Episode Report Card Pamie: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT There's Something About Rory
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on February 21, 2001
We open with the perfect picture: CuteDean arriving at the door with his arms full of food. Mmm. He sits next to Lorelai and Rory and asks what they're watching. It's The Donna Reed Show. Rory asks what's in the bag CuteDean brought. It's salad. CuteDean explains that it's "a quaint dish that's sometimes used to proceed large quantities of pizza." He answers the silence by adding that it's for him. Lorelai is wearing a baseball-sleeved shirt that says "Heavy Metal Rules." CuteDean asks who Donna Reed is. Lorelai: "The quintessential '50s mom with the perfect '50s family?" Rory: "Never without a smile and high heels?" Lorelai: "Hair that if you hit it with a hammer would crack?" CuteDean: "So...it's a show?" Rory: "It's a lifestyle." Lorelai: "It's a religion." Rory says that her favorite episode is when Jeff comes home from school, "and nothing happens." Lorelai says her favorite episode is when Mary gets a part-time job, "and nothing happens." CuteDean asks what the current episode is about. Lorelai explains that Donna's husband, Alex, comes home late for dinner and he didn't call. "Might as well kick the dog, too," Rory chimes in. We watch Rory and Lorelai MST3K the episode, filling in the lines for Donna and her family. They joke about how the mother and the daughter wash windows together and accidentally think impure thoughts and then punish themselves for it. They talk in sweet sing-song voices at each other and laugh. CuteDean remarks that they aren't even listening to the dialogue. Rory says that theirs is better. That's true. CuteDean forks his salad and says, "I don't know. It all seems...kinda nice to me." Apparently CuteDean is about as smart as a box of hair, because I don't know what person on this planet would ever think for a second that his sentence was an appropriate choice for the Gilmore home. Lorelai asks CuteDean to explain. He says he thinks that families hanging out together with "the wife cooking dinner for her husband" seems really nice. He adds that Donna seems happy. "She's medicated," Lorelai says. Rory points out that Donna is acting from a script. "Written by a man," Lorelai monotones. "Well said, Sister Suffragette," Rory cheers. CuteDean asks what if Donna likes doing this stuff for her family. He finally sees the "you've got to be kidding, you stupid boy" looks he's getting from the Gilmore girls and decides to keep his mouth shut. On the television, Donna tells Alex that the first ten years of their marriage she was upset that he'd been late for dinner, but that she isn't anymore because she now knows he's not late for dinner, he's just extremely early for breakfast. Lorelai and Rory shoot femme-darts into CuteDean's head. CuteDean says he's not saying a word. Lorelai and Rory give satisfied smiles as the opening credits kick in.