Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Boyfriend's a Kleptomaniac! Cute!"
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2005
Hey! Rory's in class! And her professor looks almost exactly like a history professor I had, down to the mismatched sweater vest over plaid shirt. My professor's name was Oliver W. Holmes, and I always thought his parents must have either been giant assholes, or had extremely high expectations, or both. The Professor dismisses class, noting that Rory has a pile of books about wine and Haiti. "My interests are teasingly diverse," she responds, which means, "I am trying to find out as much as I can about my latest stalking victim." "Whatever," says the professor. He must be a Luke/Lorelai fan. As the rest of the class gets up and leaves, Rory's cell phone rings. It's Lorelai. Rory is lucky she didn't call like five minutes earlier. That would have been embarrassing. My cell phone rang during a class once, and my professor made fun of me for having such an old cell phone, like, some of us are poor, dude. (He went to Yale, incidentally.)
Lorelai wants to know whether Rory returned a blue sweater that Lorelai "demanded" she return to a store. Lorelai is disappointed. Rory says she's not going to go back and get the blue sweater, only to have to return it again. She says she has returned a lot of Lorelai's clothes, and is now embarrassed to show her face in any of New Haven's finer clothing retail establishments. Of which there are, like, two. New Haven was not commonly known as the place to go for fashion when I was growing up, although that might have changed recently with the opening of stores like Urban Outfitters and Ikea. But anyway, why can't Lorelai return her own clothes? She asks Rory to get the sweater on Monday, her free day. Rory says she can't, because she has an internship that she conveniently forgot to mention to her mother. Lorelai is thrilled until Rory says she got it through Mitch Rich.
Luke wanders into the diorama room, which is still awesome. Awesomer still is the fact that the Jebediah family's horse has fallen on Taylor, and he's been trapped underneath it for the last two hours. Taylor says he was trying to "reposition" the horse's "hindquarters" when it fell on him. So that's what they're calling it these days. Luke points out that the museum has had no visitors in the last two hours to provide assistance. Taylor acknowledges this, but says he's going to try bus stop bench ads to get the word out, which he read that "Fiddy Cent" swears by. I love that Taylor called him "Fiddy" instead of "Fifty." I also love how there's a creepy bald mannequin head in the foreground of every shot of Taylor. Luke tells Taylor it's time to sell the house. Taylor grudgingly agrees. Has it been two months already?