Episode Report Card Pamie: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Who Wrote the Book of Love?
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.03.2004
Rory, Sookie and Michel are at Lorelai's house working on some dragonfly embroidery. They debate how to spell the word "laundry." Sookie says that she can stay late tonight, since Davey's with his grandparents and Jackson's sleeping with the zucchini. Repeat those last five words about nine hundred times, and that's what the next ten minutes of this episode feel like. Lorelai can't believe it's her fault Jackson's spending the night with vegetables and heads over there. Michel's all, "All of us...or...?" Heh.
Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to the worst strip club in television history. Notice how the ladies never take off their clothes. The dress code for T.J.'s bachelor party was "flannel and plaid or ugly," so Luke's looking right at home. We've got a double dose of DeLuise here, with the other younger one (the one that was on Jesse; let's just call him "Ted," because why not?) playing T.J.'s younger brother. T.J. tells Luke he'd rather spoon with Liz than be at a strip club. This nauseates Luke. A woman tries to give Luke a lapdance, but he stammers out some excuse and thanks her profusely until she just thanks him back and walks away. I can't even see these guys, the lights are so red in the club. Luke says he's going to keep standing so he doesn't have a lap to dance on. T.J. finds this to be the most profound piece of wisdom he's heard in a while -- that you can't have a lap unless you're sitting down: "A lap is just an illusion." Jess enters, which I think is illegal, and sits down at the table. I'm shocked he doesn't immediately order a lapdance. He does drink a beer. How old is Jess? Luke shakes his head like he doesn't approve, but what else is Jess going to do in a strip club but drink and look at non-naked women? What a weird scene.
Hospital. Paris and Rory hold empty cups meant to represent coffee. The nurse tells Paris she can go in and see Asher. Paris thanks her. She tells Rory she's going to go have The Talk with him: "This can't go on. It's too weird. Tonight's been kind of an eye-opener." They're supposed to leave for Europe soon, so it's best to do this now. ["This is what made me think it was going to turn out that Asher had faked his whole health problem so that Paris would freak out and dump him, and then he'd be free and clear and not blamed for leading her on and jerking her around with invitations to Oxford that he never intended to honour. Which still may happen, I guess." -- Wing Chun] Rory says that's true for many reasons. Paris is all, "What reasons?" and Rory has to backtrack and meander her way into not admitting that she finds Paris' attraction to Asher creepy. Paris asks Rory to wait for her and take her home.