Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Stars Hollow Summer Vacation Essay
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.22.2003
Cut to Lorelai and Rory walking down the street wearing their gigantic backpacks. "Now we're the quirky backpack ladies!" Lorelai complains. Rory notes that they've had worse nicknames in the past. Lorelai says that they should be efficient with this, working clockwise around the town from Miss Patty to Andrew. They will stick to the "My mom touched the Pope" anecdote, since it's quick, peppy and everybody likes a nice Pope story. Rory asks whether they have time to stop at Luke's as she's starving. Lorelai says they do. "This is our week. This week we do anything we want." Rory says she likes this week. As they head toward Luke's, Lorelai wonders if Luke and Nicole actually went on their cruise. Rory wonders why they wouldn't go. Lorelai says that Luke would actually have to pack, leave, and buy a bathing suit, all three of which would prevent him from going. Rory says that Luke could use a vacation, and that he really seems to like Nicole. Lorelai gets all weird, as she's supposed to do whenever someone mentions that Luke might not fawn on her from afar.
Lorelai and Rory see that Taylor's soda shoppe is now open, and right inside the doors we can see Taylor and Luke is a furious argument. Luke is telling Taylor that he is going to kill him, and that he should have killed him a while ago, the minute Taylor put up the unicorn topiaries in the park. Rory says to Lorelai, "Oh, I missed that!" Lorelai decides that this is a biscotti moment. The girls crunch into biscotti, sans coffee. Luke is furious with Taylor for installing a giant window in one wall of the shoppe -- the wall that Taylor shares with Luke's diner. Luke: "You can see my entire diner! And when I'm in my diner I can see your whole stupid store!" Taylor can't understand why Luke's is a "diner," but his is a "stupid store." Luke begins tearing through the soda shoppe, pointing out all of the stupid things. He says of Taylor's old-tyme striped outfit, "All you need is [sic] six dancing penguins and Mary Poppins floating in the corner to bring back the worst two hours of my childhood!" Lorelai giggles at Rory and nods: point for Luke. Taylor says he doesn't think Luke even had a childhood, and that he came out a bitter, surly killjoy. Luke screams that Taylor can't change the basic structure of the building without Luke's okay. Taylor gets nervous and antsy. It seems that Luke's hand is dangerously close to the wax lips. Luke gleefully buries his arms into the wax lips. He then touches all of the different candies in the store, tossing them into the air with great abandon. Lorelai suddenly remembers: they forgot Luke. They couldn't find any gift good enough for him, and then they forgot entirely to get him anything. Lorelai curses herself for not getting him that matador outfit. Lorelai says they'll have to pick up something in Stars Hollow and pass it off as European. Rory says that, in Stars Hollow, everything you buy has a Hello Kitty stamped on the bottom. Lorelai says that they can't go into Luke's empty-handed. Rory complains that she's hungry. They head in the other direction, and we can see that Luke and Taylor's fight is still raging on.