The TV mother-daughter duo presented an award together at the Sept. 14 ceremony

From Stars Hollow to Los Angeles!

Gilmore Girls fans were in for a treat on Sunday, Sept. 14 when Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel reunited on stage at the 2025 Emmy Awards.

Graham, 58, and Bledel, 43 — who played mother-daughter duo Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, respectively, on the show — presented the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series award after giving fans a taste of Stars Hollow.

“Twenty-five years ago, a show called Gilmore Girls premiered and, apparently, took the season of fall hostage,” Graham said during their segment, with Bledel pointing out that “in spite of our autumnal dominance” Gilmore Girls “was actually a very small show.”

“Meaning we had no money,” Graham explained, adding that “if there was a birthday at The Drew Carrey Show next door, they would send us their leftover sheet cake.”

“We saved up all year long to have one snow episode,” Bledel later said.

“And then ER would wet down their street and wash it all way,” Graham retorted, to which Bledel told her “you have got to let that go.”

Graham wasn’t having it, though, noting, “They had [George] Clooney, they could have let us have the damn snow.”

The actresses then praised the “great,” “big” and “terrifyingly lengthy scripts” they had on Gilmore Girls as they presented the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series to The Studio.

Gilmore Girls premiered on The WB (now The CW) in 2002 and followed Lorelai and Rory through their lives in the small town of Stars Hollow. The series also starred Scott Patterson, Melissa McCarthy, Yanic Truesdale, Keiko Agena, Liza Weil, Jared Padalecki, Milo Ventimiglia, Matt Czuchry, the late Edward Herrmann, Kelly Bishop and Sean Gunn.

The beloved series wrapped after seven seasons in 2007. Its Netflix revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, was a limited series that aired in 2016. Nearly all of the cast members returned to reprise their roles.

In an interview with PEOPLE in 2016, Graham raved about her bond with Bledel over the years and the way they reconnected while working on the Netflix revival.

“Just like the show, our dynamic has always been more like friends than mother and daughter,” she said at the time. “I have so much respect for her as an actor and a person and a mom.”

“I was just proud of how she kind of has handled her personal life,” she added. “She’s very private. We were both kind of in different places then, and we’re both more settled down now. So that was kind of cool, to reconnect.”

Bledel is also no stranger to the Emmys, having previously been nominated for her role as Ofglen/Dr. Emily Malek in The Handmaid’s Tale. The actress took home the Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series award in 2017, and was also nominated 2018, 2020 and 2021.

See PEOPLE’s full coverage of the 77th annual Primetime Emmy Awards as they’re broadcasting live on CBS and Paramount+ from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.a