Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lost And Found
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.16.2007
Doyle asks Rory which paper she's interviewing with. "The Providence Journal-Bulletin," she says with a nervous smile. "Ah, the ProJo!" Doyle says encouragingly. He tells her it's a great paper with a top staff, but that they work their cub reporters very hard. "And," he adds with mild contempt, "they do have a comics section." Logan asks what's wrong with that -- though you'd think he'd know, considering his alleged family knowledge of the newspaper industry. "Let's just say," Doyle answers, "The New York Times does not have a comics section." Yeah, but they did have Jayson Blair, and he was fairly comical, right?
While Doyle collects his attaché case (hee!) and Rory picks out the right coat for her interview, trying to strike the right balance between All the President's Men and His Girl Friday (my God, why would she ever shy away from the latter?), Paris goes in for the kill with Logan. "I'm just going to cut to the chase," she asks him. "Why are you here?" Logan: "You're not talking metaphysically, are you?" Paris says that he's used to living in places with doormen and Danish furniture and "refrigerators so fancy that magnets won't stick to them," and thus, she wonders why he's now living in their off-campus crap hole. Logan says that when he quit his job with his dad's company, the company was no longer too keen on paying his fancy-place rent. "Plus," Paris adds, "you're broke." He tries to insist that he isn't, but he's interrupted by Doyle headed for the door, complaining about his Corn Flakes really doing a number on him. Heeeee! Rory rushes out in her best That Girl coat, followed by Paris and Doyle, who are off to start their days. "Logan," Paris says, sticking her head back in for one final command, "after you finish with all your 'work,' it'd be great if you could..." Logan: "Pick up some 2%, I'm on it." Paris: "'Do the dishes,' I was going to say." HA!
April is at Luke's apartment unpacking her suitcase along with what looks like twenty books. I can't even tell you what goes on in this scene, because (1) the child, who is quite lovely, just blabs from wall to wall as Scott Patterson holds on for dear life trying not to go deaf; and (2) she gives Luke a BRACELET. I mean, she's talking about Native American short narratives and comparing New Mexican pueblos to New England's alleged historic buildings (my favorite part is when she refers to the reservation her friend lives on as "fabulous"), and it's cute, but it's also Rory 2.0 and I have complained about that numerous times, so why bother repeating it? Oh, well, fine. I'll bother: I don't understand why April had to be Rehash Rory. Why couldn't she have been a blonde, kind-hearted, diabetic vegetarian cheerleader? Huh? Why double us up on the bookish word nerds? And I ask that as a bookish word nerd my own self, I do, and again I say this actress is way cute, but I was seriously excited to have her living in New Mexico, and to have respite from the 2.5-second joke delay with which she seems to struggle weekly. But back to the bracelet. What does every studly, flannelicious, backwards-cap-wearing, self-styled Neanderthal Man need in his wardrobe? A huge silver and turquoise wrist cuff. Oh, yes. And, natch, Proud Dad has to put it on, because he does not want to appear Baldwin-like in his parenting choices. Honestly, he's glad she is enjoying New Mexico.