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By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.28.2001
Luke is pitching to CuteDean. The way the softball field is set up, though, it looks like only Luke and CuteDean are playing. Christopher asks Rory which one is CuteDean. She points him out. Then she points out Luke. Christopher and Rory sit in the bleachers in front of Resident Townie Kirk. Luke and CuteDean smack-talk each other for a bit, until Kirk interrupts to shout that Luke can't pitch and CuteDean can't hit. The little blonde girl sitting next to Kirk is cracking me up. She's like, "That man is funny, but I'm not supposed to think so." Luke shouts that he'd think Kirk would have something better to do with his Saturdays. Kirk: "What can I say? I'm addicted to comedy." CuteDean spots Rory in the bleachers and gives her a CuteWave. Kirk keeps on heckling, and now it's not even funny anymore (the little blonde girl seems to be agreeing with me). Christopher asks how long the games last. Rory says they usually last until the players get tired, and then they just say the first team to get a run wins. Kirk says it's very professional. Then he shouts, "Hey! Luke! Does your husband play softball, too?" ["Okay, I thought that was funny." -- Wing Chun] Luke takes off his glove and says, "All right, that's it." Kirk sees that Luke's walking over for a beatdown, and Kirk excuses himself by saying he's "getting a page" and then runs away. Kirk has the Wuss Run down perfectly. The legs go sort of out to the side and the arms are stiff with the fingers stretched out. Aw, man. It's hard to describe, but a good Wuss Run will make me laugh anytime.
CuteDean walks over to Rory. She introduces him to Christopher. CuteDean asks, "So. Do you live in the area?" which seems a strange question. Hasn't he ever asked Rory where her dad lives before? Christopher tells CuteDean that he had "some time," so he rode his bike from Berkeley. Ow. That's a long motorcycle ride. CuteDean asks what he rides. Rory tells him. CuteDean says he has an '86 Suzuki. Christopher is impressed. CuteDean goes back to his game. I love that in episode one Lorelai totally called that CuteDean would eventually have a motorcycle. Rory and Christopher look at each other and sit back on the bleachers. After a moment of silence, Christopher says, "So, that was a Dean." "That was a Dean," Rory repeats.
CuteDean runs up to Luke and asks if next run can win. Luke agrees.
Lorelai walks into the Independence Inn kitchen to find Sookie and Michel huddled together in hysterical fits of laughter. Lorelai is shocked and pleased. She says she's never seen them share a "pleasant moment together." "Oh, come on!" Sookie says. Michel stops laughing to say, "You have seen us share a pleasant moment." Lorelai says she's pretty sure she hasn't. "Oh, you are being absurd," Michel Frenches. Sookie laughs and says, "You have to admit, they are pretty few and far between." Michel stops laughing and says, "Through no fault of mine." Lorelai says she finds it refreshing. Sookie isn't done yet and says that he's the one that's "so...I don't know." All laughing is over now. Michel: "Oh, I think you do know, otherwise you wouldn't have started saying it." Sookie: "Just yourself. Caustic." Michel: "You mean obnoxious?" Sookie: "Your words, not mine." Michel stands up and says, "Go to hell." He walks off as Lorelai moans that she ruined this pleasant moment. Sookie tells Lorelai to tell her about what's going on at home. Lorelai talks about her broken toaster until Sookie says she wants to know what it's like to have Christopher in the house. Lorelai says it's a little weird, and that she and Rory have fewer clean towels than they usually do. Lorelai says she's been trying to figure out how she feels about all of this since he asked her to take her shirt off the other day. Sookie asks how he did that. Lorelai dismisses it and says he was really just saying hello, sorta. Sookie admires how smooth Christopher is. Lorelai says she hasn't seen him since last Christmas (she must mean two Christmases ago), and that they only hear from him maybe once a week (which seems like much more contact that previously hinted), and now suddenly he's here and Rory's excited and he's on the couch and she wonders if she should be mad and send him to a hotel, but then he smiles, and it's "Christopher." Sookie hands Lorelai a biscotti. Lorelai says that no matter what he does or how many years go by, he's still "Christopher." She asks what to do with the biscotti, and Sookie tells her to dunk it in the coffee. I'm not buying at all that Lorelai has no idea what to do with biscotti. Lorelai says that Christopher knows all of her secrets and that all of her "bad girl moments" happened with him. Sookie asks if Lorelai thinks the two of them will get together. Lorelai says a weak "no." She says that Christopher wants to be more involved with Rory. Sookie says it's about time. Lorelai agrees that it's good, and that she hopes it's true. "And if it's not?" Sookie asks. Lorelai dumps the biscotti into the coffee and says, "Then...it's...'Christopher.'"