Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 186 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Will You Be My Well-Meaning Buttinski?
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2007.02.27
Later that night, Rory is awakened by a crashing sound in the dark: it's Logan, coming home drunk in the middle of the night. "Go back to bed," he slurs, apologizing for waking Rory, and struggling to figure out how to make a sandwich. He says he's been at work, after which he and Philip got bombed. Matt Czkrskzr, or however you spell it, is awesome at playing drunk, I must say. He wrecks the sandwich-making process, is sort of hilarious complaining about the bread in the refrigerator, pisses Rory off even more when she says she tried to call him four times before she went to sleep, and then refuses the offered sandwich before finally flopping on the bed, leaving Rory to fume. I hate to go on another tangent so early in the recap, but this reminds me painfully of this guy I dated when I was a freshman in college who once wiped out an entire wall of family portraits drunkenly "sneaking" into his mother's house three seconds AFTER he said to me on the front porch: "SHH. WE HAVE TO BE QUIET OR SHE'LL WAKE UP." I slowly backed out of the foyer and stood behind a tree in the yard where I would have gladly dug my own grave and interred myself in it before meeting someone's mother under those conditions.
Speaking of fuming, a very fey little customer at Luke's is explaining to Zach that he will not eat the oatmeal Zach has just served, because he will only accept steel-cut oats. Michel's heretofore unknown soulmate? Maybe. "Okay, okay, I think I got it," Zach says jovially. "You're like an analog guy with a CD. You miss vinyl's cool scratches and pops. I think I can work with that." At the counter, Kirk is annoying Luke with his delusions of grandeur, as usual. He is congratulating himself over his recent publication in the Stars Hollow paper; that his genius is showcased in the Classifieds doesn't seem to bother him. He's selling his mother's dinette set, and is proud of his Hemingwayesque ad writing. He runs it past Zach, who says he's not in the market. This leads to a discussion of the baby shower, to which, much to Zach's disappointment, Luke says he is not going, adding, "But there's a gift for you in the back." Kirk is alarmed: "Wait, gifts are required?" He says he'd been so caught up worrying about the what-to-wear question, he hadn't thought of gifts: "Just to clarify, people don't actually dress like babies, do they?" Hee. I wish. Zach turns again to ask Luke to come: "Look, it's not going to be too much of a rager. Real mellow vibe." Luke sighs that he'll think about it, not mentioning that his issue might be with the host of the party: Lorelai. Kirk is again perusing the Classifieds, reading other ads, including one about a boat for sale at 1211 Elmwood. Luke's head pops up: that's Liz's address, which means it's his boat, the sale of which is news to him.