Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 16 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Jess Is Dumb
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 2002.04.30
Rory's getting ready for school as she and Lorelai banter movie choices back and forth. The Wizard of Oz, The Sting, Rocky, Crimes and Misdemeanors...I think you get the point. Lorelai can't decide between Arthur and Sophie's Choice. Lorelai says there are too many good movies, and that she's sinking under the pressure. The phone rings as Lorelai suggests Cabin Boy. ["Ooh, good one." -- Wing Chun] Rory asks if Lorelai's going to get the phone. Lorelai says she's not because she knows who it is. Apparently Christopher calls every Wednesday morning right before they have to go to Luke's/Chilton. How is that an appropriate time to call your daughter to catch up on things? Rory forgets that her dad calls every week at this time until Lorelai reminds her. Rory picks up the phone. She tells Christopher about the movie festival. She asks how he's doing and how Sherri is. Christopher's a bit evasive, and then says he can't talk very long. He says he sent her an email and would like this forty minutes to carry over until their call next week. Forty minutes? How early does Rory get up for school? And how could she forget a weekly forty-minute phone call? Rory asks if he wants to say hello to Lorelai. He says he has to go and can't, but that he would like her to say hello for him. He says he'll call her next Wednesday. Rory hangs up and tells Lorelai that Christopher said hello. Lorelai says he didn't. Rory asks what they're fighting about. Lorelai says that they're not fighting. Rory asks what's keeping them from talking. Lorelai suggests Desperately Seeking Susan. Rory suggests My Mother is Two. Rory says she gives up, and that if Lorelai isn't interested in talking about it, then they don't have to discuss it, and Lorelai can stay in a fight with Christopher as long as she wants. Rory picks up her backpack and says she's late for school. Maybe Christopher doesn't always call in the morning, but he's the only one who would call at that hour to cancel on the evening phone call? I shouldn't try to figure out time logic on this show ever. It makes my eyebrows hurt. Lorelai makes plans to see Rory after school at Luke's.