Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hello, Hiatus
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.08.2006
In the town square, mofo-ing, badass, cool as shit rockers Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth do a little subdued thrashing. They have a teenage girl with them who is pretending to pay the bass, and my rocksnob husband swears it's their kid. I look it up and see that my husband is right. BADASS! We brush our hair into our eyes and form a two-person, one-dog mosh pit to salute them. Less pleased is Grant Lee Phillps, the true Stars Hollow troubadour, who returns in a snit, saying that he's mad that Taylor has let this happen while he was away getting ripped off by his new gig. "I never even met Neil Young," he says. "'Heart of Gold,'" my ass." We cut away to a little trio singing the supposed-to-be-hilarious "A Beaver Ate My Thumb," but apparently one of these guys is Daniel Palladino, and I am too mad to care or laugh.
Back at the Gilmore palace, the subject has apparently turned to Gigi, who Emily is raving about as "a living doll." Lynnie says something about Christopher enjoying his daughter while she's young, or something, and no one mentions that he also has a daughter who is not so young, by that other lady in the room, Lorelai. Even she doesn't seem to care about this, and looks as if she's had enough of Emily's uncomfortable banter. Lorelai excuses herself to the restroom. Arriving there, she is surprised to find that Christopher has followed her. "What are you doing?" she asks. "What do you mean?" he says. "I thought 'restroom' was code for 'follow me and we'll talk about how to get you out of this'?" Lorelai frowns: "What the hell kind of spy school did you go to?" They laugh about the setup -- Chris says that he thought he was having dinner with her and Rory, not that he was going on a date. "Well," Lorelai says, "luckily you didn't get ugly over night." They banter back and forth. Lauren Graham is such a brilliant actress, really. She talks to this guy like they really have known each other for their whole lives. Loralei tells Christopher now that she knows that he wants to get out of Emily's setup, she'll be glad to help.
At dinner, Lorelai gets right to torturing Emily and Richard by asking Lynnie stupid questions about psychology. Lynnie gets the message quickly and is pretty game while Lorelai and her parents duke it out for attention. "Voice in your head," Lorelai says. "Totally normal, right? There's only two...that speak English." Emily finally has had enough: "Lorelai, are you having some kind of breakdown?" Christopher tries to stifle his giggles, as Lorelai continues to play the fool until, finally, Emily commands that she not talk again until dessert.