Gilmore Kiss Makes History
After four flirtatious seasons, Luke and Lorelai finally shared their first kiss on Gilmore Girls last spring. Their much-anticipated liplock was exchanged on May 18, 2004, if you really wanna be exact. And this smooch was so damn good, it makes No. 18 on TV Guide's list of TV's 20 Hottest Kisses of All Time. But what took 'em so long?
"We took our time," says GG creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. "We didn't rush it. [Viewers] got to watch Lorelai go through three or four different relationships. We got to see Luke go through a couple of different relationships. We got to really know who they were, and we got to see them grow as friends — friends make the best lovers. We saw them come to each other's rescue and be there for each other. [And] we knew he cared about Rory, which is all that Lorelai cares about."
Ardent GG fans still feel a frisson every time we spot Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson waking up in bed together as Lorelai and Luke. Happily, the lovebirds aren't sick of each other yet — and more importantly, we're not sick of them. "One of the things we avoid successfully is moments that make you go [makes vomit sound]," Graham says. "You don't want it to be too saccharine. He's still kind of gruff, and they tease each other. You see them together in bed or you see them having more intimacy, but what [we] have always liked about their contentious friendship stays the same."
"It's very important that Luke and Lorelai can still be Luke and Lorelai," Sherman-Palladino adds. "That's how we keep the relationship going. If, all of a sudden, it was this very soft, smushy [situation where] music swells, birds [are] flying by, flowers drifting... after a while, you're all like, "Ugh. What's on American Idol?"
