Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Bunch Of Turkeys
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.21.2005
The girls don't have time to dwell on Luke's weirdness as Lane comes over to cheer: "Mother and daughter, together again, and all is right with the world." She tells Rory that she hopes she's going to be available next week, because Hep Alien has a showcase: "Not a gig, a showcase, and a label is going to be there." I love Lane, in spite of the unlikelihood of the band's landing a showcase with a label. Lorelai and Rory get excited for her as she goes on. "I'm shaking," she says. "I shouldn't shake; I'm a drummer. It'll mess up the beat!" Rory says she'll absolutely be there, since this is big. "Very big," Lane says. "Unless it's a Waiting for Guffman thing and the label guys don't show up." She pauses, the smile fading: "Did I just jinx it?" Rory says that, to be safe, they should do the anti-jinx spell they used to do. Lorelai says she wants to do it, too, but Rory explains that it's a serious thing: you don't just DO it. "If we jinx-back a second time within the hour," Lane says, "it cancels out the first jinx-back." Girls are awesome. Even when they are nearly thirty, playing twenty, and pretending to be nine. Rory goes down a list of the Hep Alien songs she especially liked on the tape Lane gave her. All the titles are girls' names. Apparently, pfTL thinks this will give the band their best shot at radio play. "It worked for The Police, The Knack, Franz Ferdinand," Lane says, going on to ask if Rory wants to be the band's D.A. Pennebaker: "We're borrowing a video camera," she says, "and we need someone sober to do the photography." Rory says she can set her crack habit aside for a night and take that on. Lane is excited and asks if Logan will be attending. Rory says it will just be her. Lorelai notices and asks what's up with that. Rory explains that they are on, like, a hiatus: they had a big fight and just needed a break from each other. Lorelai does not pry further, especially since a table full of food arrives just at that moment. "I hope it's not cold," Lorelai says, all hopeful. "Oops! I think I jinxed it. Does that get me a hand-thingy?" Rory rolls her eyes and complies, doing the jinx-back. Hell, if your mom never had a childhood because she was raising your smart ass, wouldn't you?
At the Dragonfly, Sookie is busy whipping her kitchen staff into shape as they scramble around prepping for lunch. "Okay," she says, "if you could travel back in time and make me NOT make the veal and ham pâté, I'd appreciate it. Talk me out of these things in the future, guys." Oh, I'd have talked you out of such a thing in the past, present, pluperfect, and future. Veal and ham pâté? Will I ever eat again?! Lorelai comes in and asks that Sookie step away from the stove. "Honey," Sookie says, "do you see a joystick? This is not a game." Lorelai repeats the order and finally Sookie complies, turning around sighing and asking what the big deal is. Lorelai shouts out "OKAY" and Rory comes in, causing Sookie to flail excitedly and knock out a passing member of her staff. Mushrooms go flying, but nobody cares, and I guess the guy on the floor could die for all anybody notices. Sookie squeals, "[Rory's] here!" It's all too much for Sookie, whose worlds collide as she realizes that Rory's being back means there are no impediments to Lorelai and Luke's setting a wedding date. She hyperventilates, saying she was just making her list for Thanksgiving dinner, wishing Rory would be there, and now she is. "Oh my God," she gasps, "what if what I'm wishing for is actually coming true?" Lorelai's eyebrows shoot up: "Quick! Wish for a Sephora to be built within walking distance!" Now I must tell you the story of the time we were in Los Angeles in a restaurant and my husband Chris invoked the name of that annoying dude from the second season of Project Greenlight and the guy WALKED IN THE DOOR fifteen seconds later. We tried so hard to make a million dollars fall from the sky after that, but it didn't work.