Gilmore Girls
Bon Voyage
TV Flash files “Bon Voyage” as a desk essential hour — Gilmore Girls (2000–2007) on WB/CW, season 7, episode 22, aired 2007-05-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E22: listed hour 153 of 153 in the Gilmore Girls guide, last listed hour of season 7. It aired 2007-05-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Unto the Breach” (S07E21). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Bon Voyage”. Bon Voyage is the CW closer before the Netflix encore — Stars Hollow waving from the porch, dialogue-forward comfort TV taking a first bow.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
An exciting job offer for Rory and a beneficent gesture from Luke add up to a big surprise party, where every Stars Hollow friend, neighbor and eccentric exuberantly celebrates the Gilmore girls.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bon Voyage sit in the Gilmore Girls guide?
S07E22 is listed hour 153 of 153 — last listed hour of season 7, season 7 episode 22.
When did Gilmore Girls S07E22 air?
Bon Voyage aired 2007-05-15 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start Gilmore Girls?
The WB premiere, with Lorelai and Rory in Stars Hollow. The talk speed is the show; don't skip to a later romance arc.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Lorelai and Rory fill Stars Hollow with rapid-fire pop-culture talk and coffee logistics. Amy Sherman-Palladino made walk-and-talk caffeine a lifestyle brand: Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel at 100 mph, grandparents as class warfare. Dialogue-forward comfort TV with a Netflix encore that reopened the town.
The first look is steam off a coffee cup and two women talking fast enough to count as tailoring. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore fill Stars Hollow with pop-culture talk, caffeine logistics, and class warfare with grandparents Richard and Emily — walk-and-talk as a lifestyle brand. Amy Sherman-Palladino premiered the series October 5, 2000, on The WB (later The CW) for seven seasons through 2007. Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel carry a town of eccentrics: Melissa McCarthy's Sookie, Scott Patterson's Luke, Kelly Bishop's…
Filed against
- Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore
Lauren Graham's Lorelai Gilmore made Gilmore Girls a caffeine lifestyle brand — Stars Hollow walk-and-talk, Rory in orbit, grandparents as class warfare, Amy Sherman-Palladino dialogue at 100 mph. Comfort TV with a Netflix encore. TV…
- Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore
Alexis Bledel’s Rory Gilmore speed-talked Stars Hollow into a lifestyle brand — Lorelai’s coffee logistics, Amy Sherman-Palladino walk-and-talk caffeine, grandparents as class warfare, Lauren Graham at 100 mph. Dialogue-forward comfort TV…
- Melissa McCarthy as Sookie St. James
Melissa McCarthy’s Sookie St. James cooked Stars Hollow like a second heartbeat under Gilmore Girls’ walk-and-talk caffeine — 2000s dialogue-forward comfort, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel at 100 mph, grandparents as class warfare. TV…
- Scott Patterson as Luke Danes
Scott Patterson's Luke Danes poured Gilmore Girls as Stars Hollow counterweight — Lorelai and Rory filling the town with rapid-fire pop-culture talk and coffee logistics, Amy Sherman-Palladino walk-and-talk as a lifestyle brand.…
- Kelly Bishop as Emily Gilmore
Kelly Bishop's Emily Gilmore turned Gilmore Girls grandparents into class warfare in a pantsuit — Stars Hollow caffeine, Amy Sherman-Palladino walk-and-talk, Friday-night dinners as a blood sport with china. TV Flash files her as 2000s…
- Yanic Truesdale as Michel Gerard
Yanic Truesdale’s Michel Gerard iced Gilmore Girls’ inn with disdain as hospitality — Lorelai and Rory filling Stars Hollow with rapid-fire pop-culture talk and coffee logistics, Amy Sherman-Palladino walk-and-talk caffeine as a lifestyle…