"Gilmore Girls" The Lorelais' First Day at Yale (TV Episode 2003) Poster

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10/10
The One Where Rory Goes To Yale...
taylorkingston1 May 2015
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I love this episode. It's one of my all-time favorite Season 4 episodes as well as it being one of my all-time favorite episodes from the entire series. It's definitely in the Top 10. I don't know if it's because of the fresh start, or what, but this episode is just really fantastic.

In this episode, the time has finally arrived for Rory to go off to Yale University and to start living her dream. She and Lorelai have all of her stuff packed up and are ready to go. Luke, being nice, allows them to borrow his truck for the haul, but is hesitant when he finds out that Lorelai can't drive a manual car. Eventually, the girls make it there, and they start unpacking Rory's things into her dorm. They find out that Paris is one of Rory's new roommates, which makes Rory very anxious. After swapping mattresses, since the Yale ones have been used over and over, Lorelai has to haul the old one away. When she gets back to Stars Hollow and Luke sees that the mattress is there, they get into a fight about who has to get rid of it. Also, Lorelai has to do a second trip because she thinks she needs to get Rory more things, like a fan, a mini fridge and a potted plant. Rory doesn't want her to go, so Lorelai stays the night.

Overall, I give this episode a 10 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Freaking Ridonkulous.
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8/10
Doesn't make sense
meyer-annie1624 March 2019
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Throughout this series, it is made clear that while Lorelei and Rory are not poverty stricken, they are not wealthy. During this episode, Lorelei spends more money than Paris does during her four years at Chilton. Wouldn't you think that as someone who doesn't have a job, who is spending money to BUY AN INN, and had to ask her parents to finance her daughters education for high school and college, shouldn't spend so much??? Just a thought. ESPECIALLY when they just came back from a around the world trip...
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Inaccuracy detected
ghidouvanessa6 October 2020
When Rory was in her dorm room she told Lorelei that she had never shared a bathroom with anyone but her mom, but she actually went backpacking through Europe the summer before and she had to share bathrooms with complete stranger while staying in motels and wherever it is they stayed in 😅
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6/10
Date doesn't add up
azzamnour-5967330 April 2022
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At the beginning of the episode you can see welcome class of 2007 on the door? But Rory graduation was in 2003? She didn't backpack for 4 years right?
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6/10
Copper Boom!
ISmellSnow11 January 2021
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Lorelai helps Rory move into her dorm at Yale but Rory gets homesick quickly and Lorelai stays the night with Rory. Paris returns! Luke pursues divorce with Nicole.
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