Love and War and Snow episode #1.08 | written by Elise

Elise's Comment:

This episode truly explores the magic surrounding the first snow of the season. Good things do happen when it snows. Now, some of you may be more like Emily and feel stranded in a land where black ice is your worst enemy, or like Michel, who does not seem to get any pleasure at all from the coldest season of the year. I live in Canada -- we get a lot of snow here -- and totally relate to Lorelai. It's that feeling you get inside, the smell that's in the air, the silence... everything stands still when it snows (even Kirk, Taylor and the others with their silly costumes). My favourite scene is when Lorelai is walking outside and notices Max. "I smell snow." She then looks up at the snow, while one of those amazing Sam Phillips musical airs is playing in the background. Magic! It was snowing during one of my recent walks to the bus stop. I was so excited... I swear I heard the Sam Phillips' air in my head as I was walking. Ok, enough with the show. This episode had some funny scenes as well. Sookie's "cookies for the Dean and the love and the cookies..." is one of them, and then when poor Lane runs her fingers through Rich's hair. Here are some magical snow quotes.

Lorelai: Can't you smell it [snow]?
Rory: You know, its like dogs and high pitched noises. I think its something only you can smell.

Lorelai: I love snow.
Rory: Really, I had no idea.
Lorelai: Everything's magical when its snows, everything looks pretty. The clothes are great. Coats, scarves, gloves, hats.
Rory: Thermal underwear, wool socks, ear flaps.
Lorelai: Do you know the best things in my life have happened when it snowed?
Rory: Why yes I do.
Lorelai: My best birthday.
Rory: Your first kiss.
Lorelai: Your first steps, they all happened when it snowed. [...] I feel good. Tingly.
Rory: That's called frostbite.
Lorelai: You are mocking your mother, the woman who birthed you.
Rory: I'm sorry.
Lorelai: During a snowstorm, might I add.

Lorelai: Hey, how is it out there?
Michel: It is cold and gray like a fat dead pigeon.
Lorelai: Oh, we'll need to pull out the sleds, people might want to sled. Ooh, and the parkas. We'll need the parkas.
Michel: For what?
Lorelai: In case anyone wants to hike.
Michel: You do know that not everyone finds the idea of being pelted with frozen water appealing.
Lorelai: I know, and how sad for them.
Michel: The thrilling sensation of getting lost in a blizzard, of freezing to death in the woods, and having to eat your friend's buttocks to stay alive, that is lost on many people.
Lorelai: I am telling you, five minutes in a snowball fight we could knock that stick right out of your butt.

Lorelai: Ladies and Gentlemen, we have flakes. Flakes have been sighted. Flakage, if you will, has begun. Michel, it's the first snowfall of the season. It's very lucky. Make a wish.
Michel: Get away from me.
Lorelai: Oh, you're not supposed to say it out loud.

Lorelai: When I was five, I had a really bad ear infection and I had been home in bed for a week and I was very sad. So I wished really hard that something wonderful would happen to me. And I woke up the next morning and it had snowed. And I was sure that some fairy godmother had done it just for me. It was my little present.
Luke: Your parents never explained the concept of weather to you?
Lorelai: I'm making a point, Mouthy McGee. Of course, many years later, I realized that logically, the snow was not there for me personally. But, still, when it snows, something inside me says, 'hey that's your present.' I don't think it'll ever change.

[ written December 6, 2002 ]