Episode Report Card Pamie: B | 125 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT One Down, Two to Go
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2004.03.02
I wish there was more I could inject here in this episode, but there's nothing much going on. I feel like this recap is just color commentary, but there's nothing for me to add. I have no way of relating to the passing of an incredibly rich matriarch. Anyway, Lorelai calls Rory on her cell phone. Rory was in her dorm room watching Nigella, picturing a world where the sexy Brit was her mommy. Lorelai tells Rory that Gran died last night. She asks if Rory's okay. Rory asks what she can do. Lorelai tells her that the funeral is Friday and then there's a wake. Rory says she'll get out of whatever she had Friday night (wasn't it a dinner at Emily's?). Rory says she was just getting to know Gran. Lorelai tells her that she got a pretty good snapshot. Rory asks if she should be crying, since Gran was Rory's great-grandmother. Lorelai reminds Rory that she didn't know Gran all that well. Rory -- who gets her Gilmore-centric paranoia from her mother -- then frets that everyone at the funeral will see that she's not crying and think she's a horrible person. I will take a break here to say I love Lorelai's sweater here, and it makes her eyes look really pretty. Lorelai tells Rory that she's an amazing kid and that Gran was lucky to have her as a great-granddaughter. Yes, let's all take a moment in this time of sorrow to reflect on how lucky we all are to have known Rory. Lorelai asks Rory if she wants her to come pick her up tonight, take her to Tijuana and get her drunk and laid. Inappropriate! Rory says she has too much work to do. The girls tell each other that they love each other, and hang up.
Lorelai goes through Gran's files, and no matter what she finds, Emily tells her to hand it over. She doesn't want Lorelai to file anything, since she has a system all worked out. Gran's office looks like MamaLane's antique shop. A woman enters the study to tell Emily that they've inventoried the second floor, and have wrapped the bar glasses in bubble wrap. Emily tells her to load them into her trunk. The woman leaves. Emily tells Lorelai that she's preparing for the funeral by hiding family heirlooms from Richard's cousin Marilyn, who has been pilfering those bar glasses for the last five years. When my grandmother passed away, relatives who hadn't seen her in decades came by the house and claimed things as theirs. Not like, "I want this," but, "Oh, this was mine. I lent it to her in 1962." People are truly amazing. Lorelai is excited to have a "Winona" in the family. Emily tells Lorelai that Gran had a burial/cremation clause, and wanted half of her ashes to be buried next to her husband in the family crypt, and the other half to be put in an urn that will rest on Richard's mantle, so that the urn can stare at Emily, judging her for the rest of her life. Ew. "Family crypt." Lorelai says she knows so little about Gran. She asks Emily what Gran's maiden name was. Emily: "Gilmore." It seems Gran married her second cousin. Lorelai is very grossed out by this news. Emily says it wasn't uncommon for prominent families to keep the bloodline close. Lorelai calls this more "Good morning, Appalachia," and worries about extra toes. She points out that she has a double-jointed thumb. Emily asks her to use it to hand her more papers. Lorelai asks how everybody was okay with the intermarriage of cousins. Did they just go, "What a cute couple. They look so much alike"?