Gilmore Girls Trivia: Lane’s Hair
First, the answer to our previous trivia question: How many actresses have played a representation of Lorelai Gilmore (not Rory or Trix) on the show?
- 1 - 190 - 28% of all votes
- 2 - 326 - 48% of all votes
- 3 - 154 - 22% of all votes
- 4 - 16 - 2% of all votes
Total Votes: 686
The answer to this is a bit of a trick question, but partly based on your interpretation. The answer is “3″, with actresses: Lauren Graham, Chelsea Brummet (Young Lorelai in “Dear Emily & Richard“), Madeline Albright (Dream! Lorelai in “Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number.”)
I put in the question a “representation of Lorelai Gilmore” intentionally to clarify that point, but Rob, who supplied the question, had this to say about the dream sequence:
While I’m a Gemini and thus can easily think of Albright playing two different characters at the same time — herself and Lorelai — if someone told me that I had to pick one or the other that MA is playing in the scene, I would have to say that she’s playing Lorelai. And it’s because the dialogue that she speaks is a word-for-word replay of Lorelai’s dialogue from the matching scene in “Rory’s Birthday Parties” and thus, when Rory wakes up, she clearly realizes that she’s used the image of Albright as a less-threatening, matronly, perhaps even Emily-like substitute for Lorelai. Or more simply, Rory’s dream-memory is about how she feels about Lorelai, not about Madeline Albright, so therefore MA is playing Lorelai.
Our next trivia question is from Jennifer (this should be an easier one!):
If you have a trivia question you’d like featured, send it to me by email (arieanna@b5media.com) along with some fun answer options.
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4 opinions for Gilmore Girls Trivia: Lane’s Hair
Shani
Oct 11, 2008 at 10:21 am
i voted three not for madeleine though, forgot about her, the little girl in Lorelai’s First Cotillion was supposed to represent a young lorelai as well, but i guess not literally? or would that count as a fourth?
Rob (ShutUpRob)
Oct 13, 2008 at 12:38 am
I had factored in the girl from the cotillion in my original wording for the quiz. Arieanna actually changed the wording to fit her style — which, IMO, is awesome, btw — but there was no real difference in meaning between my wording and her wording. I realized that it was going to come off as I intended no matter what, which was to ask how many actresses have played Lorelai Victoria Gilmore. (ie: Lorelai rather than Lorelai Leigh “Rory” Gilmore or Lorelai “Trix” Gilmore).
You have *no* idea how hard it was for me to keep myself from giving any sort of clues as most people voted quite early and for “2,” which meant that they were thinking of Lauren and Chelsea only. I’ve figured that if I had given any hint — even just a “pay close attention to the wording” — that it could be anything but 2, then those voters would have clued in to Madeline Albright and chosen 3.
So, anyway, by virtue of the fact that half of the voters picked 2 (ie: Lauren and Chelsea, who I think most fans would get), we know that my question got across to most voters as the question that I intended to ask. How many actresses have played Lorelai herself in some form or another? That’s three.
I realized that it was a really, really tricky question — which is why I posed it. The question involves different levels of the show itself rather than (necessarily) different levels of metaphor. Lauren and Chelsea played the literal Lorelai, MA played Lorelai in one of Rory’s dreams. The Cotillion Girl was the Cotillion Girl — someone who paralleled Lorelai in a metaphorical sense without being literally being Lorelai in either the show’s objective reality or the subjective reality of Rory’s subconscious.
However, you’ve brought up a cool notion that I’ve thought a lot about myself and just have to talk about because my mind is racing: namely character analogues (such as the Cotillion Girl being an analogue — or parallel — to Lorelai.
I think it would be an interesting discussion to bring such analogue characters such as Cotillion Girl into it (or to create any number of quizzes around such character analogues) as there are so many different analogue-ish/parallelish characters on the show — Rory is certainly an analogue for Lorelai (and vice-versa) in the same way that Cotillion Girl is, but on a far deeper and wider level than that presented in the Cotillion episode. Same can be said for (among other characters) Lorelai/Lane, Lorelai/Anna Nardini, Rory/April, Lorelai/Richard, Luke/Richard, Rory/Richard, Logan/Chris, Luke/Dean, Emily/Sherry, Emily/Paris, Emily/Taylor, Emily/Mrs. Kim, Lorelai/Emily, Rory/Emily, Jason/Chris, Straub Hayden/Floyd Stiles/Mitchum Huntzberger, Mitchum/Richard, Jason/Logan, Cinnamon/Cyrus/The Dog Paul Anka (hee), Lorelai/Kirk (yes, I mean it), and . . . believe it or else, Lorelai/Luke.
Oh, and those are just the ones off the top of my head. Some more . . . Rory/Tana, Lorelai/Mia, Kirk/Michel, Kirk/T.J., Max/Logan (almost full circle!) . . .
— Rob
Shani
Oct 13, 2008 at 2:34 am
haha yeah, but then again the characters could all be parallels because most are under amy shermans voice, and they just match, but really it’s all just how you look at it i guess
GGFanCanada
Oct 13, 2008 at 12:37 pm
About the Lane and hair dye question, in truth it would be another multiple answer … “COLOR and Black”. Because, as Rory notes at the end of the episode “One Has Class and the Other Dyes”, Lane does (in fact) have dyed hair, because she has dyed it black again! [EDITED to remove answer]
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