Gilmore Girls Season 2 Episode 21

Lorelai and Rory have breakfast at Sookie’s in an effort to avoid Luke’s, but Lorelai can’t avoid an awkward encounter with him at Doose’s Market, where he fails to pick up on her hints to patch things up; in an effort to help Lorelai through final exam stress, Rory gets her excited about attending her college graduation ceremony and secretly invites Richard and Emily, despite Lorelai’s assertion that they’d never agree to attend; after a late night phone call from Jess, Rory impulsively cuts school the next day and visits him in Manhattan; Christopher sends Lorelai a graduation gift basket filled with fun goodies and an expensive necklace; Lorelai is shocked to see Emily, Richard and the film crew accompanying them to her graduation, and must contend with an obnoxious classmate with an attitude about the rich; Rory is furious with herself when she takes the wrong bus home and misses her mother’s graduation; when Rory finally arrives home, Lorelai forgives her when she realizes that th