Episode Report Card Pamie: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Math Is Hard
By Pamie | Season 4 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.16.2004
Emily is busy unpacking the decorations she has to put out whenever Gran comes to visit. She's coming back from Palm Beach and wants to have a luncheon in two days. She also wants to meet Digger. Lorelai is quickly putting on clothes, uncomfortable, I guess, to be in bed with a man while her mother talks to her. But we know Lorelai enough to know that she'd probably put down the cell and give Digger a blowjob while her mom went on and on about Gran. Emily tells Lorelai she has to come to the luncheon, but she has to get her hair cut first: "You looked like the bird lady from Mary Poppins the last time I saw you." Lorelai says she's been very busy lately. Emily doesn't care; she doesn't want Gran blaming Emily for Lorelai's hair.
Lorelai gets undressed again to get back into bed with Digger. She tells Digger that Emily would know if she was naked while on the phone. It's her superpower: "She can hear sin and depravity and all sorts of lustful things." Digger wishes he could get bit by that same radioactive spider. They kiss and...we go to commercial. Not the ending I would have expected.
Dragonfly. Lorelai is on the cell phone begging for a hair appointment. Sookie is celebrating the fact that there are pipes in the kitchen by shouting and jumping. Lorelai wants Sookie to shut up, because she's on the phone. Sookie can't wait, and keeps interrupting Lorelai's very important hair call. Lorelai gets her appointment and finds CuteDean. She hangs up to talk to him. CuteDean needs to get in on Lorelai's hair appointment, because his floppy hair has turned into weird wings. And why is every guy on this show growing out a beard or mustache? Is it some kind of inside joke? Lorelai says that she and Rory keep missing each other, so she didn't know CuteDean was going to be working at the Dragonfly. CuteDean: "Well, I'm here. And your hair looks fine to me." Man, I hope she and CuteDean get one hot, inappropriate hallway kiss sometime at a party.
Tom asks if he can talk with Lorelai and Sookie. He reminds them that a fancy sink is coming the next day. Sookie says they can't install it until she sees it. Tom says they won't even leave it without her approval. Then he asks the workers to give them some privacy. Tom tells Sookie and Lorelai that he really likes them, and that it's not just because they're nice and smell pretty. But it appears as though Lorelai hasn't been paying Tom (so it's a little strange he just hired CuteDean). Lorelai swears she'll pay him soon enough. This is all news to Sookie. Lorelai makes Sookie leave so that she can talk to Tom without anyone in the middle freaking out like a kid. Lorelai tells Tom she's trying to take out a loan at the bank, and that they've just been hit with an avalanche of things. Tom says that because she and Sookie are so nice and smell pretty, he and his crew won't walk off the job, but that they'll have to soon. Lorelai thanks him for being so awesome. Lorelai asks if he'd like a hug. Tom says he's kind of dirty right now, so he'd prefer it if she whistled at him in front of the guys later on. Lorelai then leans over one foot and says, "Hey," and Sookie walks out from behind the wall. Awkward blocking. Sookie asks if they're dead broke. Lorelai says they're getting there. Sookie says they can skip the expensive stove from France. Lorelai says they won't do that, since Sookie has four pictures in her wallet: one of Jackson, one of the baby, and two of that stove. They debate dropping the horses. Sookie doesn't want to lose the horses. Lorelai says they could drop one of the horses. Sookie asks, "Who's making that choice, Sophie?" Lorelai asks if Jackson can give them money. Sookie asks if Lorelai's parents can give them money. And this is when they decide that it's time to hit up Luke for cash. Sookie reasons, "He's a hermit, so we know he's got money." Lorelai agrees to use Luke only as a last resort. ["They're going to beg Luke for money before giving up the horses? Lord, I think I might know how they got into this predicament in the first place." -- Wing Chun]