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By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.15.2000
Rory finds Lorelai and asks why she's not back in the living room. Lorelai asks why she has to go back in there. "Did the bad boy try something?" Rory huffs, "He's sitting there and he's watching the movie and he's perfect and he smells really good!" Lorelai stares. "What?" "He smells really good and he looks amazing. And I am stupid! I said 'Thank you!'" Lorelai: "Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. You said, 'Thank you?'" Rory: "When he kissed me." Lorelai is disgusted that he kissed her again already, in the house, so soon. Rory says she was referring to the first time they kissed -- the only time they kissed. Lorelai: "So, wait. He kissed you? And you said, 'Thank you?'" Rory spits out an embarrassed, "Yes." "Well, that was very polite." Hee. I love this show. Rory says it was stupid and she doesn't know what she's doing and now she's all alone with him and Lorelai isn't being a very good chaperone. Lorelai says she wasn't trying to be a chaperone but was trying just to be a good friend. "Well, switch gears, because I'm freaking out here!" Rory shouts. Lorelai smiles, feeling good to be needed as a mom. "You really like him, don't you?" she asks. Rory says she does and she doesn't want to do or say anything moronic. Lorelai says she probably can't help her with that if Rory's got her heart in it. They make an elaborate plan for Lorelai to go into the living room first and say that Rory's in the bathroom because she had to wash her face because of all the sugar. Somehow that sounds okay to the two of them. I guess it's better than saying, "Rory's gotta poo," which would immediately send Rory into the Bedroom of Shame for at least six months.
Lorelai brings the popcorn over to CuteDean and spits out the Bathroom Face Washing excuse. The popcorn never moves no matter how much Lorelai swings around that bowl. Lorelai watches CuteDean watch the movie. She turns off the television and turns to him. She says that they have a very different kind of household and that Rory is her daughter. CuteDean interrupts to say, "Ah. Here comes the talk." Lorelai deadpans back, "How 'bout I talk. You listen?" CuteDean shuts up. Lorelai says that the fact that Rory likes CuteDean means he must be a good guy and that the entire town loves Rory and if he hurts her, everyone will hate him. "This is a very small, weird place you moved to." CuteDean says he's noticed that. "So, just know all eyes are on you." CuteDean asks if there's anything else. Lorelai: "She's not going on your motorcycle." CuteDean: "I don't have a motorcycle." Lorelai: "She's not going on your motorcycle." Hee. CuteDean's new hair makes his ears stick out. I don't like it at all. CuteDean says that Rory won't be going on his motorcycle. Lorelai says that curfew will be enforced. Schoolwork will be done. She says he has to handle the lemons better. She says she can change any rule at any time. He asks if he can speak. "You can lay on all the rules you want. And you can have the whole town spy on me and stare at me and chase me through the streets..." But he's not going anywhere, is the gist. He says he needs Lorelai not to hate him. He knows that if Lorelai doesn't like him, he doesn't have any chance with Rory. Lorelai says she wants to like him. "But you don't," he says. She says she wants to, and she usually gets what she wants. "Fair enough," CuteDean says. They go back to the television. CuteDean remarks that it's taking Rory a long time to wash her face. Lorelai says that Rory is a perfectionist.