‘Gilmore Girls’ Costumer Reveals ‘Legally Blonde’ Easter Egg

Seeing pink? Former Gilmore Girls set costumer Valerie Campbell goes viral for revealing which Legally Blonde easter egg was intentional — and extra film connections.

“I feel that was an easter egg you had been meant to know while you watched Gilmore Girls the primary time round,” Campbell mentioned in a TikTok revelations clip, referring to a memorable prop used throughout a season 4 episode of Gilmore Ladies.

On the present, Kirk (Sean Gunn) will get stopped by Luke (Scott Patterson) when he walks into Luke’s Diner carrying a pink and white polka dot purse large enough for a canine.

“It’s not a handbag!” Kirk yells at Luke whereas holding the bag over his shoulder. “It’s a canine service. My girlfriend [has] gone out of city with some mates and I’m watching Buster for her.”

Whereas the scene itself is memorable to some, it’s the bag that stands out to followers of Legally Blonde. Within the 2003 sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde, Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) carries the identical purse to tote her pup, Bruiser Woods, round Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. amid her high-powered profession as an legal professional.

“That bag was so iconic in that film that there isn’t any approach we simply randomly used it,” Campbell, who labored because the set costumer on the WB collection from 2001 to 2007, famous in her TikTok.

She additional defined that each prop needed to get accepted by the present’s creator, Amy Sherman-Palladino, for use on set.

“Since Elle in Legally Blonde 2 was such a vogue icon and that second was very iconic, there isn’t any probability that was simply randomly used,” Campbell concluded, noting the season 4 episode aired from 2003 to 2004, so it was concurrently the film was in theaters.

The former Gilmore Girls employee later identified that “one other enjoyable reality” that ties to each the present and the film collectively. She defined that Bruiser’s outfit in Legally Blonde 2 was “constructed” by Marilyn Madsen, who’s a “good good friend” of the present’s costume designer. Madsen “additionally helped assemble many gadgets on Gilmore Ladies too,” Campbell revealed.

Whereas Gilmore Ladies — which starred Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as the mother-daughter duo of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, respectively — resulted in 2007, fans are still hooked on the show. The fandom prompted a four-part reunion for Netflix in 2016 referred to as Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

In March, followers had been as soon as once more speaking concerning the present after Campbell claimed via TikTok that she knew the identity of Rory’s baby daddy. Rory’s being pregnant was introduced through the A Yr within the Life finale however the father’s name has not been revealed.

Campbell, for her half, concluded that “the one apparent selection” as the daddy is Logan (Matt Czuchry) since Rory had an ongoing affair with him all through the four-part collection. “Amy herself mentioned, ‘Why are individuals even questioning who the daddy is? It was alleged to be very, very, very, very apparent,” Campbell concluded in her TikTok.

Legally Blonde has an equally large following, which helped get Legally Blonde 3 greenlit. The third film has but to obtain a premiere date, however Witherspoon, 47, introduced in Could 2020 that Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor had signed on to jot down the script.

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“I’m nonetheless hoping that Legally Blonde 3 is gonna come collectively in the best approach,” the Morning Show star informed USA At present in July 2022. “I really feel like these characters are my mates, so I safeguard them. I might by no means make the subpar, mediocre model of their story.”