Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 134 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT They've Got the Boat; They Just Need the Shark
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2004.11.30
Lorelai drives Luke back to the diner. All fifty feet. Lorelai gives Luke a tour about as entertaining as the one her daughter is giving simultaneously a few miles away. She tries to kick him out of her Jeep, but Luke doesn't leave. He tells her instead that November 30th is the anniversary of his dad's death. Lorelai sympathizes with an "Oh, hon." Luke says that every year on that day, he disappears. He doesn't go out or see anyone. He is in a funk. "You have a Dark Day," Lorelai says. Luke says he figured he should tell her, since they're in a relationship and she might wonder why he won't answer the phone or be around to get conned into going to Miss Patty's party with the flip of some pretty hair. Lorelai: "The hair flip is that effective, huh?" Luke says if she combined it with a black dress, she could get him to be Miss Patty's backup dancer. Luke says he's never told anyone this before: "I don't really like to talk about it." Luke says that the boat thing made him flip out, but that he'll apologize to Mrs. Thompson. He says that his dad never finished making that boat, and that it's been sitting there for fifteen years. Lorelai thinks Luke was too hasty in making the decision to trash the boat. Luke says it's better to get rid of the thing now; he hasn't even looked at it since his father got sick: "If it's gone, I don't have to deal with it. It's time to move on. I'm fine. Really." Luke thanks Lorelai for the ride. They kiss goodbye.
Rory takes a minor into a bar. Anna says she loves it there. Rory says that this place makes great cappuccino. Maybe they just call it a pub but it's really a diner with booze. No, that looks like a bar where Rory's ordering. Marty walks up to Rory, who changes the order to three coffees. Rory tells Marty she might have overwhelmed Anna about an hour ago, given that the poor girl's hand cramped up from taking notes and it's been spasming ever since. Rory sees that Anna is covered in flirting boys, so Rory heads over to play chaperone. The boys have invited Anna to a party tonight. Rory tells them they'll keep the party in mind in case Anna ages two years in the next few minutes, and shoos them away. Anna pouts that it's unfair that Rory gets to talk to boys and she doesn't. Marty joins the table just in time to hear Rory say that Marty is hardly a boy. Awesome. Rory goes on and on about how it's great to have boys who are just pals, who aren't ever going to be any more than guys who bring you food and jewelry and build you cars and try desperately to get in your pants but you just keep them at arm's length because that's how you keep all the free stuff coming.