Episode Report Card Pamie: D | 11 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Pilot
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.04.2000
As CuteDean carries Rory's box he asks if she always lived there. She says that she was born in Hartford which is "thirty minutes away without traffic." "Really?" "I timed it." It's like five minutes of "I carried a watermelon."
"So do you like cake?" Rory asks CuteDean. "What?" She stammers and points at the shop they're passing. She tells him that they make really good cakes there. "Very...round." He says he'll have to try them. Rory cracks, "Make a note. You wouldn't want to forget where the round cakes are." I expect him to ask her at this point if she's retarded, but he doesn't. Instead he laughs and asks how she's liking Moby Dick. She asks how he knew she was reading it. He says he's been watching her. "Watching me?" she repeats. "I mean, not in a creepy like, 'I'm watching you' sort of way, I just, I noticed you," he explains. I'm now in love with CuteDean. He says that he knows that she sits under this tree and reads after school, and last week she was reading Madam Bovary and this week it's Moby Dick and that she's nice to look at and he admires her concentration. One time last week two guys were throwing a football over her and one guy hit the other in the face and there was blood everywhere and the nurse came over and his girlfriend was screaming and everyone was freaking out.
But she just sat there and read. She never looked up: "I thought, 'I have never seen someone read so intensely before in my life. I have to meet that girl.'" She stammers that maybe she didn't look up because she's "unbelievably self-centered." He says he doubts it. Y'all, seriously. I'm in love. Where were those boys when I was in high school? I read! I read all the damn time! Maybe not under a fruity tree, but I was reading all over the place! You know what they called me? Encyclopedia Pam. That's what they fucking called me. No, "I have to meet that girl." That didn't happen. Hey, Family Friendly Forum: quit getting girls' hopes up about being a reader and then finding a guy who will carry your heavy box and tell you it's fascinating to watch them read. "So, did I ask you if you like cake?" "Yeah, you did." "Oh. 'Cause they got really good cake back there."
Lorelai and Rory sit at the diner and they're both pouty. Lorelai says that Rory was late getting home. Rory says that she went to the library. Lorelai says that they're having dinner with "the grandparents" tomorrow. Rory says there aren't any holidays in September. Lorelai snaps that it's not a holiday thing. Rory apologizes as Mr. Nutrition brings over some food, declares that red meat will kill them, and walks away. Lorelai says she finished hemming Rory's skirt. Rory says that she might have had plans the next night. Lorelai says that she would have known if Rory had plans. Rory says that she doesn't tell Lorelai everything. There is more snapping back and forth until Lorelai says she "had plans on being the bitch tonight." "Just tonight?" Whoa, that would have resulted in a slap across my face. Hey, FFF: back-sassing kids weren't tolerated in my Family's Friendly Forum. I wasn't allowed to watch Diff'rent Strokes for that very reason. Lorelai asks Rory what's wrong with her. Rory says she's not sure if she wants to go to Chilton. She says that the timing is bad and the bus ride is really long. She says they shouldn't be spending that kind of money right now. Lorelai asks about Harvard. Rory says she might be able to get into Harvard anyway. Lorelai says that she has it covered. Rory says that she still doesn't want to go. Lorelai says she has to go. Rory stops her to say that they have to pay first. Lorelai drops some money and walks out.