{"id":469329,"date":"2022-06-30T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/once-upon-a-time-gilmore-girls-danced-the-night-away\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:08:59","slug":"once-upon-a-time-gilmore-girls-danced-the-night-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/once-upon-a-time-gilmore-girls-danced-the-night-away\/","title":{"rendered":"#Once Upon a Time, &#8216;Gilmore Girls&#8217; Danced the Night Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348b968df5c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a348b968df5c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/once-upon-a-time-gilmore-girls-danced-the-night-away\/#%E2%80%9COnce_Upon_a_Time_%E2%80%98Gilmore_Girls_Danced_the_Night_Away%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Once Upon a Time, &#8216;Gilmore Girls&#8217; Danced the Night Away&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9COnce_Upon_a_Time_%E2%80%98Gilmore_Girls_Danced_the_Night_Away%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Once Upon a Time, &#8216;Gilmore Girls&#8217; Danced the Night Away&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<pre><code>     &lt;span class=\"mx-1\"&gt;In season three\u2019s \u201cThey Shoot Gilmores,  Don\u2019t They?\u201d Rory and Lorelai get in over their heads at a 24-hour dance marathon.&lt;\/span&gt;\n&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;div id=\"\"&gt;\n\n\n\n                &lt;figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> \"&gt;\n            &lt;img width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/gilmore-girls-they-shoot-gilmores-dont-they.jpeg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Gilmore Girls They Shoot Gilmores Dont They\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/gilmore-girls-they-shoot-gilmores-dont-they.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/gilmore-girls-they-shoot-gilmores-dont-they-768x480.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/&gt;                                    &lt;p&gt;\n                    &lt;span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\"&gt;Warner Bros. TV&lt;\/span&gt;\n\n                        &lt;\/figure&gt;\n\n    &lt;!-- START BYLINE --&gt;\n    &lt;div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\"&gt;\n        By\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer\u00a0\u00b7 Published on June 30th, 2022 \n        &lt;\/div&gt;\n    &lt;!-- END BYLINE --&gt;\n\n    &lt;em&gt;This essay is part of our <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>\u00a0&lt;strong&gt;Episodes&lt;\/strong&gt;, a monthly column in which TV Critic Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great. This time she\u2019s looking at Gilmore Girls and \u201cThey Shoot Gilmores, Don\u2019t They?\u201d&lt;\/em&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The Bracebridge Dinner. The Bid-A-Basket Festival. The Old Muddy River Bridge Knit-A-Thon. Some TV shows one-up themselves with cliffhangers or action scenes: <em>Gilmore Girls<\/em> one-upped itself with cheerfully ridiculous town events. Across its eight-season run, the breathlessly charming dramedy series had plenty of memorable moments, and nearly all of them were set against the ever-changing New England backdrop of Stars Hollow.<\/p>\n<p>By a certain point, the near-mythical town\u2013with its troubadours and town meetings, snow-globe-like winters, and coffee-fueled summers\u2013became the show\u2019s greatest, weirdest, and at times most insufferable character. Sometimes Stars Hollow felt like a daydream. Other times, the WASPy, Hallmark movie-like town felt like a fever dream. Few episodes captured that strange, occasionally magical dichotomy quite like season three\u2019s dance marathon outing, \u201cThey Shoot Gilmores, Don\u2019t They?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The episode\u2019s central event is clear from its opening shot: the camera drifts over a sign championing a 24-hour dance marathon this Saturday. Jazzy music sets the scene as we hear Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Luke (Scott Patterson) bantering about passers-by who look like they might have Mad Cow Disease. They\u2019re trying to find Lorelai a dance partner for the marathon she\u2019s almost won four years running.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>s for<em> Gilmore Girls<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/culture\/2016\/11\/22\/13554566\/gilmore-girls-fast-talking-explained\">famously<\/a> ran as much as double the length of most, and series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino had a knack for getting the show\u2019s cast to speak in a motormouthed, near-constant flow of dialogue. The result is a series that rewards rewatches more than most, as conversations fly by so quickly that it\u2019s nearly impossible to catch every punchline and pop culture reference the first time. Before diner owner Luke has even finished handing Lorelai her coffee, she\u2019s already told him a high-stakes story about how her previous dance partner, Henry \u201cHo-ho\u201d McAffee, lost to town oddball Kirk (Sean Gunn) at the final moment when the latter waved a McDonald\u2019s apple pie in his face.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the dance marathon\u2019s set-up flies by as effortlessly as Lorelai\u2019s Ho-ho story. Obnoxious town leader Taylor Doose (Michael Winters) pushes Luke into offering free coffee at the upcoming event, despite the latter\u2019s grumblings about the pointlessness of the endless infrastructure fundraising. \u201cYou would kick Tiny Tim\u2019s crutch out from under him, wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d Taylor scoffs at Luke.<\/p>\n<p>At the Gilmore family\u2019s weekly dinner, Lorelai can\u2019t stop smiling. Her mother, Emily (Kelly Bishop), recalls sending the girl to her room ahead of her first homecoming dance because she was just too happy. Lorelai\u2019s grin is because she found a perfect dance partner. Only the show\u2019s mile-a-minute twists of fate mean she\u2019s lost him by the scene\u2019s end. Poor hardware store worker Stanley has a jealous wife who won\u2019t let him dance with Lorelai. At some point, Emily and Lorelai\u2019s daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) started comparing her to Elizabeth Taylor. \u201cYou\u2019ll find another one,\u201d Rory says sympathetically. \u201cElizabeth Taylor always did,\u201d Emily quips.<\/p>\n<p>When the dance marathon finally arrives, it\u2019s teenage Rory who\u2019s been suckered into accompanying her mom. The pair wake up before the sun and slouch their way to the event hall, dressed to the nines in 1940s-style outfits and hairstyles. When Rory says she can\u2019t even open her eyes, Lorelai paints a hilarious visual picture of the town men in assless chaps and Speedos to get her attention. So far, so good. But when the dancing starts, so does the drama.<\/p>\n<p>At its best moments, <em>Gilmore Girls<\/em> utilizes its surreal, whimsical town and the emotional truth of its characters. The show is frequently capable of getting real about topics like income inequality, teen parenthood, and first love. It makes each pivotal moment feel one-of-a-kind by setting it against the backdrop of this funky little place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey Shoot Gilmores, Don\u2019t They?\u201d turns out to be a pivotal episode of the series: by the marathon\u2019s end, Rory\u2019s relationship with jealous first boyfriend Dean (Jared Padalecki) will have ended, Lorelai and Luke will have talked over their feelings on having kids, and Lorelai\u2019s best friend Sookie (Melissa McCarthy) will have inadvertently agreed to raise a whole gaggle of them with her own partner, Jackson (Jackson Douglas). All of this, though, unfolds against the silly faux-tense backdrop of the dance marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The rules are explained at the outset: 156 couples will spend the large majority of the next 24 hours on the dancefloor and must keep moving unless the group is on a designated short break or using their emergency card. There\u2019s a first aid kit, a coffee stall where Luke sneaks the girls a warm thermos, and a lunch spot where Rory\u2019s best friend Lane (Keiko Agena) hands out egg salad sandwiches and handmade Christian pamphlets called Dancing With The Devil (\u201cBoy, her flames are getting really good!\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Lane\u2019s beau Dave (Adam Brody) drops in, saying that he had to see the event because \u201cit sounded very <em>Blue Velvet.<\/em>\u201d It\u2019s not, really, but maybe Dave\u2019s using the Film Twitter, squint-extra-hard-to-see-it definition of Lynchian. Still, the episode knowingly pushes up against the boundaries of the show\u2019s rom-com world, blending celebration and tradition with an event that seems like sheer torture. At one point, the dancers stumble through a spontaneous \u201crunaround,\u201d where the last five couples to cross the gym floor finish line are instantly eliminated. One pair stalks off after a boyfriend is offended to find out his girl once dated Liam Neeson. As the night wears on, others faint dead away and are often caught delicately by their partners before they can hit the floor.<\/p>\n<p><em>High School Musical<\/em> filmmaker Kenny Ortega directed the episode, and although it features very little choreographed dancing, it has a satisfying visual flow. The dancers\u2019 energy ebbs as the night wears on, signified by a disco ball shot transition. Doose sleep talks about being a magician, Sookie and Jackson bow out to discuss their parenting plans, and referees wander by on roller skates, making sure everyone\u2019s still shuffling their feet a fraction of an inch at a time. The night\u2019s biggest disruption, though, comes in the form of Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia).<\/p>\n<p>Luke\u2019s leather-jacket-clad nephew has been a magnetic provocateur since the minute he stepped off the bus in Stars Hollow, and by the show\u2019s fiftieth episode, he\u2019s become an unstoppable force in good girl Rory\u2019s life. He clearly knows this, as he shows up to the event in crowd-stopping fashion, walking straight through the dancefloor to Doose\u2019s chagrin to perch himself on the bleachers. For the next several hours, he alternates between giving Rory his best smoldering gaze and aggressively making out with some poor girl named Shane (Jessica Kiper), who\u2019s not much more than a prop in his plan to make Rory jealous.<\/p>\n<p>His plan works, and everything comes to a head at the climax of the dance contest. Lorelai breaks a heel (\u201cThese are brand new shoes, too.\u201d \u201cThey were made in 1943.\u201d \u201cWell, I just bought them Tuesday!\u201d) and uses her emergency card to call upon Luke to help her fix it. While she\u2019s gone, Dean stands in for her but quickly loses patience when Rory starts complaining about Shane. Jess hears and confronts Dean about it. In the end, their breakup is swift, which is a relief given how many machismo-laden confrontations Dean and Jess had before this. \u201cYou\u2019ve been into him since he got into town,\u201d Dean spits and leaves Rory on the dance floor.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its memorable central event, \u201cThey Shoot Gilmores, Don\u2019t They?\u201d doesn\u2019t end with Lorelai finally winning the dance contest. It ends with the feeling, familiar even to those of us who have never entered a competition like this one, of a dance that\u2019s worn on too long. Rory dashes out of the event hall, where she ends up sitting waterside on a dock, upset and closed in on herself. When Jess finds her, it\u2019s not a moment of sweeping romance but something more complicated and adult that hints at what the show will become in its back half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was right,\u201d Rory says, admitting her feelings to the boy for the first time. Jess is silent, and the wave of shame that washes over Rory is almost visible. \u201cWell, wasn\u2019t he?! Fine, he was right about me then.\u201d Jess is always staring intensely, but after he does the tiniest possible shrug and admits that, yes, Dean was right, that intense stare softens in microscopic increments. To the uninitiated, it looks like Jess\u2019s typical aloof expression, but for Jess fans, it looks much like love.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of staying to comfort her, he leaves to break things off with Shane. When Lorelai returns to the dance floor, Rory is nowhere to be found, and Kirk takes the trophy once again. The episode ends not with a triumph, but with a moment of downbeat hilarity, as Kirk races around the empty dancefloor, trophy in hand, while everyone else sleeps. This episode may not be Stars Hollow at its finest, but it\u2019s Stars Hollow at its truest: funny, messy, exhausting, and somehow winningly charming despite it all.<\/p>\n<pre><code>    Related Topics: Episodes\n    &lt;!-- AUTHOR BOX --&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<div class=\"gray-bg p-4 border small mb-5\">\n<div class=\"row align-items-center text-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-2\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/val_2019.jpg\" class=\"circle img-fluid\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\"\/>\n        <\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md\">\n            Valerie Ettenhofer is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer, TV-lover, and mac and cheese enthusiast. As a Senior Contributor at Film School Rejects, she covers television through regular reviews and her recurring column, Episodes. She is also a voting member of the Critics Choice Association&#8217;s television and documentary branches. 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