Episode Report Card Pamie: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Rory's A Material Girl
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 8 | Aired on November 8, 2004
The kids have taken over Richard's poolhouse. Colin tells Rory that her father has terrible taste in Scotch. Logan tells him to refill the bottle when he's done so that Rory doesn't get busted. Colin promises he will. Logan gives Rory more champagne. Finn says that drinking is very, very bad, and that they should be punished: "Spank me." Rory says that tomorrow's hangover will be punishment enough. Finn tells Logan to give Rory more champagne. Logan, Lorelai, Liz, Luke, Lane, Lorelai, Lorelai, Louise, Lulu -- can someone buy Gilmore Girls another letter? Logan sits down and compliments Rory's article, and then gives it a few red marks of criticism, which is just the kind of light bondage Rory was looking for. Rory fidgets in her dress. Lorgan asks who's going to win the meat market tonight. The boys all surround Rory, begging to be picked the winner. Rory giggles -- oh, so happy suddenly with all these boys. Finn says he's exotic. "So's the Asian Bird Flu," someone cracks. Logan can't believe there's a room filled with guys and still such slim pickings. Lorelai says she should let her boyfriend help her choose. Logan says he's crushed to learn about her boyfriend. Rory suddenly remembers Dean and asks what time it is. "It's crying time," Finn says. It's 8:45. Rory jumps up to leave, and the boys all follow her, saying they have to see the one who won Rory: "Gotta make sure he's good enough." They're teasing her with whoops and shrieks as she runs to the front door.
The boys are all squealing as Rory squeezes her way out the front door, laughing and joking with what looks like a building full of boys. Dean, who's been waiting patiently, doesn't say anything. Rory just keeps fixing her straps, and then saunters over like, "Dean, hi. I'm sorry; have you been waiting long? I didn't have a watch, and we were in the poolhouse." She points at the boys and introduces them as her Yale friends. She starts to talk about how boring the party was, but stops herself. "Is that a new shirt?" she asks. Dean thinks it over and then asks, "What am I doing here, Rory?" Rory: "You're picking me up." Dean shakes his head. "I don't belong here," he says. "Not anymore." The strummy-strummy-la-la starts as Rory kind of exhales a little. "Do I?" Dean asks. And instead of saying anything real, Rory just goes, "Dean." He nods and says, "You look good." Rory's tears start, and I wonder if this break-up is because people were so upset that Dean cheated on his wife for Rory, or if the writers just wanted to make us hate Rory even more so that the end of the year we don't care what happens to her anymore and they can write her off the show so that Lorelai can adopt Lane. Dean gets into his truck and drives away as Rory crosses her arms and cries. And for a second, it's almost like how it was back before they lost sight of how to write this couple, back when they were two people who admired each other for their differences, and wanted to be like each other in ways that they weren't. Back when they loved each other in an innocent sweetness that seemed really timeless. Their break-ups are so much better than their actual relationship, and that's really quite sad. Logan immediately swoops in and tells Rory she's going to be okay. She says she's not. Logan assembles the troops, and tells the men they're to go back to the poolhouse for some serious bucking up. Colin offers to pour more Scotch. Finn offers to re-enact The Passion of the Christ. Rory blots away that one tear as Logan practically kisses her neck, murmuring that nothing ever seems as bad after Finn's The Passion of the Christ: "Except Finn's Passion of the Christ." Rory and Logan stare at each other until Logan grabs Rory's shoulder and leads her back in. He tries to put his arm around her, but he bumps his elbow on Rory's hunchback.