Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Boyfriend's a Kleptomaniac! Cute!"
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2005
Richard, Emily, Richie, and Rory walk to the door as Lorelai sits at the dining room table and sulks. Off-screen, we hear Emily and Richard do some more sucking up, complimenting Richie's use of email for communication purposes and his tiny dick overcompensation -- I mean, "sports car." And then, Richie and Rory are gone and it's just Lorelai and her parents. Lorelai remarks that on the National Geographic documentaries, people are usually "sweaty" after a "mating ritual," but surprisingly, Emily and Richard are "powder-dry." It's because Emily's icy demeanor keeps the room so cool, I'd say. Emily and Richard ask Lorelai what her problem is with the Rory and Richie match, which they think is perfect. Lorelai says that Rory and Richie are young and having fun, and tha tthey don't need Emily and Richard forcing concepts like weddings and children on them. Emily thinks the real problem is that Lorelai just "isn't comfortable around people like [Richie]. He's not your type. That's well-documented." Lorelai says there's no need to insult Luke. Richard and Emily both feign innocence. Fed up, Lorelai says that when Rory ate at the Rich mansion, Richie's family "treated her like trash." Richard says he doubts that, considering that Mitch gave Rory her internship. Lorelai says that was to buy her off. Richard points out that there's no money involved, and furthermore, Rory's getting an internship through Richie is the same as Lorelai's getting that meeting through Richard. True.
Finally, Lorelai blows up and says that Richie's "early day" thing was just an excuse to get the hell away from them, and furthermore, Richie isn't as perfect as Emily and Richard think. For instance, Lorelai caught him and Rory -- and then she pauses to think of a way to phrase things that won't make her daughter look bad and comes up with "kissing." Of course, Emily and Richard think that's great. "I never thought of you as a prude," says Emily. "Paranoid, but not a prude," adds Richard. Lorelai plays her trump card: "He stole your sewing box." Emily and Richard aren't hearing it, though.
We're back at the internship. Rory waits for Mitch to get off the elevator. She walks alongside him and waits for a break in his conversation with some newspaper people so that she can offer him some coffee. Mitch checks his watch, but Rory says that this is decaf. He's quite pleased, and they all walk into a meeting room. Rory stands outside, but Mitch tells her to get on in there. It's too bad that any progress we've seen Rory make in this internship came because of her connection with Richie, and not because she is actually good at this.