Episode Report Card M. Giant: B- | 83 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Ooh, That Smell
By M. Giant | Season 7 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2006.10.24
Christopher's driving Lorelai to dinner at Richard and Emily's, and he's got Skid Row playing on the radio, of all people. Somehow we don't hear the crash of the car driving right through the fourth wall. Lorelai invokes her rule against hair bands, and although that gets her nowhere, she draws the line at Chris saying, "'Killer'...'wack'...'rocking' or 'pimping' or 'slamming,' capisce?" "Fo' shizzle," Chris agrees gamely. "There's gotta be an eject button here somewhere," Lorelai says. Chris suggests that the two of them take off somewhere for a weekend. Lorelai's already got the destination picked out: "The Ice Hotel." In case you don't feel like following the link and never saw Die Another Day, she's referring to an actual hotel made entirely of ice. "Wouldn't it be amazing if you went down the hall and the ice machine was empty?" Christopher says, but Lorelai's serious about the idea. Well, mostly. She goes on and on about how guests get to wear parkas and fur hats, and sleep under reindeer skin and eat reindeer meat. I find myself in the position of agreeing with Christopher, who's kind of stuck on "get to." Lorelai points out that you can drink vodka there. Chris says they can drink vodka in Bermuda, too. "The Ice Hotel in Bermuda would totally melt," Lorelai duhs. So Christopher suggests two weekends: "Once we've been treated for frostbite and had our stomachs pumped of reindeer meat, we can go defrost on a beach somewhere." Because, you know Gigi's going to be out of the country for a while and all...
...which gives Lorelai her opening to belatedly express her doubts about the whole Paris plan. Christopher says that although he thinks he's been doing a pretty good job with the kid ("Amazing," Lorelai agrees sincerely), "it's hard, you know? It's really hard." Lorelai doesn't point out that she knows exactly how hard it is to raise a kid when said kid's other parent has totally bailed on you. Instead, she lets Chris go on to say that he needs to help bring Gigi and her mom together. Lorelai sees that, but isn't sure the best way to go is to put "a toddler alone on an airplane with an eighteen-year-old nanny who's totally psyched to go to France." "The nanny's twenty-five," Christopher says testily. At which age Lorelai had a nine-year-old, but whatever. Even without my help, this is pretty clearly escalating into an argument before our eyes.