Dear Emily and Richard

Season 3, Episode 13, Aired
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Luke and Nicole have a successful first date. Jess and Dean trade verbal blows. Sherry goes into labor with only Lorelai and Rory for company until the final moments, while Lorelai has flash backs about her teen romance with Christopher, her pregnancy and Rory's birth. Richard and Emily decry Lorelai's and Rory's plans to backpack through Europe, which it turns out she and Christopher had toyed with doing as teens. The war between Paris and Rory continues when Paris picks a yearbook photo of the "Franklin" staff that has the worst possible shot of Rory. The episode concludes with Lorelai surprising Emily with a touching gift, inspired by her regrets at the way she hurt her parents when she left home after Rory's birth.moreless
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  • Excellent episode. The flashbacks were brilliant, revealing and very well done.

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    By stewie1423, Jun 06, 2008 Report Abuse
    This was an excellent episode. It was just so interesting to see the flashbacks to Lorelai at sixteen. I'll first say what a could job they did with the one who played young Lorelai, she was brilliant, she had Lorelai's great humour, it made the whole thing believable and even more enjoyable.
    I just felt so satisfied actually seeing what we've heard about for two and a half seasons.

    I liked how it worked as well, it linked with Sherry's birth. How she felt, how Lorelai felt. I found Sherry's birth amusing at first, because all her friends had to work and that woman kept saying she screwed up. Sherry's happiness at Rory being there would obviously be overwhelming.

    Also nice to see Emily and Lorelai having a night alone, Lorelai's concern about what her mother does at night was revealing. Emily was funny in the flashbacks too, how she reacted about the birth but it still showed she cared, she wouldn't let Chris's parents say anything bad about Lorelai. I liked that too, young Lorelai and Chris sitting on the stairs, listening to there parents panic.

    It was hard for Lorelai, that came across well, was done well basically. It was nice how she helped Sherry through the birth. Then Chris arrives and it gets worse, they look at the new baby and she remembers the same thing happened sixteen years ago. Then the end when Emily finds the note from young Lorelai, her devastation was done well.

    Other things were great too, like Dean and Jess's confrontation at the start, very interesting, things are heating up. Plus the retirement party was funny at the beginning. I liked how Jess was interested in Luke's date which turns out being good. Paris continues to argue with Rory, a bit harsh if you ask me.

    So I loved the flashbacks and everything else in this episode, ten out of ten from me!moreless

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  • great episode, one of my favorites

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    By karatiz, Oct 22, 2007 Report Abuse
    This one was great!! I really loved it!

    Lets see, Lorelai and Rory are planing a backpack trip to Europe and they bought some books, Emily sends some old ones from Richard and that's where it begins...
    We can see bits of Lorelai's life before she got pregnant, the plans she made with Chris...
    This is a real flashback episode!
    Different hair styles, clothes, the same humor...

    Sherry schedules her C-section and invited Rory but the baby wants to come out, a week earlier! A friend of hers calls Rory and she goes to the hospital.
    This episode shows two situations, Lorelai's pregnancy and Sherry's.

    Rory gets there and is the only one, they other ones are working and Chris is out of town. Later she calls Lorelai for help, they both stay with Sherry. At the time Chris shows up and goes in.
    It was so different! Lorelai felt Rory and went to the hospital alone, her parents showed up when she was going in and no one stayed with her.
    Sherry had company, Chris got in with her and loved it.
    I felt sorry for Lorelai, her look when she heard Chris talking about the birth...

    The way Lorelai told her parents about going to the hospital...She used the same way when told them she has gone, that note...

    This episode helped me to see Lorelai's life, a normal 16 years old life before pregnancy, her plans and everything fell apart.
    I really loved it.

    Oh and Emily gets a DVD player!! lolmoreless

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  • So great!!

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    By treehillbabe_xo, Sep 03, 2007 Report Abuse
    This is probably my favorite episode of Gilmore Girls ever. I love the flashbacks of Lorelai and Chris as teens! It was just so cute! I must also add that it was great to see that Lorelai has, in fact, always been that sarcastic and witty. I can't say I'm a big fan of Christopher (at least at that point in the series), but I really liked him in this episode. At least when he saw his daughter (Gigi) for the first time. It was adorable. And the baby was so cute!!

    The only part of this series I liked more was the scene about the anvils ;)moreless

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  • Sherry goes into labor a week before she expected and Rory is the only one who could be there with her because Chris is on the road. Lorelai comes to the hospitol to help Rory and Lorelai reminisces about the birth of Rorymoreless

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    By CoryxShawnx4eva, Jul 30, 2007 Report Abuse
    I loved this episode because it shows how Lorelai felt about being pregnant with Rory and how she was basically all alone through the whole thing. Her parents were not very supportive of the whole thing and Chris wasn't really there for her either. While watching Lorelai in the hospitol with Sherry I couldn't help but feel bad for Lorelai because here she was, comforting Rory's dad's wife, a woman she doesn't even know, when no one was there to comfort her. I also thought that Sherry working and panicing about the baby coming a week early was very humorous. All in all, I really loved this episode.moreless

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  • Grea episode!

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    By rorylogan_LL, Mar 07, 2007 Report Abuse
    This is a very, very great episode!!! It was a great flashback and told us an enourmous amount about Lorelai when she was 16. Lorelai has a whole bunch of flashbacks in this episode because she goes to save Rory since she is the only person who went to help Sherry when she was in labor. When Lorelai went there, there were a lot of funny parts in the episode with Sherry. Especially when Sherry is trying to make the baby come out faster! But when Lorelai sees different things, she has flashbacks of when she was younger and pregnant with Rory. It was a great episode, and told a lot!moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • When Lorelai sees Luke dressed up for his date with Nicole, she asks, "Is that the sweater that ...?" and he answers, "Yes." Presumably the sweater is the one she bought for him in the first-season episode in which she helped him by shopping for a birthday gift Rachel. She ended up buying him a lot of attractive new clothes, all on his credit card. Edit
    • When Lorelai arrives at the hospital, Sherry is squatting and running on the spot so that the baby comes quicker but Christoper isn't there yet so what's the rush. Why not just let nature take its course and give Christopher little more time to get there? Edit
    • In this episode, we see young Lorelai in her coming out gown. This same gown was supposedly the same one Emily gave Rory for her coming out party in "Presenting Lorelai Gilmore," but these two gowns look nothing alike. Edit

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    • German episode title: "Babyalarm!", meaning "Baby Alarm!". French episode title: "Mes Très Chers Parents", meaning "My Dearest Mom And Dad". Edit
    • Emily's Books for Lorelai and Rory: Selected Hotels of Europe Hotels, Restaurants and Inns of Great Britian and Ireland, 1986 Myra Waldo's Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, '78 Edit
    • Luke's Book List: Hidden Romantic Gems of the Restaurant World Edit

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    • (in Lorelai's flashback as she's being wheeled to the delivery room) Emily: You're having a baby. Do you know that Lorelai? Young Lorelai: Well that explains the stomach ache. Edit
    • Lorelai: So, you spend 15 minutes talking to Dad and then you hang up the phone, and you...what? Watch television? Emily: I don't watch that much television. I don't find forensic work quite as fascinating as the rest of the world. Edit
    • Sherry: It wasn't supposed to happen this way. Christopher was supposed to be here, I wrote it down... I WROTE IT DOWN! Rory: Boy, do you look thin! Edit

  • Allusions

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    • Lorelai: (Singing) In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the greatest lady in the Easter parade... Easter Parade is a song by Irving Berlin from the highly-acclaimed movie Holiday Inn(1942). Edit
    • Young Lorelai: Can I ... use the Epilady on you or something? The Epilady was a hair-removal device that was heavily promoted during the 1980s; incredibly painful, it ripped out the hairs by the roots. Edit
    • Pregnant Lorelai is watching Quincy, ME on TV when she gets in labor. Quincy, ME was a popular show about a medical examiner that worked to ascertain facts about suspicious deaths. In the process, he frequently comes into conflict with his boss and the police, each of whom have their own (often flawed) ideas about what's going on. Ironically, it was a precursor to the modern profusion of forensic shows that Emily mocks earlier in the episode. Edit

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