Sometimes I like to reply to things on BlueSky. Best Enterprise crew, wrong answers only, top five TTRPGs and so on. Yesterday I saw one about people who wouldn’t have been vaccinated, specifically not villains. After thinking about a few different shows I knew the disappointing truth.

Now, there was a little pushback and some correct takes about other Gilmore Girls characters. This got me thinking about the characters from Gilmore Girls and which ones would have been vaccinated, so here’s a definitive list. If you disagree, I’m that you’re wrong, but I can’t help you.

Lorelai Gilmore

Lorelai got vaccinated. She’s in a place of business with a lot of foot traffic and more importantly, she wouldn’t be able to haunt Rory. Or to begrudgingly take part in Friday Night Dinner.

Rory Gilmore

Of course she did. Rory’s clever and has a sense of responsibility even if she’s prone to some poor life choices later on in the show.

Emily and Richard Gilmore

They both got that rich person super-vaccine from Glass Onion.

Luke Danes

The one that kicked this off. Inundated with antivax ranting from Liz and Taylor, Luke didn’t want to close the diner anyway and would only get vaccinated if Lorelai bullied him into it.

This is partially inspired by a friend who came so close to going all antivax as he couldn’t be bothered actually going and getting it. Luckily he was bullied into action.

Lane Kim & Hep Alien

Lane would have got vaccinated as she’s sensible and Mrs Kim would have given her hell. At the same time, she would have driven Zack to the clinic to get vaccinated, but he got distracted by a vending machine or something and didn’t get round to it. He’s not told anyone this.

Brian got vaccinated as soon as possible given his laundry list of medical issues, Gil went from hair metal to wellness to conspiracy theories.

Joel is currently an unqualified person in charge of a government agency, along with his mate ‘Big Balls’.

Kirk Gleason

You can’t get a job administering vaccines if you’re not already vaccinated.

Taylor Doose

I can’t confirm or deny whether Taylor was vaccinated but I’m guessing he wasn’t. He’s laying low as he’s wanted for questioning in connection to his whereabouts on January 6th 2020.

Babette & Miss Patty

Didn’t last until a vaccine happened. Sorry.

Paris Geller

She’s a fertility doctor, but might have found a way to have a hand in the vaccine. I choose to believe this, because it’s this or she’s gone all in on some Elizabeth Holmes madness.

Michel Gerard

Yes, but he’s not told Lorelai and lied about having Covid in order to get out of work.

Christopher Hayden

Christopher was part of a start-up for Covid-based gadgets like smart-masks which didn’t actually work. If he was in the UK he’d have got a ton of contracts just by bunging the Tories a tenner. Sadly he was in the US and got scammed with what he thought was a cheap supply of vaccines. One day the side effects might go down.

Sookie St James

Yes, both for work and because that way she’d be able to get out of the house, away from her chaotic children and to see Lorelai. 

Jackson Belleville

Rune showed him too many conspiracy videos and doesn’t feel like anyone’s truly explained to him what’s in the vaccine.

Dean Forester

Okay, the love interests.

I regret to inform you that ‘man of the people’ Dean has been listening to too much Rogan. He’s probably been an early Ivermectin victim.

Jess Mariano

He moaned about it, but still took it and made some very strained literary comparisons. He and Liz still fight about this decision. A younger Jess would have cut all ties, a current Jess is trying to work out a way to spike Liz with the vaccine at one of the Ren Faires she works at, for her own safety.

Logan Huntzberger

Logan broke lockdown early on for a party and tragically died. Not even of the ‘Rona, but some Life & Death Brigade stunt which went wrong as they didn’t invite anyone with first aid skills.

Colin and Finn launched an NFT based on Logan later on which was, of course, a scam.

The Troubadours

They survived and ran rampant through Star’s Hollow with no one on the streets for months. They went feral and have since had to be put down.

Thank you to Miles for sharing his choice of antivaxxer (Fox Mulder), which inspired me and Dweller in Darkness, for his comments on Taylor Doose.