Logan comes home from the hospital and is cared for by an overprotective Rory; Liz has big news for Luke; Emily has LASIK eye surgery, so Lorelai has to serve…

Stars Hollow needs a new town troubadour and there are many hopeful people trying out, much to Taylor’s dislike. Lorelai finally confronts Luke about their long engagement and Rory and…

Momentous changes are in the air as: the Dragonfly Inn approaches opening day by having a shakedown weekend; Rory and Dean take a major step forward in their relationship, to…

Lane and Zack’s wedding is coming up and since Luke is busy, Michel is Lorelai’s first choice as a date for Lane and Zack’s wedding, but he gets Celine Dion…

After months of separation, Sookie tries to reconcile Rory and Lorelai by asking them to be the godmothers of her two children. However, they both end up fighting when Lorelai…

Lorelai needs Richard’s help with her insurance after a small fire at the Dragonfly Inn and uses the occasion to talk to him about the fact that he didn’t manage…

Luke makes a bigger fuss than Davey when Sookie and Jackson bring their son into the diner; all of Stars Hollow is amused when Taylor returns from his Caribbean cruise…

Jackson’s devotion to his wife and her famous zucchini soup set the stage for the perfect antidote to the stress surrounding the opening of the Inn; Luke unwittingly comes to…

The Prodigal Daughter Returns is the name of an episode for the American comedy-drama series Gilmore Girls.

As Stars Hollow prepares for the Renaissance-themed wedding of Liz and T.J., Kirk feels slighted when Miss Patty chooses someone else as the maypole dance captain; Lorelai discovers an equine…

Rory lands her dream job as a political reporter in Ohio. Luke enlists the help of everyone in Stars Hollow to throw her a graduation party in order to say…

Sookie and Jackson decide to have a home birth and enlist the services of a formidable midwife; when Stars Hollow mounts a festival of living pictures, Kirk goes way overboard…

When Taylor spends all of the Spring budget on a hay bale maze, it forces Lorelai and Luke to reunite while in the hay bale maze. Rory and Logan come…

Lorelai tries to reacquaint herself and Luke by visiting the diner, but the reunion results in an awkward silence. Paris freaks out over too many opportunities when she gets accepted…

To help meet the expenses of opening the inn, Lorelai and Sookie decide to become caterers on the side, with their first assignment being a “”Lord of the Rings”” theme…

After getting into a science camp, April tells Luke that she cannot go on the boating trip with him over the summer. Zach is asked to go on tour with…

Rory makes amends with Lucy while Christopher finds the letter Lorelai wrote for Luke’s character reference. Rory witnesses a frightening sight while at Richard’s Economics class. Sookie is acting weirdly…

Lorelai and Rory throw Lane’s baby shower, but Lorelai has to settle a fight between Lane and her mother first. Rory has an interview with the New York Times. Luke…

Lorelai and Rory return from their whirlwind tour of Europe; Taylor and Luke have it out over the new soda shop; a very pregnant Sookie updates Lorelai on the latest…

Lorelai and Chris attend Yale Parents’ Weekend where they find Emily and Richard. Chris takes Rory and all her friends out for dinner after feeling guilty that he wasn’t around…

Chris and Lorelai tell Emily and Richard about their marriage. Lorelai becomes determined to make Christopher liked by the people in Stars Hollow. Anna tells Luke that she is moving…

Emily and Richard rejoice when Rory announces her decision to attend Yale; Kirk sustains baking-related injuries when Rory secretly enlists the help of her fellow Stars Hollows citizens to bake…

Rory finally realizes that she’s not a casual dater and tells Logan that she wants to be friends. He surprises her by suggesting they become a couple instead; while she’s…

The magazine comes out and Luke and Lorelai get a little too enthusiastic when celebrating; Sookie goes into labor; Rory is given a surprising review by Mitchum Huntzberger and goes…

Rory finally learns her mother can’t afford to buy the Dragonfly Inn since financial aid for Yale didn’t come through. She decides to take matters into her own hands with…

Jackson is the soul of patience as Sookie suffers from mood swings and pregnancy food cravings; Paris’s decision to fast for Ramadan to bring authenticity to her writing takes its…

Offers of dates ensue when Lorelai and Sookie attend a seminar on operating an inn and run into two handsome men — an old friend of Sookie’s and his business…

Rory offers to help Logan write an article for the Yale Daily, but she is disappointed when he doesn’t invite her to be his date at a book signing party…

Emily guilts Rory into bringing Jess to a Friday night dinner which turns out to be an unqualified disaster; Lorelai, Alex, Sookie and Jackson go to New York for the…

Rory and Paris compete for the honor of speaking at Chilton’s Bicentennial; Sookie and Jackson get some very good life (and diaper) changing news; Paris and Rory reconcile; Lorelai runs…

Lorelai is determined to win the Stars Hollow Dance Marathon and wrest the trophy from four-time champion Kirk, but has trouble getting a partner until she finally convinces Rory to…

It’s Thanksgiving, and Lorelai and Rory have dinner at four different places: the Kim’s, where Lane has managed to get Dave invited and Lorelai is forced to eat tofurkey; Luke’s,…

Lorelai confesses that part of the charm of breakfast by Luke is breakfast at Luke’s; Rory is less than thrilled to discover that the common room in her suite has…

The demands of the electorate are beginning to get to Jackson; Lorelai and Rory delicately nudge Richard and Emily closer together; Lorelai decides that a double date with Rory and…

Lorelai chauffeurs Rory to Sherry’s baby shower in Boston and finds herself dragged into the festivities against her will; Miss Patty gets a new beau; Jess comes home with a…

Amidst her sadness about Christopher, Lorelai has an intriguing dream about Luke; Rory returns from Washington to realize that she still may have feelings for Jess, but a chance encounter…

Things are still testy between Lorelai and Rory, and Rory’s refusal to discuss the Dean situation causes Lorelai anguish; Emily announces that she and Richard have separated; Sookie is ecstatic…

Rory’s application for Harvard arrives, plunging Rory, Lorelai and Emily into a frenzy; a Chilton seminar on college applications only adds to Rory’s anxiety and sends Paris into a tizzy;…

Lorelai and Rory pitch in at the diner while Luke plans his Uncle Louie’s funeral; Taylor is unhinged when a farmer’s market opens in the town square and puts a…

Lorelai and Rory have breakfast at Sookie’s in an effort to avoid Luke’s, but Lorelai can’t avoid an awkward encounter with him at Doose’s Market, where he fails to pick…