Episode Report Card admin: B- | 3 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Fight For Your Right To Be Laaaaaazay!
By admin | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.19.2005
A quick transition scene (for once, thanks) shows us that Lorelai is headed out on a little car trip with Paul Anka. Apparently, he's not so much loving the stairs and has to be carried to the Jeep.
A return to the mansion shows us Rory, the next morning (?), walking in on the end of her grandmother's DAR meeting. The ladies gathered are choosing the hottest founding father. Seriously. It might be all right if not for one member, played by the very funny Jane Carr, who is so very obviously and wonderfully English. Why on Earth would an English woman join the Daughters of the American Revolution? You don't see anybody named Sally Grant at the DOC, is all I'm saying. The ladies tell Rory that they had just been talking about her. A job has conveniently opened up at the DAR office downtown, and they need someone exactly like Rory to fill the position. A convicted felon? No, no. Just someone with porcelain skin and shiny hair. Rory is only too pleased to accept, though she sours a bit when she finds out that she'll have to join the organization. Emily invites her to stay for the remainder of the meeting, and Rory uncomfortably has to remind Emily that she was supposed to give Rory a ride down to her community service. The meeting breaks up and they head out.
Lorelai is returning home from her jaunt with Paul Anka and gets out of the car (as does the dog, who is happily afraid of jumping) to find a strange man on her roof. He introduces himself as George. "Hi, George," Lorelai says, looking for a polite way to phrase her next question. "Are you committing some sort of crime?" George says no, he isn't, but Lorelai wonders if he'd tell her if he was. They are interrupted by a second man coming out onto the front porch. Lorelai is just about to get scared when Luke shows up on the roof, also. "I was this close to screaming and sic-ing the dog on you," Lorelai says, turning around to find that Paul Anka somehow got back into the car. "How...did you get the door closed?" she asks him. Paul Anka is fast becoming my favorite member of this cast. Lorelai and Luke engage in a little banter about what Luke's doing there: he's looking into enlarging her bedroom. He wants to do that so that they can live in the house, together. She smiles and asks about Twickham House, which Luke says is too damn big. "We can get along here for a while," he says. "Maybe forever. It's a great house. You love this house." Lorelai smiles again: "I do love this house." Luke figured that out, he says, from her sudden interest in "laying down tracks" and painting. She invites Luke and his two comrades down so that she can kiss them all in celebration and turns to find that Paul Anka has gone so far as to lock the door to the car. "Dude, come on," Lorelai says. "I mean, I've got the key, but I'm really curious how you did this." Next week, Paul Anka's going to move into Emily and Richard's guest dog house.