Episode Report Card Pamie: B- | 207 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Thanks, But No Thanks
By Pamie | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2002.11.26
Luke's. Lorelai asks if she can sit anywhere. Luke says she can. Lorelai asks a couple of people at a table to move. Luke pushes Lorelai and says he hates when she does that (and she's already done it in a past episode), and tells her to take an empty table. Lorelai protests that it's her show-stopping joke. Lorelai asks if Rory's ready to order. Luke says he saw them coming and already made up their Wednesday usual: French Dip with extra fries. Mmm. The girls thank him. "I got to get back to stuffing my turkey," Luke says. Lorelai asks if that's what the kids are calling it these days. She doesn't, but that's a better joke than the one she said. Why is Luke stuffing his turkey an entire day in advance? Lorelai tells Luke that he can stuff one less, since they're not going to make it to dinner. "Oh, okay. Fine," Luke says, with an exhale. Lorelai gives the Dangerous Liasons excuse: "It's beyond our control." Luke says it's fine, offers a "whatever," and leaves for coffee.
Lorelai asks Rory whether she noticed how Luke looked. "Disappointed," Rory notes. They didn't think it was possible to disappoint Luke. Rory says they never knew, in all these years, that he liked their company. They make a few Cindy-Lou Who jokes and then decide to tell Luke that they'll grace him with their company after all. Lorelai pretends to get off her cell phone, even though she's not supposed to use it in the restaurant. She lies to Luke that she cleared everything with her mother, and now they'll have time to have dinner at his place. Luke says he already stopped prepping their turkey (they get their own turkey?), and he doesn't want them to feel like they have to come. "This is tiring," Lorelai says, folding into herself with exhaustion. Rory offers to kneel behind Luke while Lorelai pushes him over. Luke asks if it's going to be a hassle. Lorelai promises that it won't. She says they're coming. She shoos him away. "That was very nice," Rory says. I guess. Lorelai says she hates disappointing people. Rory asks how they're going to eat four Thanksgiving meals. Oh, it's so hard being popular, isn't it? Why not skip Lane's Thanksgiving? She's got family. Anyway, Lorelai asks, "What are we, if we are not champion eaters?" She says they've been training their whole lives for this, and that this will be their finest hour, and many other such things as well. She says they'll receive the gold medal in eating, and that they aren't "Michelle Kwan-ing this." They decide to skip the rolls. Rory asks if they should fast today so that they're ready for tomorrow. "Unnecessary," Lorelai decides. Slow fade to commercial.