Episode Report Card Al Lowe: C+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Punch it Out
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.04.2006
Kirk is running a new scheme over at Luke's, trying to sell wrapping paper by charging less than what the middle schools are selling it for in a fundraiser. When Luke points out that the kids are selling paper to build a new gym, Kirk gets indignant: "I'm not a school, Luke. No one's raising money for me." Liz arrives with Doula, who is immediately fawned over by Miss Patty. "She's really strong, too," says Liz. "She can already hold her head up." I bother to quote that seemingly inconsequential line, because she repeats it verbatim one second later. Oops. Liz puts the baby, still in her carrier, on the counter, and after a nonsensical conversation about T.J. and an interruption from Kirk hawking his wares, she asks Luke how things are going with Anna. Luke says that things are okay, though he hasn't talked much to Anna since the big blow-up. He says he thinks that the whole April visitation thing should work out all right -- he's even made a list of times to see her that he thinks is pretty reasonable. All he wants is for April to visit during one holiday and one month of the summer, along with flying back and forth to Stars Hollow every other month: "In between, I can travel to New Mexico." Liz says that this (frankly, ludicrous) arrangement sounds good to her, but advises him to get a lawyer to make his chances better. "I don't like lawyers," says Luke, shaking his head. ["Not since he MARRIED ONE, anyway." -- Wing Chun] "Well, nobody does," says Liz, and I am in the weird position of agreeing with something Liz is saying. Ah, motherhood has made Liz smart? That's great. Except no, it hasn't. Having delivered her advice, she promptly leaves the baby with Luke, saying she needs time to herself, and runs out the door.
Back at Emily's, Lorelai is biting her cheeks as Randall gushes over his ideas to plan the party thematically around La Bohéme. A party at which everyone is poor and starving and pretends to have tuberculosis? Why would that be fun? As an alternative, Lorelai suggests that they use the theme from Rent. Same story, different disease. Randall, naturally, blanches at such a suggestion, and Lorelai is saved by a call from Rory, who's just checking in to see how things are going. "What?!" Lorelai cries. "What happened? Is he okay?! Oh my God! What can I do? What do you need?" Nice try, Rory says, but she's not going to help Lorelai to get out of the planning. Emily, too, is on to the game -- "I can hear Rory on the phone. You're not as clever as you think" -- and Lorelai's escape is foiled. To torture Lorelai further, Emily makes her look at invitations. Lorelai fruitlessly asks if they can just send an E-vite. Look, I know Emily is about as irritating as they come, but if someone is going to throw you a party that costs more than my house, please...just shut up for a second and act right.