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
The teacher dismisses class. Brad walks over to Rory and says hello. He then waits for her to ask him about Broadway, which she then does. He says that Nathan Lane is a very bitter man. He says that being on Broadway gave him confidence in every aspect of his life. Louisa and Fraulein walk over and ask Brad if he got to keep his makeup and costumes. This confuses Brad, who never thought to ask if he could keep his makeup. "How do you leave the house every morning and not have a piano fall on your head?" Fraulein asks. Brad: [matter-of-factly] "Well, I make a left on Federal..." Paris is still mad at Rory, even though I'm guessing five months have passed, and she crabs that Rory and Brad are blocking the speech sign-up sheet. She asks Brad if he needs a "five, six, seven, eight" in order to move out of her way. Brad says he's no longer intimidated by people like her. "I'm thrilled to hear it, Chita Rivera," Paris says, before adding, "Move." As Paris signs up for the speech, she says she hopes Rory signs up as well, since it'll be Paris's last chance to beat her at something. Rory says that her decision will have nothing to do with what Paris wants. Paris says it won't be a satisfying victory just beating "Jerome Robbins and the rest of the losers" at Chilton. "I'd really like to take you down, also," she says with a polite smile. She leaves, prompting Brad to note, "Wow, she is really up on her theatre references." It's called Daniel Palladino.
Sookie and her merry pack of extras surround a table in her kitchen. Sookie is "beyond offended" that someone has sent back an entire order of food. Lorelai asks what's going on. Sookie says they need a better screening system for customers. Lorelai says that any system would be better, since they currently don't screen customers at all. Sookie can't believe her four-star food was sent back. One was too salty, one was too hot, and one was "too sewery." Lorelai concludes that some people are just stupid. Sookie agrees: "And stupid people have stupid friends and they all have to come here and be stupid together." Lorelai asks if there's anything wrong with the food. Sookie is outraged, saying that everybody has tasted everything and everything is absolutely fine. The extra over Sookie's shoulder gives it away by practically looking away and whistling. The other extras all start hemming and hawing, all eyeballs and shoulder shrugs, until Lorelai takes the food, which is indeed too sewery. She tells the waiter to send the table out free desserts ("Too bacon-y!") and then pulls Sookie aside. Lorelai tells Sookie that she loves her and loves her food, but she just tasted one of the worst things she's ever tasted. "And I've tasted some very bad things," she adds. She asks if Sookie accidentally dropped strychnine or manure into the food. Sookie says that she tasted everything at every step of the way. Lorelai asks if Sookie's sick, since a cold or flu can throw off your tastebuds. Sookie says she had a bug last week, but she's fine today. Lorelai tells Sookie to get a check-up: "Maybe it was more than a little bug." Sookie asks if the food was really that bad. Lorelai says it was and tells her to have Manuel help her with tasting for the rest of the night. Rory pouts in, complaining that Paris is driving her insane. "Ooh, that looks good!" she says, walking towards the sewery concoction. "NO!" the entire crowd of extras says en masse, lurching forward to stop Stars Hollow's Princess from accidentally suffering for a nanosecond. "Be happy you're loved, hon," Lorelai says, holding Rory protectively and backing her away from the food, promising a Kit Kat in her purse.