Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B- | 2 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Fight For Your Right To Be Laaaaaazay!
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.19.2005
...so they head outside to the front porch to talk about the Twickham House. Luke says that when the contractors start working on the new house, he might have the crew come over to Lorelai's and work on it, too, to get it ready to sell. Lorelai pauses. "Maybe we should hang on to this house," she says. "It could be like, a paint studio." Luke: "We don't paint." Lorelai says she knows, but that maybe it's been the lack of a studio that's kept them from realizing their love of watercolors. "I don't have a love of watercolors," Luke says. As an alternative, Lorelai says, she could use it as her recording studio! "When I'm not laying down tracks," she says, "I could rent it out to Korn, or Iggy Pop, or...someone." Great idea. It would be cool, she says, just hanging out with Iggy Pop, telling stories: "Ig's got stories." She also suggests perhaps keeping the place as a safe house should they decide to take up a life of crime. In the background of this scene, Paul Anka wanders to the staircase, lies down, and sighs. I feel you, dog. Instead of throwing a bucket of water over the very crazy head of Lorelai, Luke says again that if she really wants to keep the house, they can rent it out to someone. But she doesn't want anyone else to live in it. She just wants to keep it, and asks him to think about it. Think about what, though? What are they going to do with an extra house? If you don't want to move, say so, Passive Aggressive Jones. Lord! Noticing that Paul Anka is snoozing inside, they decide to go back in, Lorelai warning Luke that Paul Anka gets scared when you wake him up, and also prefers to hear no words that start with "Q." So, like, quirky and quixotic are out, huh? Paul Anka isn't going to last long in Stars Hollow, then.
Back at the mansion, Rory has been summoned to a meeting with the G-Unit. (Good one, eh? I know. Don't you WISH Fifty Cent was up on this show? How much would I love it if he was Rory's next boyfriend? I'm telling you, she could use a visit to the candy shop.) The grandparents announce that they are going to help Rory to get a job. She says that she doesn't know how she'll handle one while trying to deal with all this community service she has to do (And, yes, it's only three hundred hours, but scheduling it is really half the battle, so it will take quite a while to get it done. I know this not because I've had to perform community service, but because I used to work in a place that used restitution workers. The whole process is a huge pain, which is as it should be, I guess.) Richard assures Rory that they will help set her up with a job that will allow her to have a flexible schedule and make it possible for her to serve her time. She seems fine with this, if a little uncomfortable with the whole notion, and thanks them as the new maid appears with a tray. Emily introduces her as being from Romania, and when Rory says hello, the woman shoots her a look of death. Rory is maid poison! All the maids of all nationalities have been warned!