Episode Report Card Pamie: C | 120 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Vote Or Die
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2004.10.12
Rory pouts into Lorelai's house. Lorelai asks if she was supposed to be expecting her. Rory says she's tired and doesn't feel like driving back to school tonight, as she has class tomorrow. Lorelai can't believe Rory drove all the way to Stars Hollow to hang out with CuteDean when she has class in the morning. Rory's all, "What? What did you say?" Lorelai leaves for Pop Tarts. Our wedding is on New Year's Eve.
Election day. Night? I don't know. Lorelai tells Rory to hurry up with her voting. Rory tells her not to harass the voters. "This is not Florida." Sookie cheers that she just got to vote for her husband. Taylor emerges from his booth, saying they'll never guess whom he voted for. I love that they gave Sookie First Lady hair for this scene. Taylor and Sookie shake hands. Sookie tells Lorelai this has been fun, even if they lose. Lorelai says they will not lose. Rory says she'll hang out and see Lane's band before she leaves. That's a first. Sookie goes to make stew for Jackson if he loses. Lorelai swears Jackson isn't going to lose. I have my dress, but I haven't looked for a pair of shoes. I found a pair of shoes I love, but they're black, and the company doesn't make them in the color I need.
The band is listening to the song they have to cover with bemusement. Might have been good to learn the song more than one hour before the gig, but what do I know? It's "Believe It or Not," the theme from Greatest American Hero, the show that united my mom and her two daughters. We'd all gather around and sing the theme like it was an anthem, I swear. You youngsters might only know this song as the brilliant message George Costanza had on his answering machine. ("Where could I be?" Hee!) Oh, man, it's a good song. "This is the day the music died," declares mfTL. Sebastian Bach says Seals & Croft rocked harder than this. "My mom likes this song," Brian whines. The band briefly debates wearing wooden tiki masks while playing the gig so nobody recognizes them. "I'm not wearing smelly wood on my face," mfTL says, in a line I have a feeling he wrote for himself. He suggests they walk out to keep their street cred. Lane says one night where they play not to impress jiggly girls isn't going to kill them. MfTL says part of the appeal of all this is meeting chicks. Lane says that's not why she's in a band. But Brian and Sebastian Bach are. They argue into circular logic, and get confused. Sebastian Bach reminds everyone that Hendrix rocked out the national anthem at Woodstock, so they can do the same to this eighties sitcom theme song. Lane and Sebastian Bach high-five. The chances of my fiancé reading this recap are slim to none, as we rarely read each other's recaps any more, but I'm still going to keep the details of my dress a secret. I can tell you that he hasn't decided what he's going to wear yet, and it really weirds me out when women choose what their grooms will wear at their weddings. I mean, lady, lose a little control.