Episode Report Card Sara M: A- | 135 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT A Poolhouse Is Rory's New Home
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2005.05.17
When Lorelai returns to the car, Rory is off the phone and confused about the "two-minute warning" Kirk just gave her. Lorelai gives her some donuts and asks Rory why on earth she stole a boat. Rory says she was upset. Lorelai says that when she's upset, she eats pound cake. She's a little annoyed that, for the thirty thousand dollars a year Yale charges, they don't even have pound cake, thus leaving students with no choice other than to steal boats when they're feeling sad. Rory sighs and tells Lorelai about Mitch's performance evaluation, and how Rory has absolutely no ability to handle disappointment. As Kirk's tow truck approaches the Gilmore Jeep, Lorelai goes off on Mitch and how he's full of crap. She says that Mitch isn't God, and that his opinion of Rory is both uninformed and unimportant. Rory makes an insincere-sounding apology for her behavior, and then starts to freak out as she realizes that she just got arrested and will need hand soap for those fingerprint ink stains. Lorelai -- the master of anticipating her daughter's needs -- says that they will figure this out. She starts up the Jeep and they drive away, thus depriving Kirk of yet another chance to wield whatever teeny-tiny amount of power he has over them.
The next morning, the Troubadour sings about turning twenty-one and getting in trouble even though his mother tried to raise him better. That's the first time I've seen the Troubadour, and I hope it's the last. He's annoying. And silly. And not Elvis Costello no matter how hard he tries. Inside their apartment, Lane and Brian rush around getting ready for their respective workdays. Zach, on the other hand, stumbles out of bed and starts playing videogames. Lane looks around for her jacket, and finds it on her drum set, which is covered with clothes and empty beer bottles, like one of those exercise machines you got with every intention to use but soon became a makeshift storage container.