#lorelai freakout

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, 3x8, Let The Games Begin. Part 6

When we last left the Gilmore Clan, Richard Gilmore was regaling his family about his past as a dirty, dirty freaking man skank. That is, until he met his darling wife.

Emily expressing a rare sentiment and compliment to Lorelai: You know, your father is having a wonderful time. It means a lot to him to share this time with you and Rory. I'm glad you're here.

What Lorelai Hears:

You know what I always say to you, kid. Enjoy it while it lasts.

I mean, we've had to see the balcony where Rory was concieved a number of times so maybe we should just bring this thing full circle. Lorelai pouts that she is bored and she wants to go home. A few moments later, as the fam is touring the grand and lovely halls of the university with Richard playing tour guide, Lorelai keeps looking around for some kind of an escape route, utterly bored and disinterested.

Let's play my favorite game and yours! Why Is Lorelai Gilmore Scowling?

1.. Her father did something beyond incredibly generous for her child, so she is jealous of her child? Again? 2. There is a nefarious brainwashing attempt by her father underway that, if successful, might have her child interviewing at more than one university and everyone knows that if you decided you wanted to go Harvard while in Kindergarten, you can't change your mind, and with Harvard having a nearly single-digit acceptance rate and Rory having virtually nothing to throw into the pot but her grades, Rory is going to be a total shoo in to Harvard. Backup schools are for DORKS. 3. Despite the fact that she just listened to a whole afternoon of happy memories that her parents have from this school, including Yale being the reason Lorelai even exists in the first place, she'd rather sabotage the whole thing just to spite her parents than have Rory attend the same school. 4.She is mad at her father for going "Behind her back" arranging this incredibly generous once-in-abso-fucking-lutely-nobody's-lifetime opportunity instead of telling her directly, even though if he told her to her face that he arranged this interview for Rory, she still would have had a hissy fit. 5. Lorelai's brain is pea soup and she did not consider that Rory might actually like Yale after visiting Yale (not surprisingly, nobody has asked Rory for her thoughts on the matter). 6. Lorelai would turn to dust if she couldn't control Rory's life at every turn 7. She's upset with Richard springing the interview on Rory as a surprise without consulting Rory first and she didn't have time to prepare (fair, but this is Lorelai we're talking about here so you know that's not the whole enchilada) 8 .The whole enchilada

Google sez: Yale's acceptance rate was just under 17% in 2002, while Harvard's was around 11%. (It’s barely half that in 2024) You know, I hear that Lorelai's alma mater, the local community college, is really nice this time of year. Rory's mother and grandparents steamroll her, never asking her what she thinks about anything, while in turn she never stands up for herself or speaks up on her own behalf, and wouldn't you know, the interview is about to happen RIGHT NOW, so Richard attempts to usher his wordless grand daughter right into the interview cave.

For the love of God, Rory. Say something, you spineless jellyfish.

THANK YOU.

You were only delaying the inevitable by not telling Lorelai ahead of time, Richard. Now she's going to have a meltdown in public like a crying toddler who didn't get a candy bar. I hope you're happy. Lolelai: What do you think you're doing? Richard: Trying to get my grand daughter into what I think is the best Ivy League school in the country. Lorelai: She doesn't want to go here! Richard: She doesn't know that yet. Lorelai: You're unbelievable dad, you corner her alone the other night without me there (how dare he) Richard: Of course I did, you wouldn't let her go. I knew the last thing in the world you'd want is for Rory to go to Yale. Lorelai: And why is that? Richard: Because I went to Yale, therefore Rory can't. Lorelai: Oh, the CRAZY REASON?! Richard: You're allowed to feel that way. It's my prerogative to make sure Rory knows all of her options. Lorelai: Calls her father a liar Richard: This is for Rory's own good Lorelai: Rory is going to HARVARD. Richard: We'll see. Lorelai (louder and angrier) NO, RORY IS GOING TO HARVARD! IT'S ALREADY BEEN DECIDED WITHOUT YOU! Nobody "decides" they're going to Harvard or Yale. The only person doing any "deciding" is currently interviewing your daughter. If you selected 1-6 in the Why Is Lorelai Gilmore Having A Temper Tantrum in Public quiz, come on down and collect your prize. Number's 1 and 5 are pretty much implied. Rory is a few feet away being interviewed by a big wig Yale admissions officer, who certainly doesn't know any other big wigs from other certain Ivy League schools that begin with an H, who won't ever hear the story that he interviewed a student whose mother was screaming "SHE'S GOING TO YALE OVER MY DEAD BODY" (paraphrased) and that this student had already "Decided" she was going somewhere else and just wasted his time. The Yale and Harvard admissions guys with Rory's application:

Lorelai's meltdowns are such a bitch to write. There are 5 minutes left in her meltdown.

Only Mommy can do that. Lorelai: accuses Richard of pulling a "Stunt", Richard said he was just trying to avoid an argument with Lorelai. That's cute that he would think that was possible. Lorelai: My whole life you've had to control everything, if you didn't get to control something, then you just didn't deal with it. You couldn't control me, you couldn't deal with me! Ah, Lorelai, I think this is another conversation that would be more suited to a therapist's office than in public.

Lorelai's therapist furiously taking notes off camera (and seeing dollar signs)

Richard: This has nothing to do with you. This is about Rory and her education which is frankly something you know nothing about. You never went to college, you don't know anything about how it works. You want Rory to go to Harvard that badly? So do thousands of other mothers. Yale is an excellent school. The equivalent of Harvard in every way, except one- I went here. I'm an alumnus. That makes it easier for Rory to get in. And if you knew anything about how college works, you'd know this. I'm not leaving Rory's education to chance simply because I might offend you. Her future is more important than her pride. If you don't like that, I'm sorry. And if that makes you angry, what else is new?

That was the one of the best Humblings I've ever been blessed to witness. Lorelai: Ugh, sounds like the my daughter's a loser, Gilmore named sullied, future squandered speech! I'm calling a cab, we're leaving. Emily tries to reason with her, Lorelai states it doesn't matter what anyone thinks besides herself and Rory, even though we're 32 minutes into the episode and not one person has yet to ask Rory what she thinks. Emily: So what if she takes a meeting at Yale? That doesn't mean she won't be going to Harvard. If she gets into Yale that might make her more appealing to Harvard! You're on such a crusade against your father that you haven't even stopped to consider that if Rory went to Yale she could still live at home. Lorelai: She is still going to Harvard! *literally screaming* SHE'S NOT APPLYING TO YALE! Better hope that admissions officer doesn't have his window open. Now I want Rory to get into Harvard and hate Harvard so much that she drops out in the first week or she flunks out in the first semester. Just to crush Lorelai's dreams, nothing more. The mid-way Yale dropout-and-return just didn't give me the same heartwarming satisfaction. You know, I thought Lorelai's freakout in Teach Me Tonight was the height of her insanity and immaturity. This is on some whole other level from the depths of heck. Screaming at your parents for getting your kid's foot in the door at an ivy league school when thousands of other hopeful parents would chop off their hand to give their kid the same chance, can only happen on the special plane of existence that Lorelai Gilmore alone exists on, and we mere mortals aren't meant to comprehend it. And finally, if you chose #7 on the Why Is Lorelai Gilmore Scowling Quiz, you're technically correct, the best kind of correct, because after Lorelai (Rory) exits the interview, one that was seemingly a success, she immediately turns to Richard to chew him out for springing the interview on her last minute and not giving her time to prepare. That is more than fair. And I'm glad to see her standing up for herself. Anyway, I've been writing for like four hours straight? I've gone beyond my Lorelai Limit. It's been real. If you've made it this far, I see you, I appreciate you. Peace out girl scouts. See you in part 7.

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Egon Spengler (ghostbusters)

Egon Spengler (again)

Winston Zeddemore (ghostbusters)

Ray Stantz (ghostbusters)

Ray Stantz (again)

Peter Venkman (ghostbusters)

Janine Melnitz (ghostbusters)

Slimer

Ghostbusters

Agere+Orange

Steven Grant (Moon Knight)

Rory Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)

Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls)

Lane Kim (Gilmore Girls)

Sookie St James (Gilmore Girls)

Dean Forester (Gilmore Girls)

Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls)

Luke Danes (Gilmore Girls)

Dean Martin

Frank Sinatra

Thor Odinson (Avengers)

Spider-Man

Peter Parker (Tom Holland)

Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield)

Candy

Brain go brr

Mork from Ork (Mork and Mindy)

The Dick Van Dyke Show

Corporal Newkirk (Hogan’s Heroes)

Ant man

[later-slayer]

you're her daughter's teacher that she's secretly dating, I'm the one she calls when there's a baby chick loose in the house

we are not the same

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

psa: i love rory leigh gilmore with all my heart

[love-geeky-fangirl]

Rewatching season 7 of Gilmore Girls (I hate myself apparently) Rory and Logan kinda irritate me, it didn't bug me as much before but now I'm realizing that these new writers decided to make Rory a girl whose entire life revolves around her boyfriend, like they start the season off with having her constantly whine about how much she misses him even though he literally JUST left, then they have her wonder what could Logan possibly mean by the gift he sent her, figuring it out, rambling to Lorelai about how great he is and how much he loves her and how meaningful that gift is and blah blah blah and calling Logan immediately to thank him, trying sexting with Logan, phone calls with Logan, whining about having to be away from Logan, old-married-coupling with Logan... just everything in her life revolves around him apparently?? No one cares that she's about to graduate college. She has that one freakout over what to do next but that's it till like the end of the season. I feel like for someone like Rory who needs to have everything planned that's not enough, she should be freaking out more and trying to figure out what to do next and where does she really want to go in life, especially after she had that quarter life crisis just a year before. But no all her storylines have to revolve around Logan or that dumb thing with Marty

[kenna-ainjo]

I'm confused about why everyone is so worked up when Rory breaks a bone.

Chris is trying to make up for not being in Rory's life, plus Lorelai calls him way freaked out, so that explains his freakout.

Lorelai overreacts not only be wise things could have been worse but also because she doesn't trust Jess and is now worrying about the arm plus possible pregnancy or other things that could happen with Rory as she gets more involved with Jess. All Lorelai's trauma is involved, so all bets are off.

But Emily freaks out as soon as a cast is involved, before she even knows Jess was involved, and most people in Stars Hollow have the same reaction.

I've never seen real people freak out over a minor fracture like this.

Is this just an overblown reaction for the sake of plot? Are people in Connecticut less prone to fractures than people elsewhere in the US?

[rogersstevie]

ya know, rewatching gilmore girls, post-getting back together, dean really is fine throughout season 2 (except for the freakout when rory is concerned about her extracurriculars) until the bid a basket episode. he flies off the handle - when rory isn’t even responsible for jess’ actions - but some of it doesn’t even make sense?

he’s like “he’s messing with me and it’s the last time” like......what exactly has jess done at this point? sure, he started in on dean when he broke up jess and chuck’s fight but he hasn’t exactly been doing anything to antagonize him until this episode and when he goes crying to lorelai he says something about how suddenly jess is always around but the only other instance of him being around was at the bracebridge dinner like there are HARDLY any experiences up to this point for his concern about jess to even have started, it really does prove how possessive he is to have had no indication of rory developing feelings for jess up to this point - except admittedly catching a look between them in 2x10 - and to immediately spiral into this jealous rage. like, yes, rory IS just starting to fall for jess at this point, but she’s a kid who’s confused and doesn’t know what to do about it, maybe isn’t even fully conscious of these feelings yet, she’s not intentionally pursuing jess while dating dean or anything of the sort, i CAN understand flying off the handle by the time we get to season 3, but at this point, dean is just being completely unfair

[zalrb]

Wow. You put that all so well about Rory! It is a pattern, but I guess it really hits me now that it does feel like she's an adult who should have learned and for once it's not Lorelei calling her out. It's strange noticing Logan actually grew in the relationship and somehow Rory, though somewhat pushed by him... has terrible patterns.

Yeah, Rory never actually has to pay for the consequences of her actions, which hinders her growth as a character, even when the show thinks it’s giving her something to learn. Like when she gets back to the Yale Daily News, she realizes people have been interning and a fellow student reporter had his article printed in the NYT and she complains to Lorelai about how she didn’t even think about internships and she ran off to Europe with Emily so she’s really going to buckle down, she chooses a topic to write about and Paris off-handedly tells her that the topic has been written to death -- I mean you don’t READ the newspapers, Rory?? -- and then she suddenly has a scoop about the Life and Death Brigade and all is right in the world and I’m meant to believe that that’s a struggle? That she learned something?

One minute a Yale prof is saying she’s taking too many classes and the load is affecting her work -- and her freakout about that is understandable, I remember I had a meltdown the first time I dropped a class because I didn’t think of myself as someone who dropped classes and it obviously doesn’t mean anything, which I grew to understand later but you have a perception of yourself in your mind and you have to adjust, I get that --- but then basically the next time we see her in a plot revolving around school she’s getting As in a class that’s particularly difficult and we don’t actually see how she went from breaking down in Dean’s arms about how everything is falling apart to her getting As in particularly hard classes.

Nothing comes from her affair with Dean. Like, Dean blew up his life, the whole town knows his business, and that’s fair and deserved because he was married and he treated Lindsey like shit but considering that Rory is one of the main characters of the show, her decision to have an affair should have some consequences for her and push her to grow but instead, she has Lorelai looking out for her in Stars Hollow and Logan at Yale, there is always a safety net and it’s immediate.

She drops out of Yale and lives in a pool house and becomes a member of the DAR and the only consequence is that Emily doesn’t like boys over or something and she does inspections before leaving the house?

So considering that the show or Lorelai never actually let Rory fail or reap consequences, it makes sense that she just repeats patterns.

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

How does the Application Anxiety episode go for Kirsty since she already wants to go to Yale? Does she go with to the alumni guy’s house?

ooh okay so Kirsty has her application package mailed to the diner because of Lorelai, so she goes over to hang out with Jess in the apartment and he helps her fill it out — well okay no mostly he’s just there to remind her to eat, provide coffee, remind her that she’s fantastic and a shoe-in, and coax her through the panic attacks.  And Tristan drives down to join them to do his applications, so it’s overall like a very chill environment without all the intense pressure that we see Rory putting herself under! 

With the Rory meltdown over the Chilton panel, Kirsty really isn’t freaked out!  Jess is a lot more chill (but also more serious about it) than Lorelai is so he’s already been able to talk her through the “don’t circle every activity that you might pick a pamphlet up from at a club fair, pick the ones that you would actually go to a meeting for” thing and the “don’t write an essay that they might want to read, write an essay that only you can write” thing, and all of that!  So her activities are already focused on her interests, her essay is very personal and about growing up in Stars Hollow and how that shaped her, and while she’s still terrified, she feels pretty okay about it all!  It also helps that she and Tristan read each other’s essays to go “okay nope right here you sound like every Chilton student ever” and Jess goes through both very viciously with a red pen until all three of them feel like they’re perfect!

Like don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that Lorelai supports Rory so much, but between making everything into a joke and her intense “of course you’re going to Harvard”, and even the things like “don’t contaminate the table I washed it just for this”, I feel like that would be a much more stress-inducing environment than sitting around Luke’s table with coffee and your best friends, you know?

Kirsty also doesn’t have the same freakout about not standing out because like, she’s fairly confident that not very many applicants can write about growing up in a town where everybody knows everyone, being raised by a single mom, being on broadway at 17, being part of a tony-nominated broadway production at 17, and have a diner owner as their role model lmao

She does get dragged to the Harvard lunch because Lorelai is still trying to push her for Harvard even though she refuses to talk about where she’s applying!  She’s very polite and charming and all, manages to impress them and keep up with the quizzes (she gets the manticore question before he mentions the book), and she meets Carol instead of Rory!  They hit it off well, bonding over not doing what the family wants/expects, and they exchange numbers!

She’s not very involved in the soda shoppe plot aside from being really entertained by it all 

[gilmoregirlsrevival2016]

I’m going to try to post something I liked about the Gilmore Girls revival everyday.

Here’s the sixty fourth one.

[brittaden]

AU: Lorelai actually was pregnant with Luke’s baby and not just having a craving for an apple.

She didn’t tell him for a couple of weeks, not until she was positive-pregnancy-stick-in-the-hand sure. She was a little worried how he would handle the news since the topic of kids hadn’t yet been brought up between then and she saw no need for a freak-out until she was 100% sure that she was definitely pregnant.

And then in a rant about the job offer from Mike Armstrong, he mentioned kids and she wondered somehow if he had stumbled across her pregnancy test that she was so incredibly careful not to even take in Stars Hollow because there’s no way she could throw it away in her trashcan because somehow, someway that news would spread around. Cue a small freak-out but she mostly realizes that she needs to tell him.

Rory already knows of her suspicions and since Lorelai never brought the news up again and even mentioned to her daughter that she had craved a few more healthy things since the apple, she was the first one she broke the news too. She had to tell someone and Rory was definitely that someone to tell because it had less chance of accidentally spreading around to everyone in town. They discussed how Luke would react to the news.

Which made Lorelai remember that talk they had years before about kids and how Luke said it would be a discussion but a short discussion if it was the right person. Cue another freakout because they hadn’t talked about kids, even if he did mention them in an off-hand way. Realizes that she really, really needs to bring it up to him.

It still takes a little while though because while Lorelai is going through this, Rory is becoming unsure of her future. And mentions taking time off from college. Lorelai wonders how to handle this news and the realization that she’s going to be a mother again, all while juggling whatever Luke is up to and the job offer from Armstrong, though she knows clearly where she stands on that one.

Rory still ends up taking time off from school and with the news of her mother’s pregnancy and how she still feels she’s failing, it’s all too much. She still ends up going to her grandparents for help. This upsets Lorelai.

When Lorelai mentions what’s been going on with Rory to Luke and she sees his devotion to her daughter and how he wants to make sure that she will stay in school because she’s worked so hard for it, she doesn’t propose instead she breaks the news of her pregnancy.

Luke’s completely and utterly shocked.

With his baby? No, Kirk’s baby. Of course it’s his baby, who’s else would it be? Luke just freaking out and not thinking before he speaks for a moment.

Lorelai freaks out because Luke is freaking out but then he smiles. And almost laughs over the fact that he’s going to be a father but he’s smiling. And he’s telling her that this was definitely unexpected but not unwanted. He wants to have kids with her, maybe a few. She tells him to slow down because she’s only a few weeks along and definitely not the time to be talking of future offspring.

They have to celebrate. She suggests coffee since there will be no alcohol in her future for the next several months. Mainly just to get him riled up because it would be funny. But he’s seriously threatening her coffee supply for a while. They land on non-alcoholic sparkling cider.

Even though he spoke nothing of it, Lorelai mentions this isn’t grounds for a proposal but if he was inclined to lean that way soon, then the answer would be yes. But she didn’t need a proposal just because she was having his baby.

A couple of months in, he proposes. After things are right with Rory again.

Emily isn’t overly thrilled over the engagement or that her daughter is pregnant out of wedlock but the reality is clear. She accepts it.

They have a bouncing baby boy.

thanks!

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, Season 2, Episode 14-"It Should Have Been Lorelai" (Part 2)

Part 1 and all previous commentary can be found in my Pinned post. This will be brief since I ran out of space the last time and the episode is wrapping up. As shitty as CrustyPher is I really don't want this episode to end because I have to face the HellTornado ShitShow Circus that is "Lost and Found" after this. Please take your time, Judgy (Lorelai) and Crusty. Let's recount part 1 a bit first. I'm waist-deep in the middle of a concerning conversation between Rory and Lorelai. Christopher's victim, Sherrie, isolated Lorelai in her kitchen while she was a guest in her home, told Lorelai she had no interest in being her friend but insisted that she needed immediate access to her underage daughter to which Lorelai accepts and sends Rory out to face an unknown fate with this complete stranger who just insulted her and that she just met an hour ago. The details of where Sherrie took poor Rory are vague at best except for a mention of the movies. While Rory and Creepie are at the movies, Judgy and Crusty (Lorelai and Christopher) went to FND together, which I skipped over because who the hell cares. The mysterious Rory and Sherrie evening is over and it's the next day. Rory is recalling the evening to Lorelai, where we learn Sherrie spent the evening spilling extremely personal details about herself to 16 year old stranger Rory Gilmore and was acting "very touchy feely". Lorelai of course is showing the appropriate level of concern for a mother.

(talking about Emily) Having not seen the scene in question, I'll just assume that Emily's reaction is a reasonable one so far as hearing about Lorelai agreeing to a premeditated kidnapping of her grandchild. Luke's arms come into frame for two seconds as he sets down two coffees they won't pay for. This episode is sorely lacking Lucas.

Cut to an amusing scene whereby Rory uses Kirk and Michel to sneak a contraband cd into Lane's totebag. Back to the diner where Crustypher and Sherrie show up to talk to Lorelai. Creepie Sherrie immediately asks about Rory and wants to know where she is.

Someone needs to sic Chris Hansen on your ass, you weirdo.

NO! MY GIRL RORYGIL HAS SUFFERED ENOUGH. SHE'S BEEN THROUGH IT! OKAY. Rory tells Lorelai that as a kid she sometimed imagined her real father was either Pee Wee Hermann or Matthew Broderick. Very random choices but okay. A deflated soccer ball would be a better father than Crusty.

What ever would this show be without Lorelai Gilmore Constantly Opening Her Big Fat Mouth Without Thinking First?

Lorelai tells Crusty he is so ingrained in her brain matter that he has caused her to subconciously sabotage every decent relationship she has ever had. But now that Crusty is settling down with Creepy Sherrie, she can finally move past him.

It's once again time to visit a classic Gilmore Girls Trope-The Man Who Has An Immediate Public Freakout At A Woman In Public. People are staring at you, you wad. ("People Are Staring, You Wad" should be printed on a bumper sticker they sell at the Stars Hollow gift shop. It should be plastered on the vehicle of every man who causes a scene in public with a woman on this show). No wonder poor little RoryGirl wanted to live in Pee Wee's Playhouse with a talking chair instead of having this sewer dwelling sperm donor for a father. PeeWee would make an excellent father, damn it. Globey and Jambi could be like her uncles. I wish to one day see the women of The Hollow rise up and revolt against every god damn Penis Haver on this show. They need to be sacrified to the Man Volcano. Even Jess. Okay, I can make a few exceptions. Dave Ryglaksi will be spared. Kirk will be spared. Paul Anka of course. Maybe Luke will get a trial first before being sarcified to the Man Volcano, he's kind of borderline, depends where we're at in the show.

Oh honey, I hope you packed some high SPF sunblock because you're definitely getting sarcified to the Man Volcano along with Dean, Logan, Logan's Annoying Friends, Tristan, Taylor Doose, Jason DiggerStiles, Max Medina, Mitchum Huntsburger, Lane's husband Zac, Headmaster Charleston, that creepy old professor Paris dated, and all the rest. We ride at dawn, Ladies. Meet me at Miss Patty's. Bring skewers. Luke in the background like "Jesus Christ I'm trying to run a business here."

Spared from the Man Volcano. For now. And this guy in the hat just trying to enjoy his fruit salad, he can live. Christopher immediately leaves to hug Rory outside like he actually gives a damn about her and looks back to make sure Lorelai is watching them through the window. What is the rent at Pee Wee's Playhouse? Rory should look into that.

[love-geeky-fangirl]

Ranking pregnancy scare plots in teen shows from worst to best

Because why not

Lorelai's five second scare in Gilmore Girls: frankly I didn't see the point of it. "I think I'm pregnant but by the time I finish saying this sentence I know I'm not" like why?? I guess this was supposed to show us how she and Luke are immature and bad communicators and I hate to see it. Also the scare flat out doesn't make sense biologically speaking. The morning after pill is a thing and she could've just used it. And she can't be pregnant like ten hours after having sex it doesn't work like that. Just no.

Joey's freakout on Dawson's Creek: this was a bit better because at least she was late so she had a reason to be freaking out and it did feel relatable. However why did she wait till the end of the episode to take the test? If she had just taken it at the beginning this entire plotline would've been ten seconds.

Rachel on Glee: this one was a okay because at least here she took the test at the beginning and it was false positive so she had a reason to be freaking out. Also I loved how she and Santana hugged after she made her open up about it and comforted her. I live for Pezberry moments like this.

Brooke on One Tree Hill: Lucas Scott I will hunt you down and murder you, how DARE you slut shame my girl Brooke to her face after YOU cheated on HER and now she's having a pregnancy scare?! I completely understand why she lied to him after that. From the phone call it was obvious that the doctor is telling her that it was a false positive but she chose to lie out of spite. And honestly good for her in this situation.

Blair's scandal on Gossip Girl: I love this one because unlike most of other entries on this list this wasn't just for drama but it actually made two of its main characters closer together. Throughout the entire episode Serena is an amazing friend to Blair- she covers for her and risks her own reputation, buys a test for her and then makes sure she actually takes it and when she does delivers her funniest line ever: "Thank God! I have no idea what would I wear to the paternity hearing!" And all of this despite Blair being nothing but mean to her and even slut shaming her. And then in the end when Blair is slut shamed herself and wants to run away, she convinces her to stay! Aww.

Jackie on That 70s Show: much like the previous entry, this one also serves to bring two main female characters closer together, however this one also educates and empowers them. In the end of the episode, both Jackie and Donna make a choice about their bodies. And how could I not mention Jackie dumping Kelso in front of everyone and then walking off like a runway model.