Episode Report Card Pamie: A- | 131 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Buy Me This!
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2004.02.24
Lorelai and Rory lead Emily to a place she's never seen before: the Food Court. Rory asks where Emily normally eats when she shops. "I leave and go to a restaurant," she says. Emily looks disgusted when she realizes that the Food Court serves cafeteria-style. Lorelai sits Emily at a table. "It's plastic," snots Emily. Rory reminds Emily that plastic is "a vital part of our bright tomorrow." Emily tries to give the girls her favorite plastic thing -- a credit card. Lorelai explains that these places don't take Visa, and then Rory and Lorelai leave to forage.
Armed with food, Lorelai and Rory carry their trays back to the table as Lorelai argues on the phone about some drawing of the inn. The girls talk Emily through the spread. Emily had no idea so many foods came on sticks. Rory says some of them are technically kabobs. I've never seen someone order six different drinks before to share with three people, but these girls did. Emily tries an Orange Julius. Mmm, Orange Julius. I haven't had one since I was six. They didn't have them in many of the states I lived after that. I wonder if they're still good. Emily likes it. Rory leaves for napkins and pepper. Lorelai talks Emily through some of the food. Emily asks how loud she was back there. Lorelai says she was heard. Emily notes that if she'd seen someone act that way, she would have called Security. Emily compliments Lorelai on the way she handled her phone call earlier, being forceful. Lorelai says she learned from the best. "From whom?" Emily asks. "From the lady eating her hamburger with a knife and fork, that's whom," says Lorelai. Emily says she orders around servants and salespeople: "That's different. I've never done anything." She says that Richard's right: all she does is buy things she doesn't need. She's never done anything. Lorelai gently reminds Emily that she has friends and a family who love her, and a house and a whole life. She could get a dog. Emily wishes Richard would shave that mustache. Lorelai tells Emily she needs to make Richard talk to her, no matter how distracted he seems, because she needs to talk to him: "And make it a real talk." No mention of Moby. "Really clear the air." Rory comes back and asks what she missed. "I was just admiring your mother's life," says Emily. "Oh, I do that daily," says Rory. Lorelai looks like her princess crown finally fits like she wanted it to.