Mine is the scene in episode "Friday Night is Alright for fighting" wherr they go from fighting to laughing to fighting.
Or "to live and let diorama" where Lorelei and Kirk are having the "don't you dare turn on that tv" scene
My god, I have so many! It's impossible to pick just one... but there is a scene that just always gets me, and I just can't get enough of it.
Season 1 - episode 12 Opening Scene
Rory comes out of her room, calls out "Mom" and Lorelai walks in. Music starts playing over them getting ready for work and school, making pop-tarts and coffee. It's just such a simple scene, that you would never see in TV today. Not even on Film.
Here's the scene : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9U_LRQlcBY
And then there's the town's 24 hours dance marathon episode, but that's a favorite episode of mine, so everything in there!
I love both of those. The dance Marathon is one of my favorite scenes.
shareMy first is a combination of two scenes: In The Bracebridge Dinner, first when Emily insists on sleeping in Rory and Lorelai's room because she's so mad at Richard, and Lorelai tells her "That job was killing him, mom. It was killing him." Then Emily goes downstairs and finds Richard on the couch, and he explains his whole story about retiring, and then she simply takes his hand and says "Let's go to bed." I just think that whole sequence is so beautiful.
Another favorite is in The Reigning Lorelai (actually, I have a lot of favorite scenes from this one. Emily on the couch! Great episode). But the thing I love most in this episode is at the very end, after the funeral, when Emily stops a server and tells him to make sure the food trays go by her husband first. That is such a caring and thoughtful gesture, while being wholly unobtrusive. To me, it's made all the more poignant by the fact that Emily's been none too pleased with Richard these days, and also the fact that her unfitness to be his wife was thrown in her face in this very episode. Now that is good writing.
*Formerly Nothin_but_the_Rain*
The majority of the Kiss & Tell episode was the peak of the series for me...or at least for Rory's character. She devolved quickly after that. Except for the speech Lorelei gave to Dean about how the town will essentially lynch him if he does anything to hurt Rory when of course it was Rory who ended up being way more terrible to him.
Also liked the scene where Lorelei calls Rory out on being terrible to Dean in public out in the town square or whatnot.
Rory: Not fair
Lorelei: yes fair
and so on. Perhaps one of the few times where Lorelei actually acts like a mother and Rory gets called out on her repug behavior all in one scene.