Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Oh, Boy!
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.13.2003
Fraulein and Louisa walks away, leaving a hole that Francie quickly fills. She asks if there's anything she should know about the supplemental student council meeting. Paris says they're canceling it. Francie snots how surprised she is that Paris would cancel a meeting, when she seems so attached to them. "I finally got a blankie," Paris says. "It's much better." Francie wonders what she'll do with all that free time she'll have without that meeting. "Well, I guess I'll think of something," she says. "Take a picture of which outfit wins, would you?" Paris asks as she storms away. Rory and Francie share a snotty goodbye.
Finally, Paris and Rory are on their way to another class. Paris tells Rory that she met Jamie's parents. He bought her a train ticket to Philadelphia, he met her at the station, and she spent Christmas with Jamie's family: "It was perfect. They had a Christmas tree twelve feet tall. Everything was red and silver and there was egg nog." Paris asks if Rory's ever had egg nog. Rory says she has. "It's disgusting," Paris continues. "But disgusting in a really great way. And they had tiny wreaths hanging from every doorknob and mistletoe and candles everywhere." She says she's never had a Christmas before. She's never even had a Hanukkah bush. (Dirty!) Paris goes on and on, giving a commercial for the Christian Coalition, saying that the house smelled like cinnamon and there were hundreds of presents and even some for her. Rory says it's a good sign that Jamie's mom bought Paris a present. Paris keeps going on and on about the Christmas music, and the presents and the apple cider. Then she had a theological discussion with Jamie's grandfather: "Jesus: Messiah, or nice Jewish kid with a hammer?" Rory tells Paris to skip to the end. "He told me that he loved me," Paris says with a smile. ["I assume she means Jamie said he loved her, and not that Jamie's grandfather said he loved her." -- Wing Chun] "Oh, Paris!" Rory coos. "I never thought I'd hear a boy tell me that he loved me," Paris says. Jamie's invited Paris back for Easter break. She's stoked -- getting to discuss Jesus' resurrection. "Jamie's a lucky man," Rory says, and instead of ending the scene with a joke, or maybe even some kind of conclusion, we just watch the girls walk away quietly. Maybe this scene is why they pulled this episode until after the new year.
Independence Inn. Michel is addressing a convention room in a foreign language. Whatever he said was the wrong thing, because the room quickly erupts in anger. As Lorelai walks toward the front desk, Michel runs up behind her, telling her to get out of the way. She asks why the crowd sounds so angry. Michel says he doesn't know. She asks him why they'd be so angry to hear him say "Welcome to Stars Hollow" in Hungarian. Glass shatters in the other room. She asks what Michel said instead of "Welcome." Michel frantically flips through his Hungarian to English/English to Hungarian dictionary and sees what he said instead. They look at the word and panic. What could he possibly have said with "...to Stars Hollow" that would insult them that much? "Stars Hollow fucks you" sounds like an obvious mistake. "Stars Hollow eats your mom" would have been a very difficult mistake to make. "Stars Hollow eats babies" wouldn't really cause the riot it caused. Anyway, this is such a clichéd side joke that I can't believe it got through. Moving on -- since Lorelai, the woman who runs the Inn, doesn't feel the need to calm her large group of clients, and prefers to let Michel apologize in fractured Hungarian -- we too can just move on and forget about it.