Episode Report Card Pamie: D | 16 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Pilot
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.04.2000
Who told Sprint that we would buy phone service from Colonel Mustard?
Family Game Night might become your favorite night of the week. You can't spell Family Fun without "Family" or "Fun!"
Sookie set another fire. Wah-wahhhh. The stove is ruined and Sookie demands to have the cost pulled from her paycheck. Lorelai says she'll do it and Sookie complains. Lorelai says she's not going to pull the stove from her paycheck but she's tired and cranky. Sookie and Lorelai discuss whether or not her and Rory actually had a fight until Michel comes over and announces that Rory is sitting in his chair.
Lorelai tells Rory that she kind of misses her muumuu. Rory asks why she Lorelai left her a note to meet her there. Lorelai asks if she wants to make a little extra cash by working that day. They get snarky on each other until Lorelai tells Rory to go home and be ready for dinner at seven. They "fine" each other and Rory leaves. Michel swoops in, sits down, exhales and says, "Ah. My chair." But in that funny, French way.
Rory and Lorelai stand in front of her parents' house for a while. Lorelai holds her coffee. Rory asks, "So, do we go in, or do we just stand her all night reenacting The Little Match Girl?" Lorelai asks Rory to be civil through dinner and then on the way home she can "pull a Menendez." It suddenly dawns on me that Rory is the new Darlene. They ring the doorbell. Emily declares them "right on time." Emily tells Lorelai to throw away her plastic coffee cup, "in the kitchen." As she pulls Rory away and asks to talk about Chilton, Lorelai rebelliously tosses the cup into the trashcan in the hallway.
"You're tall," Grandpa says to Rory upon seeing her. "I guess," she says. He asks her how tall she is. "Five seven." "That's tall. She's tall." Lorelai : "Hi, Dad." Grandpa: "Lorelai, your daughter's tall." Lorelai concurs: "I know. It's freakish. We're thinking of having her studied at MIT." "Ah," approves Grandpa. Emily serves champagne. They toast Rory's new phase in life. They sit in the living room. "An education is the most important thing in the world," Emily says. "Next to family." "And pie!" Lorelai chimes in. She sits and giggles as everyone stares. She says it was a joke. "Ah," Grandpa says, and hands Rory some of his newspaper.
At dinner, there's small talk. Lorelai says the potatoes could use a little salt. More small talk. Grampa brings up "Christopher," who is doing very well in California. He tells Rory that her father is very talented and smart. He tells her that she must take after her father. Lorelai stands up and says she's going to get a Coke. "Or a knife." It used to be that when I typed the word "Coke" it instantly made teenagers take off their clothes. No longer. Sadly.