Episode Report Card Pamie: B | 1 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Bells And Whistles
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.26.2004
Luke's. Nice bell on your door, bell-hater. Lorelai walks up to Luke. "You wanna help me break the bells?" Luke: "I'll get my toolbox."
Lorelai follows Luke upstairs. The conspiratorial bass guitar starts up as Lorelai snoops around and sees that all of Luke's things are still upstairs. Dishes in the sink, an unmade bed...all the signs of bachelor life. And...my current home situation. Luke gets his toolbox. They leave.
"CBGB's." Lane is stoked, and is drumming on everything, including (mf)TL. Gil is excited. He's looking for signatures on the walls. He finds The Strokes. "Yawn!" says (mf)TL. Lane says that they have to sign the wall, since that's the whole point of being in a band besides the loose chicks. They find The Strokes in three other places, and comment that the band is overexposed even on walls. Bad news: Lane's band is bumped for the night. The booker explains that there are only two people out there, and they aren't drinking. Lane says she'll get them drinking. Brian realizes that those two people are his parents. Lane totally wants to play, but the booker says he already sent people home, and that they'll just reschedule the night. Lane begs and pleads, saying she really sacrificed a lot to be there tonight. The booker says he's really sympathizing with her, and leaves to find a cigarette. Lane wishes him cancer. Gil's cool with this, but (mf)TL just has another thing to rag on Gil about. Brian says that this isn't Gil's fault, and then suddenly the entire band is fighting. Lane stands and stares at nothing while the boys fight all around her.
Church. Lorelai and Luke walk up with the toolbox. The church is locked. Lorelai wonders what would happen if she had to do something holy. She uses her gym membership card to wiggle the lock open. She says she joined a gym after Rory was born to lose the pregnancy weight. "Did you go?" Luke asks her. Lorelai: "God, no. I was way too fat." Heh. The door opens. Lorelai praises and speaks fake-Bible-ese until Luke tells her to go inside.
Lorelai asks God if it would have killed him to dust. Luke tells her to hold the flashlight and not do any funny stuff, like moving-spotlight gags. Lorelai asks if she can put on a dirty shadow puppet show. Luke says that's fine as long as she stands back and lets the lightning strike only her. Wow. Lorelai's Jiffy Pop hat also has a black zipper down the middle. What the hell? Lorelai wants to discuss game plans on how to destroy the bells, but Luke already knows what to do. "You must have been the top of your class at Hunchback School," Lorelai notes. But it's because twenty years ago Luke took down those bells in the first place. He says it's a little narrow up there, so they should take the tools out of the toolbox and leave the box downstairs. Lorelai asks why he didn't bring his little toolbox. When she finds out that this is Luke's only toolbox, she wonders why he doesn't have a big toolbox and a little toolbox, for smaller jobs. Luke: "Well, if you have a big one, you don't need a small one." He stops the already-gasping Lorelai and tells her not to say "dirty" because it's too easy.