Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Wet Teens! Wet Teens!
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.21.2002
Evening. Lorelai and Rory walk from their Jeep toward the front door of the house, discussing Lorelai's recent fight with Pete the Pizza Guy. Why didn't they get delivery, like they always do? Rory's hair is up in a messy ponytail twist, looking like my hair every single day. I'm surprised they did it, since they normally keep her hair as childlike as possible every minute, but this gives her a "Study Break" look that's really appropriate. I love it. Anyway, Lorelai was pissed at Pete the Pizza Guy for suddenly charging extra for garlic. Lorelai apparently yelled so loudly that dogs started barking. All is forgiven when Lorelai sees that Pete has thrown in some free cheesy bread. Rory makes Lorelai regret yelling at Pete, and she promises to call him and apologize for making such a scene. Lorelai needs to check the mail, so she sends Rory into the house to melt more cheese on the pizza.
Lorelai is stopped before she reaches the mailbox by her newest neighbor, a man played by Jason Kravits. To continue the weekly tradition of knowing the newest extra on this show, I met Jason Kravits a few years ago when he performed at the Aspen Comedy Festival. Yes, I'm stretching, but it's kind of worth noting, isn't it? Anyway, he just moved in "across the way" and loves how friendly everyone is in Stars Hollow. He's amazed by it, actually. As if my poor fingers haven't already had enough, this new neighbor talks even more than Lorelai does. He wears a very ugly Tiki shirt. He's repeating over and over again that he lives in Beanie Morrison's old place (for those of you making the very difficult home trivia game). The new neighbor goes on about how great Babette is. His name is Dwight. Lorelai shakes his hand. She mentions that the teen with a halo and a book is Rory. Lorelai walks over to her mailbox, saying that if there's anything she can do to help out, Dwight should just let her know. Her mailbox flag is up, but there's new mail inside. Dwight just so happens to need someone to help him out right away, and his best friend Babette apparently wasn't an option for this. He's going out of town on business and just got this new lawn he's got about a million words to say about, and needs someone to water the lawn while he's gone because it's really important that the blades stay moist at all times while the grass is taking root. It needs to be watered more than once a day, and I guess Dwight can't spring for a timer for his really important lawn. Lorelai stammers that she guesses she can do it, which launches Dwight into another rendition of "Stars Hollow Rules," saying that if he'd asked someone at his old place for such a favor he'd have gotten "a much more HBO kind of answer." He asks Lorelai to come over now so he can show her how to turn the sprinkler on and off. Lorelai says that Rory's waiting inside for her. Dwight says they can just meet before he leaves for his trip tomorrow at 6 AM. Without missing a beat, Lorelai says she can take a look now, jamming her mail into the space between the flag and the mailbox (so that's why the flag was up), and leaves without one word to Rory, who must by now be convinced that her mother was kidnapped.