Episode Report Card admin: B- | 3 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Fight For Your Right To Be Laaaaaazay!
By admin | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.19.2005
Lorelai's mad. Luke says he couldn't help it: Rory came into the diner and it was awkward and stupid, and he just ended up telling her, seeing as how she had on the "Rory face," which he is powerless against. Lorelai says he should have ignored the Rory face. Luke says that Lorelai should have told Rory himself, but she disagrees, saying that no one should have told Rory anything. The conversation quickly spirals and goes on way too long, until Luke declares himself the winner. "I have the high ground," he says. "That gives me the upper hand on anything you got." Lorelai says that Rory started this whole thing and that Lorelai's on a path with this tough love thing and wanted to keep it going. Luke's had enough: "You gotta understand something. Sure, she's your daughter, but I'm in the middle." Lorelai says she knows he is in the middle. Luke lays down the law: "Good, because you've been acting like you're alone in this or something. And I know you don't want my opinion on this, but you're both being dumb, and you should be talking." Awesome. He has to take a break from duly chastising Lorelai to educate T.J., who is making a mockery of the fine art of building sciences. Frustrated, Luke reminds him that it's "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey!" He turns back to Lorelai -- who is a bit teary, standing outside in her pajamas looking at the big hole in her home -- and tells her "we're okay." Sweet.
Back on the roadside, Rory is feeling the pain of her whole messed-up life. Which she has messed up, herself. Eyeliner Chick bumps her on purpose, again, and that tears it. Rory goes for the girl. Slapfight!
Cut to a now sullen Rory, her fight face squarely on, getting a lecture from her community-service dude. He tells her that her behavior is unacceptable.
Back on the road, Lorelai drives by the scene of the trash-picking. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. She catches a glance of Rory at work and decides to start some shit, herself. She bangs a u-turn and walks up on Rory, already on the defense. "Repaying your debt to society, I assume?" she asks. Rory: "That's what this is." Lorelai doesn't like her tone: "System already hardened you?" Rory skips to the good part: "So, I guess congratulations are in order," she snaps, and mother-daughter Twenty Questions is on. Lorelai snarkily asks how things are at the new digs and, just as bitchily, Rory asks if Lorelai and Luke have set a date yet. "Grandma redecorate the pool house yet?" Lorelai retorts, to which Rory shoots back that Lorelai should be sure to send Rory a wedding picture. Lorelai comes back saying that Rory should be sure to send her a change-of-address card: "Grandma can print them out for you with a little fleur-de-lis." Rory has had enough and says she's not supposed to be talking to outsiders. Lorelai says that'sfine, and stomps off. Rory calls after her, "You and Luke, getting engaged and not telling me about it? You hurt me." Lorelai: "Back at you." She doesn't even turn around.