Episode Report Card Pamie: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Poor Rory
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.17.2003
Rory and Lorelai turn to look at the front of Stars Hollow High. Did you know it was right there at the Town Square? Anyway, it's been toilet-papered by the Wildcats, the team from a rival high school. Rory and Lorelai wave to Dean, who is in charge of standing on a ladder, pulling down pieces of paper. Lorelai wishes him good luck tonight. Dean gives a "We're gonna lose, but thanks" hand gesture back. Rory says that when Dean said he'd call, he always called. Lorelai warns Rory not to do this -- not to compare Jess to Dean, because it's going to be a poor comparison. She says that Dean was a really, really good first boyfriend, and that for most girls, their first boyfriend is someone like...Jess. She doesn't say "Jess," however. She tells the story of Brian Hutchence in the seventh grade, who asked Lorelai to go steady and then never talked to her again until the tenth-grade Sadie Hawkins dance, where he tried to sell her an overpriced dime bag. She says that's what most of us had to put up with, not the perfection that was CuteDean. Hear, hear. The girls walk in a strange place right here, and you can see the mountains of Burbank over their shoulders. Rory asks if this is just the way it is and she has to accept it. Lorelai says that she just has to remember that every guy is different, so she should give Jess a chance to explain before she freezes him out. Rory wasn't going to freeze him out, Lorelai. She was just going to smile when he looked at her and pretend her feelings were never hurt.
Rory and Lorelai enter Luke's. Jess tells them to sit anywhere. Rory and Lorelai decide that was enough time for him to explain, apologize, or at least make up a quick lie for an excuse. He didn't do any of the three. "How dare he not lie to you?" Lorelai says. Luke walks over with two coffee mugs, happy to see two people who don't give a damn about hockey. He's a little jealous of the attention, you see. When he was in high school, his track team went to state three times in four years, but nobody cared. Lorelai explains that's because track is for dorks. Rory, head dork of Stars Hollow, agrees. Luke declares the conversing part of the morning to be over. Rory and Lorelai give their orders. Rory is getting muffins for Lane's band. Wait, is it Saturday or Sunday? Forget it. Jess immediately brings over the muffins. Rory thanks him and then tells Lorelai she'll see her later. After she leaves, Jess asks Lorelai if she and Rory are in a fight. Lorelai informs Jess that he's the one in the fight. She asks if they had plans last night. Jess says he just said he'd call Rory after work. He had to work another shift and didn't get off until after midnight, when it was too late to call. Lorelai can't believe he couldn't take five minutes to call her up and tell her. I can't believe Rory can't take five minutes to walk down to Luke's and have an ice cream sundae while making small talk with her boyfriend as he wipes down the counter. That's what any other teenage girl would do. Do you know how many boyfriends would get jobs at the movie theater just so we worked together all day? That's what you do. That's teenage love. Lorelai asks if she should get Michael Moore on the phone, since he doesn't get breaks, food, water, or shelter. Jess gives her the blow-off: "Whatever. I gotta unload some boxes." Burn.