Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Mommies Dearest
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.02.2006
In the apartment, Rory finds Brian playing videogames (natch) and wearing his souvenir sombrero. Lane, meanwhile, is all pitiful on her bed. "I heard Pedro's Paradise wasn't so paradise-y," Rory says as Lane groans. "But guess who I heard it from? Your husband! Can we not squeal about that?" Lane says she's not really up for squealing, but that Rory can be her guest. Rory apologizes, saying of course Lane doesn't feel like squealing, what with the parasite and all. "I actually feel okay right now," Lane says. "My aversion to squealing is more emotional than physical." She tells Rory that on, like, the fourth day of their trip, Zach got so paranoid that Pedro and his friends were talking lasciviously about Lane "in code" that he lunged at Pedro: "I just stared at him, lying on the floor, and I thought, 'I just married that man." Believe me, every woman says that on the fourth day of her honeymoon. My moment came when my husband ordered steak tartare in Paris and PROCEEDED TO EAT IT. ["At least you had a honeymoon. When you get married four weeks out of grad school and are totally broke, some parts of the wedding experience get scratched off the agenda." -- Wing Chun] Rory: "And you didn't squeal for joy?" Lane says that she just went and stared at Pedro's poster of Spuds Mackenzie and ate a saltine. She adds that she's feeling good enough for a walk, and they head out so that she can tell Rory about the further disaster of her honeymoon: "Besides, if I start barfing in public, you can just pretend it's because we were partying too hard." Rory agrees that this would do wonders for her rep.
Back at the diner, Luke is back on the job when T.J. arrives with some ideas on how to freshen the place up with a new design. He envisions a log cabin theme...with stained glass windows. But not the scary religious kind: "It could just be an image of a happy animal," like a smiling penguin or a peaceful-looking giraffe. "You think I should put up a stained glass window of a peaceful-looking giraffe on the side of my diner?" Luke asks. T.J.: "I'm just spitballin'; nothin's written in stone." When Luke doesn't love his ideas, T.J. accuses him of being in a mood, forcing Luke to apologize to keep from explaining about his breakup with Lorelai.
(Another note: I know I don't normally put a lot non-essential details in a recap, but I can't help myself this one time. The whole "recap on the plane" thing I had going on where I thought I was such a techie bad-ass? Right. My computer battery died oh, about thirty minutes into the flight. So, now I am in a coffee shop ON MY VACATION, watching the episode on the screen and recapping, right across the table from Pamie, who is currently conquering Hollywood with her genius.)