Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT CuteDean's Not A Virgin Anymore
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.13.2003
We got the Historical Society up in the hizzy, and they ain't leavin' till 6 in the morning. Sookie and Lorelai trade things they'd rather be doing right now, like flossing with sharp floss, getting brain freeze, or watching foreign movies without the subtitles. Michel joins them, saying he feels ugly this morning. They watch as Taylor and Miss Patty look over a clipboard. Michel says he's grown to hate Taylor. Lorelai makes a move on Miss Patty, asking if Miss Patty will use some of her pull to get this thing moving. Miss Patty says she has her own remodeling to do on her studio, so she's saving her pull for herself. She runs off. ["The studio is historical? It's just a barn!" -- Wing Chun] Taylor asks Lorelai for a consultation. He says that the porch is falling apart and is filled with termites. Lorelai says it's the first thing that's going to go. Taylor says they can't get rid of the porch, because it's historical. Lorelai points out that the porch is only twenty-three years old: "Unless you think Kate Hudson is historical, it's not historical." Taylor says that things can't get historical if everyone rips stuff up after twenty years. He suggests that Lorelai build a bridge (up to code, of course) that people can use to get over the dangerous porch, or she can build a Lucite porch over the porch, so that people can see the porch without stepping on it. Lorelai grabs Taylor by the neck and almost kills him. "Lorelai! Careful, I have church later," Taylor says. She screams and yells and demands to know what she has to do to get him to leave her alone. Taylor quickly says he wants an ice-cream truck. He needs her to use her pull to convince Luke to let him use the parking space in front of the diner. ["Why would he need to park his ice-cream truck in front of his own ice-cream shoppe?" -- Wing Chun] Lorelai says she'll get Luke to agree, and then Taylor'll leave her alone. Taylor calls everyone back to the van. "Unbelievable," Michel says. I'll say. Sookie informs us that Lorelai is taking a shortcut to Luke's which goes over a river or something.
Luke's. Lorelai says eight million words to tell Luke that she had to jump a river or something to get him to agree to let Taylor park an ice-cream truck in front of the diner so that she can start work on the Dragonfly. She threatens to kill herself. Luke's casually making a smoothie, so I figured all of this lameness of plot was to get Lorelai over to Luke's in the morning so that she and Luke could talk to Dean. But, no. Luke casually agrees to let Taylor park wherever, because it will be on the street outside and not in his diner, and Lorelai can't believe that Taylor never even bothered asking Luke in the first place, and put her through all that bullshit for nothing. She says she's figured out something about business today -- that it's not about being nice, but about screwing people over and getting what you want out of people as quickly as possible, by any means necessary. Oh, but I do believe you knew that lesson long ago, didn't you, Lorelai?