Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Boyfriend's a Kleptomaniac! Cute!"
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2005
Rory scampers off to a nearby cubicle and calls Richie. "Help help help!" she says. Dude, I would've hung up on her right there, but, in a tone that suggests that he'd rather not know, Richie asks what's going on. Rory says she won the "Spaz of the Year" award. I agree. She tells Richie all the things she did wrong today, which include not knowing when to go to lunch and having to make do with just an Altoid. Art imitates life, it seems. Rory asks Richie to tell her something about Mitch that she can use to "connect" with him. Richie says he doesn't know anything. "This is important to me, [Richie]," Rory says. Richie sighs and tells Rory that Mitch likes jazz and working late. He doesn't like doubletalk, and Rory makes a concerned expression upon hearing this, possibly confusing "doubletalk" with "talking at double the rate of normal people." If Mitch doesn't like outdated pop-culture references, Rory is SCREWED. Lastly, Mitch drinks decaf after 4 because of his high blood pressure. "That's almost something," ungrateful Rory says as she writes it down. Richie says that Rory will do fine and tells her to stop worrying. Rory says she just doesn't want Mitch to be disappointed in her. Richie says that her name would have to be Richie for that. Sounds like a sensitive subject to me, Rory! Maybe you should stop bringing it up? But then you'd have to actually notice and care about the feelings of other people, so I guess not.
Luke serves Lorelai a dinner of soft-shell crab amandine on a bed of wild rice. Wow. Hang on to that, Lorelai. Gourmet food more than makes up for the unshaven-ness and flannel-and-baseball-cap uniform. Just as Lorelai and Luke are about to enjoy dinner together like a real couple, her phone rings. It's Richard. A client of his contacted him earlier today -- a client who owns boutique inns. He heard that a cover story about the Dragonfly is coming out in the next American Travel. Uh oh! Lorelai places, like, a finger over the phone (surely that works better than the mute button) to tell Luke that the article is coming out after all, and then goes back to Richard. He says that no one has actually read the article (phew!), but that the client wants to take a meeting with Lorelai. "I assume he wants to offer you some sort of job," Richard says, adding that it probably includes travel. Lorelai says she obviously already has a job. Not listening, Richard asks Lorelai if she travels. Lorelai says the liquor store is pretty far away. Richard doesn't appreciate the humor. He tells Lorelai to call his office tomorrow morning for the contact info. "I'm quite proud of you, Lorelai," he concludes.