Episode Report Card Pamie: D | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Pilot
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2000.10.05
Rory and Lorelai stand in front of her parents' house for a while. Lorelai holds her coffee. Rory asks, "So, do we go in, or do we just stand her all night reenacting The Little Match Girl?" Lorelai asks Rory to be civil through dinner and then on the way home she can "pull a Menendez." It suddenly dawns on me that Rory is the new Darlene. They ring the doorbell. Emily declares them "right on time." Emily tells Lorelai to throw away her plastic coffee cup, "in the kitchen." As she pulls Rory away and asks to talk about Chilton, Lorelai rebelliously tosses the cup into the trashcan in the hallway.
"You're tall," Grandpa says to Rory upon seeing her. "I guess," she says. He asks her how tall she is. "Five seven." "That's tall. She's tall." Lorelai : "Hi, Dad." Grandpa: "Lorelai, your daughter's tall." Lorelai concurs: "I know. It's freakish. We're thinking of having her studied at MIT." "Ah," approves Grandpa. Emily serves champagne. They toast Rory's new phase in life. They sit in the living room. "An education is the most important thing in the world," Emily says. "Next to family." "And pie!" Lorelai chimes in. She sits and giggles as everyone stares. She says it was a joke. "Ah," Grandpa says, and hands Rory some of his newspaper.
At dinner, there's small talk. Lorelai says the potatoes could use a little salt. More small talk. Grampa brings up "Christopher," who is doing very well in California. He tells Rory that her father is very talented and smart. He tells her that she must take after her father. Lorelai stands up and says she's going to get a Coke. "Or a knife." It used to be that when I typed the word "Coke" it instantly made teenagers take off their clothes. No longer. Sadly.
Lorelai cries and scrubs a pan in the sink. "Hi, how're you doin'?" she asks the kitchen help.
Uncomfortable silence at the dinner table. Rory starts to get up to go talk to Lorelai but Emily says she'll do it. She tells Rory to keep her grandfather company.
Emily tells Lorelai to come back to the table. Lorelai says that she doesn't appreciate being attacked. Emily says that Lorelai is being very dramatic. This starts off a fight that consists mostly of someone making a bold declaration, followed by the other person repeating the bold declaration in a question form, asking another question and then making another bold declaration.