Season 4, episode 14: Rory finally accepts her Yale fate.

May 26, 2016 12:19 PM

Every single terrible hat Rory and Lorelai wore on "Gilmore Girls" (note: is in fact every hat, terrible or no)
posted by Etrigan (25 comments total)

I can't believe someone went through the trouble to create these fake episodes and incredibly realistic hats. Seriously, I can't even tell if some one these episodes aren't 100% real.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 12:24 PM on May 26, 2016 [5 favorites]

Aaaah, I had that "Rory's golf hat" tam when I was a baby. My mom kept it and gave it to me when I had kids but I've never felt I could inflict it on another human being. Seriously, same exact hat.
posted by town of cats at 12:26 PM on May 26, 2016

So many hats. The ladies should have taken their cue from Luke, who found his terrible hat style right away and stuck with it, come hell or receding hairline.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:26 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

Vital, necessary work here. Give them a Pulitzer.
posted by zachlipton at 12:30 PM on May 26, 2016 [3 favorites]

I never understood how Rory and Lorelai could have that many winter hats until I moved to Canada. They just seem to multiply somehow.
posted by Kitteh at 12:59 PM on May 26, 2016 [5 favorites]

This was awesome. Thank you. (We are slowly rewatching the series at our house and are only in season 2 so far.)
posted by jillithd at 1:02 PM on May 26, 2016

Two hats you definitely bought from the Gap in 2002.

yeah, if you were cool. get with the times, man.
posted by numaner at 1:20 PM on May 26, 2016

I never understood how Rory and Lorelai could have that many winter hats until I moved to Canada.

I literally have a winter cap inside the left pocket of all of my jackets, one always in my EDC (regardless of weather), and one on top of the shoe rack for some reason. And it's only winter here 4 months of the year.
posted by numaner at 1:22 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

Lane's double pom-pom cap.

I will immediately propose to the next woman I see that wears that hat unironically.
posted by numaner at 1:27 PM on May 26, 2016

Honestly surprised there aren't more.
posted by Rock Steady at 1:39 PM on May 26, 2016

*snort* I love the tag "parisoverachievesagain". Hers really was an amazing paper hat.
posted by jillithd at 2:03 PM on May 26, 2016 [4 favorites]

Kitteh: I never understood how Rory and Lorelai could have that many winter hats until I moved to Canada. They just seem to multiply somehow.

And if you take up knitting, it only gets worse. It's at the point where I'm glad I live somewhere that's cold enough for hats at least 6 months of the year, because there are so many patterns I want to try.

I'm surprised how cute many of these hats are. But there are some real doozies in there, too. I think the weird pink and blue Frankenhat (6/13) is the worst, followed closely by the white newsboy cap (4/11).
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 2:16 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

It feels strange that this article doesn't mention that Amy Sherman-Palladino is well known for her love of strange hats.
posted by telegraph at 2:23 PM on May 26, 2016 [2 favorites]

As a hat-wearing person, I am disappointed in the underlying framing that all hats are inherently bad.

This is why we can't have nice things.
posted by Mchelly at 2:31 PM on May 26, 2016 [2 favorites]

I never understood how Rory and Lorelai could have that many winter hats until I moved to Canada.

Touque or GTFO
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 2:35 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

The Internet has spoiled me apparently because it's not enough for me to get a comprehensive viewing of all of these hats, I also demand that whomever is running that content farm to RANK THEM so that I can tell them how right or wrong their opinions are.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 2:36 PM on May 26, 2016 [7 favorites]

My family is moving to Canada (probably) next year, and on the outside I'm all "yes, closer to my husband's family, spider free childhood for the children" but on the inside, I'm "it's all about the knitting!". Wheeee!
posted by glitter at 4:23 PM on May 26, 2016 [2 favorites]

There were SEVEN seasons of that show?!
posted by helmutdog at 6:06 PM on May 26, 2016

Yes, and they were just re-screened on tv here and I was eagerly watching all through season 7, having scorned it previously, and I was so keen to finally see what happened, and something must have come up because yet again, I missed the final episode.
posted by glitter at 6:27 PM on May 26, 2016

My wife and daughter are watching the entire series. So. Many. Words.
posted by Mei's lost sandal at 6:47 PM on May 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

I like Lorelai's straw voting boater. Voter boater!
posted by knuckle tattoos at 9:29 PM on May 26, 2016

My family is moving to Canada (probably) next year, and on the outside I'm all "yes, closer to my husband's family, spider free childhood for the children"

I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
posted by louche mustachio at 3:38 AM on May 27, 2016 [3 favorites]

yet again, I missed the final episode

The whole series is streaming on Netflix (in the US anyway).
posted by Rock Steady at 5:43 AM on May 27, 2016

I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.

I was hasty, and should have specified: deadly spider free childhood. We're moving to the area where my husband grew up, a bucolic wonderland with no poisonous snakes or spiders, from Australia.
posted by glitter at 6:11 PM on May 27, 2016 [1 favorite]

You only need one hat, as per Jane.
posted by Brocktoon at 12:11 PM on May 28, 2016