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December 16, 2025 15 mins

When you think of a Gilmore Girls Thanksgiving episode, THIS IS IT, and we absolutely love it! 

Did you catch a certain moment between Luke and Lorelai that basically defined the closeness of their relationship?

Plus, Tara and Suzanne agree, what scene shouldn’t have been in this holiday episode?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I Am all in again. Oh it's you.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I Am All in Town meeting with Suzanne French and
Tara suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to
another episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with myself.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Tarren, Suzanne, Hello, Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Today we're talking about season three, episode nine, A Deep
Fried Korean Thanksgiving, which aired on November twenty sixth, two
thousand and two. And when I think of a Gilmore
Girls Thanksgiving episode, this is it.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Yes, agreed, because we.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Have how many are there? Do we know?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Like?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
How many Thanksgiving episodes do we have?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
You know, that's a good question. I should I should
have double checked out.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
I don't know than one.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
I think there's more than one. But this one is
kind of the finding one because we get four Thanksgivings
basically in one episode.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
I know, and it doesn't it's so funny because oh,
technically two episodes. That thinks, Yeah, I mean Thanksgiving is
not like like Friends had a bunch of Thanksgiving episodes.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Well more than more than two, I.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Think, yeah, But yeah, I really enjoyed this episode.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, it's there's a there's a lot that goes on.
There's there's some good plot points. Here.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I have to say I thought it was very sweet
that I was a goot to say Scott that Luke
was like going to miss them for not stopping by,
and I'm glad they made the time.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, that was good. And the whole marshmallow bit.
Did you see that when she sent him to get
more marshmallows and then.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
She pines on the phone, well she takes.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
At the actual Thanksgiving and they say how the yams
are really good? She says, oh, can you get me
some more marshmallows? And then when he walks away, she
takes the marshmallows off his plate.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yep. Yah.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, it's just a very cute little Luke and Laura
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, I noticed that.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And also I just thought it was really interesting that
the four of them sat together to eat.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I was like, this feels weird.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, when he says like, that's our table over there.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
This whole episode, by the way, was like Jess and
Rory being really like hi, hi, hi, Hi, very weird.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's still super awkward. Yeah, it's it's been a couple
episodes since the dance Marathon, but it's still you can
still wear especially yeah, Rory, especially like she doesn't want
to kiss in front of the market, and she's just
very sort of self conscious. I think she still feels guilty,
you know, about the way that it ended with Dean,
So I think she's just self conscious about it. But

(02:38):
of course Jess is like, you know, let's just do
it in front of everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah. I think that Dean, though, was a little out
of character at the end, like standing there in the
dark confronting Jess.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, the trash cans with just taking the trash out.
I remember the first time I watched that scene, I
thought that was like setting us up for a fight,
or for a fight, or just like some sort of
ongoing storyline between the two of them, because Dean was like,
you know, I kind of don't care anymore, and you know,

(03:12):
I like it, and I just I thought it was
going to be more of a fight for Rory. Like
I thought he was going to try to get Rory back.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Right, because it's right now, it's not about Rory. It's
about like taking just down right right. I mean it
will once we get to the next episode, we'll talk
about it kind of trickles in, it does.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, I just thought that there was going to be
sort of a storyline where Dean like actively tries to
get Rory away from it.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah, I kind of I kind of wish that we
didn't have that scene in this episode because I would
have liked to end this Thanksgiving episode just like clean,
like clean slate, like when it happened, because it ends
with that, like that's like the end of the episode.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
And I was like, did I need it right now?
I get why, but like, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, it would have been good to just have like
that holiday happiness kind of like wrap around the whole
episode and just sort of end on that note. But yeah,
I see, I see what you're saying, Like, yeah, it
kind of takes us out of the Thanksgiving mode.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
But man, did we really miss out on Dave Rogowski
and Gilmore girls.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
I was watching this, I was like, oh, man, I
wish he Don't get me wrong, I love the OC.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
See I never watched the OC, so I don't have
that to compare it to. They used to film near
my house all the time.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I have psades filming.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yeah, because the beach, the OC beach whatever it was
supposed to be, was actually torn.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, they were in Newport Beach. You know, I actually
think you would really enjoy the show.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
It's a little more like I means.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
It has its raunchy moments of like teen drama, but
the family story and specifically Adam Brodie are Adam Brody
makes the entire show.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, yeah, I should try it because I really like him.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Did you watch Nobody Wants This?

Speaker 3 (05:10):
I started it because we talked about it. I watched
like three or four episodes of it, and I really
liked it. I just haven't come back to.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
It season one. Yes, So you know how like lovable
he is in that show. That's the same vibe he
gives off in the entire OC and even with all
this drama around it, he is just like the breath
of fresh air in that show.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, well, and lovable in Gilmore too, like I I
for me, he is Lane's end game, like I really
stayed together.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
I think he's just if he can play all these characters.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
I've never met Adam Brody, but I'm just gonna say
I think Adam Brody is a very lovable human being.
Yeah yeah, all right, I'm trying to think.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Let's we're kind of jumping around.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I mean, the sukie stuff is always funny because of
she just got drunk.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
She was so over Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yes, and then the gilmour Is Thanksgiving, you know what
I mean? Me think I was like, son, I feel
like a Thanksgiving at the Gilmoures. It felt like just
like we were forced to invite these people over to
have dinner.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
It was a little weird, like just they they didn't
I don't know, maybe just that's just how the Gilmoures
do things. But to me, Thanksgiving is about like the
people that you're close to and maybe not necessarily family,
but just people like you know, close friends or whatever.
And I just felt this was more like a business dinner.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
That's how I felt.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, I've had like you know, we have we kept
it pretty low key this Thanksgiving, but you know, we
always have Thanksgiving at my cousin's house and my aunt
always invites everyone, and we have like family friends or
people who like may not have like who are family
friends who don't have family here, that don't have anyone
celebrate with when they come and you know, you don't
really know them, but you kind of know that, like
you know what I mean, Like it's just like a

(06:54):
it's just nice to get together. But yeah, this felt
like a business transaction.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Right right, And I mean I get that the Gilmour
family is small, like there's not a lot of cousins
and aunts and uncles.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
I mean, do we know, right, but we never meet
any really.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Emily mentions a sister that lives in France. But other
than that, we have Tricks and that's it. So I
get that it's not going to be like this giant
family dinner.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I wish, you know, that's the one thing that we're
missing from Gilmore Girls that I just kind of realized
in this moment is I wish we saw there the
Gilmore family, whether it's Emily and Richard, like lorealized cousins
and the cousins kids, you know, like more of that,
even though like the family is stars hollow, and I

(07:42):
understand that because it's more about community, but just like
a couple of times, just throw in some crazy aunt
in the.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Mix, you know. Yeah, they do mention, like in the
vow renewal, there's Aunt Tatsi or whatever.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
I mention it, but we've never seen so we don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
We don't know who's she is, like, we don't know
who she's connected to. And then when Tricks dies, we
only see Richard dealing with anything. There's not like any
brothers or sisters that come out of the woodwork.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Do we hear about Emily's parents, No, just just.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Not really she like maybe in passing, I know there
was a conversation about Emily's twenty first birthday invitations and
you know, so we know like she came from money,
but we don't know anything. There's a lot of people
that are saying, if there were to be like another

(08:37):
creation in the Gilmour universe, they would like to see
like an origin story, like a pretty quel of Richard
and Emily. Yeah, which would be that would be pretty cool.
I don't know who they would who they would cast
in those roles.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well you have you have the basis you have they
went to Yale, they met, they had I mean literally that.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
So we just watched to talk about.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
How like he proposed, Yeah, of the Penalan lot of
it all, Like there's there's line there.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
There would be some good content there. I think like
you could definitely, you know, pull together a season or
two out of that. That would be pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
I didn't have any like anything to really call out,
but I'm sure you do from this episode.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
So I have a few things, and I want to
I want to check. Okay, I'm just looking at my
notes here. So there was a tiny, tiny corner of
the clown pillow.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
Did you notice that it.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Was in the very open I didn't.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Where they were watching gray gardens. You had to know
that it was the clown pillow because you don't see
the clown. You just see just red object, you know,
behind that chair by the window.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Oh you know, I did see red, but because I
didn't see the clown pillow, I just assumed it wasn't
the clown pillow.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna go with clown pillow.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Okay, and then let's see so oh fun fun thing
the Thanksgiving scene at the Gilmour's.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
So the one the French Guy. This is kind of
one of those weird little meta moments. The French Guy
was played by Michael de Bar who is a he's
a singer but he's also an actor, and his wife
while ex wife by the time he did Gilmour, but
his wife previously was Pamela de Bar, who Laura Lai

(10:40):
and Rory actually referred to in the show like as
a pop culture reference.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
That's very, very deep.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
It's very Yeah, she was like a famous groupie in
the sixties and seventies and she wrote like this tell
all book about it, and so that's what Laurlai and
Rory are referring to. And it's actually in season three,
it's in a couple more episodes.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Okay, you have to call it out when yeah, yea,
when we get there.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Talking about his ex wife. And then the other so
soap opera fans probably already know this, which I have
not watched a soap opera in a very long time.
But the other the other actor that was at the
dinner was John Aniston, who's Jennifer Aniston's dad. Oh, and
they look nothing alike. I was watching him like they

(11:27):
didn't even seem related to me.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
I actually remember reading somewhere that her dad was in
a Gilmore Girls episode, and I literally watched this and
like had no idea. That's so I didn't realize. I
knew that, I knew that fun fact that he was
in the show. I just didn't nowhere.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, that's the one. And then just one other thing.
We always talk about the brand names. Did you notice
how many brand like I lost count there was of them.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
All honestly, there was too many.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
I usually called him out because usually we're kind of like,
we're like, oh, it's just such of Kellogg cereals. There
was too many for me to like keep track, so
I just stopped paying attention to it.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
It was it was a virus. There was stovetop stuffing,
there was I can't I can't even think of everything
right now, but yeah, there there was. It was just
brand name school Lord's like they just didn't care in
that episode.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, usually it's the pinpoint it down to, like a brand.
By this time, I was like, i't just throw whatever
we have.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, yeah, and then really the only other thing I
had is just kind of a funny thing that popped
into my head was the scene where they run into
Kirk outside of the store where he bought all the
cat equipment and he's standing there like with the cat
carrier and all that, and they're kind of teasing him
because he named the cat after himself, right, so it's

(12:45):
cat Kirk, and Laura's like, isn't that confusing? And I'm like,
she named her daughter after herself, so it's.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
A really good point. But wasn't she basically Rory out
of the womb.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah probably, but you're.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Right, that's actually a really funny point. Also, I doesn't
a cat. Maybe it's just because I like this episode.
I've rewatched it for Thanksgiving, but doesn't like the cat
storyline continue for a while.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
No, Okay, I thought it was more of a prominent like.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
There's there's so many there's multiple there's like four different
scenes that it's in in this episode, but I don't
there's another episode where he's got a dog, but that's
after he's dating Lulu.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Okay, huh.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
I guess maybe just because I remember this episode so well,
I just remembered Cat Kirk.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, it is kind of my comic.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, so funny. All right, Well I think that's oh yeah.
Otherwise it was a very fun episode. I would never
want to try to a fur ky, I can tell
you that. I yes.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
But hats off to Laurlai for remembering all of missus
Kim's relatives names.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
I know.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
She had to have studied it before getting Yeah, yeah,
so funny. All right, the next time we see you,
we're gonna be talking season three, episode ten. That'll do
pig and we'll see you next week.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Meeting adjourn.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
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