Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Season Fi-wha?
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.09.2001
Inside the meeting, Cardigan Man is yelling for peace and order. He calls a vote, and asks for a show of hands for who's in favor. No hands. Lorelai walks in and complains that it's already started. Cardigan Man asks for a show of hands for all of those opposed. Everyone puts up their hands. Lorelai raises her hand. Cardigan Man says that Lorelai doesn't even know what she's voting for. Lorelai says she's sure she's "a-gin' it!" Miss Patty is the only woman who finds Lorelai funny. Cardigan Man announces that the "nay"s have it. Rory gives the back of CuteDean's head StalkerEyes. CuteDean stares into his lap. Max and Lorelai walk to their chairs as Cardigan Man says he hopes that Lorelai doesn't have food in the bags. Lorelai says a series of words that don't make any sense: "Dorsal fins and Cucamonga." She tells Max that she just keeps saying nonsense until Cardigan Man gets confused and moves on.
Max, Rory, and Lorelai start eating as Cardigan Man opens the meeting up for "miscellaneous issues." Grant Lee Here'sMyMoment stands up and announces himself as the town Troubadour. Cardigan Man doesn't know what that is. Sally Struthers is on Grant Lee's side, and says that he plays music. Miss Patty says that Grant Lee plays on all of the street corners. Luke says that he's a vagrant -- a loiterer. Cardigan Man agrees. Luke wishes that they didn't agree on anything. Grant Lee IsThatRickMoranis says that he has been the town Troubadour for six months, and that he thinks he's done a very good job, and now Hippie Whistler is moving in on his territory. He says there's no room for a second Troubadour in Stars Hollow. Cardigan Man says that this is the silliest thing he's ever heard. Lorelai yells that he should hear them out. Cardigan Man glares at Lorelai and she says she isn't holding a bag of fries. Rory pouts over and looks at CuteDean. CuteDean sees her. Rory turns back around. Morey asks Cardigan Man to refrain from being "uncool." Grant Lee says that he just wants the town Troubadour laws to be enforced. Rory and CuteDean look at each other longingly. Cardigan Man says that there aren't any town Troubadour laws. Miss Patty says that the town handbook should say something. Kirk raises his hand from the audience and announces that he has the town handbook right there. In his lap. I love Kirk. Cardigan Man says that Grant Lee is practically a vagrant. He asks him where he lives and what he does for a living. Grant Lee says that he doesn't want people to know those things. He says that "the mystique" is part of being a troubadour. Cardigan Man asks Hippie Whistler whether he subscribes to the "Troubadour Mystique." "I run a Kinko's in Groton" is Hippie Whistler's response. Lorelai shakes her head in judgement. Grant Lee is enraged, saying that this proves Hippie Whistler isn't a good troubadour: he doesn't live up to the code. He says that the troubadour is supposed to speak through his music. Cardigan Man asks Grant Lee what his scam is, adding that he doesn't want Grant Lee using the people of Stars Hollow for a quick buck. Miss Patty blushes and says that Cardigan Man won't take any money. She's tried. Cardigan Man says that he might not now, but that he will; it's a money-making scheme, and there's no other reason to do it. Rory stands up and shouts the following as CuteDean watches: "Because sometimes you have something you need to say but you can't because the words won't come out or you get scared or you feel stupid so if you could write a song and sing it then you could say what you need to say and it would be beautiful and people would listen and you wouldn't make a complete idiot out of yourself but all of us can't be songwriters so some of us will never be able to say what we're thinking or what we want other people to know that we're thinking so we'll never get the chance to make things right again ever." Everyone stares at her. "So..." she says, "give this guy a license!" The crowd breaks into applause as Lorelai tells Rory she likes her speech. "That's the Girl Scout!" Clara excitedly whispers to CuteDean. Cardigan Man designates Grant Lee Buffalo as the town Troubadour, and I'm sure according to the Stars Hollow rules, I'm no longer allowed to make fun of him in recaps. Hippie Whistler slaps his thighs and takes off.
Lorelai throws fries at the back of Luke's head. She asks whether he wants some. He says that he has to get back to the diner, since Rachel's been watching it for him. He leaves as Max puts a territorial arm around Lorelai. They kiss. Rory turns around, but CuteDean is gone. Does he even live in Stars Hollow? I thought he didn't.