#taylor doose

[emmafallsinlove]

[saltygilmores]

THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING GILMORE GIRLS: S3/EP6: TAKE THE DEVILED EGGS Original Air Date: Nov 5, 2002

Links to all previous episodes can be found in my Pinned Post.

Pre Opening Credits Filler: Lorelai and Rory are sorting junk mail . Of course I had to google whether or not "Shreiber's" was ever a real catalog. Google results were inconclusive. Lorelai's Poconos shirt is really cute.

Post opening credits sequence: A town meeting.

Miss Patty and Babette are too good for this world.

I love seeing Luke smile. As the entire room rises to exit, Taylor instructs them not to leave and everyone immediately listens. I will never understand how he has this much power or why Luke dutifully attends every one of thse things.

Stefon from SNL voice: This hot new club, Stars Hollow Town Meeting, has everything. Animal cruelty, blind obedience, women who pick up dates at funerals, politicians dunking on neurodivergent loners, protest supression.

(tac·i·turn /ˈtasəˌtərn/ adjective (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.)

Pretty rich for Lorelai to be dunking on loners when the guy she's in love with has no friends and her daughter has one friend.

At least the loner must be intelligent. Evidenced by the fact that he doesn't waste his time in town meetings. But seriously...imagine you're this guy minding his own business just trying to buy some books and enact political change with protest so the mayor-type-guy calls everyone in town together to dunk on how weird and creepy and quiet you are behind your back (see also: Jess, who was also a child. And who also has to endure shitty comments about not being talkative enough).

Is Kirk the only neurodivergent person in Stars Hollow who is allowed to be himself?

With our powers combined, we are our the Neurodivergent And/Or Deeply Misunderstood Outcast Super Squad! Kirk! A guy who talks to mailboxes! A quiet guy who likes books! Another quiet guy who likes books! Town Troubador! Rory!

Look who else is way too smart to waste his time at a town meeting. His precious whacking off time is over, Luke is heading home, and he is outta here.

Now, let's say the Gilmore Girls in-show timeline lines up with the air dates of the episodes (which it tends to do much of the time). "Teach Me Tonight" aired April 30th, 2002. This episode aired on November 5th, 2002. 6 months and 6 days prior to this town meeting. Rory's not-even-broken arm has healed. Lorelai, kindly...get the fuck over it and shut up. Lorelai: when did Jess get a car? Luke: None of your god damn beeswax. Luke had no idea Jess had a car.

I always found it interesting that Jess was raised in the city his whole life, but knew how to drive. Many (but not all) New Yorkers get around on foot or public transportation and many never even learn to drive at all. But there's just no way Liz was a New Yorker who had a car that Jess could borrow, she wasn't helping him practice, she wasn't paying for lessons with an instructor, and before he arrived in The Hollow the only life he knew was getting around on public transport and walking. We come to learn he knows a bit about car repair as well. And he's only 18. Definitely not saying it's implausible or unbelievable that he knows how to drive. Far from it. Just something to ponder. Jess is scrappy. He finds a way. Lorelai has the absolute fucking audacity to tell Luke "You needs to get a handle on Jess" because he wasn't aware of this car purchase. How about you get a handle on your perfect child before she sleeps with her married ex boyfriend and steals a boat huh. How bout them apples.

OMG OMG.

Narrator: Lorelai Gilmore was in fact, not sorry for equating a 6 month old minor car accident that caused a hairline wrist fracture with 1st degree murder, and she would not butt out now or ever again.

[staliaqueen]

#incorrect gilmore girls quotes

[darlingmarie3]

TODAY IS THE DAY! THE FIRST DAY OF FALL! WHERE ARE ALL MY GILMORE GIRLIES?!?!?!??

[loving1sabelle]

Rory before Yale is my inspiration fr

[anxiouspotatorants]

Not to make absolutely everything about fandom but speaking of Oscar movies and academia aesthetics I've been thinking of a The Holdovers AU in the Gilmore Girls-verse, with Jess as Angus, the kid that gets stuck at the boarding school over Christmas, but I can't figure out who should be Paul Giamatti Hunham.

My first instinct is Luke because they have the tightest bond in the show and a lot of the conversations between the leads feel like they would hit home with Luke and Jess respectively and together. Also Luke as the teacher would make it easier to sneak in Lorelai as the cute woman with cookies with a conveniently aged teenage relative (niece in the movie, daughter for Lorelai) who hits it off with Angus. But for Luke to work you'd either have to make a pre-established familial relationship that changes the movie-relationship between the leads or you'd have to make an AU where Jess and Luke aren't related.

Second instinct is Max Medina because you get past the family ties-issue and can still sneak Lorelai and Rory in the exact same way. But the thing is that Max is canonically a really nice and really different teacher from Paul Hunham so you'd either completely change the dynamic between the two and lose the point of the AU or you'd have to make Max Medina really OOC.

You could try to push in other teacher characters for Paul Hunham, but none of them have enough characteristics or staying power to work, or they're Asher Fleming... and I don't think anyone wants Asher Fleming as Paul Hunham.

Then I got a thought that I have no idea how to deal with so now you have to as well: Taylor Doose as Paul Hunham. No he's not a teacher and yes I usually am a big fan of trashing on Taylor (personality, as a character he's brilliant). But. It actually makes sense. Him and Jess never get along, Taylor's incredibly difficult to work with and refuses to do things any other way than his own but he also really loves and cares about what he does and believes in his work as something that helps and uplifts the community of Stars Hollow (not unlike how Paul Hunham genuinely wants to prepare and educate the next generations of students). And if someone made it work it would actually be a little ingenious to see an AU where Taylor and Jess actually find common ground and help each other. The Lorelai swap in could be weird but you could also just remove the romantic tone between them and focus on Paul-Taylor's social isolation.

But I still have no idea who to put in as the Mary Lamb stand-in, like how could anyone in Gilmore Girls fit her character-arc??

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

gilmore girl interactions I absolutely adore:

paris and jess (intense ppl who get each other)

jess and luke (angry ppl who secretly care for each other a lot have my heart)

emily and mrs kim (intense ppl who get each other part 2)

rory and paris (gay gay gay)

rory and richard (they're literally so sweet)

michel and sookie (top tier bickering)

luke and taylor (the fights are peak comedy)

[mot-hesbian]

Should I listen to Taylor Swift's entire discography and assign each to a Gilmore Girls character and/or couple by lyrics and vibes respectively if necessary, or is my mental illness just really showing?

[winnie-the-monster]

“Can you just open this door, Taylor?”

“What do you need in the store?”

“We need something to toast this moment with.”

“Something alcoholic?”

“Yes.”

“You know, Lorelai if you feel like you have to be drunk to be with him—“

“Taylor will you just open the door.”

[secondstar-acorn]

I’m gonna say it. luke x taylor 75k enemies to lovers slow burn

[tsukioasis]

Benny learning to use his phone!!

He is taylor doose of the mushroom village! No can do better than him haha

[tennantloki]

psl season in full speed

[wonderlandleighleigh]

Ooh, I would really love to read about the Stars Hollow town hall meeting for the year it ‘boils over’. 😉 Does Taylor threaten to arrest eighty something year old Lenny for obscenity? The nostalgia he must feel! Does Lenny admit he might have, maybe, went a teeny, tiny bit too far? Please?

"Every year!" Taylor cries. "Every single year!"

It's October sixth, 2001, and The Schneiders' Halloween decorations this year are...

Well...obscene.

"I don't have to explain my art to you, Taylor," Lenny shrugs, crossing his arms.

"There are two skeletons in front of your house engaging in...in...!"

"Fellatio," Midge offers. "The word you're looking for is fellatio."

"I cannot believe you condone this, Miriam," Taylor scolds. "I should think you would know better."

"Condone it, she thought of it," Lenny informs him.

"It is a little much for the kids this year, Lenny," Patty points out. "The skeleton on the stripper pole last year was funny. This is just lewd."

"It's an act of love!" Lenny cries. "There's nothing wrong with love."

"It's disgusting!"

Lenny looks at him as if he's insane. "Taylor, have you ever had your dick sucked?"

"Okay," Luke cuts in. "No one needs to know the answer to that question."

"I beg your pardon, I was quite the ladies man back in my day," Taylor defends himself.

"Whoa," Lorelai comments.

"Ah, jeez," Jess groans.

"I second that 'ah jeez' and raise you a please no more," Rory adds.

"Take it down, Lenny," Taylor orders him.

Lenny shakes his head. "I don't want to."

"Take it down, or I will have you arrested!"

"Bring it on," Lenny snaps. "I beat the state of New York in multiple obscenity cases, this'll be cake."

Midge rolls her eyes. "Fine. We'll change the decorations, Taylor. Ya happy?"

"Very," Taylor grunts. "No thanks to Lenny."

"Go get laid, for all our sakes," Lenny retorts.

*****

When Rory wakes up the next morning, peeking out the front window, she sees that the skeletons in front of the Schneiders' home have, indeed changed.

to missionary position.

"I can't tell if that's better or not," Rory comments.

"I guess we'll know when Taylor sees it," Lorelai giggles. "Let's go get some coffee."

[merry-kuroo]

I really hate how Taylor is always trying to fuck with Lorelai and her business 😡 You'd think someone would try to uplift small businesses like Luke's Diner and the Dragonfly Inn, but instead he gets off on being a asshole to them always.

One of the worst characters in this series for real