Gilmore Girls (2000)
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Alex Borstein as Drella
Episodes 4
Pilot
After Rory is accepted to the prestigious Chilton Preparatory School, Lorelai is forced to go to her wealthy parents for financial assistance. Her parents happily loan their daughter the money in exchange for an end to the estrangement and a family dinner every Friday night. Unfortunately, things hit a snag when a cute new transfer student flirts with Rory, leading the younger Gilmore to wonder whether leaving Stars Hollow High is really what she wants.
Read MoreThe Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
Lorelai oversleeps on Rory's first day at Chilton, and discovers that all her good clothes are at the dry cleaner. She throws on a tiny tie-dyed top, Daisy Mae shorts, and cowboy boots to the dismay of Rory and Emily, who has shown up for Rory's introduction to Chilton's headmaster. Rory's day only goes downhill from there after being handed a three inch binder containing one week's worth of notes from one class and meeting insufferable classmates determined to make her life at Chilton miserable.
Read MoreKill Me Now
When Rory announces at Friday night dinner that she has to pick a team sport to play at Chilton, Emily insists that Richard take Rory to the club and teach her golf. Richard is hesitant, and although Rory tees off to a rocky start, she has a great time walking and talking with her grandfather. Later, Lorelai's simmering mixed feelings come to a boil after Rory tells her how much she enjoyed spending time with Richard at the club, provoking an argument. Meanwhile, Lorelai has her hands full at the Inn, overseeing all the preparations for an ornate double wedding ceremony while contending with a pair of spoiled and quarrelsome twin brides, their exhausted mother, Michel, and the rest of the Inn's staff.
Read MoreThe Deer Hunters
Max Medina gives Rory the first ""D"" of her life on an English paper. Paris taunts her non-stop about being a failure and gets Rory very stressed about an upcoming test on Shakespeare that will count for 20% of her English grade. Lorelai spends the week helping Rory study, and they both collapse exhausted at the kitchen table in the early morning hours of the day of the big test. Naturally, they oversleep. In her panic to get to school on time, Rory gets into a car accident -- she gets hit by a deer who runs into Lorelai's car at a stop sign. When she walks into class late, Max tells her that she can't take the test, and Rory has a meltdown, finally giving Paris and Tristan the chewing out they so richly deserve. Lorelai pleads Rory's case with the headmaster to no avail, and has her own meltdown, leaving with a few not-so-well-chosen insults to the headmaster and Chilton. On their way home, Rory insists that they stop and look for the deer to make sure it's all right and Loralei rea
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