Continuity: After Rory is walking with Dean, it goes to a shot of Rory and Lorelai eating at Luke's Diner from outside. Rory is wearing a light blue sweater and Lorelai has a black shirt on. Then it goes inside the diner and Rory is wearing a dark bluish/grey sweater and Lorelai is wearing a purple shirt. The first shot is used from the very last scene of the episode.

Continuity: Luke uses a red screwdriver trying to get something out of the toaster and leaves the screwdriver in the toaster while he goes to get coffee. When it cuts back to Lorelai, the screwdriver is on the counter, beside the toaster.

Deliberate "mistake": Richard and Emily speak of his mother as if she were dead, but she comes to visit several times later in the series.

Other: In 1.06 - Rory's Birthday Parties Paris says "Ten generations of Gellers have gone to Harvard" in 3.16 - The Big One Paris says "Five generations of Gellers have gotten into Harvard"

Continuity: During movie night, Dean mentions that he has sisters. But in subsequent episodes, he only has one sister.

Other: When Rory returns from being stranded overnight in Hartford, she comes up the walk and meets Lorelei on the porch. Although it's snowing significantly in the background, there is not a single flake of snow on Rory's hair, jacket, or backpack, and her hair is completely dry.

Continuity: At the start when Harry is talking at the town meeting - the frontal shoots show his hat sitting on the top ledge of the lecture stand, but in the shoots from behind the hat is sitting on the shelf part of the lecture stand.

Continuity: When Lorelai and Max are standing on the porch of Lorelai's house debating on going in together, there is a snowflake on Lorelai's hat that is present in some shots showing the back of her head, and absent in others.

Continuity: When Lorelai and Luke are in Luke's Diner to choose the color for the walls, Luke turns around the 'closed'-sign on the door. In this shot you can see that the venetian blind at the door is quite messed-up; partly closed, partly opened. In the following shot, where all the people are standing outside Luke's Diner looking trough the windows, the venetian blind is orderly and completely opened.

Continuity: In the first scene when Dean brings pizza and they are discussing about Donna Reed: In one shot Lorelai is opening the pizza box and she and Rory take a piece and start eating while they are talking. In the following shot, the piece of pizza in Lorelai's hand is gone and Rory takes a piece from the box - you can see that the pizza is complete again.

Continuity: In this episode, Jackson's surname is "Melville". In season 6, in "Always A Godmother, Never A God" his surname is "Belleville".

Continuity: Rory asks Emily for baby pictures of Lorelai, but Emily says Lorelai burned them all because she had such a big head when she was little. But in "Love and War and Snow" Emily, Richard and Rory looked at baby pictures of Lorelai together.

Visible crew/equipment: When Lorelai talks to Emily at the Independence Inn, a boom mic briefly drops into the shot.

Visible crew/equipment: When Paris drops her book on the floor in English class, to jolt Rory out of her daydream stupor, a boom mic is visible above Liza Weil's head.