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Gilmore Girls, yay! This week was mostly a meh, filler episode, but it looks like we're setting up exciting things!
Lorelai’s house. Her bed has been moved down to the living room, and she’s sitting on the bed with a big box of VHS tapes. We hear Luke offscreen (upstairs) grumbling about the baseboard and how it’s not level. Lorelai calls to him and tells him to come downstairs; the bedroom is a work in progress. She likens it to busting into the middle of a heart transplant and yelling at the surgeon that the heart is on the outside and the surgeon would be all, yeah, I know, it’s not done yet, work in progress! I actually like the analogy. Luke says he has to check the bathroom fixtures and Lorelai calls out that she’s on fire and there are marshmallows toasting, etc. Luke gets the hint and comes down. He asks how her project is going. Well, it’s going great! She’s got a whole box full of ‘keepers’ and another box with the two videotapes she’s willing to toss. Luke doesn’t accept this and says that it was her idea to use the remodel to purge herself of useless stuff. She says she’s keeping everything she needs. Luke: “You need an episode of Magnum P.I. from 1986?” Lorelai: “Of course not, that tape is mislabeled. That’s a Knots Landing from 1981: All the women are held hostage at gunpoint during Ginger’s baby shower…classic!” Luke then says she doesn’t need season 1 of
The Poolhouse of Slothdom. Rory’s in her candy-striper outfit, and the maid of the day/week comes to her door, on a mission from Emily. Well, she’s not wearing sunglasses, so clearly she’s not on a mission from God. Ahem. Anyway, the maid is here to get all of Rory’s unseasonal clothes. She calls summer clothes “sundresses and flipper-floppers.” Hee. Then, Emily calls Rory’s cell and she answers as the maid begins to clean out Rory’s closet. Rory puts Emily on speakerphone, drops the phone on the desk and starts going through the clothes that the maid is taking out, trying to explain that she wears these in autumn, “you know, light layers?” Emily is babbling about how they’re stuck in
We cut to the Dragonfly, where Jackson and Sookie are arguing about baptism. Apparently,
We cut to the DAR mixer at the Gilmore house, where Rory is doing her best Emily impersonation. She falsely compliments people and discovers that she is out of salmon puffs. She gets caught up in organizing their release, and orders staff about. The worst line of the night is, “Darla, does the pearls council know about you? Fabulous!” I gag into a throw pillow for a while. She mingles, and runs into the apparently-token-British-member-of-the-DAR (I still haven’t figured that one out) and she asks Rory to freshen her drink: vodka tonic, no ice and light on the tonic. Rory scuttles into the next room and hands off the glass to a passing staff-wait-person and tells her to get a vodka tonic. The girl leaves, and Rory yells, “No ice and light on the tonic!” Real classy, Rory. Rory wanders outside to the patio where two DAR women ask her what a plant on Emily’s patio is called. Rory doesn’t know, and at this point
Lorelai’s house. She’s getting ready to feed Paul Anka. Lorelai: “Okay, Paul Anka, dinnertime. You need to eat tonight, okay? Now, this is the kibble you like, in the nice new yellow bowl you picked, and I will now back out of the room, so you can eat, in the dark. Like you like.” As she’s saying this, she backs out of the kitchen with a plate of food and turns off the lights. She walks into the living room, sits on her bed, turns on the TV, and picks up the Riding the Bus With My Sister tape. She looks thoughtful, then sits down and picks up the phone, dialing Rory’s number. It’s been…..disconnected. She looks puzzled for a second, dials the number again, and gets the ‘disconnected’ message again. Then, she looks confused and shocked, like she can’t believe Rory would change her number and not tell her. Finally, she looks resigned and unhappy. Poor Lorelai.
The Poolhouse of Decadence and Sloth. Rory enters and finds
The Dragonfly. Lorelai and Michel are deciding on the room arrangements for
Luke’s. Lane is working and walks over to a table where Zach and Brian are sitting. Zach has his eyes closed and Brian explains that he’s waiting for his muse. Zach explains that songwriting is about making yourself open and vulnerable so that the lyrics come out true. Lane leaves them to their muse-hunting and walks away. Brian asks if they want fries, and Zach is struck by inspiration and tells Brian to write down his song. He then hums a few bars. Brian isn’t sure how to take this down. Zach asks Lane for her cell phone so he can leave a message on their machine, but she doesn’t bring her phone to work. Zach keeps humming the tune and Lane tells him he’s disturbing the customers.
Then, Sookie blunders in with a vintage cake topper that she has to show to Luke, because the little groom has his butt. She says it like fifteen times, and I swear she is drunk in this scene. Sookie explains that it’s for Luke and Lorelai’s wedding cake, and asks Luke when the wedding date is. Wow, she’s really pushing this! Let them do it themselves, Sookie! She presses that Miss Manners (since when has she cared about Miss Manners?!?) says that you’re not really engaged until you have a ring and a date. Wow, I guess that means I was never really engaged, because I didn’t have a ring. Because it’s not the important part. Geez, Sookie, lighten up! Luke explains to Sookie, again, that they are waiting until things are patched up between Lorelai and Rory. She wants to meddle, and he tells her that they have to work it out themselves. She huffs and grumbles, but leaves, because she left
Lane heads home, walks in, and trips over boxes of electronic equipment. Uh oh. Lane asks Zach and Brian what all this is. They gleefully explain that it’s home recording equipment so they can burn, mix and edit their own CDs. Lane wonders how they got it, and then blurts, “Oh my god, the tour money!” She runs into her room and exclaims, “You went into my underwear drawer?!?” Zach explains that it was business, not pleasure, and Brian swears he kept his eyes shut the whole time. Lane is furious that they ransacked her private “inner sanctum” and Zach says that they were insulted that she felt she had to hide the tour money. Lane asks them if they shopped around or used her exhaustive research with the purchase. They didn’t. They only went by the store to get a microcassette recorder for Zach to preserve his tunes on, and they met….a sales guy. A great sales guy. Who they totally became friends with, and liked Zach’s song, and sold them all this cool equipment, that was also on sale! Lane asks if the “totally great” sales guy gave them any change from the $9000. They look at each other blankly. She lets out a shriek and stomps into her room, and Zach and Brian agree that she would have liked the sales guy.
The Dragonfly. Michel tells Lorelai that he believes
Lorelai’s Living/Bedroom of Guilt and Sadness. The morning of the baptism. Lorelai gets up, having lain awake all night, and pulls two dresses off the rack by her bed. She walks back and asks Luke (Luke’s in her bed! Eeee!) which dress will go better with the baby. He says he likes the green one. She says it’s too sheer, and she’ll be in a church. He sleepily replies, “It looks good from here.” He is so cute! Lorelai vents about Sookie rooking her into the baptism just to get her and Rory back together. Luke says she shouldn’t go. But she says that only she and Sookie know about the Rory card, so if she backs out it will look bad, and she can’t say no to being a godmother, because Sookie might not have meant it that way (yeah, right). Luke: “I like the green dress.” Aww!
Cut to Rory in bed, laying awake as well. Ah, she’s with
Lane’s Apartment of Electronic Nuttiness. She is trying to hook up the equipment, where Zach and Brian have given up. Zach is entranced by all of the C-SPAN channels. Rory arrives, and says hi to Lane. She explains that she’s going over to the baptism to be Davy’s godmother, and Zach asks if it’s true she gets to keep the baby if the parents die. Rory says she’s just doing it as a favor to Sookie. Brian: “Godmother, huh? [Marlon Brando impersonation] Did you make her an offer she couldn’t refuse?” Zach: “Dude! You nailed that!” Lane and Rory go into Lane’s room to get a break from the “ADD Boys,” as Lane dubs them. They leave as Zach discovers a third C-SPAN. Score! Lane and Rory sit on Lane’s bed and awkwardly chat about things. The band, haircuts, boyfriends. Lane asks about
The church. Rory walks up and runs into Kirk. She admires his suit. Kirk: “Thanks. It’s the suit my dad was buried in.” Uhh…Rory decides to let that pass, and so do I. Kirk asks if there are designated “sides” to the church, one for Davy and one for Martha, and Rory explains that it’s not a wedding. Kirk walks off, and Rory stops. We cut over to the doorway, where Lorelai and Sookie are talking. Lorelai is not wearing the green dress. She’s wearing a peach dress with a sweater, very cute.
The Reverend’s office. He explains the role of godparents in the children’s life as spiritual upbringers (hey, ASP got something right for once about Christianity!), and asks the two what their religious affiliations are. Lorelai: “Oh, well, Reverend, you’ve known us forever.” Reverend Skinner: “Yes, and I still have no idea what your religious affiliations are.” Ha! Lorelai says that they’re a bit…lapsed. Reverend Skinner: “Yes. From…?” They stammer a bit, and then Lorelai says, “Well, from…religion. Well, I can’t speak for Rory, but I have a strong belief in good. You know, over evil. If I was asked to choose a side.” Rory: “I read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.” Lorelai: “I have a Bible. Although, I may or may not have accidentally given it to Goodwill. Because, I’m remodeling. But Goodwill is a religious organization, I think. But even if it’s not, Goodwill. It’s in the ballpark.” Rory: “I buy tons of Girl Scout cookies.” Lorelai: “I have two ‘Mary is my Homegirl’ T-shirts.” The Reverend looks a bit stunned by the one-up-manship, and replies, “Well, those are very positive, if somewhat…irrelevant…things, and it seems like your hearts are in the right place.” They agree, and he continues, “And it says something good about you both, that when a friend calls you up and asks a favor, you come through like this.” He’s satisfied, and they all get up and walk out. I do notice that during this scene, the crosses in evidence are all bare crosses, no crucifixes. Maybe she’s actually trying to get it right. Huh. Ooh, I think I just saw a pig fly!
The church. Kirk walks in and asks a random woman if she’s a ‘Davy’ or a ‘Martha.’ Kirk: “Davy, right? I mean, he’s much more accessible. He’s the Dandy Warhols to Martha’s Brian Jonestown Massacre.” We were appalled by the reference, because we only heard the 'Jonestown Massacre' part. Not the 'Brian'. We were thinking, most of her references are a bit out there, but comparing a baby girl to the brainwashing and murder (well, incitement to suicide) of hundreds of people? It’s not even funny! Then we discovered that it's a band whose name is 'Brian Jonestown Massacre'. Wow. Glad to have that all sorted out. Whew. Still a weird reference, though. Kirk sits down and Bo enters, full-on Colonel Sander’s white suit and hat, and proceeds to spill a massive amount of change. At the front of the church, Sookie and Jackson and the babies and godparents walk in. Reverend Skinner walks to the podium and explains the origins of baptism and that these three people will be dedicated in the first sacrament of the faith (do Protestant churches call them sacraments? Argh…ok, I’ll shut up now), and introduces Lorelai, godparent to Martha, Rory, godparent to Davy, and then realizes
They go outside, and Rory snottily asks Lorelai what’s wrong with her. Lorelai says that she wasn’t going to call to set up shoe shopping or anything, but that she should have a way to contact Rory in case of emergency. Rory says that they’re holding up the service, and Lorelai says that it’s weird that Rory would give her new number to Sookie and not her. Rory says that she didn’t give Sookie her new number. Sookie called Emily, Emily left Rory a note, and Rory called Sookie back. Oh yeah, that’s much better. Then, Rory says that she didn’t get a new number, she lost her phone. Lorelai rants about how you’re supposed to suspend your service and then when you get a new phone, you keep the same number. She says it’s ridiculous to get a new number. Rory says that next time she loses her phone, she’ll suspend her service. Sookie comes out, and drags the two of them back inside.
We cut to the after-party in the square, and Lorelai apologizes to Sookie for the drama. Sookie: “Well, you always give me a good story to tell.” Sookie then confesses that she asked Lorelai and Rory to be godmothers to get them back together again. Lorelai explains that she wasn’t fooled, but that the salads are excellent. Lorelai looks up, and behind Sookie Bo beckons to Lorelai sleazily. Lorelai is fed up and walks over to Bo. Bo licks his thumb, brushes it against Lorelai’s shoulder and then his arm, and says, “Why don’t we get out of these wet clothes?” In that sleazy SLEAZY voice. We all shudder and “Eww!” again. So does Lorelai. She tells Bo that there’s been a misunderstanding and that everything Rune told him was a lie. Bo: “So you don’t have a kid?” Well, yeah, she has a kid. Bo: “You didn’t get knocked up when you were sixteen?” Again, technically, yes, true. Bo: “And he said that you’ve never been married, that you’re just single and datin’ around?” She says that yes, she’s never been married, but she’s engaged now, so that’s pretty serious and permanent. Bo: “He said you were engaged before…?” Lorelai gives in and tells him that it’s all true and she’s a horndog. She excuses herself to get some potato salad. Bo: “Potato…salad.” SLEAZY VOICE, raised eyebrow and knowing wink. Ewwwww…I feel dirty now. Lorelai looks uncomfortable and walks away.
Rory walks up to Lorelai and says that she’s leaving. Lorelai tells her to drive safe. Rory: “Look, I know this is lame at this point, but you can have my new number if you want.” Lorelai: “That’s okay. I can call Mom and she can leave you a note.” Rory looks pensive and says, “Okay.” They walk away from each other. We cut to Rory driving, and she calls
Next week: There's some sort of party involving '40s period costume, both Rory and Paris are decked out, and confrontations between the elder Gilmores and the elder Huntzbergers. Best line from Richard, exclaiming that Lorelai was right about everything she told them! Also implies that the sole reason Rory dropped out was Mitchum's comments. Not really a surprise, but still...so disappointed in Rory. Hopefully Paris will pound on her a little.
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