Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Bunch Of Turkeys
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.21.2005
At lunch at the Dragonfly, Lorelai and Rory are once again surrounded by food as they continue through Lorelai's stack of random thoughts. She comes to a non-fun one: Christopher's call. Rory is surprised, noting that it's been at least a year since they last heard from him. Lorelai runs down the call, explaining that Christopher said in his message that he has big news that will be a 100% positive thing for Lorelai and Rory. "Meaning," Rory says, "that there's a ninety-nine and 99/100ths percent chance that it won't be." Lorelai asks what she should do and wonders aloud if Christopher is in cahoots with The Grandparents. "He's vulnerable," she says. "They prey on the vulnerable." Hee. Rory says that since it's allegedly "something positive," it couldn't involve Emily and Richard. She and Lorelai try to figure out what it could be about, and can't. Rory says she guesses there's only one way to find out. "Guess so," Lorelai says, very reluctantly. "Ugh. Brasslefrat." Rory nods: "Bendleschmitz."
Aside: Have y'all seen this Destiny's Child WalMart commercial? Are you also wondering when R&B decided to do away with music altogether and just release a series of random beats and destination-free vocal lines? As much as I love her, I blame Beyoncé (whose name my mother seriously pronounces "BEE-yawnts.")
Liz is at Luke's greasing a cookie sheet and harassing a customer with her story of how she's making rolls for her Thanksgiving dinner for twelve, and how even though she's never made...well, any kind of dinner, she thinks that, with Martha Stewart's guidance, she can pull it off. Luke is, naturally, frustrated that Liz is even there -- even more so that she is hosting a dinner for all her renaissance fair people. Apparently, even Freddie, the guy with no thumbs will be attending. "Don't tell me," Luke says. "He's hitchhiking in." Haaa! Liz laughs, saying she's going to call Luke "Yakov" from now on. Luke tells her not to be too intrusive as she bangs a tube of rolls on the counter and is, of course, generally intrusive. No one on this show ever learns a lesson. Why wouldn't Liz be intrusive? What in her history with Luke has ever indicated she would ever be anything but completely destructive and annoying? I'm doubly irritated with Luke's irritation, as if he could possibly expect anything different.