speculation about a stable future for Rachel and Luke
• Delicious jam situation
• Not enough money
• Intimidating hairstyles
• The evolution of Emily

And ask some tough questions:

• What is wrong with Lane?
• What makes you a handy man?
• How does Rory not have a favorite color?
• Is there only  a tub?
• Have you ever met someone who actually froze someone else's bra?
• As someone who knows how to French braid hair, has someone ever offered to be your friend because of it?

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All Hail Gran! This week we bring you a butt-heavy episode, while we over-discuss:

• Butt doubles v. butt models
• Being related to God
• The Gilmore's floral budget
• Gran inconsistencies
• Horrible, lovable Gran
• Stupid naked angel butts in real life
• High school hats
• Used items
• A proper, polite generational “mom”
• Zingers from Gran
• Trust fund thoughts
• Emily doesn't actually say what's wrong
• Being philosophical about flowers aka reclaiming the carnation
• The actual use of notecards
• Remembering the WaterBra
• Requesting royalties from Apple

And ask important questions: 

• Can you all just keep your mouths shut?
• Do you call it a hat rack or a coat rack?
• Do you think it’s weird to have a pet name for a parent?
• Are carnations tacky or retro?
• Do you consider Shakespeare to be a wise man?
• How long till your boobs are frozen?
• Have you ever been to a proper high tea?

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We might be Gilmore Girls experts, but we're Facebook idiots, Poptarts. This week, we over-discuss:

• First memorable-ish breakups
• The general life posture of wallowing
• A righteous babe that doesn't take crap
• Religious trauma hats
• Avoiding intimacy like mom
• Summer at the party
• Vague bathroom texts
• Six in the morning
• The trash philosophy
• None of these people are in high school
• Feeling like the French soda monitor
• Beef with the way boys talk to Rory
• Pink territory
• We all know you're not gonna do that
• Every place has so much stuff
• Boyfriend is Max!

And ask some very important questions:

• How in the world did all of these people find out?
• How did Lane swing going to this party?
• Is Lane's name weird?
• Do rich people have hilarious sock drawers?
• Why on earth would Dean go to Luke's?

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Lots of chaotic banter this week Poptarts! This week, we over-discuss:

• Dean's not-great reaction
• Why Rory should have punched him in the face
• The car
• The Dean-o-Meter hits a 10
• Stars Hollow's mystic origin story
• The complexity of Rachel (the character)
• A rare bench blooper
• The whole dinner
• Rune is not the lens through which we should measure men
• Everything Lorelai says
• Lorelai needs to go to therapy
• Initial stuff
• Wikipedia with Rachel (Bink!)
• Not condoning murder
• Septic tank inconsistencies
• The logistics of star-shaped hotdogs

And ask these important questions:

• Where did Dean get all his money?
• Who eats three kinds of pasta?
• When you fix up a car, you don't actually do it in the junkyard, do you?
• Does Dean ever come to the door?
• Have you ever worried about clashing with the decor?
• How long do you want to live?

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Hold on! It’s a feisty, delightful experience, Poptarts!

This week we over-discuss:

• Christopher makes a mess and then leaves
• The not-derailment of Christopher's life (aka Rachel's soapbox)
• Christopher's undeserved pedestal
• Egregious upon egregious happenings
• An infantilized Rory
• The whole Hayden family is trash
• Rory and Lorelai make it hilarious
• The size of President Bush's face
• Oxford-English dictionary updates
• The town gossip phone tree
• Travis Kelce=Evermore=Jackson
• Grandma tenderness
• Public sex
• Traveling with a full suit and a bottle of alcohol
• G is for gross
• Mae Martin's conception (check out their fantastic special “SAP”)

And ask important questions:

• Why did everyone stay at the Gilmore house?
• What planet does Christopher live on?
• Who has sex on a balcony with the lights on when other people are around?

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It's a spicy day for us, Poptarts!

This week, we over-discuss:

• Donna Reed voice overs
• Nick at Nite reminiscences
• Lindsey's 50's feminist manifesto
• Exactly who Dean is
• Dual feelings around Donna Reed night
• Immersive Gilmore experiences
• Gilmore Time
• An egregious missing of the point
• Such a moment at Luke's
• Patty's yorkie vs. the chickens
• Lorelai's avoidance of big feelings
• Emily cannot stop
• Luke's backstory
• Multiple Ceasars
• The grossest, weirdest way to say hi to anyone
• Getting catcalled in Lake Geneva
• Head hoods
• Missing cats

And ask some important questions:

• Does Dean suck because he's a closed-minded idiot or does Dean suck because he's a manipulative monster?
• What is the code for "I'm not wearing any underwear?"
• Do people love the hardware business?

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So much nostalgic gold this week Poptarts! Once again, we overdiscuss:

• The trashpile that is Lorelai's closet
• The Rachel sweatshirt
• A bandana heavy episode
• Luke's secret $1000 flannel
• Calling Tristan out
• Our hearts break for Paris
• The mystery of Rachel
• Lane is a terrible liar
• Stars Hollow's mysterious geographical location
• The absurdity of meeting at Rory's house
• Why Louise's head is going to end up in a trashcan
• Nostalgic love for 80s music
• The not-pointy-haired boy becomes a superhero
• Miss Patty brings the ick to the party
• 2000s poppin' blue eyeshadow

And ask the hard questions:

• Where are you going to wear that?
• Who needs old rags?
• Who did Luke expect to buy that?
• Doesn't Sookie care that Lorelai gave away her tickets?
• Is it still pizza if it doesn't have cheese on it?

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It’s a fun romp this week, Poptarts!

This week, we over discuss:

• A dud in both sets
• XTC cold open
• Lost episodes
• Lindsey knows pop culture for once 
• Rune is the absolute worst for no reason
• The only thing wrong with Lorelai
• A lot of words for Todd
• Dean’s a motorcycle liar
• Rory’s wild PDA compartmentalization
• Rune is a gross baby
• Goonies as a makeout movie
• Everyone dresses like a crayon
• Mrs Kim is having none of it
• Going to windows
• Everything Todd says

And ask a couple questions:

• How different was Todd at school?
• Are high school majors a thing? (We still want to know)

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Head to your local libraries, Poptarts! It's a very library-y episode, where we over-discuss:

• The opposite of breaking up
• Using Rory as a scapegoat
• Kissing at work (again)
• Lorelai's fear of intimacy
• The ethics of gossiping about children
• Jurassic Park fever dreams
• A window into Paris
• Being onboard with a zucchini tush
• Our endless love for Sookie
• We weigh in on the color blue
• The traumatized society that created Marilyn Monroe
• Max's broke-ass Home Depot shelves
• Lorelai's brain is a big bag of weird
• Tiffany's silver dangly bracelets
• Anti-Baby Spice lore

And ask LOTS of important questions:

• Can you make a good choice, please, Lorelai?
• What was Lorelai's plan before?
• Do people still wear slips?
• Do dumb girls crave smart men?
• Since when does Lorelai not eat dinner?
• Why did Dean call five times?

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Merry Christmas Event, everyone! It's another heavy-ish one, but there's still plenty of stuff to make us giggle. This time, we over-discuss:

• Show seasonality
• The Gilmore version of forgiveness
• Challenging Czechoslovakian novels
• The tiny crap phase of childhood
• Existential crises with Lindsey
• Lorelai's inner wounds
• The "big" Christmas party
• Emily's altar of shame
• Luke is a Christmas curmudgeon
• Teenagers, donkeys, and real evangelical trauma
• Emily vs. Jane Lynch
• Dean's a window knocking idiot
• A rational coffee substitute
• Luke's hospital behavior
• A whole way to end a conversation
• Real clothes for real people
• The worst possible person to have with you in a crisis

And ask all the questions:

• It's ok to celebrate Christmas two weeks before Christmas, right?
• Why didn't you use a bun?
• Do people like hearing that they don't want them to die?
• Can you be good at playing handbells?

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Welcome to the Christmas Event, Poptarts! This week it's a fun one, where we over-discuss:

• Talking to yourself in the shower
• Avocado statistics
• Just information
• Grossly over-involved Emily
• Trauma dumping at the beginning
• Emily shows her emotionally unintelligent cards
• So much Dean
• The boyfriend conversation
• Clarifying that Rachel doesn't date teenagers
• The atrocity of smashed banana on toast
• The harm of Lorelai ruining everything
• Rachel's Swiftie denial (AKA life lessons from Rachel)
• The weirdest choice of dates
• The various stages of deconstruction
• Madeline never knows whats going on

And ask all the important questions:

• Don't Dean's parents notice that he doesn't come home?
• Where are the adults?
• What is that in the silver bottle?
• Why can't Paris just not go to the dance?

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We smell snow! Put on your snow gear Poptarts and get ready to overdiscuss:

• 2000s communication technology
• A full-fledged Luke rant
• The not-so-legendary battle of Stars Hollow
• Why Luke is so lovable
• Delightful seasonal traditions
• Swoonworthy Max Medina, Maaaax Medina
• Lorelai's horrific movie watching behavior
• Rory as an anti-hero
• Doing Lane Dirty: Volume 1
• Why Lane is all of us
• Dean gets points for reading
• Emily becoming likeable
• The Gilmores don't talk about anything
• Lindsey's mom hat
• The not-dryness of maple candy

And ask the important questions:

• What happened to the mayor?
• How do you not know how to cook anything?

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Hi Poptarts! We're taking a break from our regular episode this week and bringing you a bonus episode recorded at Stars Hollow Days in Middleton, WI. Rachel interviewed some of the visitors about all things Gilmore.

Thank you to Middleton, WI for being so fun and welcoming!

Buckle up Poptarts! There's lots of kissing talk in this one, and the highest Dean-O-Meter yet. 

This time, we over-discuss:

• Dean's problematic kissing technique
• Kissing at work
• Lindsey & Rachel get kissed (not at the same time)
• Lorelai's over-reactive invitation
• An insane junk food spread
• Beloved unlikeable characters
• Checking in on the Stars Hollow social calendar
• 90s Teen Heartthrobs
• Lindsey's mom hat & "the talk"
• Willy Wonka, ET, and childhood trauma
• Cold opens and cold benches
• The bathroom that becomes a closet
• The good and hard of being best friends with your mom

And ask the important questions:

• What happened to Todd?
• Why are they sitting on the floor?
• How many sisters does Dean really have?
• Why do these places have so many doors?

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Put on your trauma hats and party boas Poptarts! This week, we over-discuss:

• Rory turning 16 (again?)
• Randomly curly hair
• Epic cold opens
• Emily's printing connections
• Rich people parties
• Iconically adorable things
• Visceral bracelet reactions
• The average price of a Montblanc pen
• Emily's mysterious backstory and Rory's actual personality
• All the 00's icons
• The unsnobby Richard
• The OK way Dean shoots his shot
• Rachel buying herself a boa
• Lorelai's two rooms

And we ask the important questions:

• Who were those gift ideas actually for?
• Who throws a huge party for someone else and expects them to give a speech?
• Who are all these people?
• Who taught Rory how to cut a birthday cake?

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Tune in to find out what we decided to call you, our listeners! And, let's pour one out for Cinnamon. 

As always, Rachel and Lindsey overdiscuss:

• The Gilmore girls dealing with their paramours
• Emily's tight 20
• The delight of the VHS experience
• The bake sale as a vibe
• Thoughts on Max, the very normal man
• Why Lindsey might be a villain (and maybe Rachel, too?)
• Why we believe Dean for once, even if he's bad at Chicago
• Luke v. Sookie (in a really great way)
• The easiest way to solve a problem about a date or a cat funeral skeptic
• Lindsey's beef with M. Night Shyamalan (and why Rachel thinks she's wrong)
• The sensual Miss Patty

And ask the important questions:

• Why is Lorelai cranky?
• How many doors do these houses have?
• Why did that man sit there?

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Will Rachel ever be able to intro the show?! 

Plus, over-discussion about:

• Obsessing over annual reviews
• Tristan being a butt-faced miscreant
• The very rare Rory Rant
• Rory's questionable driving choices
• Paris needing to chill
• Finally someone good at Chilton
• Lorelai doing bits
• Reason #700 why Rachel is Rory & Lindsey is a mess
• All the animal outfits
• Lindsey's favorite expletive

And asking the important questions:

• Why is there a dirt road?
• Was that door open for a reason?
• How old is Rory?

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Lots of trauma talk in this one, folks! PLUS, as always, we over-discuss everything, including:

• Why we are adult women
• The many employees of Emily Gilmore
• The resurrection of Gran
• The glorious Emily and her weaponized guilt
• The girl in the $500 dress
• Why Lorelai needs therapy
• The old man muppets
• 16-year-old Rachel's style decisions
• The chaos of Babette
• The murder swans of stars hollow
• The sickest burn

NOTE: The actor who plays Julian is not the pool house repairman.

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This week, we over-discuss all of these things: 

• Rory making all the enemies 
• Why Headmaster Charleston is the worst
• Emily’s gonna Emily 
• The entity known as MadelineandLouise 
• Lorelai dressing like a cowgirl 
• Rants
• Weird flirting
• How animals work

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Lindsey and Rachel over-discuss all the things:

• Friday night dinners
• The La's singing about heroin and other music
• Everyone we meet (including an open-mouthed loser named Dean)
• Stars Hollow vs. The Elder Gilmores
• The weirdest way to say stuff
• The chaos of Kim's antiques

And ask the important questions:

• How old is Rory?
• Do fancy hotels have harp players?
• What is a business class?
• Do Protestants love oatmeal?

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Welcome to Gilmored, a podcast where two adult women who know way too much about Gilmore girls discuss each episode one-by-one.

Join us for this preview episode where we cover things like:

What is this?

Who are we?

Why should you listen?

Who is Patricia Krenwinkel?

(Honestly, we can probably answer two of those questions, but we think you'll love us!)