Episode Report Card Pamie: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Pomp And Circumstances
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.27.2003
Emily wants a mixture of white, off-white and cream-colored linen, bone China with a blue stripe, tapers cut in half for centerpieces, and white and sterling roses, but not too high or formal. She asks if Lorelai has a florist. Lorelai does. Emily asks if he has a flyer. Lorelai asks about the vases. Emily says she's not an idiot, and that she knows there isn't a flyer, and that Lorelai is lying once again to cover up the fact that she's deliberately keeping Emily out of her life. Lorelai swears there's a flyer. Emily shames Lorelai, and says that swearing there's a flyer is the worst thing she can do. Lorelai says that Liv Tyler grew up her entire life thinking Todd Rundgren was her father, and that seems much worse. Emily says if she saw this kind of behavior from some other company, she'd fire them on the spot. "Then fire us, Mom," Lorelai dares. Lorelai says this isn't a favor, it's a business transaction, and that she and Sookie are running a company, and not family, so if Emily's unhappy with the service, she should fire them. Emily says, "As you wish." Lorelai says she and Sookie are busy, and that she'll have to hang up. Emily says goodbye. Lorelai hangs up and calls Emily a horrible woman. DOOR OPENS/ CLOSES. Sookie reminds Lorelai that she forgot to ask about the menu. Rory comes in and says that her dorm room has turned into a Three Stooges movie, and that she needs Pop Tarts shoved under her bedroom door in two hours.
But when Rory sees her bedroom, she finds out that there's not going to be any studying there. "You quiched my room," Rory says. Sookie tells her that they're actually tarts. About twenty trays of broccoli tarts cover every available inch of space in Rory's room. That smell must be incredibly overpowering. "Well, you tarted my room," Rory whines. Lorelai says she didn't know Rory was coming home. And I guess she couldn't call, with Paris on her phone. Rory covers her face and asks how she's supposed to study with that smell. Lorelai tells her to study in the living room. Rory complains that this studying is too serious for the living room, and that she's got a ton of work to do. Lorelai suggests a library at Yale. Rory says they're too quiet and big and drafty. Yeah, Rory hates libraries. She complains that she can't believe she came all the way home and there's nowhere to work. It's called college, Rory. Go to it. She notes that the sewing machine must not be far behind. "Oh, hey," Lorelai says. Very funny. She says that there are many kids in India who would love to come home to a room full of quiche. Sookie is very upset that people keep calling her tarts "quiche."