Rory asks Dean to the Chilton formal despite reluctance to do so. While making Rory's dress, Lorelai throws her back out and Emily, noticing the pain she's in, insists that she stay with Lorelai while Rory's at the formal. At the dance, Dean has an encounter with Tristan that leads to a fist-fight between the two. After the dance, Rory and Dean fall asleep together while reading as Miss Patty's. The next morning, Lorelai wakes up to the angry voice of Emily and finds that Rory has not returned home.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 9 of Gilmore Girls resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Gilmore Girls Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
• s01e03 - Kill Me Now
• s01e04 - The Deer Hunters
• s01e05 - Cinnamon's Wake
• s01e06 - Rory's Birthday Parties
• s01e07 - Kiss and Tell
• s01e08 - Love and War and Snow
• s01e09 - Rory's Dance
• s01e10 - Forgiveness and Stuff
• s01e11 - Paris is Burning
• s01e12 - Double Date
• s01e13 - Concert Interruptus
• s01e14 - That Damn Donna Reed
• s01e15 - Christopher Returns
• s01e16 - Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers (1)
• s01e17 - The Breakup (2)
• s01e18 - The Third Lorelai
• s01e19 - Emily In Wonderland
• s01e20 - P.S. I Lo...
• s01e21 - Love, Daisies and Troubadours

Gilmore Girls Show Summary

Set in a storybook Connecticut town populated with an eclectic mix of everyday folks and lovable lunatics, Gilmore Girls is a humorous multigenerational series about friendship, family and the ties that bind.Thirtysomething Lorelai Gilmore has made her share of mistakes in life, but she has been doing her best to see that her college-bound daughter - and best friend in the world - Rory, doesn't follow in her footsteps. That may be easier said than done, considering that the two share the same interests, the same intellect, the same coffee addiction and the same eyes. Rory is more serious than Lorelai, but there are tendencies, especially in the love department, that clearly indicate she is her mother's daughter. From the beginning, this unique mother-daughter team has been growing up together. Lorelai was just Rory's age when she became pregnant and made the tough decision to raise her baby alone.Gilmore Girls was the first series to make it to air supported by the Family Friendly Forum's script development fund. An initiative between some of the nation's top advertisers and The WB, the program is intended to offer a greater array of compelling family programming on network television. The strong and loving mother-daughter relationship portrayed in Gilmore Girls reflects the growing reality of this new type of American family.