Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "My Boyfriend's a Kleptomaniac! Cute!"
By Sara M | Season 5 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2005
Rory walks into the office and starts calling out for Harry, thus ensuring that everyone will hate her before the first coffee break. Harry pops up, and Rory runs toward him with the eager gait of a small child. Chill, Rory. The jaded Harry gives Rory a very quick tour of the office, and Rory regrets not having a pencil with her to take this stuff down. You might want to bring writing utensils to your job, Rory. Come on now. Harry is called away, leaving Rory in the break room. She pours herself a cup of coffee, then uses her camera phone to take a picture of herself with it next to the water cooler. Nerd!
Panic in the office! Mitch Rich has arrived to survey his newest acquisition for the first time. Harry is uncharacteristically impressed that Rory knows what Mitch looks like. Well, Harry, as Rory will tell you, Google searches are not that hard, and there is an image look-up function. Some guy introduces various office staff members to Mitch, and Mitch announces that he isn't looking to fire anyone or change things around, so people can relax about that. He calls for a meeting of all the department heads, and asks Rory if she's ready to shadow him. "Yes sir!" she says. "Bitch is sleeping with the boss's son," thinks the rest of the office. Rory turns to put her coffee down, and when she turns back, everyone is gone. Only Peter Pan's shadow did a worse job than Rory.
Lorelai reluctantly picks up the phone and dials. Emily answers on the first ring. Lorelai says nothing. Emily starts getting pissed, saying that "as far as perverted phone calls go, this is a very poor one." Leave it to Emily to berate her prank callers. Finally, Lorelai speaks. Emily is immediately concerned that something happened to Rory. But no, Lorelai just wanted to come to Friday Night Dinner. Ever perceptive, Emily says it's quite a coincidence that Lorelai would suddenly want to come to the same Friday Night Dinner Richie will be attending: "Do you really think it's going to work this way?" Emily lays out her demands: if Lorelai comes to this Friday Night Dinner, she has to come to all of them. No cherry picking. Lorelai says she isn't sure if she's available every Friday night. Emily snaps that if Lorelai shows up this Friday, she'd better be free for all Fridays in the foreseeable future. She hangs up on her. Why does Emily want Lorelai to come to weekly dinners when she so obviously hates her?
Back at the newspaper office, Rory runs to catch up to Mitch's brisk pace. Her feet aching, she takes her shoes off and holds them across her chest, like, don't try to make it any more conspicuous that you just took your shoes off than it already is, Rory. I'm surprised that someone so concerned with appropriate office attire would then blast it all to shit by running around barefoot, though. Rory tries to make small talk with Mitch, mentioning the four-minute mile he ran during his Yale days. Mitch obviously doesn't want to talk to her, and doesn't appreciate being bothered. He's whisked off into a meeting room, and the door closes on Rory's face. Ha!