Episode Report Card Pamie: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sniffles, Part Two
By Pamie | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.20.2000
I must say that carolers are really scary. I was at dinner the other week with my boyfriend, and the carolers were blocking the front door where you make a reservation. There's something about carolers -- that wide-eyed stare that they get when they sing, with that giant grin and fake eye-sparkle. And they're singing Christmas carols, which I really don't like, since there are only six of them and you just have to hear the same damn angels singing about glory and a newborn king. And my boyfriend's least favorite thing in the entire world is people singing "Happy Birthday" to him because he never knows where he's supposed to make eye contact. He hates it in restaurants because everyone's staring at you all opening their mouths and singing loudly. So, when we saw that the carolers had moved from the front door and were now moving table to table singing and staring like a bad roaming barbershop quartet, we ate as quickly as we could. Just as they were rounding our table, we stood up, shrieked, and ran away from them as fast as we could. Carolers. Hate 'em. ["Djb will be really, really crushed when he reads that, Pamie." -- Wing Chun]
"Oh, my God!" Lorelai says as she hangs up the phone. Luke shuts up Cardigan Man and asks Lorelai what's wrong. "My father's in the hospital," Lorelai stammers. "He collapsed or something. I don't know. I need a cab. I need to...call a cab. Where's a phone?" She starts shouting to everyone in the diner that she needs a phone, even though she's holding one, and the fear and disorientation in Lauren Graham's face here is reminding me of the time that I was at work when I found out that my father was in the hospital and the girl I was serving popcorn with took my apron and bowtie off me and walked me to my car as I stammered that I didn't know what was happening. Lorelai realizes that she's holding a phone and starts asking for the number of the cab company. She's sniffing and saying, "It's CAB-something, or something-something CAB," and Luke is grabbing her things as she's dropping them. Luke says he's going to drive her. He turns around and tells everyone that the diner is now closed and the food is on him and everyone needs to leave immediately. He tells Lorelai to put on her coat. He hands the keys to Cardigan Man, tells him to have his hot chocolate and then lock up. Lorelai stops and says tearfully, "Luke, I'm..." Luke turns back to her and says, "I know. Let's go." They walk out the diner together. Fade to commercial. Man, Cayla, I don't know if you read Mighty Big TV, and I'm not sure if you even remember doing that for me back in 1994, but thanks so much for being there when I got the scary phone call at work. I can't imagine what I would have looked like driving around Houston wearing a plastic neon Front Row Joe apron with tears all over it.