Episode Report Card Pamie: C | 16 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Zzzzzzzzzzzz
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 2002.01.22
Dean's high school. Stars Hollow High? I don't know. CuteDean shouts from off-screen, "Think fast!" A basketball goes whizzing by Rory's head. There's no way she could have caught it. She's holding a comic book or something. CuteDean sits next to her. The basketball conversation goes on for a very long time, and turns into this thing where Rory says she doesn't like the way basketballs look. She segues into her fight with Lorelai. She hates how stubborn Lorelai is being. CuteDean makes a noise that launches Rory into a monologue asking CuteDean what he meant by that noise. CuteDean stops talking, noting, "Words are a very dangerous thing right now." He uses twenty-seven words to say that Rory can sometimes be stubborn, too. CuteDean says she and Lorelai will make up. Rory and CuteDean kiss. CuteDean runs down to get his ball (huh-huh). Rory hears giggling from the nearby cheerleaders. She looks up to see that Lane is one of them. They both see each other and then immediately avoid eye contact. I'm really having a hard time buying that Lane wants to be a cheerleader, y'all. CuteDean brings back a deflated ball. A car ran over it. Rory runs off.
Independence Inn. Lorelai is on the phone with a loan officer, comparing herself to the Energizer Bunny. She's asking him to reconsider. He won't. She says she'll call again in a couple of days. Michel says that she might want to try offering lapdances in the future. Lorelai says she doesn't know where to draw the line anymore. Michel says that she might want to try the Ping-Pong Ball trick. ["I was really quite shocked they used that in a throwaway line on a show sponsored by the Family Friendly Forum. -- Wing Chun] The phone rings. It's Emily. She's talked to her friend Miles, who is president at a bank. He's a friend. He's willing to see Lorelai and talk to her about her problem on Thursday at 3:15. Lorelai says she isn't going to go to the meeting. Emily asks whether Lorelai got a loan. Lorelai says she got a lead. Emily tells her to go the meeting. Lorelai says she won't. Emily says she made the appointment. Lorelai hangs up on her. She calls back the same loan officer from earlier. They tell her that he's in France. Wah wah wah waaaaaaaaaaaaah!
CuteDean and Rory kiss. They kiss again. It's a longer kiss that's a total shout-out to us complaining that Rory and CuteDean are too chaste this season. ["I totally agree, and said so during the episode." -- Wing Chun] Music starts from nowhere as Lane and Rory see each other from opposite sides of the street. They walk over to each other. The music stops. Whatever. "We need to talk," Lane announces. When did Lane get thirty? Her voice is all older and wiser, like she had some kind of bad breakup or a death in the family or something. She's got that look like she knows she's been written off the show or something. Maybe she hates wearing the cheerleader outfit and knows it's a bullshit storyline they've put her in. Lane tells Rory to stop teasing and judging her about it. Rory's mad that Lane didn't tell her. Lane says that Rory would have judged her anyway. Rory says they used to make fun of cheerleaders and now Lane's "peppy." Lane says that Rory's not around much anymore and she has CuteDean and Lane doesn't feel like she has to justify cheerleading to Rory. She runs off, but then runs back when she sees she forgot her pom on the bench. "Your what?" Rory asks. "Two are pompons! One's a pom!" Lane shouts.