Episode Report Card Pamie: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT She Bop, He Bop a-We Bop
By Pamie | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.18.2004
It's not a good sign if I'm hoping for some turbulence so that I have a good excuse to close my laptop. Lane is super-hot without her glasses. She's doing her makeup in the kitchen while mfTL has a face full of shaving cream, complaining that the bathroom sink is stopped up. Brian pushes his way in so he can brush his teeth. MfTL warns him not to brush too hard. Lane listens to mfTL go on about how flossing is evil as she finishes her makeup. By the time her glasses are back on, she's changed her mind completely about her crush on mfTL and proceeds to tell him so. She takes it all back. Lane leaves. Brian comes back into the room to spit into the sink. Then he leaves. Everybody's taking a nap. I'm so jealous. I want to take a nap.
Lorelai and Luke don't pick anyone up at 6:30. In fact, they head to the gazebo to find Rory and Dean ("Stretch and Skinny") walking their way. Luke gets upset when he sees Dean is wearing "nice slacks," which means Luke's underdressed. Lorelai asks Luke not to say the word "slacks" anymore. Lorelai gives Luke a list of rules because Dean's going to think they're judging him, which they are. Lorelai is all, "Hi! Hi! Hi!" when she sees Rory and Dean, like they're precious babies taking their first steps. She's all, "Dean? Hi, hi, hi!" and sort of hugs him with a handshake. Dean is about a foot taller than Luke. Heh. Lorelai tells them they're picking up takeout at JoJo's, and then hitting the Black, White and Read Bookstore. Tonight they're playing Cool Hand Luke. Luke says he could make the food at his place, but the other three say they can't. Dean explains to Luke, making Luke feel like the outsider and new guy, that they can't get take-out from Luke's because the food is too good and you have to eat it right away, but the other place has bad food, so it doesn't matter how long it sits before you...you guys don't care, do you? I didn't think so. Anyway, I hope they don't pick up anything with eggs in it, for their sake. Dean shaved again.
Bookstore. It's not the usual bookstore, and it sort of looks like the Independence Inn. Kirk is distracted, and is interrupted by their arrival. This is because nobody has come to the bookstore but these four people who can't just let the town have one night off from its quirk. There's an argument about how Luke paid twenty bucks for a dollar movie, and for some reason Luke doesn't want any change. Luke and Dean want to sit in the same place. Luke's getting grumpier and grumpier. Rory's happy to see that it's empty. Lorelai is too, because that means she can talk during the movie. Like that's ever stopped her before. Luke says words to that very effect. "We would have hesitated ever so slightly," Lorelai lies. Kirk welcomes everyone to the theatre, and informs them that they don't have the first reel ofCool Hand Luke tonight because it caught on fire earlier this evening. Lorelai makes the horrible joke, "That's what happens when Richard Pryor's your projectionist." Hey, why not follow that one up with a Christopher Reeve joke, Lor? Kirk offers to do a recap (hey!), or act out the first twenty minutes. Lorelai says she can't handle that again after Kirk's re-enactment of Last Tango In Paris. Anyway, blah blah blah, Pippi Longstocking. The girls are so happy to see this movie again. They bounce and shout and cheer and they're so damn happy. This movie was the creepiest, weirdest thing when I was a kid. I thought maybe it was porn, the way the film looked all funny and the mouths weren't matching the sound, and how weird Pippi was and how nobody seemed to mind how bad she was. She was such a bad kid. I would have been in such trouble for acting like Pippi. You can't sleep with your shoes on the pillow. You can't do that, Pippi. Anyway, Dean gets in that he's seen it three times with them, and Luke admits he's never seen it. Lorelai: "We got us a Pippi virgin." Rory: "I didn't think there were any left." They tell him that this film is a classic of surrealism, bizarre cinematography, atonal singing, and forced acting. Lorelai and Rory immediately burst into the theme song. Dean laughs and eats fries. Luke's hair is fried, and fluffs all over his head. Someone give him back the baseball cap. The pot calls the kettle black when he calls Pippi's hair "unbelievable." He then gives Dean the stink-eye for putting his arm around Rory. Jealous, Luke? I mean, Dean just got halfway to first with a Gilmore. That's tough to do on camera.