Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Papa Don't Preach
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.28.2002
Gypsy has checked the car several times and says everything is fine. Richard tells her to check it again. She doesn't want to. CuteDean tells her to check it again. She doesn't want to. Richard gives a list of things to check. She's checked them all and the car is fine. She says there's nothing wrong with the car. Richard says she's paying her for a service and he wants that service completed. She says she'll look again. Richard walks over to CuteDean. CuteDean says he knows Richard thinks he's not good enough for Rory, but there's no reason to take it out on the car. Richard says that Rory is his only granddaughter and she needs to be protected. She's young and naïve. CuteDean says that Rory is also smart. Richard says that Rory is only smart about some things. CuteDean says he's not going to "do battle" with Richard over this. He says he doesn't care if Richard hates him. Richard says he doesn't hate CuteDean; he hardly knows him. CuteDean says that he's right there, so he can answer any questions Richard has. He says he still doesn't know what college he wants to go to or what he wants to do for a living. Richard says those aren't unreasonable questions. CuteDean agrees but says that Richard could have waited until dessert to ask the questions. Richard relents and asks CuteDean what his parents do. CuteDean's dad sells car stereos and has his own shop nearby. His mother works part-time transcribing medical records. Don't feel bad, Richard, we're just learning all of this, too. Richard slowly asks if CuteDean likes his granddaughter quite a bit. CuteDean corrects Richard and says that he loves Rory. This gets Richard all riled up again, but CuteDean says he was just trying to be honest. Richard quiets again and says that honesty is an admirable quality. Gypsy walks up saying she found a problem with the car. She holds up the windshield wipers and says they came off in her hands. CuteDean says she broke them off herself. She admits that she did, but she just wanted to find something wrong with the car. "I miss my home," she moans. CuteDean tells her to put the windshield wipers back on the car. Gypsy leaves to put the windshield wipers back on. Richard tells CuteDean that the car is probably safe, but he doesn't think it's an appropriate gift. "I understand that," CuteDean says. They both lean against the car for a bit. "How tall are you?" Richard asks. "Why? You wanna dance?" CuteDean asks. "No. Thank you," Richard declines. He adds after a bit, "I appreciate the offer, though." CuteDean and Richard share the "Male Bonding" smile.
Rory moans that Richard's going to keep CuteDean and the car away forever. Lorelai says that Richard probably is making CuteDean take the car completely apart and put it back together in front of him. Richard walks in and says the car was thoroughly checked and aside from some windshield wiper problem that Dean's taking care of right now, there's no reason Rory can't have the car. Rory thanks him and hugs him tightly. Lorelai hands Rory some money and tells her to go pick up the Chinese food. Rory leaves. Richard asks why Lorelai wouldn't let him pay for dinner. Lorelai says it wouldn't be appropriate since she's about to get very angry with him. She says that this is her house and her town where she lives her life. "Well, thank you for the geography lesson," Richard says. Lorelai says she's never gone to Richard's office and criticized him. Richard says that Lorelai never came to his office at all. Lorelai says she doesn't want his opinions and criticisms in front of her friends and employees, and that he's not allowed to come into her house and overrule her. She says she makes the rules for Rory, and that's the final word. She says if Rory comes home and says she wants to spend the day with Patricia Krenwinkle and Lorelai says, "Fine. Grab a sweater," then that's fine. Richard and I both ask who Patricia Krenwinkle is. Lorelai doesn't answer either of us. ["She was in the Manson family." -- Wing Chun] Lorelai says that if she said the car is okay, then the car is okay. She asks why he won't hear her. She says he came as the judgment police and stayed in uniform all day. Richard tells her to lower her voice. Lorelai says she won't be treated this way in her own house, and if he doesn't stop, she won't invite him there again. Richard stops her to say he knows that he wasn't invited over to the house. Emily begged and pleaded to have him off of her hands for one day. Lorelai has never invited Richard into her home. He says he never thought about what he'd do once he retired. He used to be a productive member of the human race. Now he's suddenly sitting at the country club at three on a Wednesday drinking brandy and playing cards. ["Sounds pretty good to me." -- Wing Chun] He's an annoyance to his wife and a burden for his daughter. He says that he finally knows what it's like to be obsolete. Lorelai pouts as Richard says he hopes she never has to feel that. Richard says he's not hungry anymore, and leaves the house.