On "Gilmore Girls", what weekly meal does Lorelai attend with her parents in exchange for Rory's tuition money?

On "Gilmore Girls," Lorelai attends Friday night dinners with her parents in exchange for their help paying Rory's tuition.

Rory is accepted into Chilton, an elite private school, but Lorelai cannot afford the fees. She therefore asks her estranged parents, Emily and Richard Gilmore, for financial help. They agree to lend the money on the condition that Lorelai and Rory come to their Hartford home for dinner every Friday.

The dinners are more than a tuition arrangement: Emily and Richard use them to rebuild a relationship with Lorelai and become closer to Rory. Lorelai, who left home as a teenager after becoming pregnant, finds the weekly gatherings uncomfortable because old conflicts quickly resurface.

A common mix-up is confusing this arrangement with Rory's later college financing. The Friday dinners initially fund Chilton; similar dinners return when Rory borrows money from her grandparents for Yale. The arrangement is eventually no longer mandatory after Christopher begins paying Rory's Yale expenses.