Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Papa Don't Preach
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2002.01.29
Michel is on the phone sympathizing with a guest. He says "I understand" about nine times. He gets off the phone and confesses that he tuned the guest out at the first screech. Lorelai is looking for Manny, the linen and towel guy. Seems he's not there, and the Inn is completely out of clean towels and linen. This is a problem. Lorelai gets on the phone and calls Sookie. Is Sookie in the kitchen? I don't get this. I also don't get that this hotel operates solely on cordless phones. There's no switchboard system on cordless phones. How can they transfer phone calls to guests? How do they do wake-up calls? How do they know which guest is calling? And where did Michel's fancy iMac go? Why is he back to that giant guest-registry reservation book? Lorelai asks Sookie when Manny will be back. In the kitchen? I'm so confused with this. She tells Sookie to have Manny call her five minutes ago. ["I think she called Manny's associate whose name sounded like 'Sookie.'" -- Wing Chun] Lorelai tells Michel to call up Miss Patty's to see if they have any spare party tablecloths, and then grab all of the towels from the pool. There's a pool? Oh, I guess there was a pool at that bridal reception from forever ago. She tells Michel to then get a case of champagne and send a bottle to every towel-less room.
Richard walks into the hotel. Lorelai says, "Oh, no." Richard tells Lorelai he already toured the town and saw everything, including the park and the giant Slinky. He saw the old tree and met all of Babette's gnomes. He says he hadn't seen his daughter at work, and that he'll sit and read his paper. He leans in and whispers. He asks if Lorelai's work jacket is in the back. Man, this is exactly what would happen if my father ever had to see me do any kind of work. When I was in Austin for the Austin Film Festival this past fall, my parents drove up to have lunch with me. They saw that I was wearing this long skirt made out of sweatpant material and a t-shirt that had a picture of a snail. They couldn't help commenting on the tennis shoes. I saw it was killing them -- killing them -- not to make a comment for the first hour. Then it all came out in this giant barrage of "What kind of an impression are you trying to make?" and "Are you really that broke?" I couldn't explain that I was at a filmmaker's conference. They wouldn't understand what that meant. I was nineteen thousand times more dressed up than Harry Knowles. Nobody knew who I was because I was just a semi-finalist, and nobody was going to hire me at The Driskill even if I was wearing a blazer and pleated skirt. So, I'm sympathizing with Lorelai, here. Lorelai tells Richard that she doesn't have a work jacket. I sort of have to agree with Richard, though, because Lorelai is wearing a very ugly purple tuxedo shirt and it makes me sad. Richard asks if her boss minds. Lorelai says that since she is her boss, her boss doesn't mind. She adds that her boss did mind at first, but then Lorelai bought her boss some coffee and realized that it was just jealousy prompting her boss's anger so they talked it out and they've been best friends ever since. Lorelai wisely backs away from Richard and goes back to work. Lorelai tells Michel to get her an extra bottle of champagne and smack her over the head with it. "Absolutely," Michel smiles. The phone rings. It's Rory.