The PTA invites Lorelai and Luke to speak at the high school's career day, but it turns ugly.

Lorelai pursues an attractive man whom she met at an auction organized by Emily.

When Rory is invited to a celebration for her father's pregnant girlfriend, Lorelai is forced to attend as well.

Determined to win the annual Stars Hollow 24-hour dance marathon, Lorelai forces Rory to be her partner.

Lorelai and Rory join Richard and Emily on a trip to visit Yale University, but Richard causes trouble.

On the way to a formal dinner party with Richard and Emily for Thanksgiving, Lorelai and Rory stop for celebrations with Lane, Sookie and Luke.

Lorelai is forced to miss the winter carnival when Richard's haughty mother insists on having dinner with Richard and Emily at the inn and makes a surprise announcement.

Rory's manipulative classmate Francie convinces Paris that Rory has been plotting against her.

After agreeing to go on a fishing date with Alex, Lorelai asks Luke for a lesson on fishing techniques.

When Christopher's pregnant girlfriend, Sherry begins labor and asks Rory to stay with her at the hospital, Lorelai reminisces about the day Rory was born.

Lorelai goes away with her new boyfriend, Alex, for a weekend in New York, but she worries about leaving Rory and Jess together.

Rory accompanies Lane to a hockey game, where she encounters Dean and his new girlfriend, Lindsay.

While waiting for their college acceptance letters, Rory and Paris compete to give a speech.

When a fire at the inn forces Lorelai to lodge guests in her own house, she spends the night at Luke's place.

While Lorelai deals with rebuilding the inn, Rory schemes to give her mom a great birthday party.

Lane's rock band debut ends badly when the animosity between Jess and Dean results in a fistfight.

After the brawl between Jess and Dean, Lane is in trouble and Luke is furious at Jess. But ironically, Lorelai is proud of Rory.

Jess travels to Venice, California where his father, Jimmy, lives.

Rory and Lorelai happily prepare for Rory's graduation from Chilton.

When Rory gets accepted to a fancy prep school, Lorelai is forced to humble herself and ask her mother for help in paying the tuition.

A T-shirt, shorts and cowboy boots-clad Lorelai accompanies Rory on her first day at school, drawing disapproving stares from the other mothers and from Lorelai's own mother, Emily.

When Richard and Rory form an instant bond during a day of golf, Lorelai feels left out and finds it difficult to observe Rory's emotional connection with Emily and Richard.

Rory has trouble getting good grades at her new school.

Lorelai forgets to tell Rory that she has a date with Rory's teacher Max. Rory has a new crush.

Rory gets upset at Emily, who plans a formal birthday party for her but feels that Rory is ungrateful when Rory reveals that she would not like to have a formal birthday party.

Lorelai takes the liberty of inviting Dean over, and Rory is embarrassed by her mother's actions.

Lorelai shares a wonderful day with Max while Rory is snowed in at her grandparents' home.

Rory turns down two boys' offers to take her to a school dance and instead chooses to go with Dean.

Richard collapses. Dean assures Lorelai that nothing improper happened on the night he and Rory fell asleep together.

Paris exposes the relationship between Lorelai and Rory's teacher, Max. When Rory confronts Paris, she admits that she wanted to deflect attention away from her parents' divorce.

Lorelai finds herself on a hellish double date with Sookie, Jackson, and Jackson's very odd cousin.

Trouble occurs when Rory brings her friends to a concert by The Bangles.

Rory and Dean disagree about women's roles after watching "The Donna Reed Show."

Rory's father, Christopher, returns, causing tension in Emily and Richard's house--and forcing Lorelai to make a big decision about her family's future.

Dean and Rory share a special evening as the town celebrates its romantic history.

Dean ends his and Rory's relationship on their anniversary.

Emily becomes worried when Lorelai's grandmother offers Lorelai a trust fund for Rory's education.

Aghast to finally see the conditions in which Lorelai reared Rory instead of living with Richard and her, Emily tries to create the perfect bedroom for Rory in her house.

Upset over Dean, Rory becomes angry with Lorelai, who didn't tell her that she's dating Max again. Dean tells Lorelai that he left Rory because she couldn't say "I love you."

Rory finally tells Dean that she loves him. Rachel senses that Lorelai and Luke are attracted and leaves town rather than pursue Luke anymore.

Lorelai accepts Max's proposal, but Emily's attitude dampens the bridal bliss.

Richard's disapproval of Dean leads to the first fight between Rory and her grandfather.

During a wild bachelorette party hosted by Sookie, Lorelai makes an impulsive telephone call to Rory's father, Christopher, and sadly realizes that Max is not the man for her.

With the wedding canceled, Lorelai is eager to escape the sympathies of everyone in Stars Hollow, so she and Rory take off on a road trip that ultimately leads to Harvard University.

Lorelai's advice doesn't dissuade Luke from reluctantly agreeing to care for his wild 17-year-old nephew, Jess. Rory finds herself attracted to Jess, the town's newest resident.

Emily requests that Rory partake in a debutante ball. To everyone's surprise, Rory agrees.

Rory's reluctant efforts to socialize put her in the most popular clique at Chilton.

Lorelai and Sookie have the first fight of their long friendship upon hearing that the Independence Inn may be sold.

When Rory and Tristan are cast as Romeo and Juliet in a school play, Rory begs him not to tell Dean about their kiss.

While Rory struggles to keep the budding rivalry between Dean and Jess under control, Lorelai invites most of the citizens of Stars Hollow to an elaborate feast.

Lorelai becomes angry when Rory tells Emily about a financial problem, and Emily offers Lorelai a loan.

Newly retired Richard is making Emily crazy, so Lorelai agrees to take her father for a day in Stars Hollow, where he proceeds to annoy both Lorelai and Rory.

The annual Stars Hollow Picnic Basket Auction causes romantic complications when Jess outbids Dean to win a picnic lunch date with Rory.

Lorelai and Rory are stunned when Rory's father, Christopher, brings his new girlfriend, Sherry, to Stars Hollow.

Rory panics when she realizes that she has lost the bracelet that Dean made for her.

Lorelai and Emily sneak out of a health spa for some unauthorized food.

Luke makes funeral arrangements for his deceased Uncle Louie, Stars Hollow's most disliked citizen.

For Chilton's business fair, Rory must create and market a first-aid kit for teens, so she asks Richard for advice.

When Jess convinces Rory to let him drive, he crashes her car, breaking Rory's wrist.

Lorelai volunteers her skills to help Richard establish a consulting business.

Rory secretly invites townspeople to Lorelai's business school graduation ceremony.

On the eve of Sookie's wedding, Lorelai and Christopher share an intimate night together.

After returning from an internship in Washington, D.C., Rory faces a dilemma.

Ignoring Lorelai's pleas to stay out of her love life, Emily tries to reunite Christopher with Lorelai and Rory.

Rory and Lorelai arrange a dinner with an alumnus to get advice about Rory's Harvard application.