12 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Gilmore Girls
9. Red Dwarf Reference
During season four, between her on-and-off relationships between Christopher and Luke, Lorelai dated Richard's business partner Jason Stiles. In some ways, he was perfect for Lorelai because he was the only man to match up to her sharp way of talking and how she always tried to discern herself from her parents. However, he lacked the charm and the likability of her other love interests, which is why most fans were glad he was taken out of the show by the end of the fourth season.
However, no one can deny that on sardonic humour alone, they were brilliant together. At one point, Jason Stiles sarcastically refers to himself as a hologram. This is actually an in-joke within the cast because the actor who played him, Chris Eigeman, portayed Arnold Rimmer in the first pilot of the failed Red Dwarf (1992) - a version of the British sitcom Red Dwarf. The character of Rimmer is a hologram.