Kenny Ortega’s Alright For Directing Gilmore Girls
Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast
Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
4.5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that several Gilmore girls episodes were directed by the man, the myth, the Dirty Dancing legend, Kenny Ortega??? The High School Musical icon joined forces with the Palladinos on several episodes between Season 3-6 to bring us some of our favorite and most iconic episodes. But who is he? Where does he come from? This week we’re doing a deep-dive on Kenneth Ortega before, during, and after Gilmore girls. So grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable because Tara and Haley have more to say!
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| 0:00.0 | Five, six, seven, eight. Kenny. Let's talk about Kenny Ortega. What a man. What a man, what a man, what a man. Let's talk about it. All right, here we go. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to Gilmortise with Tara and Haley. I'm Tara. This is Haley. Hi, Hayley. Hi, Tara. Oh, spear fingers. We've got jazz hands. Yeah, a little jazz hand action today. |
| 0:25.7 | For Kenny. For Kenny. Yeah, how perfect. How fitting. Yes. We are so excited today to dive into |
| 0:34.0 | some Kenny Ortega episodes after last week's deep dive on Amy and Dan episodes |
| 0:37.8 | because there's a lot of crossover there. |
| 0:40.3 | But before we dive into Kenny Ortega, I want to answer the question that we kind of left |
| 0:45.9 | on a cliffhanger at the end of last week's episode, which was putting Amy and Dan episodes |
| 0:51.2 | from season two up against each other. |
| 0:53.0 | And we landed on the Bracebridge |
| 0:54.6 | Dinner versus a Tisket of a very, very challenging conundrum in my opinion. Like how do you choose |
| 1:03.6 | I had this two episodes? What was your answer? Bracebridge, right? And the people said the same. |
| 1:10.0 | At first, a Tisket and Tasket was... Can I tell you I voted in the poll? |
| 1:12.5 | You did? I didn't. I voted for Brace, which, not that my vote was like the deciding vote. |
| 1:19.3 | I know. I did. I did so funny. No, it was pretty, pretty stark. At first, honestly, a Tisket, |
| 1:26.5 | it was surpassing. And then when I checked a couple |
| 1:30.1 | hours later, when I voted a bracebridge was winning. Yeah, a couple hours later. I was like, |
| 1:36.0 | oh, Bracebridge is like far beyond people's answer, which I found really fascinating. And because I |
| 1:43.1 | wasn't sure where it was going to go, I know that you thought |
| 1:45.0 | Bracebridge was going to kind of. I said, the girl. The girls are going to think Braesbridge. |
| 1:48.4 | Love Bracebridge. And I totally understand. Oh my God. Actually, I have, I have to tell you about |
| 1:53.9 | my friend Amy and her journey that I told you about last week. Okay. So yesterday we were at work, and I said, how were the girls? |
| 2:03.9 | And she was like, good, I just watched the episode where, you know, the town, I was like |
| 2:08.0 | the Brace Bridge dinner. |
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