Episode Report Card Pamie: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT They've Got the Boat; They Just Need the Shark
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.29.2004
Anna will not shut up about how fun college is. Dinner whenever you want! Sex whenever you want! Hangovers twice a day!
Cut to Anna in the cafeteria: "Ice cream and cereal for dinner." Also, Anna, this is a little misleading. See, the cafeterias aren't always open all day. At my school, they were only open in three-hour chunks and were closed on Sundays, which meant sometimes you didn't get to eat on a Sunday because you didn't have enough money to buy yourself dinner because you spent it all on your hedonistic lifestyle on Saturday. But I suppose a richy Chilton/Yalie like yourself wouldn't know anything about that. Logan walks up in his stupid leather jacket and accepts Anna's offer to join them for dinner. "Dull day, huh?" he asks. Anna says it wasn't for her. Logan keeps his eyes trained on Rory, noting that she's being quite quiet. Rory says she has nothing to say. Logan says he gets the feeling Rory's mad at him. Rory tells Anna to head over to the "Fro Yo Social." Anna reminds Rory that she just had three scoops of ice cream. Rory tells Anna to live a little, and hit the fro yo. Anna asks Logan to join them, but Logan says he's not so sure he's going to be able to walk soon. Anna leaves. Good riddance.
Rory calls Logan a series of words that could describe any of her boyfriends who wear leather jackets: "Jerk. Ass. Arrogant. Inconsiderate. Mindless. Frat-boy. Buttface. Miscreant!" Logan takes offense only to "buttface miscreant," which is so the name of his punk rock band. Rory pouts, "Why would you do something like that?" Rory makes the very good point that Logan came into her class in front of her professor and made her look like an idiot, and that she's still got to get a grade from that man one day. Logan says he'll talk to the professor and tell him Rory was innocent. Does Logan own a building on this campus or something? Rory says that the class was in a frenzy, and that they never got back to the subject they were talking about. Logan reminds Rory that there's another class next week. Actually, there should be one in two days, if it's a Tuesday-Thursday class. Actually, it gets more confusing, because Rory says that this class is only six weeks long, and that Logan blew one of those weeks for her and she'll never get it back. Yale has six-week semesters? Logan promises to hook her up with a Daddy connection if she really wants some alone time with Prof Bell. Hey, that's Paris's job. Logan offers a non-apology: "I'm sorry you're so bent out of shape. I didn't mean to upset you." Why does he even like her? Rory complains that Anna now thinks Yale is a big joke. Logan says that if Anna thought that after spending five minutes with Rory, then she was always going to think that: "Relax." Fuck off, Logan. Why don't you find a girl who thinks you're funny and charming? I've yet to see Rory laugh at a single thing you've said or done. She just mopes and pouts and is miserable around you unless you've gotten her drunk or dropped her from someplace tall. Rory echoes my sentiments, telling Logan that they are two very different people. She says she has to go to the Fro Yo Social, even though that sounds incredibly stupid. She leaves. If Rory is suddenly going to realize in the next couple of episodes that her life has been boring and without risks, I truly hope her first realization in being New Rory is that she is attracted to douchebags. I want her to fail a test, get a speeding ticket, get a tattoo, and sleep with a near-stranger, but I don't want her following some guy who says he's unpredictable and dangerous, because that's no different than her life when she was living for Jess's manic-depressive behavior. I hope she drops out of school, joins the Peace Corps, and realizes that she's smart enough to have everything she wants in life without needing the money, the fancy clothes, the meek hair, or the shitty, shitty taste in men.