Episode Report Card Pamie: B | 38 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Oh, Boy!
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2003.01.14
Independence Inn. Michel is addressing a convention room in a foreign language. Whatever he said was the wrong thing, because the room quickly erupts in anger. As Lorelai walks toward the front desk, Michel runs up behind her, telling her to get out of the way. She asks why the crowd sounds so angry. Michel says he doesn't know. She asks him why they'd be so angry to hear him say "Welcome to Stars Hollow" in Hungarian. Glass shatters in the other room. She asks what Michel said instead of "Welcome." Michel frantically flips through his Hungarian to English/English to Hungarian dictionary and sees what he said instead. They look at the word and panic. What could he possibly have said with "...to Stars Hollow" that would insult them that much? "Stars Hollow fucks you" sounds like an obvious mistake. "Stars Hollow eats your mom" would have been a very difficult mistake to make. "Stars Hollow eats babies" wouldn't really cause the riot it caused. Anyway, this is such a clichéd side joke that I can't believe it got through. Moving on -- since Lorelai, the woman who runs the Inn, doesn't feel the need to calm her large group of clients, and prefers to let Michel apologize in fractured Hungarian -- we too can just move on and forget about it.
Emily calls, re-inviting Lorelai to Richard's birthday party. There is much discussion about how Emily hadn't actually invited Lorelai to this party in the first place, so it technically can't be a re-invite, since the original was never spoken. Emily explains that the party was an on-again/off-again affair, but now it's very much on again and she'd like the girls to attend. Richard's turning sixty. Emily tells Lorelai to bring a gift. (Does Lorelai have a tendency to forget these things?) Emily brags that she's bought Richard a cigar humidor. It belonged to a WWI Lieutenant, and it's rumored to contain codes carved into the bottom of the box. Lorelai promises to arrive promptly at 8, and hangs up. Michel runs back over, the Hungarians still quite outraged in the other room, and empties out the register. He tells Lorelai that once they pay the ransom, they can have their busboy back. Michel leaves without any further explanation. Yeah, it's silly in Stars Hollow, but I'm not buying this.