Episode Report Card Pamie: B | 38 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Oh, Boy!
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2003.01.14
Once inside, Lorelai is showing Gran around the dining room. Gran calls it small; Lorelai calls it quaint. Richard compliments Sookie. They sit at the table. Gran says that the Inn is quite impressive. She says it's no arboretum, but it's nice just the same. Emily says it was just a suggestion. "Yes, it was," Gran agrees. She marvels at the tiny menus on the table. Lorelai says that Sookie wanted everything perfect. Michel walks up, and Lorelai introduces him to Gran, who immediately asks him for a pen. She writes on the menu the times that she'd like each course brought out -- twelve minutes apart -- but that the servers shouldn't clear the plates until everyone at the table is finished. She wants Michel, because he's the concierge, to take the menu to Sookie. Everybody makes a patient, strained face. Michel thanks her: "It's so rare that I get to carry a note anymore." He gives Lorelai the stink-eye before he walks off.
Winter Carnival. All of Stars Hollow High must be in the marching band, from the looks of things. Clara is asking Jess if that's his real name and if he likes it, or if he'd rather be named Bill, Frank, Todd, or Ed. "Does this belong to you?" Jess asks CuteDean. CuteDean asks Clara if she'd like a snow cone. There's snow on the ground, by the way, so the choice of a snow cone seems odd to me. Clara asks Jess if he'll get her a snow cone. "Absolutely!" he says. "Go stand in the middle of the street and wait until I get back." Come on, people. Admit it. He's an asshole. CuteDean says he'll go get the snow cone. "And one for Rory too," Clara demands. CuteDean says he'll get one for Rory as well. Clara asks Jess if he washes his hair. Jess says he does, which is news to most of us. Clara asks why it sticks up and looks crazy. Rory abandons her boyfriend to go see Lane. Rory and Lane make small talk about cable reception. Lane asks if she really saw Rory with Jess and CuteDean. Rory says she'll explain tomorrow at Luke's.
As Jess tries the Bottle Toss, Clara provides the color commentary: "You missed. You missed. You missed." "Hey, you wanna learn how to fly?" Jess asks her menacingly. Rory steps in. Clara tells Rory that Jess can't throw. Jess says he can, but that he can't concentrate with Clara's "annoying midget voice yammering on and on and on." If Clara's really supposed to be, like, eleven or whatever, Jess is way out of line. He says that she's like having Stuart Little shoved in his ear. CuteDean returns with snow cones. "They only had cherry," he says. Uh huh. Another cherry reference. I get it. CuteDean takes Clara away to play ice bowling. Rory asks how much to play. Jess pays the dollar for her. And then Rory says that since she's a girl, she's supposed to throw like this. What's with all the weak girls this week? From Paris to Rory, a little testosterone and everyone's become a mindless weakling? What's up? Jess asks if Rory was going to go to the carnival with CuteDean. Rory promises that she wasn't. He asks when they got so buddy-buddy again. She says they're not talking, but they talked once. She explains that they got together and talked and decided to be friends. She totally blames it all on CuteDean -- that he asked her to the coffee shop, and he asked if they could be friends. She says he knows they're together, and it's not like that. It's a small town and it'd be nice to be polite. "So you were just being polite," Jess says. Rory points out that CuteDean's never done anything bad to her. Jess says he just thought she'd tell him. Rory apologizes. She makes Jess promise that he's not mad and that he believes her. Rory throws the ball and knocks the bottles over. "Here you go, congratulations!" says the extra who's so damn happy to have scored a line on Gilmore Girls. My goodness, he's enthusiastic. Rory complains that her bear is tiny and Jess says he could have bought her one for a quarter. Rory says that Clara will probably like it. "Yes," Jess says, "shoved in her mouth." "She's cute!" Rory says. As they walk away, we see the crazy psychic for a second.