Just Like Gwen and Gavin

Season 6, Episode 12, Aired
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Luke is showing signs that he hasn't slept much. Lorelai wakes up so early that she gets a lot done. Kirk is organizing the Winter Carnival. Lorelai and Rory volunteer to man a carnival booth called "The Amazing Doggy Swami." At the inn, Lorelai takes care of the New England Maple Syrup Council. Zach is jealous of the time Lane is spending with a 30-year-old Asian man named Joe. At the Yale Daily News, Paris is making everyone except Rory uncomfortable with her demands, expectations and ideas. Later, the reporters gather together and talk about Paris and the fact that they think the paper is going down hill. The reporters don't ask Rory to be part of their discussion since she's living with Paris. But Rory sees the reporters in their meeting and they confide in her. Logan tries to mend his relationship with Rory by hiring the coffee cart guy to follow Rory around all day so she has instant access to coffee. Logan drops by the Inn to get help from Lorelai in regards to his relationship with Rory. Last but not least, Lorelai finds out about Luke's kid, April, and Luke asks Lorelai to postpone their wedding.moreless
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  • Lorelai finds out about April and Logan tries to win Rory back with gifts. Brilliant episode, she found out......I feel sorry for Lorelai.

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    By stewie1423, Aug 24, 2008 Report Abuse
    This was an all around brilliant episode, we had the humour with Paris at the Yale daily news, the drama with Lorelai finding out about Luke's daughter April and the unknown as Logan finally gets Rory to talk to him meaning they could get back together.

    I'll start with the big thing in the episode, Lorelai's discovery. Obviously Luke should have told Lorelai by now and its even worse when he's relieved that he won't have to tell her. She goes in the diner anyway and talks to April who soon lets the whole thing slip, not knowing who Lorelai is or that she doesn't now.

    I did feel for Lorelai but it was made worse when Luke liked the idea of postponing the wedding, which they decide to do at the end. Luke also gets a lecture from the girls mother Anna bout being a parent. Luke is mean to do this, it is still a few months away.

    Paris was hilarious as she always is in the show. The whole system she had for the Yale Daily news was just so funny. The board with coloured magnets, the numbered hats because she couldn't be bothered calling them by there names. It was a great storyline, Rory finding her co-workers talking about letting Paris go and then trying to talk to Paris.

    Paris's speech at the end was great and I hope she remains editor, purely for entertainment reasons. Now moving onto Logan, he seems to know he's let Rory down and is trying to make up with her. Sending the coffee cart around was amusing. His conversation with Lorelai was interesting, I really wanted to know what was in her note to Rory.

    In the end, Rory says she will ring Logan and they can maybe meet up. It seems Logan may be growing up, so I'm interested to see how there relationship will work out a second time. This was a brilliant episode and sets up for the second half of the season very well.moreless

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  • How could Luke do this to Lorelai?

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    By AlexandraP, Dec 07, 2006 Report Abuse
    I really love GG but this episode broke my heart and Lorelai's, she was almost crying and I felt so sorry for her. If a guy I was going to marry did something like this to me, outside and among people, without any explanation or a good talk-throug I would immediatly start to cry. Maby this action would be out of character but, Luke has been more of a talker these days and I don't understand how Luke can do this to Lorelai, especially as he gave her a really hard time about being "completely honest" with each other. These things should apply both ways. Objectively this episode was a 9 on a scale of 10, but subjectively a 1, because of the circumstances in the episode. I'm not at all fond of April, both concerning her acting skills and her character in the show. She is ridiculous and I must confess that I fast forward the scenes she's in because of her terrible acting, annoying voice, the stupid helmet and so on. Why did they cast a person that lisps? Oh my God it's annoying on TV. (Not in real life though) It seems that the writers are trying to give us a new Rory, but we already have a Rory. Rory, if she existed in real life, would be a really cool person, never a dork (like April is). In Sweden people that know a lot about literature, care about world issues, politics and so on are not seen as nerds, they are called \"allmänbildade\", it translates well-read or well-informed, although that is not the correct translation. Hence Rory is not a nerd or dork, but an interesting character. A girl with self-respect would never wear a helmet like the one April is wearing, maby Kirk would, but never in this life time would a 12 year old girl do so... It is just unfortioned that the writers had to take the storyline to this level. Now I can never approve of L&L together in the show. Because of two reasons, first Luke has a child, and you can never undo children. If he shouldn't take his responsibility I wouldn't have any respect left for his character and as you have seen I really dislike April, so that is not an option. He has to continue the contact which in this case means that April is hanging on. Second the way Luke treated Lorelai, without any visible sighn of feeling sad, it just makes me think that Lorelai is to good for him.

    (I'm sorry about spelling and grammar mistakes, but I don\'t have English language control on my computer.)moreless

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  • Lorelai finally finds out about Lukes daughter.

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    By amfarley84, Nov 20, 2006 Report Abuse
    I thought that this was a really great episode and I loved every minute of it. I thought that it was really funny that Luke made plans with April and then tried getting out of it because he was afriad of Lorelai running into April. I thought that it wasd really great that Lorelai did end up running into April and finding out who she is, how long that Luke has known about her. I think that Lorelai's idea for the winter carnival was cute and i liked that Kirk thought that it was a bad idea and put the supposed really thing next to her fortune telling booth. I knew it though i knew that the wedding would be put on hold that they would not get married it was to good to be true.moreless

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  • Really good episode.

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    By Roxxy117, Sep 22, 2006 Report Abuse
    I watched this episode about 16 days ago, so this is all from my distant memory.

    I thought that Lorelai's reaction (to April) was going to be more dramatic, but her reaction was still priceless. At the very end, at the festival, Luke has been waiting for Lorelai and Rory to get back together for so long so that they can plan the wedding, and now he agrees to postpone the wedding! I mean he has more than 4 months to get use to April in his life. Anyways, it's not like April is going to disappear when they get married (IF they get married) she's still going to be around and Luke can get to know her then. He has all her life to get to know her and get used to her, why do they have to postpone the wedding?


    The coffee cart that Logan gave to Rory was really funny. And I like how Rory just let the coffee cart follow her around all day. I'm really glad that the YDN staff held a meeting about Paris. Paris is getting crazy. I mean numbered hats? A chart to know where everyone is??moreless

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  • Luke is being really unfair to Lorelei.

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    By moregilmore, Aug 15, 2006 Report Abuse
    In the beginning of this episode, Luke still has the burden of keeping a big secret from Lorelei: the fact that he has a daughter. At the time of this episode, he\'s known this for two months and keeps on putting off telling Lorelei. Instead of coming out and being honest with her, he just avoids the subject completely, even though he previously agreed to keep \"no secrets\" from her. In this episode, Lorelei finds out about Luke\'s daughter, April, the wrong way: she sees April in Luke\'s diner and talks to her. Even though Lorelei is shocked at first, after awhile she tells Luke that they can work around it and that he\'s lucky to be with a woman who\'s raised a kid herself.
     However, Luke behaves in a very inconsiderate way. First of all, he shouldn\'t have waited so long to tell Lorelei. She takes the news of his daughter very well and is helpful, but even so, Luke tells her he is \"overwhelmed\" and must postpone the wedding. Lorelei is completely heartbroken over this, since she just spent a long time planning the perfect wedding. Reluctantly though, since she loves Luke very much, she agrees.

    Meanwhile, Rory is being stalked by Logan, who decides to apologize and wants to get back with Rory. Rory at first tries to stay away from him but eventually agrees to go to dinner with him with a little pushing from Lorelei. Also, the winter carnival is happening in Star\'s Hollow, and Rory and Lorelei make a fortune telling booth with their dog, Paul Anka. Lane, in the meantime, is still bitter about her breakup with Zack.moreless

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    • In episode 6x09 after Luke overhears Christopher's message and gets really mad he makes Lorelai promise that there won't be any secrets (he's very insistent)between them or it won't work.
      In this episode, not once does Lorelai remind him of the speech when she finds out that he's been lying to her for months. Edit
    • When Lorelai is telling Logan how long she and Rory were not speaking for she says "she didn't speak to me for 5 months, 3 weeks, 16 days." Why would she phrase the days like that, as sixteen days as opposed to two weeks and two days? Plus 3 weeks and 16 days is 37 days, which is an additional month. Edit
    • The two little girls at the carnival by the ticket booth were on the soccer team that Luke sponsored, and the lady at the cider booth was the soccer mom. Edit

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    • French episode title: "Carnaval d'Hiver Et Réconciliations", meaning "Winter Festival And Reconciliations". Edit
    • Logan hires a gourmet coffee cart to follow Rory around in an attempt to win her back. Edit
    • This episode drew 5,67 million viewers. Edit

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    • Rory: Every relationship is just a big giant honkin' leap of faith. Edit
    • Zach: (after describing how bad his life is) Bob Dylan should write a song about me. Edit
    • Paris: Hey. You check in? Rory: Check in? Paris: The board. The new system? This is the best way for me to know where anyone is at any given time. All the names are on the left. Each coloured magnet represents an activity. If you're out on asignment, it's a red magnet. If you're in the john, it's a blue magnet. If you're at home, a purple magnet. If you're at your desk, it's a green magnet. Rory: But if they are at their desks you can just glance over and see that they are at their desks. Paris: But I'd have to glance all around. This saves extraneous glancing. Edit

  • Allusions

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    • Bill: Now she's Augusto Pinochet in a pantsuit. Augusto Pinochet was a Chilean dictator responsible for the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Edit
    • Lorelai: Back to 8 Mile? This is a reference to the movie 8 Mile starring Eminem about his struggle to become a rapper in Detroit. The allusion refers to how Taylor is dressed, which is similar to outfits worn by Eminem in the movie. Edit
    • Lorelai: You will sing songs of gemstones! Adam Green, a musician from New York, wrote a song called Gemstones for his album by the same name. Edit

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