Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B | 57 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT All Dressed In...Blush?
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2006.01.10
Later, at the diner, Lorelai and Sookie are sitting at a table covered in wedding magazines and notebooks. Sookie asks what Lorelai's initial thoughts are about her wedding. "Well," she answers, "it should be legal." Sookie says that's a good start, and dives right into the browbeating. Does Lorelai want a wedding in the town square? Maybe in the gazebo. Lorelai answers this with an emphatic "gazeblah." Which is weird, isn't it? I mean, doesn't she love the town? How about a church wedding? Sookie asks. And here is where I expect the biggest snark to roll out, because hasn't it been made ridiculously clear that Lorelai has pretty much hardly ever been in a church? To my surprise, her face lights up and she says "maybe." Sookie then manically suggests a beach wedding. "No shoes," she sings. "Luke can wear shorts!" Lorelai says no, "but I want to be with you when you pitch the shorts idea to Luke." Not beaten, Sookie says that they should move on to the dress: "Any thoughts?" Lorelai takes a big breath and states that "there should be one." Poor Sookie. "Okay," she says. "Doin' great here."
Luke comes over to ask if Lorelai is going to eat the untouched piece of cake at her elbow. "Why?" she wonders. "You want it?" He says no; it just seems like she's not going to eat it and...she gasps. Luke's trying to get them to leave so he can use the table. He says they're swamped and he needs it. Lorelai insists that being his fiancé gives her extra table time. "You've been sitting there for two hours," he says, and yeah, he's got a point. Don't Lorelai and Sookie have an inn full of tables they could sit at to do this? Lorelai's mad, though, and Luke suggests the alternative of doing their planning at the counter. "You want a counter-planned wedding?" she scoffs. "Seriously?" Hee. Luke's beaten and tells her to forget he said anything. Sookie interrupts to show Lorelai a picture of a dress, saying it's a pretty one. "Hmm. Maybe," Lorelai shrugs. "It's very white." Sookie asks if she's going to wear white, and Lorelai says she's not sure. Luke has to jump back in now: "Of course you're gonna wear white," he says. "Brides wear white. That's the rule." Luke must have been flipping through Liz's old Martha Stewart magazines. He says that his mother and grandmother wore white, so Lorelai has to. Sookie can take no more. "Luke, Luke, Luke," she says. "Do you know who I am?" Luke responds that of course he does, but she corrects him. "No, Luke," she says. "I'm not 'Sookie.' I'm 'Sookie: BFOTB'!" He is not following, so she translates. "Best Friend of the Bride." Thus, she explains, it is her responsibility to take care of the bride during all her decisionmaking processes: helping choose the dress, tasting the cake, etc., relieving Luke of having to "pretend to be interested in things that he has no interest in." Luke tries to insist that he does indeed have an interest, but she shuts him down by shouting "BFOTBEEEEE!" in rather a horrifying way.