Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Just Like Gwen And Gavin
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.16.2006
At the winter carnival, townie hijinks are ensuing as Taylor sneaks around pretending to be a German tourist and Kirk accuses little kids of counterfeiting carnival tickets. Things are going good at the doggy swami booth. Poor Paul Anka even has a swami outfit on, and I must say he looks pretty good in it. Rory tells Lorelai she can run the booth alone if Lorelai doesn't feel like being there. "It's good for me," Lorelai says. "Nothing's a better distraction than a dog...in a turban...telling fortunes..." Rory laughs, saying it's a cliché for a reason.
Across the way, Lane is manning her booth, a game called "Toss the Sybarite into the Hellfires." Hee. The prize is a tract called "Hell Is Waiting For You, Sinner," and I love it. Helping out and laughing with Lane is the Very Hot Korean-American Man, and Zach watches all of this from behind another booth, hating every second of it. When VHKM goes to Babette's booth to knock down some bottles, Zach follows him and once again becomes an Uberjerk, getting all competitive and macho about the game. Babette is alarmed when Zach starts throwing the balls really hard at everyone else's bottles, and asks him what's the deal with him being all Goose Gossage. Zach's on a mean streak now, though, and practically bumps chests with VHKM, hilariously yelling, "Welcome to the S.H., bitch!" VHKM shakes his head, and Babette wonders who she's supposed to give the prize to. "Give it to Asian George Clooney, here," Zach says. "I'm outtie."
He heads straight to Mrs. Kim and accuses her of already getting Lane paired off to "the Korean Brad Pitt guy with the Italian loafers and the super-white teeth." Mrs. Kim sighs and says that that is Lane's uncle. "That can't be her uncle," Zach says. "Uncles are old." Mrs. Kim says that nevertheless, Joe, the Very Hot Korean-American Man, is in fact Lane's uncle. "Okay," he says. "Oops. But, just to be clear here...she's not hot on her uncle, right?" He tries to leave, but Mrs. Kim stops him. "We settle this now," she says. "I am not going to get in your way." As usual, we cut away from Zach, leaving him in a state of confusion.
Lane is testing out the Swami Doggy booth, giving the wheel a spin. Lorelai reads out her fortune. "You will sing songs of gemstones!" she says. Lane: "Of gemstones!" Rory bursts everyone's bubble, asking what that means, and Lorelai said she was pretty tired when she wrote that one.