Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Sidekick In The Pants
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 19 | Aired on April 17, 2006
The reception winds down, as many do, with crazy, embarrassing behavior on all sides. Kirk, thinking one of his bartenders has flirted with Lulu, fires them all, and makes the bar serve-yourself. "Too yummy!" he says, stomping off. "Way too yummy!" At a nearby table, lovable nerds Kyon and Brian mack down like Bobby Brown. Hooray! Everything's great, until we see Chris trying to be all Grownup Dad to Rory, telling her how much he likes Logan, and how if they decide to get married, he'd totally approve. Gross, Christopher. Shut up. Rory's twenty-one! I know Lane is, too, but whatever. Why would a thirty-seven-year-old man encourage his twenty-one-year-old daughter to get married to some fool with even less direction than he has? Chris asks where Logan is, anyway. Rory tells him he's in Costa Rica. "Oh," she says, when Chris is surprised. "He's gonna jump off something and raft down somewhere, climb up a thing, swing on a vine, something like that."
Rory gets up to give a toast to Lane and Zach just as Lorelai arrives back at the table with a tray of at least twenty-five shots. "I'm a respectable man, Lorelai," Chris says in mock alarm about the alcohol. "An upstanding citizen. I'm a father." Lorelai smiles, pouring some salt on her wrist: "I know. This is how you became one." Chris: "Well, you have me there." They do another shot when Rory makes her way to the microphone. She gives a typical Palladino speech, not overly sweet in the least, and reads a note Lane passed her in school in third grade. When she gets to the end, where Lane signs off with "See you at Brownies," I openly sob. Being a kid is so awesome. I wish I could go to Brownies right now. Maybe I just need some brownies...