Dave is Lane’s Dean, while Rory’s Dean gets fed up with her, dates another and proposes too. Rory dates Jess but not for long. Dave reads a bible and can take Lane to the prom. Yale beats Harvard.
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Lorelei has a dream of living with Luke and being pregnant with twins, so she calls Rory in the middle of the night to tell her. Rory is in Washington with Paris. They talk to congress people and Paris is asked out by Princeton Man and Rory has to explain to her because she hadn’t realized :) Whey Rory gets back, she dresses up hoping to see Jess, but then she’s gets upset when she sees him kissing a girl. She tells her mom about the kiss, and Lorelei rightly tells her that she’s treating Dean very badly. When Lorelei tells her parents that she’s not seeing Chris, she hasn’t seen him all summer, Emily starts ranting at her until she explains about Sherrie’s pregnancy. Now Richard is all on Chris’ side, because he’ll do the right thing and marry Sherrie and ‘have a family’, like he proposed to do with Lorelei all those years ago. Lorelei goes out and to Luke’s; they’re still not as they once were together, but now she cries and he listens. So they’ll go there again now.
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Chilton 2002-2003, Rory’s last year. Rory speaks as the Vice President of the “student body government”, but the Puffs can’t stand Paris and they put Rory in the middle, and Rory doesn’t tell the truth to Paris. Lorelei has lunch with Emily who tells her she called Christopher. Emily tells her she should fight to keep Chris but Lorelei doesn’t want her to get involved. She doesn’t, but since neither Lorelei or Rory answered his calls, he shows up at the Friday’s dinner, and they both yell at him because he hurt them both. There’s nothing he can do, he still intends to marry Sherry so there’s not really much to talk about and both girls are very hurt. Rory then fights with Jess about his girl, saying it surprised her after they kissed… which is stupid because he’s right, she never called him and she’s still with Dean.
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Rory thought she had her application papers all worked out, but it turns out her choices were the worst, she freaks out and talks to a Harvard family for help. Taylor wants to open a soda shop. Lane meets Dave, a guy who answered her ad and has a band.
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Lane has a place in Dave’s band, with Zach and Brian, and has to find a way to go rehearse in Hartford. Her mom has chosen the colleges she can apply to and as an act of rebellion she dyes her hair purple. Rory is very rude to the beauty shop girl, only because she’s Jess’ girl. Lorelei and Luke go to Rory’s old high school, and she was excited about it but all the kids’ questions are about her pregnancy when she was 16, and the moms are not happy. Lane turns back to black, she died her hair black again.
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Luke is not happy because a family with babies occupies his diner and a woman even breastfeeds. Dwight is Lorelei’s new neighbour and asks her to water his lawn and flowers inside while he’s away. Lorelei and Michel go to an auction organized by Emily, where Lorelei learns her mom is called ‘cobra’ by her friends, and she meets a man. She’ll have to ask Emily for his name and number. They go out on a date and it’s so boring… Emily is more excited about it than she is, because she’s friends with his mother and Richard with his father. Dad scolds her because this could upset ‘Emily’s world’, where “it is very very important that she have the first cup of tea” and “if my wife wants the first cup of tea, she’s going to have it!” :-) So Lorelei has to go to the already planned concert with boring Peyton.
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Lorelei hasn’t talked to Christopher since he left but Rory has, and now Sherry wants her at her baby shower, and Lorelei gets stuck there too, and after a while she gets frustrated with all Sherry’s talking of her baby girl, of Harvard being so close Rory could visit all the time, and how Christopher is wonderful with her and the baby…
Jess buys a car, he’s been working secretly at a Walmart. Rory suggests she and her mom throw Sherry’s boiled eggs at it.
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Paris goes out again with Jamie from Princeton because he missed her and showed up again, so Rory has the weekend free and her mom wants ot do the town’s dance marathon together and win. They make it almost to the end, but then Lorelei leaves her to dance with Dean while she gets Luke to repair her shoe’s heel. Dean has been a saint all this time, but now he’s fed up because Rory keeps looking at Jess and talking to him or about him, so Dean breaks up with her. Rory storms out and Kirk wins the marathon.
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Richard wants to show Yale to Rory, and both grandparents take Rory and Lorelei there and they’re all having a great time until Richard tells them he set an interview for Rory with the “Dean of Admissions”, which starts a fight with Lorelei who accuses him of manipulating Rory who wants to go to Harvard while he throws back in her face that she never went to college. Rory is also upset because he didn’t tell her so she wasn’t prepared as she liked to be. Rory and Jess are together now. Luke seems happy at first but then acts all over protective of Rory. After kissing Jess she goes to knock at Dean’s window to say sorry for hurting him.
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Thanksgiving. Emily wants them at her house, no excuses. So now they have 4 Thanksgiving dinners. They try to get out of Luke’s but he looks disappointed so they go. Rory doesn’t want to kiss Jess in the street where people, or Dean, might see them. He’s quite upset. Lorelei tells Dean they don’t have to avoid each other. First they eat at Lane’s, where there’s Dave playing guitar, to stay near Lane. Next they eat at Sookie’s, where she’s upset because Jackson is cooking, putting the turkey in a “vat of boiling oil”. Kirk gets a cat, but it scratches him very badly. At Luke’s, there’s Jess too and Rory explains how she thinks everybody’s watching her now that she’s with Jess. At her parents’ house, Lorelei learns that Rory also applied to Princeton and Yale, other than Harvard. She’s very very upset.
Lane’s mom got Dave to play for hours, for only 20$, but he still wants to date her, and he gives her a kiss. Sookie is getting drunk to survive the night and Jackson and his friends frying everything, burning the lawn and breaking stuff. They stop at Luke’s, where Rory kisses Jess and Dean sees them. They didn’t actually eat at Emily’s, “because of the upset”, so they get something to go, they’re not too full.
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Paris spent Christmas at her boyfriends’s house (Jamie) and he told her he loved her. Dean stops by to give her back her stuff and helps Lorelei with a big spider. Then they casually meet and get a slice of cake together and decide to stay friends. When they attend Richard’s birthday party, grandma Trix suddenly appears sending Emily out of her mind. Trix yhen comes to watch Lorelei’s house. Rory goes to the town’s carnival. Jess refuses to go, but changes his mind when they meet Dean and his sister Clara invites her to go with them. Lorelei dines at her Inn with her parents and grandma. Trix plans to leave London and come to live here. Francie has everyone meet when Paris is not there, to change her decisions, and it upsets Rory.
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Paris is ok but Rory is on a war path against Francie, so Francie schemes and gets her to fight with Paris. Sookie meets an old friend but is shocked to learn, when they meet again, that he thought it was a date, because he’s always liked her. Lorelei should give a deposition to help Emily who has been sued by an ex maid, but she doesn’t want to lie and can’t say what Emily wanted.
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Since they promised Lane that her band can play in their garage, Lorelei and Rory now need to clean it up because it’s full of stuff. Lorelei accepted a date with Alex, and then said she too loves fishing so she now has to learn. Luke offers to help. Paris is so furious she wants to throw Rory out of their student council, so the Headmaster scolds them both. When Lorelei comes back, she keeps the fish in her bathtub. Luke asks Taylor’s lawyer out on a date. Lane’s mom won’t let her go out with Dave because he’s not Korean, even if she likes him.
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Rory is invited to Sherri’s C-section to see her sister born. There’s a lot of remembering when Lorelei was young with Christopher and when she didn’t enter the dress Emily wanted because she had gained weight, because she was pregnant. Christopher’s parents were very much against it and her. Sherry’s labour a week earlier so Rory joined her at the hospital, but she wa the only one there and was freaking out when they told her she should be present at the delivery, so Rory calls her mom urgently. It’s a very sad episode in my opinion, because we get to see the difference from now and when it happened to Lorelei. Sherry has Rory and Lorelei and a loving Christopher, while Lorelei went alone and when Emily came she kept scolding her and wasn’t allowed to enter. And Christopher wasn’t there.
And when he came he spoke of having to get married, but we know she didn’t like that plan.
Lorelei buys Emily a dvd player with dvds of films she likes. Back then, Emily found a note after Lorelei left home.
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Rory is forced to tell Emily she’s now dating Jess, so Emily wants him to come but he shows up late and with a black eye. He won’t tell her what happened so they have a big fight - because she thinks he fought with Dean - and he leaves. The next day Emily scolds Lorelei for letting Rory go out with him. Jess will tell Luke that it was a swan, and Luke makes him a speech on how to deal with a girl like Rory. Lorelei went to New York with Alex, Sookie and Jackson for the weekend.
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The “Doose clan” will stay at the Inn where Lorelei works. Grandma Trix comes to stay at Richard’s home making Emily crazy. Rory keeps staying home waiting for Jess’ call until Lorelei scolds her telling her to go out. Emily sees Trix kissing a man. Lorelei tries to convince her to be superior and let it go, but when Trix attacks her again she reveals it in front of her lady friends. Emily feels terrible later. Rory went to the hockey game with Lane. Dean was playing but they lost. He has a new girlfriend now.
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Lorelei says Rory wants to become “a foreign correspondent”. Sookie can’t taste food well because she’s pregnant. When Jackson learns the news he starts thinking of money. Rory and Paris compete to take the speech for the bicentennial of Chilton. Lorelei meets Medina again.
Paris and Rory both win and are to combine their speeches. Paris shows up at her house to tell her she slept with Jamie, and they make peace. Rory is ready for her speech but Paris isn’t, she shows up unkempt and starts saying in front of everybody that she won’t go to Harvard, she had sex but won’t go to Harvard, and it’s very embarrassing… She doesn’t care because she’s so sad she cries and cries, all her family went to Harvard but they didn’t accept her. Lorelei apologises to Medina but he tells her he’s ok… until they kiss and he admits he’s not over it. Rory has been accepted into all three, as the big envelopes show.
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Rory makes a pro and cons list to choose the university, but all town is sure she’ll go to Harvard. There was a fire at the Independence Inn during the night, so Sookie and Lorelei burst into Luke’s to take over the place for breakfast. The girls give up their beds to hotel guests, so Rory sleeps at Lane’s and Lorelei at Luke’s. Lorelei thought the hotel would reopen soon, but when she enters they can see it’s in bad shape. Yale’s pros are so many, Lorelei turns encouraging towards her going to Yale, now.
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Both grandparents are thrilled that Rory will go to Yale. Luke is invited to meet Nicole’s parents. He also sees Jess skipping school. Richard gives Lorelei a cheque for 75.000$ for an investment he made in her name when she was born… and she uses it to repay Emily for what she paid for Rory’s school. It’s a hugemess. Richard met her at a restaurant to give her the money for a reason! Lorelei wanted to pay back the loan because it was weighing on her, but Emily’s real upset thinking they won’t go to their dinners now.
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His principal tells Jess he won’t graduate because he missed too many days. There’s a 20-days limit, he missed more than a month - well, I thought more…
Lane’s band plays at a guy’s house. Jess is upset, so he gets aggressive and rude making Rory cry, so when Dean sees her he hits Jess and they fight until the police arrive. Medina doesn’t want to be in close proximity to Lorelei. Lane drank beer and got drunk and called her mom to say she likes Dave.
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Fran of the bakery died, so now Lorelei and Sookie think they might buy the Dragonfly. Lane’s mom doesn’t react, not even when Dave shows up himself to say he wants to take Lane to the prom. He shows up again after having read the bible in one night so mom gives them permission to go together. Dean tells Rory he proposed to Lindsay and she accepted. Jimmy, Jess’ father, shows up at the diner. Luke tells him to go away. Jimmy introduces himself to Jess and then he goes away. Jess and Luke have a fight, Jess does not want to repeat the year and graduate, so Luke says he’s got to go away.
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I had to look it up because I had no idea who Gore Vidal was or what he had to do with Rome, anyway it was just a passing line :p
The kids are 18, and Jess left home to go see Jimmy in California. Santa Monica. His partner Sasha seems a great woman to me, her little girl too, but Jimmy seems… not responsible at all, to say the least, he doesn’t even ask Jess why he’s there or if he’ll stay the night or more… Lorelei and Emily have another arguement, and for once finally Rory says something, calling Emily stupid - well, acting stupid.
Jess asks to stay for a while but Jimmy says he can’t stay, and things like that”I’m not a father, never was, I left you because I wasn’t a father” and how he’s not able to take care of him or raise him…Jess doesn’t know what to do so Jimmy accepts. Rory was named Valedictorian, apparently.
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Lorelei and Rory want to go backpacking through Europe, but the backpacks are really heavy. Luke wants to close the diner and go two weeks away with Nicole. The Independence Inn is closign so Lorelei hasn’t got any money anymore. They can’t buy the Dragonfly now because they don’t have “financial aid for Yale” anymore, becaues those 75.000 made them look rich so they lost the aid. Rory asks a loan from her grandparents, so they’ll pay for all her schooling. So now she tells Lorelei to buy her Inn. It’s Rory’s graduation: Sookie, Jackson and Luke are there too, but Christopher is not. Paris has her nan with her three kids that love Paris, and she loves them. 2003. Rory makes her speech filling it with love for her mom. Jess calls her without saying anything, so she says her piece and her goodbye.
end of season 3.
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