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In Gilmore Girls during the Season 5 episode “We Got Us a Pippi Virgin“, Luke & Lorelai go on a double date with Rory & Dean… despite a little grumbling from Luke. They go to watch a Pippi Longstocking movie, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, since apparently Luke is a Pippi Virgin.
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At one point in the episode, however, Luke & Lorelai have a talk about why Luke is so annoyed by Rory dating Dean again. Luke believed that Dean was not good enough for Rory, though very few people would be… a prince maybe, or someone who will be good for her. Luke then goes on to compare Rory to Pippi Longstocking.
“She can have adventures and be free, she’s smart. The whole world’s waiting for her….
Pippi is strong and independent. She can lift a horse above her head. Uh-huh. And beat up bullies and build a hot-air balloon. She’s unique, like Rory. But I guarantee you, if Pippi had met Dean, there would be no horse, no balloons. He’d drag her down to his level, spend all her gold coins, and poof, like that, all her dreams would be gone.”
I’d have to agree with Luke in comparing Pippi to Rory. Though Rory doesn’t have supernatural strength, she always approaches everyday things with a unique perspective. Rory’s strong and (usually) quite independent.
Here’s Pippi’s solution to scrubbing the house, as an example of her own unique perspectives:
Do you think that Dean took away some of what made Rory the strong, assertive person she was? Did he “un-Pippi” her, so to speak, by taking away qualities that made her extraordinary? Or was Rory meant to simply realize that she’s grown up, past the time of her life where Dean fit into it?
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Pffff… I just chalked this up as a random obscure reference, not to be taken seriously. Sometimes you’re better off not knowing WTF they are talking about.
I wish I had not watched that video.
Ah, the Pippi scene. One of my all-time favorites.
I get a kick out of Dean/Jared turning away laughing when they start to sing. I always wondered if that was scripted.
They’re not watching The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking; they’re actually watching the original Swedish movie dubbed in English
Regis, I ask myself the same question every time I watch this episode.
About Rory being Pippi, I don’t think we should read too much into it. I think Luke was just trying to make his point as to why Dean is not good enough for Rory. He never really liked the guy actually, just like he never really liked any of the guys Rory was dating. Jess is probably an exception because he is his nephew but remember how he acted with Logan in the valentine episode. It’s only after Logan saved Luke with the gift that he started accepting him. He was overprotective of Rory, as if she was his own daughter. That’s what made their relationship so special.
I think Dean was good for Rory, mostly.
That is an adorable laugh, and a good question.
I think Rory is a little like Pippi, sometimes…
I love this episode! I´ve always thought Luke had a point… Rory could do anything. Dean was not always supportive of her. He couldn´t understand it. I think girls like Rory are too talented and smart to waste it all and just be housewives…remember Donna Reed? That´s what Dean wanted and would have expected of Rory eventually.
More importantly, it always thought it was ironic that Luke felt no one was good enough for Rory, and treated them with contempt, while he himself was always “not good enough” for Loralai in Emily and Richard’s eyes. You think he would have been more understanding since he was always trying to be good enough for the Gilmore’s.
I think it’s the mistake that everyone makes though – forgetting their own struggles to be recognized as ‘good enough’. It’s hard to let go and sometimes we see that more in Luke than in Lorelai, when Rory is concerned.