Episode Report Card Pamie: D | 11 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Pilot
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.04.2000
Alex is playing the harp. A guest tells her that it's beautiful. Alex picks up a coffee can and tells the guest to tell it to the tip jar.
As Lorelai is telling the bellman how to prepare a room for a special guest she hears a loud crash from the kitchen. She walks in and finds the cook, Sookie (Another name to add to the computer's dictionary), on the floor, covered in pots and pans. She says she's okay. Lorelai yells at one of the chefs for not watching her. She tells Sookie to be more careful. Sookie says she fixed the peach sauce. She's one of those happy, chubby cooks who's all clumsy and happy and doesn't care that she's bleeding, which she currently is. She dismisses it as one of her stitches opening and says that she was using too much maple syrup in the sauce. Sookie hands Lorelai the pot and tells her to try the sauce. They both taste from the spoon and put the spoon back into the pot as Sooki declares she's going to use that sauce the next day. Um, hi. You both just put your mouths on the spoon and then put it back in the sauce. Lorelai declares the sauce to be delicious and says that someday, when they open their own inn, "diabetics will line up" to eat it. She tells Sookie she has to live long enough to see their own inn, and starts to pick Sookie up to take her to the doctor. Sookie steps on her own thumb, and then gets up.
Rory and her friend are making fun of the popular girls' nail polish as they walk into "Kim's Antiques." There is much yelling and shouting as the girls try and locate Rory's friend's mom. "Lane!" "Mom?" "Lane?" "Mom?" "Lane? Where are you?" "Back here!" "Over here!" The shop is just too big and cluttered for them to find each other, so they decide to meet in the kitchen. Lane tells her mother that she brought Rory with her, and you can hear the disappointment in Lane's mom's voice. Rory says she can't believe her mother still hates her after all these years. Lane says she doesn't hate Rory. "She hates my mom," Rory says. Lane says, "She doesn't trust unmarried women." Rory points out that Lane is an unmarried woman. Lane retorts, "I'm hay-riding with a future proctologist. I have potential." Hee. Lane's mom has made muffins without sugar, dairy or wheat. She says you have to dip the muffins in the tea to make them soft enough to eat, but that they are very healthy. She asks if anyone got pregnant or dropped out in school today. Rory says that Joanna Bosner was "glowing a little." MamaLane turns and says, "What?" Lane says, "Nothing, Mama. She's just kidding." MamaLane scolds, "Boys don't like funny girls." See? I'm telling you, they wrote this for my demise. I don't know how to recap writing that's decent. Someone shows up in the shop so MamaLane has to leave, but tells the girls to eat the muffins now because they're only good for twenty-four hours. Shouting and attempting to locate one another inside the massive antique shop starts up again as the girls smirk at each other.