Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Oh, Boy!
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.13.2003
Lorelai has rushed home from the Inn; Emily's boat of a car is in her front yard. Lorelai shouts, "Hold it right there!" as she walks through the front door. Emily freezes, bent over the couch she was trying to shove to a side of the room. "This couch cannot stay," she says. Lorelai says Emily can't move anything. Watch for the moment the camera man trips on something and the view goes askew. Emily complains about the awful couch and the horrible chair and Lorelai tells her to leave everything alone. Emily brought flowers but can't find a vase. "All I could find was a ceramic Betty Boop head." She decides to get some tarps, throw them over everything, and tell Gran that Rory and Lorelai are redecorating. Lorelai asks what's so horrible about the room. Emily says that Gran will take one look around at the "drugstore collection of hobo furniture" and blame Emily for everything: "Basically, everything is my fault." Lorelai tries to calm Emily down, but is still taking great pleasure in all of this. She sits Emily down. Emily complains about the lumpy couch. Lorelai offers some advice: "You need to develop a defense mechanism for dealing with Grandma." Lorelai says that she knows there are many things in her life that Emily disapproves of, like the couch. Emily says the couch is terrible. Lorelai says that, at one point in her life, having Emily hate a couch that Lorelai spent eight months paying for would have been traumatic, but not anymore. Now she takes great pleasure in how worked up Emily gets over things, and when Emily hates something that Lorelai loves, Lorelai just finds it amusing. Emily says she doesn't know what to think about that. Lorelai tells her to think it's a great idea, because this point of view could set her free. Emily crumples and pouts. Lorelai asks what she's thinking about. "That ridiculous Betty Boop head," Emily answers. Lorelai smiles: "So am I." Strummy music on Emily's take to camera two.
Francie walks away from her locker. We all know the scene that's coming up; it's a line-for-line recreation of the time Francie pulled Rory into the bathroom to discuss her coup. But this time it's Rory talking. Francie gets out a Heathers reference, but other than that it's the same speech, gum and all. Rory tells Francie that she's only had one goal all year. "To achieve the perfect liquid line," Francie says. "To take Paris down," Rory says. "And to achieve the perfect liquid line," Francie repeats. Rory says she's no longer going to be Francie's go-between. She calls Francie a jerk -- the biggest insult of The WB -- and says that Francie's now on her own. Rory is no longer her ally. She circles Francie and says she'll be as big a pain as Francie is to Paris. Francie warns Rory that she doesn't want to be her enemy. Can I get a normal name around here? Francie tells Rory that she's going to be very sorry. Cue the next episode. ["Heeey. 'Paris'? 'Francie'? I just got that." -- Wing Chun]