Episode Report Card Kim: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Happy Birthday, Baby!
By Kim | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on April 21, 2003
Rory finds Lorelai in the kitchen, wondering if Luke can remove the kitchen wall in five hours. They sit down at the table, and Rory asks if they can talk about birthday week. Did y'all know that Pamie has birthday week? And has talked about it on her website since before this show ever aired? Total shout-out. Anyway, Rory has planned facials on Monday, a double feature on Tuesday, a trip to Sephora on Wednesday, a complimentary makeover on Thursday, and "Big Fat Fabulous Friday." Lorelai thinks that Friday will bring the big party, and Rory pretends that she didn't know Lorelai wanted to make a big deal out of her birthday this year. Rory adds that Miss Patty and Babette wanted to hire two hot guys to carry Lorelai around all day and feed her bonbons (which would have been awesome) and Kirk wanted to hire the Red Hot Chili Peppers to play a concert in the square, but Rory told them to respect Lorelai's wishes. Rory says she has to go, and Lorelai thinks she really is planning something for Friday. What is she, new? Of course Rory is planning something. Lorelai wants Rory to tell people not to buy her a new car, and definitely not a convertible. Rory leaves.
Lorelai answers the phone and a woman says she's calling for Richard Gilmore. Then there's like ten minutes of business where the woman (who is Richard's secretary) tries to set up a meeting between Lorelai and her dad, but then Lorelai figures out that her dad is sitting right there, and she rips on him for not just talking to her himself, but Richard insists that's why he has a secretary in the first place and blah blah blah talky talky. The point is that Richard has something to discuss with Lorelai in person, and they arrange to meet the following day.
Rory goes to the bakery and arranges to have Fran make a four-foot chocolate cake with individual vanilla cupcakes on top. Also, it's going to say "Happy Sixteenth Birthday, Lorelai." Rory wants both butter cream and whipped cream frosting, which the Fran thinks is too much. Rory says she and Lorelai once tried to make an entire cake out of just frosting. Hey, who hasn't? Rory says that Miss Patty will pick up the cake at 5 PM. Lane walks in and announces that there is a glitch, because the world's largest pizza was a hundred twenty-two feet and eight inches wide. Rory says they'll have to make Connecticut's largest pizza then, and Lane says that would be ninety-eight feet wide. Rory says they can only do twelve feet. Lane wonders if they could make the world's biggest taco instead, but Rory thinks that would be too hard to serve. As opposed to the pizza, which will be a snap. Rory thinks they should lie and just say it's the world's biggest pizza. Rory asks Lane about the music selection, and Lane says she's picking one song from each year of Lorelai's life, but she's having trouble with 1974.