Episode Report Card Pamie: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Love Bites
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.07.2001
Walking through the festival, CuteDean asks Rory what book she brought. See? He remembers things. This is why we love the CuteDean. Rory confesses that she brought The New Yorker, but it's the fiction issue. The Mayor stands at the gazebo and kicks off the festival. He says that many people have found true love standing where he's standing right now. He says it's where he met his true love and they've been married for forty-three years. Cardigan Man covers the microphone and tells the Mayor to ask his wife to wave. The Mayor whispers back that he can't. His wife went to play Bingo in Bridgeport. Hee. That's near where my family is from, and we used to go into Bridgeport to play Bingo. It's nice and trashy. Like a good Bingo game should be. They start to light the bonfire, but Rory asks to start Phase Two. She says it'll be a while before they actually get the bonfire lit. The Mayor and Cardigan Man are grumbling and yelling at each other until the Mayor turns to the crowd and shouts, "Does anyone have any matches?" Wah-wah-wah-waaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Chase is blah, blah, blahing as Richard and Lorelai are in hell. I don't understand a word that he's saying. Something about computers, which bores Richard. Chase tells Emily that if she answered a few simple questions for him, he could pinpoint the day she's going to die. This stops Emily's interest, but Lorelai is now back in the game. She tells Chase to ask the questions. Chase scoffs (with a "No, no, Lorelai!") that he couldn't just come up with a date, and that he'd have to feed the answers into a computer. "I'm not Kreskin!" he shouts, and then snorts himself into a coma. Richard almost chokes on his tongue. Emily says that Chase and Lorelai should retire in the living room with some brandy while she helps clear the table. Lorelai laughs and says, "While you do what?" Chase gets all creepy and says, "Well, that sounds lovely." He then actually raises his creepy pasty hand and is all, "Shall we?" Lorelai stammers and says she will, but first she has to powder her "something," and excuses herself from the table. She says she'll meet him in the living room. He says he'll be waiting. "Super," she smiles.
Lorelai takes a quiet moment in her bedroom. She grabs her coat and heads to the window. As she's got one leg towards freedom, Richard walks in and calls her. There's a moment where they stare at each other. Lorelai: "Hi, Daddy. Okay, I know this is bad. And I know this probably brings back all the horrible aspects of my childhood life for you, and see, I'm really sorry that we fought last week, and I'm really sorry that you're so disappointed in me, and I really wish there was something I could do to fix that, but there probably isn't, and I can accept that, because I'm an adult now and, and, and I'm proud of who I've become, but I am begging of you, please, please, please do not make me go back down there because that guy is boring." Richard turns and shouts, "Emily! She's not up here!" Lorelai whispers, "Thank you, Daddy," turns and leaves. Richard smiles for a second and then leaves the room.