Episode Report Card Pamie: A+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Love Bites
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.07.2001
"I mean, three months!" Lane sighs. "That's like one sixty-forth of your life!" Rory says she knows. Lane says she should stop hanging out with Rory because it's making her life seem pathetic. "Join the club," Lorelai chimes in. Rory asks if Lane is going to the festival, because they could meet up with her. Lane smarms that meeting up would be so romantic. She says that she's going to the festival because her mother has set her up again. This time he's a chiropractor, which makes her think that her mother is losing confidence in her. Rory says it might be nice. Lane then informs her that she's not just going with the boy, but also "his parents, his grandparents, two sisters, three brothers, and at least one maiden aunt." CuteDean honks outside and Rory stands to go. Lane says she wants to hear everything that happens. Rory says she wants to know all about Lane's evening too, despite Lane's protests. They hug. Rory hugs Lorelai goodbye. Lorelai tells her, "Don't forget the meatball." Lane asks what that means, but Lorelai tells her it's a "mother-daughter thing." Rory leaves and Lane asks Lorelai if she can hang out with her tonight. Lorelai says that she has to go to Emily's for dinner, so she can't go unless she wants to go to Hartford. She says it's not nice to keep "fifteen prospective Korean in-laws waiting." Lane asks Lorelai to run over her with her car on the way out. She wonders if her mother would let her skip out on the date if she was in the hospital. Lorelai says it's unlikely. Lane agrees.
Lorelai finishes her coffee in front of Emily's door and looks around for a place to toss the cup. She settles on shoving it into her purse. Emily opens the door and says that Lorelai is late. Lorelai asks how Emily knew to open the door before she even rang the bell. Emily says she thought she heard something, went to the door and saw Lorelai was there. She lets Lorelai in. Lorelai says that the door is ten feet thick and doesn't see how Emily thought she heard something. Emily asks if Lorelai wants to hear that she was standing in front of the window waiting to pounce on her the second she arrived. Lorelai says she'd rather hear that because it's actually less creepy. Emily takes the coffee cup from Lorelai's purse and tells her to go fix herself a drink.
Lorelai says hello to Richard, who never looks up from his newspaper. Lorelai walks over to the fireplace and asks how his work is doing. Richard mutters that it's fine. Lorelai says her work is going just fine as well. She sees the glass menagerie on a small table and says that Emily has gone just a bit too far. "Little Kathy Bates? Although, you probably haven't seen Misery which is a good thing, because Rory couldn't sleep alone for a week after she saw it. That wouldn't be a problem for you, because you don't sleep alone anyway. I'm guessing. I don't know…what your and Mom's sleeping arrangement is. Now I'm wishing I hadn't brought it up, because it's such a, 'Wow. Don't want to go there,' kind of subject. For me. Not for you. Because you should definitely go there. You, well…" Lorelai goes to put the figurine back on the table and knocks a few over, making a wild noise. Richard asks what Lorelai has done now, and Lorelai stammers that she sort of separated the bunny and his friends, but that's what they get for living in the jungle. Richard tells Lorelai to sit down. She apologizes. He tells her to sit with her hands in her lap and to keep quiet so he can finish reading his paper. He asks her to keep quiet and to try not to break anything else.