Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Up A Creek
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.19.2007
Later, Sookie arrives in the Gilmore kitchen with a load of Tupperware. Lorelai has asked her to make some healthy meals for Richard, and Sookie's come to the rescue. "Did I already mention that you're a goddess?" Lorelai asks, in thanks. Sookie requests that, in that case, she get to be the goddess with the multiple arms. Lorelai's phone rings. It's Rory, decorating Logan's apartment with highlights from the Gilmore birthday legacy. It's sweet but, well...isn't this sort of making Logan's birthday about Rory? And, are we surprised? And, should she be shutting up? Nah, we'll let it slide. Rory and her mom review the Rory birthdays of legend. When Rory turned six, they had a space birthday, featuring suits made of garbage bags and freeze-dried ice cream. This was followed by the fiesta birthday, also with freeze-dried ice cream.
Rory and Lorelai are interrupted by Logan on the other line, who tells Rory that Mitchum has invited them out to dinner that night to celebrate Logan's birthday. "Oh...that's great," says Rory, surrounded by all this work she's done to put his hoopla treatment together (cake included). She says, however, that it's important that Logan spend time with his dad, and that they can celebrate later on their own. "Are you sure?" Logan asks. "It'll probably be lame -- for all I know he's inviting us to crash a meeting with Rupert Murdoch." Ha! Logan thanks Rory for understanding, and they hang up.
Back on the phone with Lorelai, Rory updates her about her change of plans for the night. "That sounds like a load of laughs," says Lorelai. Rory sighs: "That man is fundamentally incapable of making me feel anything but small and awful." Au contraire, Lorelai reminds her: "He's made you feel incompetent, too." Rory changes the subject, asking if Lorelai has told Emily yet about the impending divorce: "I feel compelled to remind you that the lives of four hundred Cornish game hens hang in the balance."
Back at Luke's, Mr. and Mrs. Irritating have spread themselves, their stuff, their baby stuff, and Liz's jewelry stuff all over the apartment. In a roundabout way, they get to talking about Luke's visiting Lorelai's dad in the hospital. Liz gets downright kooky about it, waggling her eyebrows all cutesy like she's teasing Luke about getting back together with Lorelai. This is annoying for about seven reasons, not the least of which is that I distinctly remember Liz giving Luke a speech about how being with Lorelai was never right for him. T.J. must also remember it, because he renews that party line immediately. "I don't think you should get back together with her," he says, of Lorelai. "That woman is drama. Don't call her! Don't open that Pandora's box! Lock it up!"