12 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Gilmore Girls

12. Lorelai's Dollhouse

One of the longest running themes of Gilmore Girls was Lorelai rebuilding her fragile relationship with her parents. She hated her childhood - raised by a strict mother with such high expectations, and a distant father. Despite all the vitriol that was passed down by Emily, Lorelai loved one thing about her upbringing - her dollhouse, and it's had quite a history within the series.

In the season six episode "Welcome to the Dollhouse", Emily is selling many of Lorelai's old possessions and insists she pick up her dollhouse from the Gilmore residence before it gets donated to charity. Later, Richard delivers it with the main intention that he can talk to Lorelai about Rory. Further into the series, when Jackson is recovering from chicken pox at Lorelai's house, he accidentally breaks it.

However, long before the events of her dollhouse, it made a little appearance in Kim’s Antiques in the season five episode “A House is Not A Home”, within the twenty percent off section.

On a side note (contrary to popular belief), Monica from Friends did NOT inherit the same doll's house from a family member.