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
Inside the door, Lorelai finds Luke. "You ready?" she asks. "Brrrrrrrr!" Luke asks what the hell that noise was, and she insists that it was a drumroll. "Sounded more like a helicopter," he says, but she makes him go with it. "Ladies and gentlemen, Rory Gilmore!" Lorelai shouts. Rory comes in, all smiles, and gives Luke the most awkward hug ever, like he's some very distant cousin or he's got the leprosy, or something. ["That girl just can't hug. She needs to take a class or something." -- Wing Chun] Luke musters up all the excitement he can considering his Grinch-like capacity for love, even offering up a "yay!" which clearly pains him. "I don't think I've ever said 'yay' before," he winces. "Sounded weird." Rory asks Luke what's been new with him, besides the whole engagement thing, and he nervously says that nothing has been going on. "What have you heard?" he asks, suspicious. Rory: "Nothing. That's why I asked." Hee. Luke reiterates that nothing is new, and goes off to get the Gilmores some food. "Did I inadvertently step into something there?" Rory asks, and Lorelai shrugs that she has no idea.
The girls don't have time to dwell on Luke's weirdness as Lane comes over to cheer: "Mother and daughter, together again, and all is right with the world." She tells Rory that she hopes she's going to be available next week, because Hep Alien has a showcase: "Not a gig, a showcase, and a label is going to be there." I love Lane, in spite of the unlikelihood of the band's landing a showcase with a label. Lorelai and Rory get excited for her as she goes on. "I'm shaking," she says. "I shouldn't shake; I'm a drummer. It'll mess up the beat!" Rory says she'll absolutely be there, since this is big. "Very big," Lane says. "Unless it's a Waiting for Guffman thing and the label guys don't show up." She pauses, the smile fading: "Did I just jinx it?" Rory says that, to be safe, they should do the anti-jinx spell they used to do. Lorelai says she wants to do it, too, but Rory explains that it's a serious thing: you don't just DO it. "If we jinx-back a second time within the hour," Lane says, "it cancels out the first jinx-back." Girls are awesome. Even when they are nearly thirty, playing twenty, and pretending to be nine. Rory goes down a list of the Hep Alien songs she especially liked on the tape Lane gave her. All the titles are girls' names. Apparently, pfTL thinks this will give the band their best shot at radio play. "It worked for The Police, The Knack, Franz Ferdinand," Lane says, going on to ask if Rory wants to be the band's D.A. Pennebaker: "We're borrowing a video camera," she says, "and we need someone sober to do the photography." Rory says she can set her crack habit aside for a night and take that on. Lane is excited and asks if Logan will be attending. Rory says it will just be her. Lorelai notices and asks what's up with that. Rory explains that they are on, like, a hiatus: they had a big fight and just needed a break from each other. Lorelai does not pry further, especially since a table full of food arrives just at that moment. "I hope it's not cold," Lorelai says, all hopeful. "Oops! I think I jinxed it. Does that get me a hand-thingy?" Rory rolls her eyes and complies, doing the jinx-back. Hell, if your mom never had a childhood because she was raising your smart ass, wouldn't you?