Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Bunch Of Turkeys
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.21.2005
Lorelai goes to the hall closet and pulls out a hatbox full of notes she jotted down during her separation from Rory. Any time she thought of a random topic or something she wanted to share with Rory, she wrote it down and put it in the box. "I missed you, kid," she says, and Rory says she missed Lorelai, too. You know, I missed them as well. I had sort of forgotten that they even HAD a mother-daughter relationship. As they head out the door for Luke's, Lorelai starts reading them off. Some of them are kind of cryptic, she says, like one that simply reads "Lenny Kravitz. Where does he get all his..." Rory fills in what must be the blank: "Where does he get all his money?" They marvel at this, while I shout the answer at the TV. I have long held the suspicion that Lenny Kravitz gets his money from engaging in the gigoloism. What other explanation is there? The same tired song rehashed repeatedly couldn't possibly be the source of his millions, but his ass surely brings in the dollars. (That was...tacky of me, wasn't it? Lenny, I'm sorry. ["He does have a sweet ass, though." -- Wing Chun])
Almost to Luke's Lorelai runs across one note containing the mysterious clue: "Babette. Cats." Rory asks whether that means the cats have died. Lorelai says no. "Adopted another one?" Rory asks. No, Lorelai says. Babette "recorded their meows, did some editing, and cut a record of them singing 'Ring of Fire.'" Rory says that's going straight to the top of her charts. Another note reveals that Lorelai started reading the Seamus Haney translation of Beowulf Rory recommended, a literary pursuit that lasted all of three minutes. "Well," Rory says, "you gave it the old college try." The stack of notes goes on to reveal that Kirk's got a new hobby. "He's doing Tai Chi?" Rory says, pointing over to where Kirk is gyrating in a wind suit in the corner of the park, looking less like he's performing an ancient martial art than like a rhythmless old hippie at a jam band show. Lorelai's note reading now hits a snag. "Bendleschnitz?" she says, not remembering what she might have meant when she wrote it, "And...brazzlefratz..." She adds those notes to the stack she can't make out, and she and Rory arrive at Luke's, where Lorelai makes Rory wait out on the steps for a big entrance. "It's a moment thing," she says. "Just wait here."
Inside the door, Lorelai finds Luke. "You ready?" she asks. "Brrrrrrrr!" Luke asks what the hell that noise was, and she insists that it was a drumroll. "Sounded more like a helicopter," he says, but she makes him go with it. "Ladies and gentlemen, Rory Gilmore!" Lorelai shouts. Rory comes in, all smiles, and gives Luke the most awkward hug ever, like he's some very distant cousin or he's got the leprosy, or something. ["That girl just can't hug. She needs to take a class or something." -- Wing Chun] Luke musters up all the excitement he can considering his Grinch-like capacity for love, even offering up a "yay!" which clearly pains him. "I don't think I've ever said 'yay' before," he winces. "Sounded weird." Rory asks Luke what's been new with him, besides the whole engagement thing, and he nervously says that nothing has been going on. "What have you heard?" he asks, suspicious. Rory: "Nothing. That's why I asked." Hee. Luke reiterates that nothing is new, and goes off to get the Gilmores some food. "Did I inadvertently step into something there?" Rory asks, and Lorelai shrugs that she has no idea.