Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Stars Hollow Summer Vacation Essay
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.22.2003
Jess's skank must have skipped town, because Kirk now works the beauty supply store. Lorelai says she's looking for both a good daytime and nighttime cream for Rory. Kirk, who's wearing a strange new haircut, asks if Rory's sensitive to breakouts if the cream is too heavy. "Yeah," Lorelai says. "I thought so," Kirk says. He warns Lorelai to stay away from the cream she's looking at, and recommends something by Clinique (This episode brought to you by Clinique and the Foundation to Keep Dick Van Dyke From Falling Off the Youth Radar). Kirk says that Rory has a classic Peaches and Cream complexion, and that it would be a shame if she started to look like a cowboy when she got older. He tells Lorelai he heard she got back from her trip. "I'm living proof!" Lorelai says. As Kirk rings up her purchases, he notes that he saw the castanets she brought Miss Patty back from the trip, and he saw the t-shirt from the Picasso museum they brought Andrew. Kirk admits that he was a little jealous, not because he likes Picasso, but because he's a fan of t-shirts. Pete really enjoyed the Tower of London nutcracker. Kirk says that there's often been a time when he's sat around holding a nut, wishing for a nutcracker. Easy on the nuts. Lorelai apologizes, saying they messed up the presents because it got so crazy: "I mean, we forgot to bring something back for Luke!" Does that mean she's comparing Kirk's importance to Luke's, or that Kirk is even lower on the list than Luke, Andrew, and some guy named Pete? "I heard he got jam," Kirk says, with a little catch in his throat. "Fake jam!" Lorelai shouts. "I love fake jam," Kirk pouts. Lorelai promises to make this up to him and swears they never meant to forget him. Kirk says her total comes to $45.50, which is pretty cheap as far as two creams from a beauty-supply store could run. Kirk says he's closing up early and pulls out a parachute from behind the counter. "Kirk, no!" Lorelai says. Kirk says that Taylor's paying him twenty bucks to jump out of an airplane today. "No!" He says he even took a lesson already, and was told he was a natural at falling. Lorelai says the best gift she could possibly give him is telling him not to jump out of a plane today. Kirk asks if he can still get fake jam. Lorelai turns and leaves.
Two kids pass Rory on the street and sneer, "Thanks a lot!" "Yale can have you!" the other one shouts. Lorelai finds Rory and asks if she got her silly pens. She has, and Lorelai notes she can cross those two things off. Lorelai says they need to prioritize if they're going to get everything done. Something has to go. "Biscotti night!" Rory moans. "No! Not biscotti night," Lorelai says. She suggests that they not go to Emily's tonight. Now there's a solid idea that won't cause any conflict nor get either of them in any trouble. Why should Rory go and see the people paying for her college education on the night before she leaves for college after a summer of not being in the country? Good thinkin', Lor. Rory says she can't do it. Lorelai says there's no way they can get everything done if they have to drive to Hartford and back. "She'll understand!" Lorelai says. Then: "Well...the first part was true." Lorelai says they'll go to dinner next week, and then every week after that for the rest of their lives. Then perhaps biscotti night can be next weekend, since Rory will never be allowed to have her own life. "My parents will outlive us," Lorelai says. "The damned can do that." Rory says that this is her deal, and that she can't back out, but Lorelai can. She says this deal was only for her. I guess we're dropping that entire subplot about this deal and how Lorelai was furious, because suddenly she's stoked, relieved, and joyous that she doesn't have to go to the dinner ever. Lorelai says she's not going, so she'll finish up the errands. She tells Rory to go and eat really quickly and meet her back at 9:30; they'll watch some of Godfather I and then watch Sofia die. Lorelai leaves.