Episode Report Card Pamie: C- | 1 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT The Dangers of Danielworld
By Pamie | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.15.2002
The troubadour plays his guitar as Rory moans to Lorelai, "It's so sad." She asks Lorelai how Luke's doing. Lorelai says she can't tell, because Luke's so unflappable. The troubadour is playing an acoustic "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go." By the way, that stoplight is totally gone now. Thanks for the pointless episode about it.
Luke's. Lorelai and Rory walk in to find bedlam. Everyone wants coffee and food but Luke's trying to make phone calls. Kirk needs more coffee. Luke tells him to shut up. Luke hits another customer in the head with the phone cord. Kirk tells Luke to update to a cordless. Luckily, the food is glued to the plates, or Luke would be spilling things about now. He hands the food to Lorelai and Rory. Luke says he's having a hard time serving food while he's on the phone. Lorelai says they noticed, but that they were really impressed with his re-enactment of Jerry Lewis in The Diner Guy. Rory asks where the plate of poached eggs is supposed to go. "Crank in the hat," Luke responds. The crank shouts, "Hey, I'm not a crank! You're a crank! Crank!" Rory serves him the plate and calls him a crank. Lorelai asks where the French toast goes. "Lady with the giant purse," Luke answers. Luke serves another plate. "This is not good," one of the customers says. Lorelai pulls Luke back behind the counter. She tells him to stay on the phone and tell her where to serve the plates. He says they go to the table by the window. She asks why he hasn't numbered his tables yet. He just hasn't, but she wants to talk about it for a while so that the food can get colder and the customers can get angrier. Luke finally tells her it's table five, but Lorelai doesn't know which one that is. It's the table by the window. Lorelai hands the plates to Rory and tells her to serve them to the table by the window.
Kirk asks for more coffee again. Lorelai walks over to serve him. Kirk stops her and says he's a "quarter-caff." He only takes one-quarter caffeinated and the rest decaffeinated. Lorelai says she "four-fourths" doesn't care. Kirk tells her to fill it up. Great people skills. How does she run an inn? Luke complains to Lorelai that the world is full of people who micromanage their lives to such a second that they can't wait on anything. Hey, Luke? It's called breakfast. It's the beginning of the day. They have to go to work. If you mess up and make them wait for an extra hour? They get fired. Can't keep going to your diner because they have no money. Fix the eggs on the double, Mel, or Flo's gonna have to make you kiss her grits. Lorelai notes that they're running out of coffee. Luke goes to make some more, but Lorelai says she knows how to make coffee. In fact, she's the "bastard offspring of Mrs. Folger and Juan Valdez." I think Daniel meant "love child," since Juan's appearance makes her not a bastard. Rory asks Luke where Jess is. Luke says he doesn't know. Rory asks if he could be at school. Luke scoffs, knowing that his parental skills aren't sharp enough to keep a juvenile delinquent going to class on a regular basis. Lorelai pours a full pound of coffee into the filter as Luke tries to make her stop. He says that it's too strong and that not everybody likes it that strong. Also, expensive to use a full pound every pot. Lorelai cares about none of these things. None. She says she'll convert them and calls herself the "Jehovah's Coffee Girl." Whatever. She's wearing a Lucky Brand t-shirt that costs almost a hundred dollars. Somehow Lorelai never really has to worry about money. ["That's true, but it's not a Lucky Brand shirt. It's from Urban Outfitters, and I know because Niki's boyfriend made the screen. You may have also seen that design on Oswald recently." -- Wing Chun]