Episode Report Card Pamie: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Teen Sex Ruins Lives
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.24.2003
Emily's. Richard answers the door, prompting Lorelai to comment that he's the most masculine-looking maid her parents have ever had. Richard says that it's chaos there. The second maid called in sick, the first one is busy with dinner, and Emily is at the hospital, since her DAR group has suffered a series of strokes today. If Emily were in Lorelai's position, she would have been outraged that nobody called to inform her that dinner was pointless. Three of Emily's friends had strokes today, so Emily must go from bed to bed. Lorelai asks what's in the water the DAR ladies are drinking. "A little whiskey, usually," Richard answers. Richard adds that Liesl was much more masculine than he is. He walks Lorelai to the living room, where Rory is already seated. Richard tells Lorelai that Emily would have made her throw out her coffee cup by now. Lorelai asks him to replace it with a martini. And then take some allergy medicine, Lor. Good idea. The phone rings. Richard celebrates, since he's expecting an important call. Lorelai tells him that if all the maids are out sick or busy, he's got to answer the phone. Richard runs off to answer it. Lorelai celebrates being alone at last with Rory. Lorelai gets up to make her martini and says she has something to tell Rory. She tries to get Rory to guess, by using the word "maximize" in a sentence. Rory says she's just "maximum confused." Lorelai sits and says she ran into Max at the pharmacy. She says he's either forgiven her for treating him so badly or she just built it up worse than it was in her head. "Oh, no," Rory says. "You treated him like crap." Lorelai says he was very big about it and he didn't recoil or blow her off. "We had a nice chat," she deadpans. "It was good to see him." Rory starts going on about how he's a great guy and a great teacher. Richard returns, with more stroke news. He brings up the Chilton bicentennial and Rory's speech. C-SPAN joke: "It's like watching the Men's Warehouse security camera." Richard asks when the speech will be, since he'd like to be there. Rory says it's not her speech yet, but it will be Friday at 5. Richard asks if they can move it to 6. "I don't think so," Rory says. Richard says he might move his thing. "That might be best," Rory says. Well, we see where Lorelai gets it. Richard runs off to answer the phone again, shouting, "I got it! I got it!" Lorelai laughs. She holds up her cell phone: "Speed dial. I just like seeing him do that."
Sookie's house. Sookie's on her porch and is very happy to see Lorelai. Sookie went to the doctor today and found out that she's definitely pregnant: "It's an It!" Lorelai says she loved being pregnant. Really? Sookie tells Lorelai she expects lots of tips, and wants Lorelai to break out her diaries from that time. Lorelai says that the diary in question is mostly filled with her pondering over which member of Tears For Fears she loved more. She asks what Sookie's doing outside. Sookie says it was a rough night. Jackson won't drive faster than seven miles an hour, since he doesn't want to "jiggle Baby." They spent ten minutes on one speed bump. She says he's got a wild look in his eyes, keeps making telephone calls, and punched the calculator so hard that he broke it. Jackson enters at this point and says they're selling the truck, since that's the only way they can afford the mini-van. Sookie says she thought he broke the calculator. "I'm using a pencil," he says. Jackson says he's getting a haircut and buying a second tie. He goes back inside to answer the phone, saying it's probably the contractor for the expansion. Sookie and Lorelai are worried about Jackson's craziness. Sookie says he's baby-proofed the house. He threw away all of their prescription drugs and stuffed newspaper into the electrical sockets. Jackson walks back out and tells Sookie that they'd have to move out for three months to do the add-on, but they probably don't want to do that. "Probably not," Sookie says. Jackson goes back inside. Lorelai asks if Sookie's tried slapping him. Sookie says he won't let her lift her arm over her head, in case it stretches Baby. She complains that they never got to celebrate. Lorelai says it's sweet in an obnoxious way. "I guess I'll have to let him be male," Sookie says, disappointed. Lorelai's internal timer goes off, and she decides it's time to talk about her again. She tells Sookie she ran into Max tonight. Sookie asks if it was weird. Lorelai says it wasn't as weird as she thought it'd be. Sookie says Max is a really good guy. Lorelai notes that everybody's pretty unanimous about that. Sookie asks if he was nice. "Very," Lorelai says. What happened between them was so long ago, Lorelai has the audacity to say, and she wonders if she was really all that bad to him. "You mean dumping him in the gutter? Sure." Lorelai says that Max isn't back for very long, which I didn't know -- did you? She says she just doesn't want Max to hate her. Sookie says Lorelai didn't mean to hurt him. Lorelai decides to write Max a note. What is she, twelve? "I owe him that," she concludes. And thousands of dollars he spent on a wedding. Shit, the thousands of dollars he spent on the engagement. A note. Lord. Jackson storms back in carrying a cleaver, furious that Sookie would have such a dangerous instrument in the house. Sookie explains that Baby would have to fall from the kitchen counter into the second drawer in order to hurt him- or herself on the cleaver. Jackson says they're switching to plastic. As Sookie runs inside, Jackson declares that their home will be Saran Wrap free as well.