Episode Report Card Pamie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Look Who's Talking...Still
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.23.2002
There's a strange outbreak of soccer going on in a yard somewhere. A group of little kids kick a ball as Rory and Lorelai burst through a bush. Lorelai is showing Rory all of the new shortcuts she found through the town. Rory comments that Lorelai must have been really bored while Rory was away. The girls stop at Sookie's door when they hear Jackson screaming, "Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind?" Lorelai, always the nosy neighbor, puts her head inside the front door (which isn't closed, for some reason) and watches Sookie and Jackson argue. You see, Sookie has changed the entire house to look like some kind of sportsman's lodge, or the video for George Harrison's "I've Got My Mind (Set On You)." Or is it, "(I've Got My Mind) Set On You." I think it's the latter. They repeat "Set On You" over and over again. Why does this matter? It doesn't. Anyway, Lorelai listens to them fight for a while. Jackson is afraid of the gigantic stuffed bear Sookie has installed in the living room. ["I crave that bear for my own house, by the way." -- Wing Chun] Jackson tells Sookie to put the room back the way it was. She screams that she just wants him to be happy. He yells that he was happy.
Lorelai suggests that she and Rory come back a little later, so the girls walk the five steps to the festival. Oh, man. Cue the a cappella group that will never stop singing "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" for the next half hour. You can't escape it. Don't even try. I'll just use the following abbreviation for every time you hear that line of song: LHCD. Then we all know the joke and I can move on without us having to stop and give the joke as much attention as it's asking for. So, yeah, it's just a festival. The winter celebration was much more festive, if you ask me. Lorelai asks Rory whom she's looking for. Rory says she's not looking for anybody; she's just taking in the festivities. We got it. Who the hell are all these people that show up in Stars Hollow for celebrations, anyway? LHCD.
Kirk runs up to Lorelai and asks whether she's used the Hay There products yet. She hasn't. Kirk's glad, because apparently there's been a little problem. I'd say the problem is Kirk's speed addiction, because Sean Gunn's become even skinnier than Rory. Can someone put some food on the Crafts Services table for these people, please? Man. Kirk says that the product has developed some strange reactions to light...and air...and movement. Kirk says that Lorelai needs to get rid of the products, but that throwing them in the trash would be an EPA violation. He suggests that she blast them into space. He promises to come by and pick the stuff up tomorrow. "Hey," Lorelai says to Rory. "Do you sometimes think this town is weird, or is it just me?" Whatever.