Episode Report Card Pamie: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Responsibility's For Suckers!
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.22.2001
Lorelai sits next to Sammy the Cat and calls Sookie. Sookie has blatantly broken the No Cell Phone rule, and is holding the phone up at Luke's so that Lorelai can hear Luke giving Kirk shit about sitting way too long at a table. Kirk just wants more coffee, and Luke wants Kirk to leave. How many more people could Luke be expecting? Kirk says that in France, when you sit and order, you can have the table for as long as you want. Luke threatens to say some horrible things that may or may not involve France. Kirk says he could leave if he had his check. Luke points out the check sitting at Kirk's elbow. Sookie gets back on the phone. Lorelai asks whether everyone already knows the news. I'm surprised she hasn't asked Sookie to call both Emily and Max to let them know that the wedding is off. Sookie says that Luke doesn't know yet, since he's a loner. Bullshit. Everyone's in that diner every morning. He'd have heard the gossip. Kirk asks Luke what's 6% of $4.43 for a tip. Hee. Anyway, Lorelai tells Sookie to tell Luke instead of asking Sookie to hand Luke the phone. Lorelai listens as Sookie tells Luke that the wedding is off. He asks what happened, and Sookie admits she doesn't know, but says she has Lorelai on the phone. Luke's shocked and sorry. Lorelai hangs up the phone and stares at Sammy the Cat. Luke gives Kirk another refill of coffee and says it's on the house. "Thanks," Kirk says. "Or should I say, gracias." When does Kirk get an episode? Luke gives free coffee to everyone in the diner as Sookie shakes her head. "That man loves him some Lorelai," she thinks. We get it.
Rory's miserable as the table chit-chats around her. See, Rory should be better at this. She loves making chit-chat with Emily and Richard and the men at the country club. I don't understand what her problem is. They ask about her boyfriend as Rory shouts, "Mom! I saved you a scone. You love me, right?" Lorelai says she has to take Rory away from the table and feed her now. Rory runs out of the room.
"I now have abandonment issues," Rory says, as they walk through the B&B. Lorelai says she had to make a call. Rory says Lorelai left her. Lorelai asks what Rory wants to do now. "Kill you," Rory says. Lorelai asks what else. Rory isn't sure. "Bounce tennis balls off of Sammy?" Lorelai offers. She tells Rory to pull out the map she's hiding. Rory opens the map and says they're near Concord, Manchester, Salem, Boston, Newton, blah, blah, blah mapcakes. Lorelai gets inspired and says she knows where they're going. Rory asks where, but Lorelai just promises that Rory will love it. Rory starts to fold her map and says if Lorelai tells her where they're going she can chart a course. Lorelai takes the map and crumbles it. Rory shouts that Lorelai is folding it wrong. Lorelai asks if it's now smaller. Rory says that it is. Lorelai says that it's not wrong. Rory pouts until Lorelai promises to buy her a new map.