Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT The UnRelenting
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2005.09.27
Just when we think we're safe, T.J. rolls in from the most recent wild goose chase these people have sent him on: a trip to find the hard-won "Mystic hammer," which he had to drive all day to buy in, of course, Mystic, CT. I love the whole concept of the Mystic hammer and all, and if the scene ended here, I'd be fine. Instead, we all must suffer more tedium in the form of T.J. than I can even recap. For no reason at all, he goes over to the door off the kitchen that leads to Rory's room, and starts going on and on about the unused room and how, if you knocked out that wall, you could make more space. Sensing Lorelai's extreme discomfort, Luke tries to shut T.J. up, but he continues: "You could turn it into a weight room, or a workshop. Or, hey, a pork-smoker room!" Yes, certainly, a pork-smoker room. ["I'd far rather have one of those than a Rory these days." -- Wing Chun] T.J. goes on for several minutes on the benefits of having a pork-smoker room in your house -- his uncle had one; they called it the "dead pig room" (which, okay, is kind of funny). He says he could have it up and running for Lorelai in a week. "All I'd have to do is drive over to Boston to get one of those special sledgehammers Tom was telling me about," he goes on, before Lorelai finally shuts him down, super-annoyed, yelling at him to leave the room alone and stomping out. Seemingly mortified that he has insulted her, T.J. asks Tom, "Is she Jewish, or something?" Siiiiigh. Build me a "dead T.J. room" and we'll talk, Palladinos. ["But, shout-out, of sorts, since Pamie was always as convinced of the Gilmore's Judaism as she was that the Independence Inn was in Hartford, and neither was the case, bless her heart." -- Wing Chun]