Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A+ | 858 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Good, Good, Goodbye. SOB!
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2007.05.15
"I just don't think he's over you," Rory tells her, but Lorelai says it doesn't matter. She's over him. "I need someone who can feel, you know?" she says. "Who can show me how he feels. He can't do that." Anyway, she says, she thinks they're better as friends. You know, coffee friends, she says. "Or like, 'hey, Luke, can you make all the burgers for Rory's reenactment graduation party,' you know?" HA. Rory has to pause. "Hmm," she says, "what reenactment graduation party?" Lorelai: "It's just uh...a graduation reenactment party that we're gonna have for all the people that couldn't attend your graduation!" Despite her attempts to casually make it seem like something normal people would do, Rory is less than thrilled with the party idea. "MOM," she says, when she hears the details. "You owe me."
At the diner, Luke is taking a meat delivery. What? Hmm? Did I say something funny? Look, these things just write themselves. I await the delicious Charlie the meat guy/Luke fanfic. Luke orders a bunch of burgers and hot dogs, despite Charlie's high-pressure sale on bratwurst, and Charlie leaves, disappointed, just as Liz is coming in. My eyes glaze over for the rest of this scene because... though I can accept many things, I cannot accept that Liz can somehow afford a Bugaboo stroller. I mean, only the best for Doula and all, but Liz makes jewelry out of fishing line, and T.J. is employed as a professional irritant. After trying (and failing) to flim-flam Luke into babysitting while she shops for a dress for Rory's party, Liz asks if he gave Lorelai the necklace. Luke hems and haws, insisting he just bought it as a backup gift for Rory. Liz won't hear of it. "That was no backup gift!" she says. "And what about the song!" Luke says again that the "I Will Always Love You" moment meant nothing, and that if Liz is so insistent on Lorelai having the necklace, maybe she should give it to her. He casually asserts that he and Lorelai are done, acting like it's no big deal. Liz shrugs, asking him to mix up some sweet potato and banana for Doula, and he goes to the back to blend it, yelling back over his shoulder: "Don't slip out while I'm making it." Busted. Poor Kathleen Wilhoite, always playing the bad mom. Eight thousand years ago when ER was just starting, she was great as a bad mom, too, and I'd link to the show recap where Susan runs around freaking out because Chloe can't find the baby, or whatever happened but seriously, I am pretty sure I saw that episode when I was still in college, before the internet was even invented.