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
Yale Yale Yale, blah blah blah. I spend this time sending songs into my iPod. I highly recommend the ridiculous single by Robert Downey Jr. It's called "Broken," and he sings in a fake Irish accent, and holy cow, it's hilarious. Oh, my God. Rory is still reciting Yale facts. What else could we talk about? Because it's just boring to hear. I don't want to go to Yale, do you? Why do I need to know about their bench, or Mr. Yale, or anything Rory says after the last time she broke Dean's heart? Then Rory realizes that the five minutes of Yale facts she just spouted were about some other bench than the one they're standing in front of.
Rory tells Anna that there's a rumor that you get your degree automatically if you become fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. "Imagine all the tables you could wait with those skills," she jokes. At UT, there was a rumor that you got an automatic 4.0 if your roommate committed suicide. Rory brings Anna to the newspaper room, prepping her for the incredible intensity of a room buzzing with scoop and impending deadlines. But when Rory opens the door, the place is pretty much empty, and quiet, and resembles the Yearbook room, where I worked for two years. Yes, I was on Yearbook. Yes, I'm Lisa Simpson. Paris and Doyle burst into the room, already fighting. Rory tells Anna that this is the real heart and soul of journalism -- an editor asking his journalist to reveal her source -- but it turns out Doyle's angry because Paris took his pen. Rory gets a cell-phone call and immediately walks away to answer it because the Gilmores have no social skills.
It's Lorelai, and she wants to know if Rory has ever heard about Luke's Dark Day. Can't anyone have some privacy in this town? Lorelai is shelving the fake books in the Dragonfly's fake office, and that cracks me up. Rory says she's never heard of Luke's Dark Day. It's on November 30th, so it's crazy because this episode aired on November 30th, so it's like we're watching the past as it catches up with the present. Freaky! Lorelai figures Rory would know, seeing as how she has a Bob Graham-like obsession with recording her daily life. Rory says she'll check the notebook later and find out where they had breakfast that morning. Lorelai asks if Rory's Mini-Me showed up. Rory says that Anna's tour is going great. Lorelai: "How many bench lectures did you give?" Rory: "Two. But they were about the same bench." Kirk walks up to Lorelai. He's holding a book. Lorelai says she has to go, since someone is standing "abnormally close to her." Rory tells Lorelai to say hi to Kirk. They hang up. Kirk tells Lorelai he has a business proposition for her. He asks how often she slips in her tub. "Never," Lorelai says. Kirk: "Okay, it doesn't work if you answer like that." "Constantly," Lorelai says, interrupting. "I never stop slipping, even after I get out." Kirk shows off his new line of bath and shower adhesive decals. Lorelai looks over the catalog, noting that they are impressive and expensive. Kirk asks Lorelai to look them over right now, since that's the only catalog he has. He points out his favorite, which looks like two fish kissing. Lorelai asks Kirk about Luke's Dark Day. Kirk says that everybody knows about it. He doesn't know the details, but he knows it's every year: "I think it goes back a long, long time." He says that Luke, like everyone, has always had a touch of darkness in him: "Luke's a little more touched than some. He's kind of grabbed, actually." He tells Lorelai about the time Luke knocked books out of Kirk's hands in the seventh grade. "Because of his Dark Day?" Lorelai asks. "No, everyone knocked books out of my hands," Kirk says. "I was kind of a target. I used to wear a cape to school."