Episode Report Card Pamie: D | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Pilot
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2000.10.05
Back in Reservation Wacky, Michel is still on the phone with the woman, telling her that he can't possibly do anything for her unless she picks another weekend. The only way that he could get her a room is if he built one himself and he's "not a man who works with his hands." He asks her to pick another weekend. Any other weekend. She picks another weekend. He looks it up. It's booked. Wah-wah-wah-waaaaah. Lorelai asks whether the plumber has been to room 4 yet. Michel says that the plumber "was here, he did nothing, it's two hundred dollars." He hands her the phone. She calls the plumber and sweet-talks him into not charging her for the lack of maintenance. She kisses Rory hello. Michel asks what Lorelai what "[her] offspring is doing." "I need stamps. Can I take these?" "Nooooo," Michel sings. "Take them," Lorelai says, exerting her authority. She points at Rory's cable-knit sweater and asks, "What's with the muumuu?" Rory and Lorelai exchange more fashion banter until Rory turns to leave. Lorelai tells Rory to let Michel (pronounced "Michelle," the French way) look at her French paper before she leaves. "Excuse me?" he asks, while sorting reservation cards. "That'd be great!" Rory says. "No," Michel says Frenchly. Lorelai batters him by speaking in a terrible French accent until he says he'll look at it if he gets a chance. Rory gives him a few orders to make her mother proud and then walks away. Lorelai stares at the working Michel for a few seconds until he says, "I despise you," but he says it in that cute French questioning way, so Lorelai smiles.
Cut to the school. Just as some kid goes by in a Razor scooter and some girl is about to ask Rory a question, my cable goes out. It won't be out for long, so I want to take this opportunity to get all paranoid on you. Clearly, someone knew I'd be recapping this show. Either that, or they wrote it in hopes that I'd recap this show. There's too much me in this show so far to make me think it's purely coincidence. First of all, my parents are in Hotel Management. In fact, it's where they met. I often lived in hotels and knew the Reservation Manager by name, and had desk clerks help with homework and knew bellmen's names and all of that. My mother listened to Carole King's Tapestry every night before she'd go to bed, and "Where You Lead" was one of the songs that we'd sing together in the car. My friend is the crazy-wacky harp lady. The show is set in Connecticut, which is where both of my parents are from, which is where they met while they both worked at a hotel. Change Hartford to Stratford and you've got the makings of my life. This can't all be the work of Saint Clare. This is hard to recap, people. I'm used to cracking jokes and wailing and cursing and generally snarking the shit out of a recap. I've got nothing so far. Nothing! My only solace is that I have the reputation of being the MBTV Kiss of Death, so this show will certainly go down in about five episodes. And since it's Family Funded and on opposite Friends, certainly the WB agrees with me. They just want to bring back Young Americans for me, I just know it.