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Gilmore Girls season 3 episode 9 — “A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving”

It’s a classic holiday comedy — how to cope when you’ve got multiple obligations on Thanksgiving and find yourself the recipient of no less than four dinner invites. But if there’s one thing the show has set out from the start, it’s that the Gilmore girls can eat.

This is a great Thanksgiving episode made greater by two things — namely the presence of Milo Ventimiglia and Adam Brody.

Brody’s Dave in particular is very welcome here as Lane’s love interest, who has managed to get himself an invite to Mrs Kim’s Thanksgiving by way of subterfuge and Lane’s insane schemes.

Lane’s not the only one getting kissed by a very cute boy because Ventimiglia’s Jess gives Rory what we can only assume is the snog of her life up until this point.

Dean is still in the picture, in that he forces his way into it to threaten Jess, but let’s be real. Rory has only eyes (and lips) for Jess. No wonder because Dean’s posturing is laughable given his curtains and bad jacket choices.

This is also the episode where Lorelai finds out Rory has applied for Yale, much to the pleasure of her parents.

Of course, anything that makes her parents happy immediately annoys Lorelai, who is very much focused on Rory going to Harvard and not turning into her grandparents. So we have a little plot action going on here too.

But the best part of the episode is undoubtedly Lorelai’s best friend Sookie, who spends her time getting sozzled on her front lawn because her husband is attempting to deep-fry her turkey. Relatable, at least in the sozzled sense. 

It’s the whistlestop tour of Thanksgivings that makes the episode a good one to watch. You get all the tropes: arguments, the friends-as-family gatherings and above all, the over-eating.