Episode Report Card Pamie: B+ | 45 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Who Wrote the Book of Love?
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 2004.05.04
Dragonfly. Michel sits on the floor in his suit, checking messages. He asks Lorelai if this is her crazy voice on the answering machine (no voicemail in Stars Hollow), and then complains that she left twenty-five messages, all of which he had to write down. Lorelai takes the messages from him. "Every day that you breathe you make my life harder," Michel complains. He whines that he wants his desk, and that conducting business on the floor isn't funny anymore. He rants until Luke enters with a "Hey." He walks over to Grumpy Tom and compliments the staircase. Tom tells Luke he doesn't want any kibitzing over the staircase. Lorelai asks Luke if he wants to see the pretty stove. She says they're thinking about ordering out for food so they never have to use the pretty, pretty stove.
Luke and Lorelai enter the kitchen, where Sookie and some guy are badly ad-libbing having a conversation. Sookie applauds, goes, "Oh!," and says she's been looking for Lorelai. Then she quickly says, "Hi, Luke" without really looking at him, like she's mad at him or something. It's weird. Luke compliments the kitchen and asks if they used the original tiles. Sookie gives a very pissy "I don't know. Ask Tom." Sookie introduces Lorelai to the man she's talking to. His name is Shel Sauceman. Sheldon Sauceman? Shel's all, "It is really nice to meet you!" Sookie says he's going to be the new poultry supplier. He's also recently divorced. Oh, I guess Sookie was being short with Luke because she knows that Lorelai and Luke are supposed to be together, and Sookie, for some reason, wants Lorelai to be with this Shel guy who's recently divorced because he's clearly gay. Lorelai makes a joke that Shel appreciates. "You're funny!" he says. "She's funny." Then: "You know, they say pretty women usually aren't funny because they never had to be. Were you a fat child?" I'm positive Amy Sherman-Palladino had someone ask her this question in real life, because I've heard similar statements all the time concerning women and when they can be funny. Some men don't find women funny unless they don't find them pretty, and then they're able to be comfortable enough around them that they can recognize a sense of humor. A girl who is one of the guys can be funny, but if a pretty girl is cracking jokes, they may be at your expense, or she might even be -- gasp! -- smarter than the guys.