Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 53 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Bunch Of Turkeys
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2005.11.22
We cut to the alley outside the bar, where Zach is sitting alone in the doorway, holding his broken Gwen Stefani mic. Lane comes out and, instead of killing him, asks again what is wrong with him. He dares to say "nothing," and she snaps. The label guys were there, she says, and it was a disaster. They've blown their big shot. When he shrugs, she gets more frustrated and starts crying. "You let me down tonight," she says. "You let down Gil. You let down Brian." Zach says he doesn't want to hear about Brian, and that the situation "is what it is." Lane is devastated. "Maybe this is why people in bands shouldn't date," Zach adds, confirming my suspicions of last week. Keiko Agena = awesome right here, crying and saying, "Yeah... I guess so," before going back in and leaving Zach alone.
Back at the Random Café, Rory and Lorleai are meeting up with Christopher. He says it seems that Rory has grown. "Only in my estimation," Lorelai quips. Chris says he's thrilled to be with them on Thanksgiving, since that's never happened before, and they sit down to talk money. Rory says she'd like to take him up on his offer to pay for Yale. He is very excited to do it, he says, and launches into a speech about how he'll be glad to write a check or use a money order, going on and on, Lorelai-style, about what is money order, anyway, yada yada. Rory sincerely thanks Christopher, telling him it means a lot to her that he would do this. "Well," he says, "it means more to me." It would have meant more to everybody if you'd not waited for an inheritance to start being a parent, dude. Rory goes outside to answer a call from the paper, leaving Christopher to try to get the lowdown from Lorelai on what's been going on in Rory's life lately: "Can I ask you something? It involves the E-word and the R-word." Lorelai: "Oh, please, let's not discuss evolution and recycling! They're just too hot-button." Hee. I thought he meant "engagement ring," but actually he meant Emily and Richard. Lorelai tells him that everything's fine now between them all, which is a lie I'm sure will come back to haunt her, and that Rory's reasons for taking time off constitutes a long story. She clearly feels like Christopher's prying and tries to push him back a little. He gets it and says he understands; all he really wants to do is provide for Rory. Christopher does notice that other E & R thing -- the engagement ring -- and congratulates Lorelai, saying he wants her to be happy. She thanks him, and he jokes that he's getting her a Rolls as a wedding present.