Episode Report Card Pamie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.27.2004
Lorelai enters in her thousand-dollar outfit. (I'm not counting the purse.) Lane asks Lorelai if she'd like her "usual to go." Lorelai skips the thank-you and instead asks for it "quick-quick." What's with the double-double, peep-people? Lane tells Lorelai that people are calling her "The Blur," due to the fact that she's barely around and always busy. Dude, she was just having a quick-quicksy convo with Miss Patty-Pat, and said hello to not one, but three unimportant townies. What's she supposed to do, sit around in the diner talking to an empty chair? Everyone she cares about is out of town and everyone else is at the inn. Why am I arguing with Lane? I wonder if she can slip me some jimma-jammies; I'm getting hungry. Anyway, Lane says, "Swoosh! Blur!" and Lorelai calls her "baby," and the dialogue is so quick and staccato that I feel like we're watching that Mad TV parody "Gabmore Girls." Lane tells Lorelai that Luke's stuck at the Ren Faire, since Liz and T.J. are still not on their feet: "He's calling [it] his Vietnam, without all the fun shooting."
Lorelai walks behind the counter to inspect a series of postcards taped to the wall. They're from Rory. To Lane. Yeah, I know, it's totally out of Rory's character to send anything to Lane. And also: why not shoot homegirl an import while you're out getting everything you touch from your fairy grandmother? Lane calls the Asian Cesar "Rob." You can't just change his name all of a sudden. Wait. Lane might have been talking to the customer. Regardless, how pissed do you think the Cesars would be -- grown men, both of them -- to have Lane their interim boss while Luke's out of town? She just got here. Lorelai actually apologizes to Lane for reading her mail. Lane blows it off, saying she's sure it's everything Rory's already told Lorelai anyway. Lorelai drops cash on the counter, promising an extra tip, and then says hello to Brian and mfTL. Todd asks Lorelai if she got herself a "wink-winker." Lane asks Lorelai to erase that from her brain. Lorelai leaves, Lane leaves, Brian counts coins, and mfTL grabs a nudge-nudge-wink-wink.
Ren Faire. It's always best not to describe too much about a Renaissance Faire. Otherwise you run the risk of pitying the people involved, followed by a deep, lingering depression about the state of society. Liz tells a couple of wenches how her leg was fractured in three places, and were it not for the bravery and chivalry of her fine brother, she'd lose her place in the Faire of Renaissance, surely. My mom fractured a finger two months ago and she's still not bending it, so I think that might be a rushed timeline on the bed rest, but I don't have no fancy doctorin' skills. Maybe Liz fixed it Ren Faire style: three leeches and a turkey leg applied fortnightly. Huzzah!