Episode Report Card Pamie: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Bully For You
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.30.2002
Once in the kitchen, Sookie tells Lorelai to stay positive, and that this could be a good thing. She says that people change everyday. "One minute you could be a vegetarian and the next minute you could have a bite of a stuffed pork chop that changes your entire way of thinking." Then life is fun and there's a reason to get up in the morning: "And it's called bacon!" Lorelai tells Sookie to stick to the pasta. "Let the people grow, dammit!" Sookie shouts.
Chilton. Very dark hallway. Rory is walking down the hallway when she's suddenly grabbed from behind and yanked into a bathroom. Francie is doing her hair as she innocently says, "Rory! Hi." Rory starts to say something, but Francie interrupts her with a big smile. "No, I talk. Okay? Great." She informs Rory that Paris isn't actually in charge around here. Francie is going to get what she wants. She figures that while Paris is the chatterbox, Rory is the Meyer Lansky of the operation. Rory promises that she's not. "What's that noise?" Francie asks. "What is that noise? Oh, wait. It's me, still talking. Didn't you hear it? Obviously not." She says there are three other class presidents besides Paris, so Paris is not going to ignore what Francie wants: "She's in for a major bikini wax." "Thanks for the visual," Rory pouts. Francie says of Paris, "She's nothing. Just another power-mad, insecure, friendless, dateless, highlight-less loser wandering around trying to make someone care that they exist at all -- which, by the way, no one does." Francie reminds Rory that she rules not only the senior class, but the Puffs -- the most powerful, exclusive group on campus -- so she has the power to make Paris's life a living hell. She says she can make it so the only thing Paris gets to do is lead the student body in whatever version of the Pledge of Allegiance is Constitutional at the time. Rory asks what she's supposed to do. Francie replies, "I want you to go back to Margaret Thatcher and tell her to play ball. She's gonna support the hemline issue and any other issue that I bring up for the rest of the year. Otherwise I'll make her look so ineffectual, she'll make Jimmy Carter look like Martin Sheen." Rory says they're supposed to be representing the student body, not brokering backdoor deals or bullying other representatives with intimidation tactics. "I mean, what are we," Rory asks, "French skating judges?" Francie says this is politics: "If you have a problem, tell it to Noam Chomsky. I live in the real world." She also threatens Rory not to tell Paris, because Francie will just say that Rory came to her saying she thought Paris was unfair and too mean to her. Since Rory's always trying to be so nice and helpful, she'll tell Paris that this was all Rory's idea. The girl playing Francie clearly played the lead in The Bad Seed in high school.