Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life."
Netflix's revival of "Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life" is now officially streaming.
The show likely made many fans feel happy and nostalgic — those four last words aside — while also moving the characters forward in a satisfying way.
There were also plenty of references to the series that may have gone over your head unless you're a die-hard fan. Keep reading so you can go back and catch them all.
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in.Let’s start with a classic: "I smell snow," Lorelai tells Rory in the town square.
Fans of the original series know that Lorelai has a keen sense for smelling when snow is about to fall.
In episode eight of the first season, Lorelai tells Rory how much she loves the snow and that she can smell when it's coming.
She also says every good thing that's ever happened to her — her first kiss, Rory's first steps, her best birthday — happened when it was snowing.
Lorelai is worried that celebrity chef Roy Choi is going to burn down the Dragonfly Inn's kitchen.
Lorelai has an ever revolving door of chefs coming in and out as she tries to replace her beloved best friend and the inn's chef, Sookie (Melissa McCarthy), during the revival.
In the original series, the inn where Lorelai, Michele, and Sookie worked did burn down.
While working at the Independence Inn, a faulty wire causes a fire to break out and the Inn got shut down.
It eventually spurs Lorelai and Sookie to open the Dragonfly Inn together.
Emily's new maid Berta is actually played by a Stars Hollow favorite.
That's right — Rose Abdoo, who plays Gypsy in the series, also plays Berta!
"Rose read it for fun in a table read because they hadn't cast it yet, and she was so hilarious they had to double her up," Lauren Graham (Lorelai) tweeted about the casting.
Gypsy tells Lorelai to buy a new car after fixing her Jeep Wrangler in "Spring."
Everyone should know by now that Lorelai will never get a new car.
In season seven, Lorelai tries to buy a new car, but discovers that she doesn't like any car but her beloved Jeep.
The frustrating process of trying to find a car she likes ends up fixing her friendship with Luke, who ends up convincing Gypsy to install a new engine into her old car.
There are also a few Easter eggs from the show at Richard's funeral, including a record Rory gave him.
During the first season, Lorelai isn't sure what to get her father. She asks Rory, who says she got him "Chuck Berry: Live at the Fillmore."
That album is on a table at the funeral, a touching reminder of Rory's relationship with her grandfather.
And this picture was from the wedding vow renewal episode, which was also the "Gilmore Girls" 100th episode.
The episode was called "Wedding Bell Blues" and it was a huge hit with critics and a wonderful glimpse into Emily and Richard's marriage.
When Emily is Kondo-ing her home, she tells Lorelai: "I was married for 50 years, half of me is gone."
This bit of dialogue is a touching tribute to actor Edward Hermann.
Edward Hermann played Richard Gilmore, the patriarch of the Gilmore family for the series' run. Hermann died in 2014 before the revival could happen.
The 50 year mark coincides with when Hermann died in real life: Emily and Richard married in 1964 and Hermann passed away in 2014. In the revival, Richard died in 2016, which means he and Emily would actually have been married for about 52 years.
Honoring his actual passing could be a subtle nod to the actor from showrunner and creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
The Town Troubadour chases a competing singer through Stars Hollow.
He's played by singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips.
It mirrors a plotline from season one when the Town Troubadour becomes the only Town Troubadour.
The Town Troubadour faces off against a rival Troubadour in season one of the series. During a town meeting, the issue is brought up and eventually, it's decided that the original Town Troubadour will be the official Town Troubadour.
In season six, he's tapped to tour with Neil Young, prompting a flock of hopeful singers to turn up in Stars Hollow to try and get discovered themselves. Eventually, the Town Troubadour returns and reclaims his rightful post.
We finally saw Lane's dad, Mr. Kim, after all these years.
Fans have wondered for years about Lane's dad — where was he and why did we never see him?
This seemed like a very bizarre throwaway moment in the revival, but at least we know he's alive and well.
Lorelai has another dream about Paul Anka, the dog and the man.
She tells Rory it's the third one she's had this year.
Season six is when Lorelai has her first dream about Paul Anka.
Here's the full dream from episode 18 "The Real Paul Anka," because it's delightful:
LORELAI: Okay, so weird dream. Weird, weird dream.
RORY: Weirder than the one where you step into a boxing ring and your hands are suddenly giant cream puffs?
LORELAI: Weirder, scarier.
RORY: Let's hear it.
LORELAI: Well, I was home, and I was finishing up my usual morning routine you know, coffee, shower. And then — picture this, very weird — I take Paul Anka for a walk.
RORY: You walk Paul Anka every day. What's weird about that?
LORELAI: Not the dog Paul Anka. The real Paul Anka.
RORY: Whoa.
LORELAI: Yeah.
RORY: Was he nice?
LORELAI: Very pleasant, natty dresser. Then suddenly, he sees something, a cat or something, and darts right into the middle of the street.
RORY: The real Paul Anka?
LORELAI: The dog Paul Anka. So I call him and call him, but he completely ignores me and runs right into Doose's Market.
RORY: You didn't train him well enough. Too much affection, not enough discipline.
LORELAI: I go after him into Doose's, and apparently he's got a job there.
RORY: The dog Paul Anka?
LORELAI: The real Paul Anka.
PAUL ANKA: You picked yourself some beautiful cucumbers, Mrs. Clancey. You have the cucumber eye.
LORELAI: So I run out of Doose's, and I'm approaching Luke's apartment, I guess to get help or something, and I'm walking to the door, and I open it, and there's Paul Anka in front of a microphone giving a little concert.
RORY: The real Paul Anka.
LORELAI: The dog Paul Anka.
RORY: Couldn't have been happy, you interrupting his show like that.
LORELAI: He didn’t notice, so I go down to the diner, and there, lo and behold, is Paul Anka sitting on Babette's lap.
RORY: Please don't tell me it was…
LORELAI: The real Paul Anka.
BABETTE: [stroking Paul Anka] Good boy. Who's a good boy?
RORY: This is crazy.
LORELAI: Coming to the end. So the real Paul Anka looks outside, and there, sitting in the middle of the street staring at him is dog Paul Anka.
RORY: Uh Oh!
LORELAI: So real Paul Anka gets up and runs out of Luke's. They're both in the street now, real Paul Anka walking toward dog Paul Anka, dog Paul Anka toward real Paul Anka. You can sense that something very bad is about to happen, when suddenly they meet in the middle of the street, and bam! An otherworldly white light engulfs the whole town, and there's a loud explosion and two barks, and everything goes dark.
RORY: And?
LORELAI: And then I woke up.
The Gilmore Guys were invited to be a part of the revival.
"Gilmore Guys" is a popular podcast that takes a deep dive into each "Gilmore Girls" episode. The pair kept it a secret from fans until the trailer debuted.
Richard's will sets money aside for Luke to franchise Luke's Diner.
In the revival, Emily convinces Luke to look at possible locations with her.
This plot line also played out in season five. Richard makes the suggestion when he and Luke go golfing at his club.
Luke frantically calls Lorelai after he golfs with her father and tells her, "Your father wants to open up a chain of Luke’s Diners, and I think I agreed to it."
"There’s going to be seven of them, and that’s just on the eastern seaboard. Then, I’m going national," he says. "I’ve already got a marketing guy, Herb’s my banker, your father is taking care of all my insurance needs, and apparently, everyone is going to be able to buy stock!"
Lorelai eventually calms Luke down and straightens everything out with her father, but it appears Richard never let the dream die.
Lorelai uses "alumnus" wrong.
When she talks to Rory while she's at her Chilton alumni event, she asks "How's my little alumnus doing?"
But she should know that's not the proper term by now.
When Rory was still in high school, she taught her mom the difference between alumna, alumni, and alumnus.
Rory is preparing to meet a Harvard alumnus, and Lorelai begins teasing her:
LORELAI: So, alumna is a girl graduate.
RORY: Right.
LORELAI: And alumnus is a man.
RORY: Singular.
LORELAI: So an unmarried man?
RORY: No, not not-married. He can be married or single, all alumnus means is one man singular as opposed to many men plural.
LORELAI: And plural is alumni.
RORY: Right, and that can be girls and guys.
LORELAI: Kinky!
RORY: No, not kinky, just what it is.
It appears she forgot this lesson.
The Chilton bathroom scene in the revival is a direct callback to season three.
In this scene, Paris mentions Chilton's uniform hemlines, Rory and Francie teaming up, and student council, practically all in one breath.
The Chilton bathroom in the original series is where Francie intimidated Rory and tried to get her to vote for higher hemlines.
While Rory serves as vice president on student council, the girls' bathroom at Chilton becomes a virtual war room as Francie tries to manipulate Rory to go against Paris's wishes and vote for higher hemlines. Rory eventually stands up to Francie in the same bathroom.
Seeing all three characters together again in one place was quite fun for fans.
Taylor Doose references the Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer event in "Summer."
It's from the first episode of season three when Taylor hires a choir to sing "Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" on repeat.
The whole town gets the song stuck in their heads and are miserable.
"Oh, hey, I figured how to get the 'Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer' out of our heads — to sing the 'Small World' song over and over for the next 48 hours," Lorelai says. "Of course, how we get the 'Small World' song out of our heads, I have not worked out yet."
Carole King sings "Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet" and no one recognizes it.
King plays Sophie, the sister of the Town Troubadour who owns a music store in town.
In the revival, she reprises her role and volunteers an "original song" that she says she's been working on — "Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet" — for Taylor to use.
The fact that no one recognizes the song is a cute nod to the "Gilmore Girls" theme song.
"Where You Lead," the famous "Gilmore Girls" theme song, was written by King. It's implied in the revival that in the world of "Gilmore Girls," Carole King and her music don't exist.
Taylor deems Sophie's song "Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet" not catchy enough.
Logan and his friends show up to Stars Hollow wearing gorilla masks.
The scene was an homage to when Rory first entered Logan's circle after she sees a girl wearing a gorilla mask.
Rory first finds out about the Life and Death Brigade — the secret society at Yale that Logan is a part of — when a girl wearing a gorilla mask wanders into her bathroom.
She decides to investigate for the Yale Daily News, and ends up getting closer to Logan in the process.
When Rory goes into Richard's study, you can see her painting above his desk.
Emily had the portrait done in season one. It was Lorelai who suggested Rory read a book while she's posing.
Richard loved the painting, and showing his study exactly as he left it was likely another nod to Edward Shermann, who played Richard.
Of course Miss Celine helps dress Lorelai for her wedding.
Miss Celine was famous for her taste in fashion — not to mention telling everyone what celebrity they look like.
She was Emily's personal stylist on the series and decided Rory looked like Audrey Hepburn while Lorelai looked like Natalie Wood.
When Emily repeatedly tells Lorelai "You need money" in "Fall," it's a direct tie to the first episode of "Gilmore Girls."
In the revival, Lorelai needs money to help expand the Dragonfly Inn. Emily agrees, on the condition that Lorelai and Luke visit her every year in Nantucket.
Richard originally said "You need money" multiple times when Lorelai asks her parents for a loan for Rory's Chilton education.
They decide that Lorelai and Rory will also visit every Friday night for dinner as a part of the arangement. It's the start of a very complicated relationship between the four of them.
You can read more about the scene here.
Rory shows Dean corn starch before he leaves Doose's Market after they run into each other in "Fall."
Dean tells her to pay for it this time — it's a reference to their first kiss.
Rory pretended she was buying corn starch when she was really looking at Dean at Doose's Market. She ended up taking the corn starch home with her accidentally after they kissed.
Sookie makes a bunch of wedding cakes for Lorelai, and one of them is covered in daisies.
Daisies are Lorelai's favorite flower.
In the first season finale of "Gilmoe Girls," Lorelai tells her then-boyfriend Max (Scott Cohen) that a proposal should have, "a thousand yellow daisies, and candles, and a horse."
Max takes Lorelai at her word and proposes with a thousand yellow daisies. Though the pair never got married, it was one of the show's most romantic moments.
While they're getting ready for the wedding in the revival, eagle-eyed fans can spot this picture of Rory's 16th birthday by Jess's elbow.
It's a picture from season one when Lorelai throws Rory a birthday party in their home. It's a nice reference to how far the series has come.
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