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Episode 107

The autumn festival is in town. Luke has not decorated the diner, though Taylor and others want him to. They badger him about it, he rants at them. Life is good. But a far more paramount conflict is brewing.

Rory goes into Doose’s on the pretense of looking for corn starch. But really she just wants to see Dean. Funny, he wants to see her, too. He offers her some free soda, hides it behind his back, and asks her to pick one. When she reaches for one, he leans over and kisses her on the lips, in one of the most famous scenes of the show.

Problem is, Rory doesn’t feel she can tell Lorelai, because she doesn’t think Lorelai would like it. But Mrs. Kim overhears Rory telling Lane about it, and she confronts Lorelai, who is at first confused, and then upset about it. Lorelai manufactures opportunities for Rory to tell her about the kiss, but Rory just isn’t. She gets more and more upset, until finally, she just comes right out with, “So, kissed any good boys lately?”

Now, desperate to prove that she’s cool with Rory liking a boy, she invites Dean to movie night with the girls. Which just makes the situation worse, because Rory and Dean haven’t been out on a date yet, and Rory doesn’t want to spend their first date with her mother, and she can’t uninvite him, and she doesn’t want it to look like she needed her mother to get her a date. So Dean comes over for movie night… Under the watchful eyes of Stars Hollow. (Kissing in the market in Stars Hollow. What were they thinking? That they wanted privacy?)

Episode guide: “Kiss and Tell” at crazy-internet-people.