Episode Report Card Pamie: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Vote Or Die
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.11.2004
The band is listening to the song they have to cover with bemusement. Might have been good to learn the song more than one hour before the gig, but what do I know? It's "Believe It or Not," the theme from Greatest American Hero, the show that united my mom and her two daughters. We'd all gather around and sing the theme like it was an anthem, I swear. You youngsters might only know this song as the brilliant message George Costanza had on his answering machine. ("Where could I be?" Hee!) Oh, man, it's a good song. "This is the day the music died," declares mfTL. Sebastian Bach says Seals & Croft rocked harder than this. "My mom likes this song," Brian whines. The band briefly debates wearing wooden tiki masks while playing the gig so nobody recognizes them. "I'm not wearing smelly wood on my face," mfTL says, in a line I have a feeling he wrote for himself. He suggests they walk out to keep their street cred. Lane says one night where they play not to impress jiggly girls isn't going to kill them. MfTL says part of the appeal of all this is meeting chicks. Lane says that's not why she's in a band. But Brian and Sebastian Bach are. They argue into circular logic, and get confused. Sebastian Bach reminds everyone that Hendrix rocked out the national anthem at Woodstock, so they can do the same to this eighties sitcom theme song. Lane and Sebastian Bach high-five. The chances of my fiancé reading this recap are slim to none, as we rarely read each other's recaps any more, but I'm still going to keep the details of my dress a secret. I can tell you that he hasn't decided what he's going to wear yet, and it really weirds me out when women choose what their grooms will wear at their weddings. I mean, lady, lose a little control.
Luke, who will never get his way ever again for the rest of his life, has prepared everything for Lorelai's campaign headquarters, all over his food. He even hands over the keys. She must look really good naked. Lorelai can't believe Luke doesn't want to wait up to hear the results. Luke says he doesn't want to get too emotional. When would Luke ever want to take part in a town function? Although, now that he's dating Lorelai, it'd be nice if he took part in her interests, and heading a campaign like this (albeit for less than a week), it'd be nice if she had someone by her side, cheering her on. Whatever, Lorelai's had a lifetime of selfish acts. Let Luke get some damn shut-eye. He's got to clean this mess up in the morning, anyway. Rory leaves. How is Lorelai handling all this abandonment? Sookie knows that Jackson is nervous, as his neck has gone away. Kirk runs in, wearing someone else's pants, and says from the polling he's done he determined Jackson will win by a landslide. Nobody is voting for Taylor. Not a single person. They repeat this a few times so we know that this time it has nothing to do with Gallup Poll math. Apparently Jackson is really, really, really going to win. They all run outside to celebrate. Lorelai is left in the diner, grabbing her purse or whatever, and catches a glimpse of Taylor through the soda shoppe window. Taylor, in the near dark, quietly, sadly sucks from a whipped cream can. It is hard to tell if he's crying on the outside, but there's no question what's happening on the inside. The strummy-strummy-la-la sings in a minor key to stress how sad this is. Lorelai leaves Luke's. I have a maid of honor and a best man. Choosing the wedding party was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. I do not enjoy the Sophie's Choice nature of the whole thing.